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2nd Prize in a beauty contest 1

2nd Prize in a beauty contest

My Light 15 was awarded 2nd prize in the pre-1956 Citroen category at the 2015 French Car Day.   I hadn’t planned to enter the car, but did since there were only a couple of Tractions there.    1st prize went to a nice Big 15.   Without a lot of effort I should be able to do better as I was obviously marked down...

2015 Sydney German car show 1

2015 Sydney German car show

Today I attended the 2015 Sydney German car show, which was put on by the Mercedes Club this year.    Unlike the Mercedes show I went to a few months ago, the German car show is an informal show without concours judging.   Unfortunately this means some of the pristine, concours only cars don’t show up, but you do get a great selection of...

2014 ACT Terribly British Day 0

2014 ACT Terribly British Day

I had to be in Canberra today, so I swung by the 2014 ACT Terribly British Day.   It was quite a nice little car show with a decent mix of British cars.  I was glad to go as the Sydney show was rained out this year and I had not taken the 450SLC on a good road trip for a while. Some of...

2014 NSW Mercedes Benz Club Concours 3

2014 NSW Mercedes Benz Club Concours

I attended the Mercedes Club Concours this year.  It was a lovely day, 18c  and a great turn out of cars. Also got to talk to some interesting people and hear about their cars.  Unlike the last time I went in 2012, the older cars are starting to come back, they seemed to stay away for a few years, for one reason or another....

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