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Found on a Mazda Website Sent in by John Milne 'Mid Year Run 2007' Mazda6ex |
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| Now because I don't personally own a classic car (yet), we were allowed to come along provided we assisted the group by driving what they call the 'tow-bar', which is basically the vehicle containing the booze and nibblies, lol… but I wont complain, cos I got to take an SS Commodore for a solid ripping. |
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| We started at McGraths Hill McDonalds (some things never seam to change) and proceed through the back of Windsor to reach Bells Line of Road, then taking some extraordinary backroads to Lithgow, Jenolan Caves, Lake Lyell toward Oberon for fuel and then on to Rockley for lunch. We did fairly well for ourselves, we had a delayed start as we had to stop to get ice, took one bad turn before finding the event organizer waiting for us around the next who followed us up Bells Line before getting ahead and we followed for a good 50km before we caught a few stragglers. We missed at least one more corner off the road to Jenolan Caves (a very hard right that wasn't marked…). |
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| After lunch it was off to Orange where we would stay for dinner and a good nights rest, via Perthville, Newbridge, Barry (yes, I was in Barry), Neville (yes, I was also in Neville) but it wasn't without drama's. We found ourselves chatting away, oblivious to where we should have been going, got |
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| marginally caught out passing an intersection and
questioned whether we should have been turning, answer was yes and we got
busted by the Jaguar who caught us. This was nothing, after passing through
the township of Neville, we turned right and were supposed to have turned
left not long after, 10km's on we got a bit suspect and waited for some
signage or intersections before pulling over and instead of backtracking,
we made a slight detour on the dirt, passing over a dam and a wind farm
(think we got more scenery out of it) and was 15km out on our distances,
but we weren't the last to the final stop, and managed our 4:30pm tow-bar
opening with 5 minutes to spare. Next day we made our way from Orange to Portland, via Milthorpe, Bathurst, Mt Panorama and Sunny Corner. We never made it to Mt Panorama due to not finding the street we were supposed to be driving on, so we ended up at Portland before everyone, claiming the win. |
| I'd have to say, I really enjoyed the experience, even if
we were hanging with the oldies, they certainly taught us a thing or two
about how to run and event, the effort and detail that went in to this
run was massive, and realizing no one here knows the guy, I'll still thank
Mike Birks for organizing and allowing Georgia and I to tag along… I
hope he lets us on the next one!Bradsp20 May 20 2007, 09:04 PM OMG OMG Silver Beetle HAWT i think i know that one when i was in the VeeDub Club with my Hot Rod Beetle and that Golf GTi looks familiar to hehehehe Looks like you had an awesome weekend Saul and GeeMazda6ex May 20 2007, 09:14 PM Yeah was excellent, commo is fun, but I really would have preferred my car on the hills, in the twists, on the dirt and pretty much anything that wasnt straigh line cruising, probably wasnt helped by it being an auto, but I wont bitch, cos the 600km went on someone elses car and not mine, so had I had my time over, I'd have done the same thing... I thought maybe we sucked at the whole thing, missing corners and stuff, but we heard some great stories, one of the guys who planned the routes car took a wrong turn and a few followers assumed he knew what he was doing, problem was he was the navigator and was actually asleep at the time and his son was driving/navigating and was struggling. We later found out that the guy was regarded as the one who never gets lost had led 7 cars astray at a previous event... its hard work, you get caught in conversation, forget what turns have been made, you get errors in your trip meter readings and signs dont read right, keeps it intreresting thats for certain! |
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