2017-09-24 08:53
The Sydney German Car Show 2017 was held today and as usual it did not disappoint. A great selection of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, VW and Audi’s were on display. … Read More
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A classic car blog focusing mostly on Mercedes-Benz, Citroen and Jaguar
2017-09-23 12:18
My Mercedes collection after giving them a quick wash. A representative from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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2017-09-23 12:05
I had a couple of small jobs on the 250SE I had been meaning to do for months. Since the car is to be displayed at the German Car show, it seemed like a good time to do them.
One of t… Read More
2017-09-18 05:11
This weekend I was down in Canberra. Since the 2017 ACT German Car Show was on, I stopped by. Unfortunately, I was only able to stay for 10 minutes as I had assumed it was held… Read More
2017-09-15 10:06
NSW has a great historic registration system. It allows for classics to be used for 60 days on a logbook for a drastically reduced fee. For unknown reasons the plates issued ar… Read More
2017-08-28 11:28
The 2017 British Car Show was the 37th such event. The first one I attended was the 2011 British Car show. This website did not exist in 2011, so the photos were never posted… Read More
2017-08-27 09:46
The annual British car display day at the Kings School is not be missed. Over 1500 classic British cars, trucks and commercial vehicles. The weather was lovely so the turnout was… Read More
2017-08-26 04:45
The paintwork on the DS is now complete and the car is ready to be re-assembled.
I have the car back in my warehouse. To re-assemble I need to:
Re-fit the four door cards, rea… Read More
2017-08-19 05:47
The DS should be ready to be collected next week. All the panels are back on including the NOS bonnet.
The front of the car looks pretty much as it should now. Just minor adju… Read More
2017-08-18 11:34
Recently on the 300SE I had to make a decision if I would fix the head gasket or junk the car. To do the repair right was going to cost pretty much what I paid for the car. I h… Read More
2017-08-18 08:12
The new paint is almost complete and it looks amazing! The car is completely transformed with a professional paint job and a nice colour. In addition, the wheels are spor… Read More
2017-08-17 14:06
Despite having no luck with the normal European suppliers, I was able to source much better C Pillar trims for the DS locally through the Aussie Frogs Forum. The DS C Pillar tri… Read More
2017-07-29 06:48
The painting is starting on the Citroen and its looking great! I’m really happy with the colour, Rouge Massena. It looks much nicer than the Rio Red that it was painted pr… Read More
2017-07-08 12:01
I have landed on a colour. My DS will be Rouge Massena. I prefer this colour to the Rouge Carmin for such a big car. It is less ‘pink’ in the sun and the dar… Read More
2017-07-08 11:42
The DS is now repaired and is in the process of preparation for paint. Not only did work need to be done to fix the damage from the crash, but previous repairs had to be put right too… Read More
2017-07-01 06:41
The DS is almost ready for paint. Most of the work has been on the doors and rear wings. Both rear wings are pretty much ready and the doors are not far behind.
There a… Read More
2017-06-24 07:49
The doors have now been removed from the DS to prepare them for paint. The DS makes this easier than most other cars as the panels are all unstressed and fairly easy to remove. … Read More
2017-06-22 10:39
The repairs to the DS continue to progress well. The crash damage is now repaired and the new parts I was able to get for the car have all been fitted and seem to fit well. The… Read More
2017-06-17 04:54
Back in September last year, I unfortunately crashed my DS. Since then, I was able to track down a NOS bonnet, some good used bumpers and other parts and strip the rear of the car. &n&hell…Read More
2017-06-15 08:04
The Mercedes-Benz museum is the best of the manufacturer museums I have been to. I was able to visit the new museum in 2008, which was a couple of years after it opened, replacing the… Read More
2017-06-14 09:59
The current Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart opened in 2006, but it wasn’t new. There was a previous Museum that was replaced. The previous Museum was smaller, but it was… Read More
2017-06-13 12:05
The Gilmore museum is one of the worlds best car museums. I was able to visit back in 2010 when I lived in Michigan and it was a highlight. A friend of mine and I took a t… Read More
2017-06-07 12:26
In 2010 I attended the Concours d’Elegance of America, at Meadow Brook hall. This is still the best concours event I have ever attended. I was living in Detroit, Michigan… Read More
2016-07-06 04:01
This weeks Ad covers the face lift of the Citroen DS that gave us the 3rd nose. This is the American version, so it unfortunately depicts the ugly American version of the lights &ndas&hell…Read More
2016-07-03 08:05
A display at the Gosford Car museum offered an interesting comparison between the Ponton and Finnie 220S models with two parked next to each other in the same colour. The W111 finnie… Read More
2016-06-29 03:48
This is a really odd Fiat ad for the 1100. The text covers some of its features, but the picture and the reference to the tolls is bizarre. Obviously they are stayi… Read More
2016-06-22 03:40
This is a great Ad for the W113 230SL depicting it as a temptress preying on well heeled men. It would been seen as Sexist today but I think it is rather clever and fits in well with… Read More
2016-06-15 03:30
This ad show the Mk2 3.8l Jaguar for the US market. It is a rather odd ad in that it depicts the car in some kind of storm, but the car is so small you can hardly see it. The St… Read More
2016-06-12 09:15
The Gosford Car museum just opened, and Australia now has a classic car museum to rival some of the museums of the world. Having been to some great Museums around the world… Read More
2016-06-12 07:37
Today I was fortunate enough to join the Rolls Royce club for their drive to the new Gosford Car Museum. I am not a member of the club but was invited by a friend who is. … Read More
2016-06-07 03:23
This Citroen Ad from 1963 covers a key selling point of the DS which was that its Aerodyamic Styling allows it to have a fairly small engine giving good fuel consumption but still allowing a… Read More
2016-06-04 03:04
In July 2010 I went to the Arthritis Auto show in Columbus Ohio. As I understand it this show raises money for the Arthritis foundation and there was a really great selection of cars… Read More
2016-05-28 06:37
The next Shannons auction is to be held in Sydney on Monday so I went to the viewing day to see the cars offered for sale.
Even though nothing really grabbed my at this auction it is always… Read More
2016-05-24 06:14
The 450SLC is complete and I picked it up over the weekend. What a difference from the faded original paint at the front of the car – it is like having a new one.
The re… Read More
2016-05-18 02:50
The 450SLC is now completed. Last week the actual spraying was done, and this week the car was polished, re-assembled and checked. I do my final inspection and collect th… Read More
2016-05-14 10:52
Another week has gone by at the panel beaters on the 450SLC and the car is getting much closer to completion. Last week was mostly rust repair and preparation, this week completed the… Read More
2016-05-07 10:30
My 450SLC has now spent a week at the panel beaters having rust removed and being prepared for paint.
The starting point was the chassis rail on the drivers side.
This was welded and then p… Read More
2016-05-01 12:32
Old performance cars are not particularly fast by modern standards. They are surpassed by a garden variety hatchback in performance. But while they might not be particularly fa… Read More
2016-04-23 11:25
The Traction Avant has a fairly large oil cap that at least on my car is a loose fit. Underneath it there is a metal plate with holes in it which let the oil drain into the engine when… Read More
2016-04-21 23:22
The big Achilles heel in the R/C107 chassis is its propensity to rust. They are pretty much bullet proof mechanically, but the rust proofing from the factory was poor and there are a… Read More
2016-04-16 12:16
I am a fan of the Rover P5, but I don’t have the time, room or funds to purchase one. So the solution is to buy a book!
I purchased this book: Rover P5 & P5B: T… Read More
2016-04-16 12:16
I am a fan of the Rover P5, but I don’t have the time, room or funds to purchase one. So the solution is to buy a book!
I purchased this book: Rover P5 & P5B: T… Read More
2016-04-10 10:19
Today I joined the Mercedes club on a drive to Wollombi, which is a small town on the way to the Hunter Valley. The town was used in the 1840’s for convicts to stay while they b… Read More
2016-04-03 09:51
There are three main ways of getting Mercedes-Benz workshop manuals. The most common these days is via CD-ROM. However the quality of the scans are woeful, and the pictures are… Read More
2016-03-21 13:46
The W123 Mercedes has developed a reputation as workhorse the world over, with dilapidated examples still plying their trade as taxis 30-40 years after they rolled off the production line.
B… Read More
2016-02-29 04:03
When I purchased my DS, what attracted me to it was that it was the model I wanted and virtually rust free. It provided a solid foundation, but needed a bit of attention on some cosmet… Read More
2016-02-20 10:57
I helped out a friend today for a wedding with the Traction Avant. Tractions are not often seen as wedding cars, but they are rather striking and work pretty well. For th… Read More
2016-02-12 10:46
Mercedes had rather elegant steering wheels in the 1960s, before safety concerns led to a change to the padded, plastic type. These were thin style, and from an era where dri… Read More
2016-02-10 07:51
My 450SLC was starting to slip a little in reverse, especially under load (e.g. up a hill). The transmission was shifting gears very well other than this one area, and the fluid looke… Read More
2016-02-04 22:34
I was recently introduced to the Rover P5 at a car event, and while it was always a car I was aware of, I had never really examined it in any great detail.
The Rover P5 was the higher end c… Read More
2016-01-26 10:40
This year CARNivale was moved from the City (Sydney CBD) to Parramatta Park, due to the light rail construction. CARNivale is a car show, held every Australia day since 1986, pr… Read More
2016-01-24 19:43
I was recently in Munich and was able to spend some time at the BMW Museum. It is a nice museum and well worth a look, and you can see most of it in about an hour and… Read More
2015-12-29 22:56
October 18, 1953
The Citroen is as stable as it appears possible to make a car under our present design technique. Un-doubtedly the out-standing characteristic of the car is the way it holds… Read More
2015-12-28 23:45
I recently came across an old price list for Mercedes-Benz in Australia in the mid 60s. They were very expensive cars back then, probably more so than they are today, and even a base… Read More
2015-12-22 02:13
The front indicator lenses on the DS were badly cracked and discoloured, so it seemed like a good idea to replace them. They are available aftermarket and are quite easy to change ove… Read More
2015-12-17 21:13
I’ve now moved two cars onto the new 60 day logbook trial with the RMS, and the cost savings are well worth it! The cost of full registration is just a bit above $1,000 i… Read More
2015-11-23 22:12
The world has officially gone mad, with prices for Kombi vans (aka the VW Bus) reaching the stratosphere. This to me is a clear bubble market and anyone who has a split window Kombi s… Read More
2015-11-08 11:16
I have always admired Rolls Royce and Bentley automobiles, and was impressed with the display at the British Car Show, so decided to go down and see the Rolls Royce Owners Club concours. &nb&hell…Read More
2015-11-08 09:54
Driving a car from the 50s often means impatient drives roaring around you when you set off from traffic lights, especially uphill. Sydney drivers are particularly bad for this… Read More
2015-11-07 12:06
Every classic car community has an issue that polarizes opinion and spawns countless threads on Internet discussion boards.
For the Citroen DS, that issue is what is the right tyre for the D… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’ve been taking my 450SLC and 250SE to Arthur Rizzo motors for service for over 10 years. Unfortunately for me, Harry, the owner of Rizzo’s has decided to retire and the worksho… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The 250SE Cabriolet did wedding duty today for my Sister’s wedding. The weather was lovely, and the 250SE is a great wedding car – driving the bridal party very close to the wedd… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Putty road is one of the better driving roads close to Sydney – so much so that it is the favorite haunt of many Motorcycle clubs. (the ones that actually ride bikes, not the ones… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This evening the Citroen Club organized a night drive to La Perouse. It was a lovely warm evening, perfect for taking the DS out for a drive. The meeting point was Harry’s Cafe de Whee… Read More
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