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Motorcycle Garage Raid After a few Twelve participants wet days, including Sunday five dawned of ourdry own and members sunny. Ientered set of onfor my this Honda early-bird CBX rallythe for that Jolly is part Farmer., of the arriving weekend at 10:30 programme a.m., to find of events 13 bikes forand the 3Pukekohe cars parked Classic up. Register We had Festival. 2 sidecar It isoutfits named that the were Red from Eye Rooster both ends dueoftothe it’s relatively time scale, early - Geoff Sunday morning Stoner rode his start 2012 following Moto Guzzi a night and (usually) Brian King celebrating had histhe 1952 firstMatchless days racing. double This used to adult outfit. get aMarshal large turnout Corazza ofcame enthusiasts out on but hislike Indian many 4, other eventsbikes is struggling were BSA, to attract reasonable Honda, Triumphs (old numbers. and new), Yamaha, Moto Guzzies, Jawa, Ariel, BMW, AusA great tin Healey route 100suited and 2tomodern motorcycles cars. is We the travelled order of the outday to Papakura, and this one Clevedon was no exception. then DudersThe Beach, requirement Maraetai, is for Whitford a loopand rallyfinishing designed uptoatget Chris back andtoGillian Pukekohe Taytrack in lor’s. Chris time has forbeen the start collecting of thebikes days for racing a long and time, in this he case has awas sideavalve run ofAriel 42 miles.sidecar, and We started Triumph towards T100, Tuakau 2 Royal and Enfield bypassed Bullets, the Dot township 3 wheeler, toand thenahead number towards of early Port preWaikato, WW2 Triumphs, turning off plus after a variety 6 km to ofsome othervery bikes nice andmotorcycling assorted engines. roads around They also Kaipo haveFlats a old as Land yet ‘un-discovered’ Rover converted by to most a motor participants. home, that It is always the previous gratifying todrove owner find aout road from or two the that UK. at Chris least is always some people on the have look out not for yet parts beenat onswap and the smile meets to on try the andfaces finishatthe themany finish-point unfinished check-in projects. said it Luckily all. There Chris was can one turn hardhis luck situation hand to making when some the ofair the‘went missing to bits, the but top’itson stillthe a struggle rear wheel with of theararer verymodnice MACAVelocette els. big thankand youhe to had Chris's to wife be rescued Gillian for by putting the organizer. on a great spread of food Nancy for the 20 and odd Brian people Carkeek thatonce turned again up and came thank along youspecially Chris for to letting helpus atlook the over start and finish your amazing making collection. sure everyone was correctly accounted for and timed. A very special thank you goes out to them both for a sterling effort over so many years. On that note, Martin Spicerthe ‘Green and Carkeek’ team have given notice that this was their last Red Eye Rooster as plotter/organizers having done it for the last 12 years. You are advised to throw your hats in the ring early if you wish to be considered amongst the mad scramble that is bound to take place to organize the next one.
1942 Harley WLA (outfit) 1942 Harley WLA
CLUBROOMS OPENING ON 1953 Norton Dominator 88 BSA Golden Flash (outfit) THURSDAY1952EVENINGS
Classic to Dec 1962 1st Don Green 2nd Mike O’Kane Post Classic to Dec 1973 1st Martin Spicer 2nd Jim Guthrie
A most sincere welcome is extended to the following new members. We hope to see you taking an active part in Club activities whenever possible. Should you or any member require any assistance or advice, please feel free to ask any Committee member. (Refer back page of this Bulletin). Brett Atkin Remuera 1928 Ford Model A Phaeton Graeme Harker Bombay 1926 Buddy Stewart 17X Truck 1929 Stewart 18X Truck Mark Whiter Hunua 1929 Chrysler 66 Coupe These new members joined March 2017
MOTOR TRIMMING
Don Green The following are the placings: Pre War to Dec 1945 1st Alice Leney 2nd Tim Barry
New Members
1973 Honda CB350F 1970 BSA Lightning
Remember as from April 2017 the Clubrooms will only be open on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month
CLASSIC & VINTAGE CARS LEATHER, HOODS, SIDECURTAINS 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Trained by Ken Keay
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