THE VOICE OF THE VINTAGE CAR DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 Merry Christmas Everyone From the Bay of Plenty VCC BAY OF PLENTY VINTAGE CAR CLUB (INC) Email: [email protected] WEB SITE: www.bayofplentyvintagecarclub.com 1 COMMITTEE CONTACTS CLUB PATRON JACK HOVEN 07 5766222 CHAIRMAN JIM SMYLIE 07 5764180 CLUB CAPTAIN KAAREN SMYLIE 021 664341 or 07 5764180 SECRETARY JOHN PAYNE 07 5706084 TREASURER KEITH PERKINS (JANE) 07 5781231 PAST PRESIDENT JIM SMYLIE (KAAREN) 07 5764180 COMMITTEE BRIAN PRATT (CINDY) 07 5447952 COMMITTEE STEVE TITMUSS (MARION) 07 5520794 COMMITTEE LINDA DOWNEY (DOUG) 021 02777931 COMMITTEE DOUG BROWN (LINDA) 021 668117 COMMITTEE KEN FREW (DIANE) 07 5764263 OTHER ELECTED OFFICERS HALL HIRE KAAREN SMYLIE (JIM) 021 664341 LIBRARIAN YVONNE BECK (PAUL) 07 5748482 PARTS SHED JACK ANDERSON (MERILYN) 07 5766346 PROPERTY MANAGER JACK ANDERSON (MERILYN) 07 5766346 NAME BADGES DAVID JOBLIN (NOLA) 07 5441690 MID WEEK RUN ALAN PRAM (JUDY) 07 5738428 NEW MEMBERS JULIAN WEBB 07 5792441 NEW MEMBERS ALASTAIR JONES (GWEN) 07 5761124 SWAPMEET KEN FREW 07 5764263 VIC CERTIFICATION ALASTAIR JONES (GWEN) 07 5761124 VIC CERTIFICATION IVAN ALLEN (YVONNE) 07 5432629 APPAREL LINDA DOWNEY (DOUG) 02 102777931 WELFARE LINDA DOWNEY (DOUG) 02 102777931 HONORARY SOLICITOR PETER BUTLER (MARION) 07 5756892 WEBSITE PAUL BECK (YVONNE) 07 5748482 KLAXON EDITOR PAUL BECK (YVONNE) 07 5748482 KLAXON EMAIL: [email protected] Fax 07 5746482 CLUB WEBSITE: www.bayofplentyvintagecarclub.com SECRETARY EMAIL: [email protected] For anytime Club enquires: Kaaren Smylie (Committee) 07 576 4180 or 021-66-43-41 2 Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club The Club Rooms are located at 29 Cliff Road Tauranga. P O Box 660, Tauranga, 3140. Key contacts are— Club Captain– Kaaren Smylie (Jim) Ph 021 664341 or 07 5764180 Secretary— John Payne 07 5706084 Email: [email protected] Monthly events— Club night (except January) 2nd Monday Start time 7.30pm Mid week run. Wednesday following the club night End of the month run. Held on the last Sunday of the month. Committee Meeting. Last Monday of the month Noggin ‘n’ Natter 4th Tuesday at 6pm Location Sequence of Noggin ‘n’ Natters 1, Tauranga- Tauranga Citz Club. Cameron Road. Organiser Jim Smylie 2. Te Puke- at Te Puke Hotel. Contact Martin Carey 573 7136 Paul McIndoe 5733328 3. Tauranga - Tauranga Citz Club. Cameron Road. Organiser Jim Smylie 4. Katikati- at “Forta Leza Café”, SH 2 Katikati. Contact Owen Smith, phone 07 570 2000. If your birthday falls in this month please remember it is your turn to provide a plate for supper. Our thanks go to last months birthday people for the food provided. PLEASE remember to wear your name badges to all events. They can be ordered from David Joblin phone 544 1690 LIBRARY HOURS— The library will be open on club nights from 7pm. Also on most Monday mornings until midday Yvonne & Paul work in the library and members are wel- come to call in to search for or return books. If making a special trip please phone home beforehand to ensure they will be there, phone at home on (07 574 8482 or 027 6098510) HELP US HIRE OUT THE CLUBROOMS! CONTACT KAAREN SMYLIE 07 5764180 OR 021 664341 Hall Cleaning Roster Volunteers We all use the hall and love to see it sparkling clean. If you have forgotten to add your name just email the Klaxon or contact Kaaren or Jack and they will do it for you. THESE ARE NO NAMES ON THE LIST - IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME ON THE NOTICE BOARD OR CONTACT KAAREN OR JACK Please enter you name on the notice board list if you are able to help. All that is required is a once a month clean taking about 2 hours. 3 December Local Events Sat 1st Dec Trustpower Christmas Parade Sun 2nd Dec Katikati Christmas Parade Tue 4th Dec Seniors Morning Tea at clubrooms 10am Thur 6th Dec Ladies Christmas Luncheon Sun 9th Dec Club Christmas Function and Restoration Awards Mon 10th Dec Club Night with special supper. Organiser Kaaren Smylie Wed 12th Dec Christmas Run to 4 villages around Mt Maunganui Sun 16th Dec Children’s Christmas Party Mon 17th Dec Committee Meeting Tue 1st Jan New Year Picnic at Tuapiro Point. Organiser Peter Lawn Mon 14th Jan Club Night. Social night Sun 20th Jan Rotorua Lakefront Car Show. All are welcome. See advert Tue 29th Jan Committee Meeting CHRISTMAS PARADES Our club has been invited to attend two parades. TRUSTPOWER PARADE Saturday, 1st Dec. Line up 3rd and 4th Avenue at 11am to take part. KATIKATI PARADE Sunday, 2nd Dec. Assemble behind the Caltex Service Station (on your right when entering Katikati) by 2.45pm STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!! COME ALONG TO OUR LAST SENIORS MORNING TEA FOR 2018 WHEN: TUESDAY 4TH DECEMBER TIME: 10am WHERE: AT THE CLUB ROOMS KAAREN IS PROVIDING A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS CAKE Enjoy a relaxing morning and catch up on a little gossip. Recommended to all. 4 LADIES CHRISTMAS BUS TRIP WHEN: THURSDAY 6th DECEMBER MEET AT THE CLUBROOMS TO DEPART 10am COST - $20.00 per person TOUR TO WAIHI, PAEROA, THAMES SHOPPING AND COFFEE STOPS DINNER STOP AT TAURANGA FISHING CLUB - MEN ARE WELCOME FOR THE DINNER A FUN DAY OUT RSVP: ASAP please to Kaaren 021 66 43 41 or 576 4180. CHRISTMAS PARTY AND RESTORATION AWARDS DATE: SUNDAY 9th DECEMBER TIME: SIMPLY TURN UP IN THE AFTERNOON SOMETIME DINNER: WILL BE A BBQ SERVED AT 5.30pm BRING; A SALAD AND DESSERT TO SHARE ALSO WE WILL BE AWARDING ‘BEST RESTORATION FOR THE YEAR’ TO ENTER A RESTORATION THAT YOU HAVE COMPLETED DURING THE YEAR - CONTACT JIM SMYLIE 07 5764180 BEFORE THE 8th DECEMBER 5 BOP VCC CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS PARTY WHEN: 16th DECEMBER WHERE: THE CLUBROOMS TIME: 2pm ORGANISERS: KAAREN 021 664341 or 07 5764180 LINDA 021 02777931 Lots of fun and activities. Sack races, wooden spoon races, giant connect 4 game, face painting and of course Santa. Each person please bring a small named gift for their child to receive from Santa NEW YEARS DAY Tuesday 1st January 2019 Club Picnic at TUAPIRO POINT For those of you who would like to celebrate the advent of the New Year quietly, Come and join us for a seaside picnic at the beautiful Tuapiro Point Reserve just North of Katikati. Large spacious park on the waters edge. Take a walk along the shore. Keep an eye open for BBQ bans that may apply at the time Arrive at Tuapiro Point at a time that suits Leave when time suits you. Bring your chairs and a picnic. And of course your vintage car. 6 Chairperson’s Chat December 2018 Yesterday I received a most welcome e-mail from the Tauranga City Council. The e-mail is so important that I set out for you in full: Good afternoon, I am the property specialist for the BOP Vintage Car Club. I have been advised by the asset manager to make contact regarding a new lease for the premises at Cliff Road. As the Long Term Plan deliberations have now been finalised we are able to offer a lease on this (sic) premises. Can you please reply and indicate if you are open in entering into a new lease and any specific conditions you may have, we would be looking at a very similar lease document as was signed previously. Any questions please contact me at the below. Thanks Robyn Scrimshaw It goes without saying the answer will be yes!!! we do wish to enter into a further lease, and to this end we discussed the subject last evening at our Club Commit- tee meeting. The committee have instructed me to respond to the Council in the affirmative, and with the only special request that the lease be for a term of ten years. This is great news for the Club after the stress in the last year or so, with the un- certainty that the Council may have wanted the site for a museum. Now that the museum issue is behind us it is welcome news that a firm lease is pending. With luck the Council will concede to our request and grant a longer term lease than the two years we have previously. I will keep you posted as to developments. After that wonderful news anything else I discuss will be an anticlimax, but I can- not let the opportunity go by without reporting on the combined branch run last Sunday. We had fifteen vehicles from our club join us for a run over Pyes Pa to Rotorua, stopping at Hamurana Reserve for morning tea. We then joined four other branches at the Steam Museum at Holdens Bay Rotorua. Altogether, with the other branches there were in excess of forty vehicles at the event. It was great to share an afternoon with members from branches close by, and to view their wonderful historic vehicles. I do hope such combined branch events are repeated on a regular basis. Next year’s event is assured, with the Tau- po Branch chairperson putting his hand up and offering to host such a run next year. Perhaps it will then be our turn in 2020. Looking forward to seeing you all at our Christmas Party on the 9th of December, or perhaps at our New Year Day Picnic at Tuapiro Point. In the meantime, safe and happy motoring. Jim Smylie Chairperson 7 The festivities and Joy that Christmas Brings with it By Kaaren Smylie Members not only does the big Fella in the red suit descend upon us with vengeance in the month of De- cember, but don’t we start to feel brainwashed with the reminders from the retailers about Christmas festivi- ties, in my opinion it seems to happen earlier every year...or am I showing my age? For our Club not only is December another jammed pack month of events, but the January diary is filling up just as rapidly.