MAITLAND CLASSIC MOTOR ASSOCIATION
President’s Website Report, December 2024
A big welcome to first-time visitors to our MCMA website and to those who are looking to join a ‘car club’. We welcome everyone with an interest in preserving and driving our motoring heritage on the roads. We especially welcome car drivers and motorcycle riders who wish to join a very social club that has over 80 events each year. If you decide to join the other 260 members of MCMA, I hope that you have a long and satisfying time with us, our vehicles and safe driving on largely country roads.
This is my December Report and the last for 2024 as we gradually ‘wind-down’ to the end of the year. We still have a few more runs and events before we take a brief break over Christmas and New Year. The official events to come include:
1. December 4th, 11th, and 18th Mid-Week (Wednesday) Runs
2. December 14th Summer Christmas Party
3. December 21st Holdens @ Hallinan’s Battery World Display, by invitation only to members with Holdens.
In January we have our usual twilight runs on Wednesdays January 8th, 15th and 22nd. Our Wednesday Mid-Week Runs, with morning tea and lunch, recommence on Wednesday January 29th. We have again been invited to establish a display on Australia Day in Maitland Park. This is an Australian-made theme with members with Australian-made Holdens, Fords and Chryslers invited to display their Australian-made cars. Other club members are most welcome to attend but will need to park outside the display area.
I have endeavoured to take photographs at our most popular official runs and upload albums to our website. There are quite a few new ones available for you to peruse. Members are reminded that they can copy any of these photos for their own respectful use.
The 2025 club calendar with 13 photographs of club cars is available for $13 each. A calendar can be purchased online through BSB: 637000 and Acc: 722593383 by depositing $13 identified with your last name and the word calendar. Alternatively, a calendar can be purchased on any run or event up to the December 15th Christmas Party, with the correct cash ($13).
Our club Christmas Party is on Saturday December 15th at Telarah Bowling Club from 12:00 noon. There are 100 people registered. Registrations MUST be made by TEXT, and CLOSE on Friday morning December 6th at 9:00 am. The party is free for members and $33 for associates and guests. The $33 is to be paid using the above account with the payment identified by your name and the word Christmas.
Work, Health, and Safety is of paramount importance in our club. A focus has been first aid with training, and the purchase of a first aid kit, a defibrillator, and a satellite phone. Recent experience has shown that in the case of an accident or breakdown, we are not as effective as we could be with traffic control and waiting for all participants when it is safe to do so.
A Happy Christmas to all of our members and their friends and families, and especially to our first-time readers. Please take care on our roads and enjoy your historic/classic as often as you can on official club runs/events, or for 60 days each year for ‘personal use’, by making a logbook entry and going wherever you wish.
Kind regards,
Ian Scanlon
MCMA President and Events Co-ordinator.