MBCNSW December 2025 Night Drive – Dusty and Delights Food Truck

Our final night drive for 2025 was to be a shorter one than the November Bilpin drive.  Since everyone is busy around Christmas time, we moved the drive a week earlier and planned something shorter.

Instead of a big drive, the focus of this one was to try a late night dessert truck in Homebush.  To get at least a reasonable drive in, we met at McDonalds in Thornleigh.  This allowed a very simple route into Homebush.  One turn out of McDonalds onto the Comenarra Parkway, and then straight down the A3 to Homebush.   I try to avoid city night drives as its so hard to keep a group together, but this simple route meant that it didn’t matter so much.

We had a good turn out at McDonalds.  It was a very hot day, still over 30C when I left home around 8PM.   I took my 560SEC, primarily because it has excellent air conditioning.   We had a pretty good turn out at Thornleigh, dominated as usual by the 124 and 126 models.

For the 124s, we managed to get all the main body styles.  Two 300E saloons, a 300E coupe, a 300TE wagon and a 320CE cabriolet.  We didn’t have the six door airport taxi, but they were never sold in Australia.

On the 126s, we had a pair of coupes, a 380SEC and my 560SEC, as well as a lovely original 280SE.   And as well as the 124s and 126s, we had a very original 300GD with the OM617 engine.

The drive down to the Comenarra Parkway was pretty uneventful, as was our route down the A3.  The dessert truck was pretty good, although on the expensive side – the main problem was parking.  We were only able to get three of the cars into the parking lot for the truck and parking in the area was difficult.   When we have visited the Chubby buns burger trucks in the past, they are located at closed service stations.  That means we can park in the service station if the parking next to the food truck is busy. Homebush being busier, didn’t have that option.

Overall it was a good drive and a good way to finish my last club event for 2025.