The Motoring Season is on. Don’t forget to help with upcoming events. If there’s a name beside an upcoming event and you can help, please contact that person with your offer to help them.
Thanks.
Auction Night. Wes Hamilton was the Auctioneer, he started the night of by receiving a fine for being late. Talking about fines, there was several Members who didn’t wear their name badges, cost everyone a 50 cent fine. A great start to the night. Lots of banter as Wes worked the room. Some good buys for everyone.
Thanks for a very successful night. Approximately $250.00 was raised to go to our chosen charity St John Oamaru.
PIGS CAN FLY
What a great turnout for today’s ride, 13 bikes flew out to the “Flying Pig “ café at Duntroon. After meeting at the clubrooms we took the most direct route Highway 83 , the road looked like a snake was winding it’s way along it, with all the bikes moving over it. There were at least 7 different breeds of bike, from sports bikes to scooters, that perform like sport bikes! We had a cracker day, sun out, dry roads, wind in our face, what more could we ask for.
It was good to see the regular crew and also four new faces, the more the merrier and an interesting bunch the new faces were, with new stories and experiences to share. One fella is on the Automobile Association Council and it sounds like the Council spends a bit of time acting as a watchdog for the public, ensuring that the police act appropriately when issuing minor revenue gathering traffic infringements. It is interesting to know that police cannot hide when trying to catch people speeding, something to do with entrapment and they can’t sit and monitor speed any closer than 200 meters from a designated passing lane. This fella was a wealth of information, it would be good to get the lowdown, could save us a lot of money. He had good safety ideas also, like making the inside lane of designated passing lanes 80 kph, so you don’t have to speed excessively whilst passing. As pensioners we can’t afford to be giving money away to the authorities without due cause.
After refreshments we headed back, via Ngapara, Enfield, Weston and into town. That is an amazing road, take it as fast or slow as you want, great scenery, testing corners and a good road surface all add up to a great ride. The Norton loved it, right in it’s element.
Remember to ride free, enjoying the day and the road as it unfolds before you, every time you go for a ride it’s like a new adventure ,something memorable and positive always happens which makes you remember what a good day it was. This months ride was a good indicator of things to come over the looming summer months, bring it on!
Well it looks like a new year run is being formulated for the start of 2025, how organized we are and looking forward to it already. Happy riding to all.
Also I want to take this opportunity to thank Wayne Croft for his donation of books to the library, greatly appreciated.
N.N.
Coming Events
October.
2nd Wednesday Club night 7.30pm Club rooms. Cancer Society and St John personal will in attendant for the present of the money raised for both organisations. A plate for supper please.
16th Wednesday Committee Meeting 7pm Clubrooms.
17th Thursday Mid-Month Run Meet at Clubrooms after 1pm Start 1.30pm. John Gale 0276554296. Tea Pot Rally with Waimate Branch now in November.
30th Wednesday Motorcycle Run Meet at Clubrooms 1pm. Leave 1.30pm John Gale 0276554296
November
6th Wednesday 7.30pm Club night. Clubrooms.
9th Saturday Meet at the Morven Domain 11.30am. Bring your Picnic Lunch.
14th Thursday Mid-Month Run. Meet 1pm Clubrooms Start 1.30pm John Gale 0276554296
16th Saturday Victorian Parade Pre-1942 Vehicles. Assembly by Scott’s Brewing 11.30am Start Noon. Can you let know if you would like to take part in the parade as soon as possible. Thank you. Ernest George 0272090609
20th Wednesday Committee Meeting 7pm Clubrooms
Christmas Street Parade More Details Later
27th Wednesday Motorcycle Run. Meet 1pm at Clubrooms Leave 1.30pm. John Gale 0276554296
December
4th Wednesday Xmas Party at Clubrooms 6.30pm. Potluck Xmas Dinner and Drinks BYO.
7th Saturday Windsor Rally Ernest George 0272090609
11th Wednesday Committee Meeting 7pm
No Mid-month and Motorcycle Run for December. Start again in January 2025
National Events
25th Friday/28th Monday National Commercial Rally Oamaru. Rally
Secretary Wandy Kent 0274401621. Don’t forget to get your entry in.
29th National Motorcycle Rally 25th-27th January 2025 Host Manawatu Branch.
National Veteran Rally 5th-7th February 2025 Host Marlborough Branch.
North and South Island Easter Rally 18th,19thand 20th April 25
South Island Club Captains Rally 11th till 18th April 2025
January 2025
25th Saturday Moped Rally.
February
15th All British Day. Vehicle of the Day Rover
April 12th Saturday Gerald Lynch- Blosse Motor-cycle Memorial Run
More Events for other Branches may be found in Beaded Wheels or in NZVCC website under Branch Newsletters.
2024 2024 JOSEPHVILLE HILLCLIMB
• Hill is a 2 lane tarseal disused part of State Highway 6, 10km from Lumsden
• Scrutineering begins at 9:30am with a mandatory drivers' briefing at 11:00am
• One practice run before lunch with up to four timed runs after. Lunch is BYO
DRIVER REQUIREMENTS
DECEMBER 1st REGISTRATION $60
⸳ Single layer (ISO 6940) overalls with cotton or woollen under garment
⸳ Leather footwear & gloves
⸳ Crash helmet
⸳ Current VCC membership card
⸳ Vehicle Identity Card (VIC)
⸳ VCC vehicle log book
⸳ VCC/FIA licence
RUN BY THE GORE VINTAGE CAR CLUB under the VCC of NZ Speed Event Regulations
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy a great day!
CONTACT DETAILS
Evan Henderson Terry Inder
03-208-6479
027-650-8056
03-208-7017
027-502-2221
7th National Commercial Rally 25-28 October 2024
Hosted by the North Otago Branch. For more information contact Wanda Kent 027 440 1621 or email commercialrally2024@gmail.com. Register online here https://forms.gle/9U1CHFpui1mAXt7h7 or alternatively contact Wanda for a paper registration form. Late entries accepted (with $30 surcharge)
THE 2024 FINAL WASH-UP
Dear Daffodil Rally Coordinators & Members
I know this email has been a little while in coming, but I have been waiting to get everyone’s results in before contacting you all.
Please note - There are still a few more donations to be included in the total amount raised this year, and as well, one of our branches have planned to have their event later in the year.
THE DAFFODIL RALLY FOR CANCER CAMPAIGN
Firstly, for our newcomers this is a little background to this VCC annual event, and how it all came about.
In 2018, at an Executive Meeting, the Executive Committee voted to introduce to the VCC Annual Calendar of Events, a VCC National Day, whereby all of our 36 branches from Northland to Southland would organize an event on the same day to raise the awareness of the Vintage Car Club, and as well, donate to a worthy Charity that we as an organization had a similar synergy with. At the time, the preferred Charity that was nominated by the Executive to support and launch this campaign, was the NZ Cancer Society.
I am delighted to report that over the years our relationship with the Cancer Society has been very workable and truly tremendous. Albeit an unfortunate interruption of a “Covid Hiccup” that did not allow us to run this event for two years, I am delighted to report that to date the VCC has raised nationally from our annual campaigns for the Cancer Society over $400k, pretty darn good I would say!
FINAL RESULT 2024
This year’s campaign has had an excellent outcome on all fronts, with all our branches that participated increasing the money they raised from last year by double, and in several cases –tripled!
Therefore, it is my greatest pleasure to tell you this year we have raised approximately $85k, BUT it could get as high as $90k!!
This is an awesome result. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your contribution, your wonderful enthusiasm, and the passion you invested into this campaign, you people are true super stars.
SPECIAL THANK YOU & MENTIONS
I would now like to thank my VCC colleague and friend Rebecca George from the Management Team for all the support she gave me, and you, with collating branch specific advertising and keeping the communication going with the coordinators. Hugs to you my friend! And not to forget Karen at National Office who beavered behind the scenes, thanks very much girls.
As well all the very generous support we received for this campaign from Garry Jackson & the FoM. Additionally, the AA, Air NZ, the motoring dealerships, the many advertisers who covered and reported on our event, all the free community radio advertising we got, the invaluable support of family and friends of VCC members, and all the numerous local businesses. Together you gave us that extra boost that was required to lift the profile, and awareness of the VCC, and increase our historic motoring footprint amongst wider NZ.
Here is just a few of the branch highlights that have been shared with me from our Coordinators.
Wellington – Secured the sponsorship of Capital Ford for their event and had over 180 vehicles on display at Brew-town. The biggie… they tripled the money they raised from last year, well done to John Stokes and his team.
Ashburton – 170 vehicles participated that gave them an excellent result as well as signing up several new members – excellent Colin.
EBOP – Being one of our smaller branches, they had over 100 vehicles attend their event – awesome exposure for the branch Chairman Bevan.
Canterbury – Over 500 vehicles on show, and they raised over $10k. This is a tremendous effort to be recognized and congratulated on. The organizers were delighted to have as part of their event so many onemake clubs participating – all good stuff.
Nelson – Rob and the team, wow ‘you did it again’…another fantastic result with over 500 vehicles attending your event. They also raised over $10k
Auckland – I thoroughly enjoyed the report of their day. They had a rather unique event that was held at a Buddhist Temple, whereby they had the delightful Buddhist Monks shaking the donation tins. Brilliant work Jodie & Shaaran and your team of supporters for thinking outside the square with something quite novel. They too tripled their takings from last year!
Otago – despite being rained out, these good sorts still participated and got a very healthy collection of monies for the local Cancer Society – great endurance by Marion and Team.
Waikato – As in previous years another very successful day for the branch. Graham Pate and his Team have a winning formula, stay with whatever you are doing guys, because it’s working!
Marlborough – Another branch of legends led by Chris Bird, and his Team. You awesome people did incredibly well, and once again another massive collection for the local Cancer Society.
South Canterbury – Nola Day and her Team fought the elements on the day, but despite adversity they still had a wonderful turnout of members and the public, and a great result. Their event was held at the exceptional ‘Holme Station’ where they grow annually a million daffodils – I have seen the photos taken of the daffodils in bloom, an unbelievable display of yellow and white!
Bay of Plenty – Another branch that was delighted to secure a sponsor for their Rally for Cancer. Lexus of Tauranga. Lexus have now committed to this event for the next couple of years, saying…. “this event has a strong synergy for us, given the demographics of our customer base, our average age is 72, and we lose a number of our customers to Cancer”. BOP had 200 vehicles on display at their car show, and participating in their Rally, and they over doubled the money they raised from last year. A big shout out to organizers Raewyn & Trevor Hughes and their Team of supporters……and so the good news goes on.
NEW MEMBERS
I can also share with you, the increase in members since Daffodil Day has been tremendous, this event definitely has contributed to driving our membership up.
Murray from National Office reports saying…”There have been at least 36 new members join the VCC since the 25 August that’s 2.2 per day. The average to date has been 1.5 per day”. So, a remarkable increase, and those figures can only continue to grow with the increased awareness we have received in the community IN
CLOSING
I am bullish enough to acknowledge that everything in life can be tweaked, tightened, and improved upon, therefore I believe, and have no doubts the Daffodil Rally for Cancer in the future will become bigger, and brighter, and a major icon national event.
To have a corporate like Air NZ recognizing and supporting us, to me speaks volumes. People believe and have faith in ‘YOU’, the VCC, and who we are throwing our weight behind, the NZ Cancer Society…roll on another year, the planning of the 2025 has already begun!
I thank you again for supporting the 2024 “Daffodil Rally for Cancer”.
Above from top to bottom and left to right; Auckland, Wellington, Northland, Auckland, Auckland, BOP, Auckland, BOP
Above – Otago Branch
Above – Waikato Branch
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