Our drive day for March will be to Marysville for lunch at the Bakery.
We will be meeting at McDonalds Tecoma (rear of) at 9.30am for a 9.45am departure.
As usual, the Renault Round-Up car display is open to all classic and modern Renaults. Non-RCCV club members are especially welcome to display their car at the Round-Up. It’s the best value car show around – free to display your car and free for everyone to come and view. Apart from the $2 Caribbean Gardens charge for vehicle entry to the venue.
The Round-Up is supported this year by Waverley Renault, Alpine Affaire, Auto Paris, Qualitool and Renault Australia.
Location this year is the same as last year – the Caribbean Gardens in Scoresby. There are two entrances; one off Ferntree Gully Road less than one km from the Eastlink Tollway exit and another off Stud Road. Below the flyer is a map showing in more detail where the display area is in the Gardens.
The Caribbean Gardens is a great family-friendly setting that’s become very popular for staging car shows. There’s the market (for the Mums), playground and rides (for the Kids) and, of course, masses of Renaults for the Dads. Yes, yes that’s a bit of stereotyping; of course the Dads can try the rides. . ..
Cars can arrive from from 8:30am and the show formally starts at 9:30 and runs to around 3pm. Concours award presentation scheduled for 1:30 – 2:00 pm.
As might be expected, there are Renault models and variants on the market in Europe that we never see in Australia. A recent trip to the UK, France and Germany highlighted this for me. However, my overall impression was that apart from the exotic Twizzy and the all-electric Zoe, some of the offerings were losing some of the traditional French uniqueness and flair. The new Espace –the big Renault—looked too much like a big Jeep while the latest Scenic appeared to have lost most of its quirky features, especially the 17-odd storage pockets. Even the Zoe, though neat, looked like a Cleo with batteries.
Apart from the Twizzy, the highlight was the L’Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysees in central Paris. This shop featured current Renault models, historic details on the company, an excellent gifts and souvenirs area and an upstairs café. Similar shops presented by Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot and Citroen were more glitz and less information with the Citroen display was dominated some stunning architecture. Very much worth a visit! Three models selected from L’Atelier Renault show a Twizzy, a micro, radio-controlled Renault Sport R.S. 01, and the grand Renault RM2 Reinastella from 1932.
From another interesting perspective –though I admit that perhaps I am biased— I felt that I saw fewer Peugeots anywhere in Europe, even compared with Australia, and that there was nothing of note amongst them that caught his eye.
It has been an active sporting year with thirteen members representing the Renault Car Club of Victoria in at least one CAMS event.
The very worthy winner of the Les Park Sporting trophy for 2016 is John Elliott who has consistently represented RCCV throughout the year.
| John Elliott | 31 Points | (11 events) | |
| Colin Stark | 12 Points | (3 events) | |
| John Hardy | 9 Points | (5 events) | |
| Graeme Edwards | 8 Points | (4 events) | |
| Justine Gordon | 8 Points | (5 events) | |
| Zac Anderson | 5 Points | (5 events) | |
| Glenn Armstrong | 5 Points | (5 events) | |
| Geoff Rasmussen | 3 Points | (3 events) | |
| Chris Armstrong | 2 Points | (2 events) | |
| Russell Armstrong | 1 Points | (1 event) | |
| Steve Cavanagh | 1 Points | (1 event) | |
| Paul Stewart | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Wes Gleeson | 1 Point | (1 event) |
To ensure inclusion in the sporting award, members need to email details of events entered, including results to the Sporting Coordinator, Graeme Edwards at
Details about the Club Championship are here
Following is the points standings up to and including {Round 2 VSSC & Trident Track Day} on {15th April} 2018.
| John Elliott | 8 Points | (4 events) | |
| Geoff Rasmussen | 5 Points | (2 events) | |
| David Bertuch | 3 Points | (1 event) | |
| Angelo Simonetti | 2 Points | (1 event) | |
| Joel Bryar | 2 Points | (1 event) | |
| James Thomas | 2 Points | (2 events) | |
| Peter Stathis | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Glenn Armstrong | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Ian Thompson | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Colin Stark | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Jeni Sammons | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| John Hardy | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Adam Turner | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| Wes Gleeson | 1 Point | (1 event) | |
| George Simonetti | 1 Point | (1 event) |
To ensure inclusion in the sporting award, members need to email details of events entered, including results to the Sporting Coordinator, Jeni Sammons at
Details about the Club Championship are here
Following is the point standings up to and including 4th October 2016.
| John Elloiott | 21 Points | (9 events) | |
| Glenn Armstrong | 5 Points | (5 events) | |
| John Hardy | 5 Points | (3 events) | |
| Colin Stark | 4 Points | (1 events) | |
| Graeme Edwards | 4 Points | (2 events) | |
| Geoff Rasmussen | 3 Points | (3 events) | |
| Chris Armstrong | 2 Points | (2 events) | |
| Russell Armstrong | 1 Points | (1 events) | |
| Wes Gleeson | 1 Points | (1 events) |
To ensure inclusion in the sporting award, members need to email details of events entered, including results to the Sporting Coordinator, Graeme Edwards at
Details about the Club Championship are here
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.
