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2014 French Car Day 2

2014 French Car Day

Today was the 2014 French car day.   Like last year, the event is put on by the French car clubs in Sydney, i.e. Peugeot, Renault, Simca etc.   It was a lovely day and a good turnout – especially of DS including a few cars I had not yet seen in the club.  A couple of cars in particular: – A yellow D Special...

2013 ACT German car show 2

2013 ACT German car show

I was in Canberra this weekend, so I went along to see the annual German car show (organized by the various ACT clubs including the Mercedes Benz Club ACT), which was held in the carpark near the treasury building.   it is normally held on the lawn in front of the lake but poor weather forced the change.   Poor weather was also most...

Ribe classic 0

Ribe classic

I visited Ribe, yesterday, the oldest city in Denmark.     It just so happened that Ribe is the home of a weekly grassroots car show (each Tuesday night, 6-9pm).    While my main purpose in Ribe was to see the old town and some of the tourist attractions, it was a lucky coincidence that this show was on, I decided to stop buy...

Shannons Eastern Creek car show 2013 2

Shannons Eastern Creek car show 2013

Today was the annual car show at eastern creek, organized by the car clubs and sponsored by Shannons.  It is one of the better shows of he year to go to as you see a great range of cars, and entrants get a parade lap around eastern creek raceway.   It’s worth taking your own food as you wouldn’t serve the overpriced crap they...

2013 French car display day 4

2013 French car display day

Today I went to the annual French Car display day.   This is organized by the French Car clubs including Citroen, Peugeot, Renault, Simca etc.  It’s held on a weekend around Bastille day, which this year happened to be the day of the event.   It was a good day and good to see familiar cars and faces of the Citroen Car club members....

Classic Jalopy