Sandown Historics Paddock Marshalling
We have had a good response to our request for marshals for Sandown but still need two more for Saturday afternoon. That’s November 5th There will be a BBQ at the end of the day for officials.
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We have had a good response to our request for marshals for Sandown but still need two more for Saturday afternoon. That’s November 5th There will be a BBQ at the end of the day for officials.
Our drive day commenced with a meeting at McDonalds Berwick, Unfortunately we did not realise there were two McDonalds in Clyde Rd Berwick and a couple went to the other one (I wont say wrong one).
We remained mainly south of the freeway through to Drouin for coffee. Our Convoy had Clio’s 2,3 & 4, Megane 265’s, a Renault 750 and a Renault 12 Gordini.
We travelled from Drouin to Moe for lunch at the racecourse bistro staying north of the freeway. After lunch we set out for Maffra, again using back roads, avoiding the freeway.
The car collection was interesting with a Dauphine Gordini and a 1908 Renault on display with a number of other interesting and unusual vehicles including French cars Berliet and Mors.
Starting from Mc Donalds, Clyde Road in Berwick. Assemble 9.00am for 9.30am departure.
The coffee break will be at Nick’s Bakehouse in Drouin and lunch at the Moe Racing Club Bistro.
The theme of the current exhibition at Maffra is “Never Been Kissed” meaning most of the motorcycles, cars & trucks have little or no restoration work done.
Exhibits range from a 1908 Renault which remained in the ownership of one family for over 100 years, to a 1922 Vulcan truck on solid rubber tyres, with lots of interesting motoring history in between. Look for the 1911 MORS. The company was established in France in 1897 (older than Renault). The rolling chassis was imported and the body fitted in Melbourne.
Admission to the Vehicle Collection is $8.00 per adult (group of 10 or more) and children under 15 are free. Tea/coffee and light refreshments are available.
The run does not touch the freeway and includes some interesting roads and scenery including the immense W Power Station at Yallourn.
Come along and join the convoy.
Anyone planning to attend should advise numbers by email to “” by end of 18/08/2016.
Last Sunday we had 15 Renaults (and a Mercedes) carrying 19 members and one potential new member for our drive day to the Farmers Arms Hotel in Beeac . The potential new member had previously enquired about joining the club and when I sent out the info I inadvertently selected “all contacts” instead of the social list. Even Vic Roads were advised of the run.
We started from Glen Iris, collected from Lara and joined all but one of the rest in Geelong for coffee. Ian Duffy from Camperdown met us at Beeac for lunch.
The owner has a collection of about 50 cars, a few of which are stored in a renovated stable behind the hotel. He was on hand to give us a rundown on the cars there.
Steve Cavanagh had his first official club run I his recently restored Alpine A110.
I would like to thank Alan and Venus Lane for providing the photos.
We had an excellent turnout for breakfast at Garazi this morning. About twenty members and friends attended for breakfast and a talkfest. Not all came to see the Liberator so it was good that they joined us for breakfast.
At about 11.00am we headed to Werribee and had guided tours of the Liberator and the restoration facility. As well as the Liberator they are also restoring a Boomerang (Australian designed and made fighter) an d an Airspeed Oxford (used for navigation training).
Towards the end of the tour, Steve Cavanagh arrived with his recently (this was its first outing) restored Alpine A110.
At this point a few of us adjourned to Werribee for lunch before going home.
Maxine Joly writes ‘I’ve just finished writing my book about the Megane RS and orders are
launched. I have written a text in case of some people from Australia
would be interested in buying it despite the text in French. If you can
share the information, that would be very nice !‘
The June Social Day is on the 19th and is a breakfast at Garazi Cafe in Yarraville followed by a visit to the B-24 Liberator bomber being restored at Werribee.
Garazi Cafe is a cafe in a garage with old cars scattered throughout. Pretty cool.
The B-24 Liberator is an iconic 2nd World War bomber. The one in Laverton is the only remaining Liberator in the Southern Hemisphere and is one of only eight still existent in the world. It is being restored in an impressive World War II hangar on the old Werribee airfield – just outside Melbourne in Victoria.
Meet at Garazzi Cafe at 9:30am – 107 Gamon Street, Yarraville
The Club is having a run to Winton for the Classic Winton race meeting on Sunday May 29th. There will be a couple of options depending upon when you want to travel. Some are leaving Saturday morning and travelling via Mansfield and Whitfield to Beechworth for the night (probably having lunch in Mansfield), going to Winton Sunday morning. Others will leave after lunch and also proceed to Beechworth meeting up with the first group. Some may prefer to drive direct to Winton on Sunday morning but this would require an early start.
If you would like to join us in Beechworth on Saturday night, you will need to make your own accommodation arrangements. We will find a restaurant and make a group booking once we know numbers.
The George Kerford Hotel in Beechworth has rooms available and also controls a couple of motels. Price is $110 per night. Their phone number is (03) 5728 2618.
We originally planned to stay in Wangaratta but little affordable accommodation is available.
The drive routes and timing will be finalised once we know how many want to be involved in each group.
Entry to Winton on Sunday is $35.00. The membership secretary has a couple of passes for classic cars only. First come first served.
So, if you are coming, please make your accommodation arrangements (if necessary) and let the membership secretary know by email () when you want to travel.
We have Senior Leading Constable Craig Mc Kenzie from Vic Police Traffic Operations coming to speak to us at this month’s meeting in Glen Iris.
This is an opportunity to ask questions about any confusing road rules etc.
We are hoping Craig will cover:-
New members and friends are also invited to come and get to know the committee and others
The April drive day will be a run to Flowerdale for lunch at the Pub on the 14th.
We’ll take a different route to last year’s run to Flowerdale for a bit of variety.
Meet at Manningham Hotel in Bulleen – near the bistro at the north end – for a 10am start.
We’ll head out through Warrandyte, Kangaroo Ground and past Rob Roy at Christmas Hills to coffee at St Andrews.
Then via Kinglake, Melba Hwy and Glenburn to Flowerdale.
Contact for event is Geoff Rasmussen,