Monday 9th October 2023, at the BOPVCC clubrooms, 7:30pm
The ex-Committee announces that Chairman, Bill Biehler, has resigned from his position as Chairman, and therefore the motion of ‘no confidence’ has been withdrawn.
As all Committee positions are up for re-election, the Special General Meeting will still need to be held. Nominations that have been received:
Chairman - John Whitcombe
Vice Chairman - Donn White
Secretary - Michael Thorman
Treasurer - Keith Perkins
Assistant Treasurer - Jill Whitcombe
Run/Events Coordinator - Kaaren Smylie
Committee member/Health and Safety - Brian Pratt
Committee member - George Howard
Club Captain -
Alastair Jones’ constitutional position as Immediate Past Chairman continues without election.
Any financial member of the club is eligible to put their name forward for any position on the Committee.
Please attend, as we would like as many members there as possible.
Please bring your membership card with you as all positions will be voted on.
Ron Elton, past BOPVCC Chairman, will chair the meeting.
Deidre Rennie, past Committee member, will keep minutes of the meeting.
9 – 10am – ‘Café Cliff’
9 – Club Night –Special General Meeting—Bring your Membership cards
11 - Mid-Month Run – Day Bus Trip – Organisers – Jill Whitcombe/Alan Webb
16 – 10am – ‘Café Cliff’
18 – New Members Function – Organiser – Kaaren Smylie
20 – 23 – VCC 6 th National Commercial Rally
24 – Nog & Natter – Papamoa – Organiser - Lynn Howard
29 – End of Month Run – ‘Hamurana Springs’ – Organiser – Brian Pratt
30 – 10am – ‘Café Cliff’ 30 – Committee Meeting
4 – VCC Waikato Branch – Veteran Run
4 – VCC BOP – Swap Meet Working Bee – Organisers – Bruce Tait/BOP Committee
5 – BOP VCC ANNUAL SWAP MEET & CAR SHOW – Organiser Bruce Tait
13 – 10am – ‘Café Cliff’
13 – Club Night- Shiny Parts Auction – Alastair & Ron
18 – Waikato Swap Meet
20 – 10am – ‘Café Cliff’
26 – End of Month Run – Organiser – Donn White
27 – 10am ‘Café Cliff’ 27 – Committee Meeting
28 – Nog & Natter – Tauranga Citz Club
PLEASE NOTE - EVENTS MAY OCCASIONALLY BE CANCELLED DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE COMMITTEE’S CONTROL
We extend a warm welcome to the following new Members—
Roger Davies rdavies44@hotmail.com
251, Taumata Road, RD3, Tauranga 021 1293 178
Roger has a 1936 James Motorcycle, 1938 James Motorcycle and a
1955 Ford Zephyr Mk. 1. Roger has transferred from Wairarapa Branch.
Raymond Stewart rcjd77@gmail.com
242A, Orope Road, RD3, Orope, TGA 3173. Ph 543 2654 & 02172 4956
Raymond has a 1955 Landrover Series 1 station Wagon, a 1957 Landrover Series 1 Station Wagon, and a 1977 Range Rover Station Wagon
Elwyn David Pirie chico7@xtra.co.nz
50 Hollister Lane, Ohauiti, Tauranga 3112 0274 914 600
Elwyn does not have a classic car at the moment ,but is looking to purchase one
John Bauer jcbauer@orcom.net.nz
10 Hannah Place, Ohauiti, Tauranga 3112 0276 662 798
He has a LVVTA McGregor Clubman 7, and is interested in restoring & assembling cars
Mrs. Chris Hewlett chrispy57@gmail.com
Chris has joined as a joint member with Marty Hewlett.
Malcolm Hogg malcolmhogg@gmail.com
7 Roger Guy Place, Welcome Bay, Tauranga 3175 544 8657 & 0276 859957
Malcolm has a 1933 Ford Coupe Model 40, and a 1930 Ford Model A Coupe
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Date – 11 October 2023
Mileage 80kms, Time approx. 1.5hrs. Meet at the club rooms 9.30am.
This run is through urban and rural areas with the majority being rural. There are two short sections of metal road, the longest being 3kms.
The run will end at a café in Te Puke with good adjacent parking available.
Organizer George Howard
Who are these fellas the ‘BOPVCCGoodSorts’? If you are a recipient of the BUZZ, you would have received lately a couple of items about the BOP Good Sorts.
By way of a short explanation – in the past several months I had been approached by a couple of local Retirement Villages, and the Waipuna Hospice, to ask if a few of our members would be able to make a visit to their establishments in their vehicles. So, I phoned a few of the boys to check if they could help-out for a few hours and take some able residents for a short Run. And that is where I came up with the very worthy title of, ‘Good Sorts’.
The pleasure that this small gesture by our members has given these residents is an absolute delight to see. As we are all aware, (and for many different reasons), several people in retirement villages, and rest homes, never get the option to go out and have a ride in a vehicle which they grew up with. So, when this opportunity came up, we had them queuing up to go, and I can confirm there were lots of giggles, happy memories, and history shared amongst the passengers over a cuppa on their return home. A big thanks goes to our boys, ‘youdiditagain’ . While I regularly get contacted by Village Coordinators asking us to visit in our vehicles, I am very conscious that this is not something we want to do every month. But apart from the pleasure our passengers get, it also gives us drivers a buzz to showcase our pride and joys to very appreciative audiences. I am aware that members are busy people, and have family commitments, as well as many donating their time to other community organisations. However, two or three times a year isn’t too much of a hardship for any of us.
If you think this is something you could be interested in helping with, on the odd occasion, please contact me, and I will add you to my list of Good Sorts.
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I must add as well as taking residents for drives, we have a group of our members that for many years have volunteered their time every month to go to Waipuna Hospice to wash the nurses’ cars.
A terrific gesture by another bunch of Good Sorts! Specifically, I would like to make mention of Jack Anderson our Club Parts – Manager. For the past 17 years Jack has been reliably going out to Hospice every month to wash the cars – Jack you are the epitome of a Good Sort.
In closing a little reminder for you that we will be having our Christmas Run again this year to several retirement villages – this time to villages in Tauranga, so please mark on your calendars
The route has been set, and will include a drive-through visit to six villages. On route we will make a stop-over at one of the villages for morning tea, and end the Run with lunch at our last stop.
Look forward to seeing you all there at our last Run for 2023!
Kaaren Smylie
On Sunday 10th September myself, along with Greg Davidson, organised another Model A excursion which coincided with the International Model A day.
The destination this time was the Awakeri Rail Carts. I had organized this before with the Mini Car Club so had already established a good relationship with Paul, the owner operator.
Eight Model A’s met at the QE2 and headed out at 8:00am through Welcome Bay and TePuke, down to Pikowai Reserve for morning tea. From there, a wee cruise through the Marawhai Valley saw us arrive at 11:30am.
We completed the tour with a BBQ lunch and walk in the White Pine Forest, this included feeding the Chooks and Geese along the way.
We all had a wonderful 3-and-a-half-hour return trip of 20km of laughter and comradery. Unfortunately, at the end of the day the weather turned on us, and for the one person who had left his hood down it meant a wet bum! However, it did not take the shine off the day.
Drinks and dinner at Te Puke ended off a fantastic day, we will put it on our agenda in the future.
Mergatroyd: Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word, Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!
The other day a not-so-elderly lady (maybe 82) said something to her son about driving a jalopy, and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old . . . but not that old. Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
Thank you to whoever dug up these old expressions that have become obsolete because of the march of technology. These phrases included:
• Don't touch that dial;
• Carbon copy;
• You sound like a broken record, and
• Hung out to dry.
Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker, to straighten up and fly right. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley. And don’t accuse us of being a Knucklehead, a Nincompoop, or a Pill: Not for all the tea in China
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when was the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen has vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof! go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone
Where have all those great phrases gone? Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee-high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels!
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has little liver pills. Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too! So see ya later, Alligator! Okedoke!!
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S!! NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN . . . WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES CREATED FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION," GOD REST THEIR SOULS!
DARYL & ANNETTE WAKEFIELD
PH 07 574 8740
Contact—Julian Parbery
Telephone—07 573 9109
Fax 07 5738915
259 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke, 3119, Bay of Plenty
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Cleaning with out chemicals or abrasives, it is eco friendly and cost effective way compared to other methods such as media blasting or paint stripping. It can remove light rust off delicate car/engine parts. It will easily clean a metal head gasket previously impossible with conventional cleaning methods. Benefits are - no harsh chemicals, no abrasives, no expensive set up cost (as with media blasting), no loud noises during the process, no hazards as with high pressure equipment, very precise cleaning and no clean up cost!
This cleaning can be done in your garage if re-
Ever since we have been members of the Model T Club, we have wanted to participate in a South Island Model T Solstice Run. We were so delighted that this year in June we were able to plan it to extend our South Island travels, and include not only our annual pilgrimage to Fairlie for the VCC Irishman Rally, but to be able to participate in this Solstice Run.
After another Irishman’s, our journey began. We pitchedup our Model ‘A’ onto the trailer, that was being towed by the motorhome, and headed to Albury to park both the car and the trailer at a fellow VCC member and friend, at Donald White’s farm. After departing Albury, we then drove for ten days in our motorhome exploring the beautiful Northern area of the South Island
Despite the daily frosts, the weather gods played their part and served us up stunning weather every day. However, the frosts became a bit of concern to Young Jim with the Model A being parked outside in a paddock. He did have antifreeze in it, but he watched daily with great interest that the temperature was dropping, it got to as low as -5 for a couple of days, causing a little anxiety!
The day prior to the Solstice Run we arrived back in Albury to collect the Model A and trailer, and I must confess all Jim’s worries were allayed when he discovered that the antifreeze had worked a treat. He turned the key on in the old trusty Model A ignition, and ‘Jeronimo’ she started first pop, making for a very happy start to our south-bound travels.
We had a most enjoyable drive down the island to Mosgiel on another one of those magical South Island days, and parked up for the night outside Otago VCC members, Mark & Nicola Wilkinson’s home. A lovely evening was had by all; Mark & Nicola treated us with their great Southern hospitality.
The following morning, we got ourselves all rugged up to brace the rather cool morning and motored to the meeting place for our briefing at ‘’The Black Sheep Restaurant’ in Mosgiel, where we were served up a delightful Devonshire morning tea to start the day.
At the end of morning tea, we were signalled to head off at our leisure and travelled on sealed roads through the picturesque countryside of the Taieri Plains to our next stop, which was lunch out in the country at the Henley Community Hall.
At the conclusion of lunch, we made our way to our next stop (our afternoon tea stop) to view an excellent display of Minis at the home of Gil and Ruth Edmunds. Wow, I have to say this was the biggest show of Mini’s Jim and I have ever seen. This display the Edmunds had was like visiting the set of the ‘PorkPie’movie.
After enjoying afternoon-tea we then motored back to Mosgiel to load the trusty Model A back onto the trailer, so we were ready for an early start the next morning for the long trek back up the Island to catch the Ferry. Before departing we were treated to another night of excellent Southern hospitality, starting with pre drinks at our hosts for the evening, Janeane Benefall, and Nevan Goughs home, followed by the scrumptious Prizegiving Dinner with the Solstice Team at the Black Sheep Restaurant.
As planned, the next morning we hit the bricks early and started our long journey back up the Island. We (or should I say the driver) started to feel a little ‘jaded’ by the time we reached Kaikoura, so we decided to call it a day and pitch up at the MCA camp for the night, knowing we had another early start ahead of us the next morning to reach the Ferry.
We left the Ferry about 6pm, and drove as far as the MCA camp in Plimmerton for the night. Dare I say the mind was willing to continue travelling further up the Island, but the body wasn’t, we were whacked with all the kind ‘hospo’ indulged upon us, and all the driving.
After 21 days of being on the road and motoring over 5000kms, we were what you could say was, a little tired, a few kilos heavier from the constant eating, but very content after completing another successful Irishman Rally, and our first most enjoyable Solstice Run.
Would we do this amount of motoring again in such a short time-period……of course, why wouldn’t we! The Smylie motto is… ‘every day we must have at least one awesome adventure’!
We give a big shout-out and thanks to the organisers of the Solstice Run, Marion, and Bryan McConchie, and their team for the planning of a most delightful weekend of motoring, we thoroughly enjoyed the ride.
In summary, as we all know and agree on, vintage motoring is about the friendships we make on the journey with likeminded people, and the motoring we are privileged to experience; to visit places that the average New Zealand motorist very rarely gets the opportunity to do. For us the NZ Model T Club never disappoints, and ticks all our motoring boxes.
Where is our next adventure…. watch this space. Kaaren & Jim Smylie
Footnote:AspartoftheSolsticeevent,asheetwithpicturesofcarlogoswashandedouttoall theentrants. Youneededtoidentify30ofthelogos. UsSmyliescheckedoursheetofanswers afterallthewinnershadbeenannounced,andhmm,onecouldsaywehadalittle‘blonde’momentwhenitwasdiscoveredthatourtallytotalledmorethanrestoftheteam,lessonlearnt,one mustpaymoreattentionandconcentrateattimesandstoptalking. Conclusion -Maybetheorganisersfeltalittlesorryforusbecausewewereawardedtheprize-winnerstrophy.
“South Island Motoring in the Winter” - Photos
My husband and I went through the McDonald's drive thru window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill. Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her a quarter. She said, 'You gave me too much money.'
I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar back.' She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request. I did so, and he handed me back the 25 cents, and said 'We're sorry but we don't do that kind of thing.'
The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change. Tip: Do not confuse the people at McD's. ----------------------------------------------------
We had to have the garage door repaired. The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower'. I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since.
My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.
I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?'To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?’ He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.' ----------------------------------------------------------------
The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the beeper was for.
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, 'What on earth are blind people doing driving?’ She is a government employee
To be eligible for Detroit Concours d’Elegance’s highest honor, a vehicle has to be named best in its class. A car must be an exceptional, exhaustively documented example of a historically significant model and the Stahls’ Delahaye certainly qualifies. Together with Delage, the Delahaye brand represents a high point of art deco design in the automotive world.
As a 135MS, the Detroit Concours winner is the sportiest variant of Delahaye’s sportiest car. This ’ car, chassis number 60173, is believed to be the only four-passenger roadster 135MS roadster bodied by Figoni et Falaschi that survives today and only five were made to begin with, between 1935 and 1954.
It is powered by an overhead-valve, inline-six-cylinder engine topped with three carburetors and making 160 hp. While other cars of the 1930s posted higher horsepower figures, the Delahaye’s technological boast was its transmission: a Cotal pre-selector four-speed gearbox. If you aren’t well versed in the finer engineering details of double clutching (also called double declutching), it helps to think of the Cotal as we might think of a sequential gearbox today technology more common in race cars than in street-legal vehicles.
The Delahaye boasts more than a trick transmission, though. Coachbuilders Figoni et Falaschi, who also created bodies for Bugattis, went to great pains to develop the sleekest possible system for hiding the folding top underneath the rear panel of a car. The company eventually won a patent for its “disappearing top” design, in which the top tucks beneath the trunk lid, which opens “backward” to accept it.
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