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Page 1 Western Model A News - August 2020
News Western Model A
Model A Restorers Club of Western Australia, Inc.
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Inside This Issue
Model A Restorers Club of Western Australia, Inc.
Dean Roberts
NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Note from the President 2
Secretary comments 3
Editor Comments 4
Events Coordinator 5
Military Museum Run 7
Coffee Run 10
More MARC Memories 11
Club Historical Item 12
Tip of the Month 13
For Sale 14
Sponsors 15
August 2020 Volume 41, Issue 8
Front Cover: Photos of your editor’s car from 1957. Top: editor’s parents toasting the ascent of Mt Kosciusko, Bottom: being unloaded at Wellington NZ.
I was unable to attend the run held last Sunday
as I had already booked a week down south.
From what Alan Jeffree told me it was a
successful day. Thanks to Brett and Paul for
organizing the day. I should also thank Alan for
covering for me.
On the trip down south, Jenni and I caught up with Busselton
members Wes Hartley and Beverley Biggs who were kind enough to
invite us for dinner at their house. Wes cooks a mean rack of lamb
and the desert prepared by Beverley was divine. A most enjoyable
evening. We stayed in Busselton for 2 nights before heading to
Albany via Bridgetown to complete our 6-night trip away. Between
breakfast at Emu Point and spare ribs on Stirling Terrance, sleep-ins
in the morning and just chilling out, it was great being able to have
a break, at the same time as supporting the South West
Communities.
Whether it’s taking a trip like we just did, catching up with friends
or going to a coffee shop and people-watching, take some time to
go out, have some fun and enjoy yourselves.
Stay safe
See you soon
Dean
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MARCWA (INC.) CLUB CONTACTS ELECTED: APPOINTED: President: Dean Roberts 9295 2588 Editor / Web site: Ian Steer 9457 4968
Vice-President: Alan Jeffree 9275 4106 Printer: Daniel Pinnington 0400 132 445
Secretary: Kathleen Kuenzel 9385 3887 Vehicle Registrar: Kathleen Kuenzel 9385 3887
Treasurer: Anne Steer 9457 4968 Events Coordinator: Ian Paisley 9456 1184
Committee Member: Horace Misko 9256 1895 Regalia Officer: Marilynn Horgan 9447 8237
Committee Member: Ian Steer 9457 4968 Librarian: Dianne Paisley 9456 1184
Committee Member: Marilynn Horgan 9447 8237 Spare Parts Officer: David Bussard 9524 1086
Property Officer: Ray Mahony 9271 7630
Delegate: CMC Toni Mahony 9271 7630
Website: www.modelafordclub.com.au MARC Email: [email protected]
Western Model A News is the official newsletter of the Model A Restorers Club of Western Australia Inc.
Copy deadline 1st of each month to: [email protected] or 7 Gransmoor Way, Willetton WA 6155
VIEWS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MARC of WA Inc.
Kathleen Kuenzel
SECRETARY COMMENTS
You will note in the minutes of the general meeting held on Sunday 26 July, I commented that
although 12 members had resigned following the call for membership renewals towards the end of
2019, we have been fortunate enough to gain 9 new members since that time. I have checked
through past newsletters and realise that many details had not been supplied for this movement in
membership. Two of the resignations were due to the death of spouses and you will have been
notified of those occurrences. For those of you who like to keep your Members’ Directories up to
date, details are as follows:
Resignations: Jefferey Perret, Nam Perret, Maurice Creedy, Frank Lawton, Anne Lawton, Joan
Bathgate, Kaye Gobby, Jahna Trethowan, Beverley James, John Scobie, Elsie Clark, Rosemary Howard.
New Members: (Enter into your directory at page 29. For further details contact the member.) 178 Ray Major – Rockingham, Mob. 0435 616 820, Email: [email protected] Ray has a 1930 Ute. 180 Doug Maslin – Rockingham, Mob. 0455 970 004, Email: [email protected] Doug has a
1929 Phaeton. 181 Not for Publication 182 Not for Publication 183 Kim Seinor – Esperance, Mob.0412 072 642, Email: [email protected] Kim has a 1928
Leatherback. 184 Janette Seinor – Esperance, Mob. 0400 527 557, Email: [email protected] 185 Rob Lazenby – Herne Hill, Mob. 0427 907 215, Email: [email protected] Rob is restoring a
1931 Closed Cab Pickup. 186 Denise Liesch – Herne Hill, Mob. 0427 907 214, Email: [email protected] 187 Alan Lewis – Lakelands, Mob. 0474 065 474, Email: [email protected] Alan is looking to
return to Model A ownership.
Did you previously enter: 177 Lorenz Kurys-Romer – Wilyabrup, Mob. 0424 704 723, Email: [email protected] Lorenz has
a 1930 Sports Coupe under reconstruction.
Kathleen
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Ian Steer
EDITOR COMMENTS
Potentially interesting items out there on the web
Early WA car registration database
The Carnamah Historical Society has been doing some great work transcribing early WA vehicle
registrations into a searchable, on-line database. The index contains 96,429 entries and covers
motor vehicles registered in WA for the years 1915 through 1927-28. It covers cars and trucks for
each year and also motorcycles for earlier years.
https://www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations
Model A dirt track racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-4hkDO_eEI
Model A “Push Ball”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPmTx5k0JSE and
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=10157679124584199&_rdr
Model T dirt track racing (skip the 1st few minutes and turn the sound off):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP0oinlpws
Model T & Pig racing (yep, no typo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-da5z9jp_mc
Triggered by the club’s 40th anniversary celebrations, last month the newsletter featured some
photos from the club in the 1980s. My enthusiastic (caretaker) sub-editor has compiled another
page this month with photos from the early 1990s (and will probably continue for a few months).
If any of the longer-term members have any other photos from the early days of the club and can
send them to me as a reasonably high quality scanned image (eg at least a few hundred kbytes), I
can incorporate them in similar pages in the future. I would be looking for photos that clearly show
the faces of club members - and preferably with cars.
- and more club history on p12
August Birthdays
Michael Bell Peter Eardley Ross Letch
Coral Blewett Peter Forbes Faye Lynch
Pat Bussard Elisia Fowler Doug Maslin
John Cook Jason Fowler Helen Moorehead
Colin Davidson Coral Hall Brett Pollock
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Ian Paisley
EVENTS COORDINATOR
August Event: Mt Augustus run
Date: Monday 17th August
Time: 8:30am
Where: Gingers Roadhouse, Gt Northern Hwy, Upper Swan
Details: 13 day run. Mingenew, Murchison, Gascoyne Jn, Mt Augustus, Meekatharra, Mt Magnet,
Sandstone, Leinster, Leonora, Lake Ballard, Kalgoorlie, Merredin. Staying in caravan parks with
cabins, camp kitchens and all facilities.
Organisers: Wayne Millman & Alan Jeffree
Event: Club Run & meeting
Date: Sunday 23rd August
Time: 9:00-9:15 for a 9:30 departure
Where: Centrepoint Midland Shopping Centre car park (Muzz Buzz Coffee)
Details: Travelling to York. 30 Minute tea / comfort stop at the Lakes BP Road house. Proceed on to York for meeting and lunch in the park below the town. Organiser: Peter Sartori, 0419 220 198
September Event: Club run & meeting - Organiser Needed
Event: York Motor Show
Date: Sunday 13th September
Location: Pioneer Village car park, Armadale
Organisers: York Branch - Veteran Car Club of WA
Details: Enquiries to Gayle Byfield ph: 0414 885 338 or [email protected]
October
Event: Annual General Meeting
Date: Sunday 11th October
Location: VCC club rooms, 265 Hale Rd, Forrestfield
Details: To be advised in later newsletters.
Event: Hubley racing
Date: To be advised
Location: Jeffree’s house
Details: To be advised in later newsletters.
Organiser: Alan Jeffree
Event: Invitation from the VCC Collie Branch to join their 6-day run to Jurien Bay & Koorda
Date: 14th to 19th October
Details: See proposed trip plan on next page
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Ian Paisley
EVENTS COORDINATOR (CONT)
November Event: Club run & meeting - Organiser Needed
March 2021 Event: National Meet
Date: March 21-28 2021
Location: Ballarat, Victoria
Details: https://www.modelafordclub.org/
Organiser: Model A Ford Club of Victoria
Event: NZ National Model A Ford Rally
Date: March 28 - April 4 2021
Location: Gisborne, NZ
Details: [email protected]
The VCC Collie Branch (through MARC WA member Wayne Millman) has invited MARC WA
members to join them on their proposed 6 day run to Jurien Bay & Koorda from 14th to 19th
Oct.
Day 1: Collie to Whiteman Park Museum, 226km, overnight in West Swan area.
Day 2: West Swan to Jurien Bay, 235km, largest Vincent motorcycle collection in the world.
Have spoken to the owner and will open it for us. 2 nights in Jurien Bay
Day 4: Jurien Bay to Koorda. Koorda has the last operating Drive-in in W.A. Koorda CRC
operate the Drive-in and will show movies on the Saturday evening for us. Overnight in Koorda.
Day 5: Koorda to Bailup Ford Motor Museum then onto Midland overnight.
Day 6: VCC Clubrooms then back home to Collie.
lf members don't wish to do all of the run they can join up at any stage and depart when they
choose.
Will require numbers to book accommodation in advance (looking at caravan parks with onsite
cabins). Numbers are needed by the end of July.
Please contact Wayne Millman (0408 477 472) if you are interested.
VCC COLLIE BRANCH 6-DAY RUN
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Anne Steer
JULY MURRAY MILITARY MUSEUM RUN
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What a beautiful day, and what a great location Brett Pollock and Paul Kelly chose for the July Run on
Sunday 26th July.
A very good crowd of members had assembled at Pioneer Village Carpark in Armadale by 9.30. There
were only about 7 Model A’s, with many members for various reasons, coming along in their modern
cars. Brett arrived in Glad, towing his newly-
completed teardrop caravan. There was some
conjecture whether Brett had brought the caravan
in order to show off the great workmanship, or
whether he had brought it as a contingency plan in
case Glad broke down! As it turned out, neither of
the 2 cars which broke down during the day,
belonged to Brett!
We bid farewell to Reg and Coral, who had come
to Armadale just to say ‘hello’ and headed down
South West Highway to North Dandalup. From there, we turned left up Del Park Road and through
the forest until we reached Dwellingup. At Dwellingup, we descended the scarp, meandering
through lush farmland until we once again joined South West Highway near the Coolup turn-off.
It was great to have Des join us from Leschenault, and Wayne
had travelled up from Collie. As we all gathered at the turn-off
news came through that Troy had broken down further north
with a broken distributor rotor cap. Ian S. had a spare cap, so
Gary volunteered to take the cap back up the highway in his
modern, to Troy. Once we had all reassembled, the convoy
completed the last few kilometres to our destination. Driving
through more beautiful green farmland, past the old Brownes
dairy and a few water-soaked paddocks, we duly arrived at
Craig Grantham’s farm.
Craig had very kindly offered his farm for our meet. On the
farm is his Murray Military Museum which is a fantastic, privately owned collection of over 30
military vehicles and war memorabilia.
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Anne Steer
JULY MILITARY MUSEUM RUN (CONT)
As the club members inspected the contents of the museum, we were all in awe of the time and
commitment that must have gone into collecting and organising such an amazing collection of
military history.
With Big Boss Dean having a well-deserved break down
in Albany, 2IC Boss Alan then ran our meeting as we all
basked in the beautiful winter’s sunlight. Lunch
followed and members slowly started heading home, and to watch the football.
Luckily not everyone had gone home. As Ian S. went to start his Coupe, the starter motor spun, but
didn’t engage. More tries - nothing. More than one person suggested that we could just get Craig to
make a bit more room in his Museum and roll Ian’s car back to become the newest addition! But no,
out came the crank handle. Nothing. Hmm, final resort was a push-start. The Model A spluttered
into life and Ian and I headed home, hoping that we could make it. We decided that perhaps we
didn’t really need to stop at a petrol station and fill up with fuel!
We got home with no further issues. A quick starter motor extraction revealed the problem to be a
broken Bendix spring.
So ended a wonderful day. May thanks to Brett and Paul for organising the run. Many thanks to
Craig Grantham for his hospitality in allowing us to visit his farm and share his private museum.
If this was a scene from Ultra Lube in
Midland, would that be our president
in the white coat on the left ?
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ANNOUNCING THE DELUXE ROADSTER
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Ian Steer
JULY COFFEE RUN
Alan & Edith organised a coffee run to Mid-Century Café & Collectibles in Yokine on Wednesday July
22nd. The weather was very kind, and 23 people turned-up, including a handful of Model A’s. The
venue was a very interesting place with little areas decorated as various rooms in a 1950s Australian
house.
MEMBER’S CAR STORIES
Read the story behind Darlene Mallett’s 1929 Flare Side Light Delivery ute:
http://modelafordclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/memberscars/Darlene-Mallett.pdf
Page 11 Western Model A News - August 2020
MORE MARCWA MEMORIES
The 10th Anniversary Run 1991
The 10th Anniversary Run 1991
Reg Blewett - Busselton 1990 Colin Davidson - Leeman 1991
All Ford Day 1991
Page 12 Western Model A News - August 2020
THE THINGS THAT CAN WEAR !
New member Doug Maslin spotted this issue on his car recently - be on the lookout!
from the Western Model A News, June 1985
ANOTHER PIECE OF CLUB HISTORY
Page 13 Western Model A News - August 2020
Jim Cannon, former MAFCA Technical Director
TIP OF THE MONTH
Many of us like to install a fuse on our Model A to prevent a small electrical problem from becoming
an even bigger one. You’ve all seen them, the little fuse holder that mounts to the side of the starter
switch, holds a little glass fuse, and connects to the solid yellow wire. A great idea, but it has a few
weaknesses. First, an open fuse holder like this will eventually corrode as it is exposed to the
elements. Oil mist and road grime will collect in it and give you a bad connection. Vibration from the
engine will loosen up the little metal clips that the fuse snaps down into. With time, this little fuse
holder becomes a trouble spot in your electrical system. I’ve seen it several times on tours.
It is possible to purchase a moulded fuse holder with a waterproof cover
that snaps securely over the fuse (see photo). It uses a blade-type fuse
that can be obtained in any amp rating you need. They work on 6 volt or
12 volt cars. You splice it in to the wiring harness and solder the
connections (not just crimp them on). Cover with woven loom to hide
everything except the fuse itself and it disappears (mostly).
Much better.
I’m often asked where to put the fuse. If you only put it on the solid yellow wire at the starter switch,
if it ever blows while driving, your engine will die right there. This might be at a very bad time to have
no power, when you really need your engine running. It could be dangerous. Most shorts that would
cause a fuse to blow are in the lights or the horn. I recommend putting fuses in the two solid yellow
wires coming off the generator (alternator) that go to the headlight switch and the horn. If one of
these fuses blows, you won’t have lights or a horn, but your engine will still run. Figure out how much
current your lights draw and put a fuse about 25% bigger than that on that wire. The same with the
horn wire. If you accidentally use too small a fuse, it will blow and you replace it with one of a slightly
higher amp rating.
Once you have installed these two fuses, then you add a third fuse to the yellow wire coming off the
starter switch. Use a fuse amperage here that is a bit bigger than the ones you used for the lights and
horn. This becomes your protection against a really big problem in all of the wires besides lights and
horn (like ammeter and associated wires). This fuse should not blow if you have a short in the lights or
horn, so the engine will keep running and you can limp home (without horn or stoplights - be careful).
But if you have a major short, one capable of starting a fire, the 3rd fuse will blow and save your car.
This is one of my more complicated Tech Tips. I hope it helps your car stay safe and reliable. I’m
always open to feedback.
Have a Model A Day!
Jim
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FOR SALE
1929 Phaeton - $8,500 ono • Reasonably complete • Original mechanicals • Only rust is in one back door (rest is rust free) • All panels very repairable Contact: Andrew Gower, email: [email protected], phone: 0408 448 180,
1931 Deluxe
Roadster
• Done approximately 1000
miles on recon engine.
• 4 new Firestone
whitewalls on blasted and
painted wheels.
• New battery.
• All good, runs well.
$40,000
Barrie Byers
0409 298 225
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FOR SALE
1928 Phaeton Alan Porter is selling his Model A. Everyone knows it as Benny’s car, as he refurbished it. The only car that club has full history. It has new tyres all round incl spare, new battery and cooling system done up recently. A RHD Canadian import sold in Northam to an accountant. ph: 0458 806 807
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Radiator Crank hole cover with rivet (New) $2.00
1 Radius ball cap sets complete with bolts (Uses
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Complete set of used gear box gears Including
cluster $180.00
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Page 16 Western Model A News - August 2020
VETERAN, VINTAGE, CLASSIC LUBRICANTS & ELECTRICAL
Halogen Bulbs 6v & 12v Tungsten Bulbs 6v & 12v Indicator Stalks
Flasher cans 6v & 12v Tail lights Indicator Lights (over 30 different types) Fuel Pumps 6v & 12v Wiper Motors 6v & 12v Wiper Blades
Cables (Cotton Covered, Metal Covered, PVC)
High Tension Cable (Cotton Covered, Black PVC)
Spark Plugs 19” and 21” Model A Tyres Tubes Rust bands
and All Things Vintage
Bob Beames 6 Rio Street, Bayswater WA 6053
Mob: 0419 276 411 Ph: 9272 6411 Fax: 9370 1506
Email: [email protected] www.vvclubeelect.com.au
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MODEL T & A
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129 Balance Road
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VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Ph (03) 5368 1088
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