Thread: Club rego VIC questions - D1 - any comments on Victorian Red Plate Club?

Red Plate Club is your answer. It’s pretty much zero fuss.

I am in 3 different car clubs and rarely get time to go to any events… (Oh and I have a D1 on club plates Lol)

What Tins said!

Check with VicRoads you can form your own club so you can register your own car and run the club without fuss.
Gippy

Originally Posted by Gippslander

Check with VicRoads you can form your own club so you can register your own car and run the club without fuss.
Gippy

Takes a long time to get approved, VicRoads aren't the easiest to deal with.
I read an article a while back about the high number of 'Single Entity Clubs'. If it's just you then Club meetings should be straightforward unless you have a split personality !

Not sure if I can still find the application form as it was some years back when I applied.

Colin

Originally Posted by Gippslander

Check with VicRoads you can form your own club so you can register your own car and run the club without fuss.
Gippy

Great idea!! I wonder how long this would take to get approved, I reckon I know a few people down here on the Bellarine that would actually join.

Originally Posted by Young Angus

Great idea!! I wonder how long this would take to get approved, I reckon I know a few people down here on the Bellarine that would actually join.

It took 3 or 4 months once the form had been returned.
Couldn't get any communication from them, eventually sent a letter to HO in Melbourne and got a Stat Dec form back. This has to be signed to say that if you find a member flouting the rules you'll report them.
Forms here :-
Just a moment...

You will need a 'constitution', you can typically download from another club & modify.
Create a Club letter head.
Nominate the President, Secretary, Treasurer & Vice President.
Consider 'Incorporation', this costs money but covers the Club in the event of an accident on an event.
Outline fees, members must be 'financial'.
Open a Club Bank account, you can wait until you get the Club signed off by VicRoads.
Most of the rest is covered on the webpage above.

Best of luck,

Colin

Like I said, RPC if you don’t want fuss, petty jealousies and little fiefdoms. I have been a member of the MG and FIAT car clubs in Victoria. Never again. Got a few mates with club plates, including 2 Okas. There are no Oka clubs. RPC takes care of it all.
of course, if doing all the stuff listed and dealing with committees floats your boat then go for it. But vicroads is not your friend.

Originally Posted by Tins

if doing all the stuff listed and dealing with committees floats your boat then go for it. But vicroads is not your friend.

You just need to put in a bit of work at the beginning.
If you 'run' the Club right there are no committees, no politics, nobody trying to take over. You just have to sign off vehicles and take and store a few photos. All you are signing for is to say that they meet the requirements of the permit system as a roadworthy is required anyway.

Easy to control if it's just mates, as soon as you let all & sundry in you could have problems. Every year your mates have to get you to sign their permits, VicRoads accept scans & photos. When you first put a vehicle on the system you have to physically go to Vicroads after that it's all online

It really isn't hard once VicRoads have authorised your Club.

Every year about now my son says, "Dad can you sign my Club Permit" and every year I say "No, you are not financial !".
I then get a message "I've transferred $10 to Mum" (she's the treasurer).
I then sign !

Colin