Cooma Car Museum

This weekend I was down in Jindabyne.   My family had been down there skiing for two weeks during the school holidays.  I had other commitments so wasn’t able to join – but went down for the final weekend in the W124 Friday evening.

On the Saturday, the kids wanted a day off skiing, so I decided to take them to the Cooma Car Museum.  Its a small museum operated by the Cooma Car Club.   Since the museum is only open limited hours (Saturday and Tuesday) I had never been.

Its quite small, but well worth a visit.  Cost of admission is only $10 per adult.  The have a pretty nice range of cars, with an Australian theme.  This includes some significant Holdens – FX and FJ, as well as a couple of the last ones made.  There are also quite a few locally produced European cars like the Mercedes 220S, the VW Beetle and so on.   There is a decent range of motorcycles, as well as the P50, the world’s smallest car.

As well as the cars you could see, the kids enjoyed the large scalextric racing track they could play on.

Given the museum is run by the club, I would imagine the collection is all club members cars and probably rotates, especially the post-war cars.  I would go back if I’m there again.  A lot of these regional museums are closing down, so it is important to support the ones left.

The 300TE did well on the quick weekend visit to Jindabyne.  I did over 1,000km at 10.5l/100km.  That was about the same as my wife’s W212 wagon, although the 212 has a roof box on it, so it would normally get about 9-9.5 liters per hundred.  I didn’t see too many classics, other than on the Sunday on the way back there was obviously some kind of event south of Canberra.  There was quite a line of cars heading there.