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21/8 SEPTEMBER 2015 [ $8 ] LOTUS & Clubman Notes THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE COMBINED LOTUS CLUBS OF AUSTRALIA FEATURES Mt Glorious EMR LCV Economy Run Trip to Bungendore 10th Anniversary Victorian 6 Hour Relay at Phillip Island Night Observation Print Post Approved 100001716 CLUB LOTUS AUSTRALIA (NSW) September 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 8 COMMITTEE Club Lotus Australia PO Box 220, STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 President Ashton Roskill 0408 202 208 [email protected] FEATURES Vice-President Anne Blackwood 0413 22 11 23 [email protected] Treasurer Kristine Bennett 0414 781 524 [email protected] 06 South Australia Lotus Talk Secretary Elliott Nicholls H (02) 9484 3749 [email protected] 08 Mt Glorious EMR Competition Secretary Mike Basquil (02) 9533 2140 [email protected] & CAMS Delegate 10 LCV Economy Run General Committee Keith Edwards 0417286976 [email protected] 11 Trip to Bungendore James Chan 12 Samford to Birches Rob Costa Point score Michael Donnan (02) 9389 0461 [email protected] 14 10th Anniversary Victorian 6 Hour Relay at Phillip Island – Webmaster Seth Reinhardt lessons of a novice Public Officer & Maurice Blackwood 0417 218 462 mozzieb@ ispdr.net.au Club Plates 16 2015 CSCA August Report CMC Delegates Evan Jones 0411103043 [email protected] 18 MSCA Round Five [email protected] Magazine coordinator Tom Devitt 61 417 295 549 [email protected] 20 Night Observation CLA State Delegates Eddie Lankhorst for WA [email protected] 21 MSCA Round six John Barrass for Tas [email protected] 22 Queensland Super Sprint David Leaney for ACT [email protected] 24 Lakeside DTC Andrew Stevens for SA [email protected] 26 Noosa Mid-Year Hill Climb 2015 27 Interview: Ed Holly LOTUS CLUB VICTORIA 30 Lotus Elites Number 10 COMMITTEE PO Box 79, Hawthorn Business Centre, VIC 3122 LCV Website: www.lotusclubvic.asn.au President Chris O’Connor [email protected] REGULARS Vice President Cris Johansen [email protected] Treasurer Kevin Neville [email protected] 02 President’s Waffle Secretary John King [email protected] 03 President’s Message Other Members David Buntin [email protected] 04 President’s Prattle Mike Byrne [email protected] Alec Spyrou [email protected] 33 Classifieds LOTUS CLUB QUEENSLAND COMMITTEE 16 Julia Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 LCQ Website: www.lotusclubqueensland.com President Clive Wade [email protected] 0418 196 570 Vice President Geoff Noble [email protected] 0419 643 365 Secretary Jon Young [email protected] 0417 745 790 Treasurer Daryl Wilson [email protected] 0418 711 227 Social Coordinator John Barram [email protected] 0458 321 458 Magazine Shane Murphy [email protected] 0413 616 169 Coordinator Webmaster Vyvyan Black [email protected] 0417 646 202 CAMS Delegate Greg Bray [email protected] 07 3206 1395 For any last minute updates check your state’s website! photo by Gloria Wade: LCQ Mt Glorious Run www.clublotus.com.au www.lotusclubvic.asn.au www.lotusclubqueensland.com LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES SEPTEMBER 2015 [ 1 ] President’s Waffle By CLIVE WADE, President, LCQ And so another month has passed by. I’ve not to name everybody for fear of missing someone 20th September will see our Concourse d’ managed to get to too much with the club this out (my usual faux pas). No doubt there will be Elgance at the All British Day at Tennyson month, but I have kept my ear to the ground to an article in the magazine, which I don’t want to where all our “Bling” will be on display…Lotus pick up on what’s been going on. pre-empt, but congratulations the LCQ members “Bling” is mostly treasured stone chips rather who not only held LCQ’s place as the lead club than glitz, though there are a creditable number Greg & Chris Bray kindly hosted our EMR on in the Interclub challenge, but improved our of Lotuses in the club kept in extraordinary Sunday the 2nd August. On short notice, thank placing overall. states of cleanliness and perfection. you ever so much, Greg & Chris were able to round up twelve cars to enjoy a short run from Now of course, we must concentrate on Last but certainly not least, it has recently been Samford to Birches Restaurant at Mt Mee where holding our envied position, and the only way to brought to my attention by a number of the club there is always a guarantee of a good and hearty achieve that is for all and sundry to represent elders…those current club folk who owned a breakfast. Apparently, after breakfast a couple LCQ at the final ICC event of the motorkhana on lotus in the 1970’s…that 2015 is the year of our of diehards couldn’t resist continuing on over 27 September. We will all soon be inundated 40th anniversary. It would seem a motley crew Mt Mee, out through Kilcoy, around Somerset with reminders from Ken Philp and Tony Galletly of Lotuses, with their owners, joined together Dam and then off home. I know for one couple to ensure we have a team to uphold our honour. for a picnic on Mt Glorious. Hopefully this home is at the Gold Coast, so they must have put small team of members will be able to define A comment here is necessary…If you aren’t a few miles on the Elan that day. a more accurate date than “sometime in 1975” a regular competitor and think you’ll only to possibly a month of the year. And I’m sure Our club meeting was the next get together hold the ICC results down, don’t be put off by we are going to celebrate such an auspicious where we only had fourteen attendees. It was our enthusiasm to win, there will always be occasion in the near future…Keep you posted, a cold night, and being the middle of winter, it competitiveness in a Lotus mob. However the so watch your emails. was a dark night, and strangely for Qld, it was ICC points are only accumulated for the club by also a wet night, so maybe a cold, dark and the fastest 4 competitors of each club on the And on that comment…see you at the stormy night was a good reason to stay at home day. All other LCQ’ers just have a jolly good September meeting, 7:00 for 7:30, Tuesday in front of a warm fire instead. time, and who knows, if you’re one us on the 1st September at our usual hide-out at day, you may just cause a sensation (or upset) Shannons in West End. Then the event of the year! LCQ hosted the by being the quicker…Now there’s a challenge. Interclub Challenge (ICC). Our DTC Sprint on Cheerio for now, Sunday 16th August had more than 50 entries. And what else is on for the month of September Clive This is an absolute credit to not only Daryl you might ask? By the time you are reading Wilson who tirelessly organizes all the DTCs, it this we will have had our full day run through is also a credit to the small army of volunteers Flagstone Creek with Cameron Campbell- who help out on the lead up to the event, and at Brown being our guide on the 30th August. And the event, making it possible for all to be able hopefully we will have used our new CB radios to compete as well as administer. I’m not going to keep the fleet together. Next LCQ Meeting TUESDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 7.00 FOR 7:30 PM Shannons Car Insurance Office 305 Montague Road West End [ 2 ] LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES SEPTEMBER 2015 President’s Message By CHRIS O’CONNOR, President LCV During the last month there have been a and I couldn’t help but admire his tenacity. Lotus 7 and was the fastest qualifier for the Sc number of events associated with the club. We On our drive home I and my two passengers, class. From the CAMS website: ran a fuel economy run, members participated David Mottram and John King, spent the Group Sc is for non-turbo charged production in two rounds of the MSCA championship, and journey discussing cancer and at one stage I sports cars generally manufactured and we ran a rather special monthly meeting which commented that Lou would be tickled pink to available in Australia between 1st January had nothing to do with cars. know that that was what we were discussing. 1970 and 31st December 1977 with the Since the meeting two members apologised Lou Silluzio has become a published children’s inclusion of model run-ons. for not attending and that prompted two book author. This was a fairly dramatic change The field at Winton included, besides the Lotus conversations about cancer and other health of career for Lou but he did so in response to 7s, a number of 911s, some Alfa GTVs and 105s, issues generally. On your behalf can I publicly being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Lou a 260Z, a Corvette and a De Tomaso Pantera. thank Lou for his honest and challenging addressed the August monthly meeting to Mike went on to win one race and come runner address to the meeting and to wish him good detail his journey with cancer. He gave us a up in another by half a second. Mike is the luck and great health in the future. thorough knowledge of prostate cancer, what classic quiet achiever.