Sunday the 9th of February was the 33rd Picnic at Hanging Rock. As usual I popped along for a look. The show is a turn up, pay your money, and park where you’re told to affair for cars over 25 years old. As a result there is a wide variety of locally made stuff, rods, customs, muscle cars, European stuff, Japanese stuff, standard and modified, all wedged in randomly. Here is a small selection of things that I liked.
Two Steam Horses
Halfinger – turns out the Australian Army had 46 of these which explains the steering wheel on the correct side
Nice Commodore wagon
Ginormous GMC
IROC-Z
Datsun
2 HZ Panel Vans (I like panel vans, there will be a few of them in the thread, sorry)
Oh look, another one
And another
Lovely Holden
Clean VH SL/E
Racy Skyline
Jeep
Road Runner
Another van
Sexy Swede
Blown Vette
Peugeot 203
Charger
VP Commodore SS
DS
VW Country Buggy: developed by VW Australia for the Army. As far as I can tell they never took any.
Unusual colour for an SLR5000
Nice XK150
Edsel
Classy Merc coupe
Bagged (I hope)
Charger Daytona, which as far as I can tell is genuine. Never thought I’d see one in the flesh
Datsun Homer
’73 ‘Cuda
Another panel van!
Nice Golf
Kool Kustom . No idea what it started out as. Any ideas?
Leyland P76 doing its party trick. Designed in Australia and launched in 1973 would you be surprised to learn the early ones were badly built and unreliable? It got a reputation for being a lemon and was canned in 1975.
Smokey!!
Guess what this is!
Bagged Ford
Mayflowers. These were assembled in Port Melbourne from CKD kits. The Utes were modified saloons – Australian unique and only 150 built
Oakland V8 (belongs to a friend of mine)
Lovely Mazda 1500 (slightly over exposed)
Challenger
When I grow up I want to be (a bad facsimile of ) a Ferrari
British Muscle
My barber’s Chevy. RHD and assembled in Port Melbourne by Holden.
Bentley
Holden LE (Limited Edition): 580 of these were built from left over bits. Those are not alloy wheels; they are a rubbery plastic moulding stuck to a steelie.
Torino
Aussie VH Valiant Charger 770: could be a 4.3, 5.2, or 5.6 litre.
Trans Am’s turbo gauge. How cool is that?
And finally, what do you do if you have a Merc 250 SE and need more power? You fit a turbo charged straight six Ford Barra engine. I’m going to guess (given the red cover) that this is a 245T which if it is stock would put out 329 hp and 480 Nm. That is slightly more than the 110 hp and 216 Nm the car left the factory with. Barra the World!
In no particular order we have:
Halfinger – turns out the Australian Army had 46 of these which explains the steering wheel on the correct side
Nice Commodore wagon
Ginormous GMC
IROC-Z
Datsun
2 HZ Panel Vans (I like panel vans, there will be a few of them in the thread, sorry)
Oh look, another one
And another
Lovely Holden
Clean VH SL/E
Racy Skyline
Jeep
Road Runner
Another van
Sexy Swede
Blown Vette
Peugeot 203
Charger
VP Commodore SS
DS
VW Country Buggy: developed by VW Australia for the Army. As far as I can tell they never took any.
Unusual colour for an SLR5000
Nice XK150
Edsel
Classy Merc coupe
Bagged (I hope)
Charger Daytona, which as far as I can tell is genuine. Never thought I’d see one in the flesh
Datsun Homer
’73 ‘Cuda
Another panel van!
Nice Golf
Kool Kustom . No idea what it started out as. Any ideas?
Leyland P76 doing its party trick. Designed in Australia and launched in 1973 would you be surprised to learn the early ones were badly built and unreliable? It got a reputation for being a lemon and was canned in 1975.
Smokey!!
Guess what this is!
Bagged Ford
Mayflowers. These were assembled in Port Melbourne from CKD kits. The Utes were modified saloons – Australian unique and only 150 built
Oakland V8 (belongs to a friend of mine)
Lovely Mazda 1500 (slightly over exposed)
Challenger
When I grow up I want to be (a bad facsimile of ) a Ferrari
British Muscle
My barber’s Chevy. RHD and assembled in Port Melbourne by Holden.
Bentley
Holden LE (Limited Edition): 580 of these were built from left over bits. Those are not alloy wheels; they are a rubbery plastic moulding stuck to a steelie.
Torino
Aussie VH Valiant Charger 770: could be a 4.3, 5.2, or 5.6 litre.
Trans Am’s turbo gauge. How cool is that?
And finally, what do you do if you have a Merc 250 SE and need more power? You fit a turbo charged straight six Ford Barra engine. I’m going to guess (given the red cover) that this is a 245T which if it is stock would put out 329 hp and 480 Nm. That is slightly more than the 110 hp and 216 Nm the car left the factory with. Barra the World!
