NSW MX5 CLUB - STEFAN'S MOUNTAIN MADNESS RUN - 17/5/09

Andrew · Postby **Andrew** » Sun May 17, 2009 11:21 am

Looks like its going to be a great day for a run, have fun guys and girls.

A few pics from the start point -

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:20 pm

i think there is a red biasness going on here..
lol
nice photos andrew.

rockitman · Postby **rockitman** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:21 pm

By lexcen

What the ........? :evil:

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:13 pm

ahh spewing.

sh*t.

not good.

better luck next time STM

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:11 pm

yea .....well....that's how it goes. :oops:

there was some serious cars going by out of that pitt area.

I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.

looking forward to some pics

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:22 pm

I've enjoyed the run as always. Nice to see new faces turn up. Actually quite a few cars turned up. It was great.

What's not so great is the drive back home. In particular the bumper-to-bumper traffic from Katoomba to Lawson. What usually takes about 10-15mins to cover, took over an hour to do.

It took me an extra hour to get home. Not happy Jan.

Postby **Okibi** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:22 pm

Stunning photos as usual Andrew,

Pity they didn't let you do a quick hot lap while the road was closed.

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:24 pm

We took Bells line....Karl drove all the way. I was asleep for most of it. Although traffic was heavy. It was defiantly moving.

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:26 pm

Okibi wrote:Stunning photos as usual Andrew,

Pity they didn't let you do a quick hot lap while the road was closed.

There was a hill climb in process. Some serious hardware came past us just at that point.

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:37 pm

Did any of you drive up the carpark on the top of the hill? I did and got really up close and personal on some of the cars. I particularly wanted to check out that silver F1 looking car from the 20s-40s. It looked like an old Audi.

Pity i forgot my camera today. :cry:

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:57 pm

Hammer wrote: I particularly wanted to check out that silver F1 looking car from the 20s-40s. It looked like an old Audi.

Pity i forgot my camera today.

It came passed us . I'm sure Coffee Boss got a picture of it. It sounded absolutely mad.

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:22 am

Another great run

We started off in splendid form, pealing off onto the 'old' Castlereagh Rd, whilst the rest of the group who had seperated from us at the lights went straight on through behind us. Meanwhile the gunheads at the front (Karl and myself included) b!tched about blind leading the blind, then headed off down the road only to find it was a dead end and it was us who had gone the wrong way! Brilliant :roll:

D

Caught up to the group at Blackheath, had a quick chat to Mark and checked out his immaculate 89 Eunos Roadster.... it's so original, virginal even! Then we headed off, and Karl lost his hat trying to get some good photos, so we had to double back. But this meant we could sit behind Mark's Roadster and watch an original NA tackle some classic b-roads, truly great stuff. Mark, if your on here, i have some photos for you!

Following a brief stop at Tarana we had a cracker of a stage with Stan and Michael's Midori buzzing away infront of us and Mr Q's immaculate SE baring down on us from behind - brilliant.

As for Bathurst being closed, i was honestly glad to see the track being used in some form. It's not the same being there without the sights and sounds of motorsport. There was even a prod-sports style stripped out NA amongst the competitors.

StanTheMan wrote:
Hammer wrote: I particularly wanted to check out that silver F1 looking car from the 20s-40s. It looked like an old Audi.

It came passed us . I'm sure Coffee Boss got a picture of it. It sounded absolutely mad.

I believe it was an Auto Union replica - sure sounded classic. Will post all my pics once i get time to go through them all. A pity you couldn't make it Andrew, your wide angle would have been much more suitable then my clunky old zoom.

I made a point of trying to meet some more people, there really are lots of nice people to meet in the MX5 Club

As for traffic on the way home? Only passed 3 cars in 2 hours on the Porters Retreat road between Bathurst and Goulburn

You guys must have gone the wrong way again

A couple of iPhone piccies:

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:43 pm

Oh, does anyone know who the couple in the evo gold NB are? I was talking to them about MX5 hiring in New Zealand... need to flick them some info, completely forgot to exchange details!

Sliq what happened to you? Kieth, Gobsmax, was good to meet you guys? Is Deen an MX5Cartalker?

CoffeBoss - connecting the dots.

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:28 pm

CoffeeBoss wrote:Oh, does anyone know who the couple in the evo gold NB are? I was talking to them about MX5 hiring in New Zealand... need to flick them some info, completely forgot to exchange details!

Sliq what happened to you? Kieth, Gobsmax, was good to meet you guys? Is Deen an MX5Cartalker?

CoffeBoss - connecting the dots.

I think the name of the lady is Leesa (forgot the husband's name). They are a member of the MX5 Club of NSW. Not sure if they visit the forum.

Deen says he's a forum member. I believe his alias is simply "Deen". Though he says, he's not a regular visitor to the forum.

How do you think the club would go if we recommend we have below our name in our club name tags (which I've never worn), we add our Alias'. I might wear it if it did. :mrgreen:

gobsmax · Postby **gobsmax** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:13 pm

Weren't we meant to re-group @ the United before Lithgow? Kinda swerved into the servo but kept going...anywho, ended up going through Bells which wasn't too bad, got to Richmond and it was grid lock :cry:

Pit stop in Oberon?

Coming into Bathurst

Sofala