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Vintage Car & Machinery Show 30th September 2012

Another really busy weekend in Levin.The Vintage Car club of N.Z. Horowhenua Branch ran a Vintage Car and Machinery Show on Sunday 30th September 2012. The event was held at The Events Centre, Victoria Street, Levin. Well over one hundred exhibits were on show and " World Record" attempt to assemble a Model A Ford car was made.Over the next few weeks information and photos of this event will be added to this topic. 22-10-2012 A report and photos of this attempt have been inserted at the end of this file.

Date	30/09/2012
Location	Levin Event Centre
Contact email address	henryphillips@xtra.co.nz

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VINTAGE CAR & MACHINERY SHOW
( HOROWHENUA BRANCH)

SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 10am - 4pm
HOROWHENUA EVENTS CENTRE , VICTORIA STREET, LEVIN

A step back in motoring history part of clasic car show

By Peter Frankin Horowhenua Chronicle Friday, September 28, 2012
Over the past months members of the Horowhenua branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand have been busy organising the early times transpoet and
machinery that will allow people to step back in time and get a better appreciation of where our current day cars and machinery have come from.
On Sunday the door to events Centre will open all will be revealed as proud owners show the rewards of their long hours of labour restoring all sorts of
mechanical wizardry.
Club spokesman Alton Harrison said it has been a lot of work organising the exhibitsfor the Victoria street complex .Tomorrow will be a full on day getting
everything in place. " But it is enjoyable for everyone - we get to talk amongst ourselves about things we love ".
This weekend's show is the fifth the club has put on. Tjhe first was 38-years ago. Mr. Harrison said they have some very interesting displays this year,
with a holiday camp set up in part of one of the exhibition halls.
"There will be caravans and cars from the 1960s era, and we'll have the garage working, " he said.
At 11am and 1 pm a team from the Vintage car club will try to break the world record for assembling a Model T, from a pile of parts on the ground to running.
The currrent record is four minutes.
" The boys are getting close, so it will be interestin on the day," Mr Harrison said.

4/10/2012
A short note as to how the show went on the day.
A smaller than usual crowd on the day it seems we had clashed with other events, however well more than a 1000 people attended and were treated
to a spectacular performance by the Horowhenua Club on the assembly of a Model T Ford. This is very popular in United States and Canada and the only
recorded time was 3 minutes 17 seconds. This is was the time our team was out to beat. Beat it they did, in the morning a time of 3 minutes 8 seconds
was recorded by official time keepers. The second attempt in the afternoon was timed at 2 minutes 40 seconds, so we are claiming a world record.
Overal it was a very successful enjoyable day.
Peter D. Nightingale.

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The front cover of the September 1012 newsletter

Horowhenua Vintage Car Club by henryphillips

Coming Events

September 30th Car Show
October 6th Manawatu Swap Meet, Manfield Park entrance,
Kawa Kawa Road
12th/14th Canterbury Swap Meet
14th Mangahao Power Station and dam run
27th 35yr Branch Dinner and Presentations
28th 53yr BBQ and run - 11am at club rooms
November 11th Tararua Trundle
March 2013 10th Ted Green motorcycle Rally
23rd 2013 Branch Annual Swap Meet
24th 2013 Tri- Annual Triangular Veteran Rally
Club Rooms at 10am for morning Tea.
March 2014 9th Horowhenua Branch Swap Meet.
November 16th Tararua trundle.

Any enquiries to Rex Williams 06 367 0613

Kapiti Coast Mid Week Run

Wednesday 26 September - (last Wednesday of the month)

Coach House Museum - Feilding

The Coach House Museum re-opened its doors at an extensive new location in May of this year. The brilliantly designed displays now include the 'Crawshaw Collection' of John Deere tractors and ancillary machinery, and other nationally significant exhibits. The regions archive is also housed in the large, newly renovated building

11:30am Meet for lunch at 'Essence' cafe and bar, 48 Manchester St. Feilding - see www.essencecafeandbar.co.nz

1:00pm Arrive at the new Coach House Museum, 121 South Street, Feilding. Near Manfeild Park (opposite Caltex station). Special $10 per person admission includes afternoon tea/coffee. See http://coachhousemuseum.org/

From south, take third exit from town centre clock tower roundabout into Manchester Street then 2^ndexit (straight ahead) at second roundabout. Cafe is on right just beyond pub. The Coachs. House is just 5 minutes drive from the cafe

Please email Murray Hislop kay.murray@clear.net.nz or telephone (04) 293 3601 by Sunday 23 and advise whether you will be attending the cafe as well as the Coach House, so we can advise number

The man in charge of where to place cars inside the hall

The Hall Placement man by henryphillips