The Nationals "show and shine" this morning and many cars turned up by 0900, which I guess is great as the official start was 0830. Lots of cars just there for display, as was the Count, though a lot still there for the whole competition and trophies end of show. Over all it was a great range of cars and standards really varied from the trailer attendees to the original and the everyday drivers, fantastic to see such variety. Many people really put so much time and effort into the cars and some really put so much money into them as well. Lots of cars that have been retrofitted with running gear from a variety of other cars, though mainly Nissan/Datsun and Toyota engines and disc brakes, some with turbos and the like. My personal taste is for the original Morris/Austin engines though I can certainly appreciate the effort and engineering that goes into the engine swapped cars, the performance from a Morrie with turbocharged twin cam Toyota 4AGE installed must surely be amazing. Interesting too to see how many cars have also been fitted with dual circuit brakes as well, even the cars with original engines, guess it is much easier to work on and certainly safer if one circuit fails.
Nissan power
Toyota Twin Cam Turbo
Sue's car always attracts attention
Over all some amazing cars to see and great to catch up with some of the Canberra club members, weather and location were both great.
On the way home stopped by some friends place and took the previous owner of the car for a drive before heading back to Melbourne, which seemed like a fast four hour journey this time and on arrival it appears that one of the rear tyres has decided to give up the ghost and has developed a leak fro the inner tube.
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