Coming Events 2025
February
5th Wednesday Club night 7.30pm Guest Speakers. Noel and Brabara Bain. Their adventures on a cattle station in Australia.
13th Thursday Mid-month Run. Meet at Clubrooms 1pm. Contact John Gale 0276554296
15th Saturday All British Day. Vehicle of the Day Rover
19th Committee Meeting 7pm at Clubrooms
26th Wednesday Motorcycle Run Meet 1pm at Clubrooms John Gale 0276554296.
March
Sunday 2nd Homestead Run more details in Newsletter.
5th Wednesday Club night 7.30pm
13th Thursday Mid-Month Run. Meet at 1pm. John Gale 0276554296
19th Wednesday Committee Meeting 7pm.
26th Wednesday Motorcycle Run. 1pm at Clubrooms. John Gale 0276554296
April 12th Saturday Gerald Lynch-Blosse Motor-cycle Memorial Run.
Murray Hayes 0272399009
June
8th Sunday Clubrooms 1.30pm. AGM North Otago
Other Areas Events check other Branches Newsletters
National Events. Check Beaded Wheels for details or NZVCC website.
North and South Island Easter Rally 18th,19th and 20th April 2025
South Island Club Captains Rally 11th till 18th April 2025
Hi Every-one.
Hope you all have had a good break over the Christmas-New Year time. If you have had a medical event or accident, a speedy recovery so you can join us again at a future event.
Windsor Rally. Congratulations to all prize winners and thanks to everyone who attended. To those who helped with the running this rally. Thank you.
Prize Winners
Veteran Craig Armiger 1911 Clement Bayard. North Otago
Vintage Bruce Bush 1924 Austin Tourer Otago
Canterbury
Barry Barnes 1924 Peugeot Type 177B South
Nevin Gough 1922 Dodge Tourer Otago
Post Vintage Gordon MacKay 1937 Ford V8 North Otago
Post War Vintage Sarah Miller 1955 Plymouth North Otago
Post 60 Owen Duthie 1968 Vauxhall Waimate
Brian Webber 1963 Holden North Otago
Mark Wilkinson 1973 MGB GT Otago
Post 80 Brian Perkins 1982 Ford Capri North Otago
Stu Neil 1989 Toyota Corolla Otago
Ross Brown 1982 Mercedes Benz Waimate
Motorcycles Tony Travaglia Motoguzzi North Otago
Commercial Rebecca George 1926 Chrysler Pickup North Otago
Barry Anderson 1939 Ford Pickup Waimate
Field Test Barry Anderson Waimate
Barry Barnes South Canterbury
Ian Bradshaw North Otago
Overall Winner Barry Anderson Waimate
Barry Barnes South Canterbury
Brian Webber North Otago
Furtherest Travelled Anthony Blackler 1929 Austin 7
Canterbury
Thank you all for a great day.
I wish to acknowledge the generous donation by Bob Jenkins, to our library. It includes 1955/56 copies of "the practical motorist and motorcyclist", copies of which we don't have and a 1947 Autocar magazine issue. Greatly appreciated Bob.
While we are on the subject of the library,that is what it is, a library, where people can go and access written material of interest, or sit and enjoy the ambience, whilst reading.
IT IS NOT A STOREROOM. So please stop filling it with chairs. I am not the first librarian to express disdain at this practice.
There may well be events that chairs may have to be stored, if in the library, don't be lazy , but remove them after the event, as it makes it awkward for club members to access the library shelves.
Your desisting in using the library as a storage room will be appreciated by all who use it.
Yours Faithfully, Murray Bain.
North Otago V.C.C. Librarian.
HIGHLAND FLING FEILDING
Welcome to the 2025 Highland Fling
25th – 27th April 2025 Entries close 31st March 25
Organiser – Derek Haycock, Manawatu Branch – 0274 419 153
Address - 375 Albert Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North 4410
Email, Entries and Enquiries – highlandflingfeilding@gmail.com
Hello Flingers,
Friday 25th April 2025, collect rally packs from The Stockyard Restaurant and Café 50 Manchester Street, Feilding from 4pm.
The Fun Starts on Saturday 26th April early morning at the Tui Brewery Mangatainoka between Woodville and Pahiatua, this is approximately ONE HOUR’S drive from Feilding. The driver’s briefing will be at 8.15am, the first car away soon after.
Make no mistake folks this is going to be a BIG day; the rally route alone will be 160ish miles. There will be a toilet and BYO morning tea stop at approximately the 2 hour mark. Make sure you carry extra fuel, mud/snow chains, tow rope and all food/drink provisions for the day.
We have four farms to go through and the Puketoi Range to cross twice, you will be traveling through some very rugged country with lunch at Akitio Station which is just up the road from Akitio Beach.
Sunday we will start from the Coach House Museum in Feilding, Driver’s briefing will be at 8.00am first car away 8.30am. We will be heading north towards Rangiwahia, I am currently waiting for the ground to dry out to go and explore three big farms. Lunch will be either in Rangiwahai or Apiti, then we still have some unexplored back roads to use to get back to Feilding via our favourite ford (the only usable one in the area), to have you back in Feilding approximately 3pm.
Final dinner and prize giving will be back at the Feilding Civic Centre with the usual haggis ceremony to start along with a buffet dinner to follow with a revised menu from last year.
Trailer parking will be available on request, please advise if you require. Any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks to our sponsors!
- Classics Museum, 11 Railside Place, Hamilton - Classic Auto Repaints, 44 King Street, Opunak
Christmas Meal
December Mid month run
Now that summer is here (sort of ! ) John Gale had organized a picnic run for us. After leaving the club rooms we had a pleasant drive through the wonderful North Otago countryside to our destination, the Gemmells crossing reserve, a lovely sheltered spot for our picnic. We parked our cars in a circle, this made for a great setting that we all enjoyed. Thank you John, looking forward to your next run.
Items for the Newsletter can be posted or dropped off to 6 Waiareka lane, off Saleyards Road Or emailed to gsimpsonyyy@gmail.com
Newsletter submissions. Preferred formats are Open-office, Libre-office or MS Word as an attached document. Plain emails create extra work. Please, no “enter” key at the end of every line. Contact me for advice if not sure.
Thanks, Graeme
Chairman
Immediate Past
Chairperson
Vice Chairman
NORTH OTAGO BRANCH
OFFICE BEARERS 2024/25
Clive Blunden (Jen) 03 439 5207
Secretary Brian Harrison (Janette) 03 434 2148
Club Captain
Treasurer
Committee:
Beaded Wheels Scribe
Custodian
Librarian
Archivist
Newsletter Editor
Spare Parts
Vehicle Verifiers
Ernest George (Brenda) 027 209 0609
John Gale (Jo) 03 437 1112
Tony Hales (Jenny) 03 434 7729
Lindsay McLeod (Margaret) 021 871 526
Athol Caldwell (Patricia) 03 437 0897
John Adamson
0274 347 009
Gordon Hay 028 400 7586
Murray Hayes 027 239 9009
Clive Blunden 03 439 5207
Steve McDonald 027 928 0002
Murray Bain 0211 785 783
Kathleen Perry 03 434 7226
Graeme Simpson (Wendy) gsimpsonyyy@gmail.com 027 293 1059
Derek Brehaut (Lee) 021 390 518
James MacKenzie (Angele) 029 770 7105
Wayne Croft 027 608 0002
Quentin Barrow (Ange) 027 434 5570
Bruce Watt (Barbara) 03 434 5306
Club email address northotago@vcc.org.nz
Committee Meetings 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7.00 pm. Members Welcome. Club Nights 1st Wednesday of the month at 7.30 pm (details in The Distributor)
WINDSOR RALLY
