2023 – The Concours Run

The Concours run was our second big road trip.  A few of us had always wanted to see the Mercedes-Benz Club of Victoria’s concours event.  So we built a trip around it.   We learned a few things from the first trip, including not starting in Sydney as well as optional numbers of cars and distance in a day.

The second trip was a five day, 3000km road trip with a group of 9 Classic Mercedes-Benz.   We took the Alpine routes to Melbourne, primarily the Great Alpine Road.   From there, drove to Melbourne for the MBCV tech day on Saturday, and Concours on Sunday.   Then, we took the inland route back home, going through towns like Parkes.

The Concours Run 2023 – Summary
Last year I did a road trip in classic Mercedes to the National Rally in Adelaide.   The friends I went with all agreed that we wanted to do it again this year, and in many ...
The Concours Run 2023 – The Cars
On the Concours Run, we had 9 cars on the trip.   While I don't mention people's names on this site for privacy reasons, this article goes through the cars that came on the drive, with ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 5: Leeton to Sydney
The final day of our road trip came up quickly.    After a pleasant evening in the historic Hydro hotel in Leeton, it was time to head back to Sydney.     Our first stop for ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 4: Melbourne to Leeton
Day 4 was a very busy day for the Concours run group.   Not only did we spend the morning at the excellent MBCV concours event, but we planned to drive 520km.   Part of this was ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 4: MBCV Concours
Today was the MBCV Concours event.   This was the show that we built this whole trip around.    I had wanted to attend this event for years, as I had always heard the standard of ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 3: MBCV Garage Day
The third day of our classic Mercedes road trip was focused on a MBCV Garage Day.   The subject was electrical troubleshooting. However, before we could have the MBCV Garage day, we had to get there.  ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 2: Great Alpine Road
The second day of our classic Mercedes road trip between Sydney and Melbourne focused mostly on driving the Great Alpine Road (B500).    On Day 1, we started in Mt Victoria and ended up in ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Day 1:  Mt Victoria to Tumut
Today was the first day of our epic road trip to Melbourne in 9 classic Mercedes Benz.   Our goal was to head down for the annual MBCV concours event and a tech day they were ...
The Concours Run 2023 – Summary
Last year, I went on a 4,000km road trip with some friends from the Mercedes-Benz club to the National Rally in Adelaide.   We all took classics, and we took the scenic route there and back.  ...