Studebaker Car Club Of New South Wales Inc.

24th May 2009

NSW Concours - The Entrance, NSW.

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Report by Phil Hendo - From 'Stude News'

Held for the 3rd year over a weekend at The Entrance. Secretary Gary K did a deal once again with the Waldorf Apartments for accommodation at $125 a night, which was good value.

We left at 1pm on Friday afternoon and encountered very heavy rain on the way. It was not looking good for the weekend, but being over a weekend it was not possible to postpone the meet due to accommodation.

The 2nd floor of the Council Car Park was an option to hold the Concours if the weather didn’t improve.
 

Many members arrived Friday night and it was a great night at The Entrance Hotel with members from NSW, Mid-West, Queensland and Newcastle Clubs.
 

The weather cleared on Saturday for an Observation Run organised by Gary & Birgit.

After the controversy surrounding last years observation run concerning the number of speed bumps, Gary was careful this year and wrote on the observation form that no correspondence will be entered into which he brought up after members had 4 answers to one question. We advised Gary that this wasn’t Correspondence, it was verbal abuse and there was a lot of it. Gary vowed never to do an Observation Run again but we will have to talk him into it again as he does so well.

The final destination was Avoca beach and most members crossed the road for lunch before returning to The Entrance for another night of socialising at The Entrance Hotel. We were lucky as it didn’t rain at all on Saturday and the wind had dropped down a bit.
 

Sunday was looking good, the Concours area had dried out and the Council opened the gates to let us in.

The Concours was run as previous years with members voting for their choices in class preferences and their top 10 cars. There were 26 cars in attendance, not a bad total considering the weather. We were very lucky with the weather as the southerly wind died down and we only had a brief 5 minute shower on Sunday.

The Concours was organised by Steve Leyden who did a lot of work getting the cars in the correct class positions and organising the judging forms. Tim Green found out that the Treasurer spent the Concours day doing paper work and never got a good look at the cars on display. Michael Frew did a lot of work helping Steve & Tim.

Luck ran out for members travelling back to Sydney on Sunday afternoon as an idiot spun out his high powered Commodore on the Freeway and we faced 3 lanes at 110km/h merging into 1 lane at 5km/h.
 

We must thank people who travelled long distances to attend our Concours this year, Chris Skinner from Brisbane, Ken & Sylvia Gibbs from Queenbeyan and Brian & Michael Frew from Meroo Meadow.
 

President Phillip Baker presented trophies to winners, results below.