r Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 1 CITROËN CLASSIC OWNERS CLUB OF AUSTRALIA Australia’s National Citroën Car Club Australia’s National Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts August/September 2020 Vol 44 No 2 2 Australia’s National Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 3 PPostalostal AddressAddress CCommitteeommittee SSupportupport CContentsontents CITROËN CLASSIC OWNERS’ President ~ Ted Cross Web Wallah ~ Bruce Stringer ED SED PAGE 4 CLUB of AUSTRALIA Inc. [03] 98I9 2208 [H] [03] 5250 2727 The address of the Club and this [email protected] [email protected] PREZ SEZ PAGE 5 Secretary ~ Tim Cottrell Membership Secretary ~ magazine is: RACTIONS AGE PO Box 52, Balwyn, Victoria, 3I03. 04I6 009 297 Ian Macdermott A-T P 6 [email protected] 04I9 362 375 [M] The Club’s website is: TH NNIVERSARY Treasurer ~ Ian Macdermott [email protected] GS/A 50 A www.citroenclassic.org.au TOUR PAGE 9 Citroën Classic Owners Club of 04I9 362 375 Asset Custodians ~ Ted Cross Australia Inc. is a member of the [email protected] Max Lewis IT N ENDIGO Activity Coordinator Lee Dennes AOMC Liaison Offi cers C -I 202I B Association of Motoring Clubs. ~ ~ PAGE I2 The views expressed in this publication 0438 286 I8I [M] Max Lewis [03] 9372 092I [H] are not necessarily those of CCOCA [email protected] Russell Wade [03] 9570 3486 [H] POST CIT-IN TOUR PAGE I6 or its Committee. Neither CCOCA Spare Parts Offi cer~ Lance Wearne Club Permit & Safety Offi cers~ nor its Committee can accept any 0424 054 724 [M] Russell Wade [03] 9570 3486 [H] SIXES ON THE LEVEL responsibility for any mechanical [email protected] Philip Rogers [03] 5944 309I [H] PAGE 20 advice printed in, or adopted from this Publication Editor ~ Leigh Miles Ted Cross [03] 98I9 2208 [H] publication. [03] 9888 7506 [H] Librarian ~ Kay Belcourt MEMBER’S MODEL PAGE 30 The Club cannot accept any [email protected] 04I3 65I 2I0 [M] responsibility for, or involvement in, Committee Persons ~ [email protected] DREAM COME TRUE PAGE 4I Robert Belcourt [03] 9885 4376 [H] Club Shop ~ Kay Belcourt any business relationship that may THE BEST FRANCE COULD occur between an advertiser and a Max Lewis [03] 9372 092I [H] 04I3 65I 2I0 [M] member of the Club. Russell Wade 040I 859 704 [email protected] DO? PAGE 44 Bruce Stringer [03] 5250 2727 [H] ICCCR Representative ~ Ted Cross [03] 98I9 2208 [H] BLUE SM, WHITE DS, RED HERRINGS PAGE 54 LLifeife MMembersembers 6 CARS, 6 DAYS PAGE 63 The committee awards life MMembershipembership CCoverover ImageImage AGM COMMITTEE REPORTS membership to Club members in Annual Membership is $55 and $5 The cover image is taken from the recognition of their contribution for additional members [ie partners]. website thetruthaboutcars.com and it PAGE 69 to, and support of, the Club. Life was taken by Jirí Klimeš. CLASSIFIED ADS PAGE 75 memberships have been awarded to: Sue Bryant 20I7 Brian Wade 20I7 MMeetingseetings Rob Little 20I2 Club meetings are held on the fourth CContributorsontributors Ted Cross 20I2 Wednesday of every month [except DDeadlineeadline Contributors to this edition of ‘Front Peter Boyle 2003 December] at 7:30pm. The venue The deadline for the next edition of Drive’ include Alan Brown, Jon Faine, Jack Weaver I99I is the Frog Hollow Reserve Rooms, ‘Front Drive’ is Monday, September 2I, Erol Harvey, Julian Marsh. Gert Te Nance Clark I984 Fordham Ave., Camberwell. 2020. Lintelo and Geoffrey Webber. CCitroëningitroëning Club Permit applications to New Permit holders must Club permit renewals can be FOR SPARE PARTS & TOOLS CLUB SHOP OTHER CLUBS VicRoads must be accompanied supply the Club with sent to PO Box 52 Balwyn, Contact Lance Wearne. For Citroën models, VIC citcarclubvic.org.au by a RWC [pre I949 cars can approved photos, club permit Victoria. 3I03 with a stamped Phone: 0424 054 724 [if memorabilia and other items NSW citroencarclub.org.au be inspected by a Club Safety number and expiry date. return envelope or signed your do phone, please do contact Kay Belcourt at QLD citroenclubqld.org Offi cer], ownership validation at club meetings/events if so at a reasonable hour] or [email protected] SA clubcitroensa.com and VicRoads forms endorsed the appropriate offi cers are [email protected]. WA citroenwa.org.au by the club including fi nancial present. au TAS citroentas.org validation. 4 Australia’s National Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 5 EEdd SSeded PPrezrez SSezez of Julian Marsh on the XM. Was it ber the Four Seasons Resort has here is a line in my mind indeed the best the French could eigh has prepared another confi rmed that no money will be about the ‘best laid plans…’. do in I990? great magazine to entertain deducted from your account un- TI know I promised you that this Last edition, with its SM focus Lyou. til the event commences. edition of Front Drive would cel- caused suffi cient interest to spark It is a cold and damp Mel- We continue to welcome ebrate the 50th Anniversary of responses from fi rst, a CCOCA bourne afternoon, and we have new members from around Aus- the GS, but Stage 3 lock down member and second an ‘old fa- been remembering this time last tralia, and most of our longer in Metropolitan Melbourne put vourite’ correspondent of Front year in Europe, when we attend- paid to those plans. standing members have even- Drive’s, Alan Brown. It has I be- ed the I00 Years of Citroën An- I had arranged to visit CCO- tually re-joined by now. This is a lieve been some years since we niversary Meeting at La Ferte CA members and GS owners have heard from Alan and newer very time-consuming process for Vidame in France, and later the Andrew and Sue Cunningham members may need an introduc- our Treasurer/Membership Sec- in Stawell. With travel to region- tion. 2CV world meeting in Croatia. retary Ian to have to send re- al Victoria banned for at least six Alan has been living in France This is the fi rst winter for many minders, so please try and keep weeks that visit is off until at least [in the Vendee region] for many years when we have remained your annual renewal in mind. A late-August. years. Over that time he has writ- at home, and I am missing some bigger problem is the Victorian Thankfully, Erol Harvey has ten for ACE [our fellow Citroën warm weather and social contact. members with Vic-Roads club kindly agreed to bring his XM club in WA] and for CCCUK, as COVID-I9 is trying to make plates. Part of this permit system feature forward to fi ll the gap. well as for us. I hope you enjoy a return to Melbourne, and still requires the plate owner to be ~ Thanks Erol, your willingness to his article. running wild around the world. and remain ~ a fi nancial member help-out is highly appreciated. The member who has writ- This has caused a lot of disrup- of an approved club. This means The XM was to have been ten for us is Melbourne-based tion to our club. We were keen you must keep your membership featured later in Volume 44, and Jon Faine. I have to confess that to re-commence activities start- fi nancial and active inCCOCA its spot will be taken by the GS. it was news to me that Jon owns ing with the AGM in August, how- if you want to renew your club In addition to Erol’s article I a RHD SM ~ no, not one of the ever we have a fall-back option have an interesting Dutch com- rare Middleton Motors cars fea- plate permit. There is no grace to run a Zoom/proxy meeting, period for membership renewal, parison of Citroën’s six-cylinder tured last issue, but one of the which we will now activate in- cars: the Big 6 [in this case specif- and the club is not structured to conversions undertaken by Peter stead. The committee is already ically a 6-H], the SM and the XM send out reminders or take re- McLeod in NSW. I am sure you meeting monthly on Zoom so and the often controversial views will enjoy both these SM-facing sponsibility to inform you. This is this change will meet our respon- articles. sibilities in the safest way. Your With our AGM so badly im- pacted by COVID-I9 the commit- committee has been very diligent tee made the decision to publish with their portfolios, and you can extracts from their annual re- be assured we are improving the ports so every member can see running of your club during this how their club is going. While an- quieter time. nual reports have a reputation Our planning for the 202I CIT- for making your eyes glaze over IN at Bendigo is well advanced, we hope you appreciate the im- and we can be fl exible with event portance of these reports. locations if necessary. Please join Enjoy, us. However, you must book ac- Leigh F Miles ~ Editor. commodation early, and remem- 6 Australia’s National Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 7 Prez Sez your personal responsibility to ury model Citroëns designed by the form. the committee’s hope that we maintain both, so please consider Nuccio Bertone and imported in • Proxy Form can achieve the quorum via diarising the dates for us, or risk small numbers into Australia in If the AGM is to proceed, a proxies.