ANFA

Hi everybody,
                             Only a couple of weeks till the Awards and Reunion at Sydney Dragway.

I will note a lot of items here that may be of interest to you heading up to the event, then if there is anything to notify you about the week of the event, it will not be a long e-mail.  As you may have noticed......I ramble on in my e-mails!....but everybody has a good indication of what is happening.

Firstly, we have had a few more people add their names to the Attendees list, which is enclosed.
John Maher, Bill Croft, Angelo Palumbo and Phil Olive have notified me this week that they will also be attending.

So, onto the small items that make up the event.

As you should have seen, the Rocket Day goes from 8am to about 2pm with a BBQ lunch and drinks as well.  The car show alone is a huge deal.

The entry gates for the Awards and Reunion open at Sydney Dragway at 3pm.  You are all welcome to attend from this time onwards.  The track has made arrangements with the caterer to have some booths open and near to the marquee that we will be using.  There will be a coffee stand, a cash bar and a Hot Dog-Pie stand for the NON BBQ people in attendance.  These hopefully will be open till late.

Our BBQ will start about 5pm as with about 250 to 300 to feed, it will take this long to get the sausages cooked.  There will be bottled water available, about 100, so if you choose to bring your own may be a good idea, alternatively the traders stands will have drinks.  As the costs to hold this event have skyrocketed, we will be placing a ‘Gold Coin’ donation collection tin at the BBQ area.  If you put some bucks in great, if you don’t that’s great also.

The track are supplying 15 tables with seating for 10 at each table, plus 50 extra chairs.  As 7 tables will be reserved for the Award Recipients, it just may be a good idea to bring along a chair if practical.

Our Awards will start at 6.30pm and will take about 2 hours....don’t worry, it will go quick.

We will then have a cackle to set up the last part of the evening, which will be on stage...a fitting finale to the evening’s entertainment.  4 cackle cars will be in attendance to supply some aroma.

The ANFA will have embroidered event polo’s on display for after event delivery plus some ‘tin signs’ of the event and the Awards, only a handful of each at this stage.

Sue Syrmis is bringing some colour photo copies of the scrap books that she and Dennis kept of his career, and I have been privileged to have a sneak peek, and these are historical.  John English’s wife documented ‘EVERYTHING’ that John accomplished through his career, and they too will have all of that on display.  Several guys are bringing 70’s and 80’s memorabilia from rule books to pictures.  Gentleman Jim Reed will also have a trunk load of memorabilia.

On Sunday, there will be a pretty huge car show in the pit area, an autograph session of our recipients and the racing will be set to kick off about Noon.

For those that haven’t been to the area before, Rocket Industries is located at 40 Huntingwood Drive
Huntingwood NSW 2148. Sydney Dragway is then located at Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek, NSW 2766, which is a 2 minute drive from Rocket.

So, hope we have covered it all for you.  If there is something that you are not really sure about, send me an e-mail or call me on 04 024 55 555.

Yours Sincerely, Steve Turner...