The old Pacific Highway is an old favorite and was actually the first of these night drives, back in 2021. It had been a couple of years since we did it, so I added it back to the schedule with a slightly adjusted route. Due to the W123 event and the Australia Day long weekend, we had the drive a couple of weeks earlier...
Our final night drive for 2025 was to be a shorter one than the November Bilpin drive. Since everyone is busy around Christmas time, we moved the drive a week earlier and planned something shorter. Instead of a big drive, the focus of this one was to try a late night dessert truck in Homebush. To get at least a reasonable drive in, we...
For the last couple of years, our November night drive has taken us to Bilpin for a late night drive up Bells Line of Road for apple pie. This is a drive best done in warmer weather, so November works well before people get busy for the Christmas break. Our destination is Royal Gardenia, which is in Bilpin not far from the Blue Mountains...
In its five years of running, Youngtimer Sacco Day has emerged as one of the best events in the MBCNSW calendar. Youngtimer Sacco Day 2025 was a bit different to the previous four. The previous events had been organized around an interesting location, with great driving roads to get there and back. Previous locations included HARS and the Museum at Mt Panorama. This year...
Last year MBCNSW held an event at Linwood House for the first time. Linnwood house is a historic homestead in Guildford that has four open days per year. Each of them has various car clubs and attractions attend. The goal of the event was to try and entice out some of the interesting older cars in the club that rarely come to events. Last...
Back in 2023, I attended the MBCNSW Amazing Rally with my three kids. They really enjoyed it and had been asking me when it was going to be run again every couple of months. After a false start due to bad weather, event came back for 2025. My kids (11, 8 & 8) were keen to go. This year, the event was held in...
After last month’s long drive, October’s night drive was planned to be a shorter one. Our meeting point was McDonalds Mt Colah. Despite having a few people withdraw on the day, we still had a pretty good turn out. I took my 450SLC. This was the first car club drive I’ve taken the car on this year. I’ve been using it quite a lot...
Today was the annual German car show held in Sydney. It’s generally a pretty good event and worth a visit. It is no longer the concours event for the club, that is now held at a dealership earlier in the year. This year I wondered what the event would be like as the organization had appeared a bit haphazard. Promotion seemed to start quite...
Today was the annual ACT German Car show. I try to head down to Canberra each year, as I always enjoy going. It is a show that punches above its weight, has a nice variety of cars and is usually very well organized. As with last year, I drove down on Saturday afternoon to attend the pre-concours dinner. It is a good way to...
The annual Eastern Creek car show is an event I always try to get to. At once point it was probably the largest car show each year in Sydney, although it has been scaled back in recent years. While that is a bit disappointing, it is a very family friendly event, that my kids always enjoy going to. We’ve had terrible weather the last...
Our July 2025 night drive was a bit unusual. Instead of the suburban outskirts where we normally drive, this was an inner city route. I generally avoid inner city routes, as they are so hard to keep a group together at night. The advantage they have is they require less travel to get to and from the route from most participants. The Seven bridges...
Thursday was the March night drive for 2025. It had been a rainy day in Sydney the day before and in the morning, so at lunchtime, the prognosis for the drive did not look good. We only had a couple of sign ups and the weather looked iffy. Luckily for us the weather cleared up and we were set for a good drive. Our...
Yesterday was the MBCNSW February 2025 Night Drive. For this drive, I brought back an old favorite route – which we last used April 2023. Our route started in Turramurra. We had a pretty good group of cars show up to the meeting point. I went in my 1981 240D, and on the drive we also had a W108 280SE 3.5, my old W116...
Today the Mercedes-Benz, Rolls Royce and Maserati clubs had a joint cars and coffee event. It was held in the parking lot of St George Sailing club which turned out to be a good venue. There was enough room for all three clubs to park their cars together. I think these events are a good idea, as it brings a combination of cars together...
Thursday was the first MBCNSW night drive for 2025. For scheduling reasons, we held it a week earlier than normal. Our meeting place was Heathcote McDonalds. McDonalds is always a good meeting place, as it is well lit, easy to find and has clean toilets. It had been very rainy earlier in the week, so I wasn’t sure what attendance would be like. January...
Yesterday was the final night drive of 2024. As has become traditional, we headed to Bilpin for a late night feast of Apple pie. The week had been very hot and humid in Sydney, and Thursday afternoon greeted us with a typical Sydney summer storm. We’ve been a bit unlucky on some of these drives, having good weather during the week and then storms...
Today was one of the premier events in the MBCNSW Calendar – Youngtimer Sacco Day. The purpose of the event is to celebrate the cars of the late Bruno Sacco, previously head of design at Mercedes-Benz. This is the fourth time the club has run Sacco Day, having held previous events in 2020, 2021 and 2023. The thing that makes this event great is...
After our September night drive was rained out, it was good to be back for the October drive. The weather had been good he day of the drive but a storm rolled through Sydney in the early evening. It was mostly gone by the time of the drive, but we still had scattered showers throughout. Our route was a new one, starting at Windsor...
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