March 2012 Magazine of the Peugeot Car Club of NSW Inc a Million More
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the pugilist Magazine of the March 2012 Peugeot Car Club of NSW Inc n A million more reasons to stick with the 504 Diesel n NRMA Pugfest. Record numbers attend the Australia Day event n Choose your own n Puglet production adventure — a plethora begins - the 208 rolls of outback trips for your off the line in Poissy enjoyment British & Continental CarsEstablished 1961 Back where we belong We talk Peugeot seven days a week ■ Well presented Peugeots. ■ Citroëns, Volvos and Renaults, services available too. ■ Special deals to Peugeot car Back at our original landmark site at club members. the crossroads opposite Bunnings. 235-239 Parramatta Road, Haberfield Open seven days Phone 9798 0900 Fax 9799 0913 [email protected] Big engine update Where’s the FAP?: The Type 9 fires into life in 2011 at St-Girons French horsepower in the Pyrénées off their hands. After taking it apart, winch- back from the dead ing it out of the basement by crane, then transporting it and Simon Craig reassembling it, members of the Society were finally able to start it up again The cover ANCY A REALLY big engine? in 2010. Lloyd and Rose Flemming pose in Well, this is one that’s not going to Now, it’s on display at the Rétromobile 2012 front of their million mile diesel Pug in Ffit under the bonnet of your 505, but it’s show in Paris, which ran from 1-5. Inverell, NSW in February. pretty impressive, all the same. Among the other vintage oddities on display This 27 tonne Type 9 V.O.S. engine is one of were a 1913 Audi Type C with aeroplane fab- Photo: Peter Wilson just three built by the French company Duvant ric covered coachwork, an incomplete 1920s in 1962. GERIN aerodynamic concept vehicle, and two It’s over 5.5 metres long, 3.4 metres tall, and examples of early amphibious cars. Inside this issue drinks 350 litres of diesel fuel per hour. With its As Peugeot’s focus is on the launch of the President’s report page 4 four valves per cylinder and turbo compressor, 208, L’Aventure Peugeot displayed a range of it is capable of producing 1600 horsepower. 2 series models, including a 201 Découvrable, Club Diary page 5 Best of all, if you’d happened to have a 202 Découvrable, a 203 Commerciale, a 204 Peugeot Pageant page 7 been in Paris last month for Rétromobile, you Coupé, 205 CTi and a 205 GTi. Club information page 8 would’ve been able see the thing running. This particular Type 9 spent 50 years in the Six degrees: The keen-eyed editor Peugeot News page 9 basement of the Auteuil Hippodrome [race- noticed this 2009 snap he took is in the Sake & Sirens page 11 course], in Paris. The racecourse opened in very same square in St Girons 1873 and is used for horse racing. HSRCA Time Trial page 12 There, it drove a giant alternator that could Midsummer Wander page 14 power the entire facility in the event of a power Timing your 406 V6 motor page 16 outage. In 1990, it was used for the last time, yet Is the GTi on the way back? page 20 none of the tens of thousands of visitors who go Peugeot millionaires page 22 there every Sunday knew it even existed. Memory Lane page 24 By 2000, the racecourse owners were look- ing for a new home for the engine, so the Are you trailing behind? page 25 Association des Amoureux des Vieux Moteurs Private Parts page 26 (Vintage Engines Appreciation Society) took it 3 TThehe ppresident’sresident’s rreporteport Ross Berghofer Peugeot memorabilia, I arranged an auction on If you have not booked for the Easter pag- behalf of the club. You may have received an eant, it is not too late, but we need to know final POSTED TO Lumley Special Vehicles an email message about it, with the auction closing numbers by 20 March so that we can book the invoice for the advertisement in the club on 5 March. They are sizeable items, although caterers. I magazine for 2012. You may notice that not heavy but are bulky and fragile — too big Have you noticed that your computer may the advertisement on the third last page of the to take Easter pageant. contain a desktop background from Midnight magazine has gone. Lumley sent an email mes- All French Car Day is scheduled for 15 July in Paris? My computer at work offers it, but not sage that reads: at Silverwater Park and I have submitted the the one at home. I am not a person knowledgea- “Thank you for the opportunity to renew the required paperwork to Auburn Council. ble in computers, so don’t ask me why this is so. advertising in your Club magazine. At this time, This year there are a lot more questions to In the meantime, keep on Pugging on and we will have to decline as we are utilising our be answered such as impact on traffic flow and keep those wagons rolling. marketing spend elsewhere for the next twelve the qualifications of the food suppliers. The hire months. This decision has not been taken lightly fee increases too, to $400. If you, or you know and we sincerely value the relationship built someone who might be interested in selling with your Club and its members to date. their goods, let me know so that I will allocate On behalf of Lumley Special Vehicles, I a space for them. March would like to thank you and the Committee While on the subject of car shows, the for the opportunity to advertise in the Club Shannons Eastern Creek Classic is scheduled Meeting magazine over the past year and wish you all for 19 August and the club has requested 10 well for 2012.” tickets. These will be allocated at French Car For those of you interested in acquiring day in July. Ross Berghofer fter our hero’s recovery from his recent bout of non-Peuge- Aot activities, David Bean will again be on track to present the DVD “Back of Beyond” at the March meeting. The movie celebrates the life and times of Australia’s best known outback mail man Tom Kruse. Every fortnight he battled isolation, heat, sand dunes and floods to deliver mail and supplies to the families along the Birdsville Track from Marree to Birdsville — emerging over the sand hills in his reliable Leyland Badger. He brought the mail to the people living on stations and outposts along the track, their only link to the outside world. Join us as we review the story on DVD at the March meeting. 4 Stuff to do President’s Breakfast 18 March Please see me at the meeting, call me on Nigel Nash 9456 1245 or email me on emvale@bigpond. net to book your seat. HE PRESIDENT’S Breakfast is on The Blow Fish Café is at 11 Narrabeen again and it is back to the popular Blow Street, which runs west off Pittwater Road. TFish Café, in Narrabeen. www.blowfishcafe.com.au This year it’s on 18 March and we have Pleasant company: The 2011 again booked the verandah overlooking the event proved very popular lake, for a 9:30am start time. A tasty full breakfast is around $16.50 with other options including vegetarian. See the website for the full menu. I will start collecting bookings at the 25 March February club meeting. Brian Jubb Parking is available in the Café’s off street car park. HE OLD CAR Social Club has I have made a provisional booking for 40 again invited the Peugeot Car Club people and will need to finalise the numbers Tto the Flowerpower car show on after our March club meeting. Sunday 25th March. The event is in aid of Diabeties Awareness. Flower Power is located at the intersec- tion of Newbridge Rd & Davey Robinson Drive, Moorebank. Illawarra Drive Cars are to be in place by 9am and entry is $10 per car. Brian Jubb To arrive as a group, meet at 8.30 am 29 April at the corner of Milpera Rd & Marigold N SUNDAY, 29th April there will be St, Milpera. a drive to the Illawarra Grevillea Park. plan on having lunch at a local club in the Please contact Brian Jubb with expres- O The plan is to meet at McDonald’s Bulli area. sions of interest, on 02 9602 9591 or via Engadine (corner of Heathcote Rd & Princes Please contact Brian Jubb with expressions email at Highway) for a 10am start. of interest for catering purposes, on 02 9602 [email protected] We will then head south through the Royal 9591 or email at National Park, stopping at Stanwell Tops for [email protected] Fairground fabulous views of the ocean and Grand Pacific Drive — where the roadway is over the ocean. The Sea Cliff Bridge from Stanwell Tops Follies We then trav- Brian Jubb el on the Grand Pacific Drive he Old Car Social Club has invited our to the Illawarra club to join them at Fairground Follies Grevillea Park. T— Antique Mechanical Music Museum Entry is $5.00 on Sunday, 27 May. per person, chil- We will be meeting at Bunnings Bankstown dren free. for a 10am start, or meet at 22 Burrows Rd St The park has Peters for an 11am tour. a beautiful walk, Entry is $22 per person, payable by the May cafe and plant club meeting. sales. Aftr the tour we’ll have a Picnic Lunch at Following the Tempe Park.