VINTAGE REPORT

I have been on holiday for the last 6 weeks and while away I travelled into France and drove to Mulhouse to visit a very impressive collection of Veteran and Vintage cars. The National Automobile Museum Collection. Schlumpf, is an automobile museum located in Mulhouse, France, and built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of automobiles and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world with more than 450 exceptional cars. In 1957, the Schlumpf Brothers bought an old wool mill where they installed their car collection. The highlight was a dream car “Bugatti Royal” and only 6 were ever built, two of which are in this collection, it is the most expensive (four or five times the price of a Rolls Royce) and it is fast nearly 200 km/hr at the beginning of the thirties.

Greetings all, Winter is a quiet month for the Commercial section. I'm not sure if any of you have been watching the series on TVNZ called Ten Pound Poms? There are some lovely vehicles on there including a beautiful 1930's? International truck with suicide doors and a lovely mid 50's Ford Anglia 100E convertible. Some nice old Holdens too!

The June noggin was held at the Papanui RSA - I wasn't able to go unfortunately. Was a light turnout apparently - I'm hoping Tony might add a few words to my report on how the evening went. (“We had a good chat and roundly criticized those who weren't there. We didn’t win the Quiz night but there was a good reason for that! We all went home happy.“ Tony.)

The next Commercial noggin is on July the 19th - Dave Cooper has kindly offered to host us in his workshop at home on South Eyre Road. I recall he hosted the July noggin last year and had his pot belly stove quietly burning away in the corner making it very toasty.

Neil Shasky has made an arrangement for us to visit a business called Classic Workshop in Woolston for the August Noggin so I will post more details about that in the next Hub.

Don't forget the 6th National Commercial Rally is being held in Wanganui over labour weekend in October this year. Plan to be there if you can! The organisers are Bruce Ardell, Neil Farrer and Rob & Linda O'Keeffe - wanganui@vcc.org.nz.

Take care and stay warm!

Michael

Hi to you all

Ray Maginness organized a great day, the Destination, the weather it couldn’t have been better. A great turnout much bigger than I expected. If you have not been to see the Roger Mahan collection, it is a must see. It is well worthwhile. We had lunch outside the building in full sunshine, a good raffle where I found out that I have lost my job of selling raffle tickets. A good day was had by all. Graeme Sword organized for the ones who wanted, another night in Geraldine in the motels at the motor camp. Seven couples stayed. Afterwards we had a great little social at Ross and Lorraine Andrews unit and finished the day at the local pub for a meal.

Next day we went to Pleasant Point for a wander and by chance we stopped at the local garage for coffee where we found a great collection of cars, motorbikes and even a half finished D type Jaguar made in Oamaru and a friendly garage owner who told us just to look around and asked anything. After this we went for lunch to the Pleasant Point pub where Graeme got a call from the motels from the 7 couples who stayed there. Three left something behind……does that tell you something…..

A Big Thank You To All Who Helped Over The Last Few Months For Organizing The Trips And The Raffles

July: Mid Christmas Lunch. Meet at 11.30 at the barn. The fire will be going. Bring homemade food if possible. Bring for TWO and eat for one.

August: Ken James and Bruce Miles. Meet at the Yaldhurst pub carpark 9.55 am

Looking forward seeing you all

Regards J K and the Team

BRANCH AWARDS DINNER SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2023 Clubrooms, Cutler Park

The dinner is held annually to present branch members 25,35,50 and 60-year membership awards.

Bar opens 6.00 pm, meal 6.30 pm

Tickets ($40 single) will be available from branch committee members and at the bar at Noggins from August.

Come along and support your fellow members on their special night.

(Names for the awards will be confirmed in the next Hub.)

VCC of NZ AGM Nelson August 1th-13th

The registration for the AGM is now live on the club website you can register online using the link below.

https://vcc.org.nz/agm/

Graham Barnett. Field Tests

Alternatively, there is a printable PDF version below simply fill in and email along with your flight details to nelson@vcc.org.nz https://vcc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AGM- registration_2023_final.pdf

Please provide flight details if you require pickup from the Airport to venue.