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39s 1d Coastal Classics Clacton Classic Car Club Newsletter Summer 2019 Member 1 FOR SALE Land Rover Freelander STD4 2005 3Door 5 Speed Manual Service History 1.9 BMW turbo diesel £1500 ono Alan 07958424465 Set of 5 Jaguar XJ6 Pepper Pot Wheels £60 Phone 07831157727 Front Windsreen Bedford CA Van £50 Phone 07831157727 Front body panel Bedford CA van Clean condition Phone 07831157727 2 Chairman's Chat Welcome to the second of our new Magazines hope you enjoyed the first. In this copy we will be updating you on our events so far this year with also whats to come later. We had had good turn outs to all our events so far this year. In April we had our first meal/pub run to Hintlesham which saw 20 + people take cars and had a good day out with a nice meal. April also was Drive it day to Kersey Mill. This again was well attended thank you to all who went. Unfortunately in May we had to cancel the Leeds Castle trip as this was fully booked. We will be doing this next year so we will be booking earlier. The Kings Arms event im afraid was poorly attended probably due to other events going on around bank holiday. One car was there on Saturday and myself and Ian on Sunday with two others arriving after we left. We did not present Neil with a cheque there but did however present one at the Club night the following Wednesday for £250 for Cancer Research UK. May also see us attend Chappel Station where a ride on the steam train was available to the next station. We still need some input for the Magazine so if you have any interesting facts about the cars you have had or drive even that rebuild you have done. Why not let us know how things went. Vic Smith our Editor will be only to pleased to receive your contributions to feature in the Magazine. May be you have a skill like car electrics, car mechanic, body repairs or just the odd silly thing. Then why not share it with us here in the Magazine. I thank you all for taking the time to read this but I must close now as I do not want to waffle on too much. Hope to see you all soon. Colin Wintle Chairman. ****************************************************** Welcome to the summer edition of the club magazine. We are now halfway through this year, we have enjoyed some good shows with nice weather, good days out and monthly meetings for a chat and catch up. We have in this edition a good input from members with very interesting reading. But the cloud on the horizon is the doom and gloom of News programs and the media in general. Global warming, climate change and harmful emissions into the atmosphere. This had me thinking perhaps we should set an example to other car clubs and reduce our emissions by 50%. To achieve this we need to drive a slightly different classic vehicle, I have found a selection of cars you may want to consider, sporty types, saloon and even a few commercials, some are electric powered, some are petrol powered and some are powered by goodness knows what! They are all easy to park and you can wash and polish them in five minutes. They are agile and nippy, easy to drive around and avoid potholes ( never drive into a pot hole). If you wish to restore one you could probably do it in the spare bedroom. As for the magazine we are still looking for questions and problems for the workshop section. Note, this magazine is compiled by amateurs but remember, a man who never made mistakes never made anything! 3 Treasurers Report As you are aware our May show went ahead as usual, I am pleased to report that we had around 1500 paying members of the public attend generating an income of £6000 from this we deduct or on field expenses for the day and then pay 30% to Little Clacton Playing Field Trust, they received £1465. Our bank balance at the end of June was a healthy £9996. During the course of the day I estimate with show cars with driver and passenger plus our traders we had between 2000 and 2500 people attend this show, can I also say thank you to all the members of the club that helped out on the Saturday afternoon and the Sunday from 7am till late without you this event wouldn’t happen. As I hope you are all aware from the proceeds of this and the August show we donate money to local charities and clubs please can I ask you to let us know what good causes you would like us to support this year please contact me or any other committee member with your suggestions. We are planning to have a presentation evening as part of our September club meeting. Ian Griggs Club Treasurer Club Events List 2019 July 7th Maldon Promenade Park- £5 entry on an individual basis 7th Classics by the sea Clacton. To be held at clacton airfield and run by the St Osyth SOS group 14th Scavenger Hunt-contact Frazer 31st Club night. Fish and chips Brightlingsea- Numbers to Colin Please August 4th Pub Run. Strangers Home, Sunday roast £9.95!!-book by 26/6 contact Frazer 10th Mersea - individual basis £4 on line entry 11th Fordham- Spaces booked please let us know numbers 18th Stonham Barns Show 18th Saffron Walden Car Show-contact Frazer 25th Our Show. Plough Corner September 1st Brightlingsea 1st Walton- 15 spaces booked - Please let us know speak to Colin 7th Beaulieu Auto jumble by Minibus. This will be approx £30 per head and will include travel by minibus, entrance to the autojumble , the museum, the house and gardens. It will be a long day with an early start but you'll have the Sunday to recover!!. Visit "beaulieu.co.uk" 15th Treasure hunt-contact Frazer 22nd Warren Classic and Super car show.CM9 6RW. Looks to be an excellent show to be held at the warren golf and country club, near maldon. Advance tickets £12 per car and 1 passenger.£16 on the day other events will be added when information becomes available. Club Cothing As I hope you are all aware the club has a range of clothing with club Logo on, that it sells. Items can be ordered at any time through Ian the Treasurer below is a list of items and there cost the club sells them at the price we pay for them. When ordering please state what item you want and sizes required:- Hats £7.95 Polo Shirts £12.95 Polo Shirt with Pocket £12.95 Classic T Shirt £8.95 Sweat Shirt £13.50 Fleece £16.50 4 Club Events Our Show. On the 19th May we had our first show of the year. Weather was not to bad for us it was not as sunny as last year but we still had a very good attendance. Some 1000/1500 people flocked through the gates and was greeted by a vast array of cars and the odd lorry or two totalling to about 400 + exhibitors and at least 50 traders to browse over. Many of the traders told me they had a good day. This year we extended the field and I and the Committee are glad we did. We shall do the same in August hoping for another bumper turn out. The entertainment in May was Barney and the Rubbles. A good local group who plays at lots of local venues including our meeting place at the Kings Arms Frating. In addition we had Radio Caroline on hand to play music in between the groups performances. All was going great till we had a hick up and the electricity supply tripped. Thank goodness for the electrican with the Radio Caroline ensemble who came to our aid and fixed the problem and music was restored. There was a good turn out by our club I think at least 50 cars was present may be more. The bright sparks at the council decided to let roadworks happen on the corner with a set of three way lights having been installed. This amounted to lots of confusion and frustration by the exiting public. Some waiting a while to leave. Thank goodness for our unknown heroes who some how made the lights disappear and traffic flow was brought back to normality. I have been inundated with thanks for the show since I placed an apology on Facebook as everybody knew it wasn’t our fault. Thank you to all that attended and helped out on the day. Your efforts are much appreciated and hope that we may have your services again in August. Colin Wintle Chairman 5 6 THE GEORGE PUB RUN On the 14th of April, 21 of us went on a pub lunch run to the George at Hintlesham, Suffolk. Setting off from the layby on the A133 at 1pm, we took a very leisurely drive down Crown lane, through to Manningtree then on to East Bergholt then onto the George at Hintlesham. We all managed to stick together despite a couple of tricky junctions and some traffic lights on some road works. We all enjoyed a couple of courses of food and spent a good couple of hours there, I can safely say we all enjoyed ourselves. Frazer The Kings Arms monthly club meet on 29th of May. Our club presented to the hosts, a cheque £250 for cancer research ALDHAM RALLY 9TH JUNE Handing over the cheque Old Strangers Home Sunday, sitting and chatting in the sun June’s monthly club meet We were charmed with a pleasant evening in a large Tepee at the rear of the Strangers Home public house.