President's Page.

Hello,

The weather is starting to cool down, but many of our members are still hard at it getting ready for the Dubbo & Alice Springs Vintage Truck Shows.

Darren Peak’s White Road Commander is looking good with plenty of recent progress, including a freshly painted chassis and underbody.

Paul Harrison and crew have got the ex Newcastle Haulage & Transport AEC Mandator looking great.

Andrew Blacklock & Paul Campbell are also making steady progress with the ex Smith’s Transport AEC Monarch.

All recent club events and our May meeting have been well attended, thanks to those members for their support.

Last call for club shirts etc as I need to place our order so they will be ready before the Dubbo truck show weekend.

Work continues with the organisation for our 3rd Truck Muster, you still have time to get those projects finished before then.

A reminder that CRS local trip forms are to be returned to the club’s registrar by our next general meeting in August.

Also club membership fees are now due still $45.00

Regards to all.
Scott Fayth
President

Hello, February has seen some good attendances to our club events and meeting, well done to those involved.

The Mad Day at Swansea was attended by 13 club vehicles and the Cessnock Show parade was also a big success with 10 club vehicles attending.

Jake Chidgey has recently finished his C60 Chev table top and it looks great, excellent work Jake.

There is no shortage of events to attend over the next few months, for Central Coast truck show info call Dallas Fabian on 0417 285047 or www.centralcoasttruckshow.net

The usual arrangements for Steamfest are in place we can exhibit in the steam rally grounds area (between the railway line & highway, next to Maitland railway stn) anytime from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening or on the Sunday only across the road at Maitland Park as part of the Steamfest Motorfest.

Please note that the usual photo id is required for entry into the rally grounds, please forward a digital photo of those (members & family) entering the rally ground area to Peter Garnham from Steamfest on garnhamp@bigpond.com.au by Friday 2nd April. Make a note on your email to Peter Garnham that you are from this club.

Any further questions give either Andrew or myself a call.

As discussed at the last meeting, the Golden Oldies Truck Club have the latest Dubbo show info online at www.goldenoldiestruckclub.com

It’s first in with the entry forms who will get priority to display in the shed this year at Dubbo, also they are taking bookings now for the Saturday night dinner.

I am in the process of putting together an order for club shirts, please let me know what you need ASAP. Peter Marquet is also prepared to place an order for club name badges.

After discussions with the railway museum we have settled on a date of the 14th & 15th of May 2011 for our 3rd vintage truck muster, further details at our next meeting.

Welcome to our new members, we also have a couple of other applications for membership that will be finalised at the next committee meeting.

Regards
Scott Fayth
President.

Welcome to my first President’s report for the New Year.

The recent barbeque run to Col Webb’s place and club Christmas dinner were well attended and seemed to be enjoyed by all.

It was also very pleasing to see some of our newer members out with their vehicles for the recent barbeque run, well done.

Last year was a major success for the club with a great variety of club outings for our members & their families enjoyment, with the highlight and major event being our second muster which was an outstanding success.

Work is now underway for our third vintage truck muster (show) in early 2011, I hope to be able to report further on this for our February meeting.

The first stage of the website is now up and running, further improvements on the club’s website are planned for the next six months or so.

Finally congratulations to all club members, our club is now officially ten years old, the committee is in the process of organising a club dinner and weekend away to celebrate the success of club’s first decade, further details ASAP.

There are too many people to thank for the success of this club, but I would like to single out a hand full of members, without the behind the scenes efforts of Keiran Jeffriess, Andrew Blacklock, Peter Marquet and Col Webb the club would not have been the success story it is now.

It’s also reassuring to see that we have so many of our original members still with us such as Joe Fogarty, who was with the club from the very start, ten years ago.

I hope you are all well and had a safe and enjoyable Christmas. I look forward to catching up with you all very soon.

Regards
Scott Fayth.
President