Today’s run was south of Sydney, to Jim & Sancho's 25-acre rural property in Wilton to celebrate our Motor Enthusiasts Group's 10th Anniversary.
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| Club Members arriving outside Jim & Sancho's house |
Our visit to Wilton today also coincided with the running of the most prestigious Motor race on the Australian autosports calendar, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.
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| A Red 911 Porsche parked beside my 1931 Model A Ford 2-door Delux Tudor Sedan, plus the other Mercedes are owned by fellow Club members are parked in the tranquil rural setting |
As you can witness in the accompanying photographs, this amazing place owned by fellow MEG Club members Jim & Sancho is where they are raising old cars.
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Club members met at Sublime Point lookout at 10:00am [see earlier post] and from there it was only a short 30-minute drive inland to Wilton where we arrived just in time to watch the start of this famous Mount Panorama 1000km race.
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| Complementing the cars, a great collection of signed Australian Team cricket bats - all signed by members of the teams |
Once the great race had started and the cars and drivers settled down on the Mount Panorama Circuit for the next 6-hours of high speed wheel to wheel motor racing it was now time to check out Jim & Sancho's man shed and other classic motor vehicles that had been scattered around the property.
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| Plenty of Mercedes on display and one Rolls Royce |
We were in for a magnificent afternoon of food & drinks, beautiful motor vehicles, catching up with old friends, and also admiring this wonderful rural property that Jim & Sancho had offered the MEG Club to celebrate our 10th Anniversary in fine style.
We were all spoilt rotten, they treated us all like 'silk worms'.
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| We were well catered for with plenty of food to go round |
As you can also see not only do they collect classic vehicles, they also have some of the latest mean machines in their stable, from the latest Ford Mustang ‘Bullitt’, various Porsches, Chevy Chapelle, Chevy SS, 351 Ford Falcon, plus so many more treasures that are not in these photographs.
In one of their other sheds they had display cases full of Model cars, not to mention the Cricket paraphernalia that you would die for, as you will see in the photographs.
I would say that Jim & Sancho have a very soft spot in their hearts for all makes and models of Mercedes Benz, after walking through their ‘Man Shed’ this afternoon.
The photograph showing the Red 911 Porsche parked beside my 1931 Model A Ford 2-door Delux Tudor Sedan, plus the other Mercedes are owned by fellow MEG Club members are parked in the tranquil rural setting.
I managed to snap this photograph off the TV screen [above] that Jim & Sancho had set up for the punters to view the race.
Also today I was pleasantly surprised to see this mirror [below] in their collection, & here is the reason why; Way back in the middle ‘70s when I was a young ‘Trolly- Dolly’ with Qantas, I was known as the ‘Mirror Man’. (Leave it with me and I will look into it for you).
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| Highly collectable cars lined up on the driveway |
In one of their other sheds they had display cases full of Model cars, not to mention the Cricket paraphernalia that you would die for, as you will see in the photographs.
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| Quite a few Mercedes lined up in the Man Shed |
I would say that Jim & Sancho have a very soft spot in their hearts for all makes and models of Mercedes Benz, after walking through their ‘Man Shed’ this afternoon.
The photograph showing the Red 911 Porsche parked beside my 1931 Model A Ford 2-door Delux Tudor Sedan, plus the other Mercedes are owned by fellow MEG Club members are parked in the tranquil rural setting.
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| The #12 Ford Mustang of Fabian Coulthard competing live at Bathurst |
I managed to snap this photograph off the TV screen [above] that Jim & Sancho had set up for the punters to view the race.
Also today I was pleasantly surprised to see this mirror [below] in their collection, & here is the reason why; Way back in the middle ‘70s when I was a young ‘Trolly- Dolly’ with Qantas, I was known as the ‘Mirror Man’. (Leave it with me and I will look into it for you).
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| A classic Coca-Cola mirror brought back a piece of history and many personal memories from the past for me |
There is always a reason & here it is... as a side line to my flying days to make extra money, I also ran a business called ‘CHEWIE NEWGUTT’. I imported English Pub mirrors (Coca-Cola, Southern Comfort & various beers) etc, from Leeds in the UK.
We would import 10-ton of these glass mirrors of various designs in wooden crates, when the glass arrived here in Australia, I had a 5000 sq.ft factory in Peakhurst where we would manufacture the wooden picture frames and then on-sell the finished product to the retailers.
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| Plenty of cabinets chock full of model cars |
If you are old enough you would remember these mirrors circulating in all the shops throughout Sydney. (Well that was me, the ‘Mirror Man’). So needless to say, when I saw this Coca-Cola mirror displayed in the Man Shed today, it bought back many memories for me.
So my friends that is the end of another weekend adventure, I certainly hope that you have enjoyed this report, because I sure have been delighted in sharing this great MEG 10th Anniversary BarBQ with you all.
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| Just a small part of the household collection of cars on display |
So my friends that is the end of another weekend adventure, I certainly hope that you have enjoyed this report, because I sure have been delighted in sharing this great MEG 10th Anniversary BarBQ with you all.
Thanks once again to Jim & Sancho for making the effort to make today such a smash hit.
See you soon. Cheers
Warbo.
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