The Club Plate Co team: who signs your club permit
Club Plate Co is run by Sam and Riley, with Georgia as the club scrutineer. That matters more than it sounds: under the Club Permit Scheme a named club official has to put their signature on your vehicle eligibility and standards declaration, and it is a personal certification, not a corporate one. These are the people who check your vehicle and sign your paperwork, and the people who write and check every guide on this site.
Sam, Riley and Georgia
Sam
Club president
Sam is Club Plate Co’s president, and the club official who signs your endorsement. He set the club up because the paperwork behind a club permit had become the hardest part of keeping an older vehicle on the road: a joining fee, a qualifying period, and a form that could only be signed on meeting night. His interest is in the vehicles themselves, so the club is built to get the administration out of the way and leave people with the driving.
Email [email protected].
Riley
Treasurer
Riley is Club Plate Co’s treasurer and looks after the club’s money, its membership records and its renewals. His background is in finance leadership across a range of organisations, which is where the flat annual fee and the no-surprises approach to billing come from. He shares the club’s interest in historical and classic vehicles, and joined because a simpler route onto a club permit was something he wanted to exist.
Email [email protected].
Georgia
Club scrutineer
Georgia is Club Plate Co’s scrutineer. Under the Club Permit Scheme the scrutineer is the club official who checks a vehicle against the VicRoads eligibility and standards rules before any declaration is signed, which is the check that decides whether an application can go ahead at all.
Why the Club Permit Scheme needs a named person
VicRoads does not accept a club permit application endorsed by a company. It requires a signature from a named club official, and for a vehicle built from 1949 onwards that official can only sign while your roadworthy certificate is current and within 30 days. On renewal it is narrower still: VicRoads publishes which office bearers may endorse a renewal notice, and a club safety officer is not one of them.
So the question "who actually signs my form?" is a fair one to ask any club, and a club that cannot answer it plainly is a club worth avoiding. At Club Plate Co the signatories notified to VicRoads are Sam, our club president, who signs your endorsement, and Georgia, our club scrutineer, who checks the vehicle against the eligibility and standards rules.
Sam and Riley write and check the guides on this site. Where a page states a VicRoads rule, it is because one of us read the VicRoads page and cited it, not because it sounded right.
What we do, and what we will not do
We check vehicles against the VicRoads eligibility rules honestly. If a car is 24 years old, it is not eligible and we will say so rather than take a membership fee and let you find out at the counter. If a vehicle needs a VASS approval certificate before anything can be signed, we will tell you that before you book a roadworthy.
We also say when a club permit is the wrong product. It buys 45 or 90 days of use a year. For a car you drive to work, full registration is the right answer and no club can change that.
What we do not do is run events, publish a magazine or hold meetings. If you want the social side of a marque club, join one as well. Nothing in the scheme stops you belonging to two clubs.
The entity behind the two names
Club Plate Co is a Victorian limited partnership, ABN 25 733 190 203, listed on the VicRoads register of approved clubs and associations. That listing is what allows any endorsement to happen at all, and it is public, so you can verify it before you pay us anything.
Membership is $99 a year, bought online, with no joining fee and no attendance requirement. We serve the whole of Victoria, because the eligibility check and the endorsement are done from documents and photographs rather than at a fixed inspection shed.
Questions about who runs the club
Who signs my club permit form at Club Plate Co?
A named club official, as VicRoads requires. Club Plate Co has notified two signatories: Sam, our club president, and Georgia, our club scrutineer. Georgia checks your vehicle against the eligibility and standards rules, and Sam signs your endorsement. Which of them signs which form is set by VicRoads, not by us: an eligibility declaration and a renewal notice do not take the same signature. Application forms explained.
Can I speak to a real person?
Yes. Email Sam or Riley directly and one of us replies. There is no call centre, no committee to get past and no ticket queue. If you are unsure whether a vehicle qualifies, send photographs of it and of the build plate before you join. Contact us.
Who writes the guides on this site?
Sam and Riley, with every VicRoads rule checked against the VicRoads page it comes from. Each guide carries an updated date and a byline. Where a figure is a VicRoads fee we cite the VicRoads fees page, because VicRoads changes those without notice. Club permit FAQ.
Start whenever it suits. Pay only when everything’s in.
Your classic deserves to be driven. Begin your application now and it waits for your roadworthy — we don’t charge you until it’s all in hand. Not sure you’re eligible? It’s just the build date: 25 years or older and you’re in.