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June - July 2021

Taranaki Branch Committee Chair COLIN JOHNSTON E: cajohnstoncollections@xtra.co.nz Ph: 06 754 6216 | M: 021 131 6699 Past Chair

Secretary

VERONICA OLIVER E: fordt@xtra.co.nz Ph: 06 752 2149

Club Captain

Treasurer

Vacant

ROB THOMSON E: rail modelsl@xtra.co.nz Ph: 06 758 4881

Librarian

Topical Torque Editor

BILL DURLING E: elinorandbill@hotmail.com Ph: 06 758 4244

JIM LOGAN E: logandj49@gmail.com Ph: 06 751 0316 | M: 027 604 4821 Committee

JOHN MUTER MARK MASTERS STEPHEN OLIVER MIKE HODGKINSON

Email: megandjohnny@xtra.co.nz Email: rmmasters@xtra.co.nz Email: fordt@xtra.co.nz Email: mike.hodgkinson@xtra.co.nz

Ph: 06 751 5554 Ph: 06 765 7544 Ph: 06 752 2149 Ph: 06 753 2721

Historian/Custodian

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ROSE COX E: roselcox7@gmail.com Ph: 06 752 2525 | M: 027 353 9968

GEOFF BLACKBOURN E: dblackbourn@orcon.net.nz Ph: 06 752 7671

Groundsman & Vehicle VIN’s / VIC’s

Beaded Wheels

LES BOGNUDA

COLIN JOHNSTON

Ph: 06 755 2810

Vehicle VIN’s / VIC’s MIKE WILLIAMS

Parts Committee Ph: 06 765 4419

Mid-Week Coordinator BRYAN MORRIS

Ph: 06 754 6216

Ph: 06 272 8027

NEIL ROOK JOHN MUTER PAT STIELLER CES BUDD

Ph: 06 758 6737 Ph: 06 751 5554 Ph: 06 754 6096 Ph: 06 758 7685

From the Chairperson Chairman’s Chatter Hello Folks.

We were unable to get a nomination for the Club Captains position at our AGM held last month. This is really disappointing as it pushes more work onto the committee and the position is really important for our events to be organised correctly. So please members give this some serious thought as we had to run last year without the position being filled. The first committee meeting has been held for this new term and at that meeting Rob Thomson was appointed Branch Delegate and Bill Durling appointed Club Librarian also confirmed was the appointment on to committee of Mike Hodgkinson from the AGM. I welcome Steven Oliver on to the committee for this term and also all members who stood again for their positions. The Committee were very pleased to have the Clubs Constitution ratified at the AGM by 100% of members present and it is with many thanks for a huge job well done by Mike Hodgkinson who was tasked to update this important document and its presentation at the AGM. Restoration Board for 2018, 2019 and 2020 is being updated so if you have completed a restoration and the vehicle has been registered and warranted in those years, please contact Steven Oliver to have your name and vehicle added to the Boards. Also, Steven is tasked with updating our Wall Photo gallery which will involve removal into a book folder for safe keeping of the photos that are not current and replacing them with current members vehicles so if you want your photo of your vehicle included on the wall, please see Steven Oliver. This is a great project and causes interesting comments from visitors to our club rooms. Please support your committees’ events and get outvand about in your club vehicles. There are some excellent events planned including End of Rego Run to the Mountain House for lunch, the mid-week Run from Marsland Hill in New Plymouth, the Rubber Duckie Motorcycle Rally and the Motor Show in Hawera supporting the Cancer Society appeal for starters. So, keep that Passion...........Let’s get out and about ..........Always keep to the Left....... Enjoy your outing.... Cheers Everyone!

Chairman Colin

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Members cars on display at the 2014 Inglewood Charity Car Show 3

Coming Events At our June Club Night, we are to have Peter Jannings talking to us about alternative and renewable energy, this topic should be of interest to everyone. Our June midweek run will be as reported in last month’s Topical Torque. Sunday the 27th June we have our annual End of Rego run to the Mountain House. Please phone John, 06 751 5554, to book a place, as soon as possible as numbers are limited. Northern members can meet at the Inglewood Railway Station, leaving at 1115am. Southern members can meet at the Stratford Railway Station, leaving at 11-30am. Sunday 18th July at 1.30pm, Richard Gray, who is the owner of an Alfa Ginetta and a member of the Waitemata Branch who lives in Taranaki is organising an event at our clubrooms. Harry Duynhoven, Chair of our Federation of Motoring Clubs will be talking on this subject. There may also be one other speaker who will be notified nearer the time. Members from the Egmont Sports Car and Classic Car clubs will be attending. A 308 Ferrari replica, built by Ross McCall will also be on display, all invited. Sunday 22 August, on this day to celebrate the National Rally for Cancer, Bryan Morris and team are organising a motor show in Hawera for the local Cancer Society. He is looking for all members to display their vehicles also to assist him with the running of this important event.

Editors Report Hello folk’s, yep. I’m back in the job again, seems like my request last mag fell on deaf ears. I hope that any of you who are travelling away to other Branch events will take some time to compile a report on your trips for your mag, it’s always interesting to find out what other members have been up to in their vehicles. Not many changes to your committee following our AGM, we have lost one and gained one. A couple of events in the near future that you could attend, our Midweek run and our always popular trip up to the Mountain House at the end of June, see above. Following the recent announcements from the Government regarding the future of motoring and emphasis on EV’s, the talk from Harry Duynhoven here on 22 August could be very interesting, see you there.

All for now,

Jim Logan

WANTED We would like anyone who has completed any major restorations since 2018 to 2020 to complete details of these and forward to Stephen Oliver for inclusion on our Restoration Board. A handyman to carry out some repairs to clubrooms before we repaint the exterior.

A BLAST FROM THE PAST From the archives of the U.S. Congress, 1875 A new source of power, which burns distillate of kerosene called gasoline, is being produced by a Boston engineer. Instead of burning the fuel under a boiler, it is exploded inside the cylinder of an engine. This so-called internal combustion engine may be used under certain conditions to supplement steam engines. Experiments are underway to use an engine to propel a vehicle. This discovery begins a new era in the history of civilisation. It may someday prove to be more revolutionary in the development of human society than the invention of the wheel, the use of metals, or the steam engine. Never in history has society been confronted with a power so full of potential danger and at the same time so full of promise for the future of man and for the peace of the world. The dangers are obvious. Stores of gasoline in the hands of people interested primarily in profit would constitute a fire and explosive hazard of the first rank. Horseless carriages propelled by gasoline engines might attain speeds of 14 or even 20 mph. The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action even if the military and economic implications where not so overwhelming. The secretary of war has testified before us and has pointed out the destructive effects of the use of such vehicles in battle. Furthermore, supplies of petroleum, from which gasoline is extracted, is only in limited supply. Furthermore, cost of producing it is far beyond the financial capacity of private industry, the safety of the nation demands that an adequate supply should be produced. In addition, the development of this new power may displace the use of horses, which would wreck our agriculture. The discovery with which we are dealing involve the forces of nature too dangerous to fit into any of our usual concepts.

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Closing date for July Topical Torque, 5 July. Please forward articles to the Editor, Jim Logan 76C South Road NP 4310 - or email to logandj49@gmail.com This magazine is also available by e-mail as a PDF file. If you would prefer to receive a copy this way, please contact the Editor. Pictures are usually in colour. Views and opinions expressed in Topical Torque are those of contributors and not necessarily those of the Taranaki Branch of the V C C of N Z, the Branch Executive, or the Editor. Clubrooms: 1040 Mountain Road - SH 3A Inglewood.

JUNE

Coming Events

Local Events: 3 Committee meets at 7.30 pm 17 Club Night, Peter Jannings from EHL Group on Alternative and Renewable Energy in N Z 24 Midweek run meet at the Marsland Hill carpark (details below) 27 End of Rego run to the Mountain House for lunch (phone John on 7515554 to book a place) Other Branch Events: 5-7 Waikato Double 50 Rally 6 Whanganui Annual Rally 19 Manawatu Twilight Rally 20 Wellington Colonial Cup Rally 26 Far North

JULY

Local Events: 1 Committee meets at 7.30 pm 15 Club Night 18 Classic Car Club at our Clubrooms from 1.00pm, guest speaker Harry Duynhoven. Other Branch Events: 11 Rotorua, Central North Island Swap Meet 11 Wairarapa Gravel Challenge

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August, Daffodil Day Car Show at Hawera Intermediate School

MIDWEEK RUN JUNE

This month Midweek run is a trip to New Plymouth Observatory to see what they have to look at, the night sky. (Gold Coin Donation) then to a to a MYSTERY MAGNIFICENT WORKSHOP with WOW FACTOR, we will have afternoon tea here. Please bring your Tea and Coffee and some eats to share. Instructions will be available after the Observatory visit. When: Thursday 24th June, Time: 1.00pm Where: Meet at Marsland Hill car park, Entrance is off Robe St, New Plymouth (turn left after St Mary’s Church on Vivian Street one way) Cheers Michael Kruse, Albert Gordge

Imported Vintage and Special Interest Vehicles exempt from Clean Car Standards Despite much fear mongering and widely shared concerns for the future of heritage motoring there is no immediate serious threat to the continued enjoyment of driving our treasured vehicles in the draft emissions budgets released by the Climate Change Commission. While the Commission is recommending more electric vehicle imports and further increases in cycling, walking and use of public transport to curb CO2 emissions, there are no suggestions of a ban or any restrictions on the use of fossil fuel-powered cars in the foreseeable future, or for at least fifteen years anyway. Indeed, the Commission urges increased production of biofuels suitable for internal combustion engine vehicles. There will continue to be a need for liquid fuels for some transport uses, such as off-road vehicles and machinery, aviation and shipping. “Aotearoa should take action to scale up the manufacture of low emissions fuels like biofuels or hydrogen-derived synthetic fuels in the first three emissions budget periods,” the CCC draft report says. The Commission believes the budgeted emissions reductions can be achieved by gradually eliminating imports of light ICE vehicles between 2030 and 2035, a timeframe consistent with the phasing out of production of ICE cars in a growing number of other countries. “While electric vehicle supply grows, there would also need to be a focus on importing more efficient internal combustion engine vehicles, including increasing the share of conventional hybrids. Our path assumes the average efficiency of light internal combustion engine vehicles improves by 15 per cent by 2035, or around 1 per cent per year,” says the CCC report. While the Commission’s draft recommendations are still subject to the consultation process the Government has already announced the implementation of a ‘Clean Car’ or CO2 emissions standard. Passing the legislation is scheduled for this year and will apply from 2022, with the target of just 105 grams of CO2/km in 2025 phased in by graduated reductions to give importers time to adjust. The CO2 emissions of the New Zealand fleet currently average 171 grams of CO2/ km so to meet the Clean Car targets will require a reduction of almost 40 percent in less than five years by speeding up the conversion to more EVs and hybrids. New Zealand is one of only two OECD countries without emissions standards. The other is Russia, while the Australian car industry has adopted a voluntary standard. 2 The 105-gram target has nominally been achieved by Japan in 2014 and by Europe last year, although their vehicle fleets are not readily comparable with New Zealand. The claimed Japanese target includes the sub-660cc ‘Kei’ class minicars, which make up a third of all sales and do not meet minimum safety standards so can’t be sold in NZ. While the European target excludes Utes - which are especially popular in NZ - and vans which, being larger and heavier, consume more fuel and so have a less stringent target. Yet despite these differences, from 2025, new cars and light commercials sold in NZ are expected to meet the same so-called target as Japan and Europe. The 40% reduction in current CO2 emissions of

new cars/Utes/ vans sold in NZ is the steepest rate of change of any country in the world, which arguably no country has yet achieved with an equivalent fleet profile. Thanks in part to the submissions of the FOMC and other motoring organisations Special Interest Vehicles and Vintage and Veteran vehicles (i.e., over 40 years) will be exempted, although the “20-year rule” will not apply. Being exempt means they can still be imported, without incurring the CO2 penalty for used vehicles that will be set at $50 per gram of CO2 over the target of 105g in 2025. To put the effect of the CO2 penalty fee into context even a Toyota Prius or Suzuki Swift would exceed the target, so once the Clean Car Standard comes into effect thousands of dollars will be added to the cost of importing many later model (under 40 years) petrol powered classics which do not comply with the SIV requirements. For current Kiwi owners of such vehicles an unintended benefit is likely to be an increase in the market value of their collectables. What remains to be evaluated is how the structuring of other incentives and increases in ETS fees will impact on the price and availability of fuel supplies, vehicles and the other costs motorists incur. It is possible the emissions budget projections compiled by the Climate Change Commission may be seen as too optimistic without the implementation of further restrictions on our freedoms to choose our favourite forms of transport. So like our colleagues in Australia and the United Kingdom the FOMC will also stay on the case with the aim of ensuring heritage motoring remains exempted from any legislative changes designed to curb the climate change problem. [“WHEEL TORQUE” ISSUE 34 MARCH-APRIL 2021- The Newsletter of the N Z Federation of Motoring Clubs]

FROM A JUDGE Here is an excerpt from an open letter to teenagers from a judge at a Brisbane Juvenile Court: Always, we hear the cry from teenagers, “What can we do? Where can we go?” My answer is “go home and mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons. And after you have finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities. Your parents do not owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living. You owe the world something. You owe it your time, your energy, and talents, so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again, in other words, grow up, stop being a cry-baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to something someday.

Some day is now and that somebody is you.

For Sale Austin 7 Ruby chassis, sandblasted and painted, $100, ph 06 7522149 (mem) 9

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