Information

Wel­come to the offi­cial web­site of the Ear­ly Mod­el Hold­en Club of Vic­to­ria Inc.

The Ear­ly Mod­el Hold­en Club was formed in 1970 (first meet­ing was on the 18th Decem­ber 1970) and is open to car enthu­si­asts who own 48–215 and/or FJ Hold­ens (1948 — 1956). The club is a non prof­it organ­i­sa­tion and is run by its members.

We encour­age all peo­ple who own an ear­ly to join. It does not mat­ter what con­di­tion your car is in to join the club. There are many poten­tial mem­bers out there who believe that their car is not good enough to be in a club. Many mem­bers dri­ve an ear­ly as their fam­i­ly or work trans­port. Real­ly, it does not mat­ter what it looks or goes like!

Our club meets at the 1st Syn­dal Scout Hall, Bogong Reserve, Bogong Avenue, Glen Waver­ley — on the first Wednes­day of each month (except Jan­u­ary) at 8 pm.

Club runs are held on the 3rd week­end of month and some months the club may have 2 runs per month, to suit all mem­bers (unless oth­er­wise arranged, and in Decem­ber where our Christ­mas breakup is held ear­li­er in the month). Points are award­ed to mem­bers over the year for their par­tic­i­pa­tion at all club activ­i­ties and func­tions. Mem­bers are award­ed an extra point if there Ear­ly is tak­en on a club run. Bonus points are also award­ed to mem­bers who con­tribute in a spe­cial way eg. Help­ing with newslet­ter, organ­is­ing events etc.

Every year in July the club holds its annu­al Pre­sen­ta­tion Night. Tro­phies are award­ed in recog­ni­tion for our member’s efforts and sup­port through­out the year. A din­ner at a restau­rant is usu­al­ly the venue for the night out. A raf­fle and auc­tion are also part of the evening.

Our club is one of approx­i­mate­ly 30 sim­i­lar clubs in Aus­tralia wide and is affil­i­at­ed with the Aus­tralian Ear­ly Hold­en Fed­er­a­tion. Every sec­ond year, one State organ­is­es a Nation­al event to be held in their respec­tive State. The pri­ma­ry objec­tive of the Fed­er­a­tion is to pro­mote the Ear­ly Hold­ens and run the nation­als as a gath­er­ing for all Aus­tralian Clubs. This is held imme­di­ate­ly after Christ­mas, runs for approx. 4 days, and includes Show & Shine (tro­phies award­ed), dri­ving events, Club sports games etc. There are 7 dif­fer­ent class­es of vehi­cle depend­ing on mod­i­fi­ca­tions. These are Stock, Improved Stock, Street Cus­tom, Mod­i­fied Street Cus­tom, Mild Cus­tom, Wild Cus­tom and Show class (for trail­ered Vehi­cles). For exam­ple, Mild Cus­tom would be a stock bod­ied vehi­cle with a red motor, 4 speed trans­mis­sion, HR run­ning gear and buck­et seats.

Every year a Vic­to­ri­an Club hosts and runs the annu­al Vic­to­ri­an State Titles which basi­cal­ly is run under sim­i­lar guide­lines to the nation­als, enabling all clubs through­out Vic­to­ria (and inter­state if able) to participate.

A motel is usu­al­ly booked where the major­i­ty of mem­bers / entrants stay togeth­er on the Sat­ur­day night pri­or to the Show & Shine etc. the fol­low­ing day.

Our newslet­ter is pub­lished month­ly and is dis­trib­uted at Club meet­ings. The newslet­ter has pro­vi­sion for trade adver­tis­ers that the Club rec­om­mends to our mem­bers. This can be invalu­able when build­ing a car as many mem­bers have used and rec­om­mend­ed these tradesmen.

Rare Spares offer a 10% dis­count on parts upon pre­sen­ta­tion of your cur­rent mem­ber­ship badge, as do some oth­er advertisers.

Many of our mem­bers have a wealth of knowl­edge also and all you have to do is ask and you will find all of your ques­tions answered.

Club runs are arranged at least once a month and are var­ied with the aim of try­ing to please every­one. These runs include Fam­i­ly Days, B.B.Q’s, Ten Pin Bowl­ing, Go Cart rac­ing, Pic­ture Nights, Car Shows, dri­ves to places of inter­est eg. Winer­ies, tourist attrac­tions. If you have a good idea for a run, speak to a mem­ber of the com­mit­tee as we are always look­ing for fresh ideas.

Hop­ing that the infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed gives you an idea of our Club!