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ELECTED COMMITTEE PRESIDENT: COMMITTEE: Administration: lain Ross Philip Johnstone Kevin Churchill Tel.: (03) 9890 0467 Tel.: (03) 9807 9096 Tel.: 9555 0133 Fax.: (03) 9890 0632 Triumph Sports Owners Assoc. Email: [email protected] Bristol Owners Club of Aust. Model A Ford Club Andrew Davenport VICE PRESIDENT: Tel.: (03) 9458 2531 RACV MOTORING INTERESTS Rod Amos Norton Owners Club MANAGER: Tel.: (03) 5977 1190 Daryl Meek Vintage Sports Car Club Rod Adler Phone: 03 9790 3079 Tel.: (03) 9889 4071 Fax: 03 9790 3065 SECRETARY: Buick Car Club Mobile: 0407 881 288 Andrew Gottschalk Don McGregor Email: [email protected] Moke Owners Association Tel.: 0414 332 082 Macedon Ranges CC ENGINE RECORDS SEARCH: TREASURER: AOMC Office Rhys Timms Matthew Lambert Tel (03) 9555 0133. MG Car Club Rootes Group CC AOMC Office NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Steve Young 1/3 Edgecombe Crt Daryl McMahon Rolls Royce Owners CC Moorabbin, Vic 3189 Tel.: 0467 902 040 (03) 9555 0133 [email protected] Keith Mortimer Email;: [email protected] Vintage Drivers Club Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Web: www.aomc.asn.au Front Cover: The festive picnic atmosphere at Yarra Glen Racecourse where the National Motoring Heritage day event was held on May 17th. A large contingent of clubs and cars were in attendance. CONTACTING THE AOMC: The AOMC office and phone is attended 2 days per week, all other times there is an answering machine operating which is accessed remotely, so your call will be attended to within 24 hours. When leaving a message, please ensure you leave your contact number and a brief outline of your query. AOMC OFFICE, 1/3 EDGECOMBE COURT, MOORABBIN, VICTORIA 3189 ABN 90 979 750 693- INCORPORATION REG # A731A Telephone: (03) 9555 0133 We are now on FACEBOOK Postal Address : 1/3 Edgecombe Court, For information on coming events, Moorabbin, 3189 you are invited to join our site as a Email: [email protected] “friend” to receive notifications. Website: www.aomc.asn.au www.facebook.com/infoAOMC 2 AOMC August 2015 NOTICE TO CLUBS AND MEMBERS PRIVACY POLICY NEWSLETTER EDITORS The Association of Motoring Clubs will collect information from its Items in the AOMC Newsletter can be copied/retyped without constituent club members. This information will be updated regularly permission, provided that the AOMC source is properly and held in a secure manner by the Association. The information held acknowledged. We send out information packages from time to time, will relate only to: and also ask that you establish a regular AOMC News segment in Office bearers of the member clubs, your newsletter. There is much to tell and for the survival of our hobby, good and frequent communication of our news with your Membership fees paid and the number of individual members, membership is paramount. Please ensure the Association is on your Postal and telephone contact of member clubs, Newsletter mailing list to enable the update of its database of club Electronic mail addresses of member clubs. office bearers and contact information, and to publish information concerning significant club events in the Newsletter. Newsletters The Association provides a referral service to the public who wish to should be posted to the AOMC at 1/3 Edgecombe Court, Moorabbin, make contact with a motoring club. Information concerning constituent Vic. 3189 member clubs will be made available to prospective members and interested parties in line with a published aim of the Association. If WEB MASTERS any constituent club does not wish the Association to disclose its Register your club’s www site on the AOMC member club’s web contact details it should advise the Association office of this fact. pages. See http://aomc.asn.au/ members.htm If your club is already Individual members known as supporters will be listed by mail listed then check that the www address is correct. If incorrect, email address on a separate register. the AOMC web master with the new details. Supporter details will not be provided under any circumstances. The Association assures its membership that lists of members or CLUB CONTACT INFORMATION contact details will not be sold to commercial organisations. The Have you recently changed your Executive or mailing address? If so, Association will only provide information to organisations or groups then please advise the AOMC office of the new details otherwise you after consultation with the Executive committee and only if the might miss the latest AOMC news. We look forward to being able to information provided promotes or enhances the activities of the pass on enquiries about your club by using up to date information. member clubs. DISCLAIMER NEWSLETTER NOTES The Association of Motoring Clubs Inc. (AOMC), its Officers and the The AOMC sends out four Newsletters per year to club Delegates. A Committee cannot be held liable for any errors and/or omissions in copy is also sent to the club address. It is important that a copy of articles, reports, notices, advertisements, comment and advice of each Newsletter be forwarded to the club’s Editor, so that our news events that are published in this Newsletter in good faith. It should be can be circulated to your membership via your Newsletter. A brief noted that the publication of an advertisement, or expression of views summary of proceedings of Delegates Meetings is sent to club in articles and reports, does not necessarily imply endorsement by the Newsletter editors soon after each meeting by one of the delegates AOMC of the advertised product or service, or the views expressed in present. any articles or reports published in the Association’s Newsletter. Membership Database Offer Club Permit Over the years the AOMC has received a number of requests from clubs seeking suitable software with which they can manage their Handbook membership database and also CPS vehicles. In 2013 Mark Fenton of the Chrysler Restorers Club made a The AOMC Club Permit presentation to an AOMC Delegates Meeting on some of the handbook is currently being computer facilities and software used by his Club. He has since updated to reflect the latest enhanced some of the software to allow use by any club. changes to the club permit He has now made this software available to all AOMC member scheme . clubs .. gratis! The AOMC is delighted with his gift to the movement and invites The latest Frequently Asked clubs to download it an give it a trial. Questions (FAQ’s) can be Some key features are: downloaded from the AOMC Handles club member details including vehicles website, printed off and placed as an insert into the existing Will handle over 500 members and 1000 vehicles handbook (yellow cover 2011 Produces member mailing lists for Hardcopy and Emails edition). Imports data from Excel A revised version of the Either operates as a single user database or for multiple users handbook will be published as via the www soon as all details are Uses MS Access database runtime version (which may be confirmed. downloaded free from Microsoft) For more information see the AOMC website and look for the Club Membership Software link. AOMC August 2015 3 FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE Committee Members Contacts inside front cover Notices 4 President’s Reports 5 Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage 6 VicRoads News 7 Calendar of Events 8 News from overseas FBHVC 13 National Motoring Heritage Day pictorial 14—16 News from overseas USA 18 AACA MoTor Collection 19 RACV Car Theft report 21 Minutes of February 2015 Delegates meeting. 24 IMPORTANT NOTICES August Delegates Meeting Robert Shannon Monday 17th August Foundation The AOMC is a member of the Time: 7.30pm Australian Historic Motoring Federation (AHMF). The AHMF Venue: Chevrolet Clubrooms assists in the administration of the 1/3 Edgecombe Court, Moorabbin. Robert Shannon Foundation Trust which makes annual awards to Apologies & Enquiries: (03) 9555 0133 young motoring enthusiasts. Victorian youth have been past Guest Speaker: David Joyner recipients. Your club can sponsor a Assistant Director Regulatory Transaction worthy youngster. See the AOMC Centre , Consumer Affairs Victoria website for more background and David will outline any new changes to the regulations for an application form. incorporated Associations that may impinge on our Applications for 2015 have member clubs, and the new electronic only submitting system for annual reports. closed. Applications for 2016 must be received by the For further information check the AOMC website: AOMC by www.aomc.asn.au Meals on the night, consisting of a BBQ meat & salad 30 May 2016 for $10 from 6pm Drinks are also available at the bar. Bookings for meals are essential for catering The AOMC Newsletter can be purposes and can be made to: downloaded in pdf form from Tel.: 9555 0133 the AOMC website. email: [email protected] This version is in full colour. Meal Bookings close on Go to: th Friday 14 August www.aomc.asn.au 4 AOMC August 2015 fill Mornington Peninsula roads with our historic PRESIDENT’S REPORT and classic vehicles. Finally, the movement must look at ways of Welcome to the August edition of our newsletter. encouraging the young folk to be interested in our Whilst the winter months are traditionally quieter movement. When one thinks of the exposure for the movement the Association has a lot today’s youngsters get to the motor car it is going happening. to be a battle. The concept of home vehicle Our winter restoration seminar has been well maintenance is all but dead, impossible due to the accepted to the extent that the seating capacity complexity of today’s mechanicals. The car is now was reached within a week from the information seen as an extension of day to day life, many kids being sent out.