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MBCNSW June 2023 Cars and Coffee 0

MBCNSW June 2023 Cars and Coffee

This morning I attended the MBCNSW cars and coffee event in Silverwater.   It was held at the Armory café down by the water.    It is quite nice down there, and there is plenty of parking.    The venue the club used last time is probably nicer, but has a severe shortage of parking.  This forced the cars to triple park and making it...

Auto Brunch St Ives June 2023 1

Auto Brunch St Ives June 2023

This morning I attended the monthly Auto Brunch event at St Ives Showground.    This is easily the best cars and coffee event in Sydney, and even eclipses some of the formal shows.    Even though it was raining on and off all morning, turn out was excellent.    Probably almost as good as last month even with the bad weather. I took my...

National Motoring Heritage Day 2023 0

National Motoring Heritage Day 2023

National Motoring Heritage Day occurs every year on the last Sunday of May.   The goal is to try and encourage as many classic, vintage and veteran cars out as possible and display them at various shows and events.   One of the biggest is held in Berry, where they anticipate around 600 cars each year.   The Mercedes club normally attend this event and this year...

Auto Brunch St Ives May 2023 1

Auto Brunch St Ives May 2023

About a week and a half ago, I attended the May 2023 Auto Brunch event in St Ives.   This is my favorite Sydney cars and coffee event, and I hadn’t had a chance to attend this year.  Last time was November last year.   Even though it was threatening rain, it was still a great turn out.   This event always has a few nice surprises...

Machines & Macchiatos March 2023 1

Machines & Macchiatos March 2023

Today I attended the monthly Machines and Macchiatos event in Terrey Hills.   Last time I was able to attend was October 2022, when I took my DS.   Today is a swelteringly hot day of almost 35C,  much more suitable for a car with air conditioning.    I don’t think I’ve taken my 250SE to one of these events before, so I brought it along. ...

Auto Brunch St Ives November 2022 3

Auto Brunch St Ives November 2022

Yesterday I attended the Auto Brunch event at St Ives Showground again.   It’s still far and away the best cars and coffee event in Sydney.   This month was no exception.   After about 10 months of horrible weather, we’ve finally had some lovely spring days here in Sydney. It was a perfect day for a car show, the only slight downside was the rural fire...

MBCNSW October 2022 Cars and Coffee 1

MBCNSW October 2022 Cars and Coffee

Today was supposed to be the annual Sydney German car show.   It would have been the first one held since 2019 due to Covid.   I missed the 2019 event due  to work travel, so I have not attended the show since 2018.    Sydney has been very rainy of late, so last week was torrential rain, pretty much the norm for 2022.   Based on...

Machines & Macchiatos October 2022 1

Machines & Macchiatos October 2022

It didn’t seem very long ago that I was at the September Machines & Macchiatos event.   In a blink of an eye it was mid October and time for another one.   This time, I took my Citroen DS. It was a beautiful spring day, rare for 2022.   Despite that, the turnout was lower than last time.   Perhaps other car shows on this weekend.   ...

2022 ACT German car show 2

2022 ACT German car show

Yesterday was the 2022 ACT German car show.   It was the first since 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 events unfortunately cancelled due to COVID.     The ACT show always punches above its weight in that it attracts not only the large base of cars from the Canberra region, but normally has cars drive in from southern NSW, northern Victoria and often a few...

Machines & Macchiatos September 2022 1

Machines & Macchiatos September 2022

Today I attended the September 2022 Machines and Macchiatos event.   This is my second time to this event, I managed to attend the December 2021 event last year.  Since my last time at the event, they have a new location at Northern Beaches Christian School in Terrey Hills.    I was supposed to be at the All French Day today, but it was cancelled...

Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee August 2022 1

Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee August 2022

Today I took my E-Type to the Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee event.  I’ve never taken my E-Type to one of these informal cars and coffee events.  I normally take what I have in the garage on the day.  The E-Type is a car I normally get out for specific drives or shows.   That means it’s less likely than some of the other cars...

2022 Shannons Eastern Creek Car Show 2

2022 Shannons Eastern Creek Car Show

Today was the 2022 Shannons Eastern Creek Car Show.   This is the biggest car show that I know of in Sydney, and is held at Eastern Creek Raceway.   I’ve been going for years, but have never entered a car.   All those previous times I have been a spectator, most recently in 2018.    The 2021 and 2020 events were cancelled due to coronavirus and...

Auto Brunch St Ives August 2022 1

Auto Brunch St Ives August 2022

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...

Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee July 2022 0

Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee July 2022

I was able to attend the Eastern Suburbs cars and coffee event this morning.   I’ve managed to attend the last couple of these events and there are always a good mix of cars attending.   As it is an eastern suburbs event, the most popular car is always the Porsche 911. It was interesting to see a 930 Turbo parked next to a regular 911...

Eastern Suburbs Cars and Coffee June 2022 1

Eastern Suburbs Cars and Coffee June 2022

It’s a lovely winter weekend here in Sydney.  Cool in the morning and evening, but pleasant during the day.    With a break in the weather, it felt like a good opportunity to take my 250SE to the show with its newly rebuilt brakes and recent tune up.    It was also an opportunity to take a drive with the top down.   I don’t...

Auto Brunch St Ives June 2022 1

Auto Brunch St Ives June 2022

Due to COVID, bad weather and other commitments, it had been a while since I attend the Auto Brunch event at St. Ives showground.   March 2021 to be exact.   I finally made it back today and as usual it was a great event.   Of all the cars and coffee events in Sydney, I think this is by far the best.   There is always incredible...

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