Merry Christmas December 2014 Our Car Club Display at the Cootamundra Annual Show and The 2014 Show Girl in John Ricketts Austin Healy The members of the Cootamundra Antique Motor Club would like to wish all our members and their Families a Very Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you again next year. To our friends in all the other clubs that we have contact with, we wish you a Happy Festive Season and Great Fun in Vintage Motoring.
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Merry Christmas
December 2014
Our Car Club Display at the
Cootamundra Annual Show
and
The 2014 Show Girl in
John Ricketts Austin Healy
The members of the Cootamundra
Antique Motor Club would like to
wish all our members and their Families a Very Merry Christmas and look
forward to seeing you again next year.
To our friends in all the other clubs that we have contact with, we wish you a Happy Festive
Season and Great Fun in Vintage Motoring.
The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Members , Committee or Editor
Cootamundra Antique Motor Club
PO Box 27 Cootamundra NSW 2590
Web Site – www.cootamundraantiquemotorclub.org
OFFICE BEARERS FOR 2014
Michael Livingston – Founder of the Club Colours – Green & Gold
Membership Fee - $30 annually – Paid January to December
Happy Birthday
1st - Tim O’Keeffe
5th – Doug Wright
6th – Denise Webb
9th – Margaret Philpott
14th – Betsy Harrison
15th – Ted Strachan
20th – John Speechley
26th – Noelle Andreatta
27th – Paul Ballard
Happy Anniversart 16th – John & Joan Collins 27th - Ben & Roanna Pepper
Hello All. As this will be my last presidents’ report I will take the opportunity to thank each and every one that supported me and the club over the last two years. The time has passed very quickly and being the leader has been a thankful and enjoyable time and I thank you for allowing me to enjoy the experience.
Christmas is just around the corner again and I wish everyone who is travelling over the holiday period to take care and travel safe. My old primary teacher from Kingsvale Public School (where I was always in the top three of my class ) used to say that “ it is better to arrive a little late than to be dead on time.”
In February or so will be talking about the purchase of a 20 foot container to be placed in position and used to store all the club assets that can be stored in it. I support this idea and believe that it will be very useful to our club.
I will miss our long time member Robert Penn Bradly as he was always an active contributor at our meetings as well as to the Hooter.
Do not forget the inspection day to be held at Cootamundra TAFE from 8.30am on Sunday 30th November. Once again I thank Alan Thompson for organising this for us.
Please try to come along to the Club Christmas Dinner. If going you must phone Betsy to book in.
Yours in looking forward to being a back bencher, Tim O’Keeffe.
Some Past Events Tivia Sunday 7 September --- COOTAMUNDRA SWAP MEET
I met Frank Rodwell at the Swap Meet. I recognised him as an organiser of the VERY FIRST SWAP
MEET IN AUSTRALIA.
In 1972 from Cootamundra, John Simpfendorfer, Col Collingridge and John Ballard transported some
vintage tin, and a 4 cylinder Buick engine block over the Snowy Mountains to COOMA to attend this new
idea, (SWAP MEETS), to serve the Veteran and Vintage vehicle movement.
The Swap Meet was run by the Cooma branch of the Antique and Classic Motor Club (of Sydney).
The Cooma Swap Meet was so successful that other clubs soon organised their own Swap Meets.
By 1975, Canberra Antique & Classic Car Club held one. Cooma Club was too isolated and Swap Meets
25 July 2014 --- the magnificent Beyer Garratt locomotive 6029 moved under its own steam for the first
time in 33 years. It has been a static exhibit in the Canberra Railway Museum. This July marked the
completion of a restoration project that commenced in 2007 despite opposition that it was just too hard a
project.
Seven years later the biggest locomotive in Australia took its first steps toward returning to heritage
operations.
We will see it passing through Cootamundra one day. A tour into the Riverina is planned for next winter
.Tickets for the tour in Sleeping carriages behind 6029 will be approximately $1400 each.
$4000 worth of coal was estimated to be used on its test run between Canberra and Goulburn.
John Collins
Past Events Friday 7 November --- BATHURST DOUGLAS RALLY Being far more interested in Horse Power of the equine type, rather than iron horse, I, never-the-less, accompanied hubby to the
Douglas Motorbike Rally.
We headed north along the Olympic Way, turning off 12km before Bathurst after an intrepid U Turn on the highway, to head up
the road that the Navigator had indicated. (--Yours Truly navigating, while Boss of Works drives.)
“This road is sealed all the way” he said. So, what is this gravel up ahead? My precious BMW !. . . Oh Dear!
At Perthville John met up with the rally riders who had just finished Lunch at the local pub, (while I rested in the warm sun in the
car).
Then into Bathurst, stopping to pick up Frank from the Illawarra Club whose Douglas was safely on the Back-Up Trailer but no
passenger room for him!! Glad we could help.
After settling into our motel, John thoroughly enjoyed admiring the display of some 50 bikes in Kings Parade Park – a stunning
display in the centre of Bathurst.
If you are travelling through Bathurst, or stopping overnight, and like Chinese cuisine, then I recommend The Great Wall Chinese
Restaurant. Good food, good wine, and pleasant ambiance. We dined here Friday night, ditching our jeans for clothes of a
slightly dressier code to which I received compliments – “How beautiful you look”. No, not from John, silly readers. . . From the
boss of the restaurant!
Saturday morning we headed for the Bathurst Panorama Holiday Park for the start of the ride out to Kirkconnell to celebrate and
re-enact the start of the First Motorcycle Grand Prix held in Australia 100 years ago.
Travelling on backroads through heavily timbered countryside and with steep little hills causing some problems for the older bikes
it was 19km to Kirkconnell. We came upon Ian Richardson of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club on the side of the road with a very
worried look on his face. He had lost the cap off the fuel bowl and was ever so pleased when John told him “Mother always has a
shifting-spanner in the car”. (Later in the day Peter Gossling was able to make a new top for the fuel bowl using the bottom of a
Coke can and a cable tie.)
The Meeting Place was the lovely old wooden church in a clearing in the timber at the spot known as Kirkconnell. A welcome
barbecue and cuppa was set up here and 80 bikes lined up for lots of happy snaps. These Douglas bikes looked right at home in
this setting of a simple church with its graveyard, and a gravel road just like it was 100 years ago.
At 1 p.m. the Veteran bikes lined up on the starting line beneath the banner and were flagged off by the Mayor of Bathurst,
Councillor Gary Rush, in this re-enactrment of the original Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
John has been able to get many more contacts and information that will help with his restoration of his Douglas motorcycle. Soon
there will be another registered Vintage bike on the road.
COOTAMUNDRA SHOW - Saturday 18th October was the Coota Show and as usual we had a display of our club cars: - John & Joan Collins - VW .... Ted Strachan – Austin .... Graham & Sue Angel – Jaguar ....Peter & Sue McCarthy – Triumph .... John Simpfendorfer – Modern Motor Bike ....John Lyne – Modern.... Alan Thompson – Studebaker Convertable .... Barry & Lynn Gavin & Jayden – with each of their Toranas .... Ken & Betsy Harrison – Humber .... John Finucane – Mini Moke .... John Rickett – Austin Healy.... Heath & Christine Harrison & Family – Modern. At the show there were the usual displays in the pavilions – Sheep Dog Trials – Motor Bike Squad – the Show Girl Competion and Junior Show Girl – Equestrian events in the ring and even more. I enjoyed watching the littlies competing with their ponies who were very wary around the balloons & flags. The RDA & the Lyons Club were there with their food stalls – great salad sandwich from the RDA.
When the parade of the Show Girls came along – guess who had the pleasure of driving them
round – Alan Thompson & John Rickett of course - it’s a tough job put someone has to
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The two Johns having a Chat
Alan Thompson with the show Girls Really nice to see
John Finucane out again
Melbourne Cup Day at Stockinbingal Bowling Club Tuesday 4th November 2014 was Melbourne Cup Day and the members of CAMC were invited to
a Luncheon at Stockinbingal Bowling Club. Those who went, dressed up and wore smart stylish
Hats or Fancy Dress ones. On arrival everyone was busy purchasing – Raffle Ticket – Lucky Door
Ticket and Horses for the sweeps (CAMC members had a good day with all the results)
Then came the Beautiful Luncheon of Cold Meats and lots of different Salads, followed by a good
choice of Desserts and Tea or Coffee and as if that wasn’t enough – along came Cakes & Slices.
Then the boys had to go and fill their prescription with drinks of choice for the Ladies and
themselves.
Next was a parade of Fascinators which was won by a young lady with a space ship on her head –
very nice. The best Men”s Novelty Hat was won by our Geoff Armour The Fashions on the field
won by Jenny McClintock.
At Last – the Big Event – lots of people moved down to the big screen to watch the RACE, while
others had another drink and talked CARS.
CAMC members were lucky they filled their cars on the way to Stockinbingal, just in case their
Horse didn’t come home.
The Stockinbingal Bowling Club Ladies deserve a great big Thank You for the exceptional
meal they put on and the presentation of the food – the decoration of the venue and the extra
activities they provided – two stalls selling very nice Jewellery – Hand Bags & Gifts – Betsy did
some Christmas shopping which encourage other ladies at our table to spend as well.
Attending were- Trish & Colin Stewart – Gwen Livingston & a Friend, Sandra Seales -
Barbara & Geoff Armour and Betsy & Ken Harrison.
The Stewarts - Sandra Seales and Gwen Livingstton & the Armours in all their
Finary for Melboune Cup Day
Dont Forget
Historic Vehicle Registration Inspection Day
At Cootamundra TAFE Sunday 29th November
at 8 . 30 am
Guess who this cute little Boy
is ? Caption
Barry Gavin’s parents wanted
the perfect photo
of him with his Toy Car in 1951
at Port Kembla where they lived
by that time he had fallen asleep
Well Barry - how Cute were you in 1951 - ?
You wouldn’t go to sleep in your favourite car now – would you ?