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The<br />
<strong>Radiator</strong> <strong>Cap</strong><br />
<strong>August</strong> 2018 Newsletter<br />
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Wed 1 Aug<br />
Thu 9 Aug<br />
Wed 15 Aug<br />
Thu 16 Aug<br />
Sun 26 Aug<br />
12:00 Mid-week Café Run to Puhoi Cheese Factory, Ahuroa Road<br />
17:30 Club Night Dinner & Prizegiving<br />
10:00 Coffee & Cleaning<br />
19:00 Club Committee meeting<br />
Daffodil Day Rally for Cancer<br />
Wed 5 Sep<br />
Thu 13 Sep<br />
Wed 19 Sep<br />
Thu 20 Sep<br />
12:00 Mid-week Café Tun to The Wade Hotel, Silverdale<br />
17:30 Club Night<br />
10:00 Coffee & Cleaning<br />
19:00 Club Committee meeting<br />
22-23 Sep North Shore’s Spring Tour<br />
Sun 23 Sep<br />
Sunday Run to Echo Valley Olives<br />
Wed 3 Oct<br />
Thu 11 Oct<br />
Wed 17 Oct<br />
Thu 18 Oct<br />
Sun 28 Oct<br />
12:00 Mid-week Café Run to Top of the Dome<br />
17:30 Club Night<br />
10:00 Coffee & Cleaning<br />
19.00 Club Committee meeting<br />
Coast to coast Run<br />
PRIZE GIVING NIGHT<br />
Thursday 9th <strong>August</strong><br />
5:30 for 6:00 pm<br />
Take Away Roast followed by our annual presentation of Trophies<br />
Choice of Beef, Lamb or Pork: all one size for $13.00<br />
Please let Noelene Quedley know your choice by Saturday 4th <strong>August</strong><br />
Tel: 09 425 4575 ( you can leave a message) or email noeleneq@hotmail.com<br />
If you have dietary constraints, and/or prefer to BYO, please do so but come anyway<br />
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CLUB CAPTAIN’S REPORT<br />
Since our last meeting, our Sunday run was a local navigation run to allow members who had attended<br />
the club night to practice their skills.<br />
Leon had set a challenging course suitable for testing what would be required to take part in rallies set by<br />
other branches. Everyone made at least one mistake! Some enjoyed the challenge while others felt it was<br />
too difficult and therefore not enjoyable. We always learn something !<br />
Our Winter Woollies Wander had good weather and feed back was very positive about the route. We did<br />
make one error but only the “experts” went wrong there. One of our members did head for Whangerei!<br />
Leon and Brendda Salt were the best of our branch. We look forward to next year.<br />
Our next midweek café is on <strong>August</strong> 1 st at the Puhoi Café and Cheese Store.<br />
Our next club night is Prize Giving. Usual format, but a group of us have proposed and set up a Take-away<br />
Roast $13.00 all one size, choice of 3 meats. Please see the advertisement in this Newsletter. If you have<br />
dietary constraints or just prefer to BYO, please feel free to do so and don't let this put you off attending<br />
the meeting.<br />
Daffodil Rally looms ever nearer. Those who are considering volunteering or joining in, please let me<br />
know. All the information was in your last newsletter. It would be very encouraging to the committee to<br />
see people who are not always active. It is for a good cause.<br />
View of the Wharf on Daffodil Day 2017<br />
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS<br />
Chairman<br />
Immediate Past Chairman Leon Salt 09 423 8122<br />
brendda@xtra.co.nz<br />
Secretary<br />
Treasurer<br />
Club <strong>Cap</strong>tain Anne Richardson 09 425 6298<br />
ricanne@gmail.com<br />
Assistants Neil Cremer 09 425 4955<br />
neilmtf@xtra.co.nz<br />
Frances Ross 09 425 8737<br />
John Duffy 021 208 7474<br />
johngduffy38@gmail.com<br />
Newsletter|Website Chris Harvey 09 422 2662 | 022 365 0171<br />
chris.harvey@westnet.com.au<br />
Health & Safety Leon & Brendda Salt 09 423 8122<br />
brendda@xtra.co.nz<br />
Vehicle ID James Lawrie 09 425 9928<br />
gloria-james-lawrie@xtra.co.nz<br />
Motorcycle Rep.<br />
National Executive Delegate Leon Salt 09 4238122<br />
brendda@xtra.co.nz<br />
National Executive Observer<br />
Librarian Frances Ross 09 425 8737<br />
Property Supervisors George Lloyd 09 425 7622<br />
yorksandlancs@gmail.com<br />
Badges<br />
Hospitality Convenors<br />
Anne & Dennis<br />
McDonald<br />
Anne 0212142267<br />
Dennis 0212652466<br />
annedenmac@xtra.co.nz<br />
Deadline for contributions to the newsletter is 23rd of the month..<br />
The opinions expressed in the newsletter are not necessarily the views of the branch.<br />
Branch address: PO Box 547, Warkworth 0941<br />
VERO Agency No. 0300159<br />
Free phone 0800 658 411<br />
wellsfordwarkworth@vcc.org.nz<br />
Visit our website<br />
www.vcc-wellswark.org.nz<br />
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WINTER WOOLLIES WANDER 2018: RESULTS<br />
Winners.<br />
Vintage:<br />
Bruce & Claudia Jeffery. Austin 7 1929 Northland<br />
John & Janice Gardner. Ford Model A 1928 Auckland<br />
Post Vintage:<br />
Gavin Welch & Sophie Zhao. Ford Model Y 1934 Auckland<br />
Don & Noeline Huggins. Dodge DU 1933 Auckland<br />
Post War:<br />
Tony & Judy Brierley. Morris Oxford 1957 Waikato<br />
Gary & Rosanne Bright. Morris Minor 1000 1960 Auckland<br />
Post 60:<br />
Alan, Shaaran & Zoe Price. Vauxhall VZ490 1965 Auckland<br />
Les & Gail Costar MGB Roadster 1978 Eastern BoP<br />
Post 80:<br />
Steve & Joy Growden. Ford Cortina 1982 Eastern BoP<br />
Gary Bax & Murray Atkinson. Volkswagen 1987 Auckland.<br />
Overall Winner:<br />
Gavin Welch & Sophie Zhao.<br />
Photo by Jannette Thompson<br />
Local Matters<br />
Overall Wellsford Warkworth Winner:<br />
Brendda & Leon Salt.<br />
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WINTER WOOLLIES WANDER 2018<br />
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WINTER WOOLLIES WANDER 2018<br />
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CLUB CAR OF THE MONTH<br />
JAMES’ & GLORIA’S 1937 CHRYSLER COUPE<br />
This car and at least 4 other identical vehicles were NZ-assembled at Todd Motors in Wellington. There is<br />
also one other car, which was English-assembled. All 5 are restored and on the road. There is also a genuine<br />
1937 Plymouth example as well (a recent import from Detroit and LH drive). I first saw this car on display<br />
in Columbo Street, Christchurch back in 1973 while touring the South Island with a couple of mates.<br />
By then I was a qualified mechanic with the first 3 years of my apprenticeship spent in Orourkes Precision<br />
Engineering in Warkworth which was a Chrysler Agent. The car was quickly purchased, with lapsed rego<br />
and no current WOF. It did run, but we obtained an ‘A’ frame and hooked it up behind my 1965 Cortina<br />
GT and towed it home to Warkworth. On the steep hills we simply put one of the lads in it and fired it up.<br />
As a matter of interest the doors on the GT still had all their proper gaps when we got back!<br />
The old convertible was put away in a shed at Mahurangi and did not emerge until January 2003, having<br />
been inspected by the Branch on a Sunday Shed Raid. In 2003 the car was moved into our new garage/<br />
workshop where it was dismantled and all parts of the body were taken to “Heritage Beadblasters” in<br />
Auckland to be blasted clean and primed. Wilbur Brown (a Branch Member and Panel-beater) came and<br />
inspected. He took away one front guard and started the panel work. This was a continuing process for<br />
Wilbur.<br />
I borrowed a large trailer and took the body to the Beadblasters. The chassis I took into Tucker Panelbeaters<br />
at Warkworth as they had a chassis alignment machine. As the original axle was bent on the RH<br />
side I located another front axle and also a RH rear guard, both purchased second hand from the same<br />
vendor. The chassis was then taken to Henderson for sandblasting and paint. The paint used was<br />
Resene Log Truck chassis paint.<br />
In the meantiime I purchased a large quantity of rubberware, an engine kit and lots of other sundry items<br />
from the USA. When visiting our niece in Melbourne I found a shop which was an agent for “Peter Jacksons<br />
Old Auto Rubber” where I purchased a nice set of repro running board rubbers. Steve Simpson, another<br />
Branch member and Panelbeater, made up a new set of running boards and as I hate gluing rubber<br />
I got “Airflo Hydraulics” in Auckland to attend to painting and gluing on the rubber for me. Laurie Roberts<br />
was the owner of Airflo and had restored a similar car to ours. He also attended to lots of other<br />
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jobs as well. Laurie is a very talented man (now retired) and has restored at least 3 Ford Zephyrs. All<br />
mechanical work was done by me, except for machine work and the setting up of the gears. The engine<br />
was bored and sleeved back to standard and the crankshaft was reground, etc.<br />
I purchased a complete gearbox with overdrive from a<br />
VCC member in Whangarei. The 3 speed gearbox had a<br />
complete new gear-set already fitted, but I had to get a<br />
new layshaft made up and hardened for it, plus the OD<br />
needed new shafts and rollers in the planetary gear set:<br />
Laurie Roberts attended to that job. I also rebuilt both<br />
the driveshaft U joints. The overdrive was not there<br />
when I purchased the car – it just had the normal 3<br />
speed box – but it did still have the cable to operate the<br />
OD mounted on the dash.<br />
On another visit to Melbourne we went to see a lovely man Ellis Barron whose business was making up<br />
frames and glassware. He supplied these all over the world, in particular to the Hot Rod industry. He<br />
made a superb job for us in triple plated brass. He has since passed away – a great loss to the old car industry,<br />
Various firms were involved in the Chrome plating but we settled on Advanced Plating and Polishing<br />
whom I found gave the best deal on price and quality of job. In the spring of 2011, Gloria and I visited<br />
Rob Pollock in West Harbour and checked him out over wood-graining the dashboard – check out the<br />
result for yourselves!<br />
By this time the body, chassis and both front and rear axles, etc were reinstalled (with new shackles etc)<br />
and the brake system was totally rebuilt, including the pipework, linings and cylinders. Wheel bearings<br />
were replaced as necessary, as were all the diff bearings. The body is rubber mounted – 7 up each side of<br />
the chassis and all mounts were renewed. A new battery box and lid were made up: this is under-floor<br />
beneath the passenger’s seat. A new petrol tank was made and installed along with new pipe work.<br />
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Next the painter came and painted the fire-wall on the engine side, enabling me to refit the rebuilt engine<br />
and gearbox. Then Nigel Hawkes came and took the car down to Pit Stop for the exhaust system to be<br />
made and fitted. The car then went to Advanced Auto Refinishers in Warkworth for painting.<br />
Once painted, Nigel took the car down<br />
to have a new Top made, plus seats,<br />
redone in leather etc by John McKechnie<br />
in Auckland. At home again I then<br />
spent considerable time installing a<br />
N.O.S wiring loom, refitting door windows<br />
and locks among other things.<br />
The car is now on a 12v electrical system<br />
which includes halogen headlamp<br />
bulbs (60W) along with a genuine 12V<br />
Chrysler generator from the 1950s.<br />
Denis Martin from our Branch has adjusted charge rates, etc. Other mods include a homemade resistor<br />
in the starter circuit and the fitting of a 10V ignition coil. I also fitted a rubber priming bulb in the fuel line<br />
and a battery switch, both under the bonnet.<br />
In February this year, Nigel transported the finished vehicle down to North Shore Automotive Lid, for<br />
Vinning and WOF and we registered the car at VTNZ with our personalised plate. My first drive was down<br />
to Duffs Tyres to check the wheel alignment and whether the 2nd hand axle was bent: fortunately it was<br />
not! The car is on 600x16 radials, drives nicely and tracking is straight, although steering is heavy parking.<br />
All in all a 15 year restoration!!!<br />
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MYSTERY MOTORS<br />
What car is this? Answer in September’s Newsletter.<br />
July’s Mystery Motor could be mistaken for a Bentley<br />
S3 but is a one-off Alvis known as the 1967 Alvis<br />
V8 Burns Special. Jim Burns was an Alvis enthusiast<br />
and businessman who made his fortune producing<br />
electric guitars. He shoe–horned a 5.4 litre 300 bhp<br />
V8 from a Chevrolet Corvette into his elegant TD21,<br />
lowered the roof line and redesigned the front<br />
where the double stack of headlights had spoiled<br />
the original elegant Graber design. Burns wanted<br />
to produce the car for the US market but by then<br />
Rover owned Alvis, and Rover was in turn bought<br />
by British Leyland which had<br />
no interest in producing a low<br />
volume prestige car, and so<br />
Burns’ dream died.<br />
What a pity that was !<br />
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1953 ALVIS TA 21<br />
After 15 years of enjoyment with our lovely Alvis it is time to say goodbye.<br />
It has recently had the head off to be checked, valves ground and new seals fitted.<br />
The radiator was rodded and pressure tested, the tyres are all in good condition and have<br />
ample tread.<br />
We have had some fabulous trips including one from North <strong>Cap</strong>e to Bluff.<br />
We are looking for $22.000 or near offer.<br />
Contact Martin Howson phone 0274723494 or (09) 4227235.<br />
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THOSE WERE THE DAYS …. 1928<br />
when you could buy five Austin Sevens for the price of one Packard, and the price of the<br />
Packard—in Pounds—was expressed in only three figures.<br />
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