November 2018

Hi all, It’s good to be back after feel­ing refreshed from the cruise of the North and South Pacif­ic Ocean. I thank Jim Bish­op for chair­ing the Octo­ber meet­ing in my absence. It is a real excit­ing time of year in the FX FJ world. We have just had a won­der­ful State Titles in Cran­bourne, our club again took…

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Oct — 2018 State Titles Report

It all start­ed on Sat­ur­day morn­ing at Bar­ry Bourke Motors Berwick for Reg­is­tra­tion and Scru­ti­neer­ing. Rod Grum­mitt, Peter Char­man, Chris Shep­herd along with many oth­er club mem­bers queued up, and the scru­ti­neer­ing start­ed and cars began to move for­ward. Except for Chris’s car as some early’s do from time to time it would not start, proved to be a…

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Sep — Bumpers by the Bay

BUMPERS BY THE BAY RUN – SEPTEMBER 23RD CLUB RUN — WILLIAMSTOWN   The day start­ed for Kay and I with a good 45 min­utes run from Croy­don North to Williamstown, a cloudy day but fine.We arrived to be direct­ed into the under­cov­er dis­play area where we found many oth­er club mem­bers and set up our chairs and table…

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Sep — Vietnam Vets

VIETNAM VETERANS MUSEUM — SEPT 16TH CLUB RUN PHILLIP ISLAND                                          The day start­ed with sun­shine at Croy­don North when Kay and I left for the run to Phillip Island, after that the weath­er var­ied from sun to rain on the 90 minute dri­ve.   There was a small group that left from the clu­b­rooms at 9am with more…

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October 2018

Hi all, I am cur­rent­ly writ­ing this on the Radi­ance of the Seas cruise ship, which is part of the Roy­al Caribbean Cruise lin­ers. I am writ­ing this pon­der­ing and look­ing out my win­dow and see noth­ing but the blue North Pacif­ic Ocean, on my return to Syd­ney from Hawaii. I have been away since just after the last…

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Aug — Bunnings

BUNNINGS BBQ RUN REPORT 19th August 2018 Hi every­one, I am hon­oured to be asked (more like, roped into!), to do a write up on this months’ car run. I am Jason King’s wife, Janine, and I am pleased to be able to donate some time to this great club.   To put it blunt­ly – it was bloody freezing!…

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September 2018

Hi all, First­ly thank you for the trust you have put in me to be the club Pres­i­dent for the next 12 months. The first per­son I would like to thank as the new Pres­i­dent is our past present Derk Tuik. Derk’s work over the last 2 years has been noth­ing but hard work and amaze­ment. In Derk’s 2…

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Aug — Interclub

TRIVIA RUN REPORT 12th August 2018 We set off for the Broad­mead­ows Sport­ing Club for the Triv­ia day for the inter-club chal­lenge against the Mel­bourne Chap­ter. When we arrived we found Lil­lian and Bruce and Sue and Trevor already in atten­dance. We wait­ed and no oth­er mem­bers arrived. Mel­bourne Chap­ter had a larg­er num­ber so it was decid­ed that…

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February 2018 Run Report METUNG

Feb­ru­ary Run Report METUNG Fri­day 16th group run down to Metung writ­ten by Derk. I’m all packed and ready to leave ear­ly for our cruise to Metung, as I’m dri­ving out of my dri­ve­way my sedan starts to run like a bag of you know what, while I’m parked at the end try­ing to decide if I will roll it…

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