50th anniversary - 12 March 2018

julieandtom · Post by **julieandtom** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:02 am

Isuzu Car Club of Australia (formerly Bellett Car Club of NSW & Bellett-Gemini Car Club of NSW) will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a Show n Shine & reunion on Sunday 11 March 2018.

Linnwood House, 25 Byron Road, Guildford 11am - 3pm - see flyer

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More information will follow. If you need a place to stay, please contact me and we will find you a bed. Breakfast too!

Stickman · Post by **Stickman** » Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:08 am

Penciled in and keen to come.

Mr Orphanage, Mrs Lizzie, Coona Dad and Coona Mum, Dave mate ay, Rassle and of course my favorite Potters on the planet

ROAD TRIP!!!

julieandtom · Post by **julieandtom** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:48 am

That sounds great, Stickman!

julieandtom · Post by **julieandtom** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:56 am

Just to be clear. FREE entry to the grounds at Linnwood House, 25 Byron Road, Guildford, NSW. BYO picnic or enjoy BBQ and drinks courtesy "Friends of Linnwood". Inspect the historic House for just $3 and inside you will find excellent historic displays, some quality craftspeople and a wonderful morning/afternoon tea. Other car clubs will be on display in the expansive grounds. You can check out Linnwood House here: www.linnwood.org.au

Wet weather will be NO PROBLEM because we will be able to sit on the House verandah or just use the tea room.

So....No "booking" required, but RSVP to Julie would be terrific. 0414 094 567 [email protected] or leave a reply here. We are already hearing of members old and new making flight bookings!

Other activities will be planned for the weekend when we get an idea of who and how many are coming from far away.

Getting excited.

Stickman · Post by **Stickman** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 9:50 am

Donkey and I have made it to Sydney safe and sound "sort of" (Donkey is only running on 3 cylinders) and very much looking forward to tomorrows catch up with friends and family

Farmer · Post by **Farmer** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:13 pm

Well, life is busy. Way busy, but sometimes you get up in the morning and think, "You know what? I'm just gunna get in and go!"
It was only a 4 hour drive (each way) so why not? What and who did I find?

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Donkey!

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And Stickman! And Chloe and Graham! With their pristine teardrop. I call this shot 'before and after'.

But I need sleep now. It was a very nice day.

Matt

1968GT · Post by **1968GT** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:48 pm

Thank you Matty for your contribution, WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY WITH FELLOW ENTHUSIASTS AND GREAT CARS!!!
We end up with 41 cars and over 90 great people.
Fletch of Classic Restos fame came along, arrived early and simply stayed all day filming and Interviewing owners of the cars. Feed back from Fletch said he had a great day and was very impressed with our group of members/enthusiasts.
Some of our members turned up, who we had not seen for over 20 years, the support from our enthusiasts/ex members was simply mind blowing.
The first time in 50 years we had all 5 of our Life Members together at the one location.

Many pictures taken during the day, the day was capped off by the Presentation by Cornelius Ionescu from IUA with a piece sent from ISUZU Japan to the Club Celebrate our Clubs 50 year since Inception, Cornelius stayed all day and talked with everyone, with Cornelius was Grant Reynolds, NSW Regional Manager for IUA who was very interested in the history behind the cars.

It was certainly a day those that attended will remember for a long time.
Thank you to all those members that travelled so far to be there on the day!

A very big Thank you again, to Julie and her Team of ladies who set the photo boards and organized the shirts and free gifts to those that attended.
More photos to come!!
Dave M.

1968GT · Post by **1968GT** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:44 pm

There is reasons behind the item presented by IUA, the writing on each side has a response and the eye filled is a congratulations in reaching the 50 years, the other eye is for the Committee to decide something like a target of 100 cars, or the next 10 years, enables the Members and Committee to set another target.
The left eye was filled in by Cornelius Ionescu from IUA Brisbane.

GerryBellettGT · Post by **GerryBellettGT** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:26 pm

LOOKS LIKE A GREAT DAY WAS HAD BY ALL,LOVE THE PHOTO'S FOR THOSE OF US THAT COULD'NT MAKE IT,GT WITH HUB CAPS DEFINITELY A CALENDAR SPOT,BLOKE CHANGING NUMBER PLATES ON THE DMAX LOOKS A BIT DODGY,BUT MY PICK HAS TO BE THE PAINTING OF DONKEY,WHO DID THAT STICKY,AND HOPE YOU MADE IT BACK OK,GERRY

1968GT · Post by **1968GT** » Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:39 am

Not dodgy really Gerry, Warren replaced the number plate with a D Max plate, don't know where he got that however!!

It was a great day Gerry, more of our original members back almost the 50 years turned up to enjoy the day, we missed Lewis though!!

Stickman · Post by **Stickman** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:29 am

GerryBellettGT wrote: LOOKS LIKE A GREAT DAY WAS HAD BY ALL,LOVE THE PHOTO'S FOR THOSE OF US THAT COULD'NT MAKE IT,GT WITH HUB CAPS DEFINITELY A CALENDAR SPOT,BLOKE CHANGING NUMBER PLATES ON THE DMAX LOOKS A BIT DODGY,BUT MY PICK HAS TO BE THE PAINTING OF DONKEY,WHO DID THAT STICKY,AND HOPE YOU MADE IT BACK OK,GERRY

Yeah mate made it back home ok

Donkey was painted by a relative of mine (the brother of my mum's brother inlaw) Eddie Ashenden
He does Auto Trim (graphics and signs) but he also does commission paintings for anyone, be it of their cars, pet portraits, houses, holiday happy snaps and just about anything else too.

His website is www.autotrimdesign.com.au
or on Facebook - Eddy Ashenden Artist

BULLITT · Post by **BULLITT** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:43 am

sticky that drawing of donkey is brilliance .....................love it

Post by **dave** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 12:12 pm

Great stuff!

bambam72 · Post by **bambam72** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:52 pm

Looks like the episode of Classic Restos is out from the 50th Anniversary gathering in Sydney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Hc-o9npX4

Just about to watch it now !!

Graham

1968GT · Post by **1968GT** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 11:09 am

Good upon you Graham, have had a look and it has come up well, thank you for the heads up!
Have you fixed that exhaust?
Dave.

GerryBellettGT · Post by **GerryBellettGT** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:07 am

Classic Restos,a must watch for any Bellett enthusiast,what a great score,28min with Fletch could have only been better with another 2min with Donkey and Sticky,Gerry

Stickman · Post by **Stickman** » Sat May 05, 2018 4:41 am

Donkey got his share of attention
He will likely pop up in the DMax magazine again some time soon

Post by **PR91** » Sun May 06, 2018 1:18 am

Good to see my ole mate Fletch has changed his tune....

Stickman · Post by **Stickman** » Wed May 09, 2018 4:29 am

I know a little time has passed but I have no internet signal where I live so posting any of my pics has been impossible.
A massive THANK YOU again for the huge effort that went into organizing and hosting such a fabulous day. Wish I could have stayed longer but it was a bit of a hike back up the hill for work again on the Tuesday.

Here are a few of my favorite pics from the day....... starting with the most important ones........"The people"