Story: Ron Macdonald What better way is there to spend a Father’s Day than with a bunch of keen little MX-5s for a cruise around Gippsland? With a beautiful sunny day forecast we set off towards Drouin. One thing of note on the trip down to the start point – we passed a silver NC R
Story: Karen Bradshaw Ian and I decided to make a weekend of our trip to Wangaratta for the North-Eastern Victoria Chapter run to Bright on Sunday. We left Friday afternoon and had a good trip up to Wangaratta – with the roof up as it was pretty cool. We filled in Saturday resting up
Story: Alan Bennett Variety, they say, is the spice of life. Every so often there is a Saturday afternoon run and, as Will Campbell explained, they tend to be occasional, shorter than Sunday runs, afternoons and set to appeal to those that can’t make other events. Easily tempted, my w
Story: Bruce Harvey Ominous black clouds were approaching from the south-west as we enjoyed a coffee and waited for the last of the convoy to arrive at the designated meeting point alongside the Meander River in Deloraine. A couple of the members had been around the local car dealersh
Story: Karen Bradshaw Ian and I met up with Alan, Dawn and Beau on a chilly, dreary Saturday morning for an 8.15am start. We headed to Ballarat to meet up with two more brave souls (Neil and Jeff) at the takeaway shop at the Learmonth Road/Ring Road roundabout. On arrival we had a ver
Story: Bronwyn Roche Heading off on the Central Chapter run from Melbourne to the Club’s annual awards lunch at Macedon was an opportunity for my driver to give the navigator a lesson on the difference between the NA, NB and NC Mazda MX-5 models. Given my level of car identification s
Story: John Waldock So it’s the middle of the year – cold and quite wintery. What better way to celebrate the middle of the year than getting together with the Southern Tassie Chapter to mark the winter solstice … even if it was a little later than the calendar! The run began at
Story: Noellene Gleeson We are outside our home in Ballarat and the sun is shining. Yes … shining! MX-5s start arriving, 11 in all from Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Melbourne. Bronwyn and Geoff present us with a helium balloon with a large “3” on it. A very lovely
Story: Gerry Engwerda Fabulous – the sort of day where you can put the top down right at the start and not have to think about it again for the rest of the run. The start, incidentally, saw us at the Java Café in the main street of Yackandandah (yes, there is such a place), where the
Story: Grant Butler This run was a chance to have a joint run with the Central Chapter. The Eastern Victoria group of five cars left Yarragon and wound their way over the Gippsland hills to Loch for the rendezvous with the Central group, which had left from Berwick. Our group, while s
