September 2016 Crankhandle

SEPTEMBER 2016

The Official magazine of the GOLD COAST ANTIQUE AUTO CLUB

Workers at the 2016 Swap having a break

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GCAAC COMMITTEE

Position Name Phone Email President David Mitchell 5577 1787 [email protected] Vice President Peter Amey 5525 0250 [email protected] 0407 374 196 Secretary Richard Brown 0417 704 726 [email protected]

Treasurer Colin Hayes 5525 3312 [email protected] 0409 825 913 Rally & Competitions John Talbot 0421 185 149 [email protected] Director Dating Officer Bill Budd 5535 8882 [email protected] 0409 358 888 Publicity Officer John Talbot 0421 185 419 [email protected] Editor Peter A. Jones 0413 379 410 [email protected] Spare parts & prop- Graham 5554 5659 [email protected] erty Tattersall Librarian/Historian Wayne Robson 5522 8000 [email protected] 0409 610 229 Hall & Social Officer Pam Giles 0400 278 807 [email protected]

Gold Coast Antique Auto club: PO Box 228, Mudgeeraba, Qld, 4213 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.gcaac.com.au Club meetings are held 2nd Monday of every month (except January) at 7.00pm for 7.30pm start. Visitors welcome

Life Members: Graham Hetherington, Peter Harris, Jim Hession, Margaret Hession, John Wood, Graham Tattersall

DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed within are not necessarily shared by the editor or officers of the GCAAC. Whilst all care is taken to ensure the technical information and advice offered in these pages is correct, the editor and officers of the GCAAC cannot be held responsible for any problems that may occur from acting on such advice and information.

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PRESIDENTS REPORT

Our annual AGM meeting has come and gone and we are well into the second half of 2016 with just four months to Christmas. As usual time has gone so quick; this year once again has been another great year for our well attended club activities.

Thank you to all for voting me in as your President for another term, I will certainly give it my ‘’best shot’’ again although I did notice that we were not swamped with offers to take it on. Once again it really is great to see all our committee members giving it a go for another year except for our beloved Librarian/Historian and teller of jokes, Barry Stalker. Barry has not been very well lately and has decided to have a rest , he has been our Librarian and ‘’mirth maker’’ for well over 10 years .His historical knowledge and talks about early motoring were always so interesting and his jokes were just legendary; he will be missed. He did tell me he may bring the “joke book” along occasionally at general meetings if we are lucky, let`s hope so. On behalf of all our members, best wishes and a big thank you Barry.

We are delighted to welcome 2 new members onto our committee. Wayne Robson will take on the Librarian & Historian position and Richard Brown is taking on the task of our new club Secretary, we thank you both for your willingness to help. That great rally organiser John Talbot is also our official Rally Director thanks John, we have once again got a full committee, and that’s just the best, thank you all.

President – David Mitchell,

Vice President – Peter Amey.

Secretary – Richard Brown.

Treasurer – Colin Hayes.

Rally Director – John Talbot . Dating Officer - Bill Budd.

Publicity Officer – John Talbot.

Property & Spare Parts – Graham Tattersall.

Editor – Peter Jones .

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PRESIDENTS REPORT cont. Librarian & Historian – Wayne Robson.

Social Officer – Pam Giles.

A great big thank you also to Karen Hayes who took on the Secretary position over the last year with a little help from husband Colin and Margaret Hession who stepped in as minutes Secretary, and helped immensely as only Margaret can. We had a great day on Wednesday 17th August with 20 club cars on display at the Seniors day at the Heritage Centre. They put on morning tea for us all at the centre and Graham & Pam organised a luncheon in our barn, it was a lovely sunny day enjoyed by all. Keep an eye on the events page as we have some very interesting events coming up in the next few months.

Well it seems that I have run out of room for the my monthly words of wisdom (no clapping please). One thing to mention is of course Fathers Day and I hope this newsletter reaches all you dads by Fathers day. Anyway, wishing all you dads happy fathers day and I hope you get breakfast in bed and lots of goodies form the kids and your pets after all you are their parents too. This month I have added the BMC Mini history, a month late for its birthday, but the Mini was a very important part of automotive history with most marques now using FWD.

Work place health and safety !!!!!

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GCAAC EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 2016 7 September Committee meeting - Clubhouse @ 7pm 12 September General Meeting and Supper—Clubhouse @ 7.30pm 17 September Cars N Coffee - meet at club house at 7.30 am 18 September Presidents Run meet club house 9am for 9:30 start

28 September Mid-week run meet club house 9am for 9:30 start OCTOBER 2016 5 October Committee meeting - Clubhouse @ 7pm 10 October General Meeting and Supper—Clubhouse @ 7.30pm 15 October Cars N Coffee - meet at club house at 7.30 am 16 October Powder Puff Day (Ladies Day) meet club house 9am for 9:30 start 26 October Mid-week run meet club house 9am for 9:30 start NOVEMBER 2016 2 November Committee meeting - Clubhouse @ 7pm 14 November General Meeting and Supper—Clubhouse @ 7.30pm 19 November Cars N Coffee - meet at club house at 7.30 am 20 November Sunday Run meet club house 9am for 9:30 start 30 November Mid-week run meet club house 9am for 9:30 start DECEMBER 2016 7 December Committee meeting - Clubhouse @ 7pm 10 December Christmas Party Details TBA 12 December General Meeting and Supper—Clubhouse @ 7.30pm JANUARY 2017 Note there are no Meetings in January, as the Committee are on holiday

26 January Australia Day fun day at the club house, details TBA

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South Coast Restoration Society Open day july 2016 Six club cars turned up for this years open day as well as Phil Thomas’s nicely restored Bedford truck. This year seemed to attract a lot less cars than normal, but was full of beauti- fully restored stationary engines and other mechanical items of interest. All photos Peter aJ This is before restoration

This is how it will look in about 8 years

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Swap Meets Queensland September / October 2017

So you like older cars and steam trains, Well here is a picture for you, I know what it is, answer next month or do you know

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Sunday Run 14th August 2016 Seven cars arrived at the clubhouse on a picture-perfect day for a run down to Murwillumbah where we were met by Jim & Margaret Hession for a relaxed morning tea. Unfortunately Gary Cosgrove’s Commodore was making some very un-Commodore noises so was forced to retire hurt very early in the piece. A lovely drive through Tumbulgum and the surrounding valleys made for a very scenic and enjoyable run. The day was topped-off with a convivial lunch at the Cudgen Leagues Club.

Unfortunately our friends from the MG Car Club were unable to join us due to their AGM being held in our club mid-morning. Attendees were: Col & Karen Hayes Panther Lima Peter Amey Citroen Light 15 (Fi Fi) Ash and Betty Downs Vauxhall Velox Fred and Jan Scaap MG Magnette Jim & Margaret Hessian Valiant Regal John Wood & Danny (Chaufer) Modern Jaguar Cyril Downs Austin Princess Bob Simm Vanguard Standard

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Panther WestWinds was started in 1972 by Bob Jankel and built unusual cars, often pastiches of older models. The factory was near the Brooklands racetrack in Surrey. The main models built were: J72: Styled on the Jaguar SS100, with available engines including 3.8, 4.2 or 5.3 litre V12. Convertible 2 seater, aluminium body. Approximately 376 built from 1972 to 1986. Front suspension was initially beam-axle followed by later models with IFS.

Rio: Based on a Triumph Dolomite floorpan, 4 door luxury saloon. Only about 18 built. The Dolomite body was removed and aluminium panels were manufactured to replace it giving the Rio the external appearance of a mini Rolls Royce.

Lima: Small Bugatti type 2 seater, based on a Vauxhall Magnum floorpan with the 2.3 litre magnum engine and running gear. GRP body Approx 600 built from 1976 to 1978.

De Ville: Styled on the Bugatti Royale, 4.2 or 5.3 litre engine. Hard top and convertible versions. 46 saloons and 11 convertibles built, 1974 to 1982. Among the list of De Ville owners were such well-known names as King Forouk, Elton John, Oliver Reed, Marty Robbins, Billy Connolly and the Sultan of Oman.

Col H

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Seniors Day at Gold Coast Heritage Museum

The Gold Coast Hinterland Heritage Museum invited our club to display cars to celebrate Seniors Week on the Gold Coast & partake of a delicious Devonshire Morning Tea on Wednesday 17th August. The Museum is situated in our complex at the Heritage Centre in Mudgeeraba. Many Senior Citizens enjoyed viewing the wonderful array of 19 Cars on display from Vintage to Classics. Marques of Cars represented shows the variety of cars in our club including Chevrolet, Ford, Chrysler, Vauxhall, Daimler, Rolls Royce, Rover, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Riley, MG, Holden & Panther. Two new cars purchased by our club members and on display were a 1954 Citroen & a 1947 Riley.

This was followed by a lovely lunch at our clubhouse provided by our diligent volunteers Pam & Graham. A very enjoyable day with a great deal of camaderie.

Photos and Text Lyn N, see more on our Facebook page

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Janet Bronk sent these picture of a car once owned by her family.

The above pictured shows the car as found, while the two pictures on the right show the car as restored and back as a car not a tow truck.

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You’re invited to the Junee GasWorks Garage!!!! We would like to introduce and invite your club to visit us at the Junee GasWorks Garage. The GasWorks Garage is located in the beautiful little town of Junee NSW, right next to the world famous Junee Licorice & Chocolate Factory. We would like your Club to consider putting Junee on your agenda for a future visit. Come see our unique collection of Classic Fords, along with a few other vehicles of interest. You may not see shiny, perfectly restored vehicles, but all are in their original condition and each one has a special story that brings them to life. You will experience a great day in a friendly and informal atmosphere. Our friendly staff have a passion for cars, and are eager to guide you through and explain any and all of our collection. We are planning to add many car related items of interest, including custom made jewellery, old video footage, sings & number plates. Entry cost is $5per/p. This helps us to continue to make available and display this valuable parts of our vehicular history. For group bookings of over 20 people, we offer a $4per/p. As mentioned above, the Junee Licorice & Chocolate Factory is literally next door. The Factory is situated in an old flour mill. It offers guided tours of the facility, freckle making, barrel train rides for youngsters & a wide variety of chocolate test tasting. There is a lifestyle & homewares gift shop on the 2nd floor, a café and restaurant where you can enjoy affordable meals, coffee etc. You may choose to bring your own cuppas and lunches; and avail your group to our lovely garden areas or indoors in the old mill. Our contact details for bookings are; Phone: (02) 6924 3574 Fax: (02) 6924 2999 Email: [email protected]

Junee has a lot to offer. Other popular attractions include Monte Cristo (historic homestead & most haunted house in Australia) and the Junee Roundhouse Museum which is a working railway workshop & houses the biggest operating railway turntable in the Southern Hemisphere. So please consider spending the whole weekend here in Junee, its great for social groups, family & work groups.

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Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?

Remember driving the bump cars at amusement parks or at a fun fair. They were so much fun..... Well, now what do you do with Old Bumper Cars?

Yes, that’s right; these little beasties are street legal.

They run on either Kawasaki or Honda motorcycle engines and co-opt vintage bumper car bodies into the most awesome form of mini-car we've seen in too long. There are seven of these little monsters floating around California and they're all the creation of one man, Tom Wright, a builder in the outskirts of San Diego who figured the leftovers of the Long Beach Pike amusement park needed a more dignified end than the trash heap.

They were originally powered by two cylinder Harley Davidson Motorcycle engines but they rattled like heck because of the two cylinder vibration, so Tom replaced them with four cylinder Honda or Kawasaki 750's and a couple have been measured as capable of 160 MPH, which is terrifyingly fast in machines with such a short wheelbase.

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Dalton Highway (Alaskan Highway 11) The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km)[1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Once called the North Slope Haul Road (a name by which it is still sometimes known), it was built as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1974. It is named after James Dalton, a life- long Alaskan and an engineer who supervised construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in Alaska and, as an expert in Arctic engineering, served as a consultant in early oil exploration in northern Alaska . The highway, which directly parallels the pipeline, is one of the most isolated roads in the United States. There are only three towns along the route: Coldfoot (pop 10) at Mile 175, Wiseman (pop 22) at Mile 188, and Deadhorse (25 permanent residents, 3,500-5,000 or more seasonal residents depending on oil production) at the end of the highway at Mile 414. Fuel is available at the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge (Mile 56), as well as Coldfoot and Deadhorse. Two other settlements, Prospect Creek and Galbraith Lake, are uninhabited except for seasonal residents.

The road itself is very primitive in places, and small vehicle and motorcycle traffic carries significant risk. The nearest medical facilities are in Fairbanks and Deadhorse. Anyone embarking on a journey on the Dalton is encouraged to bring survival gear.

Despite its remoteness the Dalton Highway carries a good amount of truck traffic: about 160 trucks daily in the summer months and 250 trucks daily in the winter.[3] The highway comes to within a few

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miles of the Arctic Ocean. Beyond the highway's terminus at Deadhorse are private roads owned by oil companies, which are restricted to authorized vehicles only. There are, however, commercial tours that take people to the Arctic Ocean. All vehicles must take extreme precaution when driving on the road, and drive with headlights on at all times. There are quite a few steep grades (up to 12%) along the route, as well.

As of July 2013, 109 miles (175 km) of the highway are paved, in several sections, between the following mileages: 19 and 24; 37 and 50; 91 and 111; 113 and 197; 257 and 261; 344 and 352; and 356 and 361.

Truckers on the Dalton have given their own names to its various features, including: The Taps, The Shelf, The Bluffs, Oil Spill hill, Beaver Slide, Two and a Half Mile, Oh Shit Corner, and the Roller Coaster. The road reaches its highest altitude as it crosses the Brooks Range at Atigun Pass, 4,739 feet (1,444 m).

The highway is the featured road on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of the History reality television series Ice Road Truckers, which aired May 31, 2009 to present. It is also the subject of the second episode of Amer- ica's Toughest Jobs and the first episode of the BBC's World's Most Dangerous Roads featuring Charley Boorman and Sue Perkins.[7]

Google Street View has coverage of nearly the entire highway, which can now be seen on Google Maps (imaging stops at the security gate leading to the Prudhoe Bay oil field). It is one of the most northerly routes of Google street view in North America.Recent flooding of the Sagavanirktok River, combined with melting of nearby ice roads under warmer climatic conditions have forced weeks-long closures of the road and the need for significant repairs, costing several million US dollars.

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BMC Austin Morris Mini history Mark I Mini: 1959–1967 The production version of the Mini was demonstrated to the press in April 1959, and by August several thousand cars had been produced ready for the first sales. The Mini was officially announced to the public on 26 August 1959. Some 2,000 cars had already been sent abroad and would be displayed that day in nearly 100 countries.

The first example, a Morris Mini-Minor with the registration 621 AOK, is on display at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire. Another early example from 1959 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire.

The Mini was marketed under BMC's two main brand names, Austin and Morris, until 1969, when it became a marque in its own right. The Morris version was known to all as "the Mini" or the "Morris Mini-Minor". This seems to have been a play on words: the Morris Minor was a larger, well known and successful car that continued in production, and minor is Latin for "lesser", so an abbreviation of the Latin word for "least" – minimus – was used for the new even smaller car. One name proposed for the almost identical Austin version was Austin Newmarket, but it was sold as the Austin Seven (sometimes written as SE7EN in early publicity material – the '7' the letter V rotated left so it approximated the number 7), which recalled the popular small Austin 7 of the 1920s and 1930s.

Until 1962, the cars appeared in North America and France as the Austin 850 and Morris 850, and in Denmark as the Austin Partner (until 1964) and Morris Mascot (until 1981). The Morris name Mini (Mini-Minor) was first used for Austin's version by BMC in 1961 when the Austin Seven was rebranded as the Austin Mini,[29] somewhat to the surprise of the Sharp's Commercials car company (later known as Bond Cars), who had been using the name Minicar for their three-wheeled vehicles since 1949. However, legal action was somehow averted,[30] and BMC used the name "Mini" thereafter.

In 1964, the suspension of the cars was replaced by another Moulton design, the hydrolastic system. The new suspension gave a softer ride, but it also increased weight and production cost. In 1971, the original rubber suspension reappeared and was retained for the remaining life of the Mini.

From October 1965 the option of the unique Automotive Products (AP) designed four-speed automatic transmission became available. Cars fitted with this became the Mini-Matic.

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Slow at the outset, Mark I sales strengthened across most of the model lines in the 1960s, and production totalled 1,190,000.[32] Ford purchased a Mini and dismantled it to see if they could offer an alternative. Ford determined that the BMC must have been losing around £30 per car, and so decided to produce a larger car – the Cortina, launched in 1962 – as its competitor in the budget market. BMC insisted that the way company overheads were shared out, the Mini always made money. Larger profits came from the popular De Luxe models and from optional extras such as seat belts, door mirrors, a heater and a radio, which would be considered necessities on modern cars, as well as the various Cooper and Cooper S models.

The Mini entered into popular culture in the 1960s with well-publicised purchases by film and music stars.

The Cooper S version was also used by some British police departments as a plainclothes car. Mark II Mini: 1967–1970 The Mark II Mini was launched at the 1967 British Motor Show, and featured a redesigned grille, a larger rear window and numerous cosmetic changes. A total of 429,000 Mk II Minis were produced.

A variety of Mini types were made in Pamplona, Spain, by the Authi company from 1968 onwards, mostly under the Morris name. In 1969, a fibreglass version of the Mini Mark II was developed for British Leyland's Chilean subsidiary (British Leyland Automotores de Chile, S.A., originally the independent assembler EMSSA). The bodyshell mould was created by the Peel Engineering Company. Production begain in 1970 and continued for a few years; these fibreglass Minis can be recognized by the missing body seams and by larger panel gaps. The Chilean market was never very large and the hyperinflation and political and social collapse led to the 1973 coup The Arica plant was closed in 1974. The reason for the fibreglass body was to enable Leyland to meet very strict requirements for local sourc- ing, increasing to 70.22% in 1971.

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Supper Roster 2016-2017

Pam needs members to arrange suppers for our monthly meetings, if you are able to help please contact her on 0400 278 807

Wanted members to help with supper please contact Pam if you can help

Club Merchandise Club Shirts $15:00, Club Jackets $25:00, Bumper Badges $20:00 Window Stickers $1:00 Contact Graham Tattersall on 5554 5659 or see him at a meeting to purchase any of these items

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1947 Austin A40 Sedan. Genuine 57000 miles original condition and engine. Plenty of spares, painted green originally grey. Upholstery A1 condition for its age all leather. Needing a little TLC on chrome work. Registered and drives great, ex club car M & R List $6900 ono Janne Radford 0411191959 or Paul Radford

Two manufacturers workshop manuals, Rover 60, 75 and 90 models dated Feb 54, Hillman Minx 1936 $20 each plus post if needed. Contact Peter aJ at 0413 379 410

Adjustable spanner as per picture, but total length 3 inches. Needed to complete the tool tray in my Rover contact Peter aJ on 0413379310 or email [email protected]

Petrol cap locking or non-locking to suit Austin A30 AS3 model only (has 3 locking tabs inside). Phone Gareth 5538 1148

Rolls Royce Shadow Chrome & Trim. Contact Sohan 0435 638 528 Wanted your Adverts, Wanted or for Sale This space is yours to use, and free to club members. Just email your ads to the editor by the third Sunday of the month

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