Black Country Classic Car Club

Points of contact: Black Country Classic Car Club Meet at: Neil Moore 07752 868717 Chairman/Shows The Old Swan Ellen Moore 07752 868717 Secretary/Membership Halesowen Road Allan Lavender 07838 403555 Website Co-ordinator Netherton, Dudley Tony Warren 07821 105418 Events Organiser West Midlands DY2 Harry Forest 07720 812320 Committee Member

E-mail: blackcountryclassiccarclub@gmail Shows & We’re on the web 2016Events www.blackcountryclassiccarclub.co.uk

T-shirt Club Rules Travel As with all clubs and organisations, we have rules that MUST be abided by at all times. Serious breach of these rules may result in withdrawal of membership and any associated benefits. Competition 1). To become a member you DO NOT need to own a vehicle.

2). In order for a vehicle to be registered with the club it must be at least 20 years old and will be at the discretion of the commit- The Holder tee members.

3). Membership runs January to January, as such your membership will fall due on the 1st January irrespective of the date your Bros Top 10 membership commenced with the club.

4). Membership may be refused or terminated at the discretion of the committee without notice or reason.

5). Club stickers MUST be clearly displayed when attending shows. This is an insurance requirement!

6). Any conditions, including speed limits, time of entry/exit or any other rules imposed by show organisers must be strictly ad- hered to.

7). All vehicles attending a show must hold a valid insurance policy, be taxed and the vehicle must have a current MOT certifi- cate. All vehicles should also display the BCCCC car sticker, in accordance with our Public Liability Insurance Policy.

8). Vehicles over 20 years of age will be eligible for judging at our own event or at the discretion of the committee.

9). The Committee’s decision is final. Night 24th June

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Black Country Classic Car Club Discounts/Fundraising

Remember Your Discounts! September 2016 Footman James: 01384 218041 www.footmanjames.co.uk Classic Car Insurance 10% Private Car Insurance 5% Special points of T-SHIRT COMPETITION interest: Household Insurance 5%

 Remember to Roadrunner: 01384 79790 check out the website for info Trade Discount on Breakfast OLD CAR BATTERIES, runs. ALTERNATORS AND  New Promotion- al clothing—see page 12. Bring your photo to STARTER MOTORS FOR the Auction night  You can now CLUB VEHICLE FUND, pay for your (11th October 2016). membership by PayPal on our website. Winner will receive a FREE COLLECTION club cap and 2 Inside this issue: Auto glym items. PLEASE RING: T-shirt Travel Compe- 2 tition. Animal - mascot. Thanks Fuzz 3 NEIL—07752 868717 Important infor- 4 mation. Mr & Mrs Night. 5

Website/info 6 & 7 HARRY-07720 812320 Auction night.

The Holder Bros top 8, 9, 10 THANKS. 10 & 11

Promotional Clothing 12 & 13

Netherton Park 14, 15 & 16

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Ad’s/Other Oh what a night!!

A BIG Thanks to Fuzz

Please note member- This was a fantastic night, ship for 2017 will be £12.50 for single and £22.00 for very interesting Joint. Subscriptions are due and engaging. 01/01/2017 onwards.

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Booking shows/events

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

All information for shows, breakfast runs and events is on our website

www.blackcountryclassiccarclub.co.uk

A full list and regular updates are also available at the club meeting nights.

You MUST book into all shows 6 weeks before the show date. All bookings must be paid for. At the time of booking if a fee applies.

You MUST enter your details on the booking forms provided at the meeting nights or call Tony Warren 07821 105 418 if you are unable to make it to the meetings.

Your pass cannot be or- dered if the information and payment is not supplied.

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Netherton Park 2016 Mr & Mrs Night Mr&Mrs Night We have had to postpone this event until Friday 3rd March Tickets will be on sale in the new year.

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Christmas Raffle Netherton Park 2016 There will be a Christmas raffle at the Auction night 11th October.

Tickets will be £2.00 each, the prize will be an Auto Glym Valeting bag, full of goodies.

Check out the club website for all information on shows, breakfast runs, promotional clothes etc….

www.blackcountryclassiccarclub.co.uk

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Netherton Park Auction Night 2016

From Auction Night Beginning Tuesday 11th October At 8.30 prompt start

Bring any items for the auction by 8.15pm

Best in show All proceeds go towards club funds. Tony’s CorTina All unsold items must be taken 1600E back home please.

Thank you for your continued support To end

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The Holder Bros Top 10 Promotional Clothing

Well where do you start when cars have always have been an interest to you from changing “points” on a cold winters night on a Ford Thames so my father could get to work the next morning at the age of 13! to renovating a Triumph Herald 1200 convertible and a Ford 1600E in later years. (The renovations were essential as they were my only mode of transport and dire MOT failures!!)

The cars we have chosen are cars which in there day were ones we wish we had brought had we had the money at the time or dreamed of owning but couldn’t afford.

Dolomite Production – 1973 – 1980

Sprint Manufactured – 22,941

Although the Do- Engine – 1998 straight 4 with Single lomite proved to Overhead cam. be refined and rap- This car HAD to be in Yellow id, competitors such as the BMW 2002 had a performance advantage £45.00 £34.00 which was costing Triumph dearly, both in terms of sales and prestige. To remedy this, Triumph unveiled the Dolomite Sprint in June 1973, although the launch had been delayed by a year; it had been due to go on sale in 1972. A team of engineers led by Spen King developed a 16-valve cylinder head with all of the valves being actuated using a single camshaft rather than the more conventional DOHC arrangement. Volvo P1800 £6.00

Production – 1961 – 1973 Manufactured – 47,484 Engine – 1778 cc (later models had 1986 cc)

This car HAD to be in White

Two new cars had been introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in 1961, a Jaguar E-Type and the Volvo P1800. Jaguar was first offered the opportunity to provide an E-Type for the TV series “The Saint” but declined. Volvo accepted and offered a P1800, leading to increased sales. Initially, Volvo lent two cars £55.00 for the series, one for static studio shots and the other for moving shots. When the P1800S came along, one of the earlier cars was cut up to allow better interior shots. When the series Return of the £25.00 Saint was created in the 1970s, Jaguar offered the then-new XJ-S for the series.

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Black Country Classic Car Club Black Country Classic Car Club Promotional Clothing The Holder Bros Top 10 MG Midget Mk3 1275CC Promotional club clothing The first version was essentially a slightly more expensive badge- for sale t-shirts, hoody's, engineered version of the MkII Austin-Healey Sprite. The origi- nal 'Frogeye' Sprite had been introduced specifically to fill the Production – 1966 – 1974 Jackets, Gilets and Caps are gap in the market left by the end of production of the MG T- type Midget as its replacement, the MGA had been a significantly larger and more Manufactured – 100,246 expensive car with greater performance. Many existing MG enthusiast and buyers all available. See Ellen at Engine – 1275 turned to the Sprite to provide a modern low-cost sports car and so a badge- meeting nights. engineered MG version reusing the Midget name made sense. The new Midget dif- This car HAD to be in BRG fered from the Sprite only in its grille design, badging, colour options and having both leather seats and more external chrome trim as standard to justify its higher purchase price. Rover P5 The Rover P5 series, is a group of large saloon and coupé automobiles that were produced by Rover from 1958[ until 1973. Models were marketed under the names Rover 3 Li- tre, Rover 3.5 Litre and Rover 3½ Litre.

The P5 appeared in September 1958,badged as the "3-litre". It was powered by a 2,995 cubic centimetres (182.8 cu in) engine. This straight-6 IOE engine used an overhead intake valve and side exhaust valve, an unusual

£15.00 Production – 1958 – 1973 arrangement inherited from the Rover P4. In this form, output of 115 brake horsepower (86 kW) was claimed. An automatic transmission, Manufactured – 69,141 overdrive on the manual, and Burman power steering were optional with

Engine – 3 Litres later models 3.5 overdrive becoming standard from May 1960. Litres This car HAD to be in White The Porsche 356

Is a luxury sports car which was first produced by Austrian compa- ny Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948-1949), and then by Ger- man company Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950-1965). It was Porsche's first production automobile. Earlier cars designed by the Austrian company includes Cisitalia Grand Prix race car, and the Beetle as well as Auto Union Grand Prix cars were designed by the German company. The 356 is a lightweight and nimble-handling rear-engine rear-wheel Production – 1948 – 1965 drive two-door sports car available in hardtop coupé and open con- figurations. Engineering innovations continued during the years of manufac- Manufactured – 76,313 ture, contributing to its motorsports success and popularity. Production started Engine – 1.3 Litres upto 2.0 Litres £17.00 in 1948 at Gmünd, Austria, where approximately 50 cars were built. In 1950 the Popular Kit Car model. Based on factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 a VW Beetle. continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its au- tumn 1963 debut. Of the 76,000 originally produced, approximately half survive.

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Production – 1955 – 1974 Volkswagen Karman Triumph Roadster Manufactured – 486,927 Ghia The 1800 Roadster, model number 18TR was designed in the closing days of World War II. Triumph had been Engine – 1200 cc, 1300 cc, [5] 1500 cc, or 1600 cc Flat-4 bought by the Standard Motor Company in 1944, and The Volkswagen Karman Ghia is a sports car the managing director of Standard, Sir John Black, wanted a Red is a popular colour marketed in 2+2 coupe (1955–1974) and sports car to take on Jaguar, who had used Standard en- convertible (1957–1974) body styles gines in the pre-war period. Frank Callaby was selected to by Volkswagen. The Karman Ghia combined the style the new car. After getting Black's approval for the Production – 1946– 1949 chassis and mechanicals of the Type 1 (Beetle) with styling by Luigi Segre of general shape, Callaby worked with Arthur Ballard to design the Italian carrozzeria Ghia and hand-built bodywork by the German coach-builder . the details of the body. Design of the rolling chassis was by Ray Turner. Walter Bel- Manufactured – 4,501 grove, who had styled the pre-war Triumphs and was employed as Chief Body Engi- The Type 14 debuted at the October 1953 Paris Auto Show as a styling concept created for Ghia by Luigi Segre. neer, had no part in the design. Engine – 1766 CC

Mini Mk1 Cooper S

Lotus Cortina The Mark I Mini (1959–1967) was the first version of British Motor Corporation's Mini. It is characterised by its sliding windows, exter- is the commonly used term for the Ford Cortina Lotus, a high-performance sports saloon, which was pro- nal door hinges and "moustache" grille. In the United Kingdom the duced in the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1970 by Ford in collaboration with . The original version, which was Mark I was produced between 1959 and 1967. The MK 1 1071 CC based on the Ford Cortina Mark 1 was promoted by Ford as the "Consul Cortina developed by Lotus" with "Consul" later Cooper S was from 1963 -1964. being dropped from the name. The Mark 2 was based on the Ford Cortina Mark 2 and was marketed by Ford as the "Cortina Issigonis' friend John Cooper, owner of the Cooper Car Compa- Lotus". ny and Formula One Manufacturers Champion in 1959 and 1960, saw the potential of the little car, and after some experimentation and testing, the two men collaborated to create a nimble, econom- The history of the Cortina Lotus began in 1961. Colin Chapman had been wishing to build his own engines for Lotus, mainly ical, and inexpensive car. The Austin Mini Cooper and Morris Mini Production – 1963 – 1964 because the unit was so expensive. Colin Chapman's chance came when he commissioned Harry Mundy (a Cooper debuted in September 1961. close friend and designer of the Coventry Climax engine and technical editor for Autocar) to design a twin-cam version of Manufactured – 4,030 the Ford Kent engine. Most of the development of the engine was Engine – 1071 done on the 997cc and 1,340cc bottom end, but in 1962 Ford Jaguar XK 120 released the 116E five bearing 1,499 cc engine and work centred on this. Keith Duckworth, from , played an important part The XK120 was launched in open two-seater or (US) roadster form at the in tuning of the engine. The engine's first appearance was in 1962 Production – 1948– 1954 1948 London Motor Show as a test bed and show car for the new Jaguar XK en- at the Nürburgring in a Lotus 23 driven by Jim Clark. Almost as Manufactured – 12,055 gine. The display car was the first prototype, chassis number 670001. It looked soon as the engine appeared in production cars (Lotus Elan), it almost identical to the production cars except that the straight outer pillars of its was replaced with a larger capacity unit (82.55 mm bore to give Engine – 3.4 Litres windscreen would be curved on the production version. The roadster caused a 1,557 cc). This was in order to get the car closer to the 1.6 litre ca- sensation, which persuaded Jaguar founder and design boss William Lyons to (Dream on Len it’s never going put it into production. pacity class in motorsport. to happen) Beginning in 1948, the first 242 cars wore wood-framed open 2-seater bodies Production – Mk 1 1963– 1966, Mk 2 1966 -1970

with aluminium panels. Production switched to the 1cwt or 112 lb (51 kg) Manufactured – Mk1 3,301, Mk2 4093 heavier all-steel in early 1950. The "120" in the name referred to the alumini- um car's 120 mph (193 km/h) top speed (faster with the windscreen re- Engine – 1557 CC moved), which made it the world's fastest production car at the time of its launch.[6] In 1949 the first production roadster, chassis number 670003, was delivered to Clark Gable.

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