Essendon Holden Car Show — Nov 2019

Well I am get­ting spoilt aren’t I. Two runs to Essendon in a year. This one was­n’t planned by the club, Amy from Essendon Hold­en sent out an invite to our club to see if we were inter­est­ed in show­ing our cars at the grand reopen­ing of Essendon Hold­en at Essendon Fields (Essendon Air­port). Of course, I would say…

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November 2019

Hi all, It has been a very busy month this month. I know that I said last month that the weath­er is start­ing to get bet­ter this time of year and it is a great time to be dri­ving your ear­ly, but we have to remem­ber we live in Mel­bourne and we can def­i­nite­ly get 4 sea­sons in 48…

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October 2019

Hi all, I am now back from my Euro­pean vaca­tion. I was gone 8 weeks and Janine and I had a great time away. There were a num­ber of high­lights all over Europe from vis­it­ing car fac­to­ries, through to vis­it­ing old ruins, it just shows you how young of a coun­try Aus­tralia real­ly is. How­ev­er Hold­en relat­ed the highlight…

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September 2019

Hi all, I am cur­rent­ly writ­ing this from a motel room in North­ern Italy. Milan to be pre­cise. By the time of the Sep­tem­ber meet­ing I will still be on my Euro­pean adven­ture and from mem­o­ry will be in either Paris or Lon­don. Thank-you for the vote of con­fi­dence in me being vot­ed in again as Pres­i­dent. Things are…

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August 2019

Hi all, What an excel­lent night the pre­sen­ta­tion night was. The awards list is in this newslet­ter., but Rod swept the floor with his bag of tro­phies and Derk is now back on the com­mit­tee thanks to win­ning Top Club­man. Well tonight is the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing, for those who are inter­est­ed in putting their hand up for a…

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PRESIDENTS CAR RUN – JUNE 2019 — AIRWAYS MUSEUM, ESSENDON FIELDS AIRPORT

Writ­ten by JANINE KING (First Lady) This month, for some­thing dif­fer­ent, we hit the north­ern sub­urbs where our Pres­i­dent resides.  Jason and I chose a great lit­tle inter­est­ing and unknown muse­um who dis­plays all Melbourne’s old air­port con­trol tow­er equip­ment.  This includes air traf­fic radios, run­way bea­cons, air­craft pas­sen­ger seat­ing, pilot and air host­ess uni­forms and a mas­sive amount…

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July 2019

Hi all, Ok we have now hit the half way mark of the year, the days are slow­ly start­ing to get longer and before we know it, we will be hav­ing fun in the sun again. The weath­er in Mel­bourne has been a lit­tle chilly and some of our mem­bers (Chris Kane) has even post­ed pic­tures up on Facebook…

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June 2019

Hi all, What a busy month May has been for the club. We had 2 club runs this month. The first run was to the annu­al Bumpers by the Bay on Sun­day the 5th of May in Williamstown host­ed by the Mel­bourne chap­ter. As always it was a great event and thor­ough­ly enjoyed by all those who attend­ed. The…

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Winton 2019

Arti­cle by Scott Wood­bridge Hel­lo all, I hope all is well.! I have been cho­sen to do my first run report for the 43rd Win­ton His­toric’s Event so here goes. Up at 3am bleary eyed and out the door by 3:20 to head to Neville Maw­ers place in Altona from Dan­de­nong arriv­ing at 4am. Nev is wait­ing in his FX with…

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