VETERAN REPORT
Duncan Grant’s 1913 Unic Coupe (picture taken at the Malvern Run)
It’s been another good month for the veteran owners with two good outings. The first was the monthly Old Cars, Bikes and Coffee (OCBC) morning on Sunday 18 April, when around 10 cars from the Veteran Car Club run joined us at Cutler Park after a short run from Kathryn Smith’s property, before later carrying on to the Groynes for a picnic lunch. At OCBC Malcolm McGibbon was kept very busy teaching members young and old how to drive a Model T Ford, making his Speedster available for anyone who wanted to have a go. For some it was a complete re-write of the “how to drive a car” book, but others took to it easily and mastered it quickly. Apparently one of the outstanding students was Terry McQuinn’s nephew, 12-year-old Hector MCCallum, who came out to OCBC specially to have a go. We think he’s lining up to drive Uncle Terry’s PAGE 20
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Model T which is due to emerge from the restoration shed any month now. Two veteran cars arrived at OCBC which were ‘new’ to our branch. The first of these was the 1910 EMF tourer belonging to Ramon Farmer, out on it’s first club run after a restoration spanning the best part of ten years. Ramon bought the car as a road-legal running veteran, and used it for a short while before deciding it needed a full restoration to sort out reliability and engineering issues. It’s a large car and Ramon has executed a superb restoration. (For those of you who get the Hub before
