21/7 AUGUST 2015 [ $8 ] LOTUS & Clubman Notes THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE COMBINED LOTUS CLUBS OF AUSTRALIA FEATURES Hethel visit LCV Early Morning Run Classic Team Lotus, and the beauty of historic race cars The Cultural Gourmet Run Australian GT Series – Lotus and the battle of real Super Cars Print Post Approved 100001716 CLUB LOTUS AUSTRALIA (NSW) August 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 7 COMMITTEE Club Lotus Australia PO Box 220, STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 President Ashton Roskill 0408 202 208 [email protected] FEATURES Vice-President Anne Blackwood 0413 22 11 23 [email protected] Treasurer Kristine Bennett 0414 781 524 [email protected] 06 Lotus 2015 update Secretary Elliott Nicholls H (02) 9484 3749 [email protected] 08 Happy Laps Competition Secretary Mike Basquil (02) 9533 2140 [email protected] & CAMS Delegate 10 Hethel visit General Committee Keith Edwards 0417286976 [email protected] 11 LCV Restaurant Night James Chan 12 LCV Early Morning Run Rob Costa Point score Michael Donnan (02) 9389 0461 [email protected] 14 Classic Team Lotus, and the beauty of historic race cars Webmaster Seth Reinhardt Public Officer & Maurice Blackwood 0417 218 462 mozzieb@ ispdr.net.au 16 The Cultural Gourmet Run Club Plates 18 HM Gem Engines Visit CMC Delegates Evan Jones 0411103043 [email protected] [email protected] 19 Shed Shenanigans Part 1 Magazine coordinator Tom Devitt 61 417 295 549 [email protected] 20 2015 CSCA July Report CLA State Delegates Eddie Lankhorst for WA [email protected] 22 Vale David Firminger John Barrass for Tas [email protected] 23 Lotus Only Track Day (LCV) David Leaney for ACT [email protected] 24 Lotus Only Track Day (CLA) Andrew Stevens for SA [email protected] 26 Australian GT Series – Lotus and the battle of real LOTUS CLUB VICTORIA Super Cars COMMITTEE PO Box 79, Hawthorn Business Centre, VIC 3122 28 Lotus Elites Number 9 LCV Website: www.lotusclubvic.asn.au 30 Trevor Simpson Profile President Chris O’Connor [email protected] Vice President Cris Johansen [email protected] Treasurer Kevin Neville [email protected] Secretary John King [email protected] REGULARS Other Members David Buntin [email protected] 02 President’s Prattle Mike Byrne [email protected] Alec Spyrou [email protected] 03 President’s Waffle 04 President’s Message LOTUS CLUB QUEENSLAND 33 Classifieds COMMITTEE 16 Julia Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 LCQ Website: www.lotusclubqueensland.com President Clive Wade [email protected] 0418 196 570 Vice President Geoff Noble [email protected] 0419 643 365 Secretary Jon Young [email protected] 0417 745 790 Treasurer Daryl Wilson [email protected] 0418 711 227 Social Coordinator John Barram [email protected] 0458 321 458 Magazine Shane Murphy [email protected] 0413 616 169 Coordinator Webmaster Vyvyan Black [email protected] 0417 646 202 CAMS Delegate Greg Bray [email protected] 07 3206 1395 For any last minute updates check your state’s website! Photo courtesy J.C Smith www.clublotus.com.au www.lotusclubvic.asn.au www.lotusclubqueensland.com LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES AUGUST 2015 [ 1 ] President’s Prattle By ASHTON ROSKILL, CLA President Heavens above it’s August already. Which the instructions at www.lotus2015.com.au, and Looking a little further ahead, we are planning means we’ve enjoyed our first Tyre Kicking and for those lucky enough to be booked in, I look the Christmas Party for Sunday 6th December. Coffee event (third Sundays of the month in forward to seeing you there. It will be held at Bombinis (366 Avoca Road, Gough Whitlam Park, Tempe, in case you’ve Avoca) and will include a leisurely drive up If you recall the Dawson Damer days and Round not seen the Calendar) – thank you to everyone – or down – for those who would like to join the Buckets (and you might still be removing who turned up, and to Murray for the photos the fun, lunch subsidised by the Club, and lots grass from the undercarriage), we have kindly (have a look at the website if you’ve not seen of parking. We are limited to 80 places so make been allowed to reinstate the tradition at the them). We also had two very well attended sure you get your booking in as soon as Elliott general meetings this month: the EGM at the Blackwoods’ annual Eggs Benedict. This year it sends out the details. Royal Automobile Club of Australia (RACA) is on Sunday 27th September, so come prepared. Right, enough rattling on – it has been lovely where Tony Caldersmith kindly regaled us with August is traditionally a busy month and this to see so many of you at the various events his warm, humorous and detailed experience year is no different. We kick off with the August recently, so thank you for supporting your club at Lotus in the late 50s and early 60s; and a General Meeting, which Ed Holly has kindly so actively, and we look forward to seeing lots week later the very well-attended visit to Trevor offered to host at his shed (25 Shoalhaven of you over the coming months. In the meantime Simpson’s shed in Hornsby, where we enjoyed Road, Sylvania Waters) on Tuesday 11th, keep safe, upright and on the black stuff, the sight of Trevor’s beautifully maintained followed shortly by the CSCA sprints on Pip pip BT23b, BT5 and Lotus Cortina. Thank you again Saturday 15th, the Shannons Classic at Sydney Trevor, and Seth for the photos (also on the Motorsport Park on Sunday 16th (tickets from Ashton website). Evan Jones – be quick there aren’t many left!). For those of you laggards that have been And then the wonderful All British Day at Kings prevaricating about coming to the Barossa in School on Sunday 30th, where we will have our October for Lotus2015, you may have missed traditional family picnic and car display (tickets out this time. The event is fully subscribed and from Elliott – again, be quick as the 40 tickets a wait list has been started – to register, follow are going fast!). [ 2 ] LOTUS & CLUBMAN NOTES AUGUST 2015 President’s Waffle By CLIVE WADE, President, LCQ Onwards and ever upwards… the club certainly We will be looking for help with entrant And what’s on for the following month? keeps the committee busy. Those of us who are registration, scrutineering, course setup and By the time you are reading this on your iPad, blessed with the pleasure of ensuring there is timing gear setup. Throughout the day there the Morgan Park mob will have done the club always something to do for the varied interests will be a need for marshalling, witches hat proud again, and I will have even remembered of our members are rarely bored through having re-installation (especially after a Porsche has it is a mandatory prerequisite to have all the nothing to do. At the moment we are organizing been out) and time keepers (don’t forget, Daryl paperwork to be allowed to compete. Wasn’t the next DTC (Sunday 16th August)… nothing will also be competing, so someone will need that a bit of humble pie to eat! abnormal for Daryl, he’s being doing it for a fair to time him). few years now you might say. Except for the On the 2nd August we will be EMR-ing again, So you guessed it… we’re looking for fact that this time it is the LCQ event for the that will be two in only a 4 week period. This volunteers to help out on the day, please Interclub Challenge. time we’ll be starting from Samford Village with send Daryl Wilson an email: a shortish run up to Mt Mee for breakfast. Then Normally the regulars just go with the flow, [email protected] of course the BIG ONE, the DTC as mentioned we know when to turn up, we know how our And what of last month? Accolades to Colin above on the 16th. And at the end of the month? system works, we know that with a little help McKay for organising the day run to the Tweed At the end of the month is our monthly day run, in the early morning for course setup, and Regional Gallery at Murwillumbah. I won’t say so pencil in the 30th August for a nice drive to hang around to help pack up, our DTC will run too much as there is an article written, but it somewhere for morning tea and lunch with a smoothly for the day, familiarity leads us to a really was a memorable day out, thank you great group of good folk for company. No doubt nice level of comfortable complacency. Colin. We had a really informative club meeting we will overdo our stay as we usually do, we all Not this time though, this time we will be at HM Gem Engines which kept Mal Kelson and talk far too much, easily losing an afternoon to over-run by a bunch of enthusiastic newbies, a number of others in seventh heaven whilst the most important of waffle. And isn’t that the many of whom will be there in the firm belief amongst all the machinery. Our host did a whole point of a social run? that with a reasonable amount of spirited mighty job, so a big thank you to Brad and Luke. And on that comment… see you at the August driving their respective marque will knock Of course the usual contenders turned out for meeting, 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm at our usual LCQ off its perch at the top of the overall the MGCC Mt Cotton Hill Climb and we were hide-out at Shannons in West End score card.