"Never made it there"?
What am I saying? In essence I have made it there, but it was pre-Mallala.
The race meeting (at AIR) was on April 3, the week before Easter, but the following weekend there was a hillclimb at Collingrove. Peter Hitchin had entered his Hudson Special for the races but didn't have time to drive across, I had a sub-load air ticket from the magazine to cover the meeting and was looking for some family holiday time. We did a deal. I towed the Hudson across there, he flew, he ran at the race meeting and I had the car for the rest of the week.
So, apart from running in the hillclimb, there were days and evenings of events as the South Australians turned on one of their great times. A pizza feast followed the race meeting, then the SCCSA building hosted us on the Wednesday evening with a slide show relating to early Lobethal events and other things, then there was a drive around Adelaide visiting a number of car collections.
On the Saturday they arranged a special temporary registration deal for all the cars and many of us drove around Lobethal and Nuriootpa...
...and on Sunday the hillclimb.
But all of this is a long way from Elfin 100s, so I think I'll re-post this somewhere more appropriate.
