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March 2009 No. 181 

HUGE HEADLINES 

Saturday 7th March, West Coast Clubrooms, Malaga WA 0930 hrs 

WiILLYS OUT-NUMBER ALL OTHER MARQUES AT 

JIMBO’s WEST COAST SOUP KITCHEN 

For the fist time in WA rodding history, Willys 

out-numbered all other Pre-48 vehicles at a rodders 

function. The duo of Tony Mattioli and Eric Warren created 

this near miracle situation and WA 

rodding history by attending 

Ebony & Ivory! Editor’s 39er above 

Jimbo’s Saturday morning greasy 

cook-up in their Willys coupes. 

Mel Broun’s 39 Chev was only 

partnered by Brian French’s post 

48 Chevy PU to match the Willys 

quantity. Even then they still outnumbered 

the ford grand total of 

ZERO! Either the ford owners are 

watching their grease intake 

or they all slept in. 

(or they didn’t make it) 

Editor 

Tony Matiolli’s 41 coupe 

MONSTER 

EVENTS 

EDITION. 

Enter here...

Please contact us using the details below. 

Address: Unit 1, 12 Cusack Rd, MALAGA. WA. Ph (08)9249 9632 

General meetings: 3rd Sunday of each month at 7.30pm. Visitors welcome. 

President: Kevan Best Ph. 9571 0025.. 

Vice Presidents: Brian French 9377 7837 Alan Barton 9448 0110 . 

Secretary: Mel Broun 9447 1975 

Treasurer: Alan Rossi 0402 43 1938 

ASRF Delegate: Jeff Ewence 9339 4337 

TAC Delegate: Ken Myers 

WAHRP Delegate: vacant, representative required. 

Management Committee: Executive committee (above) and 

B. French, Dave Krause. All members welcome to meetings. Get involved 

or get left behind. 

Social Committee: D. Krause, A.Lawrence , Maurie Searle, Ian Swinbourne, 

Jim Candido 

Strata Committee: Neil Gibb, Jeff Ewence, .Eric Warren 

Klaxon Editor: Eric Warren 9574 6440 or fax 9444 3299 or email on 

rodder@gidgenet.com.au Deadline is 7 days before the meeting. 

Klaxon Distribution: Peter Hunter 9445 2493. 

Contributors:: Mel Broun, Keith Wilson, Vince Berriman, Denise 

Cover: The editor’s 39 , and Tony Mattioli’s 41 Willys coupes. 

Club Merchandise. Phone 9249-8553. 

Call 

Mr. Cool 

Andy Lawrence 

New stocks for summer! 

AIR COND UNDIES 

for rodders with stinking hot cabs in summer..

. Hi All, 

This edition is limited by printing costs and creativity time only. There is 

no shortage of events to report on at this time of year. In the last 6 weeks 

we have had three of four the biggest annual events on the WA rodding 

calendar to enjoy, so sit back and enjoy the show. 

To date I don’t have a report from the Nostalgia drags and I’m not 

holding my breath for anyone to email me one, so I have got a club busy 

bee report article in its place, which occurred on the same day and 

involved many more members. 

This month I need to thank Vince Berriman and Keith Wilson for 

their photos from Big Al’s Poker Run. Somehow, my own camera had 

flat batteries and the spares were no better, which meant I took no photos 

at the run. These guys came to my rescue. Jeff Pringle also offered me his 

camera. Thanks. Normally either Allan 

Rossi or I have one working camera 

between us, but he wasn’t there. 

Every now and then while 

driving about in the coupe I spot another 

rod. It makes a great difference to my trip, 

be it on the weekend or going to or from 

work. It only happens about once a 

month. Often they are in the distance or 

going in another direction. This month, one morning on the way to the salt 

mine, I actually got through traffic on Reid highway to cruise for a 

kilometre or so with this neat A roadster pick up. I have seeen it once 

before and at the ROTY rod run. I don’t know the owners name, but we 

gave an onya-mate wave as we eventually headed off in different 

directions. What a great start to the day. 

The brains trust at the club have put together three dates for Gettin- 

2–know-ya BBQs. We have a lot of relatively new members and being 

fairly shy types it is generally up to these bods to make themselves 

known somehow. Because they are normally shy too, to negate the

necessity of engaging in 

some way out fruit cake 

Continued..... ritual just to be 

remembered, these BBQ evenings are organised for all members to 

attend and the focus will be on getting to know the new guys and their 

partners in a normal manner. See the dates inside the back cover and be 

sure to attend as many of them as possible. There will be name tags and 

stuff, I’m sure, to make it easy. 

What are people going to complain about next, now that AB has 

removed his dormant ’35 tourer from the club workshop after it’s 7? year 

hibernation. The rental payment of one carton of beer was duly noted 

and appreciated by the only EMU Draught drinker in the club (me) but 

left others guessing when the next 

installment was coming. Rental 

was $2 a week pre-1983 in the old 

Maylands shed. 

This edition I have squeezed 

in Noelene Hughes “HUG” mouse 

racing advert again on the inside 

back cover. If you haven’t been 

mouse racing before , it is worth 

supporting just to check it out. 

Very funny. Get a group along for 

a laugh while supporting a good 

cause at the same time. 

At this stage I warn readers 

that some people and rods seem to 

appear repeatedly throughout this 

edition. Right place, right timing I 

guess. 

There is simply too much 

other good content in this edition 

to keep you from, by babbling on 

and on, so get on with it and I’ll 

write too you again next month. 

Cheers, 

Extreme E. 

Above: Getting to know fellow members... 

Who in hell would own this 

Flathead trike??? Guess! Below: 

Busy bees are great events for getting 

to know new members.. Turn up 

for a good laugh, no matter what the 

punishment is. Read on.

Big Als Poker Run 2009 

Big AL’S Poker Run. 14/2/09 

(Photos: Keith Wilson & Vince Berriman) 

Once again, Big Al’s Poker Run, fell on St Valentines Day, so 

what better way to celebrate than to take one’s partner down for a stroll 

around a park while zig zagging through 700 vehicles, several times, a 

leisurely drive across town to indulge in a losing game of Poker and a 

take-away meal on a footy oval, listening to a good rockabilly & rock n roll 

band. Surely “I must be in heaven” most females must be thinking! And 

they were! It was after all the annual Big Al’s Poker Run number 29! 

This year, the weather on the day of the run 

looked dubious. It was heavily overcast with 

blacker clouds passing overhead in upper wind 

currents It was a 

classical a storm 

brewing 

appearance. A 

call to Big Al 

Above: Alan 

Barker’s Model A Tub; 

a V6 powered A40 PU 

and a new Model T 

based C- cab painted 

Kermit Frog green. 

confirmed that 

the coupe still 

had a Poker Run 

to attend, that 

day. It was the 

last run the 

coupe went on in 

1996 (to Perth 

Oval) before its 

last triple carb 

flame up. It 

occurred on the 

way home the 

following day in 

105F degree 

heat. This year 

Above: Why would you 

build a Chevy or ford when 

mid 50’s Buicks are available. 

Especially the convertibles.

it was cooler, in fact 

perfect cruising 

weather, even 

with about 6 

bursts of 10 drops of rain during the run. It 

remained dry for the remainder of the evening. 

We arrived at Burswood in the Willys at about 2:30, paid our bucks and 

became officially entrant #647 of a total of 688. I estimate that there were 

about 50 - 70 rods on the 

run. 

At about 4:00pm the run 

began. I waited until about 

500 cars had left before 

joining a string of 5 rods 

and headed for the way out 

to get our route 

Noddy’s Smart Car! instructions. I don’t know 


where the other rods went, but I was on a 

route by myself. In fact, I was the only rod 

everywhere I went excepting at the common 

check points that served all four different 

routes.. Although the route was well thought 

out, considering that I use my hot rod daily, 

this wasn’t generating much of a buzz for 

me. It was just like another day stuck in 

normal traffic. I have since suggested to 

Big Al that maybe all hot rods be given the 

same route to cruise. Possibly likewise for 

other marques as well. I am sure this 

would make it more enjoyable for the 

rodders 

who are 

hugely out 

numbered 

by the post 

1948 

vehicles.

Half the time, you can’t 

tell if the shiny clean 

cars you see en route 

are in the Poker Run or 

not. Basically, in rodders’ terms, many of them are 

simply street hacks (or “shit” as a conservative member of the rodding 

community cared to call them). Hopefully the run committee may take up 

on the idea. 

Our cruise took us on the Polly Farmer Freeway, to the city and past 

Northbridge to the first check point 

that was manned by Crankystar 

members who all were done up in 


Above: Craig Hidden’s 

tough LPG Rambler powered 

C- cab. Above right: 

Jim Longman’s 48 Mercury 

sedan, Right: Les Smith’s 

41 Willys Sedan, 

Below: BJ Filers 36 Chev 

and below right: Louise and 

Steve Filer’s A Tudor.


Above: Charlie Ferraloro had 

two of his collection there. 

Right: Dom’s blown Hemi 34 

coupe. 

Mexican costumes. It 

was fun to see. From 

here my cruise 

“partners” were a 57 

Chevy convertible loaded with 

chicks, who soon left us for a short 

cut to the Kwinana Freeway and also 

an AB style Anglia tourer that also 

left us as they took the wrong turn 

into the bus depot. From here we 

headed over the Narrows and then 

onto Canning Highway heading for 

Freo. Now we were amongst some 

XU1 and SLR Toranas and Monaros. 

I think they were on the run!. After 

another check point, we eventually 

got to Fremantle and used a wrong 

turn to find a parking spot to buy 

some dinner at Subway and have a 

pee stop and whistle wetting beer at


a pub. We regathered the 

route and were on our way 

to the final destination at 

East Fremantle Oval. 

Here we came across the 

Anglia again outside the 

oval on the side of the 

road. I pulled up to see that they were OK. The driver theatrically mimed 

his reply by holding the gear lever up in his hand above the windscreen… 

Pommy rubbish I thought……. and drove away being unable to assist. 

Above left clockwise: Mick Allender’s 32 coupe, Doug Harry’s 4 

door, Archie Fullerton’s tudor and a blue 32 highboy tudor sedan.


Above: Every year someone trailers in 

something different. This year it was a 

“project” to get some wow factor approval 

happening, for the product of someone’s idle 

time and spare parts. To each there own! 

We entered the oval and received our final 

Poker card. It was as 

bad as if I was playing 

for shekels. We took 

up a parking spot on 

the manicured oval and set 

up for the evening’s event. 

After eating our 

apparently weight 

reducing Subway “Sub”, 

we grabbed a drink from 

the bar and once again 

did the Valentines Day 

stroll amongst the 

hundreds of vehicles 

parked on the grass. 

Big Al had the band 

“Twist and Shout” up on 

the stage and the rockers 

were rocking up some 

steam on the huge 

assembled dance floor. 

Later, came the monster 

raffle and top poker hand 

announcements, then 

followed by the drive-by 

trophy presentation for 

the best cars in each 

class, picked by random 

judges with random 

ooowahh tastes. Each 

Upper left: Dave 

Dickson’s A Model 

pickup. The world 

wide flat black epidemic 

has swept through 

the local cattle too.


car drove past the stage 

in front of the gathered 

masses and received 

the royal handshake 

and trophy from Big 

Al. himself. Finally... The 

moment everyone waits for 

arrived ... The icing on the 

cake... Big Al’s monster 

speech. This year all were in 

silence hanging on the edge 

of their seats.........for 

exacly 17.5 seconds... And 

it was all over again for another year. 

WOW. 

Congratulations to Big Al and his team 

for another great event this year. EW.

The 

Busselton Drive-In Rod Run 

The Radiators Hot Rod Club held the 12th Busselton Drive-in 

Run on the March long weekend. They are to be congratulated on designing, 

preparing and running a first class event, that in my experience is the closest 

thing in WA to the Valla Park run in NSW, which is one of Australia’s 

premiere hot rodding events. Simply fantastic. 

This year the centre of the run was 

again the Peppermint Park holiday village, 

with most entrants opting to make it their 

base for the weekend. This year some rodders 

opted to try other venues in the name of 

research, looking for possible alternatives 

for the 2010 Mini Nats that will also be 

based in Busselton. 

The format of the event starts with a 

pizza pig-out on the Friday night for those 

who get there early. Lots got there early and 

there was a mountain of pizzas to hoe 

through and no one made it to the bottom of 

the pile. This is a great night to settled down 

with rodding buddies for a yarn and a few 

beverages. 

Saturday morning was the the Show n 

Shine in a park near the city centre, between 

10.00am and 1.00pm. This was used as a 

fundraiser for charity. We left Peppermint 

Park en masse with the local constabulary 

Above: Bob has put wires and 

a new new gearbox in Steve 

Hicklings old 35 Chev. Below: 

Barry Batten’s pickup 

blocking the traffic to allow us all to drive out onto the main drag as a single 

group. That was pretty neat. 

During the show n shine, entrants were left to their imagination, so 

most dumped their rods and walked to the local sites or shops. Important 

activities included morning tea and eventually lunch. Denise and I managed 

to walk to the end of the famous Busselton Jetty that is 1.7 Kms long... And

The 

Busselton 

Drive-In Rod 

Run 

then back again, only driven by 

the thought of a Simmo’s ice 

cream once back on shore. 

After a walking tour of the 

shops and being dragged screaming through about 27 ladies shoe shops, 

by Denise, did I finally manage to have an ale and roast meal for lunch at 

the The Esplanade Hotel... along with the Frenchs and Curnows whom 

had arrived earlier without suffering a similar traumatic ordeal. Anyway, 

the meal and beer were fantastic and I managed to recover from the earlier 

ordeal. By now, it was just after 1.00pm so we headed back to the 

rods and then back to base. 

One of the pleasant things 

about the rod run format is the just 

right amount of spare time available. 

Saturday after-noon was like 

that with a few spare hours to kill 

before engaging the stomach again 

and heading for the drive-in. There 

was even time to have a beer or two 

and pump a few keystrokes on the 

Above: Keith Wilson’s 40 coupe 

and Ding Bob’s thrice carbed 

Chev powered A sedan delivery. 

Above: unexpected blower probs on 

the 32, and a starter motor that has 

needed changing for 7 months on the 

spare A coupe, meant Archie had to 

attend in the wife’s Magna...Booooo! 

What a LOSER! Better than a ford?

The 

Busselton Drive-In Run 

laptop for this edition of the 

Klaxon. 

After food, we assembled 

at one of the only 

drive-ins left in captivity. 

With daylight saving 

still with us, we had an 

hour or so to kill with socializing 

and telling lies 

before it was dark enough 

for the show to begin. As usual, the kids show was better than 

the main film. At least the main film was good enough to keep 

most rodders there until the end. On other nights, only about 10 

rods make it to the end. In the absence of the Big Al and Dave Doggett’s 

chop charcoaling event after the film, the day was over.. 

Sunday morning and all was still OK weather-wise, despite the 

threats of naughty big black rain 

clouds. 

It was time to shake a tail feather. No 

time to sleep in. Nu Breed Street Rod 

Club members were cooking breakfast 

for everyone. Coffee, tea, juice, eggs, 

bacon, toast and pancakes. The well 

drilled team did a great job and had 

ABOVE: Don’t park behind this 

tall sucker at the Drive-in theatre! 

Lance Fusssel’s T tudor. 

Above: Paul Walsh takes time 

off after the recent Mandurah run 

and TAC committments

The 


Inside Laurances 

everyone done in time for 

the 9.30ish start of the big 

rod cruise . 

This area is riddled 

with side roads and tourist 

destinations. Every year a 

different route and stop by 

The chick on a stick at Laurance Winery

destinations are selected, 

enabling the entrants 

to see parts of the south 

west that may have otherwise 

remained a secret. 

The route was timed and 

had an observation questionaire 

during the first 

stage. We took 20 minute 

breaks between stops at 

Nev’s 34 

The 

Busselton 

Drive-In 

Run 

Canal Rocks on the coast, two wineries , an olive oil soap factory and finally 

at another winery, Laurances, where we stayed for lunch and a raffle. 

From here, entrants made their own way back to base with plenty of time 

Above left clockwise: 

The Nu Breed 

Breakfast. • Craig Hidden 

& Alan Barker, the 

Bacon kings • Sky 

scraper Barry Batten 

sans hat, in charge of 

buk buk eggs • the 

three stooges... I don’t 

know what they were 

doing.. Lance Fussell, 

Roger the Lodger and 

BJ Filer•

OUCH! 

It’s lonely at the top...... 

The 

Busselton 

Drive-In 

Run 

to enjoy their 

journey and 

do a bit of 

tourist 

stuff .. .at 

the local bakery, 

for example.. 

Later that afternoon you 

could attend rocker cover and 

hot wheel races, have face painting, 

attend a local ASRF DC meeting or 

just socialize. This year, entrants in 

the rocker cover and Hot Wheels 

gravity races were a bit thin. AB 

managed to fine tune his rocker cover 

from last year and with Spider Man at 

the helm managed to win that event. 

Hot Wheels was dominated by tomorrows 

rodders. Next was an 

Jim Longman’s Mercury 

excellent spit roast meal supplied by 

the rod run organisers. No one went hungry here. The meal was followed 

by the annual funny auction that raises funds for charity. Barry Batten was 

again the electric auctioneer. Aided by his side kicks Mick Allender and 

Alan Barker, they raised $2400 (I think). Thanks to bidders and the suppliers 

for making that possible. I swear I 

saw at least three different Archie Fullertons 

bidding at times. 

The full potential of the auction that 

night remains unknown as we had to 

pack it up in fairness to other patrons of 

the holiday park. 

Above: Blossom (Garry Bryant) 

discusses his take on Archimedes 

principle with 

disinterested Vince and Jan 

Berriman. Right: The Gibb’s 

Pontiac custom

The 

Busselton Drive-In 

Run 

After packing up from the auction, 

there was still valuable time to bench race 

before some more shut-eye. Do you know 

what a Tappley Meter does? It’s amazing 

what you learn after dark! 

Monday morning there was a survivors’ 

breakfast.. BYO apparently. I can’t tell you about 

that one. I was back on the health trail with some 

WeetBix! Then it was out by 10.00 and heading 

back home again.... Until next year. Thanks! 

Hey 

Louise, 

Where 

are we? 

Top left Clockwise: There is 

no holding down Louise Filer • 

3 little dickie birds -Jan, Barb & 

Denise • Garry Curnow, Dave 

Dogget, Lars & Judith Anderson 

• Helen and Brenda • Ding Bob, 

Lorna and Ute Barton•

The 


Run 

Above: Rhonda Dogget, Jan & Brian 

French. Below: Rosemary Curnow, Brian 

french, Garry Curnow, Jan French, 

Rhonda & Dave Dogget. 

Above: Hey Peter 

Robins, where are we? 

At Laurance’s for lunch 

Above: AB 

and Garry 

Bryant. Left: 

a bench session 

before 

the big auction.

The 


Garry Curnow’s 32 on the Sunday run 

Gary King’s 

Fiddy’s Low Rider 

AB’s 

Waiting for darkness at the drive-in. 

Frenchie, Peter Ripper Robins and Allan Rossi (BL1) 

What now BL1?

The 


Rod Run 

Favourites with the kids 

after driving around the 

wineries half the day in 

Dad’s old car, are the 

colouring-in contest, hot 

wheels racing and the 

face painting by Joe 

and Tash. 

Make up artist to the 

stars, Joe Triglia, applies 

his trade to a 

typical snooty prima 

donna wannabe. 

Excellent modelling 

coaxed a final auction 

bid of $65 for these 

slightly stretched bras. 

At Laurance’s for lunch 

Rob’s

Busy Bee. 

I love busy bees. These days, they are pretty 

simple events. No more steel structures to cut, 

weld, transport and erect, no more digging or 

pouring footings before going to work on a 

weekday , no more roofing or laying thousands of bricks. no more 

sewers pipes to lay and connect. It is all pretty easy. Even back then, 

the work was harder and at times more dangerous, but the 

camaraderie of the members working together made it great fun and 

a good day out. 

My girls still have 

nightmares of the old drop 

hole dunny! In fact, Besides 

MS losing a thong in a 

puddle of tar, it’s all they 

remember about the 

clubrooms being built. It is 

probably the same for Rob 

Soia’s and the Curnows’ 

children too. 

Now that the clubrooms 

have been completed for a 

while, it is now time to start 

the maintenance. This busy 

Above: Steve watching the ol’ man 

bee was all about 

blast the second gate. Below: Allan 

sandblasting and painting. 

Rossi manning the compressor best 

The Bestie boys brought 

by leaving it alone. 

along their sandblasting 

gear on the back of a truck and sand 

blasted the old Maylands Depot Gates 

in front of the workshop and everyone 

one else either swept up sand or 

painted stuff. If it didn’t wriggle, it got 

painted, and Frenchie touched 

most of it to make sure. The

carpark also got its parking bays repinstriped. 

The start time was about 7.00am. I can’t vouch for that 

happening due to previous party committments the evening 

before and getting there a bit later.. It all finish at around lunch time. 

Above Right: John Ferrier (The Vintage 

Ferret) paints one of the sacred poles of 

WoodHenge. Above Left: Ian Swinbourne 

and Andy Lawrence outside bars. 

Left: Andy and Ian behind bars and about 

to paint the gates with primer. 

That still left plenty of time for the bees to go to the Nostalgia drags 

if they wished. In short, it was a very successful morning. The gates 

now need final colour on the applied undercoat. The next biggie is 

replacing the end metre of corroded roofing over the 

verandah.... Thanks to all who helped. They were: 

Dave Krause, Bob Mulder, Steve & Kevan Best, 

Andy Lawrence, Allan Rossi, Maurie Searle, 

David Frost and son, Mel Broun, Brian 

French, Ian Swinbourne , John Ferrier, Eric 

Warren Extreme E.

BUSY BEE. Cont........ 

Above: Brian French, Bob Mulder and Mel Broun at the specially 

convened paint brush seminar. 

Below : Special Busy Bee Dance Steps. 

MS doing the 

Moon Walk 

Eric doing The 

Hokey Pokey... 

Put your left 

ear in.... 

Right: Allan 

Rossi and the 

BL1 Time Warp. 

Above: Mel 

doing The 

Stroll. Left: 

MS doing 

that turn-around 

jump 

thing from 

the Huckle- 

Buck

West Coast Street Rod Club 

Minutes of General Meeting 15/2/09 

Meeting opened – 7.32 pm 

Apologies - Kim Broun, Gary Curnow, Joe Carbone, Gary Bryant, Joe 

Galipo, Neil Gibb, Andy Lawrence, Shane Osborne, Des Thomas, Jim 

Candido. 

Visitors – Nil 

Minutes of previous meeting – Read and accepted by Bob Mulder, 

seconded Dave Krause. 

Correspondence In - Cruise news – American Car Club of WA. 

GT Falcon Club of WA newsletter 

Bulletin from the Street Rod Nationals Goulburn 

Pamphlet from the Sandgroper Nationals 2010 

Correspondence Out – Klaxon 

Letter to the York Shire Council re- Show and Shine 

at Easter. 

Treasurer’s Report – Presented by Allan Rossi. 

ASRF Report – Only 9 cars turned up for the Australia Day Show and 

Shine. 

Three cars attended the UWA event. 

The next District Council meeting will be held in 

Busselton on the long weekend. 

Raffle tickets must be returned immediately as they are 

needed for sale. 

ASRF insurance will also cover members’ spouses but 

the names need to be submitted. 

109 cars attended the MHRCC run to Garden Island. 

64% of the 547 ASRF members in WA do not belong 

to a club. 

TAC Report - 90 cars now on the computer system. Paul Walsh now 

spends 2 – 3 hours daily on TAC business. There will 

be an increase in the fee charged for the three 

inspections, from $40.00 to $50.00. A fee of 

$200.00 is also being considered for the application 

to build a street rod, partly to discourage those who 

apply but never build. 

The question of re imbursement for the inspector’s 

time was raised but no decision made.

Social Committee Report – Mal Sparks has taken over as barman. 

Many thanks to Dave Krause for his time and effort 

given previously given to this job. 

The busy bee is on the same day as the Nostalgia 

Drags but a number of members indicated that they 

would still help. 

Unfinished Business – AB’s car has been removed. Rodder of the Year 

voting needs to be changed. Current system means 

that one rodder may be chosen by a club to receive 

all of its monthly votes, hence winning the 

award. 

Our nomination for February is Paul Walsh. 

New Business - 

Buy Sell and Swap- nil 

Meeting closed at 8.36 pm 

AB has sheets for members with later production rods 

to complete for the ASRF compilation of a list of all 

rods in WA. 

Sam Attard and Jim Longman were voted in as 

members of West Coast. Congratulations and thank 

you for the contribution you have made in the past 3 

to 6 months. 

Mel isn’t just about boring old minutes.. He has sent this joke to 

brighten up his contribution to this Klaxon 

A burglar breaks into a rodder's garage to pinch some valuable Chevy parts. As he quietly 

searches in the dark, a voice comes from behind him- 

'Jesus is watching you!" 

The burglar freezes in fear then waits to see what happens next. Nothing but silence. 

He continues to quietly place the valuables in his bag. Then, from behind him comes the same 

voice- 

"Jesus is watching you!" 

the burglar turns an switches on his flashlight 

There, across the garage is a large parrot sitting in a cage. 

"D D D Did you say something?" the burglar whispered. 

"I sure did,' replied the parrot 

"Well you must be a very clever parrot. What's your name?' 

"Moses." squawked the bird. 

"Moses!!. What kind of people call their parrot Moses?" mumbles the burglar. 

"The same kind of people who call their rottweiler Jesus." replies the parrot

SummerSun 

Mid-week Cuise to 

Rockingham. 

On a fantastic evening blessed with 

perfect weather, Big Al held his SummerSun Festival mid week cruise from 

Joondalup to Rockingham. Estimates of participant numbers range from 

220 to over 400. It was hard to tell, as the format of joining the run along the 

way and the final parking arrangements never 

had all of the vehicles together at any one 

time. 

Some start at the beginning but most add to 

the run by queuing along the freeway onramps 

along the way and joining onto the tail 

as it passes by. 

The run started at Joondalup at 6:00pm 

on Wednesday night (18/2). It cruises nearly the full length of the Mitchell 

and Kwinana Freeways, exits at Thomas Street off ramp and heads towards 

Rockingham. The entourage splits from the main drag at Kwinana Beach 

and cruises along the beach front until it reaches the Rockingham Beach 

front. I opted to join the run at the Roe Highway on ramp, at the 

website listed time of 6:31pm, but on approach there were about fifteen 

vehicles already there. The sight of so many cars head to tail on the side lane, 

with many of the occupants mingling around, had the passing freeway 

traffic down to a snails pace as the dickheads of the 

driving public 

slowed down to 

have a look at 

the anticipated 

prang. Seeing 

all this, I shot

y and pulled up a kilometre down the road 

under an overpass. Here I managed to park 

and not slow down the traffic at all. Don’t 

they know a Willys coupe when they see 

one?…Southern suburb drivers with no 

taste… 

The SummerSun website posts anticipated 

times for the run to pass each on ramp. 

Considering that the run passed through 

Perth, it was very accurate and passed us at 

about 6:34pm with Big Al giving a blast 

from the A model’s Klaxon as he shot by. 

From there on, the cruise ran very 

smoothly with hundreds of rods, classics and 

muscle cars mingling amongst the long string 

of after work, going home traffic. It was an 

eyeball smorgasbord for those that like our 

choice of transportation. 

This year traffic police manned the 

Kwinana Beach turn off intersection and gave 

the participating string of cars an almost 

unbroken run through the traffic lights. We 

stopped near Kwinana Beach to allow the 

entourage to bunch up and then we had a 

police escort into Rockingham. It worked 

very well. 

In Rockingham we were led to 

the hotel’s rear car park, which 

filled quickly with about 160 -200 

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Rockingham.

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Rockingham. 

vehicles. The balance of vehicles 

were then scattered throughout the 

vicinity. 

Despite several closed food and 

dining outlets, there seemed to be a 

reasonable choice of yum yum 

outlets and the queues weren’t too 

bad. It was an incoming $$$ 

opportunity that business operators 

don’t normally get mid week. Good 

for those who took the opportunity 

given to them by Big Al’s event. 

I snatched a park behind the 

pub just as things were getting 

tight. From here on, it was a matter 

of mingling, photo taking, yapping 

and finding some food. Once again 

the quickest meal was going to be a 

Subway “sub”. We grabbed this 

and enjoyed our meal on a park 

bench overlooking the ocean.. 

After another walk around, it 

was coffee at a cafe and then the 

easy cruise up the freeway 

homeward, with the expectation 

of a less enjoyable morning back 

at the salt mine. In all, another 

great event and rodding 

promotion. Thanks to Big Al.

It’s an Edsel !

Louse & BJ at a cafe

Cranksters 5th Annual 

Pipe Line Cruise 

The Cranksters Hot Rod & Kustom Club held their 5th Pipeline 

Cruise in perfect Autumn weather. The format was sinple. Gather at City 

Beach, pay the $10 entry fee to get instructions and an entrant number for 

the monster raffle after lunch. Then take off. This year the organisers were 

possibly overwhelmed by the 190 odd 

entrants, but handled it very well. 

The course was simple Simon but 

still too compex for 

some who opted to 

stay off the beach front 

for a couple of 

kilometres and take a 

shortcut directly to 

Karrinyup Road. After 

that, shortcuts were 

pretty rare to find. 

The course was 

very direct with a 

minmum of traffic 

lights. It took entrants 

straight up Great 

Eastern Highway to 

the vacant block 

behind the Mundaring 

Hotel, which filled

eyond capacity, before 

later arrivals had to park 

in nearby opportunities. 

The adjacent street 

was closed and filled 

with street stalls that 

displayed the normal 

well crafted and clever 

fluff and crystal stall 

stuff.. Alas my wallet 

stayed in tact until 

purchasing a meal from 

the pub for lunch. 

After luch the 

monster raffle was held, 

after which people made 

their own ways back 

down the hill except for 

Jailbar Joe who headed 

towards the next sunrise. 

In all agreat day that was 

very well supported. 

Thanks Cranksters. 

EW 

Cranksters 5th Annual 

Pipe Line Cruise

WCSRC Special Events 

GETTING TO KNOW FELLOW CLUB MEMBERS AND FAMILY 

The Executive Committee welcomes all members to attend at least 

one, if not all of the following getting-to-know-you BBQ evenings. 

5.00pm start, Friday March 20th 

5.00pm start, Saturday 25th April (Anzac Day) 

5.00pm start, Saturday 10th May 

TAC CONTACT INFO >>> watac@asrf.org.au 

This is the address that will be used in future for build application 

correspondence etc, Paul Walsh 

HOW about a day up in Northam, the week before Easter? 

Following is an email received at Klaxon WA head quarters. It 

could a good day out. Any takers? 

Hi 

I hope there is still time to get the date 5th April 2009 onto your club 

calendar. 

This years Northam flying 50 starts on Sat 4th April with the Mt Ommaney 

hill climb, & Sunday 5th round the houses flying 50. 

I will be sending out more details later, but if you want to contact me earlier 

email at benntoo@iinet.net.au . Best Regards, John Bennington 

Special discounts for Club and ASRF members at 

Auto One Ellenbrook . 

The crew at will look after you. Lars, Aaron and Glen can also offer great 

advice, gathered with years of experience. 

The problem with a lot of Auto stores is they are full of fluff and crystals 

and often don’t stock hard 

core rodder requirements. 

Ellenbrook Auto One will 

order almost anything you 

could need for your rod. 

And still give you some 

discount, if they can get 

discount themselves.

WHEN: MAY 2 ND 2009 

WHERE: 

FUND RAISING NIGHT 

“A NIGHT AT THE RACES” 

HAMERSLEY HALL, BELVEDERE ROAD. 

HAMERSLEY. 

COST: $15.00 PER PERSON TABLES OF 8 

DOORS OPEN: 6.45PM - 11.30 

LOTS OF PRIZES, GIVEAWAYS, RAFFLES & AUCTIONS. 

DOOR PRIZE & LUCKY BOOK NUMBER. 

THIS IS AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED 

PLEASE PHONE NOELENE ON: 0409300834 

KRINSTINA ON: 92495218 

TABLES TO BE BOOKED AND PAID FOR BY 9 TH APRIL 2009 

BOOK EARLY AS TABLE WILL GO FAST 

FULL BAR FACILITIES 

NO B.Y.O. 

This promo has been printed as a favour for Noelene Hughes. 

Noelene .is deceased member Geoff Hughes’ widow.. She is president 

of this organisation. The group helps disabled orphans abondoned 

in Bali. Mouse racing nights are great fun. Attend if you can.

Coming Events 

March 20: Friday 5.00pm WCSRC family BBQ. BYO 

March 29: WCSRC Swap meet at the clubrooms. Kevan Best 9571 2205 

April 9 -13 Easter Get Away Run based at York.. Jan French 9377 7837 

April 25: Saturday 5.00pm WCSRC family BBQ. BYO 

May 10: Sunday 5.00pm WCSRC family BBQ. BYO 

November 15, 2009 Yanchep Cruise Goodfellas . Jeff Hitchens 9405 3568 

Regular :Wanderer’s Pizza night. Mark Gryska 9418 3668. 

At Brandi Pizza, Rockingham Rd , Munster. 6.00pm. 

Second Thursday each Month. 

Regular: Frenchy and Jimbo’s Rodders breakfast at WCSRC 

at 8.30 every Saturday morning. Spread the word... 

Regular: Radiators Monthly Bunbury Cruise. Tony 9721 4386 

TAC Inspections. 3rd Saturday of month. Call Mike if you need 

an inspection to make an appointment 0411 709 599 

CLASSIFIEDS 

Wanted: Neil Gibb- Mudguard for a Customline 

For sale: FC and FB ute –need restoring EK needs some 

mechanical work. Ken Myers 0417 910 356 

-47 Chev truck Mike Flett 0402 632 513 

48 fibreglass pickup guards Steven Best 9571 0025 

1 Billet steering wheel and 1 Victor Junior 

manifold suit sbc – Sam Attard 0450 258548 

STOP PRESS BOX 

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The good rodding times from Spanky’s Hot Rod Shop.

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