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From the President
Hi Folks,
Welcome to the New Year and what a great year it’s going to be. The
2017 program of events is being planned and is shaping up to be even
better than last year.
2016 was a wonderful year for the VSCC and ended in style. We
conducted five competition events ending with a very successful and
well organized Vintage Stampede. On the same day as the Stampede
the VSCC set up a major car display at the Cottesloe Civic Centre
attracting a great deal of interest and potential new members. The
Club’s thirtieth anniversary was celebrated with a cocktail party and a
formal dinner. The Dad’s Army and Caversham car groups continue to go from strength to
strength, ending their year with a Christmas function at Whiteman Park.
The year ended with a sit-down dinner at the Burswood on Swan Restaurant. One hundred
and ten members and partners enjoyed an excellent meal in the friendly atmosphere our
Club is well known for. Our thanks go to David Moir and Sheryl Swarbrick who led the
organizing team for this event.
There were significant presentations and awards made at the dinner. To the overwhelming
approval of the members present, life memberships were conferred on Ron Fabry and Ian
Fry, two most deserving recipients. It gave me great pleasure to bestow, on Graeme
Whitehead, a hard-working member, the President’s award for the “Significant Personal
Effort” he has made to ensure the smooth running of the Club. Max Gamble presented the
Max Gamble Trophy to Craig Bradtke, the person “Judged to be an Ideal Club Member”.
Those worthy recipients are to be congratulated.
To remind us all that we were celebrating an important Club Anniversary, Charlie Mitchell,
a member for twenty six years, reflected on the Club’s past and interspersed his recollections
with many humorous anecdotes.
For many years members have suggested to the Management Committee that the Club had
come of age and should have honour boards recognising club officials who have worked to
make the VSCC the success it enjoys today. After several false starts Len Kidd decided to do
something about the situation. At the dinner he presided over the unveiling of two
magnificent honour boards complete with the names of past VSCC officials and Life
Members recorded on them. At our first General Meeting they will be displayed on the wall
of our meeting room for all to admire.
The Management Committee has already been at work on your behalf, preparing for the
New Year, with meetings in December and January. The Competition Committee will be
holding their first meeting on the sixteenth of January. Chairperson, Paul Bartlett, has been
beavering away on the rewriting of the Standing Regulations for 2017.
The Northam event team’s organisation for the Flying Fifty weekend on the 1st and 2nd of
April is well advanced and this event promises to be better than ever. Vicki Clark, our public
relations officer in Albany, has been working hard on behalf of the Classic and her
achievements can be seen on the Albany Classic website or on face book. The Coalfields 500
team will be advertising the 2017 event in Vintage Metal. The Collie weekend is great fun
and well worth participating in as a driver, volunteer or spectator.
I look forward to catching up with you.
Drive safe.
Rob Ozanne