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: Norton Owners Club RACV MOTORING INTERESTS Keith Mortimer MANAGER: Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Rod Adler Daryl Meek Tel.: (03) 9889 4071 Phone: 03 9790 3079 SECRETARY: Buick Car Club Fax: 03 9790 3065 Position not filled at this stage Matthew Lambert Mobile: 0407 881 288 Rootes Group CC Email: [email protected] TREASURER: Rhys Timms Steve Young ENGINE RECORDS SEARCH: MG Car Club Rolls Royce Owners CC AOMC Office Tel (03) 9555 0133. NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Andrew Gottschalk Daryl McMahon Moke Owners Association AOMC Office Tel.: 0467 902 040 1/3 Edgecombe Crt [email protected] Colin Jenkins Moorabbin, Vic 3189 Vintage Drivers Club Triumph Enthusiasts Guild (03) 9555 0133 Email;: [email protected] Web: www.aomc.asn.au Front Cover: Chris Hodge and his 1970 Ford Cortina GT , winner of the car of the Show at the recent RACV Classic Showcase. For more details and pictures refer to pages 13 - 15. 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 May 2016 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 Committee cannot be held liable for any errors and/or omissions in The AOMC sends out four Newsletters per year to club Delegates. A articles, reports, notices, advertisements, comment and advice of copy is also sent to the club address. It is important that a copy of events that are published in this Newsletter in good faith. It should be each Newsletter be forwarded to the club‟s Editor, so that our news noted that the publication of an advertisement, or expression of views can be circulated to your membership via your Newsletter. in articles and reports, does not necessarily imply endorsement by the AOMC of the advertised product or service, or the views expressed in any articles or reports published in the Association‟s Newsletter. Robert Shannon Club Permit Scheme Foundation Handbook The AOMC is a member of the Australian Historic Motoring The AOMC produced Club Permit Federation (AHMF). The AHMF Scheme Handbook has been updated assists in the administration of the to reflect the latest changes to the Robert Shannon Foundation Trust scheme and approved by VicRoads. which makes annual awards to Copies of the new Handbook will be young motoring enthusiasts. Victorian youth have been past available at the Delegates Meeting recipients. Your club can sponsor a (May 16th) or can be ordered through worthy youngster. See the AOMC the AOMC Office. website for more background and Delegates can pick up bulk copies for an application form. their clubs if required. Applications for 2016 must be The Handbooks will be selling for $5 received by the AOMC by per copy, and $4 per copy for orders of 30 May 2016 10 or more. Payment by cash, cheque or credit card will be accepted. AOMC May 2016 3 FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE Committee Members Contacts inside front cover Notices 4 President’s Report 5 Press Release re Importing of vehicles 6 Calendar of Events 8 RACV Classic Showcase results and Pictorial 13 World Motoring Heritage Year 2016—FIVA Awards 16 Motor Homes on the Club Permit Scheme 18 BMW - A Centenary 20 Minutes of February 2016 Delegates Meeting 22 Archived Engine Number Records 26 IMPORTANT NOTICES May Delegates Meeting Membership Monday 16th May Database Offer Over the years the AOMC has received a Time: 7.30pm number of requests from clubs seeking Venue: Chevrolet Clubrooms suitable software with which they can manage their membership database and 1/3 Edgecombe Court, Moorabbin. also CPS vehicles. Apologies & Enquiries: (03) 9555 0133 In 2013 Mark Fenton of the Chrysler Restorers Club made a presentation to an Guest Speakers: AOMC Delegates Meeting on some of the computer facilities and software used by his Gerard Waldron Club. He has since enhanced some of the Australian Road Research Bureau. software to allow use by any club. ARRB provides research, consulting, products and information He has now made this software available to services to the road and transport industry. ARRB applies research all AOMC member clubs .. gratis! outputs to develop equipment that collects road and traffic The AOMC is delighted with his gift to the information, and software that assists with decision-making across movement and invites clubs to download it road networks. ARRB is the leading provider of road research and an give it a trial. best practice workshops in Australia. Some key features are: Matthew Lambert: Risk Management ñ Handles club member details including Has your club ever been asked to do a risk assessment, or provide a vehicles risk assessment plan? Matt Lambert, a risk and safety consultant, will explain the jargon, and give some guidance on how your club can ñ Will handle over 500 members and satisfy these requirements. 1000 vehicles ñ Produces member mailing lists for NOTE Hardcopy and Emails Meals arrangements: ñ Imports data from Excel There will be the usual BBQ meal with salad ñ Either operates as a single user database or for multiple users via the available from 6pm for $10. www Bookings essential and can be made to: ñ Uses MS Access database runtime version (which may be downloaded free Tel: 0413 020 802 (leave a message) or from Microsoft) email to: [email protected] For more information see the AOMC website and look for the Club Membership by Friday 13th May. Software link. 4 AOMC May 2016 PRESIDENT’S REPORT Welcome to the second newsletter for the year. should give the current generation of restorers all the support we can. Traditionally the busiest time in the motoring calendar, any enthusiast in Victoria would be hard The movement certainly needs renewal and owners pressed not to be able to find multiple events which of vehicles that appeal to the younger generation to attend on any given weekend. may be where it comes from. Of course this busy schedule would not be possible The Association was established 40 years ago to without the efforts of many tireless community assist the movement with any contentious issue that minded motoring enthusiasts who get stuck in and may effect the movement or the use of our vehicles.