2023 Shannon's CMC Classic

 Sydney turned-on a spectacular winter's day for the 2023 Shannon's CMC Classic held on Sunday at Sydney Motorsport Park.  This was perfect weather for our classic cars with warm sunshine and crystal clear skies.    

We had a great turn-out and as usual the club displayed a varied and interesting selection of cars.  As with all of our events, it provides the opportunity to catch-up with members we see regularly, meet new members and also welcome back a returning member or two!

One of the great things about the event is that with over 1,800 cars on display from over 100 clubs you see many cars that you've either never seen before or were once relatively common and have simply disappeared off our roads.  I've already bought a lotto ticket so I can make the owner of the silver Lancia Flaminia convertible from the Lancia Club an offer he can't refuse...

The highlight of the event however is the parade lap of the race track.  When it came to our time, we followed the Jowett Club (all of two cars) out onto the track for our lap of honour.  The Jowett Javelin saloon was an extremely innovative and attractive English family car by 1950s standards, but traffic in post-war England mustn't have been particularly quick as even our leading 500s had to hold back!  But still a great experience and to look in the rear vision mirror to see the line-up of some spectacular cars from the club weaving their way around the track including Alfa 75, Duetto, GTV, Lancia Beta HPE, Maserati Merak, Fiat 1100 and 124s (amongst others) was amazing.  

 Equally impressive, Gerardo Mediati's magnificent Fiat 600 Multipla was on display along Pit Straight as part of the concours display.  It more than held it's own amongst the concours entrants and Gerardo should be immensely proud of his extremely rare and very special little car.  

 A fantastic day out, and I'm looking forward to next year's event already! 

Corey

 

Corey