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HEADLINES
HUGE WINNERS AND LOSERS ON GSX
Gidgegannup Stock Exchange (GSX) 13th March 2006.
FINANCE NEWS UPDATE.
GSX 13/3/2006. 1015 hrs.
Quit Motorplex (QMX) shares plummeted today after the company
directors released the true cost of cleaning up the environmental
disaster that occurred by allowing Y-Block engined vehicles to race
at the Nostalgia Drags last month.
GSX 13/3/2006 1030 hrs.
ACME Chemical Co (ACC) shares increased 70% today in eager
buying after the news of huge sales of degreaser and oil dispersing
foam products, to an undisclosed buyer, was leaked to the market place.
(“leaked” it is a pun.. Get it?) AAP Rooters
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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: Bob Mulder Ph.0407040341
Vice Presidents: Brian French 9377 7837 Alan Barton 9448 0110
. Secretary: Garry Bryant 9257 1973
Treasurer: Allan Rossi 9377 1932
ASRF Delegate: Jeff Ewence 9339 4337
TAC Delegate: Peter Hunter 9445 2493
WAHRP Delegate: Allan Rossi 9377 1932
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Fri 1925 Hrs GMT (Gidgee Mean Time) 10/3/2006.
Well the panic has just moved from Spankys Hot Rod
Shop back to the Editor’s desk again so I can keep
Klaxon readers occupied for a few more minutes this
Month.
This edition is again a “LITE” version on my behalf, but I have
received some assistance via emails from Bloss, Gibby, Bill Jansen
(Whole Shaven Heads, NSW. Sorry that was Shoalhaven Heads) and
from Amanda Coleman in Bunbury. I gave notice that any Born Loser
Reports had to be in computer format, not thumb-in-tar on A4 format,
because it took too long to translate, edit, totally rearrange and retype.
The Willys is progressing well, but I don’t know if well
enough to make the Nats, but it is still full steam ahead and has had
some added bonuses, like losing 4 kilograms off my pre-Xmas weight!
If time and space are available I will include a few pictures later on.
Up until this week I had only missed 2 nights in the shed. This
week I lost 2 more due to side affects to antibiotics prescribed for my
inflamed rubbing-down (beer drinking) elbow. Probably gout!
Weekends have been very productive too. I have stopped
Paddling on Saturday mornings and I missed the Busselton Run,
SummerSun, Drags and Poker Run. The only other distractions were a
whistle stop by The Bald Eagle himself (Les Ryan, Life member
currently building a 32 Tudor and married to the amazingly youthful
gorgeous Leta) in the company with The Rodfather himself (AKA
Neville Marney, Life Member) the other distraction was an inquisitive
neighbour who has just purchased parts to build a 28 closed cab pickup
and wanted to see a fully professional rod shop in full swing with a
beer fridge.
The Klaxon Mail box was full this week with complaints about
using the words “20% less crap” on last month’s cover, so the editorial
this month is 47 words longer, therefore increasing the crap by 5%,
making this edition only “15% less crap”. This should make the
complainers at least 5% happier. The things I do to amuse! OK, off to
the electronic mail box to see what is printable
Seeya soon. ..Extreme E.

EDITOR PULLS OUT
Maurice left alone in double bed!
Shame, Shame, Shame.
After the February edition of the Klaxon where the extreme “e” was
called on to
show us ya willy’s, the Hot Rod Builder from Spankeys Hot Rod
Shop has
PULLED OUT!
Out of the Busselton Drive in and Piss up week end that is. The
Amigo’s / Born Losers are one down on numbers, Maurice claimed
the double bed, Born loser number one wins for a change and gets
the twin beds to himself as Blossom takes the safe bet and rolls out
the swag on the grass. Well you missed it Didn’t you, Southern City
Rodders have done it again with a top week end. This is a Run not to
be missed, Very friendly, very well organized, great location and full
of Cool Dudes and Gal’s. West Coast members there were - Diesel
Dave Dogget (or Should that be Hogget) doing a Chop Burning
demonstration at 11PM, as Dave says, his chops are sweeter than a
Steak any day and I had to check several looking for a bad one and
still didn’t find a bad one! No, the chops were not burnt and I’ve had
my faith restored in the humble chop, On Ya Dave! Then there was
AB and Ute, Ute happy that her man was happy and she didn’t have
to lay bricks this week end, AB was happy as any team owner on the
racecar circuit would be with his No 1 driver, Bill, winning the
Matchbox/Hot Wheels racing and AB knowing he had another
winner in the stable in the modified class but was eliminated due to
track conditions (you have to go on the run to understand the
subtleties of the sport of Matchbox racing) well, there were some 70
odd, grown men (very odd men at that) a few proud wives/
girlfriends/mistresses and a couple of KIDS trying to push in on the
fun, all standing around jockeying for a position to watch the events,
word about towns is a Grand Stand will be built for the racing
public next year. As South City Rodders said this event started out as
an activity for the Kids but has grown into a competitive event for all
Rodders and a few of the Kids. Also on the run were Dave and

Sharron Krause, Queen of Kings Helen and the Kingpin Gary, Gary
(watermelon) Curnow and Rosmary who tried her hand at the auction
but was pipped by another bidder. Frenchie and Jan, now I didn’t
want to mention this but Frenchie needs to be told that navigator is
spelt F-L-O-W-E-R-S oh! And C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E! Lars and Judy
Anderson, Lars was lying low and did not want to risk a run in the
Matchbox racing as the last run at the Nostalgia Drags he came away
with fastest club car but no trophy. Mouldy Bob “El Presidenti”
rumbled into the Drive in in the dark feeling his way the through
public until he came to upon a familiar face, Life member Les Ryan,
and to top of the club attendees were the Born Loser team of BL1
Allan Rossi, BL2 Maurice Searle and Apprentice BL, Blossom, this
was my first time to the Southern City Rodders Busselton Drive In
and I learnt a few things too, did you know that it takes about 45
minutes just drive out of that maze of streets in Morley? Travel with
BL1 and you too could experience the trip, make sure you have
sufficient annual leave before you depart. I also found that while I
was riding “shot gun” and MS as “barman” in the back seat of the
Galaxie Country Sedan it takes 14 stubbies to get to Busselton and
that was waiting until we left the beer exclusion zone of the Freeway.
I can’t report on Friday and Saturday Morning as we arrived Saturday
Arvo’ the run on Sunday was picturesque and brought about a little
competitive streak in a few, Lars would open up the throttle and shoot
past the next turn before Judy could read the next instruction and we
would take the correct turn then Lars would blast past again only to
overshoot again, now this is the funny bit, well it was in our car, we
were cruising up the hill out of Yallingup to turn right into caves road
when we spotted Team French coming in the opposite direction , BL1
was making a turn into Caves road and I point with much arm waving
for Frenchie to turn left into Caves road and follow us, this meant he
would miss check point 1, now what would any bloke do who just
needs to get this Rod Run over so he could sit down with a beer do?
Yep, he followed us. Well we laughing so much I now understood
why Allan keeps a clear plastic protector over the Velour seat trim, we
could see the steam fogging the windows of the 56 Chevy behind us
and a quick U turn saw them off onto the correct path. One area that
WCSRC failed to participate in was the Boxcar Derby we need to

uild a Downhill racer (that gets pushed along a flat road in the
Park) and compete, not to win, but to be part of the spirit and to also
do what the Southern City Rodders did, Beat the Nu breed guys!
Join us in 2007 and see what a great job the Guys and Gal’s in
Southern City Rodders can do.
BLOSS.
One of the “Must Do” happenings to
attend at the Busselton Run, is the
Dave Doggett Lamb Chop Burning
Demo. This happens under subdued
beer drinking lighting on the
verandah of the amenities room at
the Eco-village, after the Drive-In
movies. Movie buffs and critiques
gather with beer connoisseurs to
discuss the earlier cinematography
and have a free chop on Dave.
There is always plenty to go around.
Top: Dave Doggett hisself with a good ol’ chop on the fork.
Bottom: l-r Frenchie, MS, Dave K and Allan R discuss the
finer points of chop burning with Dave, while beer tasting.

Big Al’s SummerSun Festival
No words from Neil, the silent Spycam Man, so I am
guessing these are taken at
Rockingham on the Wednesday
evening cruise. It was a full
week of rodding and retro-
Culture. Cars, live bands, rocker
-billy dancing, rod runs and
drag racing. I believe Big AL
and the team will do it again next
year. Our own version of
WinterSun from NSW in WA..
Give it a go next year. EW
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WEST COAST SREET ROD CLUB INC
WCSRC Minutes of Meeting held 19 February 2006
Meeting opened 7:40 pm
Apologies, Eric Warren, Gary Curnow, Maurice Searle. Des Thomas.
Visitors : Michael Caleja, Warren Ellson, David Meier.
Minutes of previous meeting: were read and accepted, moved by:
Peter Hunter Seconded by Ian Swinbourne
Correspondence in: Club newsletters, GT Falcon club, ACE Times,
payment of fees from Greg Whitchurch.
Correspondence out: Klaxon, Letter to the accountant requesting
details of the 2004-2005 audit and payment of 2003-2004 audit fee.
Treasures report: by Allan Rossi was tabled and available on
request for members:
ASRF Report: Neil Gibb – Rodder of the year is Murray Reynolds,
new sanctions- New Years Eve at Vintage Rod and Custom invitation
to rodders from Trevor Breeze to attend. 28 th January Mandurah
Rod & Custom. 18 th June Peter Dawson Picnic, Gavin Migro
Thanked Rodders who attended the Speedway on 21 January and
extends an invitation to 22 open hot rods for the Sprint car Finals on
10 th March. Big Day Out Hot Rods were well catered for by the
event organizers. Nostalgia Drags- only 26 Hot Rods entered the
event.
TAC Report: By Peter Hunter, Nil to report.
Social Report: By Alan Rossi : Dave Krause has suggested a
swap meet be run for New and Old parts at the club rooms possible
date of 21 May, the event will be open to traders and individuals and
rod, custom, vintage and performance car clubs @ $5 per bay for
sellers and $2 for buyers/lookers. Movie night still to be arranged for
Mid Year.
Competition Report inlc Drags & Salt Lake Racing : By
Blossom : Nostalgia Drags- the club members racing were Neil
Gibb. Nev Anderson. Dave Krause & Garry King. A broken Tranny
on route to the Drags on Saturday morning left Garry Curnow out of
the competition, we will have to wait for next year to see the roadster

perform. Neil Gibb was the runner up in the Hot Rod Class, Nev,
Dave and Gary all were eliminated in the first round after plenty of
practice passes. Great effort put in by the entrants and the cheer
squad.
Unfinished Business: Club Logo window stickers as suggested by
Garry Curnow are still to be followed up, Garry B, was chasing a
price, Andy will also follow up.
New Business: AB asked if the club will allow a few fixed brackets
to be mounted to the club room verandah and rotunda to allow RHS
or similar frames be fixed for the tent arrangement at the Super
Model Sunday, no objection and a few members will evaluate the
possibilities at the Busy Bee on the week end.
Swap Shop: WANTED
Michael Calleja 9342 2433 Windsor engine any size, Cheap sounds
like a fair price to pay however, Michael is prepared to pay nothing
if you insist, (maybe we can convince Michael to join as a Member if
he can get a motor for $0.
Brian French 9377 7837 Tank Fairlane Diff Housing, come on, help
out Frenchie he has only got 2 customs at his disposal and is Rodless
until the Fairlaine Diff arrives.
Garry Bryant 0418 937 802 Carbies old 94’s and or parts.
FOR SALE
Ralph Donovan 9405 4949 Carbies don’t Know what they are!
Phil Gale - Geraldton- 9923 4942 1937 Chev Sedan body has been
sandblasted and primed all panels plus spare boot and front guard and
original seats, BW Diff HQ Discs, Beam axle, Falcon 250 and auto
all this for $1,000.
Barry 9375 1188 ’35 NASH Advance 6
Tony Fondacaro 0418 916 351 2 Door Jag ’79 350 Chev
Turbo 400 $1,500
BUSY BEE: New doors to be fitted on Saturday 25 Feb & Sunday
26 th a clean up before the Air Conditioning is fitted.
CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR: Votes cast and placed in a safe
location in Mongolia for all to be revealed in June 2006.
MEETING CLOSED: 8.55PM.
Next meeting: 19 March 2006

Y- BLOCKER RULES
ZERO To HERO In 16.20 SECONDS
That Drag strip hero of yesteryear (2005 Nostalgia Drags) Neil Gibb
has done it again, well, almost. The last Hot Rod standing in 2005
and Runner up in 2006, with this downward spiral he won’t even get
off the line in 2036. Let me share a few of Gibby’s moments.
· Gibby had so many passes on the day that he ran out of fuel
going through the start tunnel .
· Gibby came back along the return road faster than he went
down the ¼ mile strip on every pass.
· Gibby’s fan club closed the books on Saturday night when
it was filled to capacity of 2 members (AB & Bloss).
· Gibby only expected to have two runs as he only took 2
funny hats for the return drive.
· Gibby came back after his first run wearing the old faithful
leather flying helmet (complete with sheep still inside) on his
first run.
· Gibby was so embarrassed winning a second pass that he
tried to hide under a flamed welding helmet but he couldn’t
fool us we could pick the sound the throbbing Y Block.
· Gibby misread the weather forecast he thought the wind
would be blowing from the north east and that great big sail
he calls a wind screen would have put him into the nitros
powered Hot Rod class .
Well all good things come to a head, especially when it goes to your
head like it did to Gibby, with the fans (both of them, ) calling on
him to do it again Gibby lined up for the final against an 11 second
blown Chevy, almost red lighted (I think the globe blew) blitzed the
start chugging down the strip on a borrowed tank of Shell plain Jane
unleaded fuel, not like the previous runs where he was running a
special mix of bog standard BP Optima, there he was 20metres off
the finish line with the Chevy storming home behind him Gibby had
it in the bag, the exicitement was too too much for him, not wanting
to let both of his fans down did he back off and cruise over the line?
Nuh not Gibby, like a true legend of speed he plodded on over the
line in FIRST place, BUT and a BIG BUT at that He had broken out

of his nominated time by one 100 th of a seconded and came home
with the bacon a little over done.
ZERO TO HERO in 16.20 seconds and back to ZERO in one 100 th
of a second.
ON YA GIBBY , YA Y BLOCKA
BLOSS
PS: thanks to Lars, Dave K and Garry K for flying the flag at the
Drags, the born loser batten may well be passed on to Gary Curnow
with a few more qualifying exploits like the Tranny failure on the
way to the Drags.
KLAXONIAN HUMOUR
Question: How do you know you are flying over Africa.
Answer: See inside back cover.
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Patrick and Sheamus ( Dublin mechanical engineers) were
standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.
A woman walked by and asked what they were doing.
We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole," said Patrick "but
we don't have a ladder."
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and
laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket,
took a measurement, announced, "5 metres" and walked away.
Sheamus shook his head and laughed. "Ain't that just like a blonde!
We ask for the height and she gives us the length!"
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A man walks into his bedroom and sees his wife packing a
suitcase. He asks, "What are you doing?" She answers, "I'm
moving to Sydney. I heard prostitutes there get paid
$400 for doing what I do for you for free."
Later that night, on her way out, the wife walks into the
bedroom and sees her husband packing his suitcase. When
she asks him where he's going, he replies, "I'm coming too. I
want to see how you live on $800 a year"

Born Losers Busselton Bound
(25 % more Crap) {No, make that 45%...Ed}
For all refined rodders, January’s Born Loser article ended up in the
bin due to my brain separating from my body. Just a slight hic-up
which has now been rectified with a brain transplant from a Baboon.
With January now far behind us and heading into March I must
say there has been little change in B-L land. Still, there may be light
at the end of the tunnel, probably a train with our luck!
Esteemed treasurer BL 2 ½ guided astutely by BL 2 has again
transformed a potential club loss into the black, sadly all profit has
now been eaten away on chicken burgers.
BL 2 who’s knees were damaged along with his brain in a work
accident (BL 2 used to work?) has now succumbed to walking on his
hands, whilst lessening the pressure on his knees, the extra blood
flow also stimulates the brain.
Unofficial reports say the only difficulty is drinking cans of coke.
BL2 now spends most of his work time trying to invent an
automated clone of himself, similar to the dummy WCSRC used in
the Hot Rod show some years ago. BL-1 has not had a good month,
although panel repairs to the RHF guard (caused by a parked willow
tree) on the Galaxie compounded with great difficulty in obtaining
suitable front tyres are now in the past. Now the BL-1 celebrity
cruise to Busselton should be more enjoyable. Rookie looser Bloss
the Builder is guest passenger after a late withdrawal by Extreme
Eric who is working feverishly on the reborn Willys for the Big
River Post Easter Run. Regretfully Extreme Eric will be sadly
missed because of his innovative method of being able to scavenge
Busselton rubbish bins when trying to fulfill treasure hunt quotas.
BL Bloss is set to take over this all important roll. Also indications
this early suggest Bloss will be taking his own sleeping gear to offset
any snoring problems imposed by BL-2.
Again invention and cunning is the password with the Loser
Matchbox car especially prepared by master street rod builder BL-2,
the loser car is out to beat Barry Batten’s record 20 consecutive

losses. The special high octane chicken fat siphoned from a Red
Rooster garbage bin being the Losers’ secret weapon.. Look out
Busselton the Bat loser Mobile is on it’s way. Allan Rossi BL-1
MORE SUMMERSUN FESTIVAL PHOTOS

Big Al’s Poker Run 2006, #26.
More photos without lyrics from Mobile SpyCam Man.
Gibby/s camera has caught a couple contemporary high class sedans
as well as three samples of
the Nostalgiia fad that is
popular worldwide. The
nature of some back to
basics can help keep the
ceiling on the cost of a hot
rod. 34 Chev sedan on the
left looks like Joe Italiano’s
multi trophy winner from
last years State Title Show.
Missing this run was
another sacrifice I have
made to build the coupe,
which is also 70’s style
nostalgia rod. Again it
started by the river at
Burswood Reserve and

ended at Bassendean OvaI with the normal dancing and entertainment.
Once again in good weather conditions.
I believe this run was another success. It is one of Oz’s best
known runs that receives coverage in the national rod magazines and
has drawn greater than 500-700 cars for many years. . EW.

Nostalgia Drags 2006
Gibby Cam was at the drags to to witness some members
competing. While Nev Anderson was fastest, Neil not only took a few
ant-sized photos, but did best of the WCSRC rods at dragging as well
by being the most consistent in the “dial-your-own-time format”. Neil
came second overall by beating his own time and “breaking out” by
only 0.008 seconds! The ol’ Anchor powered T may not be fastest, but
it is very consistent. It definitely got Bloss inspired about his Why-
Block!

Model A roadster, above, is Gary and Helen King’s debut at the
drags.
Battle of two old 34 coupes. Nev Anderson’s c.1971 and Pete
Simmonds 1981. Lars was fastest rod on the day.
Dave Krause’s V6 powered 34 coupe takes on a roadster

Nostalgia Drags 2006 cont.....
Top,clockwise: Gibby on return road with special headwear
bought from Andy’s Guys Gear; Gibby Vs Barry Batten; a
panorama of rods, Gibby with trophy and another stupid hat!

How do you know you are
flying over Africa?
KABOOOM
BATMAN!
FOR
SALE
Obviously a rodders letter box.
Your turn AB!
Below: Pushing the limit of
engine mods a bit too far
at a tractor pull. It is a 6cyl!
Well I broke a con rod once in the coupe! Ed.(at Quairading 1986,
driven back to Perth by Big Al. Coupe towed back by Bob Mulder.
A little cheap satisfaction for the ford owners.!) Thanks guys.

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