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MARCH 2011 PO Box 92 Walkerville SA 5081 ABN 67 321 365 282 www.wacc.asn.au WALKERVILLE ALL CARS CLUB INC. LIFE MEMBERS * NOTES MEMBERS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY Malcom Blaskett Rod Calver Denise Collins Des Collins John Day Brian Foster Max Jones Ian Kidsley Geoff Kolberg Janneke Macklin Peter McArthur * Bob Nason Greta Nason Jim Penhale Colin Pettigrew Chris Rizonico Brian Schultze * Ivar Stanelis Adrian Ward John Whittenbury CLUB TRUSTEES: President, Secretary, Treasurer, Greta Nason, Rod Calver, John Whittenbury COMMITTEE FOR 2010 PATRON: Ivar Stanelis EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (PRESIDENT, VP, TREASURER & SECRETARY): [email protected] PRESIDENT: Paul Kinnear [email protected] 0438 275 766 VICE PRESIDENT: Mandy Rudham [email protected] 0417 886 108 TREASURER: Jim Penhale [email protected] 7383 2616 SECRETARY: Greta Nason [email protected] 8263 2801 MEMBERSHIP OFFICER: Steve Marriner [email protected] 8525 4104 MINUTE SECRETARY: Steve Rowe [email protected] ASSISTANT TREASURER: Greta Nason [email protected] CAMS DELEGATE: David Marriner [email protected] 0410 442 012 CAMS DELEGATE PROXY: Des Collins 0401 555 360 EDITOR: Guess Who [email protected] CLUB CAPTAIN / COMPETITION SECRETARY: Dave Rudham [email protected] 0417 849 712 P.R.O. Andrew Gooly [email protected] GENERAL COMMITTEE: [email protected] Bob Nason [email protected] 8263 2801 H 0409 676 649 Matthew Monto [email protected] 8365 2242 H 0408 393 211 Steve Rowe [email protected] Denise Collins [email protected] 8276 5415 H 0427 718 035 Gavin Fowler [email protected] Brenton Alker [email protected] RALLY PANEL REPS: [email protected] Lewis Parin [email protected] 8285 2947H 0400 336 027 8208 3153 Becky Southern [email protected] SOCIAL COMMITTEE: [email protected] Steve Barker [email protected] 8336 2543 0451 077 346 Vicki Grundy [email protected] [email protected] TRACK MAINTENANCE COMMITTEE (WALKY PARK): [email protected] Matthew Monto [email protected] Neville Whittenbury [email protected] FULL COMMITTEE: [email protected] Diary Note Pacenote Information Session by Jeremy Browne Wednesday 16th March 2011 @ 8:00 pm (before the Feb WACC General Meeting) Venue: Walkerville RSL Club, Walkerville Terrace, Walkerville Jeremy has 45+ years of experience as a co-driver, navigator and driver (including International events) and has been pacenoting since 1972 (as both a driver and co-driver). Whether you are new to pacenoting or just want to brush up on your skills, Jeremy will provide the benefit of his extensive pacenoting experience. Drivers as well as Co-Drivers will get much from this session. Jeremy will provide information on: 1 How to write pacenotes 2 How to read pacenotes 3 The different systems So come along and improve your pacenoting skills in time for the 2011 season Material Required for Walky Park Container As you probably know we have purchased a 40 ft container in which to store our equipment. The container currently sits on the ground at Walky Park, which will eventually cause it to rust through. We are going to put it up on concrete blocks (to allow airflow underneath). We want to put some rubber matting in between the concrete and the container. These materials, if purchased new, are very expensive. Does anyone have contacts where we could get cheap rubber matting (one thought was old conveyer belts)? If you can help the club, please contact Paul Kinnear on 0438 275 766 or Dave Rudham on 0417 849 712. Matt and Claire in Tas Well Claire and I managed to get to the finish of the first Classic Tasmania unlike many others. Dave McDonough's awesome RS200 was sighted (not by me unfortunately) on the Friday afternoon but disappeared thereafter which left only one other Thoroughbred car - nothing less than the genuine IYK Greg Carr Mk2 Escort. Jeremy and Diana were stopped on the side of the road at the end of the first timed stage with an engine failure in Jeremy's beautiful works Lancia. Naomi and Tony Quinn had to retire on the Sunday with gearbox problems. Other South Aussies faired much better with Roger Patterson taking out the event in what I now appreciate (having driven a similar car) was a brilliant drive and Mark Laucke and Greg Keene (Porsche), Craig Hayman and Neil Gibson (TR8) and Simon from Simax Engineering in Andrew Cavalli's old MK1 RS Escort did very well to win their classes. For those who haven't been to the Apple Isle, the roads are very challenging with frequent blind crests with no advisory warnings, difficult to predict corner lengths, invariable bumps in braking zones and the local road builders don't seem to have discovered the concept of camber. The scenery is spectacular, the weather impossible to predict. Add to all this that we were in a rear wheel drive, rear engine car with no ECU, no power steering, no trick diffs, never been driven on any public road before and only driven by me once in the past 18 months for 2 laps of Mallala before the harmonic balancer decided to fall off, we had our work cut out for us. Thanks to the efforts of Mark Buik, Lance Walker and our faithfull team from NAS we got the Porsche (or PBC as we now fondly call it - don't ask) over the line though. Can't say we were altogether happy with 10th outright but considering we were plagued with a misfiring engine until Sunday, a gear shift like a stick in a bucket of ...., diabolically stiff suspension producing bump steer that it will take weeks for my arms to recover from and camshafts which make the car useless (other than pure noise) under 6000rpm, the result wasn't too shabby. Somehow we managed to get the outright stage win on the first run through the Burnie super special on the Sunday arvo so that was a nice way to finish. I have put some incar up from the famous Hellyer Gorge stage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwKHf3tXYNw The footage doesn't really do Justice to how steep the descent and climb are, nor how crap my driving was compared to the faster cars nor how LOUD it is in there. Claire did an amazing Job as usual and as proven by the footage. BTW the notes are Steve Glenney and Bernie Webb's handiwork and are brilliant. You may also notice that it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks - I have switched to the 1-10 system. Now back to the Suby rebuild Matt and Claire in Tasmania Walkervi lle All Cars Club Inc. Established in 1954 PO Box 92 Walkerville SA 5081 [email protected] www.wacc.asn.au ABN: 67 321 365 282 CLUB NOTICE - VACANCY To all members of the Walkerville All Cars Club Inc. Due to a sudden resignation of Lewis Parin from the position of SARP Representative , there now exists an opportunity for someone who would like to become involved in representing the Club and its members on the South Australian Rally Panel (SARP). This position would suit someone who would like to be involved in progressing the sport of Rallying in this state. SARP meets on the second Monday of each month. SARP Representatives (the Club has two) are expected to represent the views of the Club and its members at SARP Meetings and report to the Club at least once a month on issues that are being discussed/addressed by SARP and require or would benefit from feedback from members of the Rallying community. Club General Meetings are usually a good opportunity to raise discussion topics and collect views and ideas from members to take back to SARP. Should you wish to nominate someone for this posit ion or find out what’s involved, please do not hesitate to contact the Club Secretary or any of the Club Committee. See you all at the Club General Meeting at the Walkerville RSL Hall on Wednesday, 16 th March 2011 at 8pm. THINKING OF SELLING ANY REAL ESTATE OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS? CALL ME ON 0419 812 621 FOR A FREE APPRAISAL Mention that you are a member of the Walky Car Club and I will see that you receive a special deal. The sale of your most prized asset (excluding your rally car) will be in safe and reliable hands. My husband, Rod, is a life member and past president of Walky. B Grade Cars A bit of History I have always been attracted to the Group B era and the cars that competed in it. Being an engineer, the freedom to develop a car to its limit was always an appealing thought. I started rallying in 1980 while still studying mechanical Engineering. It added a year to my 4 year course with the distraction and mucking around of building a car on a miniscule budget and trying to compete ...but it was worth it. The practical skills acquired and the necessity to make something out of nothing, Just to go faster certainly helped in the years to come in business. The fantastic thing about the 80's era was that we were allowed to run Group G cars . This meant that an average guy, with a brain and big balls , could compete against the works cars for a fraction of the cost. It was also very easy for the novice to have a go at a reasonable speed at a cheap price.