Subaru 4WD Club of Victoria: March-April 2022 magazine

PRESIDENT’S Report Please be aware that our April General Meeting on Tuesday 26th April is at Ringwood Training, in Hill Street off Bedford Rd, in Ringwood.

From 6pm, participants in Martin’s May Trip to Flinders Ranges have the opportunity for their vehicle to be inspected, items identified for attention so they can be fixed prior to the Trip.

BBQ from 7pm, and the Meeting from about 815pm. The Meeting itself will be aimed to be short & sweet. This meeting will not be ‘zoom linked’. See Venue report for more detail.

For the Saturday 2nd of July delayed 45th Annivarsary Celebration of 2021, it will be held at the Chinese Association of Victoria hall at their site in Wantirna. The theme will have elements of a ‘Christmas in July’, and there is a large enough dance floor area also, line dancing and music will be featured and is arranged by Cynthia. The 45th Anniversary Planning Sub-Committee have already sent out a flyer for the event, and bookings are now being taken, book via the website., see also information about the Event in this Newsletter.

Earlier this month I attended the face to face/zoom FWDV Presidents Meeting, where there were a number of items discussed: • there is the intention to hold these Presidents Meetings every three months, and to reintroduce the district Representative Meetings.

• the Financials were discussed, and amount of Grants sought from the government & its bodies.

• in discussion was the potential relocation the the FWDV Office & its storage.

• also the Toolangi Traing Ground, a leased property of $800/year with 10 year lease. When developed the intention is for the ability for member Clubs to hire the area for a nominal day hire charge of $1/day, area on site will be set aside for camping on flat (drained) area. The leased property area is larger than the quarry that is in it.

• There are priority items to be done first – gates, fencing, CCTV setup to monitor inappropriate use of venue and facilities.

• Also mentioned was the Bairnsdale Archery Club venue, $50/year cost, another quarry (lapsed lease), Werribee Training (shutdown at present and more expensive for use) The current FWDV eNews Newsletter only gave a brief content of items/subjects.

A little bit of trivia, I was doing some YouTube research a few weeks ago and I came across something quite interesting. We all remember when Subaru had a designer that remodelled the front grill to look more like aircraft wings. Have you -3-