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AAAC RUNS
Next AAA Club Runs December 8th 2024 Weekend Run -Memorial Run and XMAS Catered Luncheon organised by Committee If you enjoyed last years City based Memorial Run organised by Steve McNicol with Railway based quiz, he has something else up his sleeve for this years run. It promises to be a fun event! Club run starts at 11am back for lunch at 12:30pm Then to round off the year of 40th anniversary activities we are having a club subsidized catered luncheon to end off our 40th year celebrations. - the 40th Anniversary Finale’ Christmas luncheon Thankyou to all members who have provided names and numbers for catering purposes. An order has been placed with the caterer. The meal will be a baked potato, cheese, and sour cream, with smoked pulled pork and pulled b… |
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Rolling Year of Club Runs
AAA Club Runs 2024 Below are the dates of upcoming planned Club runs so you can add them to your Calendar. January 21st 2024 Weekend Run - Snowdens Beach Breakfast Run org Brenton Watkins February 18th 2024 Weekend Run - Twilight Run to Glenthorne National Park organiser Brenton Watkins March 17th 2024 Weekend Run - BBQ breakfast then run to VSCC Historic Vehicle Gathering April 21st 2024 Weekend Run - Rocker Cover Races & BBQ Lunch organised by Committee May 19th 2024 Weekend Run - Captains Cottage Murray Bridge Libby Ottaway June 23th 2024 Weekend Run - 40th ANNIVERSARY LUNCH/RUN Old Noarlunga Hotel Beer Garden July 21st 2024 Weekend Run -Milang Railway Museum organised by Dennis Fordham August 18th 2024 Weekend… |
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AAAC DEC 2024 RUN
SUNDAY 8TH December 2024 AAA CLUB MEMORIAL RUN AND CHRISTMAS BBQ LUNCHEON Each year to celebrate XMAS & remember our past club members the club has a short metropolitan run followed by a free BBQ lunch provided by the club. -Club run starts at 11am back for lunch at 12:30pm. If you enjoyed last years City based Memorial Run organised by Steve McNicol with Railway based observation quiz, he has something else up his sleeve for this years run. It promises to be a fun event! Why not decorate your car for the festive spirit, add some tinsel after all it is the last run of the year. Members are advised that there has been a slight change to the end of year Christmas BBQ which follows on from our traditional Memorial run. There will now be a club subsidized catered lun… |
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Other Club Invites
November 23rd Sunday) Volkfest Show & Shine Civic Park Modbury (opposite Tea Tree Plaza) 4pm to 7pm January 18th-19th 2025 (Sat & Sun) Milang Yesterday’s Power Rally Milang Vintage Machinery Club February 16th (Sunday) All American Day Car Show Free entry to American vehicles 9.00am to 2.00pm Sunday March 2nd 2025 41st All British Day Echunga Oval, Echunga 10.30am to 3.00pm Entries are now open (From 1st October) to display your vehicle in 2025! ENTER NOW, ENTRIES CLOSE 1st DECEMBER. Our theme this year is 1950, Come and celebrate the beautifully engineered machines that will feature in our 1950 display in 2025! Details at https://www.allbritishday.com/ March 16th (Sunday) The Historic Motor Vehicle Gathering* Barratt Reserve, West Beach March 30th… |
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SWAP MEETS
January 19th? (Sunday) Lions Hahndorf Swap Meet Hahndorf Oval Sellers 6AM Buyers 8am February 2nd (Sunday) McLaren Vale Swap Meet McLaren Vale Oval Sellers 6.00am Buyers 7.30am February 16th (Sunday) Murray Bridge Swap Meet Murray Bridge Showgrounds Gates open 6.00am March 16th TBC Woodside Swap Meet Woodside Oval For more swap meet information www.bevenyoung.com.au or https://swapmeets.wordpress.com/2016-2/ … |
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CHANGES TO RUN DETAILS
CHANGES TO PLANNING OUR CLUB RUNS As we migrate through the constantly changing dynamics of Covid-19 it has become clear that the Club needs to update the way we plan our runs. Both the monthly runs and the weekday runs will now need to have more details presented ahead of the run to the run’s coordinator. A simple change in the weather forecast for the June 2021 Weekday Run demonstrates the need for this. On the day on-which the run was planned to be held the weather forecast was simply abysmal. There was nothing for it but to move the date at very short notice. Easy you say? Not really when there is no record of who was planning to attend. Emails only capture 85% of our members. The end result was to email all members and then for the run co-ordinators to actually att… |
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AAAC JAN 2024 RUN
PIC Snowden Beach circa1949 SUNDAY 21st January 2024 AAA BREAKFAST RUN - to Snowden Beach & Dolphin Sanctuary Meet at Glandore at 8:00am for an 8:15am start. There will be a short run via the coast from Semaphore South to Outer Harbor to enjoy the sea views. Then on to Snowden Beach on the Port River for breakfast under the shade of Moreton Bay Fig Trees, Some bench seating is available, however members are advised to BYO table & chairs. Members can bring portable BBQ's or you can purchase something along the way . The Gulf Point Centre just near North Haven Marina has a cafe open that serves breakfast meals & coffee. Details on how to find this cafe will be on the run sheet. Organiser Brenton Watkins … |
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AAAC FEB 2024 RUN
SUNDAY 18th February 2024 TWILIGHT RUN TO GLENTHORNE FARM Meet at club rooms 4:45pm for 5:00pm start Participants will follow the coast for short distance before our destination on O’Halloran Hill. Modern electric BBQ’s under shelter are available or you can make a stop to collect takeaway at the Seaview Chicken & Fish shop on Seaview Road. Just slight detour around 5 minutes from our destination. This will be advised on the run sheet. The Glenthorne Farm property has historical significance for South Australia, with the state's first police commissioner, Major Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran, establishing a farm there in 1839. It contains the remains of buildings from the 1850s. It has since been used as a farm, a training ground for military horses … |
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AAAC MARCH 2024 RUN
AAAC Club Brekky then run to Historic Motor Vehicles Gathering SUNDAY MARCH 17th, 2024 Meet at (CCC) Clubrooms 8.30am for Club provided BBQ breakfast lovingly cooked by Charlie & Charlie. BYO Chairs Tables Plates and knives & forks and drinks to the brekky! After the brekky we will leave as a club for a short run to the event. Steve Thiselton will handout a run sheet for a short run to Barratt Reserve. We will park together at the Reserve to enjoy the display of Vintage Veteran & Classic vehicles. Event runs from 10.00am to about 2pm. BYO Tables chairs Food And Drink to the Gathering. DIRECTIONS TO GATHERING: 10am Leave the CCC Clubrooms car park and Turn LEFT into Clark Ave. Turn RIGHT into Cross Rd then cross over Marion R… |
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AAAC APRIL 2024 RUN
above pics of 2023 winners from last years races . AAA CLUB RUN SUNDAY 21st APRIL 2024 ROCKER COVER RACES & BBQ Lunch Get your Racer ready! BBQ LUNCH AT 12.30 PM LUNCH WILL BE HELD OUTSIDE SO PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIRS, PLATES. CUTLERY, DRINKS AND CUPS ETC MORE INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT NEWSLETTER SO START BUILDING OR REPAIRING YOUR ROCKER COVER RACERS READY FOR THE RACES CLICK ON RockerCoverInfo FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN ROCKER COVER RACERS FOR RACING THIS OUTING IS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY YOUNG AND OLD ROB GREEN has the "good oil" on building your racer Find out more at:- RockerCoverInfo … |
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AAAC MAY 2024 run
SUNDAY 19th MAY 2024 AAA Run to Captains Cottage Murray Bridge 12 Thomas Street, Murray Bridge, SA, 5253We will meet at The Feathers Hotel car park off Greenhill Road at 9.30 for a 9.45 am start Morning tea will be at Balhannah Oval from 10.30 to 11 am. We will then travel to the Captain’s Cottage Muse-um at 12 Thomas St, Murray Bridge mainly on the Old Princes Hwy. The fee for entry to The Museum will be $3 if we have more than 15 people otherwise it will cost $5. The cottage was built in the 1890s and was the home of riverboat captain Adam Johnstone and his wife and 9 children. The museum has historic engines, farm machinery, model boats, trains, toys & photographs as well as a model dairy. Lunch will be a BYO or buy in Murray Bridge and will be held at the M… |
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AAAC JUNE 2024 RUN
Club's 40th Anniversary Run Highway Hotel to Old Noarlunga Hotel Sunday June 23rd, 2024 The Anniversary run will start from the Highway Hotel, corner of Anzac Highway and Marion Roads. Meet at 9:00 am. We have reserved a conference room for morning tea. We have around 70 people who have indicated they are attending. The Hotel shares its car park with ALDI shoppers, so arrive early to get a car park near the Hotel. Access via Marion Road if coming from the South and off Anzac Highway if coming from the North. Enter the Hotel via the main entrance facing Anzac Highway, pass a small reception area and then veer to the right. Members will sign in and gather to a morning tea will be self-help coffee & tea with Danish pastries. Highway Hotel A… |
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AAAC JULY 2024 RUN
AAA CLUB RUN SUNDAY 21st JULY 2024 Milang Railway Museum Meet at CCC Club Rooms at 9am for a 9.30 start Join us for a scenic run through Adelaide Hills to Milang on the shores of Lake Alexandrina. Smoko will be at Keith Stephenson Park in Mount Barker, Hills members could meet us here. We will then cruise to the Port Milang Historical Railway Museum, opened in 1992 and located in the station building of the now-closed Milang railway line, features many old photos and railway memorabilia from the era when Milang was a significant port for the River Murray shipping trade. It has become one of Milang's major attractions with its displays of the railway era history of the town and surrounding districts, its locomotive and carriages and, in the locomo… |
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AAAC AUG 2024 RUN
AAA SUNDAY 18th AUGUST 2024 Run to Hill & Son Grand Organ "Tour Talk & sound Taste" Meet at Civic Park, Modbury at 9 am for a 9.30 am start. Driving a scenic route to Lyndoch for our Morning Tea Stop at the Lyndoch Village Green - there is a Gazebo, Toilets and walks available at the Green and a Bakery opposite. At approximately 11.00 am we will leave Lyndoch to travel to Tanunda and park adjacent to the Barossa Regional Gallery / Tanunda Soldiers Memorial Hall; 3 Basedow Road, Tanunda. Our Guided tour of the historic Hill and Son Grand Organ is at 11.30 am as our guide is playing the organ at a church nearby (tour is approx. 45 - 60 minutes) "At the session you and our group will be able to tour the intricate workings inside the organ,… |
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AAAC SEP 2024 RUN
Sunday 22th September 2024 run to the Arthur Clisby Memorial Picnic Meet at our Glandore clubrooms at 9am for a 9:30am start. Our AAAC run is going through the Adelaide hills -destination the Annual Federation All Car Club Picnic, This year is again at Macclesfield Oval & Sporting Complex (corner of Davies & Kingrose Streets, Macclesfield) as it was so successful last year. Entry into the Oval is FREE yep No entry fee The run is the perfect opportunity to give your vehicle a shakedown run prior to Bay to Birdwood or Motorfest events. Many other car clubs attend this picnic so it is a great opportunity to meet up with other motoring enthusiasts and to check out a variety of vehicles. You can BYO your lunch, drinks, tables, chairs etc. Alternatively t… |
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AAAC OCT 2024 Watch Bay to Birdwood
SUNDAY 20th OCTOBER 2024 Watching the BAY TO BIRDWOOD from Gummeracha As we did last year we are going to setup as a club at the roadside in Gummeracha and enjoy the B2B cars go past, and cheer on the AAAC members in the event. So join us watching the Bay to Birdwood 20th Oct. Members that wish to view the Bay to Birdwood Run as a group we will gather at this bus stop (Lew's Café) in Gumeracha. There is plenty of parking in Gumeracha Oval grounds, clean toilets close. John Badcock will be there at 7.30, bring a chair, snacks and drinks enjoy the run with friends. First vehicles appear around 9.00ish, access is from either direction. See you there. Do you want info on how to enter this years Bay to Birdwood event then go to… |
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AAAC OCT 2024 Motorfest
AAAC Motorfest Run MONDAY 21st October 2024 ELYSIAN SPRINGS VINEYARD VISIT Join us for a leisurely drive through the Adelaide Hills to the famous Rocking Horse for an optional morning tea then on to Mount Pleasant to the vineyard for a lovely BBQ lunch and optional wine tastings. No Limits to people entering this event. This event is being organised by our own club members John Badcock & Edd Gray, so please consider entering this event to show your support. For details of each day's Motorfest events see our programme here : Motorfest 2024 programme and for our Entry Form see here : Motorfest 2024 Entry form … |
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AAAC NOV 2024 RUN
Progressive Lunch Run ON SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2024 For those of you that may have never experienced a AAA progressive lunch run…. then this will be a first for you as it was a very popular run in the years gone by, and was always a highlight of the club calendar For those that do remember those days, it will follow the traditional format in order to celebrate the clubs 40 years…..and with your old original club hosts For the run, we will be heading to the lush green hills area of Adelaide, and maybe still see the dregs of spring flowers? 9.30am meet for a 10.00am start Parking in Northern carpark at Hazelwood Recreation Park, corner Howard Terrace and Davenport Terrace, just off Greenhill Road at Hazelwood Park Brian and Cynthia Davey will meet you an… |
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ROCKER COVER RACE RULES
HOW TO BUILD ROCKER COVER WHEELS I was introduced to rocker cover racing by Reg Courteney who borrowed 2 from a friend from the Sporting Car Club. They had plastic wheels with ball clearing centres. At our meeting they were fast but didn't suit our track and bottomed out in the dip, axles were too far back. My grandson and I decided to build our own racers, one with 120mm wheels and the other with 150mm max size. The smaller wheels were cut from an old computer door using a large hole saw mounted in a press drill, the inner bearing hole was cut last. Skateboard bearings were used, at first they were pressed in but the wheels dished so we changed them, leaving them loose and gluing them in with Araldite - not the 5 minute version. The large wheels were cut out of Lexon with a… |
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MAR WKND AWAY
AAA MELROSE & BOOLEROO WEEKEND AWAY 25th to 28th March 2022 UPDATE ON AAAC MELROSE & BOOLEROO WEEKEND AWAY IMPORTANT NOTE Entry to the Booleroo Steam & Traction Rally is by pre-booking online only. I have just heard from Brenton, the President of the Booleroo S&T Society, and tickets to the rally are now available online. Will you please include the following link in your next email to members. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/booleroo-steam-traction-rally-2022-tickets-267262257607?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1HIpYfhqWbh8CB5pqqVNkDCCZPNkp7NohwkCiKZDx0FxLvlxFhxA2Tabk Steve McNicol - Club Captain NEED TO BOOK FOR BOOLEROO S&T * Please check Booleroo S & T website for bookings and book online. booleroosteamandtraction.com * Cost is n… |