Farmer's Photos from Motorfest 2011

[Farmer]

Hi everybody! About time I put up some pics from a VERY...NICE...DAY!

Woo-Hoo, honourary Bellett like at Adelaide Nats.
Nice Line-up!

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Tom's GT-R, Good polish happening this year!

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Neil's '69 G.T. Very Nice.

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Jack's Original 1 Owner G.T. - Still going strong, just like it's owner.

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Gary's '69 DeLuxe.

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Dennis & Marg's '68 Auto. Shiny!

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More soon. So Many Cars!!
Matt.

[Farmer]

On we go.....
Dave's '68 1/2 G.T. (oops, missed it last night......it was late.....)

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Gary Carter's '67 Auto

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Mark's '67 manual (Placed 'For Sale' on the day. PM for details)

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Neville's '66 1/2 manual. Genuine sub 50,000 miles. Really nice.

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The Broth's '67.

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Doris. (My '66 Auto)

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Still more to come........

[GerryBellettGT]

Great photos would luv to see the GTR in real life,maybe we need to start talkin about the Lakeside Raceway day or RACQ Motorfest this year to get some southern cars north of the border

[Farmer]

Hmmmm, Yeaaaah....Good Gerry. And I have 2 brothers up that way. Pehaps we could combine a visit - Tracy should go for that!

Here are the rest.....

Bob's '65 Benchy - Just 2 teardrops today.

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And the Colt - '69 1100 liftback. There's a story here....

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Brother Gary's son, Zac spotted it in 'Just Cars'. A quick trip to Tumut secured the little find, but about an hour short of town, Gary gets a call from Brother Greg - " I want you to look at a car for me". Long story short - Several other calls were made, and I believe the word 'Please' was used a fair bit. (Greg bought one of these new in 1968)
A set of plugs, clean fuel, and a brake fix, and Greg was able to fly down & drive her from Bemboka to Sydney ( 6-7 hours) - no dramas!
A rare little find - here are a few more pics.

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Cheers friends,
There was lots of nice Japan metal, lets know if you want to see some.
Matt.

[Stickman]

That is a sweet little colt.
Cheers for the pics Matt

[bembokabellettbloke]

great pics Matt!!!!!
was a great weekend.....

[mrflibbles]

the colts pretty cool, nice find! great shots of the cars.

[KJB]

" Love that car ....." still !
KB

[yellowperil]

Thanks for going to the trouble of putting all the photos up Farmer. They all look great. The GTR is fantastic. Whoever the owner is..congratulations an an excellent car.

I'd almosty forgotten about the little Colts. And while we're on about different marques I'd like to let Stickman know that the Datty 120Y fastback coupe is one very nice looking example of 70s Japanese design, good luck with it. But you know I have a bias towards 70's fastback coupes...not that I'm mentioning any ones in particular
YP

[Farmer]

No worries! And yeah, Tom's GT-R is/goes/sounds nice. Tom was a member of the Sydney Bellett Club when I first got my licence in the late 70's, and was a competative racer. He still has his PR90 race car. It was nice to look around his shed after motorfest.

I remember reading the Wheels "SCOOP" about the Datsun 1200 replacement. (Brother Chris had a 1200 coupe at the time). It was so rounded & swoopy & had that pointed third side window. SUCH a change! Pretty soon they were everywhere, and there was something MORE economical than a Bellett. Important now the energy crisis had hit and fuel had spiralled to 17 c/lt!
Hmmm, I'm getting on a bit....

Sorry I don't share the Marina......appreciation. I guess my brothers had exclusively bought Japanese after finally getting out of ponderous old Vauxhalls & Standards, so I just couldn't look at anything even remotely from the "Old Country".
But there's someone for everything - Motorfest is testament to that!.
Cheers

[GTtoo]

Bellett'o'mania !! Great to see Matt. Sorry I missed it earlier.

Oh, and yes... more please.

Looks like a great day, Cheers,

B.

[Farmer]

Toyota gallery. Some nice examples......
Tiara 1500

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'68 Crown Deluxe.
(To think, my Crown 'S' was in this condition when I got it!)

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Shovelnose 5 door '67(?)

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Shovelnose ute - '69

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'69 Corolla wagon - makes me wanna Bellett express, MORE!

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How many miles?? Showroom.

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Like 'em.

[Farmer]

One for Yellow Perril & Sticky!
Sorry, no coupes, but........

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Shows me there's someone for everything.
(NOT the owner)......

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Someone behind me says, "I know I'm getting old when there are SIGMAS at motorfest!"
"Only 3 years to the first Magnas!" I reply.

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WooooOOOOooooo, Peter Wherret Special!!

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Special.

To the likers of all these cars, I'm glad that they are cared about. Someone has to save a few!
EH's & XP's (& most things) were put in smash up derbys once because they were common & rubbish. Lucky someone saved a few.
Cheers.

[BULLITT]

thanks farmer some great shots of the other little gems loved by all their owners good stuff matt regards davo

[Stickman]

Your a champ Matt, thanks for the extra non uzu pics, even the (clear the throat and mumble under your breath) morris.
luv the toyo ute, not many of them around any more.

Thanks again

Stickman