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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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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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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Nats Report 2

This year we head­ed off to Mur­ray Bridge for the Nation­als, which was host­ed by four FX FJ clubs in SA.  Four club mem­bers debuted their cars at the Nation­als;  • Jason and Janine King with their V6 FJ ute;  • Gary and Judy His­lop with their super­charged red motor FJ pan­el­van; • Steve and Sue Whit­ing in their “wild” FX…

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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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