MX5 Club Vic "Sunrise on the Great Ocean Road" Run 2010

[toymx5]

I stayed up at the otway light house for a mate bday last weekend and drove Home via the GOR on Sunday around lunch and most of the road surface was great! There were no road works like last year either! Let's hope the weather holds out for us as there was a fair bit of debre on the road after separation creek....

Toymx5 hope to see you there mate, maybe we can meet up near your place and drive in? I finally got some Tyres on the new wheels! I went with your advice and got Dunlop Z1 starspecs from Stuckeys.

Can't wait to see wheels and tyres, very trick Stuckeys have been the Dunlop race tyre distributor in Vic since before you were born, what they don't know about tyres isn't worth knowing !

Cool, do you want to meet at my place at 5.15ish and we can head to the meeting point, it's only 15 mins from here !

[toymx5]

Anyone from down the other side of the bay interested in meeting up for the drive around to the meeting point ???

Will hopefully be leaving from Skye (deposit placed hope to have it in my garage in time). I assume you are talking about coming from Frankston direction, Would be up for joining a convoy about Seaford Safeway carpark area.

I'm coming from Balnarring so Seaford would be fine for me.

Cant wait car cleaned & ready to go, Will be at Safeway Seaford carpark about 4.30-4.45 (or any time to suit)if you are still keen to meet up for a run around the bay.

Great to hear you're all set to go with Woodstock, we can introduce her to little Toy Should be a fun day !! I'll look for you at the meeting point.

[joni]

See y'all tomorrow early morning! Weather will be perfecto **18 degrees & fine** .. when that alarm goes off don't think of the ungodly hour and roll back over but the great time you will have if you GET UP!!!! Joni & Chris

[pcmx5]

Very well organised, short stop at Lorne and then at your own pace to A/B
Great morning ,cars looked magnificent and totally tookover the town.
Should be more of these, congratulations to all concerned.
Took the Le and the NC (with a lttle help) and both handled beautifully, LE still the more pure sports car,NC deceptively quick and feeling smaller and lighter the more I use it.

Peter.

[de Bounce]

It was a great run

Weather was near perfect
Lots of nice cars
It was good to catch up with everyone again

[Stu]

Sorry for the shaky footage, but these videos were taken with a mobile.

Footage of mx-5's everywhere @ Service Stop near Avalon:





Viewpoint between Lorne and Apollo Bay:

[91 Malibu]

Great 1st run back in an MX5, really have to do something about the guard rub on the rear tyres , so I can go a bit quicker next time.

[emexv]

I agree, what a great day. Was great to meet some new faces and catch up with some old acquaintances. Some great footage there too Stu.

Thanks Joni and Chris for a top day. Look forward to the next one.

[Randy]

It was a great day. Nice to catch up with everyone again and the run to Apollo Bay with Rob H was awesome. I think both Chris and Andrea deserve medals for being so brave!!!

[taminga16]

After an eight minute trip from St. Kilda, arriving just as every-one was readying to leave we followed the group along Geelong Road under cloudy skies that were opening all of the while. A beaut drive on the Great Ocean Road followed by a lovely breakfast in good company at Apollo Bay, we then continued along the Great Ocean Rd, through to Lavers Hill on to Colac, Cressy, Ballarat and home (Maldon), just in time for the rain to start (roof off all the way).

A big thank you to the organisers for the time and effort taken, we look forward to the next trip and catching up with every-one again.

Greg & Kerry

[Red Dragon]

It certainly was a great day.
Just as we were getting ready to leave a chap in commodore pulled up next to us, it seems he has recently bought a 2 year old NC and lives on the hill at Skenes Creek.
He said it looked very impresive to see about 60 MX5's go past this morning.
We gave him a club card and he will be looking to join soon.

[05ragtop]

What a beautiful way to spend a Sunday---------great car,great company, great conditions. Just a TOPless day. Cheers Johno

[joni]

Thanks everyone for turning up!

We had a great drive as did most others we think. Other drivers were actually using the slow vehicle turn outs which was a bonus!

See you next year.

Any improvements we would most certainly welcome any feedback both good & bad.

We are considering a Little River BP service centre meeting point (rather than Westgate Shell) - the place where we stopped for toilet break ... this way Western Ring Roaders and others wouldn't have to backtrack to city. What do you think?

Joni & Chris

[emexv]

We are considering a Little River BP service centre meeting point (rather than Westgate Shell) - the place where we stopped for toilet break ... this way Western Ring Roaders and others wouldn't have to backtrack to city. What do you think?

That's a great idea guys. It's got alot more room and by the time everyone gets there the sun is up which is better for photos. How good did all those MX5's parked in the two groups look.

[de Bounce]

Thanks everyone for turning up!

We are considering a Little River BP service centre meeting point (rather than Westgate Shell) - the place where we stopped for toilet break ... this way Western Ring Roaders and others wouldn't have to backtrack to city. What do you think?

Joni & Chris

Thanks for leading the trip, was a great day.
I believe the Little River BP service centre would be a great meeting point for all trips heading through Geelong, for starters the toilets were open!
It also breaks to monotonous run from the City to Geelong.