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: Bob de Bont Round 5 of the NGK Victorian Motorkhana Championship for 2012 was held on 5 July, hosted by the Holden Sports Car Club of Victoria. The MX-5 Club was represented by Troy and Tony Heasly in Troy’s NB8B, and Bob de Bont in his NB8B. We set off from the BP Outbound on
2011-12 Championship | Round 1 Phillip Island Sprints ~ 30 June, 2012 We had so much rain in Melbourne over the past few weeks leading up to our first Club Sprint of the new MX-5 Club Motor Sport Championship – it would definitely be all rained out by Saturday for Phillip Island, givi
Story: Bob de Bont Round 3 of the NGK Victorian Motorkhana Championship for 2012 was held on 13 May and hosted by the Victorian Mini Club at the Pakenham Auto Club grounds in Pakenham. There was fine weather leading up to this event, however the heavens opened on the Saturday night pr
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
