Went on a big cruise in victoria over the weekend thought you guys might like to see how the day unfolded

 

First we all gathered at the usual Todd Rd Shell Station with a great turnout for the vic crew with I think about 15 cars before we headed off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see we had the whole 4 lane freeway to ourselves:)

 

 

We arrived in gisborne where we were to meet up with the rest of the Z's attending today's cruise. Everyone quickly started socialising while we waited for the other group to arrive and I think the blue 200SX catch the eye of most of the group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highly Modified 200SX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next destination was Mount Macedon.

 

The road leading to the carpark at Mt Macedon

 

 

As we arrived into the carpark, it became clear we werent the only car club coming to Mt Macedon. An exotic super sports car club had also gathered in the car park featuring a couple of posches, a 350Z vert, a Masarati and 2 Lamborghini's. I waited till everyone left to go to the summit of Mt Macedon and then wondered over to the beautiful exotic cars and took some photos. But no matter how good these cars look I still find the Z32 my dream car.

 

 

 

Great pics and great cars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to head off:)

 

 

 

From Mt Macedon we jumped onto the Freeway heading for Castlemaine.

 

 

 

We had a new member breakdown on the way to castlemaine and so we all pulled over while the cruise director was informed of the situation. I took a few quick pix before we continued to the lunch destination.

 

 

 

 

 

Here we are all parked in one of our members massive backyard. As you can imagine everyone was very hungry and though Ross (the home owner) had already started cooking on the BBQ, the food was being eating up so fast Ross couldn't keep up with demand. But he did an expect job and this has to have been the best BBQ I have ever had in my life:).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ross hard at work on the BBQZ:).

 

 

The best place to eat and socialise was the garage. The sun by this time of the day was burning the skin temperature would have been 30ish degrees Celsius.

 

 

The Food Bar:). By the time I had taken this photo Ross had already done 3 servings of food.

 

 

Back to the Zed's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a good feed and heaps of soicalising with each other we jumped back in our Zeds and headed to the next destination.

 

Rod Hadfield's Hot Rod Museum

 

 

After a few group shots of all the Zeds we headed into the museum to wonder around and check out some amazing cars Rod had on display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 Firebird

 

 

 

Rod had a huge collection of Root Bear dating back to the early 1900's

 

 

Here is one half of Rod's Museum/workshop

 

 

 

 

He had alot of vintage parts for sale on tables like this.

 

 

Work in Progress Im guessing lol

 

 

This is a tank engine. Might fit in the Zed;).

 

 

Hot Rod Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homage To Henry

 

 

 

 

The Silver Bullet

 

This is one very impressive machine. 27 Litre Tank engine Rolls Royce limousine. Apparently Rod stated it has a fuel milage of 0.5 of a mile to the gallon:O. He also said he wouldn't sell it for less then 1.2 Million but we all saw it as priceless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other half of the museum was the Display section with a huge showcase of awards Rod's has earned over the years.

 

 

V8 chev Motor built in 1955

 

 

Lightweight billy cart

 

 

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Rod's first salt lake racing car.

 

 

 

This was by far the most popular muscle car Rod had on the day. twin super charger Ford Motor which rod started building when he was 16 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Various vehicles on display

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australia's first ever imported Low Rider with original hydralic lifting supension;).

 

 

 

 

More various Hot Rod's on display

 

 

 

 

 

Wholy Batman lol

 

 

 

This RAC Ford Rod had still had the original paint on the body with a very rare Ford logo on the doors. See if you can spot the differences on each door's logo;)

 

 

 

 

Super charged Holden with a Supra transmission?

 

 

 

Spirit of Castlemaine

 

 

 

This old hearse had a very amusing licence plate (TIMESUP) lol

 

 

 

Something for the kids lol

 

 

 

 

Australia's best restoration car 2 years in a row.

 

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one of only 7 soft top Ford utes still in Australia.

 

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and to finish the tour was a very long discussion with rod on his high speed Holden sedan salt lake racer. To date he has Australia's fastest car with an impressive 259.9 miles per hour atm. The car is currently in a bad shape after blowing up his clutch at a recent slat lake race. He is aiming for 300 mph but he has alot of fine tuning still to work out but he is confident he can make that mark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One lucky member got the pleasure of sitting in Rod's car during the Q and A.

 

 

After a long day we all decided to finish up a big day on a high.

 

 

hope you guys enjoyed the photos. let us know what you think;)

Thanks for sharing your day, looked like a good time was had by all, great pictures.

 

Paul

What a fantastic thread...thankyou mate for some great pics:bow::pint:

What an awesome day a zed cruise, hot sunshine, BBQ, and a Hot Rod museum:bow: Thanks for sharing mate and it has got me looking forward to Summer and some targa of zed driving:thumbup:

Must admit those exotics look lovely especially the gallardo and ifs but not as good looking as those Zeds great pics and a great thread