Today I attended the monthly Auto Brunch event at St Ives Showground. This is easily the best cars and coffee event in Sydney. There is always a huge variety on display at this event. This wasn’t the biggest event I can remember, but it probably has the biggest variety.
A great example was a timewarp Chrysler Lancer. I don’t recall the last time I saw one of these, especially a car from before Chrysler sold out to Mitsubishi.
Both the Mercedes and Citroen Clubs had this event on their club calendar. Like last time, I took my DS to the event and there were at least four other D’s on the day. On top of the D’s, there was also a nice CX, a GS, a couple of 2CVs and some modern Citroens.
While the Mercedes Club had a number of club members on display, there were a few really nice cars on display from non Members. There was an immaculate 380SL with the 15″ fuchs alloys in red. I lovely car that does not get a lot of use.
There was also a matching pair of W108 280SE 3.5 models in silver grey. The first one was ex Papua New Guinea, and had been sold there as a consular car. It has an interesting specification with a manual transmission, but power windows.
The other car was delivered December 1971 in Australia and is still in the same family since new. It was in great shape, with a respray about 20 years ago.
I was also impressed by the number of nice E-Types on display. There were some really nice cars there and it’s great to see them out being used.
After the event, I even had time to give the DS a quick oil change before I met my family for lunch.
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