Bleat Editor Joyce Calder joycecalder@gmail.com
Branch Email: centralhawkesbay@vcc.org.nz
129-years from the first Ford
On June 4, 1896, in a tiny workshop behind his home on 58 Bagley Avenue, Detroit, where the Michigan Building now stands, Ford put the finishing touches on his pure ethanol-powered motor. After more than two years of experimentation, Ford, at the age of 32, had completed his first experimental automobile. The success of the little vehicle led to the founding of the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899, followed by the Henry Ford Company in 1901 and then later the Ford Motor Company in 1903.
On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford unveiled his first vehicle, the Quadricycle, in Detroit (pictured). Weighing 500 pounds, the ethanol-powered automobile’s two-cylinder engine produced four horsepower. It also had a top speed of 20mph, two gears (no reverse), four bicycle tires and a tiller steering mechanism like a boat.
In 1896–1901 Ford sold his first Quadricycle for $200 in 1896 to Charles Ainsley. He later built two more Quadricycles one in 1899, and another in 1901. He eventually bought his first one back for $60.
The popularity of the Quadricycle transformed not only the automobile but working life and the role of transportation. Having played our part in everything from the birth of the middle class to the recent global pandemic, we serve the world with integrity and competence. The Blue Oval is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in history, continually striving to earn the trust of all stakeholders.
31st July 2025
WoF and CoF frequency change
Following public consultation, the Minister of Transport has amended the Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Standards Compliance 2002 to reduce the frequency of Warrant of Fitness (WoF) checks on light vintage and veteran vehicles and Certificate of Fitness (CoF) checks on privately owned heavy motorhomes from every 6 months to every 12 months.
The changes will take effect from 1st September 2025. Timings for WoFs and CoFs issued before 1st September 2025 won’t change.
Timings for eligible vehicles will auto update in the Vehicle Inspection and Certification (VIC) system and LANDATA.
To roll-out the changes, we'll create new inspection groups. These will be in VIC and LANDATA ahead of 1st September. We'll be in touch with more information about the groups soon.
Eligible vehicles
• A private heavy motorhome is a vehicle with a gross mass of more than 3,500 kg, not registered to a commercial entity, and not used for hire or reward. It's primarily used as a mobile dwelling and must include at least one sleeping berth along with other living facilities.
• Light vintage motor vehicles have a gross laden weight of 3,500kg or less, were manufactured on or after 1 January 1919, and are at least 40 years old on the date of being registered, reregistered, or licensed.
• Light veteran motor vehicles have a gross laden weight of 3,500kg or less, and were manufactured before 1st January 1919.
• Evidence suggests these types of vehicles are involved in fewer serious crashes including those involving vehicle faults when compared to newer light vehicles. The Government is committed to a smarter, more targeted approach to road safety one that focuses on real risk. These changes are a step in that direction.
Feedback received during consultation
We consulted the public and industry about the proposed changes earlier this year and received over 13,000 submissions. Submitters showed strong support for moving to 12-month checks 98% supported the WoF change and 89% supported the CoF change.
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
He is 32 and has 55 employees, and is building a nuclear fusion reactor in Wellington
By LloydBurr
Physicist Dr Ratu Mataira is CEO of OpenStar Technologies, a Wellington-based start-up building a 'levitated dipole' fusion reactor prototype.
Ratu Mataira founded OpenStar three years ago, with the aim of being the first in the world to achieve the holy grail of energy generation, nuclear fusion. He’s making giant strides towards it, planning on having the first power station up and running in less than a decade. Being a nuclear free country, I thought there’d be no chance of New Zealand being one of the worlds leaders in researching, developing, and achieving the elusive scientific holy grail that is nuclear fusion. I was wrong. It’s happening in Wellington by a start-up called OpenStar, and it’s happening fast according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear fusion “does not create any long lived radioactive nuclear waste”. One of the people pioneering it in New Zealand, is OpenStar founder and CEO is 32-year-old Ratu Mataira and he’s been obsessed with science since he was a kid. “I wanted to be a scientist and was obsessed with how the world worked. It would eventually turn into physics with a brief foray into chemistry. My undergraduate is in physics and economics and my PhD is in superconductivity physics.” My next question fell out of my mouth “Are you a genius? “I won't answer that,” Mataira says with a grin. But you have to be a genius if you want to solve one of science’s biggest mysteries, and to have convinced dozens of investors including the taxpayer’s own venture capital fund that you can do it. It’s often referred to as the holy grail of science because, if achieved, it can be used to produce enormous amounts of electricity without producing pollution. Its fuel is also hydrogen - the most abundant element in the universe. Fusion’s cousin is nuclear fission. Fission is the method currently used in nuclear power plants around the world. In short, heavy atoms like uranium or plutonium are smashed apart, which creates lots of heat energy. But the waste that’s left over has to be stored for decades. It’s also resulted in disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
This is Junior, OpenStar’s steel containment device used to carry out experiments.
Nuclear fusion is the opposite of fission whereby lighter elements like hydrogen are forced to fuse hence ‘fusion’to make a heavier particle like helium. This also creates a lot of heat energy which is then used to thermally generate electricity. But in order to achieve that fusing, there needs to be tremendous heat. We’re talking hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius much hotter than the sun (which is a fusion reaction itself). Getting to this stage and achieving stability to create a commercial energy source has proved impossible so far. There are a number of methods being used to attempt fusion. Most use magnets like OpenStar but others use lasers, volts, and particle accelerators. “Fusion is one that's often hailed as like the holy grail. It's the hardest. The reason no one's done it yet is because it is so hard, but it has the most promise.”
He is 32 and has 55 employees, and is building a nuclear fusion reactor in Wellington
By—LloydBurr
OpenStar has grown to 55 employees and has attracted some serious investment.
The moment Junior achieved plasma in October 2024.
In October last year, it achieved plasma, which is a significant milestone on the journey to fusion. What does that mean? Let me back up a bit. They carry out their experiments in a big steel containment device, nicknamed Junior, that looks like a giant UFO. It was made in Palmerston North, trucked to Wellington and craned into OpenStar’s shed. Inside Junior, they put a device that looks like a steel inner tube of a truck tyre. Inside this steel donut is a heap of complex technology. There are coils of superconducting steel and copper, batteries, circuit boards and wires. Electromagnets are used to levitate the donut inside Junior, which, once all the hatches have closed, becomes a vacuum. Hydrogen is added, along with some other complex things, and the donut’s magnetic field sends the differently charged atoms spinning around at tremendous speeds, becoming a hot gooey mess known as plasma.
The mission now is to refine the plasma stage so, instead of the atoms simply hugging and becoming a hot mess, they actually fuse together to become something else entirely. They’ll need to get a lot hotter to do that which requires a more senior Junior, a new containment vessel that can handle the heat. It’s essentially small steps, making plasmatic gains each time. “The way I like to put it is there are four machines. We've just finished the first one, the last one is the power plant, and the two in between are us learning how to build the power plant”. “They are good sequential steps. Instead of trying to jump straight to the fourth machine, we’re just trying to be a bit more practical about it”. Once they achieve fusion, the big hurdle will be keeping the hydrogen fusing in a stable way. That’s the holy grail. “The science side of it is understood. But turning that into practical engineering where you're actually controlling the plasmas, kind of taming them to be part of an overall machine, that's the stage that we're at as an industry. Once they’ve tamed it, Mataira says the world as we know it will change. OpenStar successfully turning on Junior has shown the world that New Zealand can have a fusion company. If we manage to build the next machine here in New Zealand, we will officially have a fusion industry. “That will be a significant enough project that will pull in other companies, there will be upskilling of the industry around us to make that a reality. “And as a patriot, let's say I'm very keen for that to happen in New Zealand.” Mataira’s time frame is mind-boggling. He wants a fusion power plant up and running by the early 2030s. “If we're going to do this in New Zealand, this is probably the nice way to go because it's kind of a little bit backwards from the rest of the world in the way they arrange magnetic fields and plasmas,” Dr Krofcheck says. “I think it's a very clever idea that they have. I hope he's right, but it's really tricky. “Fusion has always been a very clever way to produce energy without having nuclear waste products left over so I think, if anything, New Zealanders should probably appreciate this.” His answer will go down in history if he manages to pull it off. “There was a moment where I realised no one else was going do it, so it had to be us,” he says. “Growing up for me, it became pretty apparent that climate change was the major issue of our time and if I could dedicate myself and my career to one goal, that was probably going to be it. His answer will go down in history if he manages to pull it off. “There was a moment where I realised no one else was going do it, so it had to be us,” he says. “Growing up for me, it became pretty apparent that climate change was the major issue of our time and if I could dedicate myself and my career to one goal, that was probably going to be it.
Wednesday 20th August 2025—CHB Branch Dinner and Meeting
VCC Meeting and Meal will be held at the Waipukurau Club
Arrive from 6.00pm—Dinner 6.30pm—Meeting 7.30pm
Main and Dessert $35 00 per person
Please pay CASH to Eva on arrival—Eftpos available for drinks only.
Menu: Pulled Lamb with Chimichurri
Honey Mustard Chicken and Bacon Pie
Potatoes
Peas
Tangy Carrots
Broccoli and Cauliflower with cheese sauce
Dessert: Chocolate tart with whipped cream and yoghurt
Please reply to Eva with numbers by the evening of Sunday 17th August 2025 06 858 9105 021 170 9978 nga-oki@xtra.co.nz
No late bookings please
If you have any dietary needs, please advise when you book your meal.
PLEASE NOTE: The CHBVCC branch will make payment for any late dinner cancellations or no shows, then an invoice will be sent to the member/members concerned.
CHB Branch Chairman LynnCross
Car Display and Rally
Russell Park, Waipukurau
Come and join us for a “show and shine” car display at Russell Park, Waipukurau from 10.30am to 1.00pm. There will be a Sausage sizzle, Burgers, Coffee, Ice creams, Raffles, and Prizes.
Aero Club
After 1 00pm we will go on a Tour De’Beautiful of Central Hawkes Bay and arrive at the Waipukurau Aero Club, Takapau Road. From 2 00pm for Fun Fords and Fire Engines Rides.
Entry per Car: $15
Afternoon Tea: $15 per person
It’s the Vintage Car Club’s National Day and across New Zealand, hundreds of vehicles will be on the Road or on display to raise money for your Local Cancer Society.
CHB Branch Event Organiser: Kaye Carswell—021 124 3620
To find out more about your local Daffodil Rally for Cancer visit: www.vcc.org.nz
‘n’ SHINE
FINISH AT THE—WAIPUKURAU AERO CLUB
Sunday 24th August 2025
Entrant’s Name
No. of Passengers
Vehicle Make/Rego.
Phone No.
Tea
Post Entry to: CHB Vintage Car Club PO Box 321 WAIPUKURAU
Please pay by internet banking: Your Name in Reference Section, Daffodil Rally in Code Section, Central Hawke's Bay Vintage Car Club Bank A/C Number 02-0780-0035502-00
Please tick: I agree to the Terms & Conditions. Guests are required to complete our official Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc) entry form prior to an event taking place. By completing this form you are included under the club’s Public Liability Policy HOLPL6107528 with Vero Liability Insurance Limited for property damage and personal injury
For any inquiries contact: Kaye Carswell 021 124 3620 or (Wk 06 858 9777) accounts@wpkmotors.co.nz
Entry closing date is 21st August 2025
Saturday 6th September 2025
HAWKES BAY 3rd VINTAGE
Organised by Bruce Poole and Ken Lyons
The idea to organise and host this Vintage Rally began with a Trophy donated to Hawkes Bay VCC Branch about 15 years ago. The trophy was presented to the winner of the Hawkes Bay Vintage only rally. However the Rally lapsed after a couple of years and the trophy remained on display in their trophy cabinet.
It has now been returned to Bruce Poole at the CHB VCC Branch and will be presented each year to the winner of the CHB Vintage Rally.
The rally will be open to all VCC members and VCC Vintage eligible vehicles, (1919 to 1931 )
The trophy will be presented to 1st place getter and there will be 2nd and 3rd place prizes also.
The rally will start from Russell Park in Waipukurau with assembly time from 10.45am.
Briefing will be at 11.00am and first car away soon after. This late start will allow out of town entrants plenty of time to get to start venue.
The first part of the run will take you to a lunch stop with shelter if the sun is not shining, and hopefully daffodils to pick if you wish. BYO lunch and folding chair. Daffodils will be there to pick for a small charge. The funds will be donated to The Plunket Society.
The competitive part of the rally will begin at 1.30pm and take you on a variety of scenic back country roads in CHB and finish at the Waipukurau Club in Waipukurau for a BBQ meal and prize giving.
It is anticipated that BBQ and prize giving will finish by 6.00pm
Entry form and information will be published in July and August Bleat.
Saturday 6th September 2025—CENTRAL HAWKES BAY 3rd VINTAGE ONLY RALLY
Organised
by Bruce Poole and Ken Lyons
Entry Form
Entrants name:_______________________________________________
Driver/Entrant:_______________________________________________
Navigator/partner/passenger:___________________________________
Address:_____________________________________________________
Phone:_______________________ Mobile:_____________________
Email:_______________________________________________________
Vehicle:__________________________________Year:_______________
Membership number:__________________________________________ Entry Fee: $10.00 per car $__________________
CHB VCC Inc BNZ bank account number for internet payments: 02-0780-0035502-00
Particulars section: Your name, Code section: VCC membership number, Reference section: Vintage Rally.
Please post your Entry Form to: Central Hawkes Bay Vintage Car Club Inc c/o Bruce Poole
18 Wilder Street, Waipukurau, Central Hawkes Bay 4200 Or email to Ken Lyons: ken.lyons@xtra.co.nz
Enquiries to: Bruce Poole 06 8589940 or 0272449090 email: brucepoole1930@gmail.com
Note: Please photocopy your completed entry form before posting if you require a copy.
Entries close Friday 29th August 2025 No late entries will be accepted. Trophy for Vintage section winner. Other prizes 2nd and 3rd Vintage.
Assemble at Russell Park Waipukurau at 10.45 am. Briefing at 11am.
First car away approx. 11.10am
August Wed 20th Club Dinner and Meeting Wpk Club Sat 2nd
Sun 24th Daffodil Rally for Cancer Kaye Carswell Sun 24th
September 6th Sept
Wed 17th
Hot Rod Swap Meet, Manfield park, Feilding
National VCC Daffodil Rally for Cancer
Vintage only Run by Bruce Poole and Ken Lyons Sat 20thManawatu Vintage Only Rally [2 days]
Club Dinner and Meeting Quiz at Dannevirke Sat 27th
Manawatu Branch Swap Meet at Manfield Sun 28th
Wairarapa "Distiuished Gentlemen's Drive
October Wed 8th Club Dinner and Meeting venue TBA
12th 18th
Mid-October Rod and Scarlett McKenzie will be taking the branch on another adventure trip to Coromandel.
10th, 11th, 12th VCC Swapmeet McLeans Island, Christchurch 17-20th Oct Hawke's Bay Branch "Safari" to the "Naki"
November 19th Branch Dinner and meeting venu TBA 25-27th
MTFCNZ Tin Lizzie run Waikato. 30th Nov Mangatainoka Vintage Car day at "Tui"
December TBA Christmas Party 6th Dec
21st Reliability Run [Seton and Judy]
January
February
March
15th to 21st
Vero International Festival of Historic Motoring in Nelson/Tasman District [Nelson VCC]
Manawatu Veteran Rally [in CHB]
CHB Branch Chairmans report—August 2025
Time flies when you’re having fun, so the saying goes. There is plenty happening in VCC Branch 39.
Since recycling into the Chair, there has been the ladies run which was reported on in the“Bleat”.
The July dinner meeting was at the Takapau RSA where, as usual, the food was good, the booze cheap and place warm.
The Backroads Run on 20 July was interesting and well supported with vehicles of various ages. Shame about the missing signposts.
On 25 July thirty or so Torque Heads, wives, partners and visitors lunched at the Porangahau Country Club–a very successful outing.
The next meeting will be on 20 August followed closely by Daffodil Day on the 24th. This rally for cancer has been an annual event since 2018 and except for some interruptions through Covid it has been a very successful fixture, raising a great deal of money for the local branch of the Cancer Society.
Kaye has this one under control and we look forward to good participation from members and the general public.
On 6 September there will be a vintage rally organised by Bruce Poole. Our 17 September meeting will be at Dannevirke Service & Citizens Club where we need to wrestle back the trophy for the quiz which the Manawatu branch won last year.
LYNN CROSS Chairman
Fisher Body
On July 10, 1923, Fisher Body Company registered its famous Body by Fisher trademark, just a few years after General Motors took ownership of the company.
Fisher Body started when two of the seven Fisher brothers, Fred and Charles, came to Detroit to work with their uncle, who made horse carriage bodies. After the uncle left, Fred and Charles switched to horseless carriages, established Fisher Body in 1908 and brought their five other brothers into the company. They built Fisher Body into a powerhouse, selling auto bodies to GM, Ford Motor Company, Cadillac, Buick, Studebaker and others. In 1919, GM bought a majority of Fisher Body shares, taking ownership of the company.
Four years later, Fisher Body introduced a new element to its product: a logo with the words “Body by Fisher” underneath a horseless carriage. Fisher trademarked the phrase, and the Body by Fisher badge became a classic icon found on GM cars all the way up to the 1990s. Check out Peter Whibley’s 1934 Chevrolet three window coupe.
CHB Branch of the VCC—Club Captains Report—August 2025
The branch has recently joined a new member, Russell Gregg from Waipawa who has an early 1960’s Mk3 Zodiac Estate car, and Graham Clark with a Bedford Van. Another Zodiac Estate was spotted recently in town, this being Keith and Jean’s Mk2 fresh from a recent restoration.
The “Torque Heads” trip over the new road to the Manawatu was very successful with over 40 people heading to Feilding for lunch. About 30 folk joined “Torque Heads” for a lunch at the Porangahau Country Club on 25th July on a beautiful sunny day.
Bruce Poole is off to Invercargill to represent the CHB Branch at the National VCC AGM in a couple of weeks and will report back to the rest of us in due course.
The “Country Run” last Sunday had a turn-out of close to twenty cars which travelled out into the country east of Waipukurau checking out the “No exit” roads along the way. The weather was fine but cold. Entrants started from Tavistock Place and ended up at the “Patangata Tavern” for lunch. Crews drove along roads many had never had the chance venture on. Disappointingly, some of the road-signs were “missing” which added interest and confusion.
Coming up on Sunday 24th August is the “National Rally for Cancer Day” involving as many cars of all ages as possible to support a most worthy cause. Kaye Carswell is co-ordinating this day for the CHB VCC Branch and may well need some assistance. See if you can help in some way.
Bruce Poole and Ken Lyons are arranging the “Vintage Only Rally” in early September and already have some entries lined up. Some entries have been received from neighbouring branch members such as Horowhenua and Manawatu.
Also in September there will be our usual annual visit to Dannevirke for our meeting and meal, with a quiz arranged by Laurie and Gloria. Let’s see if we can win back the trophy this year!
At this stage we have about a dozen confirmed entries for the “Coromandel Adventure” Scarlett and I have put together. We should have some fun and see some parts of the country not viewed before.
Some plans are being made for a Christmas Party in December, but little has been finalised at this early stage. Also, at that time of the year there is the Wanganui Branch New Year run to Taihape which has been well supported by CHB branch members for some years.
And in March there is the International Rally in Nelson which is coming together very well. Some entries have been forthcoming for CHB I believe.
Rod McKenzie
CHB Branch Club Captain
First
Model A—To transverse the New Road over the Ruahine Ranges by Graham Cheer
Graham and Heather Cheer at the opening morning of the new road over the Ruahine Ranges between Woodville and Ashurst. It maybe steep but very smooth and no problem for our model A. A very nice piece of engineering. The long overdue $824 million dollar new road is 11.5 long, four laned and has officially become State highway 3 replacing the old Manawatu Gorge Road, which closed in 2017 due to continuing slips and closers. The closure of the Manawatu Gorge Road had such a significant impact on the people living in Hawkes Bay Tararua and Manawatu.
Below The abandoned Manawatu Gorge Road closed in 2017.
Sunday 15th June
2025
—Lady Drivers “Fun Run”
Photos and article—by Kaye Carswell
WOW how awesome to see guys dressed as gals. They tarted up well , other in pink and even cars. Bary and Lynne Smales Angela look gorgeous. We stared our run from the Russell Park car park in Waipukarau where Iain and Eva Gollan handed out each car with a one minute memory quiz all thing pink I did say to look for pink ribbons but no one really found any!
We then travelled through Waipukurau and onto Waipawa heading to our first stop. Rose Bells property where the ladies made teacup flower arrangements. Some lovely masterpieces were produced. The men hibernated in the shed looking at a couple of Landrovers. After a lovely cuppa we headed for a quick stop at the HB Transport yard, there we added a few pink items to everyone's outfits. Our lunch stop was at Keith and Jean Hopping's where we were shown Jean and Janet master pieces Jackets/ Hats etc they are very clever.
After lunch we headed back over to Waipukurau to Ken Lyons place where each were given a sweet treat. From there we headed slightly out of town to our last stop. Joe’s Garden, to see some lovely plants and to see how his concrete creations were made. Lots of photos and lots of laughs, great day was had by all. Thank you to all the helpers for making this a very successful day.
Guess !!! who is who!
of the day. As it turned out some of these roads were no more than tracks which led to private dwellings. One can only imagine what the residents of these house thought with eighteen odd cars coming down their one track roads, then leaving straight away. Roads without name signs were to cause some frustration with some participants travelling a long way out of their way. One, driving probably the lowest car, ended up at Blackhead Beach. Once back on track (literally) everyone ended up at the Patangata Tavern for lunch. Rod found some way of awarding prizes, with the best answer to what they saw going to the Weavers, thanks to their Grandchildren. They saw sheep with blue spots on their bums. I wonder if Janet has explained what that was all about. Two others with good answers were the Turners and the Paton's. Prize for dirtiest car went to Gavin and Viv in the lowest (oh dear should I have put that).
Merv and Sandra couldn't find a toilet at the end of any road but hurray there was one at the Tavern. They got some Jaffas which where at the end of the road. Michael and Vicky also won a prize. Rod couldn't understand why no one found a pink elephant. Either he forgot to leave one somewhere or none of us took enough LSD tablets before we left. An interesting though frustrating (for some) run on roads never travelled On a warm fuzzy note, we went to the end of Farm Road extension. This is where Judy Thomsen and her sister lived when they were very much younger of course, so this was a case of many happy returns for both of them.
Thank you Rod and Scarlett for a very interesting day.
Photos taken by Pat Malcolm
MANAWATU BRANCH—VINTAGE RALLY
2 DAY EVENT (OPTIONAL)
SAT 20TH / SUN 21ST SEPTEMBER 2025
OPEN TO VINTAGE VEHICLES 1919-1931
IMPORTANT INFORMATON!
FORMAT - SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2025
9.00am Meet at the Manawatu Branch Club Rooms, 684 Kelvin Grove Road, PN.
Tea/Coffee available
9.30am Rally Briefing
10.00am First Car away
● Run length - approx 100 miles (45 miles of gravel)
● NO FUEL available enroute
● Bring your own picnic lunch OR Country Pub lunch available at your own cost
● Run will conclude at the Manawatu Branch Club Rooms for Prize Giving and “Bangers & Mash” Evening meal
● BYO Drinks
● We can cater for GF/DF dietary requirements Any other dietary requirements PLEASE SELF CATER.
FORMAT -SUNDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2025
9.00am Meet at the Manawatu Branch Club Rooms, 684 Kelvin Grove Road, PN.
Tea/Coffee available
9.30am Rally Briefing
10.00am First Car away
● Run length - approx 100 miles (5 miles of gravel)
● FUEL available enroute
● Bring your own picnic lunch OR Cafes/Bakeries in Marton available at your own cost
● Run will conclude at a Country Pub mid afternoon.
Camping accommodation is available at no charge at the Manawatu VCC Grounds. YOU WILL NEED TO BE A SELF CONTAINED CAMPERVAN / CARAVAN as there are NO shower facilities. Toilets and Kitchen facilities are available for use.
The Manawatu Branch Swap Meet is the following Saturday 27th September 2025 (NOTE new date), so if anyone wishes to stay on for the week we will organise a couple of runs and a couple of shed raids if sufficient interest.
MANAWATU BRANCH—VINTAGE RALLY 2 DAY EVENT—(OPTIONAL)
SAT 20TH / SUN 21ST SEPTEMBER 2025
OPEN TO VINTAGE VEHICLES 1919-1931
ENTRANT NAME____________________________________________________________________
VIC MEMBERSHIP NO_______________________________EXPIRY DATE__________________
NAVIGATOR/PASSENGER/S
ADDRESS__________________________________________________________________________
VEHICLE MAKE/MODEL/YEAR______________________VEHICLE REGO NO____________ RALLY ENTRY @ $20.00 PER VEHICLE = $_________________________
SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER @ $25.00 PER HEAD No of People____________ = $_________________________
We are able to cater for GF and DF only. Any other dietary requirements PLEASE SELF CATER
PAYMENT DETAILS Please make payment via internet Banking
Account Name: VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF NEW ZEALAND MANAWATU BRANCH INC
Account Details: 03 0718 0027253 001 Ref: Name, Reg No (VINTAGE RALLY
Please circle
I will be attending BOTH days YES NO
I will be attending SATURDAY only YES NO
I will be attending SUNDAY only YES NO
I wish to camp at the Manawatu VCC grounds YES NO
I intend to stay on for the Manawatu Branch Swap Meet and events the following week YES NO
Please send completed Entry Form to Organiser: Cath Clements, PO Box 232, Feilding. or email to cbz1@xtra.co.nz Cath—027 286 2927. If you haven’t received an email confirmation of entry by the closing date, please contact the Organiser. **ENTRIES CLOSE FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2025**
At the Tui Brewery on the last Sunday of each month we invite cars and motorbike owners to bring their ride to participate in one of our Mangatainoka Motors Show and Shine.
General Motors v Fords
Limited to vehicles manufactured by Ford Motor company or General Motors (GM) including all subsidiary brands. Open to all body styles sedans SUV muscle cars and sports cars
09.00am – Gates open for cars
10.00am – Gates open for public
10.45am – All competing cars to be parked
11.00am – Registrations close
11.00am – 12pm Judging will take place
12.30pm – Prize giving
5.00pm – Tui Brewery closes 31st August
Immediately after prize giving photos will be taken under the iconic Tui Tower.
Central Hawkes Bay Branch oftheVCC—Directory 2025/2026
Chairman Lynn Cross 06 858 9814 secross@xtra.co.
Secretary—Ella Domper 027 201 2546 superscandi@gmail.com
Treasurer Kaye Carswell 021 124 3620 accounts@wpkmotors.co.nz
Club Captain Rod McKenzie 027 446 7198 rod.mckenzie.wpk@xtra.co.nz
Bleat Editor Joyce Calder 022 166 1403 joycecalder@gmail.com
Vehicle Inspection—Keith Hopping 06 857 8255 or 021 742 302 keithhopping@gmail.com
Beaded Wheels—Sandra Cross 06 858 9814 secross@xtra.co.
Welfare Sandra Cross 06 858 9814 secross@xtra.co.
Torqueheads Bruce Turner 021 100 4333 sulturna@gmail.com
Past Chairman Gary Weaver QSM 027 442 8920 weave@xtra.co.nz
Committee Bruce Poole 027 244 9090 brucepoole1930@gmail.com
Committee Paul Jensen 06 855 6862 matangi@farmside.co.nz
Committee Neil Malcolm 06 858 5099 or 027 457 8945 pat.neil2016@gmail.com
Committee—Micheal Harding hardings@woodstockfarm.co.nz
Committee Laurie Malcolmson 06 374 9823 or 021 579 133 volvo9349@yahoo.com
Catering—Eva Gollan 06 858 9105 or 021 170 9978 nga-oki@xtra.co.nz
Raffles Scarlett McKenzie 06 858 9562 or 027 446 7198 rod.mckenzie.wpk@xtra.co.nz
Angela Annear
An authorised Travel Broker for Searle Travel Ltd.
Consultations are by appointment. Angela Annear Travel Broker
10 Brooker Place, Waipukurau 4200, Central Hawkes Bay.
Email: angela@searletravel.co.nz
Webpage: www.Angelas-Travel.co.nz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Searle-Travel/
For more details: Email: angela@searletravel.co.nz
Phone: 06 858 9082 Cell: 027 281 1306
Website: www.angelas-travel.co.nz
Vintage Car Club
Rally Number ID plates
Four luxurious units available to hire
Contact us now so we can show you how to add luxury to your event
06 857 8757 or 027 235 5996 karen@premierloos.co.nz www.premierloos.co.nz
We now have CHB VCC windscreen stickers available
Contact TREASURER accounts@wpkmotors.co.nz
Kaye Carswell 021-124-620
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