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I.vlr f ilher hils illso !novided che.(cJllowing deraib for 11is Ilicture featllredas Ilict01'ial archive in isslle 270.T ile photo wm raken h)' his [litesister-in-Iaw's father, rh e [me 1(0 )'

L !Jnllnllwnd of \X!/wngarei, wlwwas a keen ll1oeuri.lc and ,mllleelHIlhocogm/lher. Mr /)rwnllwnd was wellknown to man)' North/anders as Llleowner of Drwmnond Hmrhen Ltd,hardware merclwnrs of Cmnemn Sr,Wllwngmei.He wriees "The scene wieh ehe Ausunall/lean to he near the Nat iol1al l'ar1<

wich Me RlIapehll in ehe hilckgmllndand, we sll.lllect, was slw/lpeJ onSH4 with the car heading sOllrh.O eher photos of ehe same car andInesl/mahl)' on che same cri/l .l/wwedrhe vehicle at Clww<lI / Tongar imilnd abo h)' the Awa1<ino Gorgerunnel. ./lIdging b)' ehe a,ge of Ill ) '

sister-in-law, who aP/lears as aIitLle girl in some of the p!wtos, weeS Cilllllle the)' Ivere w1<en cI93!-32.! am advised ehe AllICin is a 12/4of l'osc-1925 Vinrage as it has frontwheel hra1<e.I."

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Issue 277 December 200S/January 2006

2.6 litre MG WA

Henry's Masterpiece

34th Dunvegan Motorcycle Rally

1914 Hu mber Restorat ion - Cover Feature

50 Year Awards

Saving th e Wee O ne

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COVER

5 President's Message

5 Vintage Viewpoint

6 Nati onal O ffice N ews

6 VCC Events

7 Mailbag

9 The Way We Were

22 Vera Rally 2006 update

29 VIC Vintage

30 Book Review

3 1 Sound ing th e Brass

35 O verseas Events

36 Ma rket place

4 1 Swap Meets & Rall ies

46 Idle Torque

COLUMNS

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FEATURES

15 Ob ituary

34 Confessions of a Du ran t Add ict's Ass istant

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12 Te-O nepu - Pukeora H ill climbs

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Somerhing to look out for at Invercargill..Mic/we! and l ane Curry motoring in rheir 1914 /-lumber. TheHumber was a worthy winner of rhis year's Wellington BranchColonial Cup ReslOration of tile Year award. See page 18.

11 Of course cars have persona lit ies

Reswl'(lr ion nor going so well! Thereare IJ/enr)' of lIehides ready for rallyaction in [his i.mle's nlllrker/J/acepage36.

Thirty-six intrepid moror isrs joinedTrJll ) ' ilnd Trish f3 ccker on the tourthrough rhe CarUm, page 16.

Anne Thomson advisingG,-eg Mllr/Jh)'on rhe finer /JOilllSof lec11l)iqlle dllringrhe Te On e/m I lill Climb, /Ja!<e 12.

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edge wheels use beaded edge tyres that arekept in place by reinforced rubber beads, whichfit into the rolled edges of the wheel rim. Thisstyle of wheel wasa distinctive feature of earlymotoring being used on early bicycles, manypre-1924 cars and most motorcycles until 1927.The VCCNZ ado pted the title Beaded wbeetz fortheir quarterly club magaz ine in March 1955which was the successor to the monthly CuffSheel.

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At last , we h ave arri ved a t thefinal count down to our DiamondJubil ee Year in 200 6. I tru st a ll

the targets for the resto rations/renovation sto your veh icles entered in th e Vero 2006VCC Diam ond Jubilee Rall y a re bei ngmet and tha r the fine-tuning is going well.There are severa l branch runs and ralli esleft on the ca lendar to run-in your resto­rat ions and to make sure that th ey area ll in tip to p cond it ion for th e big tri psouth. (l kn ow that some bran ches a rea lso ru nning specia l ra llies/runs to helpsor t out any little problems tha t may haveoccurred during th e win ter monrhs.) Entrynumbers a re looking good and So uth landis reall y getti ng behind this major even t,nor on ly for our C lub but a lso [llr th eregion as a whole. Those members whohave nor no tified the Rally Committee,the ir Vehicle Identit y C ard numbers,please remember that it is mandator y fora ll vehicles entered in th e Rall y to possessone and the st icker should be put on viewon your veh icle.

A reminder : Some time ago, theExecuti ve decid ed that the re will be noNa t iona l Rall. cs, or C lub C apta ins' Toursheld in the same yea r as an Int ernationa lRally. Therefore in 2006 the re will be noVCC N ationa l Ral lies held.

As repor ted in the last Beaded Wheelsthe guest speake r at our C lub's ACHd inC romwcll was Ashley Bell who spoke ont he life and achi evements of Bcrr Mun roa nd hi s famous 1920 Indi an motor cycle.Have you seen "T he Wo rld 's FastestIndi an " yet ? When you do you will noton ly recogn ise some of "our" identities in it(including As h ley and his wife Gw en nc th)but also a number of our C lub veh icles.This film appea rs to app eal to young andold alike . \Vhen we saw it, th ere was agood mixture of ages in the th eatre. Al sosurprisingly in th is day and age , applausewas given at the end of the film and alsothe majority sat and watched th e creditsro ll up. A lt ho ugh the Indi an's actua lde ta ils a re 'not covered in dep th, the filmis recom mended viewing.

Rec ently, I had much pleasur e inpresent ing Roy Elwin with hi s 50-yea rbadge and certificate at a very pleasan tfunction organ ised by Wair arapa Bran ch .C ongratu lat ions fro m us all Roy. It wasan important occasion too for a numberof o t her Wair ar ana Bra nch mem bers

who received their 25 an d 35-year badgesth roughout the even ing. During LabourWeekend, Ton y and I joined ot her membersfrom throughout the country in Nelsonta king part in the Tr afalgar 200 cele bra­tions. T he Nelson Branch organi sed a dayof rall ying followed by an even ing mealwhere I presented severa l of their memberswith th eir 25 and 35-year badges. WhenI visit bran ch es I am always delighted to

see that memb ers wear their badges withobvious pride. I believe th at loyalty to th eC lub is one of its st rengths and I am sureyou will agree.

Bra nc he s cont in ue to celebra temil eston es in their branch hi sto ries.Cong ra tula t ions to So uth C an terburyBra nc h on thei r co mmemorat ion, overLabour Weekend , of 50 years ra llying toMr Cook.

Have you visited our C lub's wcbsite latelyand had a peek at th e Foru m ! The regis­rcrcd membersh ip is slowly growing andwhil e the interaction is in its in fan cy th erehave been some interest ing co mment s andan swers to queri es. This is an ideal wayto seek help in a ll manner of th ings to dowith restorations and such like. Interestin this wi ll grow and it wil l prove to

be yet ano the r medium in wh ich we ca nsha re our co llect ive kn owledge witl~ othe rlikern inded mem bers of th e C luh.

As th e yea r draw s to a close, [ wish youami your family seasons greet ings and bestwishes for great motoring during 2006. Secyou in Invercargi ll!

Leigh Cmy t!lOrne

Leigh C myrhome /JTesenting a certificate ofa/JIJreciation to Lindsay \'\!og(ln for his long service

Elsewhere in th is issue is ment ion ofth e Bruce Pidgeon Memorial C lassic ,an eve nt to be held over three days in

Febru ary nex t yea r as par t of the So uthernFestival of Speed. A s is mention ed in th earticle, Bruce was a stalwart of the cluband was a lways int erested in competit iveevent s. Not mentioned in the a rt icle, butequally important to us, was that he servedon t he ed itor ia l co mm ittee of BeadedWheels from the late 1960s and was elect edth e cha irman of that committee from 1995until h is deat h In 2002 . Bruce was a popularcha irma n and we all enjoyed workin g withhim. With others, we fe lt the loss greatlywhen he passed away. The Bruce PidgeonMemorial C lassic is indeed a fit ting way to

remember a person who gave so much tim eto th e Vintage C ar C lub.

O ur comm ittee has had a rare cha ngerecently when lon g t ime member, LindsayWogan, moved to Wakefield , near N elson ,to live. Lind say brought a great deal oftechnica l expe rti se to our committeediscussion s and will be ha rd to replace .He often was able to assist with somesee mingly obscure fact that helped us geta sto ry together. H is ability to qui ckly co inan apt ph rase for a capt ion or a headingwill a lso be missed . l. ind say served onth e co mmittee for 18 years and has beeninvolved co nt inuously since issue number167 in Au gust [987, wh ich mean s thathe has had a hand in 110 issues of BeadedWheels. Wc thank Lind say for his effortsove r all th ose vca rs and wish him all thebest in hi s new env iron ment.

\Ve rea lly did need to hrin g in someexperti se to repl ace Lind sav and, a fte rsome research, decided that A llan Wyliewas our man. I am pleased to say thathe ha s a llowed himself to be seduce dand graciously agreed to he our newestcommittee member. We a ll welcome A llanto th e fold and wish him all th e best in hisfuture with Beaded W heels .

[ will take th is opport un ity to a lsopublicly tha nk the others of our committeefor th eir tim e and exp ert ise over the past 12months. So to [udith Bain , Rosulie Brown,John Coornber, Mark Daw ber, MarilvnMcKinlay, C hris St cven s and Robin Wells,on beha lf of the members, tha n ks foryour efforts over 2005 and I look forwardto working with you in th e New Year.Seasons G reet ings.

Kevin ClarbonChairman, Beaded Wheels

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national office news

Historic Racing LicenceDo n't forget th at to en te r any VCC

Speed Event, you requ ire a Historic Raci ngLicen ce. You ca n ob tai n an applicationfor m eithe r t h rough your Branch Sec reta ryor the N ati on al O ffice . Please rememberth at the paymen t of $22 .50 must heattac hed to the completed applicat ion format th e t ime of applying and the licenceis va lid for five years. Financia l VC Cmembersh ip must be held.

One Day Attendance for the Vero 2006Rally VCC Diamond Jubilee

A t this stage, there is no provision forone- day at tenda nce ar the Int ern ationalRa lly. The Ral ly Commirrcc will helooking into the matter and it may he thatpr ior pu rchase for a ce rta in day may bemade available. We will keep your branc hinfo rmed as news co mes to han d or youca n co ntact the Rally Committee di rect.

Banking ChangePlease note that the VCC have cha nged

ban ks. If you need the new han k number,please co ntact the Na t ional O ffice.

Visitors to the National Office\Y./e wish to co nt inue to enco urage

members to visit th e office on Fridays whenthe Arch ivist is present, or by appoi nt ­ment, so that the ad min istrat ion work isnot a ffecte d and hours are not increa sed.

I would like to take th is opport un ityto wish ever yone a very happ y and safeC h ristmas and N ew Year.

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Prince Henry Veteran Tour

Moped RunDunedin-Brighton Veteran Rally

CanterburyOtago

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31-2 Feb Otago

FEBRUARY4-6 5th Canterbury Mount Cook Re-enactment Rally

11 -12 Waimate 25th Wallaby Run11-12 Canterbury Annual Motorcycle Run17-19 Hawke's Bay ArtDeco Rally

18 Gore Gore Festival Rally19 5th. Canterbury Lady Drivers Rally

25-26 Canterbury Annual Rally27 Waikato Blue Smoke &Pedals Moped Run

New Year's Day Picnic, Little River DomainMotorcycle New Year runPicnic RunVERO Rally 2006 VCC Diamond JubileeAustin Centennial Tour

AA Great Automobile GymkhanaBoxing Day Run

DECEMBER3 North Shore Swap Meet5 Southland Family Fun Run

11 5th. Canterbury Christmas Run11 Wairarapa Gymkhana26 Canterbury &

Banks Peninsula26 Wellington

JANUARY1 Banks Peninsula2 Canterbury8 Canterbury

14-27 Southland28lan- 11 Feb

While Beaded Wheels makes every allempt tacheck theaccuracy ofthedates published in this column we advise readers toconfirm all dates with theindividual branch concerned.

mailbagTheeditorial committee reservetheright to publish , editorrefuse publicationof any item submitted as comment. Theviews expressed hereinarethose of theauthorsanddo notnecessa rily express the policy or views of theVintage CarClub of NewZea land (Inc.) or thepublishers .

Dear SirI am a bit concerned about the rul ing by

our nat ional execu t ive to da te our veh iclesby the date of the en gine if it is a latermodel than the chassis or body of a givenvehicle. To date a ca r th is way when thereis little or no incre ase in horse power andthe only visible difference is the enginenumber doe s not make much sense to me.T his seems to me to be a very short sightedview that will severe ly limit a number ofour mem bers in the use of the ir veh iclesfor, seemingly, no good reason. There area number of makes with in our ranks whe rethe motors cross two, or even th ree, classeswith virtua lly no changes aside from theen gin e nu mber.

Nor ca n I see any goo d reason topen alise a mem ber whose ca r has beenfitted with a later mode l motor whichresu Its in a modest increase in horsepowerbut fal ls within the 20% th reshold th athas been allowed for withi n our ru les.It co uld never be sa id that our Vint agevehicles arc over-powered and a modestincrease in horsepower wou ld serve on lyto make these veh icles go up hill s faste r.\Vith out sign ifica nt mod ificat ion therewou ld be no gain in top spee d. Howeverit migh t mean that pa rt s are more read ilyava ilab le or that the car would be morereliable. Providi ng the motor will just boltin I bel ieve the rule th at allows a 20%increase in power is very reasonab le butconsider it unrea listic to pena lise peop lefor using later motors.

Of equa l conce rn is th e effec t ofchanging the dat e of a car that has beenon the road for some years . If, in theeyes of the VCC, a 1938 DeSoto sudd en lybecomes a 1954 DcSoto, because it hasa 1954 Plymouth motor, (or does the carbecome a 1954 Plymout h) what is going tohapp en whe n that ca r is taken for its nextWO F where it is a lready listed as a 1938model? I have spoken to VTNZ and havebeen to ld such a veh icle will not be issuedwith a WOF.

A 1938 DeSoro is a 1938 DeSoto nomatter whe th er it has a 1954 Plymouthmoto r or a 1936 Aust in 7 motor. It is stilla 1938 DeSoro. I do n't advoca te we sho ulda llow our cars to become hot rods hutthere must surely be some co mmon sensein here somewhere.

I would be interested to hear wha tothers have to say about th is.

Bruce McKechn ie.Member Hawke's Bay.

ReIJl)' fmm Cluh Registrar

We preserve history not create it!A t this year" AG tvl th er e was a

document presented by ano ther Hawke'sBay me mbe r to advocate the VCC sho uldcha nge its rules to a llow any vehicle witha mod ern engine fitt ed remain in its class.I devo ted sufficient time at th at meetingto exp lain if we changed our ru les toa llow thi s we wou ld be out of step withthe world-wide h istoric vehicle movement .I ,liso reiterat ed t he executive h as notcha nged an y rules nor have I adopted anynew ruling. We have always dated anyveh icle for VC C purposes this way as thisdate will estab lish th e period category ofthe veh icle Le. Veter an (V ET) , Vintage(VV), Post Vintage (PVV) etc. A veh iclewith a 1925 chassis and a 1935 en ginewill be a POSt Vintage Vehicle (PVV). Aveh icle with a 1916 engine and a 1919chassis will be a Vint age Veh icle (VV). ForWOF purposes the vehicle's or igin al dateof man ufacture remains.

T he app rop ri at e sec t ion of ourTechn ical C ode reads, "If the origin a len gine is beyond repair, and an a lterna­tive ident ical replacement has been used,th e vehicle will be classified as Type ASt andard, (clause 3.1) & G roup 4 Rebuil t,(clause 3.2) being described as an (A4)fix Vehicle Iden t ity Card purposes." T heword ing alternative identi cal replacemen tsho uld he sel f-explanatory. The majorityof our mem bershi p st rives to find andach ieve the correct parts to suit the yearof th eir vehicl e. \Ve preserv e history notcreate it ! If a later out-of-per iod eng ine isthe on ly op t ion available to get a veh icleon the road while th e search continuesfor a correct eng ine, our system does notlimit the veh icles use at a ll. We just moveth e veh icle forward a class or two for oureve nts while th at engine is fitt ed, th erebyprotecti ng th e integrity of our rallies andthe major ity of co mpet itors who have thecor rect eng ine s fitted to th eir vehicle s.

Listed below are some Objects from ourconstitution .

Aims of the Vintage Car Club of NewZealand (Ine.)

To suppor t and enco urage the preser­vat ion , restoration and use of H isto ricVehicles in a histor ica lly and tech nicallycorrect man ner.

To obta in and co nser ve a ll hi stor­ical records con cerning such veh icles orconcern ing any aspect of moto ring in New

To promote t he va lue of historic veh ic leswit h regulatory powers to ensu re full usea nd individu al freedom on our roads.

To ad vocate and lobb y on beha lf ofthe member s of t he clu b to prote ct andadva nce th ese objects.

Tasks adopted since the introduction ofour Vehicle Identity Card system

To edi t th e VCC Veh icle TechnicalCod e sett ing stand ard ru les an dprocedure s, and manage th eir imp le­me nt at ion for dat ing, cla ssifying ofveh icles and eva luating th eir level ofpreser vat ion.

To san ct ion H istor ic ve hicl es byissu ing the VC C Vehicle Ident it yCa rd to members and non -mem berswho own H istoric Veh icles.

To maint a in and enco urage a highdeg ree of tec hnica l a nd hi storicaccuracy in subject veh icles and event sin which they are used.

Rod Brayshaw.National Vehicle Registrar.

Dear SirPrese ntly a subscriber to Beaded Wheels

but no t yet a Vintage C ar C lub member, Iwas ho ping you might find space in yourmagazine for this in the hope some of yourreader s might be ab le to provide infor ma­tion to help me in an at tempt to researchthe New Zealand Mo to r Rac ing Driver 'sAssociation (NZMRDA)

My interest in th is organ isati on waskind led when A rtic McLung , an oldmecha nic friend, gave me one of theirbadges just pr ior to h is passing away. Ar tiehad removed the badge from a scrappedEssex car lying at the rear of a g,1tage atwhich he worked at Waihi in ea rly years.

W ha t little kn owledge I have is asfollows.

NZMRDA was formed in 1933, DickMessenger was instr umental in its comingto be and held the position of chairm an.Its first meeting was at Mangere Spe edwa yon 21 January 1933.

A club day was held at Muriwai beachon 21 May 1933. Record att empts weremade by Ph il Seubrook and Reg Grieson,four ru ns were made in north and southdi rect ion, two st anding a nd two flyingsta rts.

An AG M was held on 13 September1934, Dic k Messenger stepped downan d Ph il Easrerbrook took over with J F[oh nson as Hon Secretary and LeonardChirm as Secretary. The co mmitte e wasmade up of Grieson, Desot a and Smith.

It was t hought t he c lub founderedduring th e war years. Most of thi s informa­tion is from Doug las Wood's book Flar to

Olive Kill,} .\ll/J/Jlied thi.' /JllOtogra/,h .' !lOwing l3 ill Piddington who rode his motorcycle all the u'ay fromT iJlwru . took part in the oval events and rude hack to T iJlwru in 1966. She wonders how many of thosemembers pictured still have the .,ame morocycles toda).'

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on ly beach race held at Waihi end ed whena ca r turn ed over ki llin g its driver.

At the time of th e Se ptember 1934AG M a new badge was introd uced , it wasin the for m of a shield dep ict ing a redrac ing car on a blue bac kgrou nd topped bytwo green fern fronds. Below th e car werethe lett ers NZMRDA and to its righ t asma ll outl ine map of New Zea land.

T he badge in my possession has thenu mber 114 on the rear. In format ion fromany of you r readers wou ld be most appreci­ated .

I ca n be cont act ed by ph one or fax on07868 1062

Don A mmonPuri r i 8842RDl Thames

Dear SirRe : Leyland C ub 6x4 tru ck circa 1939I am lookin g for infor mat ion regarding

th e above veh icle. T hey were used by theRoya l NZ Engin eers to ca rry road bridg ingmater ial during the war. I wish to restoreon e if possible but have nothi ng to go on .Manu als, parts or a line on a completevehicle would be grea t. Any help would beappreciated. A re there any st ill arou nd ?

A ny info would be appreciated.Srephen DcnbvEmail: steve.jacqui@clea r.ne t .nz12 Lvrron S treet ,Feilding.Ph 5.30 pm-9.00 pm on ly 06 323 2367

Dear SirRe : Page 2 Beaded W heels 276T he A ust in is a 12/4 and the photo W,1S

probabl y taken somewhere on the NorthIsland Ce nt ral Plateau . Mr Ruapehu is inthe back gro un d. G oing by the registra­tion plate, the pho to was probably ta kenin the 1934/35 or 1937/38 licencing yearswith 1933/34 or 1935/36 as possibilit ies. Ifthe photo was en larged, the small symbolin th e middle of the pla te would confirmth e year.

Joh n Stokes

Dear SirMemories of 1965 Hanst International

Rall y. Not long ago we had a couple ofVCC members in our sho p and they toldus th ey h ad been on the 1965 Rally andthat at . the sta rt they had looked ac rossat us and said "tha t car will make it , but Idon' t know about the elderly co uple." Fortyyears lat er and the elde rly coup le a re st illgoing. Reg is 90 and I am 86 but we hopeto be active members of the Hawke's BayVC C for some time yet .

I w ill never forget that ra lly. W henwe saw th e ph otograph of that lon g long

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flat d inner plate and a deep pudd ing plateeach and I recall at Mr Cook having toempty th e rain out th ree times wh ile westood in the line.

In a ll the write-ups and ta lks made wehave not seen or heard a word in pra ise ofSid Slvfield the Pcnnzoi l man. He was agreat soc ial secretary for the huge num berof ent rants .

We remember the ga les at Mr Cookwhere the new pup tent s and others whichman y had bought new for the Rall y wereblown up t he sides of mount a in s andpunct ured on tho rn bushes and the reforemade useless for the rest of the ra lly.

We just loved th e art icle in BeadedW heels written by the ca terer. He dida great job in 190') and aga in with h ismemor ies too.

Than k you for th e opport un ity to reliveone of our highli gh ts.

O live Kilby

Dear SirI am looki ng forward to my f()urth visit

to your bri ll iant country in [an/Fob 2006to visit my cx pat . family in Au ckland .As a lways there are so many th ings I amlookin g to rward to, not least of wh ich ismaking contact with old ca r en thusiasts,part icula rly in A uck land and vicini ty aswe will be there for some t ime.

My own ca rs (at the mom ent) ar ea 1952 Morgan Plus 4 and a 1932 15/6Riley S pecia l w it h TT body. Shouldt he re he local mem bers who own orare in the process of restoring either ofth ese makes I would regard it as a grcurfavour if they could eit her make co ntac twith me in South A fr ica o r contact mydaughter C la ir Kin gan , (Ph 09 378 4410,Fax 09 379 3625 ).

It might be of int erest to N ew Zea landRilev ow ne rs that we arc in the process oforgan ising the second Ri lev Rend ezvoustour in South Africa in October 2007.The first event too k place in and aro undT he Ca pe last yea r and was a won derfulsuccess. T he event att racted severa l Rileyowners from the U K and Austr a lia. Itwould be wonde rful if we co uld att rac tentries from N ew Zea land to the week-long

in So uth Africa who would be willing tolen d car s for the event .

T han ks again for your excellent BeadedW heels, I am so lucky to have a da ughterwho regularl y subscribes for me.

Mike [on es14 C he lmsford AveEsscxvale 6070Port Elizabet h, South A frica

There is only a year and a bit to go to this rallyand the Canterbury team has got most of theimportant building blocks in place.Rally headquarters will be the Riccarton Clubwhere the Friday and Saturday social eventswill take place. This club was selected becauseof its facilities and because there is so muchaccommodation within easy walking distance.For those of you who like to get organisedwell in advance, there is an information sheetavailable that details names, addresses andcontact details for the various motels andcamping grounds in the area. This sheet wascirculated to all delegates that attended therecent AGM in Cromwell so please talk to yoursecretary, but if you have any difficulties, contactour Rally Secretary, Gary Arps, phone 03 3598734/ PO Box 1850 Riccarton, Christchurch oremail : [email protected] he will make sure you get the informationyou require. Rally routes have been set and thelunch venues conf irmed. There are still a lot ofdetails to befinalised, but everything is startingto look good.Entry forms will beavailable about themiddle ofnext year, and we will be sending them out torecent previous entrants. Aoain, Gilr\/. Arm isthe

THE WAYWE WERE

As compiled by Grant Hitchings

The Vintage Car Club really kicked

off when one day at the University

of Canterbury during a rather

tiresome lecture, a very bored Andrew

Anderson leaned across his desk and

whispered to an equally bored

Rob Shand "Why don't we start an old

car club?"George Gowenloci< (holdingpipe), Clem McLachlan and Andrew Anderson in deepand meaningfulconversation during the Club's 50ch Anniversary in Chriscchurch.

George GowenlockW ith friends show in g a n int erest as

wel l, the idea was acted o n and cl clubfo rmed . A s with most sim ilar organi sa­tions the posit ion of secretary/ t reasure rwas of par am ount impo rt ance and thefledgl ing club was fortun ate in being ableto en list th e serv ices of a co lleague, GeorgeG owe n lock , wh o proved to be proficient inth is ro le.

From the minu tes of their ea rly meetingsI noted that George held offi ce fro mthe in augura l mee ti ng in A ugu st 1946un til hand in g over h is dut ies to A ndrcwA nderson in March 1947. Afte r that heseemed to va ni sh from th e C lub rad a runt il recently whe n he was traced th roughthe effor ts of the Wel ling to n Bra nc h.Later with Bra nc h member Roger \Vhi teand a 'wh ite knuc kle' ride in his VS spor tsI visited Gcorgc in hi s home in the Hu rt

. Valley wh ere he lives with wife A n ne.

Grant HitclJings

When in Wellington I was hosted by BranchChairman Don Hawkes and his wife Maureen,which I appreciated, and I was also able to havesome quality timewith otherbranch members. !was given a tourover thefrnewly renovated dubrooms which left mesuitably impressed. Thewhole complex has had a complete makeover,and as well as tarting up the main assemblyroom, a new entryvestibule and toilet facilityhave been added, as well as tidying the spareparts upstairs. There isa goodworkshop and avery modern and spacious kitchen which wouldbe theenvy of many similar organisations. Onthe Friday night I visited, theclub room hadbeen taken over by a groupof lady memberswho were preparing for the Ladies Sewing Beeto be held the nextday.

I learnt that this activity was the result of thedonation of a trophy by Fred and Elizabeth

In hi s mid -70s, George ca n on ly bede scribed as a "character " a nd if t heother members of the fou ndi ng grou p hadsimilar personalit ies and the same freshand bright approach to life, as well asGeo rge's und erl ying sense o f humour, thenI can eas ily understand why the activit iesof the new -bo rn club were so po pu lar a ndso succcssfu l.

G eorge see med ge nu inely apprec ia­tive of our visit and was soo n remin isci ngabout Th e Way We Wcrc. The highl igh tof h is lat er yea rs seems to have bee nthe 50th A n n iversa ry Rall y of the C lubheld in C hristch urch in 1996 when hea nd the oth er su rviving founders wereinvit ed to attend as specia l guests andgiven ce lebrity status. He pro ud ly sho wedus hi s leather-bound edit ion o f the 50 thA nniversary Boo k speciall y prese nt ed tohim at tha t time a nd a spec ia l FoundersMed al of whi ch he is equally pro ud, str uck

Colonial Cup Rally in 2005, andthereafter annually. Known as thePosh Attire Trophy it is won by thecrew of a vehicle whose attire is ofthe highe~t ~tandMd and Correct stylefor the age of their car or motorcycle. After thesuccess of the first staging of this rally, Elizabethand other lady members set aside a Saturdayfor the girls to meet at the c1ubrooms with theirsewing machines, materials, needles, scissors,welding gear and whatever to create new andmore vibrant dressage and fashion ensemblesfor the Posh run next year. I noticed that therewas a collection of old hats that they intendedto refettle and they had scourced a quantityof old-type fabric as well. The most interestingthing for me though were some donated backdated issues of the Australian Woman's Journalpublished during the 50s and 60s that the team,. j ._ .,_, Le '

an d presented to hi m a nd hi s surv ivingcoll eag ues a few yea rs ago .

G eorge was born on 27 October 1926in Portsmouth, Rhode Islan d, USA andem igrated to N ew Zeal an d o n the SSPort A uckland arriving on I Ma rch 1935.Settli ng in Christchurch, George attendedMedbury Sc ho ol in Fendalron th en receivedhi s seco nda ry educatio n at C h rist's Collegebefore stud ying for an Arts degree at theC anterbury University College.

Hi s first exper ience of old veh icleshappened before the adve nt of the C lubwhen he joi ned with th ree of h is un iver­sity mates and co llec t ively hou ght in toan early mod el Fo rd T. Thei r decisio nto immed iate ly tr y the th ing out with ahill run was a near disaster. It managedto st ruggle up H ackth ornc Road on theCh risrch urch Por t H ills and then at theSig n of th e Taka he intersec tion turneda nd bega n its descent. In q uic k success io n

fashion couture.My visit to Wellington was in early June. Sincethen the ladies have had another work day inAugust and as reported in the Wellington BranchIdletorque notes in the October/November issueof Beaded Wheels they had a guest CarleneBealing, who displayed and spoke about hercollection of character dolls, the bodies of whichwere made from American car lining material. Ilook forward to more news of the Sewing Circlein future issues of this magazine.

waywewere

the car lost the use of its foo tb rak cs, theha nds o n the e ng ine gea r syste m wh ich

n ulli fied t he use of the mo to r for slowing ,

a nd fin a lly the ha ndbrake which fell o ff

t he veh iclc when o pe rated .

The ca r h urtled downhill e ve n t ua lly

execut ing a tw o wheel tu rn at t he bottom

of the hi ll wher e fo u r ver y wh ite-faced

students gave th anks to S t Chrisrophera nd a pauc ity o f traffic d ue to post-war

pe t ro l rat ioning fo r the ir deli ver a nce .A lt ho ugh the ir T cou ld he classifi ed as a

d isas ter G co rge ruefu lly ad m it ted t hat they

did learn a lot abo ut t he motor ve h icle a nd

its ma intenance wh e n own ing it . T h ey

ran it o n ke rosene a nd G eorge sa id th at

at the time the Ford T was t he o n ly make

of ca r that could succ essfully tr averse t heW a im <l ka rir i R iver bed .

The T's de m ise was signa lled when o n

a sk i trip, abo ut 50 mi les in la nd fro m

C hr isrchu rc h a t yre blew o ut. The spare

went th e sa me way ve ry soo n afte r, wh ich

left them lim ping home o n a ba re ri m .

They mad e it hack bu t com plicat ions a rose

whe n o n th e outsk irts o f t he city their

ba re wheel slotted into the tr am tracks,

A s at th e conc lus ion of t he fil m Geneiuevc

sim ilar pr ob lems a rose when they h ad to

tr ave rse the points.

T heir next ve nt u re was the purchaseo f a Bea n tourer. Unremnrkublc, it so n ly lasti ng me mory for G eorge was t hetim e wh en in a n effort to c ure a sta rt ingproblem they pou red a gen ero us qu ant ityo f methylat ed sp ir it into t he tank hopi ngto help it fire up but wh ich immed iat elysta rt ed to d isso lve a ll the shel lac-basedgaske t sea la nts throu ghout the veh icle. Itst ill di d not sta rt wel l.

Evidenrlv in 191 9, a M r K Berkct r bough ttwo new Dod ge cars, o ne of wh ich he gaveto the gra nd father o f Joh n Reeves whowas a eo- fo und e r of the C lub a nd a goo dfriend of Georgc. In 1946, o n the deat h ofh is gra nd fat her, John be came rhe ow nero f the ca r w ith o n ly 6,5 00 mil es o n thespeedo. It had been in sto rage fo r most ofits life a nd whi le this seemed to have mad eit a desirable ite m it a lso meant that eve ry­thing per ishable h ad de terior ated . G eo rgesa id that the tyre s wer e so hard that asledge h ammer had to be used to d islod gethem fro m the 25" rims. T he bat te ry wasa d isaster to o . Until my co nv ersation wi thGeorge, I was un awar e that in th is e rava rio us mat eri a ls were used to fas h ionthe bat te ry cases . G lass was o ne popularmedi um wh ile a not her was to ma ke t hebatter y co ntai ne r frorn timber usual Iv ab outa q ua rt er of an inc h t h ick wit h doveta iled

co rn e rs a nd a coat ing of p itc h in side forprotec t ion a nd t h is was the t ype fitted tothe Dod ge. H e co m me nted wryly tha t littlerema in ed of it exc ept a mess.

Geo rge left un ive rsit y wit hout gradu­a t ing a nd a fte r a sho rt spel l teac hing bac kat Mec.l bury S chool too k up a ca ree r inacco unta ncy in Wel lingt o n, h aving beenin the club sligh tl y less t ha n a yea r andm issing its first An n ua l Me et ing. It is sadthat at th is time t he re was no orga n isa ­tio n ca ter ing fo r o ld cars in 'X/cll ingtu n soG eorge dropped o ut of the sce ne a lt ho ug hst il l reta in ing an in te rest in o ld mac hi ner ya nd the lives of hi s past Club friends . Ofhis four ch ild re n, a son , Basil, is in bus inessin the H urt Va lley restor ing veh icles a ndbe ing a member of the VC C kee ps h is dadabreast of develo pments with in t he Club.A s we ll as ow n ing so me ve ry selec t motor ­c ycles Basil possesses a 6 cylinde r Essex .

Roger , G eo rge , An ne a nd I fin ishedo ur t ime toget her wi t h a ve ry pleasanta fternoon rea.

And in conclusion, to t hose att e nd ingVe ra in Inverca rg i11 , my hest w ishes for asa fe a nd e njo yable mo tor ing a nd a pleasantsocia l time toge t her. I look forward to

meet in g yo u there

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OF COURSE

cars have personalitiesText Don Broome, illustrated by the late Dove Richardson.

Cars have always had a fascination for me, probably

because most of the machines that I have owned have

developed personalities of their own. Some mischievous,

some loyal and some just downright malevolent,

but always interesting.

I was bo~n S.'hortly before New Zealand anno unce d itself at warWi th Ge rma ny, however I do not think th e two events wererelated. I progressed through the usual series of transport, four

wheel parent propelled, three and then two wheel pedal propelledand four wheeled gravity prop elled . This latter device I hadfashioned out of an o ld pram and th e obligatory "soap box" whil espend ing a len gthy stay with my grandparen ts in Wellington .I ha ve since revisited the very stee p sce ne of my first "dr iving"experiences and can on ly marvel at my inc redible brav ery and lackof understanding of the laws of physics.I survived thi s phase with nothing worse ~

than a brok en finger, suffered whe n Ibur st th rough a paling fen ce at hi ghspeed due to a temporary loss of steering.(The binder twine bro ke). I bore myinjury sto ica lly in the grand trad ition sof the great pre-war racing dri vers whomI admired. I was to perfect this fen cedemolish ing tri ck man y years later atAranui speed way.

Four days after my f frcenth birthday,having backed the family Vaux ha llup and down the dri ve and receivedsome fle eting tui tion from the next .,door neighbour, I presented myself at

the C hrisrch urch C ity Council officesto display to a local traffic office r, myco mpe te nc e in handling a motori sedveh icle. Despite disparaging remarkssince repeated over many yea rs, I did ga in a dri ver's licen ce at th isfirst attempt.

My first mot or ca r was a mischievous 1925 Rugby to urer. Iowned this car about the sa me tim e as I "discovered" girls andit saved its best tri cks for when I was tr ying to impress them. Ithad been fitt ed with a later model radiato r, which was a bit tall erthan the original , so the bonnet sloped down towards th e scuttle,giving th e app earance that the ca r was go ing to break in halfin the middl e. There were a lso a few teeth missing off the rin ggea r anJ although it a lmos t a lways sta rted for me first tim e, theen gine would inv ariably stop in the pos it ion of the missing teethwhen I was t rying to impress a girlfr ienJ , o r reassure her pa rents .The resulting sh riek of miss-meshing teeth whe n I trod on th estarter button usually sen t the mother into near hysteria, but neverseemed to induce th e fath er into offer ing the family car. Thehumiliati on of having to dive und er the front seat for th e crankhandle, tie my handkerchief around the choke kn ob to get somefast idle an d leap ou t to turn th e en gine th rough a qu arter turn ,prevented me from presenting the suave man-about-town effectth at I had been planning.

The Rugby a lso had ano the r party trick that co uld be induced

off the ignition , and wait ed for the a lmost co mp ression less mo torto windmill to a halt . At that prec ise mom ent, flicking onth e ignition caused the mot or to make grea t sucking noisesat the exhaust outlet and blowco pious amounts of smoke outthrough th e bun net lou vres asit attempte d to run backwards .More fiddling with the ign itionswitch then pro duce d a mostsat isfac tor y ex plosion out thehack. This was ver y popular withmy mat es, but did not see m toimpress gi rlfriends, elderly pedes­trians or st ray J ogs.

The Rugby was replaced witha 1930 De'Sot o whi ch was anin ten ..;e[y loval vehicle. The onlytim e it di sgraced me publiclywas in C h ristchurch's Cathed ra lSqua re when a cycl ist got stuckin the t ram tracks and fell off ~....:::::::...-_...:::.::S::~~~:::::.:~~u

his cycle almost limier my front C'JcQ/.5t "'''' .5 ",-ore tt-",,,- l>o..ebrl'o...teJ.wheels. With a burst of ad reua linand the help of Waiter C h rvsler's exceptional hydraulic brakes Iman aged to stop all four wheels from going aro und insta nta neously.

Unfortunatel y the tyres continu ed on forano the r quarter turn, ch opping off the fourva lve stems and de pos it ing me on four flatty res ou tside the Regen t picture theatre. Ofcourse a traffic officer immediat ely app earedin hi s Ford VS Coupe and gazed upon myhumble carriage with a mixture of scorn an dderi sion . The ensuing co nversat ion was justgetting heated when the offend ing cycl iststaggered up and very un wisely inter venedwith an unflattering charac te r descr ipt ion ofall tr affic officers. The fact tha t th e cycl istwas more th an somewhat inebri ated ga inedth e officer's imm edia te att en t ion and th etwo of them departed in the directi on ofthe police stat ion which was just around thecorner. A pho ne ca ll sen t "males mot ors" intoaction and an asso rtment of veh icles bearingspa re wheel s, tubes and rim s descend edon Cathe d ra l Squa re. Theatre-goers were

treated to a scen e that would have Jone credit to a For mula O nepit stop, as we changed rims and tub es and de parted before thetraffic off ice r rctu rned .

Fortunately it was a diffe rent t raffic officer th at stoppedme some weeks later outside the Ca nte rbury Museum. I hadturned up to play rugby at Haglev Park, only for our team to beinformed t hat th e game had been tr an sferred to Syden ha m Park .C om mun icat ions had broken down, but if we weren 't there inabout five minutes we would h ave lost by de fault . T h rowin g openth e doors of th e DeSow I shou ted "A 11 aboa rd" an d off we wentonly to be stopped alm ost imm ediately. The officer was a verydecent chap who sa id he had been attracted by a ll th e boors tiedon the luggage rack an d on closer examination was convince d allthe ow ner s were inside the car. When he inqu ired if I haJ theent ire team on board, a muffled voice from the back said "No, I'mth e referee." A comprom ise was reach ed where the tr affic office rtook the referee to Svdenharn Park to delav th e game until wearr ived an d I was allowed a maximum of six pa,;sen gers and therest had to cycle. I think thar the officer was sec retly impressedthat th e DeSoto co uld hold sixteen people and st ill be stee red(aft er a fashion) .

Brilliantweather and a great

selection of cars from the Hawke's

Bay Branch and the Hawke's Bay Car

Club, made the 50th Anniversary of

the Te Onepu hill climb a weekend to

remember. First we look back at the

origins of what is probably the oldest

Hill Climb in New Zealand .

Soon after the cessati on of hostil itiesof th e seco nd World War in 1945, carent husiasts began looking forwa rd

to Ca r C lub events to take part in . In1946 a small group of Hawke's Bay peoplejoined the NZ Sports Ca r C lub, based inWell ington, an d wen t th ere to take pan inth e quart er mile sprint at Seu view Road,Lower Hurt, and also on Aotca Q uay,Welli ngton with the Puck ukur iki h ill climbfollowin g sho rtly afterwards . In Mav 1947about 30 mot oring enthu siasts decided toform a C ar C lub in Hawkc's Bay, whichbecam e the Hawkc's Bay Sports Car C lub.The first run was a soc ial one to Parangam,in quite inclement weather. The first hillclimb was held in 1947 on Seafield Road,Bay View, using the first hill. T he secondhill climb was held on 28 Februar y 1948,again on the first hill, but a ll later h illclimbs took place on the seco nd hill. Bothhill clim bs were on met al road s. Varioussprints, hill cl imbs and t rials were held.On 6 O ctob er 1955 th e word 'Sp ort s'was removed from th e C lub's nam e andremains that way today. Later in the year,the C lub held its first Invi ta t ion Hillcli mbat Te O ne pu, with invitat ions be ing sent

Taurnurunui C ar C lubs. Th is proved to bea great hill , sea led a ll the way, with twot igh t hnirpins..

It is now 50 years since Te O ne pu hillwas first used and it is st ill bein g used asa major hill climb. As well th is weeke nd ,th e jo int Vint age C ar -1ub and Hnwke'sRay C ar C lubs are purrin g on a secondhill climb namely Pukeora, just a co up leof miles So uth of Waipu kurau There hawbeen some colourful cha ract ers in the H B.Spor ts Ca r C lub in the past 50 yea rs. Theywere a ll amateurs, mainly with "Specia ls"Reg McCurch eon from Norse w;Jod, in th eNormae Spec ia l, put up fastest tim e on thefirst Te O nepu hill climb on J December1955 with a time of 56.8 seconds . Followedby A ngus H yslop in his XKI40 jaguarcoupe in 1 min 5.2secs. Des McDonaghwas th ird in his Thomas Mercur y Specialin I min 5.5 secs . In th e und er 1200ccclass, Bruce Web ster put up fastest tim e inhis Cooper 500 in 1 min 9.0 secs. Probabl ymost surprising of all was Ban O'Rourke 'sper forman ce in his 19.30 Mor ris Minor inI min 27 secs. Ban worked hard on h isinnocuous little car br ingin g it up virt ua llyto J2 MU specificat ion. A lso of not e wasth e per forman ce of a sta lwart of the C lubin A llan McKen zie-Douglas' A lvis 12/60Duck's-back . T he next Te O nepu hillclimb was held on 14 Ap ril 1956 , whichsaw Bruce Web ster putting up fastest tim eof th e day in I min 04 secs , with GobG ibbons from Wellington in hi s XK 120Jaguar, second. A ngus Hyslop, in hi s XKI4,Ford v Fa rland from Palmerston N orthin hi s S inger Buick , I-lugo Holl is fro mWe llington, in his XK 120, j . McDougall ,in 8 TR 3. D. Nowell -Usricke in a XK140

A lvis 12/60 a ll put up cre d ita ble perform­a nces . Clearl y the Te Onepu hi ll clim bwas beco ming an importa nt event in theNor th Island.

T he ne xt hill climb was 1 December1956 whi ch was again won by BruceWebs te r in the C ooper N or to n followedhI' Hugo Holli s in hi s XK 120 ja guar andA ngus Hyslop in his XK140 coupe in th atorde r, A no ta ble new ent rant was Gra hamC owie from Musrerton in his superchargedAust in He.ilev .

T he 1957 event W,I S held in fine wea theron 13 April th at yea r with entrants fromWel lingto n, Masrerron , Wan ganui andMan awaru . Fastest t ime 1V8 S shared hy RegMcCu tch eon in the N orm ae Spec ia l, whohad put the C hevy-Wavne fuel injectionmot or in th e old chassis, and Bruce We hster,in the C oo pe r Norton , bot h record ing th efast t ime of 1 rnin 3.8 secs. From this t imeon there were many familiar races andsome un famil iar, pitting th eir performanceaga inst the h ill. There was the then youngPaul S t ich bury in his Au stin 7 spec ia lpreviously owned by Trcvor Fippard. Helater raced a Mini , and the n th e ex LJocLan gley Humber 80, which he st ill ownsand which was see n ta king part at th esetwo hill clim bs. This car is probab ly oneof th e o ldes t racin g saloons from a bygon eem , winning th e NZ saloon car champi­onship in 1959 and 1960 and st iIl racingtoday. A ngus Hyslop co mmenced with theXK140 co upe, adva nced to the 0 Typejaguar, then to th e Cooper C limax withwhich he broke th e hill record . Bill Hannaan ea rly member of th e H.B. Spor ts C arC lub, drov e h is 1946 MC TCin sprintsand hill climbs to verv pood (,ff('er Fm

MG TF with whi ch he mowed down t he

fence on the second h ai rpi n o ne yea r. He

lat er owned a Morgan 4/4. Bru ce Webster

was a lways close to fastest time in sprints ,

raci ng and hill cli mbing in the Coope rN orron 500, which he lat er converted to

a Por sche engined C oo pe r which beca me

kn ow n as t he Pee per. In later yea rs we

saw To ny Gilbertson ta king pa rt in firstl y

a M ini, then a Min i Coo per, a nd later a

Ferrar i. Also tha t characte r, Alan St yles,

who had Cl series of ca rs at the hill climbsbut mostly enjoyed the performance of hi s

Ford G T HO with whi ch he held the sa loo n

class record for some time. In 1961 A ng usH yslo p won the 'Driver of the year' awa rd

and with his mechan ic Bill Hanna, went

off to Europe at one stage driving a FiarAbarth at le Mans. These t wo mad e a good

team and performed well. Brucc W ebste r

raced fifteen times at Te O ncpu, ga ine d

fastest t ime on ten occasions and second

fastest t ime on the o ther five occasions.

24/25 September 2005For the 50 t h a n n ive rsa ry of Te O nepu

40 entr ies wer e a llocated to eac h cl ub,

there be ing 30 entries ta ken up hy t he

Vintage Car C lub. Althou gh there were

o n ly ha lf a doz en e nt ries fro m Hawkc's Rayther e wer e cars from W aitem ata, Wa ikato ,

W aira rapa, Tar nnaki and as far awa y as

C anterbury, Banks Peninsul a and Sout h

C a nt e rbury branches.

G uest a nd hi ghligh t of the weekend

was our own fam ou s racing driver, G reg

Murphy, who h ad flown over speci a lly

from Au stralia to ta ke part in this 50 t hA n niversary of Te O nepu. He brought hi s

Holden V8 S uperca r a nd h is racing tea m

to ta ke pa rt in the cl imh s. People were ab le

to see at close hand wh at these powerful

brutes look like , thi s car having tak en

pa rt in the 2003 Bat hurst even t. O n thesta rt ing line the noi se was quite sh atte ring,

a nd on ta keo ff, G rci; was fighting to gettr action, the rear wh eel s spin n ing for so me

time. You co uld hear the wh celspin as the

ca r sho t up the hill in a most spec tacula rmanner. S uc h was G reg's com m itment to

the event t ha t when a pro blem arose with

the gearbox , h e ar ranged for a repl acem ent

box to be flown ac ross from Austruli a,fitted into the car, a nd was on the sta rr ingline on S unday morni ng. G rea t work G reg.Becau se of the hu ge power and torqu e

of these ca rs, the rear t yres lasted on ly a

shor t time. Souven irs were ava ilable from

the h uge tr ai ler unit that ca me as well. His

performan ce was such that Greg set a new

sa loon ca r record fo r Te O ne pu and was

a lso second fastest car on the day.

In the Vi ntage sec t ion the re wa s a grea t

range of ca rs, in cl uding tha t ve ry cap abl e

Gre~ Murflh)' on full so n~. Te One/m hill.

Anne Thomson driving 1906 Grand Prix Darmcq.

Gordol1 \logcherr in his 1937 VA c)'pe 1'!I licreMC tomer rahing the fiT.\[ hairpin ar Te One/m.

The ex-Barr O'[~o l/ r/w 1931 Morris Minor whichCOm!ld ed in all Haw/<e'.\ Bay Car d ub event.\ fmm theell/b's ince/ltion in 1947, tooh /wrr ill rhe firsrTc Onepl/hillelimb in 1955.

G ra nd Pri x Da rrac q , Martin Fcmer and h is

daughter Helen, in their BSA spe cia l previ­

ou sly owned a nd huilt by Ralph Wat son ,

Petc [ohns in hi s Marcos G T, N orm

Porter in hi s well rallied 3.0 CSl BMW

coupe, two Buck le rs, jaimc Taylor with hi s

Morgan th ree wh eel er S upe r Spo rts, Don

Broome with hi s Triumph G lor ia spo rts,

Scort Thomson in his Brooklands R ilev

N ine replica, Bob Bemdsley in hi s Al v is

12/50 , Ni gel Hu bbard's S inge r 9 spo rts,C ordo n Vogtherr's IYz litre MG , Roy King

with h is tw o ca rs, a Buick specia l a nd an

A ustin se ven spor ts . Pat Bren and Mikec ~ . . __"'._ .....~.J L __ n . ~l 11/:::.0.

A lvis, and M ike in the A ust in 7 spec ia l.

A s well , ther e were a number of sing le

se ate r racing car s such as exa m ples o f

S ta nguelliu i, Elfin , Valour VT 2 to make up

a bot h interesting a nd fast field. O f spe c ia l

in ter est was the Gee Cce Ess specia l of

Don S uckling wh ich used to race very

suc cessfully back in t he ea rly Post W ar

races from 1946 onwards.The Te O ncpu hill is quite steep with

tw o hairpins wh ich demand respect . Ca rswere sent up in groups of 10-12 cars, themod ern timing gear a llowin g mor e thanone ca r to be on the hill at any t ime,which helped in co p in g with the bigen t ry. After an o rien ta t io n run up theh ill, ent ra nts were a llowed a prac tice runa nd three ti med ru n s. The H awkc's BayCar lub held its fir st In vitation Hillclim bat Te O nepu o n 3 December 1955. BartO'Rourke took pa rt in the ver y first TeO n epu Hillcli mb in hi s 1931 M orrisM in or, which he eve ntua lly tuned to J2MG spec ificat ion . That car was a t the50 th Anniver sar y, as was Jack Hohsonfrom Wa irmapa, wh o to ok part in that fir stTe O ne pu hill climb in a Triumph T R 2. In1969 t here wa s some road reconstruc t ionat Te O nepu, but apa rt from that th e roadhas re ma ined unchanged, and is rega rdedas one of the best h ill cli m b ve nues in thecount ry. A fter the event a happy hou r washeld at the Huw kc's Bay Car C luh rooms a tBridge Pa, wh er e a meal was available a ndpr ize giv ing rook place.

O n Sunday, virruallv th e same ent ra n tsrook part in the Pukcora hill climb abo uttwo miles south of \X!ai pukuwu. A s thispiece of road has been bypassed fll[ someyea rs, it a llows the road to be used till' h illcl imbing. The sta rt is on the flar belowthe hill, and ca rs can reach quite highspee ds before going ove r a blind brow inthe roa d with some reaching 100 mphbefore slowing to ra ke the hairpin at thehot tom a nd beginning the climb itsel f.Th is h ill climb is a faste r eve nt th an TeO nepu and demands ski ll an d ca re. T he rewere some inter est in g sigh ts as ca rs reachedthe bottom hairpi n bend, many ar rivingtoo fast and h avin g to ta ke rem ed ial ac tion.A s with the pre vious day th ere were noac cide nts , which goes to show t he care tha ta ll the se drivers rake with the ir mach ine ry.After the event anot her h appy hou r washeld at the W aipu kurau Hotel where a mealwas ava ilab le and pri ze giving rook place.

For those inter ested, so me th irty -e ightshe e ts of photographs take n of the ca rsin ac t ion may be seen on th e inrernerrace pics.co .n z The re a re some very goodshots there .

I was very impressed by the mannerin wh ich the member s of the VintageC a r C luh offered the ir se rv ices, e ithe r asmars h a ls or manning the sausage sizzle

fat he~' and dm/gluer , ,V1 ar tin and /le/en Fern cr with che ex Ua!/,h \'(/at soll V (win IlSA .\/Jecial. Iloc hd)IW) .\ rcrurned [mernncs.

take pan . T han k you a ll. Co-operat ionsuc h as th is between the two Car C lubs isinvaluable.

PUKEORAText Scatt Thomson

Sun st ill smiled as th e cro wd rcnssemc­bled at Pukeora t he Io llowi ng day. This isa very d ifferent venue from Tc O nepu, amilder grad ient , more of a d river's h ill in aVintage car.

Pukcor a is reall y two venues. The firstpan is run on a d isused st rip of smoo thseal, deco rated with gre y moss that isslippery in the wet. Most pre-19 9 cars arewel l int o top gea r hI' th e t ime th is sect ion'skey fea ture is reac hed. A blind co rne rta kes you at a good speed onto a humpwhere the road, while stee p en uugh to pullthe revs back on my 1100 cc , is nor quitestra ight. W her he r a world ral ly ca r wou ld

leave the ground at th is point I rat herdou bt , but eve n a Vint age mach ine has thethr ill of added acceleration coming downagai n. T h is propels the latent N uvolar iin to three closely grouped co rners. Thefirst ca lls for a degree of co mmitment asthe apex is obscured by a co uple of trees.

W here th e old sec t ion jo ins a wide , wellmaint a ined co unt ry road the orga n iserssaw fit to nar row th e approac h with a lineof cones. Propcrrv owners on the outsideof the right hander presumab ly apprec i­ate d th is more th an I did . The climb nowbegins, genrly ar first th rough a co uple ofopen co rne rs, to a hairpin and a teasingleft hunder with plenty of fresh air on th eouts ide. Safely through , ir is then a matterof st ra igh ten ing th e swerves to the fini sh .T he Dnrrac q sounded magnifi cent LIS itdug int o this sec tion .

Racing sa loo ns to pped the honou rs,Sha ne Hobman's Holden ta king FT O(l min 38.72 secs) from Pau l Hunrlev,

all th e way from So uth Ca nrcrbury withh is Lotu s Corr inu. Shn ne naturall y a lsowon hi s Post 1960 class, from Pere Joh115who was th ird overa ll with th e Marcos.T hese VCC racers were faster than some20 of the fift y-four Hawke's Bay C ar C lubcha racter s with their modems.

Don Suckling looked exci t ing wit h theGee Cce Ess - once holde r of eve ry NewZea land speed ti tle. De n's bes t (l min44.81 secs ) was fourth fastest and secondin the Hi sto ric Rac ing Veh icle class.Sre ve Sh arp (Buckler) was on ly sevenhund redths of a second slower to take thepost war class from h is on ly rival - lvanC ranch's glea ming silver Lot us Mk 6. RoyRowe's Ford V8 was st rongest of the fourPer iod pec ia ls, ta k ing th -is sec t ion fromGreg Ter rill's Kurti s Ford.

Of the thr ee PVVs, G ordon Vouthcrrfound the right gears in h is MG VA to

beat Don Broome's Triumph and [amieTavlor's glor ious th ree wheeled Morgan.T he Vintage class was th e best suppo rtedwit h seve n entr ies. Mart in Ferne r hadth e ex-Watson RSA going magn ificentl yclock ing 2 mins 01.70 sec s wit h daucht erHelen less th an four seco nds slowe/- inher first ever speed event , well ahe ad of theT !lOmson Rilev a nd Mike Stua rt , stronges tof rhc A lvis pilots.

The Veteran sect ion was representedon ly - hu t how ad eq uate ly - by A n nT horn son on 14 and a bit lit res ofVundc rbilt C up Dur rucq. Anne's best time(2 min s 07.78 secs) mad e most other prewarcars seem slow. !m

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Ge rald Lvnch- Blossc was known to

man y VCC members a ll over the count ry.He join ed A uckland Bra nch in September1989 and tr an sferred to North OtugoBran ch in February 1994. He brought withhim a wealth of motorcycling knowledgeand experience am i hi s enthusiasm formotorcycl ing saw him resur rec t th e NorthO rago Motorcycle Rally.

His interest in motorcycles began at age12. He lea rned to ride on his father's BSAM20. H is first bike was a RSA B31 th esame as th e one we remember him rid ing.He also has owned a Triumph Speed Twin,,1Lambrcrra Scooter and a Golden Flash .

In 1994 he attended the DunveganRa lly where he won the Ride rs C ho ice andin December of 1994 he won th e OverallAA T roph y at Nort h O ta go Bra nc h'sW indsor Ra lly ridi ng hi s BSA B31. Hewrote an art icle about his love of mot or-

cycles wh ich was printe d in Beaded Wheels2/3. Again in Beaded W heels 270 he wroteabout th e Nort h O tago Motorc ycle Rally­Rev iva l Rally.

Gcra ld served on th e North OragoBra nch Committee from June 1994 toJun e 200 1. Dur ing this t ime he held theposit ions of Vice C ha irma n a nd C lubC apta in.

G era ld was the founder of the Nor thOtago Bran ch All British Day which laterbecame a weekend event. He and his wifeJenny organ ised th is event Illr ten co nsecu­tive years. In Beaded Wheels 25/ Gc ra ldwrote a repor t of the sixth All Briti sh Dayand one of th e photos featu red on thefront cover. His ent husiasm, attenti on todet ail and ability to attract cars from allove r th e co unt ry was incredible ami hewill be sadly missed by everyone assoc iatedwith the A ll Brit ish Weekend. Dur ing hi sbatt le with cancer he pur plans in placefor the co nt inuat ion of the All Brit ishWeekend and th e Mot orcycle Rally andasked specia lly chosen bran ch members toca rry out these plans.

In th e twelve short years Gera ld was amember of the Nort h O rago Branch he

obit ary

certainly did his bit to put Nor th OtagoEvents on th e Calendar of Events.

To Jen ny and family we ex tend oursincere sympathy.

Kmhleen Perr y.

Roger Anderson - PO Box 7213, Taradale, Napier, HBPh (06) 844 3324 Mobile (021) 448 183Email modela [email protected] www.model-a-autoparts .co.nz

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Now you can buy directly on line or just browse and look aroundat the parts available. New parts arriving all the time andindents are a speciality for Model A or Model T.(Visa and mastercard accepted)

Text and pho tos Trish AppJeyard (who is also a knitter!)

Seventy-six travell ers and thirty-six cars assembled at Wigram Air Force Museum

on a lovely autumn morning, all eager to get started. Rally packs were well

received and the much anticipated Catlins Caper began

April 2005

Catlins Caper

Rh odes' Car and Toy Museu m was on theitin erary but we needed a who le day tolook prop erl y. The Fun Ho Toy co llec­tion was fascinat ing. C ontinued throughth e Kawurau Ciorge to Q ueenstown andAr rowtown. T he scenery was stu nning,the autumn co lours, the Rernarkables, thewineri es. Arrowtown is a lways a place toexp lore and on th is visit we watch ed a newKoru sculpt ure being erected.

T hursday, day four and the ca rs werecoated with he avy frost as we gathered fllrth e briefing in tronr of the C amp Office.'V/./e drove out th rough the breathtakingsce ne ry of Bannockh urn, popla rs in the irau tumn colours, rugged cl iffs, rivers andaga in th e wine rics. A highli ght of th is a reawas th e Kawaruu Sta t ion with o ld sto nebu ildin gs built in the mid 1800s such asthe o ld farmhouse and wc olshcd plus a 100yea r old macrocar pu tree aga ins t the house.So meon e had t ried to remove it in 1910 buthad given up ,1I1d the axe mark s can st ill beseen. T he owner, Ken Anderson, gave usa fascinati ng ta lk about the stat ion, sto ck,rabbits. deer, and the or igina l size of thehold ing.

O n to C lyde wh ere we visited themuseum and enjoyed an ex h ibit showingthe herb factory where wild thyme wasprocessed. As we sat at an ou ts ide ca feenjoying home made pies the perfume ofthyme filled the air.

A pub that sha ll remain nameless wasour accommodat ion for th is stage. Mostof the o thers were stay ing in Lawrencebut we had chosen ano the r loc at ion. T hecaretaker barman showed us a selec t ion ofincreasingly dodgy accommoda t ion. Lon g,dark, dingy, grubby ha llway, bedroom s withmismatched shee ts and doggy doos in th ecor ner. Another room had a TV without an

Muin: Cars nws.\ed (l( K m (!(ll'(H / Sw tion.TOJl Left: Ton)' und Trish Becl<er with Dick atNuggets Lookout.Centre left: A little encouragement helllS tileAp ple)'ard's /936 Aus tin /0 .Left: An example of the new heel' from the oldW1eacllfrsw ne Brel"e1"\' , Lawrence, The hrew has

Off via Thornpsons Track toG eruldine, the firs t lunch sto p.G reat food hut more memorab le for

Tony Seeker 's dernonstr urion of the loos thurself dea n at regular int erva ls. \Vhere wasthe camera! Through magnifi cen t autumnscenery to Twizcl fll!' our overn igh t xrop,

Day two hegan wit h a hriefin g on theshore of Lake Ruar an iwhn and the swea ringin of judge judy. O mnrnma was a goodcoffee sto p affordi ng th e opport un ity tosee a wonderful doll co llect ion thar fasci­nat ed some of our memb ers. In th e samearea we found an exh ibit ion from a privateco llect ion of film and screen ' cost umes.The cra fts people at Ren aissan ce Film sin A uckland had worked on these beforebecom ing invo lved with Lord of rhe Ringsand Zenzt films.

S lip one , kn it one, pass slip st itchove r-whoops ' Missed the turn off for theRendigo Loo p Road ! \Ve ar rived ea rly atthe Warhird s Museum fm our guided t our,

A s usua l we were last to leave and hearda ll o ld warhird taking off, flyin g awayove r the hi lls and hack aga in 15 minuteslater. An old Musrang whi ch looked greatagainst th e autumn co lours of the hill s an dsounded wonder ful in the st ill, lat e autumnafte rnoon.

Day three star ted in the commu nalkitc hen at th e Lake 'v;!anab Motel wh erewe made lunches wh ile Sho na measured upfor her own new kit ch en . We drove to th elake outlet for a briefing and severa l partici­pants were fined hy ju dge [ udy. Gera ld

N o to ile t paper in the loos, a nd none tohe fo und. Eventuall y so me was locat ed . W edrove into Lawrence a nd the S t Pats lad iesgave us a wo nde rfu l meal o f so up, h a mcarved off the bone , lamb, veges, apple piea nd fru it sa lad .

Nex t morni ng we left o ur acco rn modarionve ry em ly and h ad brcakfnst in Lawren ce.Those who had no t sh a red o ur roo ms wer ever y eager to know how we had su rv ived. Itwas not a ni ght we will forget in a hurry.

Gabriel's G ully a nd La wrence were inter­est ing sto ps, with c ra ft sh op s and neat ca fes,a nd nr Ga briel's G ully a local woman spo keabo ut the hi story of go ld mini ng in the1800s. H ard to beli eve rhar so many peoplehad wor ked in t h is quiet slee py area. La terwe d rove to \Veather stone a nd walked up afar m t rack in to t he hu sh where there werethe rem nants o f a n o ld brewe ry fro m the go ldmi n ing da ys. Amo ngst the c rumbling wall sa nd autum n cla d t rees a co mely yo ung lad yin period costume ta lked abo ut the hi storyof the brewe ry. A b,mj o player in boater an dred jack et st rum med in the bac kground. It ishop ed that t he Wem hersrone Brewery wi11be pu t into a trust a nd develop ed as a tour isten te rpr ise.

T rav elli ng on towards t he Coast , slip o ne,make one , pass slip st itc h ov er-oo ps- m issedthe turnoff to Tu ap cka Mou th a nd ferry .

Sho pping f( )r supplies a t Lla lclut ha ando n to the Ca t lins Area Mo tel where weco uld sp read o ut for the weekend a nd notre pack ever y morni ng.

Sa t ur da y morning a fte r ex p lo ri ngOwuka we d rove o ver d usty road s t h roughLochi nd orb Runs Road. This is a privatesta t ion road a nd we were fortunate to heab le to tr avel o n it . O n t he way ro lunchat Kaka Point we were su rro unded withsigns o n fences, garde ns a nd t rees telling th eD epa rtment of C on sc rvario n "No MurineReser ve ." Arrhur h ,ld driven to pless a nd wasa sight to behold ca ked in du st. The roa dshere were ve ry corrugated a nd d usty as wedrove o ut to N ugget Po int. Ma ny wa lked upth e sce n ic tra ck to t he lighthou se a nd tooklo ts of pho tos. Bird life, sea ls a nd co rruga­tion s.

S u nday bri efi ng was a t Pounawea Beacho n the first ove rcast drizzly day we h ad had .We wa lked thro ugh lovely bu sh in th e rainto Matai Fall s, a nd Flor ence H ill look outwhich wo uld have been eve n better in fineweathe r. The hest wa lk of the day was the40 mi nute ro und wa lk to Mc Lea n Fa lls a m iits wonderfu I scener y.

After wonde rful homcmad e pies froma littl e sho p we drove for mil es to S lopePoi nt a nd o n to Wai papa Poi nt whi c h isreputed to be the so uthern most po int ofthe South Island. A di scussion e ns ue d asto whet he r or no t to co n t inue o n to M apleGlen Ga rdens. W e wer e ve ry glad the yesvote won as the ga rde n is most a mazing a ndone o f the be st most o f us ha d see n, withso me wo nderfu l bird s. By the time we leftand rea lized the d ista nce back to O waku it

was ve ry late . Wl e ran o ut o f pet rol , buth ad a ca n in the back, but no change ofclothes a nd we we re late fot the fu nc tio nat the Convent ion Cen t re at Po unawcaReach wh er e t he Owuka, Golden O ld iesLad ies Hockey Team were hosting us. Ahon ky-ron k piano ,111d Muurccn led a noisycho ru s to concl ude th e eve n ing.

Monday, up ve ry ea rly in ve ry ve ryco ld co nd it io ns . G loves, h at s, coatsa nd off to Balclurha for a look at t heMuseum a nd to find the Clut!1(! Lea der,the local newspaper whi ch h ad run ana rt icle o n t he cars a nd to u r. We tu rn ednor th a lo ng a lonely du st y road a nd wereco mpletely lost whe n we met a nother twoca rs a lso looking for d irections. Lu nch inthe m iddle of nowh e re a nd on to Taicr iMou th th ro ugh wonde rful coasta l scene ry.The D uncd in H oliday C a mp was o ur basewithin wa lk ing di st ance of the Air ForceRSA . A long walk accord ing to some.

O ur last br ief ing W,lS in the kitc henof the ho lid ay ca mp and D ick again wasfin ed for anno unc ing th e ni ght before thathe had a lovel y hunc h of coco nuts. O urlead er had a bo x of C ox 's O ra nge applesa nd demo n st rat ed some wonderful bowlingwit h o n ly tw o cas ua lt ies.

Du ncclin has so mu ch to see , we m ustre t u rn ag a in to v isit l.nr n ach C astl e ,Cudburvs, Hocken Lil-r.uv, Porto bello a ndthe little ga ller ies of Port C ha lrn e rs.

C o n t inued north around the o ld ro adto Wa itaci a nd S H I. We stopped a t S hagPoint which h as in te res t ing o ld co a lmine work ing s a nd sha fts. Really qu aint ,ex t re mel y tiny mine r's hu ts, now used asbaches,

We pu lled in to Mocruki village a ndspe nt a n ho ur at the ex fish ing she dlrestau rant, Flours. C 1ITo t ca ke , coffee a nda glass 01' wine . Flcur is ,111 unconventio na lfigure wh o o pe ne d the N Z famed O livc rsrest aurant in C lyde wh en Europea n hyd rowo rke rs wa nted Eur o pea n c uis ine . H ernew rest aur an r i.'i we lcom ing touri sts,fishe rmen a nd locals. 1 co u ld im agine t heca fe in N ew Eng la nd w ith rai n lashi ng th ew indows a nd waves crash in g.

O ur last n ight was a t Gcra ldi ne wh erewe hao a fin a l meal at t he Trust Hotel.We had a grea t night rem ini scing ab ou tou r wonderfu l n in e days to u ring the lowerSou th Island .

W ednesd ay, home day, up ea rly, ranou t o f gas - coaste d to th e pe t ro l station .Bo ught the g ifts for famil y a nd homewardbo und with t im e to get t he dus t out of th eca r a nd cl~thes .

Thank you Nga ire a nd Tony {()t a ll th e

h ard work a m i t ime you put in to a t~'

fa bulous tr ip. u,w

Tol): Anentiw audience at l>r ie{in.~ .

Next: [)llStV. the local emerwi nmem (If

\\learher.sw;l , newar Lilln ence.Next: Time fur driver, Arrlurr A inswurrh, wlilnk tll)!Left: Cromwdl nJurning coun session withJudge

I t was missin g a ll t he body a m i fit tings,the mudguard s, a ll the run ni ng boardand mud guard bracket s, as well ,]S the

hood irons a nd bows. The whe els weretwo ru st-ho le-ridd en Sa n kcvs, The rea raxle had bee n cut up a nd modi fied for atr a iler a nd the fro n t ax le was missin g onehub a nd had two useless st ub ax les. Thebod y cons isted so lely of a bonnet. We d idhowever have a pe tro l tank, two engi nes,two gea rboxe s and a few other mino r du pli­cated pa rt s. It a lso ca me with a 1914 14hpHumber in structi on hook , whi ch d id hel pto mak e up my m ind about whether it wasworth restoring. The cra n ksha ft is fu llypre ssure-fed at 10 -15Ihs! A n Al vis ow ne rfr iend had told me so me time before rh ar ifI ever found Cl Vintage or Vetera n Humber,I sho uld buy it , as th ey were goo d qu alityca rs. I was Cl fa ir way into the restora­tion whe n I d iscovered for mysel f just howgoo d they a re. In my opin io n they a re theVeteran eq uivalent of th e Vintage A lvis12/50 I own.

The ca r ca me from So uth land andthe earli est kn ow n owne rs were th e Hillfamil y of Wa ipa ngo , near lnvercar gil l.Edd y Rob erts, a grandson , wh o owne d t hemot or garage at Drummond, co llec ted upth e remains and some othe r parts fro mPor tobello on the Orago Peninsul a . InBeaded Wheels Ocr/No\! /990, Bruce [onesof In vercar gill adve rt ised for sa le "Ve tera n1914-15 H umber l-lh p mechanica l parrs"."""u h " .".I-.••L. .. ~ 1 L,.. A .1, ,, _

assured me it was a rar e mot or ca r and Ipaid according lv, He had a list of a ll th epre-1930 Hurnbers in New Zea land andI not iced that there was a nothe r 14hpHumber near Kaiapoi .

My request for in formation to Phi lDiffe v in Eng land, an A lvis and Humberowner, prod uced th e add resses of the on lytwo l-lhp Hurnbcrs in Eng la nd . A nothe rhas been added in rece n t vcars ex A ustra liaas a roll ing chass is.

Around this time 1 co n tacted theHumber ow ne r in Kniap oi a nd found thathe had just so ld the ca r to Rob Spvkerin C h ristch urch . Rob came to see me in\'(Iellingt on and I mad e t wo trips ro visithim. I ga ine d valu able bod ywork derai ls tuhelp me with progress.

I co rrespo nde d with the two Englishowners who gave me intonuut ion o n thebody measurem ents a nd one sen t me 25colour prin ts of his ca r. O ne of th e carsis a 191.3 model and its owne r describedmy 1914 car as a better car th an h is. Sowe were under way with a major restora­t ion. I have a ph otograph of my car takensome time in the 1920s and my a im was toreturn it to its or igina l bod y as a five-seatto ure r.

In Au gust 1994 , I invited th e WellingtonVete ra n owne rs, plus out-of-to wn visito rsRon Blanch ett and Mur ray Low, to myhom e for a pot-luck lunch. A bo ut 25 peoplecame to view my resto ra t ion . Mu rray Low

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in the Woodvill e a rea. So me month s lat er,ar med with a deta iled map of the are a,we found thi s Hum ber. Well, to say itwas a shock to my system wo uld he a nunde rsta te ment! W hat we had found wasan ori ginal 1914 l-lh p Humber wh ich hadbeen so ld new by Tourist Motor Co. inNapie r to th e f;uHily who st ill own it; t heyha ve no intention of selling it, but mayha ve it resto red event ually. This famil yhave been a great hel p, a llowing me accessto measure up a nd phot ograph this gem.A ltho ugh it had been tru cked, they havemo st of the removed parts sto red in a barn .This car has bee n vis ited many time ' a nd Ihave been ah le to borrow some of th e pa rt sand have th em co pied.

So my ea rly a ttempts a t making a co py ofthe car we re ab le to hear fru it. Ro b Sp ykerlent me th e mudguard a nd running boa rdbracket s, all t he steel body brac kets a ndfront and rear mudguard s. The mud guardshav e been reproduced for my ca r by IanChamberla in of Wanga nu i. A ll the body,mudgu ar d a nd run ni ng board brac ketswere ca st in A uck land .

The bod y woodwo rk has ta kenuncounted hours of h ard wor k in markingout, cut t ing a nd trimming up the South la ndbeech fram e. The joints have been gluedand screwed using the best marine grade316 sta in less ste el sc rews. O ne of the majorproblems w ith coac h bu ilt bo d ies usingbee ch is moisture. If th e wood gets wet. k " .'"" .. ",, : I ; . .. . .~ ,,,••he. ".:L. ""L.

bronze fasten ings. I have made the doorcatches to the origina l design and spentmany hundreds of dollars import ing bm l\'fittings from Pau l Beck Vintage Suppliesin Eng land .

A rep lace ment fronr axle with h ubs wasdiscovered in G eoff [ohnson 's garage inHast ings and I found a replacement set ofbeaded edge steel San key wheels with Da leCon lon in Nel son; however th e car willno w be on 820 x120 ins tead of the orig ina l815x105.

My desire was to restore as near toorig inal as possible. I spe nt severa l daysat Nat ional Libra ry in We llington goingthrough a ll the copies of T he Motor andThe Autocar for the period August 1913 toDec ember 1914. T hese are bou nd cop iesfrom the Parl iamenta ry Libra ry nowtransfer red [Q N at ional Librar y. I fou ndsome excellen t de tai ls of what Humberwere up to at the time . My sea rch a lsoyielded an art icle on th e Beatson on e-manhood that was fitt ed to my ca r, showinga match-box size illustra tion of th e ho odmechan ism. O ne of the 25 photos of th eEngli sh car shows a t iny sec tion of th ehood mechanism and I hoped to get th ed rawings from the owner, but my lett ersand ph on e ca lls brou ght forth nothi ngfurther. So I considered myself extreme lyfort unate to have found the illust rat ionand the art icle.

I had Expo T he Digital Media Company, "

fu ll size in about 10 steps. I used this tomake up a full size working set of hoodirons and adjusted the holes to make sureit worked correctly. This was the sta rr ingpo int and it took four attempts and sometech nical d rawings before I got it righ t.Then [un c sa id to me "did you ever th in kthat the re migh t be a patent !" I had nevergiven it a though t. The UK pate nt wasta ken out in 1913 as no. 1)268. So thi sco nfi rme d a ll my hour s of work. T he hoodbows were made from ash by John and thelate Sd wyn C allescn .

I had the 1V00d frami ng almost fin ishe dby October 1998 and th e chassis had hadal l its rusty met al remo ved and replacedand had been stra ightened. There werenew springs made by Bellamy & East inC hri stc hurch. T he front and back axleshad been repa ired and new kingpins,bushes, ere, fitt ed by Snow Ben ge. So Iagreed to show the car as a stat ic ex hibitat C la rev ille during the Mcl.ean MotorAct C enten n ia l Ra lly in O ct obe r 1998.In the meant ime, a ll the machi ni ng workhad bee n don e on th e engine , i.e. newalumin ium pistons, cra nk grind, ba lance,new bea ring s and hard -fac ing of theva lves. T he flywheel weighs in at 951bs;th e crankshaft weighs on ly 301bs. MotorMach ini sts in Pa lrnersron North ba lancedthe cran ksh aft and flywheel and sa id thecra nk was so far out of balance that theyreckon th at I would h ave felt the earth-

tes ted the con-rods and K-lined th e valveguid es. I bought two new ti min g cha insand had two new sprockets mad e. DougBan ks overhauled two Bosch magnetos,one of whic h I ca rry as a spare . Theleather covered cone clutch in o il had bee ndamaged 'It some stage, so I ca lled on JohnA ppc l in Upper Hun to repair th e clutchco ne, shaft and aluminium cover. I ca lledupon ]oh nny Vcnchcrg to do the assemblywork and he found a few ex tra little job s todo. He wou ld nut let me rake the en ginehome until it was test run in hi s wor kshop.This was done on t he 8 March 2003. Ittoo k many months before the rem ainingmechan ical work was co mpleted for itsfirst test run on 29 Decembe r 2003.

I got the five Dun lop beaded edgedtyres and tubes from C lassic Tyres at acost of $750 per whe el. T he ligh t ta nleather upholstery was awa it ing a pan elledand painted body. This work got delayedsevera l years because the mec ha nica l workrook a lot lon ger to fin ish than I expe cted .The cha ssis paint ing was delayed until1 had made or repa ired all the accessorypiece s that att ach to it. T hen I d id aco mp lete disma ntle job and the pieceswere sandblasted and powder coated byPower Sur faces in Upper I Iutt . They d ida lot of the black painted work , wh ichappeared to go Oil forever.

The elect rical system is CA\! 12 vult,but th e starter motor was missing from the

old friend, John Hastil ow (n ow livin g inC h risrchurch), I wrot e an ar t icle on therestoration for th e Veteran C .c. Bulletinand this occupi ed the ce ntre pages in th eN ov 1999 issue. A few days later aroundI [..lO pm I was woken hy a telephonecall from a chap in Perth who offeredme an origina l CAV starter mot or and agearb ox. So I co ntacted the local inrcrna­tion al freight company to arrange ca rriage.I suggested consolidated sea freight andth e cha p looked at me and sa id "ha ve yougot plenty of money," "no ," "well a irfrcigh twould be ch eaper." The port cha rges killconsolidated sea freight. So the partsarri ved at my garage door some time late r.My fellow Veteran owne r Allan Meredithsome th ree years later found anot her gearbox in Melb ourne and this one had thebest set of gea rs of th e four boxes andthese a re now in the ca r. Barrv G illum ofMasterton gave me th e sta rter switch andsome other Humber parrs so I was able to

complete more of th e car's elcctri cs. A fewyears ago, Peter Nightingale produc ed aCAV jKl axon electric horn at a ManawatuBranch Veteran-o nly ra lly. He gave it to

me on the condit ion th at I would returnit to h im if I didn't use it on th e Humber.John C alle sen of Lon gburn imported someNe wton Bennett par ts from Au st ralia andasked me if I wanted a pa ir of CAV mod elBS side lights, whi ch are the matching setto go with the head lights. A s I did nothave a good pa ir I said yes but the costof $AUS 330 made me think more th antwice. When I got them they had mul t i­plied to three so I did not feel so bad . TheCAV six-switch box on the das hboard isa rebuilt one. John an d Se lwvn Ca llescnmade the wooden box and I made themissin g electrical pieces. The met ers a renew, since o riginals a re un obtainable . Ihav e fitted modern auto mot ive fuses inp ·.t l~ h r i lT I l i r (f"l l ' I::: ~ (Pt" rp ~ ,(")n " Thp m';l onptf'

switc h is cop ied from the \'Voodville ca r.Roh Spyh ' r in C h risrchurch a rranged Ill!' ,1local firm to make two sets of acid etchedplates for the door sills and the da shb oardpla te which helped to co mplete more ofth e ca r.

The rear ax le ha s proved to be th eweak link in the rrun smission and engineuni ts. The cro wn wheel ami pinion in itsa lumin ium housin g had to be replacedwith a non -Humber item as I co uld notfind a good, usable, o riginal. Rob Knightsuggested th at I approa ch Bruce Ardellof Mechanical Resto rations & VintageSpares at FOl'de11. A day going th roughBruce's book on crown wheels and pini on sgave me severa l opt ions and I decidedto use a Dodge 4 with the rat io of 4.09which was wha t had been used in thetwo seater Humber. The five sea ters havea 4.33 rati o, I found a crown wheel andpini on assemb ly at O ha u wreckers and adiff banj o in Mer v Ludlow's ga rage. Sno wBenge did a magnificent job of machiningth e banj o to replace th e Humber origin al.If I find an origin al crown wheel andpini on assembly in usable con dition, it ca nbe fitt ed without modifi cati on but I wouldne ed new half shafts.

The front ax le got new k ing pins andbush es, and the wheel bearings werereplaced. These were metric taper rollersand the o ld fel t sea ls were replaced withneoprene sea ls. The steering ball joints andcups were replaced with new ones mad e byHRI Engineer in g in C h ristc hu rch. T heVintage Car C luh Repair and RestorationManual section 6.2 is brief and to the pointbut some research was necessary to find th eapp roved manufacturer, HBI Engineering.O ne of the stee ring tr ack rod arms had acrack and HBI made two replacements, ittook three atte mpts by them to get it righ tbut it was at th eir quoted pric e.

\,Xlith the restored rolling chassis backin my gamge, it was necessar y to bolt onth e rem aining mcch anic .ils .md fit thebody. There were more jol» rh ur co uld becompleted wirh th e engine ,lI1d gea rbox inplace so I was fini shing one joh on ly to start<mother; th e hood bows, windscreen , floorhoards an d coverings plus lot s of brass forn ickel platin g. Some of th e brass work wasnew from lost wax cast ings that neededpatterns made first. I mad e the patt ernsand C reated & Ca st Bronze Foundry inMaungaraki made the rubber mould s andth e cast ings. I cleaned up and polished allth e piec es that ne eded to be nickel plate dand then got S ilver Services in Peton eto plate them. T he head and side ligh tsand the rear wind ow glasses a ll requiredbeve lled glass. This was a cha llenge as oneWellington glazier could on ly do straigh tedges. Western G lass 111 Au ckland coulddo st ra ight and round , but th e rear win dowis ova l and was done by T he Depot inNo rscwood who G lI1 do most shapes.

Just aft er the 29 December 200 1test run, I d rove th e ca r down to DavidWilken s's upholstery workshop 'for hi m todo his magic with the leather and hoodmater ial. O n this tr ip of less than eightkilom etres the rad iator went up like ageyser, showering me 111 hot water. I foun dth at the petro l mixture was very lean andfixed this, but was not able to run thecar on th e road for another 13 months.It was a few months later th at the rebuil dof the rad iato r was undertaken. but theongoing over-heat ing probl ems were notto be sorted out tor quite a wh ile. Moreof th is later. During this t ime, Bristo lRestoration s (Da vid Wil kcl1s) an d Ipa nelled most of th e body. We had bothdone Vintage C ar C lub pane l beati ng n igh tclasses many year s before in Wellingtonunder Srcve Robert s, so needed a refresher

of Wa nganui who ca me down for 1Yz daysto get us up to speed and it to ok David andme many more hou rs to make th e panels.In the old days we would have nail ed onthe pane ls, then filled the nai l holes andtidied up any de nts; we used the moderntech nology of gluing the panels . The two­ca rtri dge glue ca n on ly be purcha sed by alicenced operato r. David holds a licen ceand t he Humber was the first big job hedid. The results are superior to th e nailmethod and a lot less labo ur inten sive . IanCham berlain made the bon net, mudguardsand did th e pa inti ng.

The co lou r scheme was dec ided aft erreferenc e to the Humber sa les cata logue of1914, a pho toco py of wh ich was suppliedby the Hawkcs Bay Branc h of th e VCc.A ll the mec ha n ica l run n ing gea r is black,as per origina l. The original bon ne t had alit tle wh ite pai nt on it and the Woodvillecar is off-white; perhaps th is is what thesa les ca ta logue descr ibed as Hum ber StoneGrey. A s th e ca r is large, I though t itbest to paint it a ligh t colour, so [aneand I visited Dav id Wi lkens to see wha tcolours were ava ilab le in leat he r and hoo dmater ials. Having seen th ese, [ane thenchose beige for the body and we decidedto pa in t th e mudguards black to ba lancethe look.

January 21 200 ') ar rived and afte r a fullmech an ical chec k by Neil Rvder at Bristo lRestorat ions I was off to get the Hu mber(a nd me) cert ified and licen sed for roaduse. The certificat ion of th e Hum ber wasno prob lem. So the t ime, expense an d highstandards of the rebuild pa id off. SnowBenge ca me with me a nd on the way hom ehe was given the con trols an d en joyed theexp er ience of d riving the car, after havingspent man y hour s doing en gineer ing workfor it. The following morn ing I added .3Yzlitres of wate r to the rad iator and went fora d rive to Eastbourne; the morn ing afte rth at I added 4 Yz litres of water. Now I ha dgrave do ubts abo ut the ca r. W here wasth e wate r going l Some cam e out underth e rad iator cap but whe re the rest wen twas un kn own. Ne il suggested 1 sea l therad iator cap and connect a rubber hose to

the overfl ow pipe and feed it in to a bottleas is do ne on modern cars. This meant wecould determine how much wate r it waslosing. It turn ed out that it was bo ilinc thewater, a ll 3 Yz ga llons (17 litres) of Cl)~ li ngwater, in about eight kil ometre s. Themagne to tim ing was advanced from 17degrees to 35 degrees in five deg ree stepsbut this made no di fferen ce. The camshafttiming was chec ked and co nfi rme d, the nwe used an infra-red thermometer aroundth e eng ine and rad iator. This revea led adeeper probl em : A firm in C hristchurchhad resto red the radi ator. 1 had sent th emone co mplete and on e d ismantled rad iatorwith instruct ion s that I wanted to use theoriginal vert ical tube core that had beendescaled by a firm in U pper Hut t. They

had assembled a rad iator for me, on ly todes troy the job on fina l assembly. Theymade deep tracks in th e nic kel silver shellwith a powe r tool. This shell was nowuseless. So me years earlier I had foundanot her rad iator at th e Ma nawatu SwapMeet so luck was on my side, as this is nowthe one on th e ca r. SO the Christchurcbcompany made one rad iator out of twoand I had a few pieces left over. Thetemperatu re scan of th e rad iator showedup anot he r problem: most of the hot waterflow was going dow n the side tan ks, notdown the centre core tubes. I retu rn ed th eradiator to the com pany and asked themto fix the problem ami supplied th em withdeta iled drawings. It was duly retu rned,but in a dam aged state due to their poorpacking, so they got it back to fix. O n thereturn t rip the carr ier got it to the HurtValley Depot and prompt ly lost it. T heyfou nd it back in the C hristchurch depotlate the fo llowiru, clay. At th is srage I waspast it and was t reat ing the who le ca r as abit uf a joke. The radi ator changes camewit h <mother bill. T he cha nges made animprove ment but I st ill had ove rhcati nuproblem s. An exha ust gas ana lyser was usedbut did not give any conclusive answers.I th en went invest igati ng the camshaft.Some six years ea rlier I had a PalrnerstonNor th firm clea n up th e cam lobes as theywere rough. I d id a very detail ed profi le ufthe cam lobe using a dia l gauge and degreepla te and the resu lts sh owed th at thecompany had increased the in let open ingby 15% and reduced the ex ha ust by 22%.They admitted th at the ex haust gases werebe ing held in the cylinder s an d that thiswould cau se overhea t ing. The cam shaftwas returned to them with the camshaftfrom th e spare engi ne to use as a refere nce .1 asked th em to ret urn it to origina l specs.To do th is they wanted to red uce the based iameter well below the or igina l 32mm. Isa id NO to th is, bec ause 1 was afra id thatthe ca m follower cou ld tu rn and jam inthe guide. So th ey had to bu ild up the based iame ter to 32 mm and the lobe. I hadto pay 33(}b of the cos t before th ey wouId

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mist ake in t he first place , but I st il l had topay! However, this also helped reduce theoverhea t ing pro blem. The last link in thecha in was the S miths four jet brass ca rbu­rett or. The Humber Register in England inits Bulletin had an inte resti ng article onSmiths carburettors fitted to an 11.9h p car.I st arted cor responding with the car owne rand between us I think we ha ve workedout why th ey are no lon ger used. I got the1908 pa tent from th e U K Patent Offi ce viathe Int ern et . The Smiths work very muchlike an SU carburettor. The difference isth at they have four jets , not one. Thesebrass four jet carburetto rs 3I'e very rareand I now kn ow why. The problem is thatth e piston has excessive clea rance an d willnot lift sufficien tly to bring in all four je tsand therefore t he mixture ru ns lean aboveidle. The pisto n is brass moving in a brasscylinder exposed to in let ai r without an airfilter. The Briti sh Hum ber peop le sa id totake it off th e ca r, put it in a ma rked boxin th e gara ge and fit a more modern carbu ­rettor, but they could not tell me why. SoI have fitt ed a Vete ran perio d brass Zen ithca rburettor for whic h I had to make a newmai n jet , as the one in it was burning sorich that the law would have given me aticket for polluting the atmosphere. TheZenit h ca rburetto r had been sitti ng in myga rage for over 30 years - a ll it need ed wasa car to fit it! .

The so rt ing out of the overhea t ingprobl em took nea rly five mont hs and wason ly fixed a week before the Coloni alCup judging. T he car's longest ru n todate was the C olon ia l Cu p Ral ly the dayafter. The JUSt ov er 600km of motoringhas been do ne on the assumpt ion that itwould co me right, aft er all it d id work 90years ago, so why was I having so much

These dramatic photos are from an en tmn: in Au stralia! The fire was two years ago.

14 - 27 January 2005Contact Address: Rail Secreta , P 0 Box 6070, Invercar ill, NZ

We reg ularly rec eive updates from peoplewh ose car s a rc st ill in pieces but wh o aredeter mined to get here. O ne of t he mostmerito rious wi ll be John Calleson's ep icrebu ild of h is Vet eran Cadillac afte r havingit demoli sh ed in France last vcnr-s-barelv ahubcap was left undamaged . We'll le t youk now h ow the C a llesons and ot he rs get onin our report afte r the event is over.

To a ll those tr avell in g to join us inJanuary, bo th via the Monte Carlo sect ionsor under t he ir ow n stea m, we wish you asa fe and enjoyable passage as well a verygood sta rt to the moto ri ng N ew Year.

Alastair McInto shP"hlicit),

(for Rally Director, Russell Hawkes)

VERO RALLY 2006VCC Diamond Jubilee

STOP PRESS Entrants attending the Vero 2006 rally can obtain a list of contactswhich may be of use if you have transport problems while in their region . A copy canbe obtained from your Secretary or National Office. Don't forget to carry your list ofbranch contacts, inserted in the last issue of Beaded Wheels.

Wit h just days to go unti l ent riesab solut ely close we are ve rypleased to record a fin al ra lly o f

so me 950. A ll the majo r det ai Is and ac t ivi­ties a re in place and So uth land is read yin gitself fo r the arriva l of friends from all ove rthe co unt ry, and ind eed , t he wor ld.

lnvcrcargill is a cit y of a ro und 50,000people and it has an easy to follow trafficsystem. Rall y HQ is well posit ion ed llff t hema in road s but close to the cit)' cen t re . For

th is reason we expect that ma ny entra n tswill be able to sample wh at the city offe rsin the way of hospital it y wh ile being ab leto co n nect quick ly wit h both their acc om ­mod ati on and a lso the S tadium SourhlandRall y HQ .

trouble now ? The Colon ia l C up weekendrunning was t rou ble free a nd t he spa n nersa nd to ols stayed under t he seat. T h is was avery stra nge feeling afte r a ll the d ramas ofthe previous few months.

I h ave covered 700kms a nd t he clutchmay nor last much longer , t he lining iswearing down so I expect to be changingthe lining to Transilon and runn ing itas a dr y clutch as is don e to many co neclutches these da ys.

My Humber Registe r contacts inEng land te ll me th at they dri ve the ir cars at50 mph on the open road s and motorways,hut make sure they leave plenty of room

in front to stop. So [ prop ose to use thecar and attend as many events as possib letha t cate r for veterans. [ have hooked forthe 2006 Vero Rally in lnvcrcurgill, sothe ca r will be making a visit to its hometown . T hen we will he o n the Duncdi nto Brigh ton Veteran rallv two days lat erfo llowed by the seco nd Prince Henry Tourto T irn aru and the T irnuru to Mr Cookce ntenar y o f the first motor car trip. Thenhome, all in the H umber.

From the beginn ing, I knew that thisresto rati on wo uld he a chall enge. \V henI came home wit h the two tra iler-loads ofrust y sc rap, I reflected o n the o ld say ing"One man's rubbi sh is another man'>t reasure". And t reasure is how 1 saw it.I also recall ed a film made just after theVintage C a r C lub's [965 In tcm arionalRally called It HelJ)s Tt) Re Mad.

Hum bers ma de before the co mpa nycame under control of Roorcs G roup in1932 were h igh qua lity and co ns ide red tobe in the top gro up of Bricish-rnadc cars.They started ca r manu facture under theH J Lawson Brit ish Motor Sy nd icate in1896 with motor cycles a nd Lea n Bo lleecars. T h is synd icat e col lapsed and H umbersta rte d manufact ur ing ca rs to their owndesign in 1900/1 901.

S inc e 1992, my research into Vet era nHu mbers and membership of the HumberRegist er has turned up eigh t l-lhp carsworl dwide. Production was from 1913 to19 19 with three surv ivors in Ne w Zealand ,one in A ust ral ia a nd four in Eng land. O ft hese on ly tour a re run n ing, mine in Ne wZeala nd and three in En gla nd .

T he car h as VC C of N Z Identit y C a rdnumber VET662.Thehandbook gives the following intormation:Engineat 2000rpm gives 44mph and 37hp,Bore & Stroke 75mm x 140mmTrack 4' 9'Wheelbase 9' 5'Overall length 13' 7" (hood up);Weight 23ewt.Height 6' 8" (hood up)I have d isco vered that my garage ce ilingheight of 9' will no t a llow the houd to heput up or let dow n , you need a 10'+ stud !

JmIJ

2.6 litre

MGWAText RaV Craiq, research assistance Len Grimwood

The WA was the largest production MG ever built with 90 mph performance.

The vehicles were built in 1938-39 until production ceased due to WWII

O wned and ,'eswred by Gary Wall oflvlarrinborough, the Tourer was recentlycomplered and shows off its massive size,

Ga ry Wall of Martinborough hasrecently co mp leted the rcsrora­tion of hi s 2.6 litre MG WA.

Very few WA ope n to urers were buil t.Gnrv see ms to thi n k that about 30 opentou rers were made whi le the book MGSaloon Cars by C lausager sta tes on ly n inewere built of wh ich e igh t were supplied toth e G lasgow Police. G arv's ca r is very rare.

A nothe r WA, a sa loon a lso owned byGu rv, was rescued from A lba ny af ter veryexte nsive restoration work. Many yea rsago during a VC C visit to C hristc hurc hI d id set: this veh icle with rhe body skinoff th e woodwo rk and it was very much

, in pieces. This car has a richDun edin histor y. It was or igina llyimporte d by Domin ion Motors forthe Wellington Exh ibition of 1940.It was purchased by a memb er ofthe Speigh t fami ly and ca me to

Du nedi n. A fte r the war it wassold out of Christchu rch to BarrvLovegrove's father and went to

T imaru . Barry remembers sitt ing,as a lad , in th e back seat with hi ssister and hi s father rem arki ng to

his mum , "You wouldn't th in k we

a re doing 75 miles an hour wouldyou!" T he next owne r was LesW in h am , a local account an t , and LcnGrirnwood had h is first int rodu cti on to

th e car go ing out to the Ta ieri to a flyingquarter, a very comfortable ride.

The ca r moved furt her south to PatFeeney, Chief Engineer of the U n ionS team S h ip C ompany, at Port C ha lmcrs,At some point the spoked wheels becamea littl e shaky and Parrick's cure was to weldsteel d iscs of '/.l inch plate from hu b to rim

on th e inside of each wheel. So much forun sp rung weight. Sybil Lupp ove rhau ledthe moto r at 28 Nott ingha m C resce nt,Dunedin, wh ile Lcn boarded with the Luppfam ily.

The next owne r was John Horton whowas boardi ng at Lupps a lon g with Len. Joh nwas n't short of a bob (Wil son and Hor ton- A uck land Herald) . This was whe n Sybilcha nged loyalty to Jagua r with an XK120an d in 1951-52 raced on the wha rf circuitwith Len as a pit mechan ic. Len is reputedto have towed Mrs Lupp home with thisWA from th e wharf circuit road races whe nher XK I20 broke down .

It moved on to a lad in 4ZB and wasseen arou nd for a few years before beingsold ro an ex-airforce man in Roxhu rgh.

Hi s wife was scared of the ca r a ndhe was forced to sell it and it appea redin Angow Motors for sale at £ 195. Len,already sadd led with an SA , roo k it for atest dri ve but couldn't afford it. The WAwas finall y purchased by a C ha rlie Ag newwho ran into gea rbox t rouble and park ed

the ca r on his father's sect ion in Lonsda leS r, un covered . T he woodwor k (ash frame)slowly rotted and finally hi s father so ld it to

get it off the propert y.T here was a cou rt case about ownersh ip

and the right to sell. The nex t owner wasBrian Middlemass of Q ueenstown MotorMuseum but he gave up on it - to o fargone. It appeared in an lnve rca rgill ca ry;lrJ and was purch ased by Kean , a local

coa l merchant.Then along came th e winner of a G o lde n

Kiwi lottery whose doctor fat her in Britainhad owned a WA so he must have one.

It was taken to h ristchurch to AutoRestoration s and work sto pped at$68,000 when the couple split andsomehow the wife got the car andsett led in A lbany from where Garymust have acq uired th e car.

1 met t he widow of the ex­a irforce man on my first lon g runin my VA whe n we took it to MtCook in 1991. She was interested asthe VA looked simila r to th e WA,on ly sma lle r, and she wonderedwha t had happ en ed to th eir s.

Ga ry's resto rati on is near ing thepaint stage with Ter ry Bcresfordass ist ing wit h so me fini shi ng of

met al work. C lausagcr's hook sta tes that 55\VAs were built in 1938 and 314 in 1939.\Vith a tot al of 369 chas sis in all hod y stylesit makes the m rather rare . Ga ry own s four,one in England tha t he uses as his nor malca r on his frequen t visits. He a lso ownsSAs , one a low mileage saloon which I wasprivileged to dr ive, as well as a VA whichhe uses ex tensively. !mI

The Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc) congratulates all recent recipients of

th is award on 50 years membership of the club.

VIC M CCREADYFar North Branch

The Fa r Nor th Branch of the Vin tageCar C lub of New Zeal and recentlyce lebrated a huge milestone for o ne of itsfo unding members, Vie McCread y who ata spritelv ninety-six yea rs of age, att a inedfift y yea rs' me mbership o f th e clu b.

A mec hanic a nd first owner o f theO hae awai ga rage , before mov ing toKa ikohe in 1952, and me mber of theAuckland branch of th e Vintage C ar Clubsince 1955, he was inst rumenta l in formi ngt he first Norrh land bra nch as cha irma nin 1962 .

A keen Vint age ca r ma n he restoredseveral vehicles, hi s favou rite being a 1920Minervu rebu ilt over th ree yea rs from aheap of jun k found in a Ka iko hc padd ock .This was d riven from Nort h C ape to Rluffbefore rak ing parr in th e first Vintage CarC lub lnr crnati on nl Rally in 1965 <If Haasr.A nothe r 1930 Mi nerva restored in 1959was the second ce lebra to ry veh icle to passover the new Au ck land har bour bridgeopen ing.

O ther restor at ions includ ed a n A ust inSeven specia l, a 1932 Riley fo r Mid­N orth reliabi lity tr ia ls (whic h Vie won), aStandard Eigh t, 1946 Humber and a 1925[ewett .

O n Satu rday 3 Se ptember, some ZZVintage vehicles from Whangare i northwith man y o ld tim ers of Vie's era gatheredat Ha ruru Fall s where Vie joined a ra llyarou nd the Paihia a nd Waitan gi road sculmina t ing in a comm emorative luncheonwhere many an old ya rn was related .

New Zea land Vintage C a r C lubPresident Leigh C raythorne and hu sbandTony, from C h ristc hurch, graced us withtheir presence a nd presented Vie with a50 year badge a nd commemorative awardafter delivering a citation of Vie's \lCCactivities, which highl ighted his co n tribu­tion to moto rin g and the VC C movementin th e north a nd for h is end less advice andsupply of pa rt s for fellow members.

T h is was followed by folk reminiscingami Vic respo nd ing with amazing det ailand humou r on a bea ut iful day amo ngstmembers and friends who share the grea t

of the NZ Vin tage C ar C lub and interestin o ld vehic les brings to members.We wish Vie McCread y well

Oave Ouirs, FNVCC

MARTIN WEIRHawke's Bay Branch

In March 1955, Mar ti n Wei r becamethe 66th member on the Vintage Ca r C lubof New Zealand (lnc .) mem bersh ip listwith a C anrerb urv add ress.

Marti n joined the club in As hburrona nd was nominat ed by h is friend Bill Mill er(n ow an Au ckland Branc h member) whowas also rece ntly presented with his 50thbadge .

There was a recessive peri od at thattim e in Vintage motoring ac t ivit ies a ndMartin's toc us was to prevent the clu bfrom becoming a sma ll part of a spor t ingca r club.

It wasn' t a hard ch oice as he was a lread yinto hi s seve nt h Mod el T ; hi s first obta inedat th e ripe old age of 16.

O ther loves are hi s (amily - Do reen,t h ree c h ildre n , five gra ndc h ild re na nd extende d fa mily, (n ot forgettingdeersta Iki ng.)

Mart in ca n produce a pi lot's licencefrom his wallet , wh ich co mpleme nted thedeersral k ing, He reminisces about the timehe was severely cha st ised by h is flyingins tructor. In 1965 as a member of th eCanterbury Aero C lub he used the PiperTr i-paccr to drop equip men t into the RillyMcCny hut prec inct of the upper Clyde(Ra ngirara) River. As the door was off theaircraft the C luh Instructor piloted it andMar t in's job was to push th e pack out on"Five - three - one - go". He th ought hecould do better a nd del ayed letti ng go a ndth e bund le actua lly h it the corn er of rh elea n-to for packs a nd firewood on the backof th e hut. He was in big tro uble with th ein structor a nd they retu rn ed to the a irfieldin sto ny silence.

For tunately hi s four-whee l dri vi ngexpertise far sur passes his flyin g technique,as man y a rescue team ca n vo uc h for.If there was a ca ll out, Martin's LandRover would be th e first veh icle to be fullt. ...•1. . C. .. t, .. : C: _ .

In much of the Land Rover usage he hada number of the Jun ior Deersta lkers orot he r members aboa rd. He ca n honestl ysay that ove r the years he never had ana nx ious mom e nt in h is Lan d Rovers a ndwas well awa re of responsibili t ies to h isma ny passengers.

Milestone is a memo rable word forMart in a nd Dorecn, as it is the na me ofthe VCC co mm emor at ive video of th e1985 Bluff to C ape "Tour of th e CenturyRa lly".

The pai r d rove fro m A uck land, downto Rluff in their Vintage vehicle to jo inth e rall y, whic h then proceeded back upthe country past hom e an d up to the tip ofNew Zea land . Typ ically Marti n remembersgett ing a n ave rage 16.6 mil es pe r gallonfrom the 1928 Oakla nd .

Presentl y a 1947 Rover 16 emp loys somenf hi s rime in the hom e wor kshop, thepan el work , cha ssis a mi tr im a ll beingdone in house. A 1976 Series 11 Jaguar,a lso glints in a co rner.

Martin has owned vari ou s makes andtypes of Vintage veh icles and each hasgiven hi m fond memor ies, but it is theModel T that puts a smile on hi s face.

In 1992, ret irem en t bro ught the Weirsback to Hawkc's Ray an d a lso tra nsferredMart in back in to th e Hawkc's Bay Bran chVC C membership .

ROY ELWINWaira rapa Branch

Roy was given his membership as ath irteen year o ld by Rcx Por te r. Rex hadjoined the C luh in the first in stance in'\\'a nga nui, as this was the only NorthIsla nd Branc h . He wou ld travel toWang>tnu i in his 1900 single cylinder DeDion with Roy as hi s navigator (thesetrips would nor mall y involve th ree days).Followi ng the format io n of the We llingtonBra nc h th eir membershi p was transferredto th at a rea, and th en subseque ntly to th enewly formed Wair ar apa Branch.

T hrough th e co urse of th eir mem ber­sh ip o f the Bran ch , Roy a nd hi s wifeFran ces have bee n ext remely ac t ive with inthe Co mmittee - Roy has held positions

the end of 2004 - a wonderful commit­ment to the Branch and C lub.

Roy h as held the positi on of BranchC h a irma n o n four sepa ra te occ as ions- from 1977 - 1979 ; 1981 - 1982; 1993- 1995; a nd fro m 2003 - 2005 . He has a lsotaken the office of Secretary a nd Treasurer(1972 - 1974) and the C lub Capta in for twoterms (1975 - 1979 and 1998 - 1999). Heh as al so been Wairarapa Branc h Veh icleInd entificati on Officer for so me yea rs untilhe retired from this positi on last year.

Roy at tende d the C lub's first N ationalRal ly in Picron at Easter 1958 and a lso the1960 Eas ter Rally at Morrinsville, on bothoc ca sions as nav igator for Rex Porter .

He restored a Model T that he bou ghtat the age of eleven for 5 or 10 sh ill ingsAND he drove if home!

The first major rally Roy drove in wasin Hawke's Bay in East er 1961, dri ving a1918 Model T road stcr.

The Club recorded a member sh ip of850 that yea r and it is recorded in theVCC book "50 Years" - the rapid growt hove r th e pa st few years posed qu esti ons asto whether the C lub h ad in fact absorbedthe majority o f enth usias ts in the co unt ry.Should the membership be limited withan attendant waiting list? Would the Clubru n more efficien tly and whut should t heoptimum membersh ip be? At that timethere were eleven br anches. . ..." (Tod aywe have just ove r 7,50 0 members with 35New Zealand Branches plu s one Over sea sBranch.)

Roy much lat er restored a 1934 Lugo ndaand 1918 Paige Truck (Burridges Brewery)for the 1980 Rotorua F.IVA. InternationalRally and a 1912 N ewton Bcnuctr that heand Franccs entered in the 2nd Pan Pacifi cRal ly he ld in C h risrc hurch in 1996. Roval so rest ored the 1952 Austin A40 Tourerthat is Franc es' run a rou nd ca r.

His latest restorat ion was a 1905 twincylinder Sta r. With th is car he participatedin the re-enactment of the first motorvehicle t rip from Wellington to N apier(He al so o rga n ised that event) .

During Lab our weekend in 1998 theMcL ean Motor Car Act Rally was held

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From left: Vie McCready receives his 50 )'earaward from VCCNZ President Leigh Cm),thorne,Next: Thomas, Alwyn and Ivan McKenzie , 1914ivlodel T Ford,Next: Martin and Doreen Weirat the award!lresentation.Ray Lind.lay and his white ModelT Ford.

wit h the o rgan isa t ion of the Rally a nda trophy - the Mcl.eun Motor C a r ActTeams Trophy was presented by the ElwinFamily for teams of three like vehicles inVC C N ati on a l Veteran Ra llies.

Roy a nd Frances have als o been to thefor e in o rga n ising many of the branchlocal rallies as well as nat ional events.

A good example o f this is whenW ai rar apa Branch celebrated it s 25thbirthday in 1993 wit h the ope n ing of theirne w cluhroom s at th e C larcville A a m i Pco m plex as well as hosting t he N ationalN orth Isla nd East er Ral ly. Roy a ndFrauces mapped out the rally routes forthis im portant milestone in th e Branch'shi story. The 170 entrants h ad th e opt ionof th ree routes on th e Satu rday that took afigure of e igh t configurat ion , a ll using thesa me four checkpo in ts .

Roy had previou sly hel ped orga n ise thebran ch's 21st Birthday Rall y.

As with many of our members, Roy ha shad the whole -hearted sup po rt of h is wifeFrances. In her own right, Frances has he ldm,\I1y W air arapa Branch offi ces and hashelped Rev with all his positi ons a nd ruskshe has undertak en for the Bra nch .

In the ea rly day s of the Branch , mo stof the C ommittee Meetings were held attheir home as they had four ch ild re n a ndboth co uld not get to me et in gs un less theywere in their home.

RUSSELL L1NDSAYSouth land Branch

Russc ll l.indsav attended meetings ofthe Southlnnd Branch of the VC C initia llyat the A A rooms o n the corner of Kelv inand Don S t ree ts , and wh en they were heldat the Red C he rry on the co rn e r uf Spevand Dee Street s, then later st ill at BushyPark in Ariki A venue, O tu ta ru.

In the ea rly days Russell wou ld att endthe Dunedin Brighton runs dr iving hi s1918 Dod ge to Dunedin where he wou ldparticipat e in the run a nd then proceed todrive home the following day.

U p until the mid 60's Russell was heavilyin vo lved running the soci al co m m ittees .ln th ose days the socia l co m mit te e wasgiven ten pounds per annum to run a lltheir even ts. Quite often at the end of eachfinanci al year Rus sell wou ld be apolog isingto the members for nor making mu chmoney th rou gh the year, but there werecertain purchases tha t had to be mad e i.e.:cups, sauce rs, e tc.

N ote : Unfortunately Ru ssell Lindsaydied sho rt ly afte r hi s nominati on for a 50Year Award was received. C lub PresidentLe igh Cravt ho rne presented hi s bad ge a ndr(-' ,- r i fir·_-~r (.'" rn h i..:. \vi (11''-\'" ~hirl p, .·

RAY L1NDSAYSouth land Branch

Ray h as had a rule in every maj ormil estone in the Branch's hi st or y, fromhi s attenda nce and e lect ion tu the BranchExe cut ive at the first meet in g o n 20December 1954,

C urren tl y Pat ro n , he h as held the officesof C ha irman and Clu b Ca pta in a,,; well asserv ing for many years on the Bra nchExecut ive and va rious wor kin g commit­tees.

Always recogn isabl e in h is 1916 Ford T,wh ich he ha s rallied throu gh out the S outhIsland a nd Australia, he co u ld be reli edup on to suggest quirky ente rta in men t to

th e ex tent uf dressi ng classilv in st ripedblazer and st raw boate r befor e the dayswhen th is was encou raged . Who can forgetthe crocke ry chamber pot positi oned underhi s t win cy linder Rcnnulr to catch dripsfro m the radiator at stops !

So me of the best ea rly meetings werehe ld in the Lindsuv brothers' crib atOrat ar a and the securing of th e Branch'spresent property across the road was onRay's initiative. He org a n ised debenturesto fund the Branch's building pro grammeand the parts she d owes its a rea to Rayover-pa cing the founda tions to ensure theshed was double the approved len gth!

A sens e of hu mour is detected in therecord s of a meeting in September 1955when a certain R Lindsay rec ommended"That some thou ght sh ould be given to

colour wh en people painted t he ir cars andthey should try and keep as near as po ssibleto th e or igin a l colour". Hi s 1916 Ford waspainted wh ite and has been recogn ised asthe Whi te Ford for the past 50 yea rs!

II' wa s a thrill for the whole Branchwh en Ray was awa rde d the hi gh est h onourof Life Membership to our Branch in2004.

JACK TOOMEYSouth land Branch

Jack joined the VCC 50 yea rs ago in1955 as a young 25-yea r o ld. The BranchClubroorn s were in a wee c rib ac ross theroad fro m the prese nt sit e .

He has suppor ted the Branch th roughmanpower or supplying of veh ic les for anyproject that was being ac t ioned at the timeand was an act ive me m ber of the soc ia lcommittee .

Jack was ve ry active when the Branchga ined th e property on which theirclubrooms now stand. Apart fro m providingve h icle s, he spe nt some hours clearing thesec t ion, providing gra vel, etc '0 tha t rh eclubroorns could be bui lt.

For a number of year s ther e W <lS

a lways a truck and trailer ava ilable forthe an nua l firewood collec t ion ,111d thenanother would pop up as ha ck lip forthe Arrowtown Motorcycle ra llies . Thisop ened the door ro purchase a n AJS and

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W h ile a good support er of the Ri vertonRa lly, he a nd h is brot he rs were in sp iredby t he pro spect of long di stance mot oring.The t h ree McKenzi c bro the rs , A lwyn,lvan and Tom, a long with bro t he r-in -lawFergus, bega n wh at became so met h ingof a fami ly trad it ion when t hey se t offin th e 1914 Model T Ford on t he firstInternat iona l Ra lly held in N ew Zea landover fort y yea rs ago . Whi le the H uasr Roadwas not co mple ted in time, the Rall y mad emotoring hi stor y in New Zea land a ndbecame the first of many memor ab le lo ngdi st ance rall ies A lwyn part icipate d in .

In recent years th ree gene ra ti ons o fAlwyn's fam ily h ave bee n regul a r partici­pants in th e Nation al So ut h Island East erRa llies a nd with a good nu mher of entr iesin t he C lub 's co m ing Vera 2006 Diam ondJubilee Ra lly. T he legacy lives on.

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AlWYN MCKENZIESouthland Branch

A lwyn wa s th e yo u nges t o f fourbrothers: Tom , Kenneth a nd Tel fo rdMc Kenz ie , to be act ively inv ol ved in t heSo uth land Branc h of t he Vin tage Ca rC lub in t he ea rly yea rs. Brothe r Alex,1I1d n um erous o t he r fam ily member s h avejoined h im in more recent yea rs.

Eldes t brothe r Tom wa s ele cted to theSouth land Vin ta ge C ar C lub Exec ut ive a tthe first mee ting o f the cl uh held at t heRed C he rry (owned by o ne Ray Lindsay)o n 20 De cember 1954. A lwvu, be in g o n ly24 yea rs of age at t he t ime, had n o suchasp irat ions .

A lwyn a nd Tel fo rd were eo-owners ofa 1910 C lement Bayard fou r-doo r tourerthat t hey had purchased, in par ts, in 195 1fro m W yndh am S ta tio n a nd co mplete dthe restor a t ion in rime to pa rt ici pate inthe in augura l D uncd in Brigh to n Vet e ra nCar R,dl y held in Februa ry 1954. A lwy na nd t he C leme nt Bayard made sev e ra lreturn t r ips, participat in g in t he Zlst , 40thand 50 t h Duned in Brighton Rallies.

A lwy n enter ed the C le me nt Bavardin the Inv er ca rgill C en ten n ia l Ra lly to

R ivc rron in Nove mber 1956 a nd compe tedin many of t he ea rly Rivcrr on Ra llies.

t ravel ling to A rrow to w n with t he odd sto pfor liqu id refreshments on t he way. T hefirst yea rs he stayed in the o ld bak e hou se ,but now enjoys the comfort of houses.

There is many a wild rule to tell he re,legs bei ng sawn off beds wh ile you slep t int hem and other h igh j inks.

Hi s f ir st pu rc h ase was a 1913Humberett e , wh ich was bou ght fru m anold guy in N igh tc aps. The veh icle wasn'tin good sha pe, but wit h many hou rs ofwor k was read y to ra lly. It was a reg ula rat Riverton Ra llies for many yea rs andwas a lso a n ent ry in t he 1956 Sout h landCentena ry run. This ca r too k prid e ofplace in the lou nge of Jack 's new hou se,wh ich had doors h ig enough for theveh icle to be driven t h rou gh . A s this wason ly a two seat e r, w ith th e ad d it ion of 2chi ldre n, a bigge r car was requ ired . A 1925Dod ge Tou re r was hu nted o ut in C ent ra lO tugo . This was to be comp letely resto redwith in mo nths, wo rki ng every n ight a ndweekends for t he 1965 Hausr In ternationalRa lly. Th is was Jack's first expe rience ofa big ra lly. (I t co uld ha ve been h is last ashe says the w ind and ra in wer e so bad,ge tt ing in every nigh t to see th eir tentsblown away, ca tere rs no t being able toco pe, meal s swi m ming in wate r and so itwent on , but t hey did finish t he rullv.)

After thi s, ma ny a good R ivc rro nRa lly was enjoyed a m i A utu m n Ralliesto country ho tels staying overn igh t, withmany a good ta lc to tell.

In 1974 hi s wo rks hop became a pa intsho p when sev e ra l club members' motorcy­cles req ui red painti ng before att end ing theN at iona l Moto rcycle Rally in H ust ings.

Jack h as been on a ll the N ational Ra ll iesin N ew Zeal a nd, d riv ing the H um bcretteto Ne lso n, restor ing a 1931 S traigh t 8 Nashfor the Rot o rua Interna t iona l, a nd a RSAS po rt s for t he Pa n Paci fic in C h ristc hurc h .Jack now owns ,I 1939 C hev C oupe th ut hewill ra lly in the C lub's fo rt hcoming Vcro2006 Diamo nd Jub ilee Rallv,

It is wi t h mu ch plea sure t h at t heVi ntage Car C lub of ew Zealand Onc.)prese n ts Jac k Toomey wit h h is 50- yearbadge.

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What is that car?? What was it before you cut it down? Was it made in France?

Are only a few of the questions asked when the car is on display or parked on the

street. It has been said that good things come in small packages. I believe that

the statement could be changed to "maybe some good things are at times to be

found in somewhat small tin boxes."

I f you a rc old en ough and have livedin the USA for over sixty yea rs andca n pictu re in your m ind a sma ll

tin box on whee ls, you may be see ing apicture of a Croslcy. Most peop le in NewZea land have never hea rd of the C rosleyAutom obi le (not ne ne co nfused with th eC rosslev A utomobi les bu ilt in Manchester,England) and most under seventy years ofage in the USA arc likewise unaware theC rosley Company ever built ca rs. Theymay rem ember C ros lcy tel evi sion se ts ,Crosley rad ios an d C rosley refr igeraro rs.The C rosley Company, owned by Mr PowelC rosley, also ow ned a rad io sta t ion and theC incinnari Reds, an O h io baseba ll team .

T he hi sto ry of C roslcv Motors Inc isnot one tha t ta kes up yea rs of automobi leh isto ry, the ca rs were in product ion foronly eight yea rs, 1939 - 52 wit h no ca rsproduced during WWl l. The first Croslevswere sma ll two passenger co nvert ible carswith flat two cylinde r air cooled en gines of655cc built from 1939-41. G aso line in theUSA was st ill on ly about ISc a ga llon andvery few buyers wanted a car about the sizeof their kid's peda l car. After th e War (fromlate 1946 - 52) the new C rosley cars usedfou r cylind er, 722cc ove rhead cam, fivemain bearings, wat er cooled , copper brazedsheet steel eng ines that were developed forthe US N avy to power pump s, generatorsan d other like app licati on s. T he co mpanymade a wide range of body styles includ ingsedans, s tat ion wagon s, pick-ups, deliveryva ns and two sport model s. It was found

up to daily use in an aut omobile and were

later ch anged to on es wit h cas t iron blocks.Bot h engines used the same int ern al andex terna l parts, so for a small fee an ownercou ld buy one of the new cast iron blocksand conve rt to the new eng ine . T he en gine

co uld be converted on th e kitc hen tabl ewh ile the wife was having her hai r done .The mechan ica l brakes were small andcab le act ivated . It was hest to know a weekin adva nce just where you wanted to stop.Disk brak es were standard in 1949. Twospor t cars, using this later engine, were

introduced in 19S0 an d ran in a number ofspo rt car races doing very well.

My CarsIn 1958 I nought a 1948 C rosley Sta t ion

Wagon. T he car had been purchased newby the Huntingt on Hotel in Pascde na,Ca lifornia . They planned to use it to carrydr y cleaning for the hotel guests, but fou ndthat it was too small and parked it in a shedwhere I found it ten yea rs lat er. I drove the

car back and fort h to work in Los Angeles,C a lifornia. N ot kn owing at that t ime a lotabout mech anical bra kes, I never co uld geta ll four wheels to stop on the same day.One day, wh ile work ing in the front yard ,a youn g man ca me by and asked if I wou ld

sell the car. Before he co uld change h ismind he became its owner. I wonder if hewas ever able to get it to sto p.

In 1990 I moved to O regon and as fatewould h ave it my new neighbour owned a

Main: On the ruadagain..Top right: A s found after remov ing old rugs andother covers. The wall at rear had to be removedto get the cor out.Middle: Restored frame and running I{wr.Buttmn : Paiming finished.

new. The car had been stored in a build ingin Ca lifor n ia for the pas t 39 yens. Wc bot hhad winter homes in the same C aliforn iaarea so a year or two later I went to secthe car. It was co vered with old rugs a ndyears and years of dirt ami hird droppings.Afte r removing some of the coveri ng Icould sec th at all the windows and seatswere missing . I was to ld that th ey windowshad been taken out twenty yea rs beforewhe n a paint job had been scheduled. Hehad a lso ins ta lled a new set of tyres at th attim e. T he car was sit t ing on the d irt floorand all of the "new" tyr es were flat . He didnot wish to sell at that time but in 1998he sold the property a nd sa id if I wante dth e ca r he would sell it to me. T he pictureof th at poor unloved and very d irt y carflashed into my memory an d hav ing a softheart for o ld ca rs I became the owne r ofthe 1947 Crosley Sedan .

The car was located in a shed amongstbuildi ng supplies and o the r junk. To getth e ca r out we had to remo ve part of thefront wall and a ll th e thi ngs th at hadbeen stacked in and aro und the car. HereI found the missing windows, seats and afew ot her part s. We got th e car free, jackedit up and removed a ll the whee ls so tha tth e old a ir co uld be rep laced . All t he tyres

with the help of friends the car was rolled

onto a ca r trailer. After a lot of soar undwater l-oth in side ami out, my wife's words

came hack to haunt me. "Why do yuu

want rhnr thing, wluucver it is?"

[ co u ld see that a new set of sp ark plugs

and a little poli sh would not he much heir

so ap art came the car down tu the last nut

and bolt. Everythin.g but the budy went off

to the sand blus ter s a nd the budy was put

away in the hack uf the stor age container.

When the parts returned t hose that needed

restoring were restored, painted, wrapped

up and put away. When the frame and a ll

its parts were ready for re- assembly it WdS

like putting a model car kit together.

The engine came next. Because the

engines were used in a number of applica­

tions, outboard engines, generators and

others there are people in the USA who

have lots of parts for them and it was easyto replace what was needed. I was able

to find a number of new parts such as a

muffler, a steering wheel, piston rings,

valves, gaskets and seals. When [ W<lS

ready to return the engine to the frame,[ found that Ford rubber engine mounts

were almost an exact copy. When the

frame and e ve ryt h ing that was attached

tu it W,IS completed that section went into

storage and our ca me the budy.

The former owner had "lid he h ad

starred to paint after removing the

windows. He said he had used one and

a half gallons of lacquer paint. [ started

sanding the car and found he had also

used a lot of plastic filler to cover up some

damage to the left rear of the body. The

Mic/we! and Mary Regan in their 1925Swdebai<er l3ig Six seVCn-f)ilSScnger sedan thatthe)' have owned fin twenty-six )·can.

only problem was that he did not use the

proper amount of hardener and thc filler

in twenty odd venrs had never hardened.

It took a few days of digging to get all

the old filler out and another few day s of

panel beating to get everything ready forfinishing. All new wiring and windows

were next.

The trend in the USA is for that

Street Rod look so some of the trim was

removed and the bumpers were painted.The original cardboard ceiling and door

panels were replaced with cloth and vinylupholstery. When first driven the car felt

as if it had square wheels, the old tyres

having flat spots from sitting without air

for all t hose years but a new set of radi als

took care of that problem.

The Wee One drives very well, if a bit

slow. Although the car has won awards

it will never be invited to appear at thePebble Beach Concours d' Elegance, but

if you stay back about twenty feet it looks

very good.

As members of the VCCNZ we will

be attending VERO 2006 Rally and are

thinking of shipping the car to lnvercurgillto use in the Rally. We may try tu find a

huyer in New Zealand who may be inter­

ested in taki ng care of all the shipping <md

paper work that goe s with importing a car.

The one condition would he that we would

be allowed to use the car for the rally.

The name The Wee One W,IS given the

car by [udv Willis, Rally Secretary. !lm

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vie Vintage says

On some historic vehicles, such as

Vintage and Veteran vehicles, the

lighting equipment doesn't meet

the requirements specified in Land

Transport Rule: Vehicle Lighting 2004

(the Lighting Rule). The rule allows

such vehicles to be certified for use on

the road subject to the conditions of

a Lighting Equipment Endorsement

issued by a recognised organisation on

a Vehicle Identity Card.

O n Frid ay 28 Octobe r Land TransportNew Zealand publishe d ln fosh ec t 2.03rev ision 2. Describing Lighti ng EquipmentEndors ements on The Vint age Car C lubof Ne w Zeal and (inc.) Veh icle ldcnr it y

C ards.

ClarificationLand Transport Rul e : Vehicle Lighri ng

2004 (the Lighting Rul e) recognises tharso me hi stor ic vehicles were rnanu fuc­Hired without lighting equ ipm ent or weremanufac tured wit h lighting eq uipme nt tha t

does not co mply wit h the rul e. Examplesarc ace ty lene or ke rose ne headl amps onVeteran vehicles.

The rul e a llows suc h veh icles to bece rt ified for use on road if they qu, llify for

a Ligh ting Equi pm ent En dorseme nt on avalid and current Vehicle Identity Cardissued by a recogni sed orga n isat ion. TheVeh icle Identi t y C ard with the endorse­

ment sho uld be kept wit h the veh icle atall tim es wh en it's dri ven on the road,

The opera tor of the ve h icle must meet theco nd it ions specified on the endorsement ,wh ich can be en forced by the Police.

This system was tr iulcd duriru; 2003 ,111d2004 and was limi ted to o ne ty pe of lamp,the head lamp, a nd one t ype of Vehi cleIden ti t y Ca rd , tha t issued by the Vintage

Car Cl ub of New Zealand Incorpora ted("The Vintage C ar C lub"). T he rul e (under1.4(4 )) a llows ot he r lighting equipme nt to

be covered in the endorse ment and t herevi sion o f the Intoshcer 2.03 ex te nds thesystem to incl ude direction indicators andstop lamps o n h istoric mot orcycles.

The rule a lso (u nder 13.7(b) ) a llows

othe r organ isat ions to be rec ognised bythe Director as having expert ise in thelighting requirements for hi storic moto rvehi cles but to dat e The Vintage C a r Clu bis the on ly organisation that has beenrecogn ised as issuing Lighting Equipme ntEndorsements.

If the veh icle has a Lighting Equi pmentEnd or sement o n the back page of itsVe h icle Ident it y Card (issu ed by TheVintage Car C lub), the ve h icle may beissued wit h a Warrant o f Fitn ess, subject tothe cond it ions o n the endorsement.

What does the Endorsement looklike?

Two di fferent for ms of t he endorse mentare recognised , de pend ing o n whether itwas issued before or after t he ap plica t iond at e of the Lighting Rul e, 27 Febru ar y 2005 .The layout of the H eadl a mp End or sem ent

(issued until 27 February 2005 ) and theLighting Equ ipment End orsement (issuedon or a fte r 27 Februar y 2005 ) is shownin diagra ms tha t ca n be viewed on theVC C NZ website www.vcc.org .nz/endorse.html

Section 1: Endorsement for Headlamps

There arc t h ree headlamp endorsementcond itions. O ne or more of t hem muvap ply to a partic ular vehicle.

Cond it ion (a)

The veh icle is n ot fitted wi t hheadlamps and therefo re must not beoperated o n the road d uri ng hourso f da rkness or in co nd itio ns of poorvisibility.

This covers vehicles mi1111 lfacwred WirllOUtheadlwn/>.\ and vehicles rlwt have had headlampspennan ently removed .

C ond it ion (b )

The vehicle manufactured befor eJ I Decembe r 1918 is fitted withheadlamps that h ave a lim ited perform­ance a m i therefore the veh icle maynot be orerat ed on the road duri nghours of dar kness, or in co ndit ionsof poor visibilit y unless t he dippedbcarnl s) of the hcadl ampt s] is/arc ableto illuminat e the road ami substant ia lobjec ts on it at a di stance of at least30 m ahe ad and the veh icle is ope ratedat a speed of less tha n 30km/h

This COWl'S Vetera n l'ehicb manufactured withheadlamps that aren 't bri!(ht enough to meet thercquirement.1 in the rule.

C ond it ion (c)

The veh icle is fitt ed wit h add it iona lheadl amps o f a con figur at ion notdesc rib ed in the Land TransportRul e : Vehicle Lighting 2004 (theLigh ting Rul e) beca use it was origi­nally manufactured (OE) with thareq uipme n t . These may continue to

be fitt ed but if they serve the prirn urv

headlamp func tion they mu st meetperfor ma nce requi rem ents in the rule.

This covers vehicles manufactured with headlampsnr h' )( lfl1 nml1 r t m ( imJrnf;(ll1 , tll rH tll" t)n' , r n m m n n

today (eg a centrally mounted high-beam

headlamp).

Section 2: Endorsement for DirectionIndicators on Historic Motorcycles

There are severa l sit uat ions in wh ichhi sto ric motorcycles can operate withoutthe d irection indicators spe cifi ed in sect ion6.3 of t he Lighting Ru le, bu t the rider mustco mp ly with sect ion 3.10: Dr ivers S igna lsin Land Transport (R oad U se r) Rul e 200 4(the Roa d User Ru le). This sta tes that anintent ion to turn mus t be indi ca ted eitherby an approved signa lling dev ice or by a na rm signa l that is clearly visibl e to otherroad users.

To increase visib ili ty it is recomme ndedthat the rid er wea rs reflect ive clothingpa rti cularly if operat ing the motorcycleduring hours of da rkness or in conditionso f poor visibility.

C ondition (a)

The mo torcycle manu fac tured beforelst January 1978 is not fitted wit hDirec t ion Indicat or s to the front andto t he rear but ma y be used o n the roadprovid ing the rider uses clearly visiblea rm signa ls to indicate inten tio n totur n.

This cover> mororcycies ma Jlufacm red beforedirection indicatm s were mandatory in NewZealand.

C on d ition (b )

The mo torcycle was ex empte d byGa zette Notice by mak e a nd mod elfrom the requirem en ts in the Tr afficRegul ati ons 1976 to h ave Direc t ionln clicaror s, hut may be used on the roadproviding the rider uses cle arl y visible

a rm signa ls to indica te intent ion toturn.

This covers motorcycles manufactured du ring theperiod when direction ind iwtoT.\ were Stilt beingmad e mandaw 1'\' in New Zealand. You ma..... beable to }Ind evid~ncc that YOllr make and n;odelwas cxempted hy not ice in thc New Zealand

Gazette.

Section 3: Endorsement for Stop Lampson Historic Motorcycles

Ther e arc severa l situat ions in wh ichh istoric motorcycle s ca n ope rat e withoutthe sto p lamps speci fied in sec t ion 4.3of the Lighting Rul e, but the rider mu stco mply with sect ion 3.10: Dri ver s Sig na lsin Land Tr ansport (R oad Uset) Rul e 2004(the Road User Rule ).

This stares that a n intention to sto por reduce speed mu st be indicated ei t he rby an ap proved signalling device or by ,1l1

arm signal that is clearl y visible to o the rto ad user s.

To in crease v isibility it is recommended

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RICHARD HAMMOND

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at th e funct ion wea ring the same car tha teverybody else is dri vi ng! Just th e same,as excellent a C h ristmas present as it is,it will be appreciated more by th e male inyour household so does not rep resent aneasy opt ion when you arc cast ing about fortha t C h ristm as present purchas e for yourfemale partner I

If you a re on the lookou t for a nother ca rmaybe you sho uld just have a look at th isbook. If you do n't obey the ru les, you mayend up with a seriously uncool ca r withoutrea lising it. It can be hard to know!

word ami so make it 01 good read. He has an ice turn of phra se such as "A ca r th at hi teve ry branch of th e ugly tree on the waydown". T here arc many more such gems tobe found th roughout th e book.

T he hook is in two par ts. The eightchapters of Part O ne deal with such issuesas C ars and Rom ance, T he Rules of C oo l(can be worth y of further study), andC lassic Cars, in wh ich he says of the JaguarE Type "endowed with the uc rodv n a rn ic

qualit ies of a cowshed". Part Two has 15sec t ions and deals with Lifestyle C hoicesand inclu des sec t ions on G irl A bo utTown , Env iron menta list, O lel Person inEastbourne an d Poor, but Wan t 01 NewCar. Each sect ion offers advice on the hotca rs to go for and which ones to avoid andspells out th e reasons why. Make s sensetoo, after some cons ideration!

Rich ard does nor assume th at a carbook shou ld be the sole preserve of themale and there is ple nty here for the fa irer

if the veh icle is el igible, t h.u youobta in the endo rsement before youpresen t the vehicle for its \Varr ant ofFitne ss inspect ion, to avoid inconven­ience or ext ra cost.

T he Vintage Ca r C lub can also adviseyou if you own a h istor ic mot or veh iclethat can not meet the lighti ng requi re­ments in th e Light ing Rule and th at hasnot yet been insp ected tor entry in to theNew Zea land fleet.

If any mem ber who has a currentHeadlam p End ors ement issued beforeO ctober 28th 2005 tha t th ey now bel ieveis disadva ntaging the m in a ny way, pleaseadvise our Na t iona l O ffice in writ ing. Anadjustment will he considered.

1 would like to sincerely t han k th ePerson nel of Lan d Transpor t New Zealandfor their tim e and understandi ng that Iexp erie nced during the neg ot ia t ionsneeded to develop the Endorsement systemth .n a llows h istor ic veh icles to be usedin New Zealand in the way they weremanufactured.

Late r ne xt year we will have an endorse­ment to a llow our Two st roke and to ta l oilloss veh icles to cont inue to get a \VoF. Weme sti ll working on load ing and brak ingrequ iremen ts f(lr h istor ic heavy veh icleswith t he view to a n endorsem ent toena ble the vehicl es use as display and ra llyveh icles.

A lighti ng equ ipment endorsement liketh is is laminated to the back page of theVehicle Iden tity Card.

What Not To Drive

ActionIf you own a histo ric motor vehicle th at

can not mee t the light ing req uir em entsin the Ligh ting Rule , and rh ar thereforewould not meet the requ irements for aWar rant of Fitn ess, it is suggested th at

you con tact The Vin tage C nr C lub tofind out if the veh icle is eligible for aVehicle Ident ity C ard with a LightingEquipment Endo rsement; and

By Richard Hammond

Published by Alien & Unwin

Price $23.99Softcover 159 pages

Reviewed by Kevin Clarks on

Not quit e in the genre of the Dog A ndLemon G uide, thi s book has more of ahum orou s aspect in tha t it gently ex tracts abit of fun from th e va rious typ es of person ­a lit ies amo ng the car drivin g public. It a lsohas an irre verent look at some of th e carsth at ma nufactu rers fo isr upon us. A bouthalf A4in size and liberally sprin kled withphotographs th rougho ut, it makes an easyread and is a book tha t ca n be picked upfor a quick read when t ime allows.

A ut ho r R ich a rd H amrn ond is th eslightly built one of th e tri o of presentersfrom the high ly regarded Top G ear televi­sion show fron ted by [crcrnv C la rkson .Rich ard's verba l skills as seen on the televi­", in n ....h ,,\.v tr~l n " I ~H P nir l'l '\' in to ,.hp w r ir re n

part icula rly if operat ing the veh icle duri nghours of dark ness or in co nditio ns of poorvisibility.

Cond it ion (a)

The motorcycle manufactured beforelsr January 1978 is not fitted with oneor two stop lamps [0 the rea r but maybe used on the mad provid ing th erider uses clearly visible a rm signa lsto indic ate intent ion to sto p or reducespeed.

This covcrs motorcyclcs )Jul11llfacwred beforc scoplamps wcrc m<l ndalrJ ry in New Zeala)Jd .

Cond it ion (b)

T he vehicle was exempted by Ga zetteNoti ce by make and model from therequirements in the Traffic Regulati on s1976 to have one or two sto p lamps toth e rear but may be used on the roadpro vid ing the rider uses clea rly visiblearm signals to indicate intention to

stop or reduce speed.This covcrs mororcyclcx mwwfactltrcd dur ingrhe pcriod when .llrJ/J lamps werc still beingmademandawl'\' in New Zealand. Y0 1/ )J J(l'V be ableto find cvidence thal ) '()111' make and ;nodd wasexcmpted by notice in the New Zealand Clazette.

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Soundingthe BrassRob Knight

W e hear that Way ne Millingto n inLevin is ma ki ng good progresson the Maxwell tha t he go t

from Pete r Ni gh ti ngale, while Pete r's ownMaxwell pro ject has been set back by a fewhea lth probl em s th is year. The good newsis th a t Pete r is now on the mend .

In Welli ngton bra nch , Gcoff N eal 'sstable has ga ined a seco nd Overlandwith the purc ha se of the Les A dlam 1913model.

D ur ing a trip to UK, Mi ke Brown tookthe oppor tun ity to visit a museum in H ullto view and make some derail ed measu re­ment s of a 1901 White steamer like hi s. He

report s goo d progress and expec ts th e carto be up and ru n ni ng hy abo ut April 2006.

Heard te ll recent ly of a Napier tharhas jus t be en co mp lete d , appropriately,in Napier. Enqu iries revea led that [arncsWoods had impor ted a pr ojec t fro mA ustra lia. W h ile , also in Napier, Iva nC opping is sa id to be buying a Ford T tojo in th e Vet era n ran ks.

Roger Honey telep ho ned from Gi sbor neto say tha t he has haul ed hi s late 1912- ea rly 1913 Ford T pro ject dow n fromthe raf te rs and is plan n ing a ca mpa ignof wor k. Roger joi ne d the VCC abo ut

40 year s ago but like man y, resigned d ueto lack of time to ta ke pa rr . He rejo inedabout th ree years ago a nd is keen to getinvol ved . Mar k Dun n, a lso fWIl1 Gi sborne,ha s so ld the Ford T speedster to Kelv inTavlor in H ast in gs, hut Ma rk st il l hasanother Veteran T project as well as the1911 O verla nd.

Lo ng t ime A uckla nd Vetera n sta lwa rt,

C harlie Lldd ell died in Octo ber after along illne ss, bu t no t before he had so ld hi sfa ith ful 1910 llupmobile to Kcvin Barb ourof Block ho use B<IY. Kcvi n enjoyed theManawaru Vete ran Rall y and repor ts th a the is moving to Hawke's Bay to swell t heVete ra n ran ks in that brunch.

Fro m Na pic r, Tonv Prcbc nse n's

deligh tfu l littl e 1903 ll olley made its debutat Ma nawatu with on ly ab ou t 30 m ilesprevio us use . It added about anot her 10before stoppi ng involuntarily a nd bei ngtr an sported back to th e start. Ne vert he lessTo ny was wel l plea sed with the car,partic ula rly as the problem has sinc e hee nid entified.

A lso at the Manawaru Rall y, BruceJefferi es was gingerly mas ter ing the art o fdriving the cx-Ra lph Blyde Ford T withencour agement from Tri sh , wh ile Michael

recently co mp leted 1915 Humber a goo dru n after drivi ng it fro m S ilver st ream theday before. Mi ch ael sa id that it is too

big to t railer. A tota l of 27 cars showedup fo r the start ; t he Perry Napoleo n hadgea rbo x troubles and refused to get offits tr ail er, leaving 26 run ne rs un til theHoll ey sto pped. [u dv C a llesen jo in ed us

for afternoon tea having persuaded Johnto give up an hour on the Cu d illac to get

the neglec ted C lement Bayard sta rte d inth e morning.

Rumbl in gs fro m Wa ikato includethe news that Barry Gra nt's 1917 G ra n tmust be on the road by now and th at LesWebster must be get ti ng close to fin ish inghi s 1915 Ford T town car.

Peter Thornson produ ced a ph oto heto ok about 25 yea rs ago of a 4 cylinde rC adillac , c irca 1910-14, he found while ona motorcycle hu n ting expedit ion in theGisborn e reg ion . The ca r looked bas ica llyco mp lete . Th is car may have been amo ngth e co llec tio n of 1913 Cadi llac pa rts whi chGeoff Q ua rrie a nd G eo ff [oh nston bo ughtfrom Bar ry Birch all so me time ago witha view to restor ing bur, becau se of theexp ected cos t of the proj ect , was sold

recently to an Austra lia n enthusiast.Vetera n moto rists wi ll have a n eye

to the var ious branch eve nt s co m ing upover the season but may not be awa re ofthe cente n nia l re-enactme nt of an AA

Reliabil it y run fro m Au ckland to Taup oa nd return in March. Orga nised by Ba rr vBirch all as an HC C event, thi s shou ld beworthy of con sider at ion by those who liketo do a bit of serious motor ing in the irVeterans .

Veteran moto rist s shou ld a lso mark

thei r cale nd ars for the end of Janu ar ya nd th e heginn ing of February of 200 7.

A uck la nd Bra nc h has acce pted thecha llenge to host a Nationa l Vete ran Rall ywhi ch will be precede d by a re-e nactmentof the Parli am entar y Tour of the Far N or th

(but witho ut th e mud of the or igina l to ur)orga n ised by the HC C. This co-oper ati veventure is design ed to ma ke it worthwhil efor owne rs to bring thei r Vet e ra n Veh icle sno rt h . Lest t he word A uck la nd create sv isions of crazy tr affic , be assure d thur th eNa t iona l Vetera n Rally will be base d ina co unt ry d istr ict far from the maddingcrowd. Al ready there is some in teres t fro mA ust ra lia. Can the New Zeala nd owners besufficiently ent h used to ach ieve th e mag ic100 Veteran Veh icles at o ne event?

W h ile on the subject of re-e nactmenttours by Vetera n ca rs, Mn nawar u Bra nchwere privileged to have as gues t at thei rOc to ber clu b n igh t C h ris Boyle, who waseo -d rive r of a rep lica C on ra l o n the Peki ngto Pari s re-e nactmen t to ur th is yea r. Fiveveh icle s of sim ilar make and model asmade the origina l tour, two 2-cylinder deDion Bou tons, a lusty ltala , a huge Spv ker,and th e t h ree-w hee led Conta l with humanbum per-bar, foll owed the origina l 1907route to co mplete the 10,000 km jou rn eyin 59 days without any serious mis hapsor breakd owns. Sma ll matter s like brok ensp rings, magn eto and tyre prob lems ando the r breakages were overcome as a ma tt erof course, somet ime s wit h the a id of thelocal blncks mi th . Avar ic ious o ffic ia ls ,drunken Russians and horrend ous tra fficjams in C h ina were dealt with pat ien tly. Atruly wonde rful ex perience whi ch should

be a n in spi rat ion to t hose of us who arete mpted to ta ke the soft op t ion a nd forsa keour o lder vehicle in favour of someth ing

more comfor table because it is too co ld ,too wet , or too far.

Next issue will fea ture the Terri ficToowoomba Nat ionu l Vetera n Rall y heldin th at Q ueens land city in Se ptembe rwhi ch was at ten ded by a few NZ VC 'mem bers.

Just as this column was about to besent off a note arrived in the mail fromBarry Robert, that mine of information inAuckland, identifying the mystery chassisfound in Feilding, which carried the platedepicting RO & Co and an eagle, as beingmade by Ruhery, O wen & Co of Darlastonin South Staffordshire England . We nowonly need to identify the make of car thechassis was made for. Barry notes thatthe company made components for theBritish motor trade up until th e 1970s andenclosed a copy of an AurocaT advertise­ment of 1929 showing the Rubery, OwenPatent bolt detachable wire wheels as fittedto a Rover lOhp .

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Henry's MasterpieceMartin Weir

Fifty years of membership has caused me to look at and

rememberwhat began my interest in old vehicles.

I t was 58 years ago , at 16, I ga ined access to a rifle that tri ggeredoff my other life-lon g passion of hunting and exp lor ing ourwond erful wilderness back country. 1 needed four wheel s

inst ead of two to be at the righ t places at the right times.Put ti ng a veh icle togethe r from parts was the best prospect

and our long half acre sect ion in Ashburton was the ideal place.Father lived to regret th e concession of so me space to put a coupleof veh icles.

At 16 I acq uired a Model T Ford without bod y and tyres for 30sh illings and very soon had th e motor running. I was out that firstnight well a fter dark with a kerosene lantern, rev ving the devil nutof it to get it to back-fire. It had no exhaust pipe so the noise fromthe manifold was deafening and 1on ly had great spurts of flame inthe dark ness. 1 was un aware then that to get a sat isfactorv backfir eyou needed an exhaust pipe and a muffl er full nf un hur nr gas.Father eventua lly came out that night and put a stop to act ivit ieswith referen ce to an axe !

A complete T sedan, a lbeit very ta tty and with motor seizedwas soon added to the co llect ion .

Bill Miller located a t rucked T on the West Coast which Icould have for £14 plus £ 1 rail age acro ss th e island . This veh iclewas not pretty hut was a runner.

I was well and truly on my way now. I had a drivers licen ceacquired in a Model A hut had not yet d riven a T. Bill Mill erwould brin g the vehicle and teach me, in par ticular the use ofth e three-position ha nd bra ke lever, th e three pedals and the a llimportant adva nce / retard lever.

The first lesson went well with plenty nf width in the road andverges to enable a U turn in top gear with the spark fully ret ard ed ."Pra cti ce th is a bit" was th e adv ice and "deal with th e hand-brakepositions when you have one more a rm to co pe." Swinging onthe wheel with the road running out , sudde n ly the T was off ina figure of 8 dir ecti on. Yes, I had turned the stee ring inside out.Managed to stop the beast without damage. Now I had an upwardmm and back-to- front steering and it took a bit of heaving on th efront wheels and steering wheel to cor rec t the condi t ion . "N ow\in n J<. n n \.v th ~lt vn ll w on't do it ~H r:-l i n , " sa id Rill.

However, on the homeward run, with neighbours andparents watch ing, 1 approached, slowed down, ret ardedthe spark and commen ced my U tu rn. Dri fted a bit fast ,tugged on the wheel and who sa id I would not do thataga in ? The T lurched to the left, mounted the gutter,missed the spectato rs but cleaned out the neigh bour'sgatepost and let terbox. One day away from driv ing wasspent completing repairs to the lett erbo x, not the ca r.

I was now mobile and ranged fa r a nd wide , Waimat eto C h ristchurch, and from the hills to the sea.

With 30 x 3112" tyr es and tubes unavailable it wasalways a problem to keep the veh icle shod and onevita l skill was the stuffing of the tyres with cocks footto get home. Dried cocksfoot and the ride was reaso n­able. G reen cocksfoot tended to go to nothing. TheT ran be tt er on the lvnchwheel magneto than on thebattery, and stra igh t kerosene afte r the mo tor waswarmed up was better than mixing pet rol and kero , andcheaper. It was desirable to apply the handbrake firmlybefo re cran king by the handle un less you really enjoyedgett ing pin ned aga inst the macrocarp a hedge.

O ne T to urer was locat ed upside down in a dr y d itch. It had nohood but the on ly dam age was a flatten ed windscree n and a blowntyre, £2 - too good to miss. Home it came to th e orchard. Thismotor ran well and quietly and eve n tua lly when taken apa rt wasfoun d to have green-h ide leather in th e big end s and mains andthis was as hard and poli shed as stee l.

A not her to urer was found in the middle of a paddock wherethe farm er had been shoot ing rab bits five or six yea rs ea rlier andhad co llided with a stone he ap and smashed the front wheel.The sto ne hea ps had gone and the far mer wanted to plough thepaddock. 1 co uld ha ve th e car for nothing but the local wreckerwanted a pound for th e hir e of hi s trail er. When 1 sa id no, th efarmer handed me a pound note and said go to it. 1 went bac k tothe wrecker, bought a wheel for ten shillings and filled a can wit hpe tro l. We fitt ed th e wheel, pum ped up th e tyres and set out forhome on a tow rope . At th e Aer odrome, we filled the rad iator , putin the petrol hooked th e generato r wire to th e headlight circuitand gav~ it a pull with the flywheel magn eto on. It sta rted and Id rove it home to the orcha rd.

The co llect ion was five veh icles plus sund ry parts. The mainstayof the fleet was th e tru cked tourer, now with Ruckstell ax le, a goodt idy deck and fore st green paint job. However when fou r of us, inNovember 1948, wanted to go to C h ristchurch, the tru ck was notapp ropriate for young lads in th eir best sports clothes. We wouldget the ex-d itch tourer up and running. We fitt ed a "rec on ditioned"diff, tran sferr ed the registrati on st icker, mot or and tyres and wouldfit new linings to the t ran smission bands. O n Friday morning westill had to fit th e transmission hands. As a helper was fitting these1 sa id "Don 't drop th e nut inside ." "Just did " he replied. There isnot a lot of room in th e bell hou sin g are a and what with a grea tdea l of o il movement flying aro und through the magn eto flywheelit was too risky to ignore an d take a chance . O ff with the radi ator,o il dra ined, ball joint un iversa l undone, bonnet clip mount ingsremoved , four blokes in best mocker, slid ing th e motor forwa rd,ti lting and lifting it out, sta nd ing it on back end and turning overto ret rieve th e nut the n going through the reverse procedure .Elapsed t ime 25 minutes. You ca n do it if you have to !

The motor fired , we were off. But no. When 1 trod on lowgea r the beast tried to go bac kwards. Just what d id you do in thetr an smission case ?Then reality hit hom e. That "recondit ioned" 30sh illings d iff had the axle in the wrong way with the crown wheelon th e w rong side of the pin ion.

O pt ions -One : dr ive in Show Day t raffic to C h ristchurch , motor

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Two: turn th e complete diff over, wiredown spring eyes with No 8 wire andforget about co nnec t ing handbrakerod s. No it wou ld be un stable withth e spring like tha t .

Finall y remove diff, remove Ruckstellfrom Henry and fit to tourer with thech ange lever wir ed in the [on o co gpos it ion. That was reall y the on ly ~Pt i o ;1and we spent a further frantic hal f hourand got away without further setbacks.

Next purchase was an imm acul ate TBeau ty road srer from Haacldine's ya rdin C h ristchurch for 5:75. This car servedfor some tim e. By now the sto ck in theorc hard was redu ced an d I was at relati vepeac e with father, hut when I marri ed Iwas give n the ult ima tum of moving theremainder or th e local ca rr ier would beempl oyed to bring it to my place. I hada qua rte r acre with no spa re room. [ didman age to get most of it moved .

A fter a few years of married life 1discovered a T Tourer in storage on blocksless than 100 yards from hom e. Twenty­five pounds later it was whe eled acro ss theroad and becam e a t ruck for severa l years.It was th e Vintage veh icle I had whe n Ijoined th e VC C in 1955.

About 19601 was given a bra ss rad iato r,hood , hood bows, sump with bell hou singand distinctive pedals from either a 1914or 1918 car . The wr iting was on th e wallaga in hut I so ld it a ll off when the decisionto sh ift north was mad e.

Since moving nor th I have tenderedun succe ssfully for two T Ford s, one of thesewent for $34,000. It was no more th ana co llect ion of assembled parts that ha dstood in a gar age in Kingsland Au ckl an dfor over 60 years. It was unusual in rh nrth e body on the dri vers side had on ly onedoor, into the back sea t. The other sidehad one large cen t ral door giving access tofront and back seats. It a lso had an unu sualto p hat top half of the body. The vend or'sestate reported over 70 tenders with anAuc kland ca r dea ler being successful

During a ll the yea rs th at I was activelyassociated with Model T Fords I neverfailed to be impr essed with the simp licityof des ign, the quality of materials andthe ease and simplicity of servic ing them .To me the Model T is stil l the epit omeof Vintage motoring and Vintage motorcars and will remain 3S the car th at putth e world on wheels. A t rue masterpiecethat I h ave been priv ileged to own andex perience .

PS Does anyone happen to have a 100%collect ion of Model T spures to get rid of?Tr y me but don't expe ct a quick answer. Itwould take time to orga n ise remova l andsnea k the parts bit by bit down the dri ve,past the back door and into the back ofthe ga rage . !lm

MOTORCYCLE RALLYby Stewart Gutsell

A new route, a new over-night venue, a large number of entries and the usual

great organisation were the ingredients for another successful Dunvegan

Motorcycle Rally. The 34th Dunvegan was certainly just that.

T- he final registrations had 54 motor- tim e ro the normal Duned in to Ou ma ru

cycles, 60 cnrn es wh ich included tri p hut they cert ainly makes it an enjoya bletwo family groups. worthwhile alt ernative route. Crossing th e

The Frlduv night novvin at th e Or.u-o main road Just south of O urua ru and on mBranch clubr~oms was ~~e un official s;,;rt \Veston , which was th e end of the tim edto the weekend and it appeared that a large sect ion and lunch sto p.port inn of the 60 ent ries were there to Th .e aftern oon route skirte d Oamuru,meet , chat and soc ialize. going from \Veston through Ngupuru to

A windy and overcast dawn on Sa rurdav D, untroon, again great ro.uls, lors of sunwith th e possibility of rain did not dampen I Ianc on y about two miles of gravel. Afterthe atmosphe re at the officia l start o f the

11 Irefreshments in Dunr roon it was on to

ra y at t le Dunedin rnilwav stat ion car Ck

. ampbell Park, O teka ike, the ove rn igh tpar '. A good mix of bikes, most olde r, withsome newer mod els and riders of the same venue.ca tegori es got un derwav about 9.30. Ca mpbell Park is a huge complex with

The route took us northward out of a vari ed past, built origina llv as an esta teDunedin where the first timed sect ion th en purchased and grea tly' expanded bybegan at th e star t o f th e climb up Mt the educat ion department and opera ted asC argill, over th e old main north road. This a hom e for wayward boys from about 190 5a lte rnat ive road our of Dunedin offers great to its closure in 1987. The hosts Mac andviews of th e O tago harbou r and peninsula. A n n kept us all fed , bein g ably assiste d on

\Ve briefly met the main road aga in the barbcque hy some of the rally ent rants .at Waitati th en turned coastal again ar The Sunday dawned dri zzly and co ld so\Varrington . This winding and somewhat following breakfast and photo shoo t werough sea led road had seven ra il crossings, departed for home. So th e 34th Dunvegansome on bends so some addi tional co ncen- was a great success, ce rta in ly a worthwhil errar ion was required . We followed th e main and enjoyable ra lly to attend and eve n rhcroad from C he rry Farm to Waianakarua Sunday rain did not da mpen the event.(the Mill House) th en back to great coastal T ha n k you for a great ra lly and we a ll lookroads again. These coas t roads do add some forward to th e 35th . !lm

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Tex t and photos Eoin Young

It's official. I've discovered there are two six o'c1ocks in one day. The second

one usually finds me in the Brewer's Arms sipping a toothsome house rouge

but on the last day of July at the first six o'clock I was pointing my Hyundai

Sonata modern across Christchurch towardsTony Haycock's house and the dawn

attachment of his huge trailer for a trip to Dunedin.

I 'm co m ing to underst a nd t hat whe n

yo u sta rt o n .m old -ca r day like this

you don't ex pect t he unexpected , you

po sit ively in sist upo n it! H aycock is an

un a pol oget ic Durant add ict. H e ow ns

o ne of o n ly t h ree six-cy linde r Duranrso n our roa ds. Ray M iller ow ns one north

of C h ristc h u rc h a nd Don Nigh ti nga le

has the ot her in W hangar e i. Mi lle r a nd

H aycock fo und themselv es in co mpet it io n

when S te ve n C hadwick offered for sa le h is

lifetime co llec t ion of Durnnr ca rs - five of

th em ! - a nd ass o rted spares in D unedin .

Figu ring it was eas ier - a nd cheape r ­

to co mbine o n a joi nt bid rather t h a n

battling each ot he r, Mi ller a nd Haycock

had a lready made one load ed trip back

from Dunedin. O ur t r ip was to collec t

wh at re ma ined .

N ea rly 20 yea rs be for e , as a ju n ior

D ura n tor, To ny had written to Sreveaski ng to buy Du ranr parts and Steve had

wri tten buck ad v ising that h e co uld n'trea lly he lp becau se he was aimi ng to bu ild

up a wire-wheeled six-cyli nder himself. He

never d id , a nd now Haycock a ims to build

up a wir e-wheeled D ura n t six himsel f:

Duranting seems to be so me sor t of

d isease . Wi ll iam C rapo D ura n r was q uite

an ope rato r, sta rt ing the Buick company

in 1903 , he esta blished G e ne ra l Mo to rs

in 1908 , se t up C hc vrolet in 1911 , went

b rok e, se t up the Durant company inl Oll " .... ,..1 " ' 0 1"'1 1"" 1 "'I " f'"\I/ ~ '"i(T" i n ri ci rvo ';I n (~

[J ur a nt co mpa ny fin all y we nt un der in

1933. Durnnr di ed in 1947, th e sa me year

as Henry Ford whose co mp a ny he h ad

tri ed to bu y for $8-m illio n in 1909 . In

ca se you were wonder in g, 'C rapo' was not

a co m me nt o n h is ca rs as some detrac tors

sugge st , bur h is mo ther's fam ily name.

The neighbours...giggling discreetly at our

efforts to decant the Durant from a bigger

trailer to our smaller one.. .

W/e a rr ived in Duned in sho rt ly before

noo n to find t he rema in s of a 1930 Duru ntsa loon minus eng ine , door s a nd fro n twh eels, sitt ing like a n a mpuree Roe r wa r

Vetera n on n t rai ler o utside C had wick 's

home. The nei ghbo ur s rurncd ou t ,

pre sum ab ly anx iou s for us to remove it ,

gigg ling di scree tl y at o ur efforts to dec ant

the Dur ant from a bigger t ra iler to our

sma lle r o ne . Nor simple . The o n ly way

see med to he (a) bo rrow ing t he b igger

t rai ler , (b) so me how cra m m ing the ca r o n

our too-sma ll t ra iler o r (c) a ba ndon ic g

th e wh ole project a nd go ing home ca r-less.

I was sec retl y b idd ing for (c) . O h me of

little fa it h . W e were go ing fm (b) . T her e

was much measuri ng a nd mutteri ng a nd

wi nchi ng on e nd less cha ins a nd fina lly the

o ld g irl sat o n o ur tr a iler with he r lef t rear

wheel hitc hed sharnelcsslv h igh o n the

gave the remains o f o ur D ur ant th e loo k

of a h en house. A maze of ti e-dow ns made

su re t hat our un likely load was go ing to

stay loaded. There would be a stop or tw o

to re-arra nge t he itc hy bod y wh ich tend ed

to writhe a bout a bit .

First the re were mo re bit s to be found ,

tucked away in the C had wic k pa ren ta l

baseme nt at Waikoua it i so lon g ago that

Stcve wasn't exactly sure wha t t here was. . .

just th at Mcssrs H aycock and M iller now

ow ne d the m. It was a n A laddins C ave

assum ing Al addin was in to rusty ca r bit s.

A xles, h ubs, gearboxes, steer ing bo xes, a

ste e ri ng co lum n wit h t he remai ns of a

steer ing wh eel , an in let manifo ld a nd a

cranksha ft . O t he r t h ings th at wer e heavy

a nd rust y a nd unrecognisab le, at least to me .

A t in t ru nk had smaller treasure s includ ing

a da sh pa nel th at excited H ayco ck be cause

it conta ined or iginal Duranr in st rum ents,

except for the float in g d rum speedo wh ich

m igh t have bee n from a Model A Ford but

fo r t he mileage trip. Mac ro-know led ge like

t h is mad e h im see m like so me so rt o f o ld ­

ca r forens ic pa tho logist.

T he re were con -rods w it h c u r ious ly

to p less p istons whi ch th e pa t h o logis t

tho ught might h ave indicat ed a lun g-ago

tota l engine se izu re and a ba ndo nme nt. T he

rod s a nd big-ends might be sa lvageable .. .

Wc load the ru st y bit s o n the tr ailer

below the remains of the bo dy a nd head

north . I po int o ut a pa ir of o ld ca rs in a

dr iveway. "They're no t ca rs" snvs my dr ive r

with d isdain re ma rkable fo r a 40-so methi ng

c h ap wearing im po ss ib ly-pocke ted ca rgo

t rou sers. "T hey're not ca rs - they're Aust in

Seve ns . . ."

Vintage car days like this rend ro be

e last ic , s t re tc h ing to co ve r in cidents

between mea ls. Lunch had be e n pro m ised

a t th e Cr ite rion in the restori ng hi storic

end of old Oamaru , \Ve mude it a t 3pm

and pretended afte rnoon tea was lunch.

Biza rrely , the Cr ite r ion la ndl or d is dr essed

in Victorian gea r a nd own s a Ford GT40

repl ica. Ni ce ma n. Good g rub . P leasant

house red .

O n th e road ag ai n and T o ny is

mon ito ri ng t h e o ld bod y in h is side mir ror.

It is srurring to edge ove r aga in st the

t ie-down s a nd we sto p aga in . H aycoc k

co nfides as muc h to the bod y as to me

,1S he re-a rranges the tie-downs tha t if ir

moves aga in, he' ll pu sh it o ff into the lo ng

grass on the roa d ve rge a nd leave ir ther e .

T ruth be to ld , he o n ly wants the remai ns

o f t he in teri or roof light , h anging up ther e

in th e age d netting.

The chass is will be used as the basis for

a wire-w heeled six-cylinde r Du rant Vi n tage

specia l a nd To ny's ta rge t is the D unedin

Sr rt-'N r:lC" rie v r Ff'h rll;Jrv. I'll h"l i('v" ir

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February 12 Cleveland Autospectacular, 800 vehicles &. Swap Meet.Buick Car Club of Australia. [email protected]

February International Historic Motorsport Show, Stoneleigh Park,Coventry, England, www.historicmotorsportshow.com

February Super Southern Swap Meet, Ballarat, Victoria,Tel0061 3 5342 0702

February Annual Picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria, AustraliaOver 2000 special interest cars, www.mradmc.com.au

February Retromobile, Port deVersailles, France, Autojumble, auction &.displays

February Toowoomba Swap Meet, Queensland, three days, 2000 sitesTel0061 400345 564, [email protected]

February Sydney Super Swap, Hawkesbury Showground, Clarendon,NSW, Australia. [email protected]

Feb 25-March 20 Classic Safari Rally 2006, African Continent, [email protected] [email protected]

March 6th Annual Pre-1945 Indoor Swap Meet, 2 days, Wichita,Kansas, USA www.aircapsswapmeet.com

March 10-13 50th Anniversary Rally, Tasmania, Hobart. Brian Cullenphone 03 6225 3221 email: [email protected]

March Annual Pre-1945 Indoor Swap Meet, 2 days, Wichita, Kansas,USA, www.aircapsswapmeet.com

March 19-April 2 Tassie Tour 2006, 15day tourTasmania, pre 1960s motorcyclesMike Glenday, Canterbury Branch VCCNl, Tel 03 344 0425

Easter 50thjowett Car Club of Australia AGM &. National MeetArmidale, NSW, Tel 0061 39876 3526.

April 18thWorld ClassicCar Show, Essen, Germany, www.siha.de

April Scotland's Largest Autojumble, [email protected]

April Angel's Picnic, annual car show, Delta Park, johannesburg,South African Marque Clubs Association

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ANNIVER SARY BOOK The Southland Branchhas compi led and published a book celebratingthe first 50 years of their activities. Th is bookcar be purchased for $45 plus postage bycontacting their Secretary at SVCC, Po Box 1240,Invercargill

TALBOT 1935 4SPD pre-select gearbox(disassembled) plus 2 x 6 cyl Talbot cylinderheads. $500 the lot. Phone 09 358 4221.

VETERAN 1910 SIZAIREET NAUDIN VICVet 655.Restored 4 cyl 2000cc. Ex Don White Reg &WOFexcell ent condition. Expression of interest andoffers. Phone Mike 09 813 0547 or 0274 945632. MEM

SU FUEL PUMPS REBUILT, we rebuild yourpumps 6V and 12V. We also stock a full rangeof spare parts. All work fully guaranteed.Contact SU Fuel Pump Services (NZ), 31 ForestsRoad, Stoke, Nelson. Ph Barry Johnson 0274528 178 or 03 547 0076 afterhours. Email:[email protected]

VALVES exhaust quality stainless for Vintageengines. Available in blank form or machinedto size requ ired. Contact; George Calder, 307Hoon Hay Road, Christchurch, Phone 03 3385372, Fax 03 338 5482. Member.

VINTAGE WOOD PROBLEMS? For all yourVintage wood work requirements, I canreproduce your car's woodwork from originalparts, patterns and photos. Model A partsmade to order, also Morris Traveller Van kits.N Rhodes, Furniture of Distinction. Purakau Rd,Marton. Phone 06 327 6164.OLD & RARE MOTORING BOOKS Latest arrivals

include Maserati The Postwar Sports Racing Cars byFinn, The Vintage A/vis by Hull & Johnson, TheDuesenberg by Steinwedel & Newport, The Ford10 Competition Engine by Smith, Jaguar SaloonCars by Skilleter, Ri/ey Maintenance Mahual 1930­1956 by Haddleton and Volkswagen Beetle andDerivatives by Neubauer. Check our websitewww.wheelsonpaper.co.nz. Wheels on PaperLtd, 5/173 Chester Street East, Christchurch,Telephone 03 366 4404 or email [email protected] .nz.

NEW CROWN WHEEL AND PINION SET 3.5:1 suit21/2 litre RMB Riley. Higher ratio than standard.Still in box. $1,000 Gordon Vogtherr. Phone 06878 2448. Hastings. MEM.

NEW MOTORING BOO KS Latest shipmentincludes The Austin Seven Source Book by Purves,Citroen OS by Bobbitt, Edsef Ford and ET Gregorieby Dominguez, The Morris Motor Car 1913-1983 byEdwards, Ri/ey TheLegendary RM by Price, TriumphCarsby Robson &Langworth. Check our websitewww.wheelsonpaper.co.nz. Wheels on PaperLtd , 5/173 Chester Street East, Christchurch,Telephone 03 366 4404 or email [email protected].

NASH FRONT AXLE complete with springs tworeasonable treaded tyres, at present is built up astrailer. Phone Greg 03 384 3489 [email protected]

MOTOR SPORT New arrivals include EdelbrockMade in USA by Madigan, Kings of the Nurburgringby Nixon, Driven by Jesse Alexander, Le Ma ns55 by Hilton, 1950's Motor Sport in Colour byWainwright and Flat To The Boards by Doyle.Check our website www.wheelsonpaper.co.nz,Wheels on Paper Ltd, 5/173 ChesterStreet East,Christchurch, Telephone 03 366 4404 or [email protected].

MODEL A 1928 ROADSTER PIC KUP (genuinepick-up not made out of a car). in good allaround condition, current Reg & WOF. $16,500phone Jack 09 437 0396 write to J Algie, 75Denby Crescent, Whangarei. MEM

HANDBOOKS AND ILLUSTRATED PARTS LISTSMore than 800 Handbooks and Parts Books.These mainly cover the period Post WWI to the1950's.Check ourwebsite www.wheelsonpaper.co.nz, Wheels on Paper Ltd, 5/173 Chester StreetEast, Chri stchurch, Telephone 03 366 4404 oremail [email protected].

HOROWHENUA BRANCH PARTS SHED has forsale: Early Overland motor, 1920 Dodge 4 motorand gearbox, 1928 Chevrolet diff, 1936 Austin 7bonnet, 3 1950s Peugeot wheels, 1937 Chrysler6 motor, 1930 Dodge DD motor, a pair of AustinMO wheels, Austin 16/6 steeringwheel, box and ~==============~tie rod ends, early Overland diffs 2 of, Dodge 4gearbox. Phone Callum after 5pm 06 364 7238.

MECHANICAL FUEL PUMPS REPAIRED.We can restore that faulty pump, including fuelresistant diaphragm. Work fully guaranteed .Contact Quality Rebuilds, 5 Fenhall St,Christchurch 8004. Phone/fax Barry Emms 03342 5677, email: [email protected]: qualityrebuilds.com MEM .

CHEV 1946 112 TON PICKUP Truck still on 6 voltsystem. Original power train. Rust free body.Front windscreen sti ll winds in and out. Driveswell. Fresh paint. Seat has been re-upholstered.Tidy all round condition reg & wof. $16,000phone 03 54859 97 or 021 17025 28

CHROME 16" METAL WHEEL TRIMS Top qualityonly $49.95 set 4 inc freight. Large selection ofAmerican Classic diecast models 1/8 scale from$69 inc Freight Delta Diecast 03 377 0029 Allmajor credit cards accepted.

CYLINDRICAL GRINDER SHIPMAN for Vintagecar work best in New Zealand $16,000. Quantityof Rolls -Royce Ghost series 1000 parts. VeteranAustin BE wheel Phone078562098.

FORD MODEL A 1930 four door body for sale.This was restored 20 yearsago. Does not includeguards, windscreen or dash rail. Photo by emailoffers phone 04 5644532 email: [email protected]

HUBCAPS - ANY PROBLEMS CONTACT MEI now produce either hubcap skins or completehubcaps. These are top quality replicas. Pressednot spun to the closest possible originalspecifications. I can manufacture any modelthat uses the skin system plus many othersprovided they do not exceed lOW' in diameter.For more information phone Dave Patten ReplicaManufacturing (2003) Ltd, Ph 027 2477956, 160New York Street, Martinborough . Email [email protected]

MOTOR CYCLE BOOKS Manyraretitlesavailableincluding British Motor Cycles Since 1950 Vol I byWilson, Ducat; Singles Restoration by Walker, GileraRoad Racers by Ainscoe, Villiers Singles and Twinsby Bacon, Know Thy Beast by Stevens, GermanMotorcycles by Walker. Check our website www.wheelsonpaper.co.nzWheelsonPaperLtd, 5/173Chester Street East, Christchurch, Telephone 03'Jc.c. l1J1nA ""'r' " ........... :1 :...f"" tro 'A'h" ...I,............... .... .... " .. rn .... .....

PISTONS FOR VINTAGE AND CLASSIC ENGINESMost models available in standard oroversizes. Also pistons can be made to specialdimensions. Contact George Calder, 307 HoonHay Road, Christchurch . Ph 03 338 5372.Fax 03 338 5482 . Member.

PENRITE OILS. We carry a full range fromVintage to Modern Engines. Lubricants for pre­1984 HD motorcycl es, gearbox oil for Japanese2 strokes. Ful l range of diff, steering box andgearbox oils. Competitive prices. Try us first.M.S. Coombes Ltd., 344 St. AsaphStreet, Chch.Phone 03 366 7463, Fax 03 366 7462.

ROVER 827 REG DECEMBER 1995 V6 2.7 litre 133km excellent condition AA report. All electric,seats, sunroof, mirrors, windows, seat warmers,CD stacker, new battery, rear tyres new cambeltall Honda running gear. $5,500. Phone 06 844g47S MFM

WOODEN WHEELS made for your metalwork.Steam-bentfelloes,anyshapespokes.Newbeadedrims available in somesizes. Phone Vem Jensen06 323 3868, 16 Osborne Terrace, Feilding. Mem.

WHEELS ON PAPER LTD Rod and Bev wishall the readers and staff of Beaded Wheels, ahappy festive season and that the New Yearis all you wish for. Remember, if you are inChristchurch over the holiday season, pleasecall in to Wheels on Paper Ltd, 5/173 ChesterStreet East, Christchurch, Telephone 03 3664404. Normal Shop HoursMonday, Wednesday,Friday 11 am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-4pm or byappointment.

ASHBURTON VCC SWAP MEET Saturday 6 May2006. Site booking for this popular event nowbeing accepted. For an application form pleasewrite to: Swap Meet Coordinator, AshburtonVCC PO Rox l R7. A ~hh llrto n

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1963 TriumphTiger90350cc54,3001963 Ford Fa lconConvertible535,0001963 FordZephyr 57,0001964 interna tional Truck AB12055,0001964 Rover 1001965 Hillman Super Minx 52,5001966 H ypeJaguar,repainted, in

immacu latecondition, 561,0001971 FordFairmont, pricetba.1974 Rover P6B52,0001975 MercedesBenz450SL522,000

1929 MORRIS MINOR ROADSTER FOR SALEby tender on behalf of deceased VCC member'sestate. TypeMM8, Car No M24506, engineNo 25217. A restoration project. Closing date31 /01 /2006. Enqui ries to 06 367 0311 or 021135 5440. Highest or any tender not necessarilyaccepted. Mem

For details contact Paul Singleton, 07 573 6547

1915 Buick Roadster4cyl 565,000 1949-50 PramMarmet 5BOO1924 OverlandTourer 519,500 Pram Postwar PedigreeValiant 55501926 Buick 26/24x Roadster 520,000 Pram PreWar Hubcar57501926 Buick Master SixTourer,price tba. 1941 Army Indian741 51 2,0001928 Plymouth Sedan58,000 1947 ChryslerNew Yorker Convertible1928 Renau lt Viva 6Very Rare Car, Fully 555,000

Restored 577,000 1948 AlvisTA 14 Woody548,5001928 Ford Model ATudor 516,500 1948 Chrysler Windsor$13,0001929 Hillman Straight 8Boattail 520,000 1949 Bedford KSpecial 514,0001930 Ford Model A5Window Coupe 1950 Morris Minor 2 Dr 54,000

54 3,000 1951 Humber Hawk mk 4 54,0001930 AustinHarrow, 2seater with dicky 1951 Austin MODevon 57,000

seat, pricetba. 1951 Morris Oxford Saloon 55,0001938 Morris10 Series 11156,000 1952 Daimler Consort 511 ,0001938 Buick 465SportsCoupe 557,500 1952 De Soto Sedan 59,0001938 Panther Redwing 100+ Watsonian 1952 Ferrari 500 Formula 2 (Replica)

Sidecar 511 ,000 585,0001939 Buick Coupe 540,000 1953 AJS 500cc 5B,0001939 Nash Sedan526,000 1953 AJS 500cc Scrambler 56,000

1955 FordCustomline522,0001957 Morris Minor 2 Dr 53,7501957 Mercedes190 57,0001958 Ford Prefect52,0001958 Landrover Fire Engine51 0,000

1929 DA DODGE DELUXE SEDAN Excellentcondition inside and out with very low mileagesince restoration ( 1990) . Car has 12V electrics,luggage carrier, current Reg & WOF and spares.$19,000 Ph 03 348 6073 or email [email protected] MEM

1935 CHEVROLET 4 DOOR SEDAN Recentbody off restoration immaculate condition$29,000. Phone 07 376 8088. MEM

1918 OAKLAND TOURER MODEL 34B 6cylinder ohv engine, 19hp leather upholstery,electric lights and starter etc. A recent lyrestored, rare Veteran car which is in very goodmotorable condition. Reg & WOF. Offer invitedaround $25,000. Phone 03 208 5450 for furtherdetails.

1926 CHEVROLET FOUR 11/2 TON TRUCKin original condition on behalf of deceasedVCC member's estate. Original mileage 67,764Registration on hold. Ownersh ip papersavailable. Closing date 31/01/2006. Enqu iriesto 06 367 0311 or 021 135 5440. Highest or any

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1954 NORTON ES2 Christchurch new.Matching numbers, VIC, 100 miles on new topend $8,000, Phone Phil on 03577 5039or emailcarolmetesxtra.co.nz MEM

SUNBEAM 14/40 ROADSTER 1925 for tender.Sound tidy condition three owners, Reg & WOFphone 03 358 8245 for details tenders close 6February 2006

1967 MG BGT British rac ing green . New tyres.Clean and tidy WOF all original. NZ new electricoverdrive. $8,500 phone after 5pm Bryan Bull06 368 4693. MEM .

1974 ROVER 3.5 LITRE. P6 A real eye catcher,immaculate condition throughout. A very wellmaintained and reliable vehicle reluctantlyoffered for sale. Current Reg & WOF, VCCidentity card . For further information includingprice, contact Paul on 04 567 4412 or 021 672743 or email cpcd.ltd @xtra.co.nz MEM.

1926 ALVIS 12/50 DUCKS-BACK WOF. reg.VIe. Very good condition. Fast economicalreliabletouring/rally car. Excellent mechanicals.Rare opportunity to purchase first class EnglishVintage sports car. Many extras fitted. Phone045684065, email: [email protected] MEM I

1947 MG TC excellent restored condition.Current Reg &WOF plusVIe. $39,500 phone 033398474 MEM

DELAGE DR70 1929 6 cylinder 2700cc wasParis showchassis andhas original Christchurchbody. Motors very well, recently repainted . Hasall original parts including Ricardo cylinderhead . View at Fazzaz Ch Ch ph 03 365 5206 orcontactCraig Keenan 03 322 1006. MEM.

1908 DE DION BOUTON Model AV roadstertwo cylinder. Recent complete restoration.Reliab le and real eyecatcher. All originalinstrumentation, spare engine, fitted cover,tools, manuals and literature. Genuine enquiriesto Bruce Madgwick, phone/lax 09 276 6756email [email protected] MEM

VINTAGE TRUNKS as seen in Issue 201,page 17. Leather trim, waterproof. stock size ormade to your measurements. Phone/Fax Allanon 06 844 3959 or 025 469 331 to discussyour requirements. AIIan Jones Joinery, Napier.Member.

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VINCENT BLACK SHADOW, prefer completerunning bike with match ing nos but anythingconsidered. Please phone Phil Oswald 06 3766712 or write POswald, Kaitawa RD1, Pahiatua.Email [email protected]

WANTED PERIOD PHOTOS and historicinformation on Sunbeam cars 1900-1935. Workis well underway to produce an illustratedhistory of Sunbeam cars in New Zealand. Anyassistancewith locatingphotos,salesbrochures,booklets,booksor anecdotal information wouldbe greatly appreciated. Contact: Jim Maud, 4Mahana Place, Rotorua. Phone 07 348 4227.

[email protected] .nz MEM

VILLlERS 2E BARREL OR COMPLETE MOTOR toget my Wolf going again. Phone Owen 03 3582514 or [email protected]

WANTED FOR 1911 MODEL T FORD ignitionswitch. Ph one 0274 362 774 or 03 441 2805.email [email protected]

HARLEY-DAVIDSON FRONT GUARD for J model1926-1929. Also New Hudson motorcycle parts. Ihave a pre-1926 Harley guard to swap and otherparts. Ph Pa ul 094789699, 027 642 4222 MEM

VESPA GS1 60 PARTS WANTED anything andeverything considered to help finish restoration.Many S5180 parts are interchangeable andcan be used. Also looking for a parts book orhandbook with diagrams. Phone Adam 09 4453555 or email amiddleton @carmel .school.nz

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MODEL T FORD TOURER , 1908-1915. Fullyrestored . Phone 03 304 7477, mobile 0274 834862. MEM

OIL CO ENAMEL ADVERTISIN G SIGNS, anymotoring related signs, Motor Spirits, Tyres etc.Any items, Big Tree, Texaco Sternol, Europa,Sinclair, Valvolene; oil bottles, delivery drivershat and jacket, badges, sample tubes of oil.Interested in anything related to early motoring.Phone 09 444 4066 RBallantyne. MEM

DISTRIBUTOR STROBOSCOPE VANE or similar orparts of. Phone Akld 09 846 1800evenings. MEM

FORD A ROADSTER 1930 Body panels from doorback including rumble seat or any other partsfor 1930 roadster phone 04 478 6168 or emailrphalliday @yahoo.co.nz MEM

LEFT HAND FRONT GUARD WANTED for 1922­23 Chev truck or car ljz or full spring modelNorthland Mem phone 09 403 8087. MEM

LUCAS "NEW ALTO" HORNS Chromed withfluted fronts. Fitted to many pre or post warpommie cars. Buy pair or single, any condition .Phone 03 344 3080. Monty. MEM

MARQUETTE (BUICK) 1929 EXHAUST MANIFOLDwanted Engli sh type. Will be on Vero rallyJanuary. lan Baxter 0417 799 991 or 08 92204122 or email [email protected] WesternAustralia . MEM

STEERING BOX FOR 1930-31 WILLYS 98B1930-31 MODEL A COUPE good runner or WANTED Alex Gibson 151 Isabella St, Invercargill.restoration project. Please contact Lindsay phone Phone 03 217 7453 a/h. email [email protected] 543 4022 MEM co.nz

Don't forget to let National Office know if youhave changed your address or sold/purchased anyvehicles. MEMBERSHIP CARDS ARE FORWARDEDTO FINANCIAL MEMBERSIN APRIL.

VINTAGE & CLASSIC QUARTZ halogen bulbs.Replace your existing bulbs without rewiringthe headlamp assembl ies. Up to 100% brighterthan your existing Tungsten bulbs. Will fit mostreflectors fitted to Pre & Post war cars andmotorbikes. Also available in single filament 55watt P22 & BA 15 bases for use in spotlampsand mechanical dip reflectors. Most bases andconfigurations available in 6v & 12v. Further info:Norm & Jan Sisson, sole NZ Agent. Ph/Fax 03 389­0643 also Henrob Welding Torches. Model BoatSupplies, 38 Ottawa Road, Christchurch 6.

Don.t forget to notify National Office if youhave changed your address orsold/purchased

anyvehicles. Advertising forourFebruary/Marchissue closes10January 2006.

WORKSHOP MANUALS & SALES BROCHURESlarge stock of new and used for all typesof vehicles from early 1900s onwards includingcars, motorcycles, farm equipment, tractors,trucks. Transport book-find specialists.Mail, telephone and secure online orders.DML Manuals & Motor Books.www.manuals .co.nz Phone 03 614 7900.PO Box 25, Pleasant Point, South Canterbury

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BIENNIAL

18-19 February 2006

Contact The Rally Secretary,4 Miles Cresc, Wainuiomata, for an entry form.

Telephone 04 977 621 2Facs imile 04 977 6213

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Enter nowfor this event which isbeingheldin the Wellingtonarea over routescatering forall classes of motorcycles and threewheelers.

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AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARYWEEKEND RALLY

It is with regret that we havedecided tocancel the popular Calendar event for the

year 2006, based on the large numberof Vintage Car Club members attendingthe Vero Rally. Be assured the event will

continue in the following years.

Joe ScottSecretary BOP VCC

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29TH PUKEKOHE SWAPMEETA& PShowgmunds, Pukekohe

SATURDAY 25 &SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2006Organised by the Auckland Branch of theChevrolet Enthusiasts Clubof NI (Inc.)

Prizes for Vintage • Veteran • Post War • Modified • Modern (Non-Jap)• People's Choice • Most Original • Best Japanese & Best Motorcycle

West Coast Branch Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (lnc)

Annual Scenicland Rallv18 March 2006

We invite VCC members to join us in our Annual Rally.Enjoy the scenery, climate and hospitality of thewonderful West Coast.

Entries Close 1 March, 2006.Enquir ies to Club Captain:

Pat Knowles Phone 03 768 6840President:Kevin McGirr Phone 03 768 7655

23RD ANNUAL

SWAPMEETTRENTHAM RACECOURSE, WELLINGTON

Sunday 5 March 8.00am - 4.00pm (Includ es Car Show)

Public $S • Vendor and open site $1 0 • Accompanied Children Free

This event is of interest to all collectors of Vintage and Veteran cars, collectibles of every kind, motorcycles,hot rods, one make clubs etc. Garage sale/ boot sale available.

For any fu rther information phone Adria n 04 528 7573 evenings or Fax 04939 1008.This event organised by the Early American Car Club . PO Box 6086 Te Aro, Wellington .

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SATURDAY18 MARCH 2006

ADMISSION

Adults $3 Ch ildren Free

VINTAGE CAR CLUB

TAHUNA SHOWGROUNDS, VICTORIA ROAD, DUNEDIN

Everyone Welcome.

SITES

Single Sm x 3m $10.00Double Sm x 6m $20.00 (includes xl free pass)

ENQUIRIES

Branch Secretary, PO Box 5352, DunedinPh/Fax (03)453 0404 Email: bmmcconachie@xtra .co.nz

DUN EDIN SWAPMEETGore Branch VCCNZ Inc

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACTW (Bill) Ainge Ph 03-208-9877(Murray) Proctor 03-208-4768Email [email protected]

Please register your interest with a$5-00 deposit before the 28 February 2006

Gore Branch vee, PO Box 329, Gore

PROGRAMMEFriday Welcome, Noggin & Natter

Saturday Rally and DinnerSunday Morning Tea & Farewell

23;25 June 2006

The Gore Branch cordia ll)' invites all /Jast and />resentmembers and sU/>/JOrters to join them for their

40th Anniversar y celebrations to be held

40thANNIVERSARY

WELLINGTON BRANCH

The Wellington Branch of the VCCextends hospitality to

Vero Rally Participants.Our Clubrooms will be open each day Tues, Wed, & Thurs,

9/10/11 Jan 2006 from 4pm to 8pm

Call in with your takeaways, beverages etc.Tea/coffee available, spares open .

The Clubrooms are at Halford Place, the far (eastern) endof Jackson Street, Petone.

Club rooms phone is 04 568 7463.

We also have a breakdown service. Details will be withinyour Rally Pack

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or email [email protected] registration closes at 10.30am on the Sunday of the Swop Meet.

A silent Ports auction will also be held on the day.Late entr ies will not be included In the catalogue.

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to A udrey Liddell on t he loss of Charl es.C h arles joi ned the VCC ove r thirty yea rsago, initia lly ra llying the 1930 Model AFordor now ow ned by Michael H illyer. A fullrestorati on of a Model A roadste r, now inKerikeri, was then undert aken, and C har lie'sfina l resto ra t ion was t he 1910 Hupmobilementioned in the last issue . C ha rles wasa lso a sta lwa rt of t he HC CANZ.

Mot orcycles: N ew motorcycle membersa re War wic k Da rro w with a '39 VeloccrrcGTP and a '53 Velocette M AC. Ba rr yFisher, 1926 H arl ey David son Model .1 an da 1930 Douglas T 6. Th is rela t ively rar eDougl as has just bee n fini sh ed to a ver yh igh sta ndard . C h ris Hay h as a '47 VincentRapidc and sidecar and '50 a nd ''i2 Vincen tComets . Se ventee n Au cklander s en te redt he Tarun uk i Ru bber Du ckie rally with GaryBright winning ov era ll on h is 1930 Do uglas,six other Aucklandcrs too k prizes.

Vetera n : Don W h ite h as so ld both the1909 single and 1912 four cylinder S iza irc etNa ud ins to Mike C ourrncy.

Vintage: The seve n partic ipants in ourRear \(/hecl Brak e run enjoyed the eventand the fini sh at C h ris and Monica Nort h'shome a nd veh icle/ma ch ine ry co llec t ion .A new Vintage owner is Brian Hoskingwith a 1931 Ford Model A co upe . Q uenti nLaw ren ce's son C h ris has joined and it seemsrhu r he may have shares or a sign ifica ntintere st in the '22 a nd '26 Model T Fordsmentioned in the last issue. A n ne Beerhnmis now a joint member wit h hu sband Geoff.

PV PWV P60V: Tom and Lyn Broughhave signed on with a 1934 N ash seda nex-Bria n Sole. Peter \'{!ood is worki nghard on hi s 194 6 C hev ro lc r. Mark a nd[ohann a Barcm an h ave joined with a 19 52C h evrolet Delu x sedan. Mi ke Moffat wast he ov era ll winner of Colin and Pam Bell 'swell orga n ised PV - P60V ra lly in hi s 19'i1Ril ey. Alan Woolf has jo ined with hi s 1964Brabharn BT9 rnon oposro There co u ld be ,1

Si nge r Le Mans a nd a Vintage Barl ey in hi scu stody as well. Mo to rcycl ist C hr is H ay hasa co uple of S un bea m St illc to co upes. Edd ieKellv h as bo ught a 1938 Ford V8 co upea nd Tr cvor Bircha lls Vau xhall is a 19.>8DX 14hp a nd not a Twel ve as pre viou slymentioned. Ted G ruva rr h as bo ught a 1939Ser ies E Mo rris Eight

C ommercia l: Fra n k Kni ght h as fin ishe dhi s 1937 Ford V8 picku p but isn 't rushingthe vin n ing process.

Hu nu a 100 : This yea r's Hunua a t t ractedSixty-four ent ra n ts: one Vete ra n, twenty­five Vin tage, ele ven PV, thi rt een P\X!V andfourteen P60V. G len and Mario n Morrisorgan ised a n excellent non -competitive toura nd an interest ing rnllv th rou gh east a nd

Pr ice won overa ll in t he '49 C hevro let wit hRussell and Jocelyn Mc A lpine secon d inthe ''3 0 Mud el A and A llan a nd Christi neA lIbon thi rd in their '54 Au stin AJ5 .

Banks Peninsula W. CrapoIn the past co up le of months we have

been doing what the bra nc h does best. N ot

mowing lawn s or choosing cur ta ins for theclubroorns. N o, we have been Motoring!

[ im R ilev (re cen tly vot ed Orga niser

for Life) set an excellent Topless Tour, asmore than twenty open ca rs a ll with hood s

tigh tly furled faced an early and chilly sta rt

from Oamaru on a crisp Au gust morn ingfor a ver y fu ll days dr ive via Palrn ersto n

ami McRaes to N aseby, The awa rd ing of

t rophies is some th ing frowned upon in thesepart s however the awards for t he Toplessarc so mewhat different to the norm. The

Therm ette and it is ind eed t he remnants

of a the rmette mounted on a bit of forme rtr ee was award ed to the A sh bu rton G host

wrangler, Bruce Mcllrov, for giving a ride to

a T ra ns-Tasmnn vis itor who had turned up

unannounced ex pect ing to scrounge a sparescat in a C hcv 4. A day in a S ilve r G hos twas no t wh at he was ex pect ing at al l. The

Pot Hunters t rophy is a la rge, inclcuanr.

go ld pa inted devi ce and t h is year went to

young Thomas Pa lme r for st ill smiling at

the en d of hi s first Topless as nav igator tofather T im in t he ex Haggitt Rilcy specia l,

,1car defin itely built for speed rat he r than

comfort. The fin al awa rd is the N evisN uts. A del ight ful scu lpt ure co nsisti ng of

wh at looks like a ball cock and a few bit sof ru st y sc rap found in the Nev is area .

Th is del igh tf ul piece was given to MaggieBen ncrr fur riding in rhe back of a C lvn o

for the weekend while our un chivulrou sC ha irma n and C lub Ca pta in kept the front

scar to themselves. O f co urse she did n'tdo the ent ire ra lly in the back . T he re was

the one sect ion where all passengers wereejec ted as the terrain became too much fur

t he equ ipme nt, a nd a lo ng wa lk up a big hillwas required.

Into Septem be r and it was tim e for the

Opening Run, a far more gent le outi ng witha ll club ve h icle s welc ome (even tho se mad e

afte r the war) for a dri ve to A sh burton forlunch at the wor ksh op of the So ut h Island's

on ly approved Bentley Se rv ice Cent re . Thiswas t he first out ing ut a bra nc h eve nt for the

elegant Ga ng loff bo died typ e 44 Rugat t i ofLeo n a nd Lois Witte. With G avin Bain in

hi s Brescia and Michael Pidgcon and Louise

Russell in Gav in's typ e 40 we h ad th ree

Bugatt is at the sta rt which is somet h ing wehaven 't had fur qu ite some time. A fte r lunch

many of those prese nt lin ed up for a ride in

Coupe. So me (myself included ) were ver yprivileged to get to dri ve it. 6 litre twint urbo W12 en gine 550 hp with four wh eeldrive. My god I I! If I had died rh ar night Iwould have d ied ha ppy.

A new event was held on 2 O ctober, theMau ger' s field drivi ng tests. Held on the

grounds of the former Te rnpleron Hospitalit was o bv ious t hat the t ho ught of bei ngencouraged to d rive like a n 18 yea r oldhoo n appeals to ma ny of our nu m ber whot urned out for a combinatio n of t raditionaland novelt y te sts. Prizes were awarded notfor out-right best ti mes, but ra ther for the

most meritorious effort in most sec tions ,and it would seem that we will be backat t h is venue for more of the sa me in thefuture.

Bay of Plenty [irn WebbO ur new C h a irma n, C live Tavlor , is

firm ly establish ed . We know him as on ewh o not o n ly cha irs our mee t ings bu t wh oa lso fronts up to our ra ll ies and di sp lays. Weca n sense rhar hi s leadersh ip brings forwa rdnew ideas giv ing a boost to t he clu b.

In our 50 t h Anniver sary Year, 2008 , theNat io na l AGM will be held in Taura ngaand wit h a desir e for our ow n C lubr oo rns inth e air a nd a sub-comm ittee a t work we'reon t he up a nd up!

Our Pri ze G iv ing a nd Di nner was a ve rysuccessfu l event. An out ing fur Se pte mberwas to the ne w home of De idre Hnrnrn crronand her brot her, John Lucas. Th is was tovie w Dei dr e's exqu isite tapestries a nd John'sclassy '74 Merced es. Deidre played on hernew piano with Joh n accompany ing on his17th century vio lin.

In lat e September 20 ca rs assembledfor our main r,dl y. Through our rece ntlyup-dated back mad with qu est ions ga lore,to Sulphur C it y and round Lake Ro toruato lunch <It Lak e O ka rcka. There werequ estions from the left and right. ThereWHS a t ime wh en the rule was t h at a ll theanswers to t he questions sho uld 'be on theleft but things change. Late r to Hell's G ate ,Ti k lte rc , turning up to Lake Okaraina .

Warren Du ggan had bad luck with ablown to rqu e conve rte r. Joe Ma rsdenencou ntered a spike in a tyre. Th.u A lvisbonnet had a lready att racted a da magingobject in the sa me area! Bill Bic lh cr hadbra ke cy linder problems in h is Au ssic bu iltVau xhall. Ma ny than ks tu Nea l for hi splanning.

Canterbury Tony BeckerN ew Zealand's best and biggest Swa p

Meet and Display weekend furt hered itspopularity last Octobe r. Like a well -oil edmachine and run basicall y by a sma ll teamof C a nte rbury Branch sta lwar ts, its simpleformat continues to reward the branch well.

big jo b year aft er year! The weathermansho wed mi xed respect fo r them though, withplen ty of va riety right from Wednesday'sin sta lla t ion pre par ations to Monday'sdismantling. Frid ay Members Day was thepick, with Sunday improvin g en ou gh toco me sec ond, but Wednesday, Sa turda y andMonday were entirely forgettable for thetea m wcarhcrwi se.

The funds from the Swap MeetC o mm ittee 's ef fo rt mate riall y assistsbra nc h coffers, en abling it to o perate foranother year without resorting to tedi ousa ltern at ives. The chos en cha rity this year,C ho lmo ndclyC h ild rcn's Home in GovernorsBay, was presented with a cheque for $1,000by Presid ent Lvnd sey Saundcrs a nd a sma lldeputation of members who a ll tr avelledto the Hom e at a later date in club ca rs.Swap Me et weekend 's ca mp-ove r and sociallife is an othe r d rawcard eac h year. Localand visiting members a nd many suppo rt ingmot or-interest gwu ps, one-make ca r clubs,together with the tru ck and tractor di splaysce rta in ly en ha nce the publi c's Swap Meetdi splay exper ience .

Back in September some good rall iesoccurred, The 2005 Women Drivers' Rall yenjoyed a pleasant spring day a round someh isto ric buildings a nd a glasshouse flowercompany in the Halswell/Taitupu/Lincolnarea. Organisers even t h rew in qui rky fieldtests for our ladies : Evening meal and enter­tainment at the clubroorns brou ght the dayto a close. Katrina Bur ber y won deser vedpraise for her team 's organizing effort.

T he 2005 Annual Vintage Rally wasa lso hel d in bri ght sun ny cond it ions ,idea l for touring th e blossom y scenes o fspring in the stun n ing N ort h C a nterburycou n t ryside. After lun ch and field tests forthe 90 en t ra nts at Loburn Domain, thetou r ex tended to a trac to r colle cti on atWaikuku. The day concluded co nv ivia lly att he Hornby C lub.

Around t wen ty mo ped a nd scoo terrider s trailed from The Highwayman, [ohnsRoad on this annual September eve nt .T he co urse foll owed a circumnav igat ionof th e cit y outskirts on the early Springday. By next morning things had turnedbac k to winter with pa rrs of the cit y thinlybla nke te d in snow! The main O c to berfeatures for two- whee led cnrhusiasrs werethe G irde r Rall y and Labour Day Runs.The former celebrated the 20th run n ingof the Gi rder Bike Rall y to A karo a, witha h andful having at tended eve ry yea r.Ahout 50 enthusiasts mad e th e day. Thesma ller Labour Day run went to Hilltop a ndreturned via Gebbies/Evans Passes. A funtag -rall y expe riment used on th e day add edmirth , but refinement of the model may addto involvement! O ctober/November is abusy time for C an te rbury Branch members

Lachie Griffen and Lyndsey Saunden at theCanterbury Branch cheque presentation !O

Cholmondd ey Home, photo Ba)' Harbuur News.

Veteran Rally , Show Weekend Tour andmore to enj oy!

Central Otago John LoudonWe hosted the National AGM in August

a nd wha t a grea t turn out from a ll thebran ches from th e Far North to Sout h land .John Ma rt in organ ised most of th e gat heringand dele gat ed jobs to va rious mem be rs. Theevents ra n smoo th ly so the right guys musthave been on the job. The meeting wasfully rep orted in the last Beaded Wheels .

John Martin receiv ed hi s 25-year badgeand I was presented with my 35-year badgeat a recent meeting. I was delegated tohel p wit h t he t ra nspor t pick-ups fromQuee nstown a irpor t for the dele gat es fo rthe AG M and managed to negotiat e a ll thealt erat ions go ing o n a nd met up with a chapwith a tall yellow hat that had VCC on it.N ext challenge was to pick up and pay for atick et (0 get out aga in. All went wel l untilthe t icket was inserted at the barrier. Ticketreject ed, reinscrtcd rejected again . Pressedthe Help but ton hut no help arrived. Thequ eue fmming beh ind had to he. asked to

back off so we could pull to one side a ndsort out our probl em. O ur t icket did nothave a bar code on it for so me reason . [ didnot feel like spe nd ing an other fell' bucksto get a new ticket . One of my passen gerswaited in the lin e to pick a likel y lookinglad to help us out. We would pull in rightup to th e barr ier beh ind a paying cus to merand get through . It worked a treat but thea rm was very close to our veh icle whe n itde scended .

O ur an nua l Blosso m Rally on t he 24September was another good turnout with42 ent ries. Very n oticeable now is thenumber of post wa r veh icles o n ralli es a ndthis is a sign of the tim es as the d istanceand cost to attend an event is in mostcases the deciding factor. So me gravel roadthis year but all in good order with duston one sect ion through th e old lda Valle yto Becks Road on Thurlow's farm with afew gates also to deal with. The overa llwinner was Bill Ske ggs from South land .Someone suggested a misspent youth mayhave helped here, as part of the test was tosink as many pool ball s as possible afte r thebreak . Bill did nine wh ile some like me did

Eascern Bay of PlelHY cars parked outside che DeLuxe theatre in Opotiki.

Some of the Far Nurth Branch vehicles at the luncheonvenue, Haruru Falls

The Swap Mee t Sale Day was th e nextday and th is kept us busy a ll morni ng witha good crowd and grea t weather. It is alsonoticeable tha t the select ion of parts is notwhat it has heen in previous years whenevery tra iler was loaded with some reall ygoo d stuff.

Our parts shed produced a good turnoverand eve n so ld a couple of vehicles from rheyard . A good da y all round as the kitchenstaff were happy with their efforts too.

Recent guest spea ker was G ruluuu Tavlora n ea rly club member of Model T fame a ndnow in to aircraft. He ha s hi s own planemade lip in the form of a Kit Fox a very safea nd easy machine to fly. It will not ru n ou tof fuel on a planned tri p if you reme mber to

replace the fuel ca p as he found out whenhe had a forced land ing in the CromwellG orge o n one tr ip.

John Taylor arran ged for S tuart Mc Lea nto give us a run down on his days as a raci ngdr iver and NZ speed stewa rd t hen in late ryea rs as a comme nt ator. A very int erest inga nd well pre sen ted in formative ta lk.

Our old mate JD Forbes is not well atpresent so if passing ca ll in and say hell o to

cheer him up a bit .G ood motoring to a ll.

Eastern Bay of Plenty Sue MooreOn th e first weekend of September our

branch hosted th e biennial visit from th eG isbornc VC C . Eleven cars ca me fromG isbo rne and an equ al number from th eEastern Bay set off fro 111 \X1atchorn's Museumon Saturday morning for th e co mpet it iverun to O pot iki. The first part of th e run was

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Gore Raewyn DoddsO ur Inaugural P60V ru n went ex tre mely

well with 13 ca rs leaving G ore un der athreatening sky. T hankfully the sky cameto noth ing - th ey sto pped at Waikawa for alunchtime picn ic in the sun. The trip tookthem down a round th e Ca t lins coa st , tu rn ingback toward Gore just before Balclutha. Notsuch a big turnout for the slower car run buta very pleasant afternoon for those who d idattend and of cou rse an excellent potl ucktea was enjoyed by a ll at the end of th e day.T ha nk s to Keith Nunn for the P60 andMurr ay Low for the 'slow' run.

O ur nex t run is at the en d of Octoberwith a plan ned sto p for the men and anotherfor th e women . This should be anot he renjoya ble outing throug h the old familyland of our Club Capta in , jim McFadzien .November's run is to the site of th e VeroHillclimb. So me of ou r members will nodoubt be go ing to 'p ract ice' h illcl imbingwh ile others will go to practice 'spectating'.Lots of fine-tu n ing for [ anu ar vl Decemberwill see our members ta king the RSAwelfa re grou p on th eir annua l jaunt. Thisis a lways an enjoyable out ing for our d riverswith lots of memories and in for ma tionexcha nged a long the way.

O ctober 1 was th e Internati on al Day ofth e Elderly Person . O ne Rest hom e in G orece lebrated th is with Cl visit and rides frommem bers of the Gore Branch, fo llowed byan old fash ioned aftern oon tea co mpletewith two and three tiered plates laden wit hfood.

Memb ers felt this was well worth th eeffort - forget th e thrill and rem iniscing

Mrs Kubala, aRed 101 , behind the wheel.

stages of the build ings, bell s, major catas­trophes, and how he had managed to locatet reasures which had been given away inthe 70s and had got many of them bac kespecially some of the origin al sta ined glasswindow s. A very interest ing address.

O ur pans department team is in theth roes of clearing out th e old mezzaninefloor in pre parat ion for a new and extendedst ructure to rep lace the old one that hasdo ne well to stay up for as long as it ha s.

Glsborne Rodney ClagueT he firs t weekend in Se pte mbe r saw

several mem bers head off to Awakeri tosha re an in terbranch weekend with th eEastern Bay of Plenty. O n the Satu rdaymorning a run was organ ised to O porikiwhere 23 veh icles made a great impres­sion parked in th e main street wh ile th eentrants attended a silen t movie at the localpicture th ea tre, wh ich I am to ld was a grea tex perience , especially the piani st. Followingthe movie the ent rant s retu rn ed to Awa kenfor a barbecue tea. ERO P won th e tro phy byfive po ints from G ishorne .

O ur Sep tember clu b night was heldat the hom e of [oe a nd Merl e Webber,where [oe gave an able demonstrat ion ofthe art of cooperi ng using the too ls of oldas he had clon e in his younger days. [oehad co mmenced work with the G old TopBrewery in Gisborn e in 1946 making andrepa iring casks, vat s and tubs. ' We werejoin ed on the night by some person s ofquest ionable repute in th e form of FrankRenwick , Don Broo me, Bob Bcurdsley andEoin Young, a ll of whom had atte nd ed a hillclimb event in the Waikato the previousweekend and were heading to Hawkc's Bayfor more hill climbing th e next weekend.

The last weekend of September saw ouran nual Nav igators ' Run , cleverly orga n isedas usual by Tony Bartlett. Sad ly on ly threeveh icles took part in the run, and I believeTony is hoping that those th ree have shortmemories so he ca n run the same routeaga in nex t year.

We h ad an interest ing address at theOctober clu b nigh t on th e h istor v of theGi sborne Fire Brigade by Kcith Wat ts, th eirhistori an. He took us th rough the va rious

broug ht a few dollars to our coffers. Theday concluded with a spit roast meal for theman y hel pers.

O ur building maint en ance tea m recen tlytabled a proposal to extend and modify theclubroom s wh ich will includ e a larger to iletarea and upgrade of th e water syste m. It isamazing how quickly we have gone from abuild ing which W~l S quite adequate for ournee ds to one wh ich d raws a crowd for mostfunct ions.

Each mont h sees a few more newmem bers so we should see some interestingnew veh icles on the runs this summer.There are a lso a good number of restora­t ions and upgrades go ing on in the sheds.Happy summ er moto ring.

Far North Dave DuirsO ur big eve nt th is time around would

have to he cele brat ing founding memb erVic McCready's 50 years of club membersh ipwith Cl grea t tu rn out of some 39 veh icles. Ascen ic rally around Paihia an d Wait an gi wasfollowed by a co mmemora t ive lun ch eon atwhich our spec ial guest , N at ion al PresidentLeigh Crayt horne (wit h hu sband Ton y),presented Vic with a commemorat ive plaq ueand badge (see citat ion elsewhere in BeadedWheels). The bran ch also had t he pleasureof showing the Cravthome s aro und the FarN or th and shar ing our hospit nlitv at a clubpotluck d inner and other members ente r­ta in ing them on the Su nday.

There was a good turn out of a ll Vin tagevehicles for the mid week run to C ott le Hillvineya rds with a spec ial lun ch and a hit oftesting of the loc al wares.

T he second Noggi n' n' natter q uizeven ing created some hil arit y as we weretes ted , tha n ks to Robin Parker, on a llmanner of subjects which were certain lyno t all vehicle relat ed. . .quite a cha llenge!

The Masons' O cto ber Fun Run ou t ofKaita ia on a no t too sun ny day, had a simp leenough short run wh ich was co mplicated bysome not gett ing all the instru ctions! T hisa ll add ed up to tax the kiwi ingenuity andeventua lly a ll ended up at Lake Ngatu forsome frolick ing field events to end a great Gore Ilranch celcbmteJ Inrenw tion al Day of therelaxing aftern oon. Elderly. The visit kept residents buzzing for the

Members Wyn and Lyn Matthews who next couple of wee1<s . Line liPof caTS at Resthaven.

have estab lished an outstand ing museum of ­old memorabilia . . .ca rs, tra ctor s, stat ionaryeng ine s etc . . ..had their Live O pe n Dayrecently and a sma ll team of Branchmembers offered their serv ices to provide a

in for goo d measu re , then a straight-linenavigati on around Port O ho pe, aft er whicha tim ed sect ion ended at Kuta rere.

Lunch was enjoyed at the O pot iki Rosega rdens and then on to attend the mainevent of th e weeke nd - the S ilen t FilmFestival , one of on ly two silent film festival sin the world. T he other takes place in Italyeac h Oc tober, this event is held in Opot ik i'shi sto ric De Luxe T heatre bu ilt in 1926 andone of on ly two or igina l and untouchedcine mas in Ne w Zea land. \V'i th the carspark ed eithe r side of the road outsideth e theat re and the Keystone Cops, a liasO porik i Lions C lub, keeping a close eye onthem, members went in to the thea tre toview th e act ion adventure \\'ling.~ wh ich wonthe first Ac ade my Award for Rest Picturein 1927. No t on ly was the movie impres­sive but a lso the world -ren owned silentmovie pian ist Tnrna Karena who playedthroughou t.

A fter the dr ive home and a meal togeth erthe Winners Troph y was presented to th eEBOP club and we look forward to compe tingfor it aga in in Gi sbo rue next year.

done by the residents on seeing, sitting orriding in our vehicles - the afternoon teawould be worth a return visit.' One residentwas older than our oldest car, a Ford ModelF, she will be 102 in February and neededvery little help to get up into the car.

Planning is moving along for our 40thBirthday celebrations to be held 23 - 25June 2006. Registration of Interest formshave been put in our local mag - TheWiper, a copy of which will have gone toeach branch - so we can hopefully catchup with members who have moved awayover the years. Our Bi-Annual Swap MeetCommittee are dotting i's and crossing t's inpreparation for 9 April next year.

With the next few months so busy, andnext year already filling up it won't takelong before the International Vero Rallybegins. There are four Monte Carlo Runscoming through Gore on Tuesday and onestaying in Gore on Mond ay night. If a nyoneon these runs feels like calling in to ourClubrooms, you are most welc ome. '\;lie

are on Waimea Street (just off the mainQueenstown-Gore Highway) and will havethe rooms open and the lip on Mondayafternoon, night and Tuesday with all thisto look forward to the only thing left to dois wish everyone a Happy Christmas and aProsperous New Year.

hugely economical 1904 Napoleon. Don'ttell anyone, but it stopped working comingoff the trailer:

If you are coming to the Hawke's Bay ArtDeco weekend in February, get your entryin pronto. There are huge numbers alreadycommitted to the rally, and the weather hasbeen booked.

Horowhenua NightingalesWith regret we report the death of two

of our members. Bob Borrows and DaveMunn. Bob was a long time member origi­nally from Hawke's Bay. He had returnedfrom Australia 18 months ago and againparticipated in branch activities. Over theyears he had had a Model T, a Plymouth4 tourer, a Model A S ports Coupe and a1965 Falcon Futura. Dave was a founda­tion member of the Horowhenua Branchand was one of a group who travelled toPalmerston North to the Mariawatu Branchbefore that. Dave's trade was as an electri­ci an and he willingly contributed histime. He had Cl diverse interest in Vintagetransport, which included a 1926 J;lguar aswell as a motorbike or two. His help will bemissed by many.

The Night Owl rally was somewhatcomplicated but fun, according to reports.The August meeting was held at SouthwardsMuseum workshop and was well attended.They are working on a cl922 WolseleyRoadster. September saw ten cars partici­pating in the Foxton Spring Fling whileother members attended the Fun Run inKapiti with a I940s theme, organised byBru ce Wile and Mike Peryc r.

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The Vintage-only run was held on 18September and the organiser Shorty Colcgave us a great report for the Tourer. Theroute W d S to Ashhurst and on to Wuodvillcand Dannevirke. The first garage visitedwas Nick Robl ea 's to sec his early Model A'sand later models o f Ford and Buick.

From there on to Ken Mill s ga rage wherehis excellent collection uf Peu geots wasadmired.

This run was a non-timed run, based onthe Poker Hand system to find the winner.Allan Hardacre, our Chairman, managed tocollect the best hand.

The annual swap meet was held onOctober 1. It was very pleasing to have afine day and a great gate turnover. Theladies helped by providing tea in thetearooms this year and altogether the SwapMeet was d great success. Allan Hardacrereported that the parts shed turned oversome cash, the greatest tragedy being thefact that there was no evidence of anythinghaving been sold:

Rob Knight reported on the VeteranRally hel d on 15 October. Members in 25cars enjoyed lunch at Grccnawav Lodge atRongotea, a visit to the C lock Museum atColvton, north of Feilding and to end thedamp day a dinner back at the Clubrooms.

BSA1906 Cadiliac Model K1906 Star 12hp

won the Russell [enks Memori a l T rophy.They have volu n tee red [0 organise nex tyea r's even t.

The Vet era n and Comme rcia l Rall yo rgan ised by Colin and [oan Pcurcc (whodrove their 1912 Sunbeam, but a las it wasnot compet itive) was poorly attended, withPete r and Esmey Fletch er's 1914 Model Tth e on ly Vete ran entered . David and MoiraC un n ingham gained first C om mercial inthe 1952 ML Bedford Truck. The run to okus out to Brigh ton Domain for lunc h a ndthen over Scroggs H ill and O ld BrightonRoad to the O ut rarn Vin tage Machineryand Historical Park to exp lore new addit ionsto their gro wing displays.

O ur act ive Moto rcyc le Sect ion continuesto run very successful Dunvegan Ra lliesT hey a re currently plan n ing for the nextbienni al "Taieri Road Race" for moped s inDecember. This has become a very popul arevent, with So uth O tago Branch organis ingthe moped ra lly every a ltern ate year.

Rotorua Dou g GreenWell we are away aga in to a not her ra lly

season and th e ent ry forms are sta rt ing toflow to those who pa rti cipated in fo rmerra llies.

O ur branc h had a wonderful day outwhen we went to the Wa itom o district. Westa rte d with morn ing tea at the O ld CreamCa n Cafe near Morri nsville, delici ous toll.

O to rohanga followed where we visited anangora rabbit breeder and were shown thefine r points of shea ring these ani mals. Laterwe lunched at Billy Black 's fa rm and sawa grea t sho w about early days pioneeringfarming and how the lan d was cleared byhand. One of the best d isplays 1 have beento and fun as well .

Ten ca rs vent ured to Taum arunui for theJourney Through Time and as usua l it was agrea t rall y. We left the clubroorns, set off bythe mayoress, then lunched at an out-of-theway scho ol in so me of the mos t bea ut ifulcount ry in the North Islan d.

O ctober club night was a sh iny par tsaucti on and was a lot of fun, with most ofus buying sh iny bits we d idn't need. T heproceeds went to the SPC A.

Our Barbecue Run was set by Pat andDen is Burr, depart ing from the c1ubroomsand travelling through th e farm ing a reaof Ngakuru with the odd quest ion or two,with stra igh t line through town on the wayhome. A barbec ue di nner followed wherethe winner, who will a lso set next yea r'scourse, was an no unced. Luck y Des andAngie Brun ton in a Morris 8 will do thehon our s next year.

T he Sulphur city Ra lly in November iscoming up, please not e in future this hasmoved to A ugust and wi ll be th e first winterrally in Rotorua as a ca lendar event.

I have no ticed recently gra ndpare nts andyounger members bringin g ch ildren to out-

2 Roger & Barbara Eden3 Phi I & Coral KiddRED RUN1 Murray &

Pauline Schwass2 Bernie & Helen Byers3 Dave & Nancy StuartBlue run1 Kevin Tucker

&Lynda Winter 1930 Ford Model A2 [irn & Gae Galway 1930 Ford A Roadster3 Bill & DaleNicholas 1977 Triumph 2500TC

An item of int erest is th ar we had threegenerat ions of the same famil y dr iving in theRally. T he Topltss fami ly were represent edby G eo rge and Rosemary (1924 Rolls-Royce20), son Richard with C h rist ina and Alice(Rover 12 Sport Tourer ) and gra ndso n [arncswith Emma (1972 Morgan 4-4) . Well done.

Nelson Branch wishes a ll compl iments ofthe season and we look forward to ca tc hingup with o ld and new friend s at Invercargillin Janu ar y.

Entrants being welcomed to Founders Park byLord Nelson and entOurage

for a gymkhana and lunch sto p at theS tea m Mu seum complex at Pigeon Val ley.The eve n ing di nner was fun time for a llwith man y dress ing up in the era of 200years ago.

N ation a l President Leigh Craythornepresented the following awards -

Long service badges -35 years - John Stanley25years- Gordon Dacombe, WilsonHawke, Geoff

Clark, Brian Pratt, Colleen Carsten, Trevor Carstenand LeslieTomlinsonMain prizewinners were -WHITERUN1 (Overall winner also)

Ray & Carolyn Magu ire 1929 Ford Model ASportCoupe1962 Vauxhall Cresta1928 Essex Coupe

Otago Marion McConachieThe AGM Rally was held in September.

Involves up to 90 minu tes of night timenavigation and observat ion. The run wasmore test ing this yea r, as it was set by Ga rthTyrrell, a regular ral lyist in events such as theSunsrrurn Rally. It was skilfully designed toget people to the major chec k points with outreali sing they were on the wrong route! Therun took entrants th rough the streets ofSouthern Du nedi n. \Vin ners - Peter andBeth Daniel] in th eir 1951 Vauxh a ll Vcloxx,now h ave the ch allenge of sett ing next year'sra lly.

P60V Rall y orga n ised by our C lubCapta in George Martin , took th e aft ernoonrun out to Moeraki. Sevent een vehiclesranging fro m Barry Lon gsraffe's 1960 Ri ley1.5 to Ron Hammers 1975 Hillrnan Hunterwere in attendance. Hark ing back to GeorgeMart in's instr uctions re the Road Rules atthe briefing, on ly four of the ra lly ent rantsstopped at the compulsory stop sign at theG oodwood railway cro ssing. This helpeddecide the winner fo r th e day. John an dT")j'l n /.:r. l'\.l / h lp in ,.h,~i ,· 10",; J:;rw,~ ~;l IJ C'r 'H'\fl

Nelson June CampbellWe welcome rhe fo llowi ng new members

to the N elson BrunchJohn & C aro l Moore - 1930 Mod el A

Roadster, Ray & Erin Day - 1937 A ustin7 Ruby & 1956 Land rover Se ries l. Wewelcome back Joh n Mill s who has beenoverseas for a leng th of t ime.

The Trafa lgar 200 Rally was held atLabour Weekend . 112 ent ries were receive dfrom Ham ilton to A shbu rton with 15vehicles of th e NZ Hudson-Essex-TerruplaneC lub and th eir owners taking advantageof the Rally to hold their AGM in Nelsonover the weekend . On Sat urday visitors wereable 10 enjoy the afternoon get-toge ther atth e Clubroorns at Founders H istorical Park,while others attended the celebrati on s andfireworks at Wakefield Quay in the even ing.

On S unda y 23 October, Lord N elsonsta rted t he Ra lly off with an a lmi ghtybang from a musket. To the so und of ti nwh istles, the three routes lef t Founde rs to

mot or thr ou gh the City and head so urh , to

meand er th rough the rural a rea be twee n

group decided to suppo rt the show day upuntil midd ay, then headed off to Picton anda n ord ered lunch on hoard the old scowEcho, currently on the hard and convertedto a d iner. T revor Hurris planned the runand sen t the riders via the Tuamarina track.He said he d id th is to test out the riders'skills in the metal. Harking back to theMarlh orough Branch Na t iona l Motorcyclerun which was organised by Trcvor, I recallcursing h im all da y fo r putt ing us throughthe track, a ltho ugh h is exc use was that hehad asked the road mainten ance people tomake sure the road was in first class orderfor us so they promptly spread a heavy layerof loose met a l over it.

The motor show was a huge success andthe club ha d the pleasure in don ating thegate take procee ds, amount ing ro $5,000 ,to th e local Hospice which is on ha rd tim esat th e mom ent. G rcar c redi t to our ha rdworking co mmitt ee .

We held a S h iny Parts auc t ion o nWe d nesd ay even ing the 19 O ctober.Despit e a poor tu rn out of members, thosewho did attend enjoyed a fun night hostedby auct ioneer Trcvor Hurris and two lovelyladies who put on a vaudev ille show for uswhich had us in st itches.

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people ro rake over in our movement butbranches a re not catering for these young­sters as clubs st ill ch a rge adult mea l rat esfor chi ldren and rhi s makes for a costl y da yaway. If you are sett ing a rally and wantto keep the club going, cut your children'smeal prices so as to no t only keep t he newmembe rs com ing a lon g bur the youngerparents who bring them . If we do not havekids co ming up through t he ranks who willsha re our passion for Vinr.u;c mot oring?

Southland Paul RodmellA very pleasant functi on was held in

the C lubroo ms to hon our our Patron, Rayl.ind sav, and members Jack Toom ey, RussellLind sav, and A lwyn McKenzie with thepresentat ion of their 50 year badges, as wellas a bea ut ifu l cerr ificute co mmmemorati ngthe occas ion .

T he MC for the evening, Ferg McDowell ,ensured that evcrvrh ing wen t smoot hly,sta rt ing from a memorably hurn ourous'grace' given by our 'poe t' A sh ley Bell.

We a ll en joyed an exce llent mea l, andbetween courses were ably en terta ined bythe Southern Singers with a select ion ofmotori ng songs from days gon e by.

N at ion al President , Lcigh C ravrho rnccommented duri ng her speec h that ano therea rly Sout h land membe r, Will is Bruwn, hadalso recently rece ived h is 50 year badge asa cu rren t member of th e Banks Peninsulabra nch .

T he Mid-Week Run co ntinues in stronghe art even wit h co mpet it ion from t heC hristchurch Swap Meet .The 22 hardy soulsin seven Vintage Cars and th ree modemswhich met at the Racecourse en trance werelater joined by Tom and Ne il in the Aust inSpecia l. T he very varied weat her includedsun, snow and hail - an a ll seasons menu .T he trip led to Bushy Par k, and t hen ceto Koneburn S tat ion where good use wasmade of the woolshed and to ilet s wh ile th e"elite" had th e use of the table and cha irsin th e kitchen. After lunc h the cars ca rriedon to the very top of Hedgehope H ill, rothe bottom of the T V transmitt er mast.O ne of the group was lucky h is wheels ha dhubc aps to ca tch the whee lnuts when a rearwheel fell off going up hill. Many handsmade lighr work and the car was soon onits way aga in . Lesson : tigh ten your nut s!'L e. __ • . . _• .. 1. . . 1. L : __ . .. 1. . __ I _

South Canterbury vehicles wi~h Mcl'ed Chardlin background .

taken, to capture th e view were of lit tle use.T he loll' clo ud and mist was such th at t hetop of the towe r could not be see n from thebot tom and th ere was little but mist able tobe seen in th e view all around. Nevert helessmany thought it was a good day and wereappreciative of being there.

Nci ll McMi llan's superb book on t heHalf Ce ntury of Vintage Motor ing wi ll finall yreach t he members on 26 N ovem ber afterthe Vintage/ Post Vin tage Ra lly. We' relooking forward to an interes t ing read afterthe ra lly.

South Canterbury Bill WeirThe spring VC C ca lenda r sta rted off with

the an nual night t rial in August. T han ks to

Nob Day tor th e following report.We were fortunate to have a beautifu l

even ing for driv ing around the countr y­side. Se vera l cars, navigato rs and passen gersarrive d at the clubroo rns with th eir tea, andafter th e usual cha t an d meal were giveninst ruction s to head off and tr y to nav igat eour way back to the C lub roo ms a couple ofhours later.

\Ve were all given a sea led envelope andto ld nor to open it. (P resumed tl~ at it wasinstr ucti ons in case we got losr.)

We tr ave lled approximat ely 70k ms intot a l and our d river A lisrai r kept askingwere we sure we were going the righ t wayas he co uld not see any ca r ligh ts in fron tof us even th ough we were fifth away. \Vellrea lly, with th ree navigators how could wego wrong? Imagine ou r sur prise as aroundone co rn er we found a checkpoin t anddiscovered we were th e first ca r to a rrive.We were given a second envelope and thesame inst ruct ions "do not open it yet ." Weth ough t we had missed ano ther che ckpointas others sa id th at th at a d ifferent mar shalwas on their checkpo int. We discoveredlater rhcv were tak ing it in tu rn s at thesame ch eckp oint. Nic e on e!

O nce the last car arri ved back (whic hwas much later tha n the rest) we werea llowed to ope n our two envelopes. In sidewere two playing cards and the winners fordiscovering a \Vild Ca rd were Barr y andC arla Barnes, who were presente d with abot tle of win e. T he answers to the questionswere read out and Michel and Gav in Munr owon those.

Vern ELUs' DeSow revelledin ~h e macldy charch)'ard .

An en thusiastic group have been tak ingturns in run n ing a mon thly mid-week ra llywhich has been well supported by th oseavailable.

O ur Open ing Run on 18 Se ptember washeld in conjunc t ion with t he AshburtonC lub. Bo t h Clu b C apta ins pla nned thefirst part of t he Ra lly to ar rive outside theDom ain in Gera ldine aro und lOam . T heymust hav e used similar roads as a ll veh icleswere covered in mud except the scribe whodrove str a ight from milk ing to Gera ld ine .From G cra ld inc, Ross \Val k inshaw an dA lisrulr Day pla nned a c ircuitou s route upa round T he Down s above G erald ine andth en out to U ppe r O rari , to A runde l, wherewe had a snea k look via a back lan e atEdd ie G ould 's back ya rd, co mplete withold Vaux ha lls. From A rundel, we drovet hrough Peel Forest and up to the Mr Pee lSta tion and the h isto ric ch urch.

Due to wet condit ions, a selecti on ofindoor Field Test s were co nducted in th ehal l, wit h C olin [oh nsto ne win n ing forSouth C ant erbury and Ern ie Ludem an forAshburton, Despite the weathe r, the jointru n was most enj oyable wit h a chance to

ca tch up with our neighbouring c lub.

South Otago Mel TappA mid wint er run was orga n ised by lan

C lark and his wife. It was a lovely day aswe travelled a round Sout h O tago's M iltonare a that seems to be having a build ingboom at present. We passed the new Pr isonat Mil burn, as well as the Dunedin C ityC ouncil's la rge new sawmi ll, just two ofthe major developm ent s in the area . Wereturn ed to the clubroom s for a po tluck teaand fun filled eve n ing.

O ur an nual d inner was well att endedwit h the Resto rat ion Troph y goi ng to

Len Bennett for h is lovely restored 1956Vauxh all, and th e service awau] went to[i rn Beeby. O ur ope ning ru n was held on11 September and t here was aga in a goodturnout.

A good turnout of members and carsto ok members of th e Round Tab le whowere hold ing their nat iona l co nvent ion atBalclu th a to cro ss the C lutha River on theTuapcku Ferry. T his ferry is th e on ly one inth e So uthern Hem isph ere th at is poweredon ly by th e river curren t. Un fort unately theriver was too low so ca rs co uld nor cross but

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everybody got a ride on it a nd th ey werequite amazed .

O ur clubroom s have been rep ain tedinside and are looking goo d and part s st illarrive for our parr s store. I visited AlvinRead who has had a 1928 C hevroler in hisshed for ma ny years and it is now ready forth e mad a nd look s real n ice with its twoto ne paint. Al so Malc olm Mcl ver has hadhi s C h rvsler Four 1927 repa inted in itsorigina l green.

South Walkato John LeeW ith few ac t ivit ies during th e winter

months thi s will be Cl shor t rep ort.O n 25 September, o n a n overcast da v we

had a Garage Run of ten cars visiting theMat h is Far m at Lichfi eld , to inspect Frcd'sSeries I Long Wheel Base 1956 Landrover,whi ch is having a gea rbox a nd mo toroverhaul.

We also viewed Mike and Linley 's 1919Essex 4 Tourer. This car had spe n t most ofits life around Dunedin but had travelledno rth to Pia Pio where Mi ke bou ght it.Essex cars in their day set many record s torexample a speed a nd reliabilit y record fromSa n Francisco to N ew York in four days, 14hours and 43 minutes. In two years theyhad nearl y 50,000 Essex ca rs in service.Par t of th eir advert ising mat erial that Mik ehas tell s of how men want ed this kind ofcar, which was proved by th e world recordof sa les establi shed in its first yea r when$33,000,000 was paid for 22,000 Essex cars.U nde r supervision , offic ials of the AmericanAA set a 50-h our endurance record of 3,037mile s on the C inc innat i spee dway, a marknever before mad e a nd not yet equa lled.

In three sepa rate rests usin g th e same ca r,it tr avelled a to tal of 5,870 miles in 94 hours22 minutes averaging a mile a minu te.

We moved on to Waotu to visit Kelv ina nd C lar e [ohnston tu view their 1927 pickup tru cks, beaut ifully restored . '0(!e also tookin the ir coll ecti on uf miniature vehicles a ndcollect ablc s. A fin e break in th e weathera nd we were ab le to sta y outside a nd natter.

Planning an d sett ing up for o ur NovemberTTT Rally is well under way.

Taranaki Colin JohnstonWe welcom e the following members who

have just joined our c1uh, Kerry a nd KerryMu nd ell, Albert a nd Maxine G ordge andAnthony and Rosin a Trowbridge. We hop eyou en joy the fellowshi p of our club andenjoy the man y a nd va rious outings thato ur branch puts on for the members.

Wally and Rosalen e Hunt orga n ised theirannu al Breakfast Ru n which sta rte d earl y inthe morn ing with a great tumour of 22 ca rsand a motorbike. The run was enjoyed bya ll and it fini shed at the Plymouth Hotel fora very nice breakfast.

Geoff Black bourn took his littl e Morrieon th e Breakfast Run a nd when he returned

l'vlarl< and Linlei s 191 9 Essex 4 Tuurer from SouthWaikaw ,Morris "h ow come you wen t and I didn't?"Morris sa id "your turn's co ming in Janu ary,that BIG A DV ENTU RE to lnvercar gill andI'll just be here with the pumpkins, gigs a ndthe udd spider"

The Rub ber Du cki e motor cycle run washeld in September and this year it att rac tedaround 56 entrants. The rall y route foll owedso me excelle nt rural country road s with alunch sto p at the Kairnata hall. The even ingfunct ion was held at the Fitzrov golf courseand th is cha nge of venue proved most sat is­facto ry wit h everyone enjoyi ng th em selves.The overall winner was Ga ry Brigh t fromthe N orth S ho re riding a [930 Dou glasS6. This extrac t fro m a letter wri tt en byan en tra n t is a cred it to the orga n isingco mmittee "t he sta nda rd of organisati on,the friendl y people and th e magni ficentarray of machinery th at turned up for therall y mad e th e weekend truly unforget ­table . I look f~lt\\'ard to next year's rall ya nd to enj oy motorc ycling on some of N ewZeal and's most picturesque roads."

Ir is with ext reme sad ness that Irepor t a no ther staunc h member uf ourclub has passed on. Brian Hopki ns hadbeen a member since [983, had servedo n the committee and had been our clubC ha irman from [997 to 1998. His in terestsextended to a ll tyres o f motoring includ ingca r racing, sports ca rs, mot orcycles a nd ofcou rse the Vintage vehicles that were h ispass ion. He truly was a dedicated memberof our bran ch and was a lways promoting th eben efit s of membership to peo ple. He woulda lways be able to pass on his very exte nsivekn owled ge of the mo toring industry a ndthis IV;] S evident in the vehicles th at herestor ed . We will miss him so much and weextend our deepest and since re sympat hy tu

Ngaio and a ll the family.

Taupo Graham MockThe A ugust C lub Ru n included a visit to

Kurt Stoc kman's pri vate motor ing memora­bili a collect ion in Taupe . H is display ofPetrol Pum ps with lon g forgotten nameslike Big Star, Tex aco, Plume & Euro patogethe r with boxes, bottles, tins, jars a ndpackets was neat. The old Three pen nyTip Top round ice cream tub with woodenspoon rekindled memories of going to th emovies in those by gone days.

O ur Sep tember club n igh t and C lubCapta in Ray Harw ood 's report of the AGM

was a n un expect ed delight . He qui ckl ydispen sed with the busin ess age nda, thenent ert a ined us with an ent husiast ic briefingof Th e Fastest Indian a nd A sh ley Bell 'sadd ress at th e AG M.

Inclem ent weather forced th e postpone­ment of the Fat her's Day Run but ourO ctober "C lean Up" workin g bee at theclu broom s was most successful. Some 19members cleaned , painted , rep a ired andenj oyed the fellowship and barb ecue.

A t our Octo ber meeting John Funnell- Helicopter pilot ext raord inaire gave usa n emot iona l audio v isua l report of therescu e mission in Banda Ac eh followingthe Boxing Day Tsunami. John and h ishuge helicopte r too k five days to fly up tothe most northern t ip of Ind on esia a nd heemp ha sised that we in Ne w Zeala nd ne edto keep a [4 day survival kit in our homesincluding food and water and a ta rpaulin .The New O rlean s d isaster proved his point.

It has been a n object ive for thi s year to

at tract new memb ers a nd we wou ld like to

welcom e Mike He ndersori, Mi ke Herbison,Dave Ste n t a nd Bruce Warerworth withh is 1928 Model A well deck rruck into th efold . Rex Bond's Au stin Hcalcy is fin isheda nd on the roa d a nd a gear box has beenobta ine d for the Mock 's 1939 C hevro le tTruck . Graharn is br inging S ha ne andN oe line Hobman 's (Wa nga nui Bran ch)1956 C he vy Bel Air to Tau pe, th a nks toBruce a nd Tri sh Jefferies who have offeredgar age space to hou se it a longside theirim macul ate 1914 Mod el T, 1936 Ford V8,1946 Ford Super De luxe C onvert ible and1947 Mercur y.

Walkato Arthur MuldoonThe ca lenda r te lls us that winter has

passed , but realit y ce rta in ly sugges tsothe rwise! O ur members are st ill venturi ngfar, wit h particularl y good resul ts inthe Wcll sford Winter Woollies Rally.Congratu lat ions to the Luxford s, O 'Rorkesand the C lorwort hy/Rogc r» team.

A s prev iously repor ted , the WaikmoClu b's Kair angi Hillclimb was fin all y heldon [8 S ep tember, with 18 ent hu siast sbraving th e elem ents. Everyone see med to

tho rou ghly enjoy them selves despi te theco ld, wet an d wi ndy co nd it ions. However,it is unli kely that any speed record s werebroken.

The Ladie s Rall y o n 28 Au gust , with23 ent ra nt s, was won by Tri sh McK ie a ndLorra ine Cossey while Noln Exclb v won theBest Dre ssed Lady prize. Newish memberDeborah Klinac wrote in th e Club Maguzineof her expe rience in this her first eve r rallyand she was thrilled to have been place dsecond with hu sband G reg in th e Mi xedCrews Lady Driver catego ry. Thanks mustgo to the organ isers, Val Russell and G wenWe ightman.

O ctob er 2 was a nother win te rish da y

Anne TilOmson shoWI Vii Supcrcar Driver Greg Murphy "TheRopes" on how to conduct a 1906 Darracq

John and Shirlev Foo t were responsibl efor an other success ful rally. There were 42ent ra nt s and [oc and Lorraine Bruntlet tea rn ed the righ t to plot next year's ra lly.Well done.

Club C aptain John Foot is progressingwith plans for stag ing events fo r Com merc ia lvehicles. It is likely that the first eve nt willbe held in March ne xt yea r. Watch th isspace .

Com mittee member Sha rrna n Onrecently sourced a ra nge of clothing withthe C lub monogr am e mbro id ered inWaikato co lours, red, black and gold , forC lub Members to purch ase. Watch out forthe wearers at the V ERO Rally in Januar y.

Mer ry C h ristmas and happy motoring.

Walrarapa Rosemarie HicklandThe an nua l G arage Raid in A ugust was

attende d by fifteen enthusiasti c memberswho ca me away more kn owledgeabl e o nth ings Vint age. Thanks to our hosts FrancisPointon , G len Rull and Sc ott Thornp son,and to C h ris Slate r for orga n ising the eve nt .

The Vintage A ust in Register, Wai rnrap aBranch, held thei r a n nua l even t on 17/18September with members co mpet ing for thePet er Smith Mem ori al Sh ield. Twenty-oneveh icles pa rt icipa ted in this event, downon previou s year s with the majority beingent ra n ts from outside the Waira rap a. Thewinner of the sh ield was Peter and No laGroves with the C lodes and Mitchelmores(all o f Wa irarapa) tied on the loop sect ion .

O bviously the risin g cos t of pet rol ishaving an effect o n clu b at te nda nce as rallynumbers -are down mark edl y o n previou syea rs. Mem bers are no do ubt a little mor eselec t ive as to which rall y the y will par t ici­pa te in, in o rde r to save on cos ts.

Seve ra l of our members will be receivingthe ir 25-35 yea r VC C badges at a dinnerfun ction on 24 Se pte mbe r, to be held at ourC la reville clubrooms. We tha n k them fortheir cont inued suppo rt ove r the years. No

doubt they will have see n manycha nges to the club over theyea rs.

A d inner and pre senta tionof awards to members who hadart rained 25-35 yea r member­sh ip was held late Septe mber.O ur congr atulations to thefoll owing: 35 year - Roy &Frances Elwin, G raham Gorde n ,G len Bull , Pet er G roves , C hrisSlate r, Mar y Buick and BarryGillum. 25 Year - Barrv Way,Terr y Beresford , Fra nc es & GavePinton a nd Pet er Marshall. Wleth ank those mem bers for the irlong sta ndi ng co mmitme nt toth e club.

O ur O ctob er rall y, the [aniceGrove Mem ori al Rall y, wasorganised by Mart in Hutch inson.

Wi th approxi ma tely 20 veh icles, the rallytoo k us th rough the back roads of G reytow nand Carte rto n then out to Ponatahi to visitStonehenge where we were met by Rich ardH all, astronom er and member o f thePhoenix Astonomical Society. An cxtc mclvint eresting visit , th e soc iety has great plansfor building on this and to crea te a nati on alsite for New Zealand to obse rve the farreach es of the uni verse and beyond. A nyon ewishing to make a booking to this site maypho ne 027 246 6766 or ema il book ings@sto ne henge-ao tearoa.corn

C lub ni gh t saw John McCosh, localta xidermist , spea k and sho w so me o fhi s ex h ibits. A very interesting a nd wellat te nded eve n ing.

WaJtemata Keith HumphreysA group of hard core spee d enth usias ts

attende d the \Vaikaro Bran ch's Kair angiH illclimb on 18 Se pte mber. -

Norma lly this group would overn ightin th e Kuirangi Hall, but shr un ken (thegro up not th e hall) by th e appa rent badweather, th e th ree ove rn igh rers enj oyed thehospitality of Lancia Kapp a own ers, Dannyand Vicki Rvan, before co mp et ing in asomewha t sodde n hillclimb.

The three, H ar old Booth, (Riley 9Tourer) Mike Moffatt, (recently importedR iley 9 Tourer) a nd Diane Humphreys(MG J2 supe rcha rged ) wer e joined byRoy Wombwell in his recently co mpletedWolseley Special.

Three runs were completed before theweather forced a sto p, and by then, mostwere co ld and wet. A goo d day despitethe weather a nd the Waik aro hospital ityupprcciared.

Kevin Beesley a nd Kelvin Hill orga niseda "Twea k & Tune" afternoon , appropriatefor th e recent pe trol price hik es, a nd it waswell attended with the use of a dvnamorn ­eter an added att rac tion.

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Five Waitemata-ite s trekked to H awke'sBay for the 50 t h A n ni versary of th e TeO nep u Hillcl imb

These we re Anne Thomson, (1906Dar racq ) Iva n C ra nch , (Lotu s Mk 6) N igelRusse ll (Elfin M kl) Do n Suc kling, (G eeC ee Ess) and St eve Sharp (Buckler 90) .

Wi th two hill cl imbs in the o ne wee kendand Steve Sharp getti ng FTD in hi s classbot h days as well as fifth a nd eigh th fastestove r-all, and Ivan C runc h gett ing seco ndFTD for hi s class both days, the who leteam returned raving about a truly supe rbwee kend.

In between, Bryan Wy ne ss gave a ta lkabo ut hi s rid ing T he ~i lk Roa d with GarethMorgan and te am, at a club night whi chwas very well attended and app rec ia ted .

Most recently, a Treasure Hunt organ isedby Martin Cooper was uniqu e in th at twoRu ssell Wards att ended th e start , on e afoun der member not seen for a long t ime,and one arrived m the fini sh at a Count ry& We stern Cafe in West Auckland . A gooda fte rnoon's run , well or gan ised. Than ksMartin.

WanganuJ Fay ChamberlainO n the first day of Christmas a membercame and saidHere's an axle for the spare parts shed..On the second day of Christmasa membercame and saidTwo VB motors and an axle for the sparepans shedOn the third day of Christmas a membercame and saidThree Holden rings ..30 Morris windscreens, 29 tubeless rvrcsand a axle j(lr the s/)(I re /XlrCS shed . . ..ctc,As 300 word s is the a llowa nce I will not

co nt inue exc ept to state that Wanganu iis well stocked with spa re parts ! O pen ingthe parrs she d each mon th is great socially,but ha s not redu ced th e stocks. A workingbee of bo th shed a nd gro unds in Octobe rsho uld help consider nbly, with PresidentLeigh visit ing in De ce mber as an addedincentive .

C lub nights have been well suppo rte drec ently. A talk on wh at goes on in andbehind the scenes at superma rke ts wasinterest ing, and with 65 members tu rn ingup for October's S h iny Parts a nd o the rthi ngs auction it was a t ruly fun even ing.$711 fund raising was grea t, but equ ally greatwas the hi -jinx ha d by a ll. Tha n k you EdBoyd, Ivun Kenda ll and lan C ha mbe rla infor th ei r efforts.

The b ra nch has purchased, byfund raising, a video, data screen ere, to addto the en joyment of club nights and togethe rwith the int roduction of C ha mbe rla in'spiano , it is becom in g a very soci able plac e.

The Tar ga Rall y pa ssing rh rou ghWaverlcy in O ctobe r ha s in vol ved 11branch members as marshals for the event.

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The Madox's 7 motorcycles Rudge, ArielsA lso Don and G avi n Lipin sk i with an

impressive line up of sta t ionary eng ines , a llfired up , Stua rt a nd Anderson models.

A few vehicles jo ined the str ee t pa radeon the Sund ay including Ross in perioddress on hi s mot o rcycle.

The Whatipu weekend was ca nce lled.W hmipu is a sma ll co m mun it y on th e no rthside en t ra nce to the Munakau H ar bour.

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up prices and en d ing up wit h t h ings t heyd id no t reall y wa n t any way.

Those attend ing the Warkwort h KowhaiFestival Vintage ve h icle d isp lay on Sa turday8 Octobe r h ad to content with heav yshowers which kept the pu blic uwav.Martin Howson 1953 Alvis[arnes & Gloria Lawrie 1937 DodgePaul and Kathy Collins

& RitaBrian & Vivienne GuestLeon & Brenda Sa ltBrian MudgeWilbur & Aileen BrownColin AshbyDave HendersonRoss Lynch

Wellsford/WarkworthRita Gorgensen

Our tri ple co mbined run was held on21 A ugu st with the N orth S ho re branchorga n izing the first sec t ion whi ch followeda route ta king in G rcc n h it hc , Taupakito Muriwai past the gannet co lony o nthrough Waimau ku to the lunch sto p atKauku pakapa.The We 11 sford Branch sect iontook us throu gh Ta hc kuroa, U ppe r Waiwer aand Wainui to S ilverda le wh ile Hibiscu s

.oasr plo tt ed the last sec tio n throu gh theWhangap a l'<w a a rea with fin e views of th ePaci fic Ocea n beaches. Overa ll win ne rswere C ed ric and Ber yl Stoc kma n , N ort hShore members in t he ir Ford C ort in a.

G ues t speaker a t ou r Pr izegiving Din ne rwas Greg Brown from Whangap ar 'l lJ<.l wh ohas a fin e collect ion of Vintage tr act or s. Hecho se to ta lk and show a v ideo of hi s workat an ice crea m facto ry.

TrophiesBranch attendance Tom and Maureen BelchClub Rallies

Vintage Wilbur & Eileen BrownPost Vintage John DowniePost War Tom and Maureen BelchPost 60s Karl and joy Stachel

Clubman of theyear Secretary, John DownieNeil Fowler, co mplete with jesters h nr

was the auc ti onee r at o ur S h iny Parrsauc tion eve ning encouragi ng member s to

Valley. After lunch we returned throu ghthe va lley following instr uctions that to okus to Uppe r Hurt. Here, Pau l Lamberts,the promotions manager fro m Upper HurtC ity Counc il, welcomed LIS. The cars andmotorbikes were parked o ppos ite the citycouncil bui ld ing on displa y for the public,while we were offered refreshments and hada look around in the Expression A rt s a ndEnterta in ment ~en t re .

Man y of us a re now prepa ring ourselv estor t he Vero R all y and the summe r holid ays,fixll1g and clea n ing cars during eve ry spareday that we have left as t he even t on lystarts in two months from now.

Wellington Elisabeth Smits-BrouwerT he We llington Bra nch had a ve ry

busy period, sta rt ing with Tom's Tour andfinishing with a most succ essfu l AnnualN ovember Rall y.

Tom's To ur, with 18 en tran ts , was heldearly September. The tour sta rted at theWai ra rap a Bran ch clubrooms and then thehunt for A nt iques a nd Art Deco things wason. Part ici pants ove rn ighred in PalmerstonNorth with dinner at t he Ma n aw at ucluhroorns a nd a visit to their e normousspa res department. Ne xt morning the ca rsd rove to the Horowh cnua clubroo rns for alunch visit.

In Octobe r anothe r succ essful VIC Daywas held, with nearly ten members gett ingthe ir ca rs regist ered .

The an nua l Socia l Count ry Run washeld on 2 Octo ber, sta rt ing a t H yde Par kmu seum in Te H oro wit h a joint lun chat the Murrayfield C lydes da les Cafe a ndMu seum. Pa rticipants t he n d rove to t heTokomaru S te a m Mu seum that held ibmonthly "Steam up day ". It was grea t to seethe old machines working aga in .

S ta n Ga rmo nswuv held a successfulRall y Instruction Day for a number of ourmembers. This was to introduce t he newdriver s and navigators to the secret s ofrall y d riv ing , a lthough so me of th e o ldermembers ce rt a in ly a lso bene fited from theday. T ha nks S tun for a ll the prep ar ationwork a nd the goo d instructions.

O n 15 Octo ber many Wellington Branchmembers went to the Lighrhous» C ine main Perone for a pr ivat e sh owing of TheWOTld's rastestlnJian. The even ing was soldout a nd a ll enjoyed t h is grea t film sta rr ingAnrhony Ho pkins,

T he Annual November Rally , whichhad as its t heme Sca recrows, was held on 5N ovem ber and had a Do ub le Dutc h flavour,with th e rall y instruction in Tulip dia grams.

Fift y-three veh icles , inclu ding two Vet e ra ns,18 Vin tages a nd five mot orbikes turned upto particip at e. The rall y sta rted from ourClu broom s a nd foll owed the back roa dsth rou gh Lower Hutt / Stokes Va lley a ndthen o nto the riverban ks of the Hutt Riveralong the He ritage Tr ail. T h is trail is so mefour mit es long a nd had been spe ciall yopened for us by personnel of the G reat erWellington Regional C o unci l. Lunch waso n a private ly ow ne d village that has beenused for man y New Zealand film serie s,movies or doc umenta ries

We drove on throu gh U ppe r Hutt andn Vl'r rhp \Xh.ll ac pvill ,- Hill i n ro W h irpma ns

Ken Marti n wi ll rec e ive h is 50year me m bersh ip badge /ce r t ifica te inDe cember. Together with Restorat ion ofthe Year ce leb r.u ions , C h rist mas Part y andW ill ing Hor se awa rd, plu s President LcighC raythorne visit ing members a re just alittle bit exc ited .

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