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August 2022's annual Club Motori Italia Lufra hill climb - conducted at Eaglehawk Neck, approximately an hour's drive east-south-east from Tasmania's capital city of Hobart - was held in fairly abysmal conditions with biting cold winds, rain that occasionally turned to sleet and only the briefest glimpses of sunshine.  So spare a thought for the driver of this pre-war TA MG Midget, John Spilsbury, who not only braved the slippery course in his super-charged, cheese-cutter shod, four wheel drum brake equipped machine but also drove it from Hobart, in weather that was no better than at the event itself, without a roof!     No wipers, either! According to the event's organisers, " CMI members finished in the top three places, with Italian cars coming first, second and fourth!"    ( https://cmitas.org/2022/07/lufra-to-lookout-regularity-hillclimb-saturday-20th-august-2022/ ).  A great result for the club indeed! Geoff Storr took out first place in his faithful Alf