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TORQUE the Holden Club magazine January page

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HOLDEN TORQUE

Magazine of the Holden Sporting Car Club of Victoria

January 2015January 2015January 2015January 2015January 2015January 2015January 2015January 2015

***Membership Renewals Now Due!***

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Magazine Articles and advertisements to be published in the magazine can be submitted via e-mail to the Editor at [email protected] . Microsoft Word format is preferred for text, pictures as jpg (no larger than 1200x900). Each months items must be received before print night (refer Calendar). Quarter page ads are free to members. Advertising is otherwise charged at $10 - quarter page, $20 - half page, $35 - full page per edition

Website Why not visit our website. Find us at: www.holdenclub.com for more information on the club or up to date information on our various events. Club Meetings Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of odd months, usually at the Golden Gate hotel, Coventry St, South Melbourne, 7.30pm for an 8.00pm start, or alternative venues as per the calendar. All members and their friends are very welcome. Meals are available prior to the meeting at bistro prices. (GG hotel only). Correspondence All should be addressed to: The Secretary, Holden Sporting Car Club of Victoria Inc, GPO Box 791, Melbourne, Vic 3001 or via email to: [email protected] Disclaimer The views or comments in the magazine are not necessarily those of the committee, the editor or the publishers of the Holden Sporting Car Club of Victoria Inc.’s magazine. We accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the information printed and or quality of any thing advertised or mentioned in this publication. Copyright in any item here remains with its owners.

Committee and Club Information

Webmaster Matt Condy [email protected]

Motor Racing & Rally Rep Ron Klein [email protected]

Editor Kim McConchie [email protected]

Classic Historic Registry Phil Slater 0432 955 743

Membership/Point score Peter Smyth [email protected] 0414 657 274

Social & Special Events Geoff Fitzpatrick

CAMS State Council Rep Club Photographer

Bruce Lethborg Julie Stokes

[email protected] [email protected]

President Bruce Lethborg [email protected] 0499 272 774

Vice President Ron Klein [email protected]

Secretary Phil Slater [email protected] 0432 955 743

Treasurer Kris Lethborg [email protected]

Motorkhana & Grp5 Rep Ray Cardwell [email protected]

Public Officer Ray Cardwell [email protected]

Stock Rep Martin Carabott [email protected] 0419 666 595



Note: dates and venues may change, club events in bold, last updated 28/1/2015

January

18th HSCCV committee meeting 31st HSCCV magazine distribution

February

March

April

May

7th-8th PIARC, Febuary Island Sprint / Grp5 Speed Rd 1 Phillip Island Circuit

8th FFCC/TCCA Practice Motorkhana (TBC) Werribee

14th AROCA, Sandown Sprint Sandown Raceway

15th FFCC, Sandown Sprint Sandown Raceway

15th TCCA/FFCC VMC Round 1 Werribee

21st HSVOC, Come and try & Driver training Sandown Raceway

22nd HSVOC, VSSC Round 1 Sandown Raceway

22nd HSCCV, Grp5 Round 1 Werribee

1st PAC, VMC Round 2 Pakenham

12th-15th Melbourne F1 GP

21st

25th

FFCC/TCCA, Grp5 Round 2

Club Meeting

Werribee Saturday Night

Rons Shed, details in mag.

28th AROCA, Winton Driver & Circuit training Winton Motor Raceway

29th AROCA, Winton Sprint Winton Motor Raceway

29th NCCA, VMC Round 3 Werribee

11th-12th PIARC, April Island sprint / Grp5 Speed Rd 2 /

VSSC Round 2 Phillip Island Circuit

12th PAC, Interclub Pakenham

18th DSCC, Autocross Deniliquin

19th DSCC, VMC Round 4 Deniliquin

26th PAC, Grp5 Round 3 (Khanacross) Pakenham

3rd PCCV, VMC Round 5 Pakenham


15th-17th V8 Supercars Winton

24th PAC, Grp5 Round 4 Pakenham



June

July

August

September

October

6th/7th FFCC, Grp5 Round 3 / VSSC Sandown Raceway

13th-14th PIARC, Grp5 Round 4 / VSSC Phillip Island Circuit

14th HAC, Grp5 Round 5 (TBC) Pakenham

14th AROCA, Broadford Sprint Broadford State Motorcycle Complex

21st TCCA/FFCC, VMC Round 6 Altona

TBC PIARC, VSSC Round ? TBC

4th AROCA, Phillip Island Sprint Phillip Island Circuit

12th PIARC, VSSC Round ? / Grp 5 Speed Rd 4 Phillip Island Circuit

18th BCC, VMC Round 7 Huntly Saturday

25th PIARC, Broadford Hillclimb / Grp5 Speed Rd 5 /

Victorian Hillclimb Championship Round 7 Broadford

26th TCCA/FFCC, Grp5 Round 6 Altona

2nd NCCA, Grp5 Round 6 (TBC) Sandown Raceway

2nd AROCA, Winton Sprint Winton Motor Raceway

16th HAC, VMC Round 8 (TBC) Colac

23rd HSCCV, Grp5 Round 7 (TBC) Sandown Raceway

30th PIARC, Grp5 Round 7 / VSSC (TBC) Laverton


6th SEAC, VMC Round 9 Mount Gambier

11th-13th V8 Supercars Sandown

13th NCCA, Grp5 Round 8 (TBC) Laverton

25th/26th Australian Motorkhana Championship Huntly Friday/Saturday

4th PAC, Grp5 Round 9 Pakenham

17th-18th AROCA, Winton Alfa Club 6 Hour Relay Winton Motor Raceway

8th-11th Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000

25th HSCCV, VMC Round 10 (TBC) Laverton



November

December

1st AROCA, Broadford Sprint Broadford Motorcycle Complex

3rd FFCC, VSSC Round 6 / Grp 5 Speed Rd 8 Sandown Raceway

6th FFCC/TCCA, Grp5 Round 10 Khanacross Werribee

14th-15th PIARC, November Island Sprint Phillip Island Circuit

15th VMCI, VMC Round 11 (TBC) Pakenham

20th-22nd V8 Supercars Phillip Island

22nd HAC, Interclub (TBC) Lardner Park

29th VMC spare day (TBC)

6th Grp5 Spare Day (TBC)



Hi, and welcome to 2015. Hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forward to some great motorsport. We had the AGM back in November; I would like to welcome two new members to the committee, Matt Condy and Peter Smyth. Matt will be running the website and has a few new ideas to freshen up the site. Peter has taken on the membership secretary role. Thanks guys for helping out, it’s good to see some new faces on the committee. Our first meeting for 2015 is on 25th of March at Ron’s man cave, this meeting will include our presen-tation of 2014 trophies. There will be a BBQ before the meeting and I am working on a guest speaker. Hope to see you there. HSCCV is running the first round of the Group 5 Motorkhana series at Werribee on Feb 22 and we need helpers for timing, taking entries, set up in the morning and BBQ at lunch. This is an opportunity for club permit holders to get a signature. If you can help, give me a call 0499272774. The day before at Sandown HSVoC are running a come and try day, this will be a great opportunity for those of you who would like to have a go at sprints. HSVoC have offered HSCCV members a discount of $50 on the entry fee. Supp regs are on our website. I am Clerk of Course on the day and would be great to see you there. Geoff is working on a few social events this year. After many requests, the car run to Heathcote will run again. Check Geoff’s report for details. At the end of January Vicroads introduced the new rules for the Club Permit system, one of the main points is that a Vicroads roadworthy is now required. We have had this requirement for the last three years, but it is now compulsory. The rules are on Vicroads website if you need further information. This year Phil will be keeping a check on the permit holders helping at events and attending meetings. It is up to you to do your part, so don’t be upset if you haven’t fulfilled the requirements and Phil won’t sign your renewal. With the new year upon us, it means that your memberships are now due, so contact Peter to renew your membership. You need a current club membership to be able to compete in any events. As you may know, I raced in the Excel racing series last year under AASA. This year the Victorian guys have become CAMS affiliated and are going to run in the state series, so this means getting the car ready for a CAMS log book and me getting a CAMS full licence but we will be racing at Sandown and Phillip Island. Should be a good year racing at these tracks. Excels might not sound like fun but believe me it is awesome fun. If anyone is interested in cheap fun racing, give me a call I am heading to Bathurst via Sydney for a weekend of motorsport, firstly, we are going to the V8 Super-car test day at Eastern creek, then off to Bathurst for the 12 hour race and after that I am working with V8Race on the Monday and Tuesday strapping customers into the cars. I will be ticking off one of the bucket list items, driving the Bathurst track at speed……….Can’t wait.

Presidents Report – Bruce Lethborg



Secretary's Report —Phil Slater

Hello and welcome to another year of HSVCC membership, fun and motorsport.

In what is my 21st year of being a member (not consecutive) I am reminded of how much has changed

since I first joined in the early 80s. In those days we all competed in our daily drivers and hardly anyone

had a trailer. The same car was used for sprints, motorkhanas cruises and car shows and in my case my

Cyan Blue LJ GTR XU-1 Torana was up for the job. I even raced it in what was then the dominant class

of Road Registered which had two full fields at State Race meetings. Many others in the club raced their

road going Toranas, Monaros, Kingswoods and early Commodores and drove them home afterwards. We

competed at tracks that that are no longer available such as Hume Weir, Morwell and Lakeland Hill-

climbs, Calder Park and Alexandra Speedway. In those days the Group Five Series included autocrosses

as well as sprints and hillclimbs. As well as the tracks that are gone there are the people; some that have

left the club and others that have gone to the big racetrack in the sky. There were many characters and I

miss them all but we have new members, new characters and new cars so let’s hope that we get some

new tracks eventually.

Phil Slater

Phil in the XU-1, back in the day….I can tell you he was managing to have fun AND be bloody

competitive all at the same time!



Treasurers Report—Kris Lethborg

Opening balance $24,955.92

Deposits for period 1st December – 19th January Memberships $460 Bank Interest $ 3.99

Total deposits $463.99

Outgoings for period 1st December – 19th January End of year committee function $564.60 Microsoft office for club computer $124.95 Bank fees .80c

Total outgoing $690.35

Cash box $235.80

Closing balance $24,965.36

And it’s a big congratulations to Kris and Melanie, on the birth of their son ,

Cole Michael Lethborg, 28/01/15 at 10.21pm.

A great way to start the new year!

Editors Report —Kim McConchie

Hi everybody, Happy to be back in the privileged position of Editor for one more year, I just hope everyone feels the same! Its been a bit of a messy start to the year, with PC problems killing the first attempt at putting the mag together for January—hence the late publication this month. Still have a couple of things to clean up—the Club Calander should look a bit more respectable next month, to ensure you are looking at the most re-cent please check the website, Matt has got it pretty much up to date the last time I checked it. I will be trying for some new looks for the mag this year—I think the cover design dated back to some-thing I knocked together years ago when we first went to email distribution, and some of the internl for-mats are up for a rethink as well. Any feedback, suggestions, or donations to a good cause (Yr Humble Editor, now unemployed and living on stale saladas and tepid water from the pond) are welcomed; and of course, articles are ALWAYS appreciated! Cheers, Kim.



Welcome to a new year. It is bound to go as quick as last year did so let’s get cracking and have a good one ….. Over the Christmas break Marian and I drove to Brisbane via Bathurst. We stopped at the Museum and had good look around a great collection of racing history, cars, bikes, paintings, photos and a few famous names - Brocky Brabham and many more. This museum is a must to see. What else is there to do in Bathurst? That’s right .. do a few laps of Mt Panorama at 60 kph. It was hard work but the VE sports wagon handled it .

Social Events – put these in your diary.

BBQ and Presentation Night

March 25th - Ron’s Shed at 7.00 pm. His address is 55A Capella Crescent; Moorabbin Melways 78 B7.

Car run to Flynns Winery at Heathcote is on again due to public demand. Date to be in April – date to be finalized. Plus more to be planned - Troys Shed; Shannons; another car run; Harrops Never stop improving, Geoff Fitzpatrick 0419 513 175

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Social & Special Events — Geoff Fitzpatrick



Social & Special Events — Geoff Fitzpatrick

Some of Geoffs pictures from the Bathurst Museum—

I’m guessing the EH S4 was getting his attention...



The Black Saturday Remembrance Cruise organisers are hoping for a good turnout on the day, and with all proceeds going to local CFA’s its certainly support-ing a good cause. A few club members were at last years cruise, and it’s a good reason to get those garage residing cars on club permits out and on the road. Also coming up on Feb. 8 is the annual Picnic at Hanging Rock, organised by the Macedon Ranges & District Motor Club. It gets bigger and bigger each year with some great individual and club displays. See their website for details: http://www.picnicathangingrock.com.au/ Another one coming up is the Keilor Rotary Car and Bike Show, could be worth a look if you’re out that way.

Other Events Coming UpA.



Minutes of Holden Sporting Car Club of Vic. Inc November Annual General Meeting

Bell’s Hotel – 25/11/2014

PRESENT As per Attendance Book APOLOGIES Amelia, Kim, Chantelle,Troy, .Proxies: Kim, Chantelle, Tony & Cam

Meeting opened: 8.15 Minutes M: S:NA

PRESIDENT:

Welcome to AGM Summary of year.

New members showing up Winton a loss Motorkhanas successful Sandown a great success. New venues for meetings Another VSSC round next year.

VICE PRESIDENT: Track days – difficulties. Meeting at Ron’s again this year.

SECRETARY

New Computer – Acer Incoming Mail November 2014

TREASURER ANZ $25,787.89

GRP5/ MOTORKHANA

VMC Presentation 16th Dec G5 Presentation 4th Feb

EDITOR

Articles please from anyone.

MOTOR RACE AND RALLY

SOCIAL

SPECIAL EVENTS

WEBSITE

Calender NTR

STOCK

Hopes to sell more stock

MEMBERSHIP/POINTSCORE In Camera

AGM

President: Bruce Vice President: Ron Secretary: Phil Treasurer: Kris Gen Committee: Peter Smyth, Geoff, Ray, Martin, Kim, Matt Condy.

GENERAL BUSINESS

Peninsula Car Show for women’s cancer. Meeting closed:8.48

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