THE
4X4 CLUB – ZIMBABWE
Newsletter
No: 97
January
2013
P O Box HG 594
Highlands Harare Zimbabwe The
Motor Sports Club House, 2 Annan Road,
Eastlea, Harare.
The
Chairman and Editorial Team:
The
4x4 Club is affiliated to the Zimbabwe Motor Sports Federation - ZMSF
Our
Club is a member of the Mashonaland Motor Sport Association Club House,
situated at: 2 Annan Rd. Eastlea. It is
available for hire for weddings, conferences, kid's parties, 21st
birthdays, etc.
News,
comments and opinions expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily those of
the Club or the Committee
THE EDITOR’S
DESK - Michael and Pat Gill
Christmas
is upon us and we wish all our members a Happy Festive Season and may all your
dreams come true in 2013. Drive safely.
Another busy year has flown by, or am I getting old? We have managed 11 Newsletters and we hope
they have kept you up to date with the Club activities.
As
you see this is number 97 and we trust we will hit the 100 about April 2013 if
the world did not come to an end on the 21st Dec. (My birthday –
MG).
Your
Committee has been active and we hope some new names will be involved when we have
the AGM in March. This is always a good
social day out at Donnybrook so calendar it now. See the 2013 diary. It is good to see we are having six events at
our club site at Donnybrook next year, hopefully we will have our own borehole
in place by then and we SHOULD get that lovely stuff – water!
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
It
is that time of the year again when I will be hounding you for your subs. They will remain at $40 per annum but we have
reduced the joining fee to $10. The club
year runs from January to December, so be ready with your cash when you see
me.
A
renewal notice is attached at the end of this newsletter. Please fill it in and note any changes of
status, address or phone numbers.
ZMSF
PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE FOR 2013
My
pet annual push to get your Personal Accident Insurance cover before we start
on competitions next year. We no longer need Competition Licenses for 4x4
events. However you do need the PA
Insurance. Get it for the year and save
all that hassle of filling in forms at every event and save yourself some money. See the correspondence below from Rose
Rushforth, Competitions Manager,
ZMSF. I have the forms and can e-mail
them to you. Pat gill@zol.co.zw
""The Personal Accident
form may be used for either an annual PA insurance @ $20 or a Temporary (Day)
Insurance @ $10 per event. All are on
the same form to make it easier.
We issue a card for Annual PA
Insurance. No card for the Day insurance
Regards Rose Rushforth
ZMSF Phone: Evey 746712 officezmsf@zol.co.zw
""
ZMSF
Office, Motor Sport Club House in Eastlea, is open on Tuesday and Thursday from
10am to 1pm
NEW
MEMBERS:
Sebastian AHRENS: Seb has been the navigator
to Grant Weare on a number occasions and now
the "Bug has Bit". Seb was out
at Donnybrook on Sunday playing with his Jeep.
Welcome to the club, I know we will see a lot more of you now you have
your own toy.
MEMBER'S
NEWS:
This
is more like EX members' news. Two past
members have paid us a visit and it was good to catch up with Frank and Raine URQUHART
as well as Boris and Danielle KOSTRENCIC.
Both families left here more than ten years ago. The Urquhart's to South Africa and now England
and the KOSTRENCIC's to New Zealand.
Welcome back and enjoy your holiday.
TECHNICAL
TIP
We
all have a few old chargers for electrical appliances like torches, etc., and while scratching through these, the other
day, I see that some were written 220v in – 12 (or13.5 V) out. They are what you would use as a trickle
charger. I cut the special plug off, put
two small clamps on, tested to find which was positive and clipped it to my
Land Rover battery. High Presto a new
battery charger. Mark the + with red.
PAST
EVENTS:
Dungbeetle
Challenge – Mutare Nov. 17/18th
We
arrived early on Friday and selected a thatched gazebo near the Smallbridge Dam
for our camp with the Benzons. Sadly the
dam was about 3 m low but the scenery was stunning. BJ and his party were close
behind and then the crowd arrived. 19 entries and Mike Maas started to worry
about how they would cope. They did and
the trials started in good time on Saturday morning. With the low lake water is was inevitable that
we would use the dry lake shore, fine till a car sank to the chassis. No problem, drag it out and change the track!
The
tests made good use of the steep hills and small rocks and tree stumps which
held some people up for a while. Nobody
fell over and only a couple of breakages meant some dirty hands for a while.
A
quick rain storm wet us for about 30 minutes, then the sun came out and the
next 24 hrs the sky was clear. Lucky
because for entertainment there was an "Along the Lake Shore Mud
Run". The first few cars took the
driest looking part and sank. Even the
4WD Tractor had a problem pulling them out.
Somehow Lisbeth Kirk got pass the best only to have Pani Dobropoulos fly
past and head into the trees at the end.
Prize
Giving was the usual noisy affair and after the Mutare Boys winning our Bush
Pig they got well beaten by the Kirk family and Adrian Watt. This meant 5 Cournils at the top. Note that some of the drivers were Kirk
family members out from Denmark on holiday.
Mark
drove my "Alley Cat" V8 Lightweight; we had a lot of fun, except with
the tight corners which caused us to rack up a score the Zimbabwe Cricket team
would have enjoyed.
HUNTIN, SHOOTIN, FISHIN SOCIAL – XMAS
RUN.
After
a cryptic instruction and question sheet took you round parts of Harare that
you never see we had to try our hand at Golf.
This was even worse than the last time I played when on honeymoon. I got the prize for the shortest drive.
Fishing
was out of a boat on a trailer with a magnet on the line, Shooting was with an
air rifle that missed more beer tins than it hit and Huntin was naming pictures
of birds and animals hidden in the garden.
The Attwell's provided a fantastic roast pig and we explored Malcolm's
junk yard with "Future Projects" under the trees. A great day, won by the Thorburn family. Lots of goodies for the SOAP and $475 cash
too. Well done and S.O.A.P. (Save our
Old Age Pensioners) were extremely happy with the results of our fun day.
S.O.A.P.
APPEAL
We
have, however, had a further appeal from Kathy McIntosh of SOAP for
assistance. They are looking after
hundreds of pensioners who are in dire straits and have asked for old clothes
especially men's clothing and shoes, in particular. Some of the men at Braeside OAP Home are
walking barefoot. These can be dropped
off with us or give a ring and we will arrange collection. It would be nice if these poor people can at
least have a pair of shoes for Christmas.
Michael
and Pat Gill Phone: 04.494028
(M) 0778.843.843 (P) 0778.731.288 gill@zol.co.zw
4x4 Club Diary - 2013
These
dates change as the year progresses, but flyers will be sent out before each
event.
JANUARY 27 Trail
Drive Ngomo Kurira
FEBRUARY 17 MUD
FEST Donnybrook
MARCH 24 AGM Donnybrook
MARCH
/APRIL 29-1 EASTER
APRIL 17-21 Expedition Away
MAY 11-12 Bushpig Shamva Road
MAY 17-18 Motor Show
MAY 25 Night
Extreme and Jamboree Launch Donnybrook
JUNE 13-16 Bush Clearing To be Advised
JULY 13-14 Course
Building Donnybrook
AUGUST 3-4 JAMBOREE Donnybrook
AUGUST 12-13 Away
Weekend T.B.A.
SEPTEMBER
15 English
and African Rules Donnybrook
OCTOBER
19–20 3
Hills Chinamora
NOVEMBER 22–24 Dungbeetle
TBA Mutare
DECEMBER 8
Christmas Run Local
A
SPECIALIST IS SOMEONE BROUGHT IN AT THE LAST MINUTE TO SHARE THE BLAME.
DONNYBROOK
To enter Donnybrook Park on
a non-event day it will cost you $2
per car, providing you have you membership card. Non-members will be charged $20 per car. You must sign the book at the gate and put
your name, your Club and membership number.
Do not pay without signing the book.
Please note: If you wish to go to Donnybrook to play and there is
another event on, then the organizing club can charge what they like for you to
enter. They will have hired the entire
complex for that day. Please don’t try and argue with the gate attendant, they
will just be doing their job. Either
pay-up or go away and come back on a free day.
WEB SITE / FACE BOOK
Have
you had a look at our Web Site? Grant
Weare has done a really good job of updating it. Go to:
http://www.4x4.co.zw
Motor Sports Association Club House
MSA Membership: The Club House bar works
on a Swipe Card basis and any member of an affiliated club can join. Pay your $20 Club House subscription and get
your card. Bar prices are double for
non-cardholders.
Hall for Hire -
Hire
our affordable Club facilities for parties, Wedding Receptions, meetings,
seminars, courses and other functions.
Assist us in this way to obtain funds for the Clubhouse.
CLUB FORUM
A forum for the club has been created. Click on the following
It will be linked back to the 4x4 website in due
course but register in the mean time.
Please pass this link on to anyone you think may be interested in
posting on the forum.
YOUR 4X4 COMMITTEE FOR
2012.
CHAIRMAN TIM THORBURN timthorburn.zim@gmail.com 0772.645.518
TREASURER KELVIN WEARE weare@telfordmica.co.zw 0772.326.687
SECRETARY CAROL WEARE theweares@zol.co.zw 0733.400.496
VICE CHAIRMAN MASS
KIRK masslisbeth@gmail.com 0772.261.682
CHF MARSHAL/EVENTS ROGER ELLIS ellisr@barzem.co.zw 0772.219.154
MEMBERSHIP PAT GILL gill@zol.co.zw
0778.731.288
EVENTS / EQUIPMENT GARETH GEACH garethg@sunlite.co.zw
0772.283.524
EVENTS PETER BENZON petebenzon@hotmail.com 0775.009.218
EVENTS JASON YOUNG jason@telfordmica.co.zw 0772.918.878
ENVIRONMENT MUZZA BLACK muzza@zol.co.zw
0772.241.000
NEWSLETTER MICHAEL AND PAT GILL gill@zol.co.zw 0778.843.843
Michael and
Pat GILL
Phone: 04.494028
(M) 0778.843.843 (P) 0778.731.288
Greg Stead and his driver Mohammed Essa at the FIA Annual
Prizegiving in Turkey with Sebastian
Vettel .F1 and Sebastian Loeb Rally
THE
4 x 4 CLUB
P.O. BOX HG 594 HIGHLANDS HARARE ZIMBABWE
2 Annan Road, Eastlea, Harare.
www.4x4.co.zw
Affiliated to the Zimbabwe
Motor Sports Federation
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL - 2013
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Annual
subscription for 2013 is US$40
Our Bank Account Details, if
you wish to do a direct deposit:
The 4x4 Club; NMB Borrowdale Branch;
Branch Code: 11106 Account No: 260066827
Please advise me as soon as
you have paid, or we will not be able to reconcile the account and you will not
get your new Membership Card.
Pat Gill: Membership
Secretary
Phone: 494028 Cell: 0778.731.288
Email: gill@zol.co.zw
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