Bolwell Easter 2013, Albany day 2

Today was based around the concourse event down at Eyre Park in Albany.

A short bit of organising to ready the cars and then the procession of vehicles down to the park commenced.

With 15 cars travelling in convoy there were a few looks and then the cars were staged in no particular order for the judging and public viewing.

A succession of locals and out of towners came through to look at and enquire about the cars.

This included a couple of vehicles from hot rod group in town also enjoying the weekend.

Judging took place.

And lunch was served and enjoyed.

Before the cars were arranged for a photo shoot (the first of a couple?).

With the photos of the group completed a run back in to town via the south of Mt Adelaide was enjoyed, though sloooow single lane back up through Albany centre would have been a lot more trouble with another 10 degrees of temperature.

With some spare time in the afternoon a few if the cars made it down to the show and shine the hot rods were having. This provided an hour or so of browsing another breed of car before cleaning up for the evenings entertainment.

The entertainment was lessened with notice of the newest Nagari not keeping all of its fuel internally (but I know a Mark 7 that does the same, so it's not something new in the family). So a quick adjustment of parking location and then boarding the bus to dinner.

Dinner was preceded with a tour of the Albany Whale World which was an informational tour of the old whale processing facility.

Then food and drinks and laughter.

And a bus trip back to the hotel and sweet dreams for tomorrows motorkhana.

Bolwell Ester 2013 - Albany Day 1

Firstly, thank you to all those who arranged and helped to arrange the weekend, it's been a great start so far to the Bolwell Easter Meeting, 2013.

So we had cars from around the southern half of the country head to Albany for a couple of days of mutual adoration, plus the people get to catch up with each other, renew and make new friendships, and generally all behave like teenagers with toys again.

Cars were brought to town on trailers and behind vans.

And as we love our fiberglass cars, we're not too picky about who joins the gang.

a J&S Hunter

a GT 40 replica

In the Bolwell range a nice selection, though not complete (but a November Celebration of Motorsport will hopefully have such)

a Mark 4 (with night cap on)

A couple of Mark Sevens

And the Nagari

Plus the new Mark 10 Nagari

But with the door sill (though not as wide as the GT 40), it's still not that much easier to get out of than a normal Bolwell.

People needed to road test the cars to make sure everything survived the trip down.

There were cars of passing generations

Some cars (well most Bolwells really) still have the odd improvement/adjustment still to be completed.

And some just needed to be pondered over.

Once everyone had sorted out their cars, a little tlc finishes off the serious part of the day.

 Before we can hang out and do what we've apparently always done, eat, drink and be merry (and say what we'd like to still do to the car).

 And I apologise to the car or two that isn't shown. But I'm sure that'll be rectified when we have our Concourse event tomorrow (today).

Hooray, I can take more photos :)