Our Magazine - Sideplate

After a lengthy hiatus, we now publish our Club Magazine "Sideplate" each month. It provides information to club members on upcoming events, recent meetings and events held, contact phone numbers and so on. Additionally, each issue generally has a technical or other special feature. Sideplate also includes classifieds, both "For Sale" and "Wanted".

Subscription to "Sideplate" is included in membership.

The magazine is now available on-line! From Issue #44 onwards, you can down-load the magazine here. It is in Adobe Acrobat (or PDF) format, suitable for reading on-line or printing. The very first on-line issue is unfortunately missing some photos, but as new issues are published on-line, they are complete.

Downloadable copies will be published here a month or so after being distributed to Club Members (once they're superceded). Club members can download the most recent issue via our Discussion Board.

On-Line Issues:	Size:	Click on the title to download
Sideplate V22 #4	2.2MB	July 2003 [Currently available to members only], edited by Alex Smits
Sideplate V22 #3	1.4MB	June 2003, edited by Alex Smits
Sideplate V22 #2	3.0MB	May 2003 - 9th Nats Issue, edited by Richard Thomas
Sideplate V22 #1	3.2MB	April 2003 - First "new template" issue, edited by Richard Thomas
Sideplate #51	2.5MB	Mar - Aug 2001 - 8th FE-FC Holden Nationals Special (Sydney)
Sideplate #50b	172K	Jan - Feb 2001 "in-between" issue.
Sideplate #50a	183K	Nov - Dec 2000 "in-between" issue.
Sideplate #50	2.4MB	June - October 2000 - 8th Nationals News, new "Accessory of the Month" column
Sideplate #49	2.4MB	January - May 2000 - Lead-Free Petrol news and articles. This issue currently unavailable due to some technical issues. Damn GeoCities!
Sideplate #48	1.2MB	September - November 1999
Sideplate #47a	109K	August 1999 - Inaugural "in-between" issue.
Sideplate #47	1.8MB	Apr - Jul 1999 - 7th FE-FC Holden Nationals Special (Adelaide)
Sideplate #46	2.2MB	Jan - Mar 1999 - Holden's 50th Anniversary Special.
		This issue is huge (over 2MB), because it contains a number of reprinted newspaper articles. It is unlikely to be viewable using a PDF plug in.
Sideplate #45	1.1MB	June - Dec 1998
Sideplate #44	587Kb	Jan - May 1998
About Adobe Acrobat
Other Documents Available in PDF format:
Club Constitution		Effective May 1999
Application Form		to join the Club

Please note that the magazine files are quite big, and are probably not suitable for reading via the PDF plug-in. We recommend you save them locally instead, which might require you to ctrl-click (Mac) or right-click (PC) on the links above and choose "Download to Disk" or similarly worded option.

Submissions

Articles, comments, photos, gossip - anything gladly accepted. Please email to the editor, Richard Thomas (sideplate@nsw.fefcholden.org.au), or post to the club at:

FE-FC Holden Car Club of NSW inc
P.O. Box 609
North Parramatta NSW 2124

For Sale and Wanted advertisements can be placed by any of these methods:

Call the Club Hot-line on (02) 4733 8019 and leave the details
Post the information to the address above.
Email the details to us
Click here to place an ad on-line (on our Club Forum, which has areas especially for Cars For Sale and Parts For Sale.)

Please note that Wanted requests are usually accepted for Club Members only. However, any request will be considered.

History of Sideplate.

It has always been known as "the magazine". In its earliest form, it was called "Newsletter", and the first issue was produced by Alex Smits in May 1986. It was 7 single-sided pages long - including front and back cover, and had just one photo. Alex went on to produce a total of 33 issues over a period of about 9 years, during which time the magazine grew to around 16-20 pages per issue, with photos, cartoons and pictures drawn by Alex, Run Reports and so on. Richard Thomas took over in 1995. A brief history of Sideplate:

May 1986: Inaugural Issue of "Newsletter"
April 1988: Coloured covers appeared, with each issue a different colour. Magazine printed rather than photocopied, by the Government Printing Office.
May 1991: The name Sideplate was introduced.
June 1992: The line drawings on the cover were replaced by photos
1993: Cover colour fixed, in Blue.
December 1994: Introduction of Issue Numbers (starting with #33), printing of magazine taken over by EGN Printing
April 1995: Richard Thomas took over as Editor, first issue #34
February 1996 (#37): Complete redesign of cover, with photos replaced by new Club Logo and new masthead.
May 1996 (#38): Redesign of the magazine layout.
October 1996 (#40): An Anniversary Special produced, celebrating 15 years of our Club.
May 1998 (#44): Sideplate goes on-line.
August 1999 (#47a): First "in-between" issue published.
April 2003: After a long break, the magazine is back in a new "Template" format, designed to allow members to take turns at editing the magazine. Note also the new numbering scheme, starting at Volume 22, representing our 22nd year.
June 2003: So far so good, 3 issues in 3 months ;-)

The hard-copy version of Sideplate is printed by EDN Printing of Leura, who do a fantastic job. We are happy to recommend them to anyone with small-run printing requirements. They also provide shrink-wrapping and postage services. Contact Eric North, by email or telephone 02 4784 2091

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