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April Cover 2015 17/4/15 12:20 AM Page 1 April 2015 OverlandOverland CruiseringCruisering Toyota Land Cruiser Club of Australia (Victoria) Inc. A0005442cA0005442c CruiserkhanaCruiserkhana Action!Action! Inside < All the CK < Cruiserkhana < MacFarlane action! Souvenir Flat liftout Adventure www.tlccv.com.au Registered by Australia Post Publication No. PP339119/00013 $5.00 DECEMBER FINAL PRINT MASTER 15/1/15 10:14 PM Page 2 Part 1 april 16/4/15 11:54 PM Page 1 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER CLUB OF AUSTRALIA (VICTORIA) INC. A0005442C APRILAPRIL 20152015 ABN87301244383 CONTENTS VOLUME 43 No.9 Club Information 1 Committee 2014-2015 2 Vice President’s Report 3 Over the Hill 5 Calendar/Coming Events 7 Annual General Meeting 9 Cruiserkhan Souvenir 11 Social News 20 MacFarlane Flat Adventure 25 Wheel Bearing weekend 26 News from ARB 27 Yarck Bushfire Plan 28 Member Business Directory 28 General Meetings: 7:30pm on Website: YARCK PROPERTY the 3rd Tuesday of each month http:www.tlccv.com.au Our property is a registered at Mulgrave Country Club Land for Wildlife property and MEMBERSHIP DETAILS Wellington Road (corner Jells no inference is drawn in the Joining Fee: $280.00 Road), Wheelers Hill publication that the sign or Membership: $145.00 Melways Ref 80 H1 registration has any other 2015 Cruiserkhana REINSTATEMENT OF PAST meaning. Geelong Meetings: 7.30pm the MEMBERS The opinions expressed in the articles 1st Tuesday of each month & appearing in this magazine are not If a member rejoins the Club Life Members: Graeme Wilson, 2nd Tuesday each November at John Whitney (Dec), Don Honey, necessarily those of the Editor or the within 5 years, a joining fee is the Supper Room, Geelong Bill Dower, Alan Winch, Barrie Toyota Land Cruiser Club of Australia not applicable. (Victoria) Inc. The Editor reserves the West Town Hall, 153 Pakington McCarthy, Harold Ross, Sandra If a member rejoins the Club right to delete where necessary any St. 3218. (Mel. 451 J2) Tanner, Brian Stewart, Charles section of any article, which has been after 5 years, they are required Norman, Ashley (Dec) &Judith sent for publication in the magazine. ENQUIRIES: Membership & to pay the joining fee and under- Williams, John Turbill, Garry Acceptance of advertisements does General to: take the Club’s Driver Cooper,Jan Chivers & Ken not necessarily imply endorsement of The Secretary Awareness course. Hildebrand products or associated companies or individuals by the Toyota Land Cruiser Toyota Land Cruiser Club Honorary Members: Ross McClure, RECOGNISED CLUB RADIO Club of Australia (Victoria) Inc. PO Box 363, Clive Blakely, Reece DeJong HAWTHORN 3122 CHANNEL: 15 UHF Club Auditor: Chris Rumble Overland Cruisering 1 Part 1 March 9/3/15 8:11 PM Page 2 COMMITTEE 2014 - 2015 President Driver Training Marketing/Public Relations Coordinator Ian Ross John MIlls: [email protected] Brian Tanner [email protected] * Driver Training Course bookings [email protected] * Awareness Course certificates Emergency Response Coordinator Vice President Yarck Management Laurie Miles Brian Stewart [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Magazine Distribution Raffles & Supper Russell & Lesley Edwards Gabi & Grace Azzam Secretary Karen Wade Sandra Tanner [email protected] Trip Convenor [email protected] Club Shop Tony Middleditch Graham Cahill [email protected] * Register a Member’s trip Assistant Secretary * Assistance in trip preparation Sergeant-At-Arms Ian wells Russell Edwards [email protected] [email protected] Technical [email protected] Brett Dyson Social Coordinator [email protected] Treasurer Training * Book for participation in social events Alan McMeekin Matt Lilley [email protected] [email protected] • Club training courses co-ordinator Visitor Greeters Carol & Greg Edmunds Special Events Cruiserkhana Assistant Treasurer [email protected] [email protected] Steve de Mamiel • Shows & special event co-ordinator [email protected] Membership Barbara Bryant [email protected] GEELONG BRANCH * Membership renewals, name badges, President Committee Matt McPhee [email protected] Michael Schuettke contact detail changes [email protected] Librarian Wendy Wilson [email protected] Vice President Matt Lilley Committee * Borrow DVDs & books [email protected] Adam Takacs * Contributions to the Library [email protected] Secretary Jennie Harvie FWDV Delegate Tony Bryant [email protected] Magazine Editor Sandra Tanner: [email protected] [email protected] Social Webmaster Judith Williams Laurie Miles Advertising Sandra Tanner [email protected] Excursion Visits Coordinator Activities Coordinator [email protected] Ian Ross [email protected] MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES TRADING POST All articles, trip reports and other • Please submit articles as Word • Note: if selling a vehicle in the Trading contributions are welcome for inclusion in documents with no formatting. Post it is a Motor Car Trader Regulation the magazine. They must be in the (No fancy formats as it will only have to be (1988-22(4) legal requirement that a cash hands of the Editor by the first of the removed in preparing for publication). price, registration number or engine number month. In particular DO NOT embed pictures in are supplied. your documents Please send them to: ADVERTISING A TRIP The Editor, Overland Cruisering, • Images (photos) should be . • Note: All trips must be approved by the PO Box 1778, Geelong 3220 supplied as seperate JPEG files The higher resolution the better. As a guide Trip Convenor before they can be gazetted in Overland Cruisering. or email: [email protected] images should be of 300 pixel per inch with image files around 1-5MB fine. • If you have multiple images, please burn to All contributions MUST BE received by Members’ name and membership a CD and post to Editor rather than the 1st of the month. number must accompany all articles trying to email numerous images. ADVERTISERS and/or contributions. • Articles can be posted with normal photos. They will be scanned and returned to the Please support those companies that adver- author if a self-addressed envelope is tise in our magazine. Let them know you provided. saw their advert in Overland Cruisering. ARE YOUR MEMBERSHIP DETAILS CURRENT? If you have recently moved, please notify Barbara Bryant – Membership Officer – and provide your new address, telephone number(s) and (if altered) your email address as soon as possible. Please also remember to remove the Club sticker if you change or sell your four-wheel drive. 2 Overland Cruisering Part 1 april 16/4/15 11:56 PM Page 3 UPDATE VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT utumn is always a busy time of the Ian Ross is recuperating well after his little reluctant to let go of the past. 4WD calendar as many trips are recent surgery. He was progressing well Hopefully with training and education we Abeing run and of course when he managed to slip and fracture his can assist each other to move forward in CruiserKhana 2015 has just been run. With ankle. Hopefully he gets plenty of rest and our changing world. So make sure you get the Challenge rights for the Team award recovers soon. your vote in. being taken away from the TLCCV last With Ian recovering, it means I have been Brian Stewart has asked if he could place year, TLCCV Team Ninja put up a sterling asked to step up from my recent appoint- a vintage Massey Harris Combine effort but were just pipped at the post in ment as Vice President and chair a few Harvester (in his collection) as part of the 2nd place by the Pajero2 team. Well done club meetings - in all, a good learning landscaping for the new bush hut. Your guys – perhaps next year we will wrestle curve for me. committee has agreed to this, and hope the cup back – thanks to Gunter Scheffel, Tony Middleditch has been very busy that many members will gain benefit from Rob Karkut and Wayne Jinks for heading checking out 4WD tracks near Mansfield viewing the harvester whenever they visit up Team Ninja. and the High Country. Tony is organizing the bush hut. Of course we must not forget the hard many trips for the FWDV 40th Anniversary April means it’s time to start thinking about working CruiserKhana committee who put weekend over the Queen’s Birthday week- our committee for 2015/2016. You will see in hours of hard work to make sure end in June. With a lot of input from Brian in this magazine, along with nomination CruiserKhana 2015 was a big success. & Sandra Tanner, this big anniversary forms plus proxy votes for those who will Behind the scenes, a big thank you also event is starting to take shape. So it looks be away. goes out to the ladies in the kitchen who like this will be a great event and one not to successfully served up meals to over 200 be missed. If you haven’t sent in your reg- people. Another big thanks to those mem- istration form yet, then hunt it down in the bers who acted as CruiserKhana mar- club magazine (closing date 22nd May). shals. With our club slowly moving into the elec- It has been a busy time for me as well, with tronic age, it is good to see so many mem- running some club trips, and having just bers responding to the club survey earlier returned from a fantastic Vic/SA Border this year and more recently, the voting for Track trip with 6 other vehicles. In addition future reading of our club magazine. to this, I am always busy writing fortnightly Sometimes, it is hard to change the way we Laurie Miles (1058) editions of Weekend Wrap, and this month do things.