However, the current edition of the informative WA Motorkhana will also be available from this page, in PDF format. Just click here to find out the latest on the active WA motorkhana scene. Thanks Dave, for providing the service - does any other State do anything similar?

For the moment, just time to notify a correction to the calendar. This week's final VMC round will be held at Werribee, not Carrum as previously shown. Call Leonie Wuillemin on (03) 9886 8528 or Duncan Sides (0407) 26 1105 for full details.

NEW TEST BOOKLET

Literally years in the making(!), the new CAMS Motorkhana Test Booklet in now at the printers, and should be available through CAMS Offices early in June.

Existing test diagrams have been revised and redrawn, and many new tests added. A comprehensive Guide for Organisers is also included, which will help in running events at all levels.

The new 72 page booklet is expected to cost around $5.00, so contact CAMS now to pre-order a copy!

• 1989 Robneil "Mini Special"

  Rolling chassis, includes numerous wheels, seat, fuel tank, gauges, suspension (adjustable high-lows at front and KYB at back). Vehicle finished 1998 as second in class and seventh outright in Victorian Motorkhana Championship and 14th o/r in Australian Motorkhana Championship. Very competitive vehicle which can be used for other motorsport events (has competed in hill-climbs and sprints). Only needs mini motor/gearbox/diff and cv's to complete. Selling to finance new vehicle - suggesting $800 plus other component requirements.

• 1974 Toyota Corolla
  

  1500 motor with fuel injection (120 bhp) roll-cage, SAAS seat and s/wheel, 14" mags, modified suspension. This car is in club-car format (with CAMS logbook) and has been used for motorkhana's, hill-climbs and sprints. A lot of fun to drive. Vehicle is road-worthy (currently on Victorian Club Plates) and could be fully street registered. $4500 neg.

  Phone Duncan Sides on 0407 26 1105 or email here.

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  FOR SALE !

• Mini Special Motorkhana Car. (ex Ron & Donna Thompson - Huntingdale Radiators)

  Engine # MOWOG, Dark Green, Full race Motor, in excellent condition. Very competitive . Includes trailer (E231665) & complete set of wheels and tyres for all surfaces. $3500. Phone Ken on 03 9850 6494 .

DRIVERS WANTED !

In conjunction with the CAMS stand at the Melbourne International Motor Show, a demonstration of motorkhana skills will be staged at the show on Saturday, February 27, Sunday, February 28 and Saturday, March 6.

Due to the clash with the first round of the VMC, we urgently need some more drivers for this display, especially for the first weekend. If you have a presentable car (for public display) and can help out, please contact Campbell Andrea at the CAMS office on (03) 9593 7777 or by email, immediately.

WA EVENTS

The West Australian event dates have now been sorted out, and thanks to an email from Dave Elliott now complete the Calendar as far as State title events are concerned.

For '99, the WA Championship will be decided on the driver's best four rounds, that is one round may be dropped. All clubs are invited to use the State rounds as part of their Club Championship, and there is a reduced entry fee for those competitors.

For more details of events in Western Australia, contact Sue or Dave Elliott on (08)9319 8410 or by email.

EVENT CANCELLED !
The Victorian WERRIBEE CHALLENGE Event, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 14, will not go ahead on that date, due to flooding at the venue. Further details about a possible re-scheduling will be posted later, or you could call David Batcheler on 0418 568 213 for more info.

• The national calendar is now almost complete, with South Australian dates now listed on the Calendar. Western Australia is the only state missing now, so please email John Rosengrave (or 'phone 03 9758 5552) if you can help fill in the missing link!

• The aim of this Web site is to provide a one-stop refererence point for all motorkhana enthusiasts, no matter where they are. Therefore it is an ideal place in which to advertise a motorkhana car for sale (or wanted), and we are pleased to now have our first advertisement, a service we are happy to provide for free! If the idea catches on, we may look at creating a special Classifieds page, but, for the moment, they'll just be listed on the News page. When a photo is available, a link to the Photos page will be included.
  FOR SALE
  Mini Special Motorkhana Car. Fresh MOWOG Dark Green paint, Full race Motor, in excellent condition. Very competitive (ex Ron & Donna Thompson - Huntingdale Radiators). Includes trailer & complete set of wheels and tyres for all surfaces. $3500. Phone Ken on 03 9850 6494 .

• A few (more) revisions to the Queensland dates listed on our Calendar. Phone contact for Sunshine State events can also be made via Scott Doyle's mobile number (0411) 124 808, which can be especially handy if you need to check details on the day of an event. Email contact is still to Rod Biggar.

• A West Australian event at Bunbury on February 27 has been picked up from Auto Action, but otherwise there is no info on events in that state or South Australia - please email John Rosengrave if you can help!

• A few revisions to the Queensland dates listed on our Calendar. Note the phone contact for Sunshine State events is Scott Doyle (07) 3376 0637, but email contact is to Rod Biggar.

• Where are the South Australian & West Australian event dates?

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• Motorkhana enthusiasts in Queensland will have plenty of action in 1999, as our latest Calendar update shows. Thanks to Rod Biggar for supplying the info. Holden Sporting Car Club will be busy organising most of the rounds, but some events may be taken up by other Clubs during the year. Stay tuned to these pages for details.

• The 1999 Calendar is now looking pretty good, with only South & West Australian dates required to complete the picture, along with any from N.Z. or other international destinations. (any news from Tokyo, W.G.?). If any readers know of dates in these (or other locations) just email John Rosengrave and we'll take care of the rest.

  I'm still in need of PHOTOS from states other than Victoria, especially some of 1998 State championship winners. Images scanned and saved as .jpg or .gif files at about 75 - 150 dpi are fine to send by email, but if you don't have access to a scanner, contact me on (03) 9758 5552 for a mail address or email and I will scan your photos and return them to you safely.

• Peter Deck (see TASSIE ACTION below) has issued a Newsletter with info on the Tasmanian Cup Series, so (with Peter's consent) we'll publish it here for the interest of all motorkhana enthusiasts and especially for the benefit of any travelling Tasmanians.

  1999 TASMANIAN MOTORKHANA CUP SERIES

  As many of you have heard, instead of the single event Motorkhana Cup that has been run since about 1984 (I think), very successfully by the MGCC, a 3 round series has been organised for 1999. Conditions for the Cup have been formulated and we will run under these for 1999 and see how they go. If they need changing for the following year I would welcome any feedback.

  My idea of having a 3 round series is to try and foster, develop and encourage this branch of motorsport for the Tassie club level competitors because rallys, circuit racing and other higher levels of our sport seem to be getting too costly and entries are declining.

  When I came here from the north island 21 years ago, I came from a scene where state rounds drew between 50 and 100 competitors. I was somewhat disappointed to see the scene here so quiet. With the necessity of making a living in a new occupation being predominant, the Mini Special did not get cranked into life for about 12 years. However, over the last 4 or 5 years I have been getting around to a few events and enjoying the sport. There has been quite a bit of enthusiasm from other competitors, particularly in the MG Car Club, and I thought the time might be right to get a State Series up and running.
  

  The idea of having so many classes is to give the rear wheel drivers a bit more of a go. There`s no prizemoney (or sheep stations) being awarded except for the perpetual trophy for outright first (this seems to have Chris Ellis`s name just about permanently engraved on it!).To get prizemoney would require sponsors or a levy on the entry fees. The philosophy of this branch of our sport is to run whatcha brung and have fun. Wives, girlfriends, etc. as well as children (12 years and over) can have a go as well.

  The first round will be run by the NWCC on April 17 at Wynyard Airport. This is also part of their Black Tack Series which has in previous years drawn around 30 local entries. You wont have to duck the planes as they use the other runway. The surface is good quality hot mix.

  The second round will be run by the LCCT at Georgetown, in either the Comalco or the Temco car park according to club spokesman Kim Taylor. The surface again will be good hot mix. The date for this is June 20. The final round is run by the previous Cup organisers, the MGCC at their Kellyfield venue near Richmond, on dirt. The date is November 21.

  On October 11,this year, I had the privilege of going to the Australian Motorkhana Championships at Perth WA. I had not been to an AMC for 21 years so it was interesting to visit the scene again. The specials have not changed much, all were still Mini engined. They were being driven harder and with more skill, but the big change was in tyres and wheels. Top competitors were spending around $2000 on sticky racing tyres and 8 or 9 inch wide alloy rims. These were so effective that the back tyres were getting about 30 cm off the ground when stopping in the finish garage. There were 116 entries of which only 11 were from interstate. Such is the tyranny of distance. David Beames from SA won his fifth title by .8 secs from Alan McConnell from Qld. after a day long seesawing battle among the top four in the twelve tests with flag penalties influencing the outcome. Beames got +5 secs and McConnell got +15 secs for hitting flags. 27 entries were in specials (some cars were double or triple entered).

  The following day the National Motorkhana Panel met and I was there as your Tasmanian rep. The main decision taken was that from the beginning of 1999 it will be compulsory that the drivers of specials wear a CAMS approved crash helmet. It is also recommended that drivers of open production cars wear one as well. A new test booklet should be out soon with computer rendered diagrams and some new tests. It will also be available on floppy so that organisers can print test diagrams in their programs more easily. Considerable discussion arose over the definition of “significantly lightened” in moving production cars into the specials class. No agreement was reached among states so it has been left up to each state to apply their own interpretation. The allocation of the 2003 AMC was discussed, with the possibility that it may be awarded to Tasmania should there be enough interest shown by an organiser and by one or more Tas competitors travelling to compete in the closer AMC events before then.

  That`s about all for this newsletter, so it would be great to see a whole heap of competitors at Wynyard on April 17 and then for the rest of the series. If you have any comments, complaints, questions, news, or feedback you can get me at home on 64363233 ph/fax or email pedeck@southcom.com.au otherwise I`ll see you around the paddocks.

  Peter Deck

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• Yes, we now have events listed for Tasmania. Anyone from the big island holidaying in the Apple Isle might like to check out the scene in Tassie, especially as a National Championship event there is a possibility in 2003 - just four years away!

  Peter Deck, who punted a Mini Special in ACT and NSW two decades ago, is largely responsible for getting a three round Tasmanian Motorkhana Cup going for 1999, and may be contacted for more details about this new series.

• The New Year brings with it a new look for the MOTORKHANA WORLD Wide Web, as I gradually increase my HTML skills. The new logo will be progressively introduced to all pages as they are updated. For those interested, most of the MOTORKHANA WORLD Wide Web is written using Web Edit, a shareware HTML Editor, and is usually tested using Netscape 4.0 or higher. I have just noticed some pages don't display as intended using Internet Explorer (especially the Calendar page, which I have now fixed. If any other pages are displaying incorrectly please email me, John Rosengrave and I'll do my best to fix them (and hopefully learn a bit more in the process!).

• For a report on NSW Round 8 (HSCCN - Nirimba), check out AA Issue #820, on sale January 7.
  Auto Action - the only national magazine with regular motorkhana coverage.

• Victorian enthusiast, Mike Fitzgerald, has spent much time developing and refining a SCORING PROGRAM for use by Motorkhana organisers. The program has already been used for Victorian & Australian Championship Events and a variety of club events over the last few years. To enable wider use of the program, Mike has now opened a web site at http://www.netspace.net.au/~fitzmfa, from which the program can be freely downloaded. This site is now added to the LINKS page.

  The program will score all types of events, allocating car numbers, then sorting results in outright and/or class or handicap order, as well as scoring teams. A word of warning, though - there is a learning curve involved, and it is not recommended to use the program on an event without first reading the manual supplied and then trying a dummy run on some previous event results.

SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL MOTORKHANA ENTHUSIASTS !
• Apologies for the lack of updates over the last few weeks - the old story of too much to do and too little time ...! I hope to do better in '99 (look for the next update about Jan 4th) and would love to get some photos and news from every state (and overseas), so please drop me a line by email.

• The 1999 Calendar has started to take shape with NSW an Victorian listings so far. If you don't live in either of those states, and have a list of event dates, you know where to send it!.

• Seasons Greetings to all Motorkhana Enthusiasts - and a big thank you for your support over the last two seasons - especially to those who have sent emails and updates for our web site. Since starting in May 1997, almost 5000 visits have been recorded, so hopefully the site is achieving the aim of keeping motorkhana enthusiasts in touch, no matter where in the world they may be.

• More photos from the Perth Australian Championship event.

• Results summary of the final round of the VMC at Ballarat.

• Full AMC Results from the AMC in Perth have now been posted - many thanks to Dave Elliott for sending the files.

• Details have now been added on the forthcoming final rounds in Victoria of both the State Championship series and the Group Five Series.

• What an Event! - the North City Holden 1998 AMC event in Perth.

• After 12 tests, the Championship was decided on the final test (the Hopkirk, naturally) just as the rain came!

• Summary of results is now available, and plenty of photos will be posted during this weekend.

• Congratulations to the organising team for handling a record field of 116 competitors so well, and for making the whole weekend so enjoyable.

• WOW!

  116 Entries for the 1998 AMC event in Perth.

• Supported by Perth Holden dealers, North City Holden , it's sure to be a great event, with winners of the last eleven AMCs competing.

• Click HERE for more details on this weekend's action.
  AUTO ACTION

  For report & photos from Queensland Round 6 (Coomera) see Auto Action Issue #808, on sale October 9.

  Auto Action - the only national magazine with regular motorkhana coverage.

• Entries for the 1998 Australian Championship event in Perth, WA are about to close.

  Supported by Perth Holden dealers, North City Holden , it's sure to be a great event, with winners of the last ten AMCs expected to compete.

  Supp. Regs. are available from CAMS State Offices, or send an email to Sue & Dave Elliott.

• Results have been added for Rounds 3 & 4 of the West Australian SMC, and for Round 8 of the Victorian Championship series.

• Point scores have been added for West. Aust., and updated for Vic. and NSW.
  AUTO ACTION

  For report & photos from Victorian Round 7 (Bendigo) see Auto Action Issue #807, on sale September 25.

  Check out Issue #806 (September 19) for report & photos from QMC Round 5 (Hervey Bay) whilst NSW Round 6 at Nirimba was covered in Issue #803 (August 28).

  Auto Action continues to be the only national magazine with regular motorkhana coverage.

• Full details and Regulations for the 1998 Australian Championship event in Perth, WA are now available.

• A change in venue for Round 7 of the Victorian Championship series.

The intention lately (though it is not always achievable) is to have a different photo on the "cover" page each time an update takes place. This may not always happen over the next few weeks, as I'd like to keep the AMC logo to promote that event.

Some people don't always get the latest update (perhaps due to the configuration of their browser 'cache'). The most accurate indication of an update is the date shown beneath the visitor counter - this reloads each time the index page is loaded.

Apologies for last week's cover photo, but its not every week your daughter turns 21!

Thanks to everyone who has sent in photos recently. Unfortunately, I have not yet had the time to add many of them (or even acknowledge them), but this will be rectified over the next week or so. Thanks again - watch this space!

• Photos from Nirrimba (NSW) and more photos from Somerton (Vic.)

• Coming events updated, with this Sunday's Group 5 round at Avalon (Vic.) and the next VMC round at Bendigo (Vic.)

Issue #800, on sale August 7, has reports & photos from NSW Round 5 (Awaba) and Victorian Round 5 (Somerton).

This week's update continues, and now includes the following:

• VMS Round 6 Results from Somerton (now in outright place order).

• Photos from Somerton

• Coming events updated, with this Sunday's Group 5 round at Avalon (Vic.) and the next VMC round at Bendigo (Vic.)

Australian Auto Action is the only national motorsport magazine to regularly cover motorkhanas. To return their support, in future we will highlight the latest motorkhana report to be published.

This week's issue, # 798, has a full report and photos on Round 4 of the Queensland Motorkhana Series, so why not buy a copy and turn straight to page 34? This issue went on sale on July 31.

Friday July 24, 1998

Included in this latest (mini) update are the following:

• The Queensland calendar has been added and revised in one go.

• Illusion Motor Sport added to links page.

• Some details on this Sunday's VMC round.

More info should be added over the weekend, which will hopefully bring most pages up-to-date.

Sunday July 12, 1998

Included in this latest update are the following:

• Many additions and revisions to the calendar - changes are marked in red.

• Some more photos, including our most requested photo to date (ie one!) of Victorian director, competitor and all round good guy ... (see for yourself).

• More results, from WA, NSW and Vic.

Sunday July 5, 1998

Having done that, then just send your file(s) as an email to johnros@melbpc.org.au

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