May 2021 – Healsville.

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op This run start­ed with a ques­tion mark due to pre­dict­ed wet and windy weath­er fore­cast­ed for Sun­day. A Sat­ur­day morn­ing event when the High­way was blocked with fall­en trees at Fer­n­dale at the base of the Black Spur, led me to have a talk with Michael and Kim (who also ques­tioned the run to Marysville)…

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Australia Day Run – 26th January 2021.

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op The Aus­tralia day run 2021 was anoth­er very suc­cess­ful run for our club, with mem­bers and fam­i­ly keen to get the cars out and socialise. While some trav­elled straight to Peter and Linda’s love­ly prop­er­ty at Cran­bourne South, the rest of us met at the clu­b­rooms at 10am and depart­ed at 10.15 in con­voy for…

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Aust Day Run — 2020

Jan­u­ary 2020 and we are going on our first run for the year, from our club rooms to the Car­dinia Reser­voir Pic­nic Park. We vis­it­ed this loca­tion last year on our first Aust day run and it was very suc­cess­ful, It is a nice spot for this type of run where we can have a good 45 minute con­voy run,…

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Bunnings 14 Dec 2019

Now our sec­ond run for the month the Bun­ning BBQ at Ver­mont South Dec 14th. It start­ed just after 7am I arrived to find Pete Cor­ri­g­an and Bruce Gra­ham set­ting up with oth­ers around the same time includ­ing Richard and Chris Fox. Cus­tomers start­ed buy­ing as soon as the first snags were cooked. We had pur­chased the largest amount of…

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Christmas Breakup 2019

This has turned out to be a busy month for our club and com­mit­tees, with the month­ly meet­ing, Xmas breakup, Bun­nings BBQ, club com­mit­tee meet­ing and the State Titles com­mit­tee meet­ing and our com­mit­tee Xmas breakup din­ner, the com­ing year looks full of action as well with lots of runs already flagged. Our Xmas breakup Dec 8th start­ed with…

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42nd Victorian State Titles — 2019.

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op It was 3pm Fri­day and we have just arrived at the RACV Gold­fields Resort Creswick to find the car park full of new Mer­cedes Benz cars, thought we might have had the wrong week­end at first? Then the car trans­porter trucks start­ed to arrive and over the next few hours they were all loaded and…

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Vietnam Veterans Museum with GHAC – Phillip Island — Sunday 25th August 2019.

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op This run was a joint with the GHAC (Derks oth­er club). Our first meet­ing point was the BP Cal­der­meade South Gipp­s­land Hwy at 9am, with some mem­bers leav­ing from our club rooms and oth­ers direct from home. Kay and I arrived at the BP Cal­der­meade at 8.45am to find Rod and Sharon, Rob and Di Martel­la, Derk…

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Garage Crawl — 14th April 2019.

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op This run turned out to be a very pleas­ant day. It start­ed with most of those who came meet­ing at the clu­b­rooms and head­ing to Andrew and Fe’s home in Cold­stream, to explore Andrews col­lec­tion of cars and parts etc, oth­ers includ­ing myself turned up sep­a­rate­ly. ‘Goofy’ was on dis­play for all to see along…

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PRESENTATION NIGHT — JULY 2019

Arti­cle by Jim Bish­op I arrived at the hall at 3.45 to find Bruce and Lil­lian Gra­ham had been there for a long while clear­ing and clean­ing, Lil­lian had scrubbed our new kitchen while Bruce was clean­ing the floors and sort­ing out fur­ni­ture etc. I will take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to say a big thank you to you both. With the…

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