THE BALLARAT AND DISTRICT EARLY HOLDEN CAR CLUB

DAVID WAIGHT—REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER—BALLARAT CONTACT 0419 268 325 EMAIL: shannonsballarat@hotmail.com

The Front End is the monthly newsletter of The Ballarat and

District Early Holden Car Club. Cor-respondence, articles and items of Holden news and interest are invit-

ed and should be sent to

The Editor—Scott Campbell Ballarat and District Early Holden

Car Club P.O.Box 184

Howitt St Post Office Wendouree 3355

Email: scdd@bigpond.net.au Ph: 53 349 440 0419 106264

5 EVENTS CALENDAR 7 PRESIDENTS PEN 9 CLUB PERMIT REPORT 10-11 UPCOMING RUNS 15 RUN REPORTS 16-19 OTHER EVENTS 24 GENERAL MEETING MINUTES

MARCH 2016—Page 3

FRONT END * MARCH 2016 * VOLUME 16, No. 01

CONTENTS

Ballarat and District Early Holden Car Club

Incorporated 2000

Address All Correspondence To The Secretary

P.O.Box 184, Howitt St Post Office, Wendouree, Victoria, 3355

Www.bdehcc.com

CLUB MEETINGS

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month, except January, at the Clubrooms, Ballarat Airport, Airport

Access Road, Wendouree. (off Learmonth Road)

at 7:30pm. Visitors are most welcome.

MEMBERSHIP

Annual Fees: Single Membership $30 Family Membership $50

Monthly Posted Newsletters $5.00 New Membership Application Fee $15

COMMITTEE President—Jim Hare

53 44 8428 0419 387 384

Vice President—Justin Mitchell 0403 944 488

Secretary—Megan Dickson

Treasurer—Doug Reid 53 35 7922 0439 086 364

Run Coordinator—Rob Whitten

0448 160 951 Max Moore—Assistant

0448 160 954

Club Permits Officer—Scott Campbell 53 349 440 0419 106 264

Merchandising—Sharelle Dickson 53689498 0411 837 506

Megan—Assistant A.E.H.F. Delegate—Anne Turner

53 44 9290 0429 449 290 Clubrooms Officer—Paul Irvin 53 35 8680 0419 524 607 Club Library—Steve Currie 53 67 8499 0409 023 043

Catering Officers Peter Skrypko 0418 508 750

Jeff Dickson 0411 837 506 Steve Booker 0477 056 974

Greg King 0419 524 607 Barman—Rob Whitten

0448 160 951

General Committee Theo Goosens 0431 212 346 Andrew French 0417 126 795

Alan Darrell 0408 585 004 Greg Turner 0429 449 290

Andrew Wheeler 0418 584 012 Bernie Sharp 0418 394 636

Sergeant At Arms - Peter Nikkelson

LIFE MEMBERS Scott Campbell

Doug Reid Anne Turner

Randall Lourey Paul Irvin

Peter Skrypko Rob Whitten

TOP CLUBMAN 2004-05 Scott Campbell 2005-06 Peter Waterson

2006-07 Paul Irvin / Jason Barby 2007-08 Greg King

2008-09 Anne Turner / Rob Whitten 2009-10 Peter Skrypko

2010-11 Jim Hare 2011-2012 Craig Loveridge

2012-13 Jeff Dickson 2013-14 Justin Mitchell 2014-15 Rob Whitten

Contact: Sandra Campbell

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Events Calendar

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CLUB EVENTS FOR MARCH 1 Club Meeting 5 Club Run—Geelong All Holden Day 8 All GM Day Meeting 15 Club Pub Night—Brown Hill Hotel 25 Good Friday Brekky at Krooze In Café & Derrinallum Car Show 29 Committee Meeting 30 Coffee and Cruise—Red Dog Run

OTHER EVENTS FOR MARCH 6 Leongatha Swap Meet

11-13 Festival of Motorsport—Phillip Island Classic

13 Horsham Car and Bike Show

13 All GM Day—Wangaratta 19 Western Vic Holden Club Show and Shine

17-20 Australian Grand Prix 20 Morwell Swap Meet

Werribee Show and Shine Koroit Swap Meet

26-28 Motoring Through the Decades—Ballarat

Australian Van Nationals—Moe CLUB EVENTS FOR APRIL

5 Club Meeting 12 All GM Day Meeting 17 Club Run—Drive and Picnic

19 Club Pub Night—Brown Hill Hotel 26 Coffee and Cruise—Red Dog Run—Morris Garage Harcourt

OTHER EVENTS FOR APRIL 16 Echuca Swap Meet 17 Drouin Swap Meet

Nathalia Swap Meet 24 Pakenham Swap Meet

Maffra Swap Meet

President’s Report

MARCH 2016 —Page 7

show and I hope to see you there. Not much else to report until I catch up with every-body to find out what’s going on!!! So that’s all from me. Stay safe and enjoy what our club has to offer. Cheers,

Jim.

March Captains Report. Hello to all members and their families, Due to having been away for much of the past month this will be a very brief report! Thanks to Justin for stepping in and running the February meeting which I’m sure went well. A quick chat to Justin re the GM Day informed me that ‘the usual suspects’ attended the 1st GM Day meeting for 2016. While the 2015 event was final-ised, official positions for the 2016 show remain open as we’d really love to see some new faces. I’m sure Justin will have more to say about this in his report but please give some thought to coming along to a meeting and see if there’s something you can contribute to this wonderful fundraiser. On Saturday March 5th the Geelong All Holden day is on which is an event that our club always sup-ports. Like our GM Day, it continues to grow and offers something for everyone. See the newsletter or speak to Rob W for details about this year’s

Sponsor

MARCH 2016 —Page 8

G 'day All Just an update, if you haven’t realized the scheme has changed, following are a list of changes. The main changes are: - RWC will be mandatory for all new per-mits (not renewals) for vehicles built after 1948 (club safety inspection remains an op-tion for vehicles built before 1949) - Clubs will be required to hold dated

photographs of all vehicles applying for a new

permit

- For modified vehicles new guidelines

(VSI 33) will describe permitted modifications

not requiring engineer certification for three

pre-1969 age categories. Otherwise

VSI 8 describes permitted modifications. Vehi-

cles modified beyond VSI 33 and/or VSI 8 will

require inspection by VicRoads certified engi-

neers

Vehicles modified beyond VSI 33 and/or VSI

8 will be issued with a new club permit plate

type with numerals followed by “M” (as dis-

tinct from the “H” suffix)

Club Permit Report

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Finally we have had some minor success (I hope this was the case) with VicRoads, and have three cars on the scheme with M Plates. We have developed a checklist and declaration for all new members going onto the club permit scheme, which should be pretty straight forward to follow. For me to sign your application, you must provide me with dated photographs of your vehicle. These photos must be time stamped, and I have been told nothing else is acceptable. For those with an Iphone or similar, you can download a free app for time stamped photos. Otherwise you will have to bring the vehicle to me, so I can photograph it for you. Dated photographs must include images of the front, drivers side, rear, driving position (side on with drivers door open), and where possible, any identifiers such as chassis number and engine number. Well that’s about it from me. Regards Scott Campbell

Please note: I will be away from for a couple of weeks around the date of our next meeting. So if you need Club Permit Registrations signed, please either catch up with me now, or you will have to wait until I’m back. If you have any problems, I can be reached by email on scdd@bigpond.net.au. Sorry for the inconvenience Regards Scott

CLUB RUN—GEELONG ALL HOLDEN DAY

WHAT: Geelong All Holden Day @ Geelong Showground's

WHERE: Departing the Clubrooms at 7.45am or Buninyong at 8.00am

WHEN: Saturday 5th March

BYO Food and Drink or Buy on the day, BYO Chair—there is activities for the family

CONTACT PERSON: Rob Whitten

SOCIAL—BROWN HILL HOTEL

WHAT: Meal and Drinks

WHERE: Royal Mail Hotel, 385 Humffray Street North, Brown Hill

WHEN: Tuesday 15th MARCH starting at 6.30pm

Please let Rob Whitten know on 0448 160 951 the numbers of adults and children.

Upcoming Runs

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CARS N COFFEE—BALLARAT

WHAT: Cars n Coffee is back for another season

WHERE: Sovereign Hill Car park

WHEN: Sunday 20th March from 7:30am

See flyer elsewhere in the newsletter

Upcoming Runs

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COFFEE N CRUISE (RED DOG RUN)

WHAT: Day out

WHERE: Meet at McDonalds Bakery Hill

WHEN: 9:30-10:00 Wednesday 30th March

Please let Rob Whitten know on 0448 160 951

SOCIAL—GOOD FRIDAY BREKKY AT KROOZE IN CAFE

WHAT: BREAKFAST

WHERE: Krooze In Café, Mt Helen

WHEN: Friday 25th MARCH—From 8.00am

Please let Rob Whitten know on 0448 160 951 the numbers of adults and children.

ADDITIONAL CLUB RUN—DERRINALLUM CAR SHOW

WHAT: Show and Shine

WHERE: Meet at Krooze In Cafe

WHEN: Friday 25th March

Please let Rob Whitten know on 0448 160 951

SEPTEMBER 2015—Page 12

Club’s New Sponsors for 2015−2016

Bits and Pieces WEBSITE – www.bdehcc.com Thank you to Adam Ryan and Scott for setting up our club website. It looks great with great colour and graphics. It has a calendar of events, a forum for mem-bers to communicate on and will have a copy of the newsletter on there each month. This is a great club asset please support the club and use this website. GJ Gardner Homes – Ballarat Thank you to Karen and Rob McMaster who have kind-ly offered all members a bonus of 0.01% of the price of a new home for anyone that they refer to them and then obviously those people then sign up and build a new home through GJ Gardner Homes Ballarat. This is a great offer so if you can refer anyone interested in building a new home with GJ Gardner Homes then please do so. Ballarat Breakfast Club- Krooze In Café Mt Helen In association with the Central Highlands Jaguar Regis-ter – from 9.00am to 11.00am. Bring your Holden, have a coffee or breakfast and chat to fellow motoring enthusiasts. This is a great venue with lots of very in-teresting memorabilia to look at and discuss as we all had some of these things way back when. So if you are looking for something to do on the 4th Sunday of the month then go along for a look at some nice vehicles, a coffee and a chat and or brekky. I can recommend the bacon and egg muffins as being pretty good. Pretty good coffee they serve too.

MARCH 2016 —Page 13

Club Members Holden Photos Don’t forget to bring along a photo of your Holden (s) for our club members notice board. There are plenty of new members and new club cars that are featured on our members notice board. Club Badges We have a new supply of club badges with great new art work which look really good, so get in and get some to put on your club clothing and caps etc. We will be selling them for $5.00 each or 2 for $10.00. Club Shirts We have a new supply of cotton shirts which will be a bit cooler on the warmer days than the polo shirts - $50.00 each.

Rob Skrypko’s PAINTWORKS

Shed 4 Beaumont Drive

Delacombe 3356 PH: 0438 343755

ROBERT SKRYPKO—0438 343 755

For Paint & Panel work Earlie’s a speciality

Touch-ups to Complete Resto’s No Job too Big or Small

Sponsor

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Automotive specialist

Trade qualified Free quotes Lockouts: Home and Car Automotive locks: Repair/ Re-

place Replacement Holden Commo-

dore ignitions Lost keys– Resets onsite And a whole lot more

Phone Jared on : 0437462601

TORQUAY CAR SHOW. 14th.MARCH 2015. A group of members met in Bunninyong about 8 o'clock Sunday morning for the nice cruise down the Midland Highway to Torquay. Andrew French and Greg king led the convoy of 12 cars ,all of which managed to fit into a BIG roundabout at Warne Ponds as the lead car tried to get us all together. We arrived and met a few other members there. It's a great Car show with a great variety and quality of vehicle to look at. The biggest club would have been the V W's. Good to see Max polishing his car on arrival. After a good look around and lunch, a sau-sage in bread from the Rotary Club for some-- to classier meals up the street for others, and a chat people started heading home. It's a great show and venue and thoroughly enjoyed by all those that I talked to about it. MEMBERS ATTENDING : The Dicksons, McGearys, Wilmots, Nikkelsons, Frenchs, Davis's, Greg King, Paul, Doug, Wayne Mead, Max, Craig Toddman, Hendo (car trailer near-by)and Rob. Rob Whitten

Run Reports

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RED DOG RUNS. Due to the extreme heat on Tuesday the 23rd of Feb. the Red Dog Run to the Morris Garage at Harcourt was postponed. Thanks to all those that said they would at-tend to make up numbers. As Easter is at the end of March we will have our usual R.D.R. on Wednesday the 30th.and I will rebook the "MORRIES" for TUESDAY the 26th.APRIL and I hope as many as possible can attend. Rob Whitten.

SUNDAY20th MARCH

General Meeting − Minutes

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General meeting – minutes Minutes of the February meeting 02/02/16 Meeting opened: 7:40 Present: 62 members and guests Apologies: Brian U., Sharrelle D., Megan D., Wayne M., Anne T., David T., John S., Jim H., Ben K., MARK b. Guests / new members: nil minutes of pervious meeting: N/A Business arising: held over to general busi-ness President’s report: read by Justin Mitchell Correspondence in: Correspondence out: newsletters, Treasure’s report: read by Doug R moved by: Theo 2nd by: Max GENERAL BUSINESS:

A. MERCHANDISE: Still there as well as GM day merch

B. CLUB PERMITS scheme/Registration:

C. CLUBROOMS: cleaning roster going good. Need to purchase new Vacuum Cleaner

D. STATE TITLES/nationals: Justin updated the club on the discussions held at the Board Meeting in reference to the State Ti-tles.

E. BAR: still there. Bar contributed $1330 to club purchases throughout the calendar year.

F. Run report: As per Newsletter

G. GM Day: The club will be purchasing equipment to the value of $10000 for the Children's Ward this year.

GENERAL BUSINESS: FACEBOOK: join the Ballarat and district early Holden car clubs Facebook page, the GM page is up and running, so like and share as much as you can to spread the event. Any advertisement buy swap and sell post of Facebook. Technical problems: N/A Buy/ Swap/sell/ wanted: Wanted: fuel pump repair kit, gross no 375 KT rochestar carby (hendo). HK-t-g brake routers (tonner). HK-G soles bury diff (pete), HK-T-G steel trims (booker) HK bumper F/R (jim H) Selling: VK SL SS commodore Justin Email addresses: please give your email ad-dress to Scott so that he can e-mail you to save on printing cost Name tags / key Tags: see Doug Reid for your member key tag and name badge Sergeant In arms: was booker Tonight’s raffles winner: Andrew F—$94.50 Meeting closed: 8:20

The Front End Official Newsletter of The Ballarat & District Early Holden Car Club P.O.Box 184, Howitt Street P.O. Wendouree, Vic. 3355