“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 41, No 6 july 2018 Editor: Michael Williams 10 Selwyn Parade Lyttelton Ph 328 8043, email mimiandmichael@yahoo.co.nz
Chairman: Secretary:
Club Officers: Craig Keenan 322 1006 Ron Hasell 942 1105
Branch Address: 27 Showgate Ave, ChCh 8042 E-mail: bankspeninsula@vcc.org.nz Noggin & Natter: 2nd Thursday of the Month
Noggin 7.30 pm at the Papanui RSA. Upham Room – enter either from 55 Bellvue Ave or the first entrance on the left on Harewood Road (Papanui / Main North Road) Thursday 12th of July. We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Warner Mauger has lent us his copies of the original “Guff Sheet”, the first newsletter of the newly formed VCC of NZ Inc, and published monthly between September 1953 and October 1954, before the title was changed to Beaded Wheels, which was to be “a quarterly cyclostyled magazine”. The new title aroused considerable discussion! Andrew Anderson was the editor of Guff Sheet, and what a splendid job he did. They make fascinating reading, yet in some ways are much the same as the sort of thing that Dripfeed is. In August 1954 they held the first North Canterbury Trial, which was won by Geoff Owen in a Morris 8. Warner Mauger was 8th in an Austin 7, and Leon Witte was 9th, in an MG. These three stalwarts are of course still active members of our branch, and Geoff in particular is as competitive as ever. He mostly drives a Ford 10 Special which is certainly faster than a Morris 8, so he has made some progress in the last 65 years. I think Warner still has the Austin 7, but the MG that Leon had, a TD that he bought with his mother, is no longer in the stable. All three have owned and raced some wonderful and significant cars over the years. Clynt Inns has announced that the Trevor Timms Talbot in Dunedin has gone to a good home, that of Alalstair Robinson, of Auckland.