Hi all, welcome to this month’s Presidents message.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas New Year with family, friends and cars. Our last event for 2025 was the Christmas party at Geebung RSL which went off very well. We had good representation of Chrysler vehicles and the 40 plus members all enjoyed the company, festivities and food in a relaxed airconditioned venue on a typical hot Queensland day.
In January our club run was to the Bayside Vehicle Restorer’s Club (BVRC) car show at Ormiston College. Several of our club members volunteered to assist in this event as we have a reciprocal understanding whereby BVRC members assist us at Expo each year. A good example of clubs with similar interests helping each other for the benefit of all. We had a good showing of COCQ members cars representing Chrysler at an event supporting all makes and models. As usual it was a hot, sunny and muggy January day with a roll up of over 600 vehicles. The car show portion of the event wrapped up not long after 10.30am and was followed by a couple of runs to selected venues.
In February our run will be a very pleasant trip out to the Esk Hotel on the 22nd for lunch through the Brisbane Valley, I hope we have good participation. March will be busy; we have 3 scheduled events beginning with a trip to the Brisbane Motor Museum on the 1st of March. On the 15th we have our traditional run to Colmslie for a BBQ lunch, and we are being joined by the R&S club as well. Then on the 29th we plan to join an event organised by the Gold Coast Tweed Chrysler Club for a run to the Boatworks Drive museum at Coomera. Let’s see who can be present at all 3 events?
On a personal note, I’ve been working on a VR Commodore Wagon, heresy I know. I obtained the car from my late uncle ‘Mo’ who taught me most of my mechanical skills as a teenager. I might keep this car as a tribute to my uncle which means something else has to go. I promised Sue I would sell two of my 5 vehicles this year so check the ‘for sale’ section where you will see my CM Valiant listed. Sad but after spending months cleaning up my uncle’s estate it’s been a bit of a wake-up call to divest of some of the stuff I’ve collected over the years. Let’s see how I go!
Stay safe and enjoy your Chrysler folks, cheers for now.
Greg Holburt COCQ Club President.