Calendar 2017
14th January Fish and chip Run Triumph Sports Owners Ass
4th March Fluffy Duck Rally Australian Historic Rally Group
7th May Euro Day MG Hunter
Euro Day 2017
With bad weather playuing the organizing club, MG Car Club Hunter region, this year’s Euro Day was held at the McDonald Jones Stardom instead of Lambton Park. It is a difficult thing to stage a car show on a hard surface like a car park, it always feels like you at the local shopping centre all be it back in time. A good number of cars and clubs showed up to put their cars on display but it was hard to say whether numbers were up or down on previse years.
Yellow Duck Motorsport was represented by a TR7 Sprint, which was a late decision as the MK I 2500 originally planned had a mechanical problem the day before, that meant the Display trailer also had to stay at home.
Jim Pope
The TR7 at the 2017 Euro Day
10th June Des West Classic Australian Historic Rally Group
15th July Newcastle All British Day Jag Drivers Club Hunter
27th August Sydney All British Day plus TSOA Concourse
All British Day 2017
A fine winter’s day greeted participants forthis years All British Day, but numbers seemed to be down on passed years. Unlike last year clubs didn’t seem to go to very much effort to put on a display it was more like a car park than a display day. Having said that there was still a lot of great British cars parked all over the football field of King School to admirer.
Yellow Duck Motorsport was represented by aTriumph MK I Sedan parked amongst the Triumph Sports Owners Association Display.
Jim Pope
The MK I parked with the other Triumphs
2nd September Heart of the Hunter Australian Historic Rally Group
Heart of the Hunter Historic Rally 2017
A large field of around 35 historic rally cars gathered at Freemans Waterholes, for the start of this years Heart of the Hunter Historic Rally organized by the Australian Historic Rally Group. A large cross section of cars entered the event, everything from BMW’s to Fiat’s to Alfa’s plus Datsun’s, Toyota’s and a whole lot more.
The rally route took competitors north through Clarence town, then on to Dungog for lunch and eventually to the Potters brewery and the finish near Cessnock.
Yellow Duck Motorsport did not compete this year but was represented by Jim Pope filming the cars go by.
Check out AHRG’s web site to more details and results (see Links page)
Jim Pope
The MK I at the start of The Heart of the Hunter
19th/20th/21st October Black Stump Rally
4th November November 200 Rally Australian Historic Rally Group
MK I at the November 200 Rally
2nd December Christmas Run Australian Historic Rally Group