21/11 DECEMBER 2015 [ $8 ] LOTUS & Clubman Notes THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE COMBINED LOTUS CLUBS OF AUSTRALIA FEATURES Richard Parramint’s big “Thank you Australia” Red Bull Billy Cart 2015 James Bond – Lotus Seven LCV Christmas Lunch and Concours Lotus Only Track Day Goodwood Revival 2015 Print Post Approved 100001716 CLUB LOTUS AUSTRALIA (NSW) December 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 11 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] 05 Richard Parramint’s big “Thank you Australia” Secretary Elliott Nicholls H (02) 9484 3749 [email protected] Competition Secretary Mike Basquil (02) 9533 2140 [email protected] 06 South Australian Lotus Talk & CAMS Delegate 08 Red Bull Billy Cart 2015 James Bond General Committee Keith Edwards 0417286976 [email protected] – Lotus Seven James Chan 10 A Year of Lotus & Clubman Notes Rob Costa Point score Michael Donnan (02) 9389 0461 [email protected] 11 LCV Annual Awards Webmaster Seth Reinhardt 11 VicRoads Club Permit Scheme Public Officer & Maurice Blackwood 0417 218 462 mozzieb@ ispdr.net.au information Club Plates 12 LCV November Club night at Bolwell CMC Delegates Evan Jones 0411103043 [email protected] [email protected] 14 LCQ Birches for Breakfast Magazine coordinator Tom Devitt 61 417 295 549 [email protected] 16 The View from The Benz CLA State Delegates Eddie Lankhorst for WA [email protected] 18 LCV Christmas Lunch and Concours John Barrass for Tas [email protected] 21 Noosa HRCC Hill Climb 2015 David Leaney for ACT [email protected] 22 2015 - A Mixed Year in Group S Historic Racing Andrew Stevens for SA [email protected] 24 Lotus Only Track Day 26 2015 Queensland State Champs LOTUS CLUB VICTORIA 27 Sandown Historic Meeting COMMITTEE PO Box 79, Hawthorn Business Centre, VIC 3122 28 Goodwood Revival 2015 LCV Website: www.lotusclubvic.asn.au 32 Australia’s First Lotus President Chris O’Connor [email protected] Vice President Cris Johansen [email protected] Treasurer Kevin Neville [email protected] REGULARS Secretary John King [email protected] 02 President’s Waffle Other Members David Buntin [email protected] Mike Byrne [email protected] 03 President’s Prattle Alec Spyrou [email protected] 04 President’s Message 35 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! Carl Lakkis and his Concours winning Esprit S1 www.clublotus.com.au www.lotusclubvic.asn.au www.lotusclubqueensland.com LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES DECEMBER 2015 [ 1 ] President’s Waffle By CLIVE WADE, President, LCQ It’s a strange thing having to write something Wales, in just one night, thus relieving the true Hill’, we advertised it as a club run for a few for the magazine each month, and this is Santa to concentrate elsewhere (front cover weeks before hand. I can happily say it was my first, hopefully not my last, Christmas picture Dec 2005). quite a success with 15 people attending. President’s Report. And so what to write about? Ahh, the joy of printed magazines, articles from Similarly to Dick Reynolds past arrangement There’s the usual coverage of what happened all three clubs, especially, and traditionally, of ‘turn up at Maccas, The Gap at 7:30am, no during the last month, what is to happen during every Christmas…sweet. RSVP required’, we arranged an informal start. the following month, and then the difficult bit, It worked, it worked well, and I’m happy to what else to write about? Well, inspiration And so, to compare Dec 2015 to Dec 2005: say we’ll do it regularly next year. That is, an from the past is always helpful, so for me it is Gloria and I celebrated 40 years of bliss, I informal run once a month which will enhance time to pull out an old magazine and become can honestly say I also have a hard working our social side of the club without it being an inspired. committee, and we had a magnificent Lotus impost on the social coordinator, ensuring he/ 2015 Biennial. Hosted by CLA-SA, it was a huge I joined the club in 2003, my collection of Lotus & they will be coordinating with the volunteers success. Held in the Barossa Valley, all states Clubman Notes commences February 2004, but who are going to volunteer to organize and run and territories were represented, a first for the sadly my December 2004 magazine has obviously each of the official monthly drive. Lotus Clubs of Australia. I’m sure that CLA-SA been lent to somebody, so instead I have chosen were able to achieve this historic moment in And on that note to end the year, enjoy your the December 2005 for my inspiration. history with the benefit of the magazine being well-earned break, we’ll see you all next year Now Patrick Mewing was LCQ President in a truly ‘National Magazine’, albeit in electronic (and to quote Ashton; keep it safe, upright and 2005, his ‘President’s Platitudes’ lament having media only. I guess I’ll learn to savour my on the black stuff). missed Targa Tassie due to that most important ‘C:\Somewhere or Other…file name.pdf’… From the LCQ Committee, Gloria and myself, to issue of marriage (11 years of bliss this year Hmm, I think I’ll go and read that nice tangible all our members and families in the family of the Patrick!). He espouses the benefits of a hard Dec 2005 Issue now. Lotus Clubs of Australia… working committee, and the joys of Lotus And so to the next month: come the 1st 2005 hosted by CLA in Bowral and Goulburn. We wish you a MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS of December you should be sitting at your All three clubs were present, meaning only and THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS. computer/tablet avidly consuming our next Victoria, NSW and Qld were represented. pdf of all things Lotus. Reminiscing over the Isn’t it a joy to open an old magazine, one that past month’s issues, issues such as the printed goes back exactly 10 years, a time capsule to be magazine debate at our last meeting, the savoured over a few days whilst awaiting next successes at Noosa Hill Climb, our two EMR’s month’s issue. I’m sure if I had been storing my to Mt Mee and Mt Glorious, and hopefully a magazines on a computer the whole collection successful Christmas Party at the Toowong would have been lost during an update/ Bowls Club. replacement of my tool of trade; the ubiquitous You’ll be looking forward to the Interclub computer. The collection would surely have been Challenge Presentation at ‘Cars & Coffee’ on lost with a desperate panic and a desperate the 5th December where LCQ and a number promise to re-instate the files when time permits of LCQ Members will receive awards, the after the lost business files (which would December Meeting at Derek Dean’s Motorman certainly have taken precedence) were retrieved. Imports where we will be trying to squeeze as And I’m sure I would still be going to fix that one Next LCQ Meeting many Lotuses (we need at least 60) into Derek’s day. Not so for my tangible printed magazines, show room as is physically possible, and a I may never retrieve the odd missing magazine, TUESDAY 8TH DECEMBER week or two later, the outcome of the vote in but I will always have a near complete library 6.30 FOR 7:00 PM regard to a printed version of the magazine. for reference. I’ll always be able to reminisce, Motorman Imports All followed by a well-earned break over the feel the texture of the old paper, remember the 3679 Pacific Hwy (actually on Nujooloo Rd) Christmas and New Year. friends in the different states, and I’ll laugh to SLACKS CREEK myself over such pictures as Santa Claus (Brian During November we introduced an EMR into NOTE: This is the second Tuesday of Caldersmith) driving a red Elite full of Christmas the earlier part of the month. Rather than being the month, NOT the first Tuesday pressies for all the Lotus children of New South an impromptu short notice SMS’ed ‘Run up the [ 2 ] LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES DECEMBER 2015 President’s Prattle By ASHTON ROSKILL, CLA President As the last ramblings of the year, it is of course I am writing this from Bangkok, and on the And the second December event is the Simply my opportunity to wish you all a wonderful plane here was reading the quarterly Club Lotus Sports Cars Coffee and Tyre Kick on Saturday Christmas, and a Happy and prosperous New (UK) magazine, and also the Historic Lotus 19th December – this replaces the normal “third Year. I’d also like to thank the Editors of this Register magazine, and both made me realise Sunday of the month at Gough Whitlam Park” publication, Peter Hill and Peter Murray, for what an amazing breadth of individuals go to event, and will, of course, be taking place at the all the hard work that goes into such a work.