Central Otago VCC September 2016

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September 2016 Issue: 315

Puff ‘n Stuff Central Otago Branch, Vintage Car Club of NZ Inc

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This month we have some interesting items for sale including the very nice MG 1100 on the front cover. And in keeping with my recent colour themes, we have green this month, British at that; Featuring Morris MG and Berkeley.

Club nights: Second Wednesday of Month. 8pm Clubrooms / Parts Shed: Litany Street, Cromwell.

Copy deadline for next edition FIVE days after meeting day. Stories and photos unable to be used in next edition will be saved for later editions.

The stickers are now available e-mail Lindsay <olsen.cromwell@gmail.com> Or give him a call at 03 4450065 Please !!

To date we have sold more than 1298 stickers to 22 Branches, with some repeat orders recently placed.

Let others know which Branch you belong to at events away from home.

These are produced locally and are made of high quality vinyl. They are external stickers and go on the outside of the windscreen or on the body-work. (They are easily removed with a hair-dryer.)

Cost $1.50 each. (A worthwhile profit goes to our club.)

To order yours, contact Lindsay Olsen; Phone: (03) 445 0065 E-mail: olsen.cromwell@gmail.com

The opinions and information presented in this newsletter are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the club or its officers. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information or opinions expressed.

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BRANCH OFFICERS -

2016-2017.

Partner: Phone: Chairman:

Bill Crooks

Gill

442 0255

Vice Chairman Murray George Secretary: Treasurer:

Murray Pryde Lindsay Olsen

E-Mail: billandgill@vodafone.co.nz murraygeorgeelec@xtra.co.nz

Jenny Glenis

443 5020 445 0065

prydenz@xtra.co.nz olsen.cromwell@gmail.com

Club Captain: Club Rooms / Yard Rodger Bisset Social Conv.:

Roddy Maxwell

Parts Conv.:

Roger Healy

Kay

442 0861

twinbridges@xtra.co.nz

Alister Stewart

Mary

442 1146

alister.mary@xtra.co.nz

Allan McDonald , John Loudon Dave Manson

Elaine Sheila

445 3255 448 7192 443 7906

ajandev@xtra.co.nz

Editor:

Graham Taylor

Cheryl

4431416

gtml@xtra.co.nz

Magazine ;

printers and distributors; Alon and Tracy Mayhew .

Idle Torque

John Loudon

Librarian:

John Martin ,

Sheila

448 7192

Wendy

445 0598

Swap Meet: Dave Manson Health and Safety; Greg Doran Area Reps: Arrowtown Alexandra Cromwell Wanaka

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Bar manager

443 7906

Alister Stewart , Mary John Loudon Sheila

4421146 448 7192

Lindsay Olsen Glenis Alon Mayhew Tracy

445 0065 443 7030

Charlie Storey

martin_jw@xtra.co.nz

Helen

445 3181

Alister.mary@xtra.co.nz

craftystorys@xtra.co.nz

Rally Convener: Blossom Festival ; Graham Taylor Murray George, Murray Pryde Golden Times

; Bill Crooks Kevin Vanderwater Rob Young

Moped Rally

; Lindsay Wilkie John Martin

Consider receiving Puff n Stuff by e-mail, the pictures are in colour, and you can forward it to your friends!

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SUNDAY RUNS and other Events; Next meeting October 12th Sat 5th November Taieri Tour contact Graeme Duthie, graemeduthie@xtra.co.nz or Marion McConachie bmmcconachie@xtra.co.nz Sat 12th November South Otago Rally contact Stuart Milne 03 417 4352 entries close 5th November.

16th October

Wanaka

Area meet at Graham Taylors 1:30 pm ,

A couple of sheds to raid finishing at Warbirds and Wheels CafĂŠ.

From Alon and Tracy Mayhew; There is a Gore Branch P60 run at the end of October ( 29th I think ) starting in Gore and going to Arrowtown. Thoughts were to go down to Gore to the start and just head home from Arrowtown.

Cnr Gair &

Barry Ave, Cromwell.

Accommodation for Events in Central Otago.

Fully serviced, self contained.

Spacious Parking for large vehicles, trailers, etc.

Contact Debbie or Colin.

Phone 03 445 0373 E-Mail: cromwellmotel@xtra.co.nz

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Minutes of the COVCC meeting on Wednesday 14th September Visitor Jonny Price – Mazdas now a new member Apologies , Murray George, Alf O’Sullivan, Roddy Maxwell, Tracy Mayhew, Dave Manson, Kevin Van der Water, David Somerville. Moved Ted Pope/ Greg Doran.

Present 28 members The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed – Alon Mayhew / John Martin Correspondence- South Otago 45th Annual rally 14th November Otago 44th Annual Taieri Tour 5th November New Members – Simon Beadle Arrowtown 63 Fiat 500 coupe David Thompson Alexandra – 63 Vanguard 72 Jag, 72 Truimph 2.5 70 1800 West Otago Cafe- Cola Culture Welcomes car people May Plumbing Quote Rhiannon Maloney – requires wedding car Arrowtown New Member Fees Richardson Motorcycle Museum Spindle Fibre Films Hamish Shaw- requires Morris Minor wedding cars Wanaka Email from Lindsay Olsen re Club rooms Insurance notification papers Moved Noel Hassel / Greg Doran the correspondence be received and dealt with Move Graham Taylor / Roger Bisset that the Treasures report be adopted Editor – 31 rally entries so far 26 for the Sunday runs and double the local entries from last year. Pies etc available on the Sunday for the swap meet, subject to a volunteer to organise.

Parts – A great clean up at the working bee – Scrap still to be sorted Kitchen up grade set for after Xmas – Steel beams, should the club sell them and build a Gold pine shed instead ? cheaper ?

Health and Safety – Check lists and process for rallies need a paper trail.

General – Sub leasing the club rooms to Senior Net etc – much discussion was held and after a show of hands it was decided against by a close margin Moved John Martin / Roger Bisset that the Petanque club use the grounds on 16th October A discussion was held on the purchase of a hoist , sand blaster etc and to be bought into the annual plan.

Meeting closed at 9.45pm

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Getting Started,

and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get my report in after I tie the banner on!

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Calendar of Events

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Mont h

Area

12Jun

Cromwell

John Martin

17-Jul Cromwell

John Martin

14Aug

Rally

Wakatipu

4-Sep Wanaka

Organiser

Alister Stewart Show & Tell At Warbirds

Graham Taylor

24th & 25th Blossom Rally

Graham Taylor

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18Sep

Alexandra

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16Oct

Wanaka

Alon Mayhew

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13Nov

Alexandra

John Loudon

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18Dec

Cromwell

Xmas Party

All

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16Jan

Cromwell

Swap Meet

Parts Team

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12Feb

Wakatipu

Alister Stewart

1 1

12Mar

Wanaka

Alon Mayhew

1 2

19Mar

Cromwell

1 3

22Apr

Arrowtown

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14May

Cromwell

Moped Rally

Autumn Festival Rally

John Martin

Bill Crooks

Lindsay Olsen

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Responsibilities & Duties of Club Captain Adhere to the VCC.NZ Constitution and Branch Manual.

Attend Monthly Meetings. If unable to advise another committee to give your apology.

Have a functional relationship with other Committee Members, Be a positive role model for all members of the Club.

Encourage Club Members to be involved in technical, social and voluntary activities.

Oversee and assist when necessary with Rally planning.

Be available to arbitrate on Rally matters.

To foster good motoring and repair practices Oversee and assist the Area Reps to organise monthly runs.

Assist all Committee Members with organising a guest speaker for each Monthly meeting.

Oversee and assist with the maintenance of buildings and grounds.

Oversee and assist with Club building and ground security.

The time commitment for being a positive role model is on-going.

Skills & Qualities Required Be an Enthusiastic & Involved Club Member.

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Getting tuned for the Blossom festival Hi All Visited a relative at the weekend and in his garage is a mdl T truck.

Mechanicals seemingly okay but the cab is non existent.

The truck is 1918.

WE are off to Oz in three weeks to drive the Brisbane kids van and trailer across to Perth.

So our North Island trip has ground to a halt.

We will take a look around on the way across. Will stay there for five or six months as we haven't been to west Australia will buy either a car or preferably some sort of shitty campervan.

Just looking around now for some free parking for the car and caravan.

Could you add a word or two in the PnS about our plans to let our friends in the club know.

Regards, Alf O Sullivan Hon COVCC Ambassador to Australia!

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Annual Plan Headings

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Rallies

Subject

* Blossom Festival Rally * Autumn Festival Rally * Over-nite Run * Moped Rally * Show & Tell * Monthly Sunday Runs

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Members

* Succession Plan * Increase numbers at Monthly Meetings * Increased Members on Local Rallies

* What services, equipment facilities to attract members? * Junior Committee ?

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Buildings

* Upgrade of hot water system * Maintenance *Equipment - Projector, Screen ? *Chairs Pool table

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Newsletter

* More Input from Members

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Parts Dept

* Facilities * Turnover * Revenue * Evaluation of Old Stock

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Health & Safety

* H&S written Policy * No Incidents * Hazards Eliminated Templates from HO Used

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Financial

* More or less or the same in account

Training Scholarship

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Measure

Increase in Club members on all

Full Committee FO17 Statistics

All working as planned

Help for Graham

Dollars

Written Doc

Statements

1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dresses

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Suitable captions could be ( Clockwise from below) ‘Ok Don, if the Isil characters steal this car well blow their feet off’!

‘Rain, what rain’ Unfortunately Sandy McMillan came all the way from Temuka to see what we get up to in the CO branch, great effort but could easily have stayed at home and got wet there. Fortunately his son Matt can now handle the intricancies of a Model T, Gold in the Lindis! John Martin we suspect was secretly tickling a trout.

Photos by Lynn Yeaman, I had asked for a fresh approach with Vintage Cars in a social context, luckily the people in the frame didn’t run away as is often the case with me!

There was a big turnout of vehicles for the day at least six people had their first drive ever of a model T but the rapid onset of rain prevented any further activity.

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A funny to start your day A woman wrote to tech support, and their reply is a stroke of genius.

This young woman is no different from the rest of us, both family happiness and heartbreak are familiar to her. She is simply looking for an answer to her questions. How do you maintain a relationship?

How do you bring back the excitement of the first date?

She wrote a letter to the tech support to find her answers. She sent the letter as a joke and only remembered about it when she suddenly received an email notification with a response.

Dear Tech Support, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as: Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

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Dear Desperate, "First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.

If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1.

Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)

In addition, please, do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.

You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck!’

Editors Comment The Blossom rally will have come and gone, it will be interesting to review how it has worked this time, If nothing else we have ad a better response from “local’ members, about average for a Sunday run. However I have had a good response to help from ‘my team’ and my heartfelt thanks to them for the work done.

My real concern however is that to keep things fresh we need more younger members to become involved, and that means accepting that 1970’s and 80’s cars and Japanese cars for that matter are where the Model T’s and A’s were when the club was formed.

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It is a 1931 Chevy roadster

Only just run in. contact

Full ground up restoration

Bruce Murdock cell 0275378812

This very nice MG 1100 is for sale, a lot of work has been done realistic price contact Bert Turnbull 027 434 2339

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2017 Haast Tour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4/10 February 2017 South Canterbury Branch is still inviting registrations of interest for our next tour of the scenic West Coast. All Club vehicles eligible, though paced to suit older vehicles. Start and finish at any point.

Format: Saturday 4 February: Check in, briefing, social evening at the Central Otago Branch Clubrooms at Cromwell.

Sunday 5 February: Participating vehicles start from Cromwell in own time.

Overnight stops: Haast, Fox Glacier, Hokitika, Westport and Hanmer Springs where the Final Dinner will be held.

Start times: Each day entrants can leave in own time.

Daily activities: The Tour Instructions will provide suggestions for places to visit en route or after arrival and Happy Hour venues Entry Forms: These will be sent to everyone who has registered for the event and will also be downloadable from our Branch website www.southcanterburyvintagecarclub.co.nz Accommodation and Meals: Entrantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own responsibility.

Tour Instructions will be sent out to all entrants well in advance of the Tour start.

Further information on website www.southcanterburyvintagecarclub.co.nz Register now without obligation. Should it be necessary to limit numbers those who register will receive priority entry.

Contact Barry Barnes bandcbarnes@slingshot.co.nz or phone 03 6885105 or Norm Bunt normanne@kinect.co.nz or phone 03 6846554

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Wanted; good cyl head for a 1929 Graham Paige 612.

For sale, NOS engine kit for a Farmall M , and other IHC parts T 20 Crawler complete with blade; apply the ED

Broomwade British Screw Compressor, approx. 120 cfm, 110psi, with some old hoses and couplings, 4 cylinder Fordson petrol motor, 1950-60 approx. $1700.

Rodger Bisset.

22 Kerry Court, Cromwell, Otago NZ 9310.

Ph +64 3 445 0809 Fax +64 3 445 0860 Mobile +64 274 331 693 e-mail; rodger.bisset@ihug.co.nz

Other good stuff;

in the parts dept

Tyres, Tubes, Wheels, axles, brakes, transmissions, chassis, spark plugs, engines, body parts, gauges, caps, bearings, brake kits, Head and sundry gaskets, electrical bits, Carburettors , fuel pumps, Ford, models T , A and V8, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Austin and Austin 7 , Morris, Minor, Mini , Vauxhall, Standard, Rootes Group, Spark Plugs Galore at $ 2.50 each, some of these have matured to the point where they will be self igniting ! (saving on expensive distributors and all that wiring).

And many other makes have bits here!!!

Also Bruce Jones has donated to the club two Veteran Buick Chassis (1915-

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Watch Repairs

Now

Level 2 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connells Pavillion Queenstown 027 217 0442

twinbridges@xtra.co.nz 5-14

Graham Taylor Mechanical Ltd 114 Shortcut Road, Luggate. gtml@xtra.co.nz 443 1416 027 248 9942

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Return Address: 114 Shortcut Road, RD2, Wanaka

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