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Re: Australian National Packard Rally - Warrnambool, Victoria

Posted by Ozstatman On 2019/4/8 1:41:42

Day 5, the last day of the Rally proper was quite a diverse one.

First, all Rally participants walked down to the breakwater, about a 10 minute stroll from the Lady Bay Resort, our Rally headquarters. There we learned about Maremma dogs, and was introduced to one of them. For a dramatised view of the reason for this have a look at the Aussie film "Oddball". Although it's only about 30% accurrate.

Then off to Allensford Cheese World, where we had lunch and toured their museum. When we'd arrived the Packards had been directed to park by members of the Warrnambool and District Historical Vehicle Club and we were due to visit their clubhouse after the Cheese factory. But, because their "clubhouse" is still in the process of being built a couple of their members invited us to their houses to see their vehicles. One of these blokes had turned up in his sons '24 226 Tourer and he led the convoy to his house. There we found an 852 Auburn Convertible, '30 V16 Cadillac Club Sedan, '32(?) V12 Auburn Sedan, Vauxhall 23/60(I think?), Brass era Sunbeam and a Rover. He also had another shed with motorcycles, predomininently Indians. Then it was off to the other blokes house. He had 2 Lincoln Tourers/Phaetons(I'll let the experts decode what they were exactly) a '23(?) and a '32(?) and a brass era Swift(No I've never heard of one either). On the point of leaving when he said would you like to see the 1899 Benz AND the 1902(?) CDO, those in the know will know what that means and those that don't will, when they see the photo. Note, these last two cars were in his house along with a treasure trove of antiques and collectables!

Note - Click on each photo for a bigger, better image.

EDIT - ~~Sorry there are some pic's "sideways", will attempt to fix later.~~ The earlier "sideways" pic's have been fixed but are now at the foot of the pic's and out of order.

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