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There is more! stretch July 2015, it has been a successful 6 months for The rumours are true! 2016 the club with another big 6 Skyline Nationals will be ahead of us. held Interstate. The changes to the While we do not have the CPS (Club Permit Scheme) this year in February has have requests in with two been a step in the right direc- Statetracks confirmed in two separate yet, we states do tion, and certainly made it which are pending at the mo- so we don’t have to work as ment, and this will set our hard to weed out those who dates and location – for now were seeking to exploit clubs you must continue to “watch and the scheme with their this space”. Dodged up Buckets. So there you go – that’s Our membership base my myth busting segment – if has steadily continued as we you have any myths, rumours have crossed over to the new or mysteries you need busted or solved you can always with a consistent amount of shoot me an email to: Presi- financialenquires yearand newfor the members club, [email protected] joining each month. Remember Classic Skylines Australia is your club without your feedback and ideas we wouldn’t be much of a club. Pics courtesy Nismo : nma715/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ 4 CSA Journal July - August 2015 Secretary me back in and I think Once again thank yet another Skyline you all for allowing me Report: might be on the cards in the opportunity to be a the not too distant fu- part of this great club’s Alex Agnoletti ture. committee. The oppor- tunity to give back to the Hey Everyone! I decided to put my club is not something to hand up to join the com- sneeze about and I hope Firstly I would like mittee as a way of paying that together our work to apologise for my ab- the club back for all the as the 2014/15 commit- sence from the last few help and opportunity it tee will guide the club to months meetings and has provided me through a stronger position now events, my work sum- the wealth of knowledge and into the future! moned me to a project and the companionship in Perth and while it of our members, and also Alex was the opportunity of a to lend a hand in organ- lifetime it did mean time ising Skyline Nationals, away from my family, an event that I cannot friends and responsibili- speak highly enough of. ties back home. Now that I’m back In my capacity as however I cannot wait the Secretary this year to make up for lost time I hope to work with the and continue from where rest of the Committee I left off. to improve our back consolidate all of the officeadministrative processes work and we aboutGenerally myself, but I find as this it do behind the scenes a bit difficult to write into one location. This club magazine I feel like will improve our ability isI should my first formally report inintro the- to work effectively as a duce myself to those in team in serving you our the club who might not members as well as take know much about me. some strain out of what Nissan is already a very time My brother and I consuming task for us Number 1 were introduced to CSA committee members. You through some of the guys may have already seen that used to attend the or felt some of our pro- Fan!! R31 Skyline Club events cesses change this year and cruises. I’ve always and I hope you agree owned Nissans and in that they are steps in particular, Skylines but the right direction. This right now is probably is not a small task and the longest my brother will take time especially or I have not owned a with a relatively fresh Skyline of some sort and Committee like we cur- even then it’s only been 3 rently have. I know as months! I currently have time goes on the many a 260Z 2 seater that I small changes we have love punting around tight made will start coming and twisty roads as well as race tracks around all club members. the country, although as together to the benefit of I write this piece the call of the Skyline is luring July - August 2015 CSA Journal 5 Motorsport Report: Andrew - GC MacGillaz Motorsports Update – July 2015 While it’s been a little quiet on CSA run events, some of our members having been hitting the apexes at 2 of Victoria’s fastest tracks over the last couple of months as part of the 2015 CSA Club Championship. 11th April – PIARC Sprint – Phillip Island Raceway 1st Gordon Lovegrove - Datsun 260Z 1:48.9253 Since then Gordon has been working on a new dedicated Racecar that should be making it’s ap- pearance in June at PIARCs Sprint Days 11th June. 21st June – MSCA Sandown Super Sprints – Sandown Raceway 1st Steve Connell Nissan GTiR 1:31.1676 2nd James Crichton Datsun 1600 1:35.1972 3rd Bec Bottomley Toyota GT 86 1:37.8729 4th Matthew Tredrea Nissan GTiR 1:38.0815 5th Gary Branella Nissan R31 1:41.6034 6th Sam Casabene Nissan R31 1:41.7289 While the temperatures were low, the sun was out and the wind wasn’t cutting like a knife, it was great to see only 10 seconds covering all the CSA entries on the day with very different hardware, it’s great to see CSA members getting out there with their road & track cars. Excellent work by James in his 1600 who managed to top the 1500cc-2000cc Classic Class with his 1:31.1676. Bec managed to further cutting 0.5 of a second off her previous PB at Sandown & the battle will continue within the ‘Calsonic Blue’ R31 team with Gary and Sam split by only 0.1255 showing there’s not much between the 2 drivers! July’s Round of the CSA Championship is another go at PI, this time with AROCA on Sat 4th July, entries can/should be made online ASAP at https://www.meecamsau.com/. If you cannot make this date, there are entries still available for the PIARC day on the 11th July, but please advise me so I know to look for your results. August’s Motorsport Round will be up at Winton with MSCA on Sunday the 16th August. Details of when the CSA Skidpan day will be advertised as soon as a suitable date can be arranged. Thanks, Andrew – GC MacGillaZ Social Report: Juzzie and Damo G’day all, The CSA Social team have had some great events so far this year and we’ve got plenty more planned We had a mystery drive in May around the back of Healesville. 12 cars enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the Autumn weather. The drive was mostly trouble free with the excep- tion of T-Rev having a slight accelerator issue. That gave us a chance for a rest and a chat while the issue was remedied. The roads we drove on were a little busy in places since the didn’t get held up for long. We ended up at puffingHealesville billy Beechworth run was on Bakerythe same which day, butalways we has a big crowd on weekends.