May 2008 May Guest Speaker John Bowe SOLD Speed championship leaders Hollywood and Bob Lorich Also Inside TCM - Oran Park AGM Notification Heads up on Neck restraints Plus more, more & more.... BE AT THE NEXT MEETING! 8pm Wednesday May 28 2008 Bells Hotel, Moray Street South Melbourne Guest Speaker - John Bowe TORQUING HEADS 2007/2008 Work Ph Home Ph Fax Mobile Email President Jervis Ward 9690 4321 9690 4338 9690 4323 0409 137 629 [email protected] Vice President Mark Barbour 9572 1376 0407 563 465 [email protected] Secretary Gordon Cox 9467 8900 9435 5235 9467 4590 0418 506 650 [email protected] Treasurer David Floyd 9574 8333 9877 2243 9574 8388 0402 257 541 [email protected] Competition Mark Barbour 9572 1376 0407 563 465 [email protected] Membership Jervis Ward 9690 4321 9690 4338 9690 4323 0409 137 629 [email protected] Committee Russell Pilven 9379 2616 9337 7017 9379 0669 0419 527 188 [email protected] Eligibility David Twigg 0414 875 922 9466 9737 9702 9635 0414 875 922 [email protected] Eligibility Len Read 5977 8771 5977 8771 0408 548 133 [email protected] Engine Sealing Ken Zinner 9568 0363 9568 0363 0412 171 603 Are you joking.com.au AHTCA Mat Jager 9627 3386 9682 6999 0418 360 686 [email protected] Editor Chris Ralph 9696 5800 9596 3143 9696 0507 0418 318 934 [email protected] Pointscore Dean Bryant 9588 2566 9931 0333 9588 2577 0417 012 526 [email protected] May Guest Speaker John Bowe Page 2 May 2008 HISTORIC TOURING TORQUE TORQUE STEER By now I’m not planning to stop now either. Condolences you would There are many other things I want to I’m sure the whole club joins me know concentrate on now I will have a little in offering our condolences to Russell (thanks to more time to myself. And I hope these Pilven on the sad passing of his father the editor little things will return big dividends for (Ted) just recently. us all. I’m not leaving Group N to race last month) Historic Winton that I will the Beemer. Just have the odd run in it not be and see what it does! And if I sell the Good luck to all the competitors this re-standing Mustang I’ll build another car ASAP. weekend. A list on all entrants in on page 18. as President Phillip Island Starting Line at the June Incident Charge IMPORTANT: It looks as if the AGM. I will pre-grid procedure will move from At the last general meeting there was however nominate for Vice-President the top grid area to the lower V8 discussion about the Phillip Island start and let you decide. Dean Bryant has Supercar garage pit lane. This is to line incident and subsequent charge laid expressed his intention to nominate for ease congestion and the ever increasing on Pete Martin. Our concerns were more President and he has penned (keyed?) OH&S issues. The weather in about the process and notification of the an article in this newsletter introducing Melbourne looks horrible but it’s always charge than the incident itself. Twiggy himself and asking for your support. I nice on the other side of the divide. spoke with Steven Daws, State Manager think Dean would make an outstanding Good luck and may the best at CAMS and David, and myself are President and ask you to support him man/woman win. more then happy with the reply we and come to the AGM and show him received. Website that support. AHTCA Wow. Thanx Michael Cruse. Full I’ve been El’Presidente for 5 years report on page 17 of this newsletter. We discussed the issues and and as Justin Brown once told me “they Rumour Mill are learning years and years of great relevance of the AHTCA at the last Hollywood has sold his “Mr Green” personal development”. Crap I thought! general meeting. Mat told us one state (cover shot) to newbie Club member But no. They really have been years of had still not paid their fees for the year David Moran. No news on either’s personal development. I’ve learnt a lot! and enlightened us to the general feeling plans. And, I can use a lot of that in my daily within the Historic Commission about life. But most importantly I have really the AHTCA. I repeated my comments APOLOGY loved being the figure-head for such a that Mat’s job, when he took on the role In last month’s newsletter we great bunch of guys and gals. of AHTCA rep, was to fix or close it. A forget to credit the Eastern Creek result is getting near I think. There have been too many special shots to James Maloney of JPM moments (no Coxy, the cow tipping trip Historic Commission PHOTOGRAPHICS. Sorry! at Benalla after the Chinese meal for Bob gave us the honour of his More photos 65 close friends doesn’t count) to name presence and outlined some of the Could everyone submit a photo of them. I’ve had some absolute belly changes to the Commission and the themselves and their car(s) so we can laughs. I’ve made good friends with overall push to smaller committees. He start building a “This is us” page on our some great people. Many of whom I also commented that the European (and website. Please mail to HTCAV PO Box would never thought possible. And some RSA) Historic Commissions are very 16 Chadstone Centre Victoria 3148 or as old as my father. impressed with how original we’ve kept [email protected] our cars and that Australia’s model is I count myself lucky that so many See you next Wednesday.... Jervis things we’ve tried to do over my tenure probably the way they should be going as well. that have come good. And we’ve survived Dorians Wanted some biggin’s like the arrive of AASA, Eligibility the Biante boys breaking away and the Congratulations to David Twigg I’m looking to borrow some introduction of Audits to name a few. on being named Group N Technical Dorians and chargers for the 6 hour relay in August. I have always tried to do what I was Commissioner. A position he most duly asked and tried to make it easier for you deserves. We might all have to start to Please contact me on guys to get out there and race. listen to him now! 0409 137 629 if you can help out HISTORIC TOURING TORQUE May 2008 Page 3 OVERseas TORQUED... Greetings from Darkest Africa Dick Sorensen who’s an ex-Melbourne It’s been an driver of note form the 50s and 60s who amazing trip – a knew Ted very well in the day (but knew very fast fortnight him more for his VW exploits!) and in every sense. wished to be remembered to him, Brian I’m writing this Sampson and Brique Reed. on Monday 19 But the daddy of them all is Kyalami. May with hours Wow, you need the cojones there. The to spare before standard of living and the places that I saw first part is the original track with a catching the flight last night made Toorak look very shabby series of fast but deceiving corners, a home this afternoon, knowing that the new indeed – and there are perhaps ten of these rise up the old back straight, a sweeping co-editor of the mag is cracking seed and super-rich enclaves around Johannesburg, left- right up the hill, a crest, left into jumping up and down on his perch waiting not to mention dozens more of the upper the downhill Esses then a big uphill haul for this. I’ll try to be brief, but there’s middle class and middle class residents. that crests with almost no braking area simply so much to tell. South Africa is a The luxury car showrooms are everywhere into a tight left hander. That’s followed land of extraordinary contrasts and I have and they’re giant, multi-storey moderns – learned so much in my time here. There’s with manufacturers like Benz, BMW and massive wealth and excoriating poverty, VW/Audi having several of them in the hope and despondency, technological area. With the rise of the affluent black advancement and backwardness. Much of upper middle class, there’s no shortage of the time you could believe it’s Australia, takers for luxury items. The population is the landscapes aren’t that different, the hard to assess with the constant influx of shopping centres, roads, petrol stations, immigrants from neighbouring countries houses all look the same. But no way (there’s a lot of black on black unrest with could you ever compare the overcrowded, the locals taking a number of foreign lives as they think they’re taking their jobs, etc) by a long sweeping leftie down into the but Johannesburg must be 9-10 million downhill straight and sweeper they call and with Pretoria about 15 million, in a the Mineshaft, into a bumpy braking area total of an estimated 55+ million. With where it’s hard to read the road, then up numbers like that they only need a few to another crest with a blind tight chicane bucks each to drive an economy. just over it, then a big long straight to the Anyway, enough of the travelogue, finish. Sensational. this is a mag for a Historic Car Club, Now everyone knows there’s no such and I have to say when you’re among thing as a free lunch, and Clive (for those the members of the Historic Racing Car who had not read the previous magazine, Register of South Africa, life is exactly HTCAV member and South African/ the same.