On Sunday 2nd May, Harry Rickards and I entered our two silver NBs in the Classic Car display at the Rotary David Hack Classic meet at Toowoomba airport.
They looked a trifle lonely, heavily outnumbered as they were by a plethora of Minis, Fiats, and other vehicles of all shapes sizes and vintages, as well as aircraft, motor cycles, and almost every form of powered conveyance known to man with the possible exception of boats.
There have been displays of MX5s at this meet in the
past, but I understand Toowoomba club members were put off a few years ago when it was very dry, and the cars displayed came home covered in copious quantities of dust. This didn't happen this year. We've had a good wet season.
In fact, this display is not only supporting some excellent causes (Leukaemia Foundation, Blue Care and many other local charities) but it is probably one of the best Classic Car meets in the country. I've seen the Birdwood Classic near Adelaide, and whilst it features more cars, it can't rival the local meet for variety and quality.
Besides, I didn't see any MX5s at Birdwood.
There were military vehicles -
Aircraft (On the ground) -
(And in the air) -
Harry is fond of Fiats -
Although this one is really an Arbarth. (Maybe that's how it got to be so small - shrunk after too long in the Ar Bath???).
There was other exotic Italian machinery, of the bovine kind -
And some other noisy stuff from across the Pacific -
My favourite was this Vauxhall ute. Why? Because you could use it to help your kids shift house -
The competition was there -
There were aircraft made of dope and wood -
And beautiful cars from the same era -
But the best looking cars stood out -
How about we attend as a club in 2011, and put on a real show?
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