NRMA Motorfest ’07
Thursday, 1st March 2007 by Alex Turnbull
There's some absolutely fantastic looking cars here at the NRMA Motorfest, which was captured in super-high resolution as part of the Australia Day Flyover. The event takes place each Australia Day in Sydney, and is the biggest outdoor display of vehicles in the southern hemisphere.
The full festival programme says other car-oriented events were staged on elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find any so far. I did find a good Flickr set of the event, but unfortunately it doesn't name the cars! So I guess we'll have to rely on the petrol heads to fill us in...
Thanks to... me! Go me 🙂
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Wow. Feels like I am playing GTA2.
I found out about the flyover the day before it happened, and I talked to a couple of friends about doing something for it, but we ended up not bothering when we saw the predicted flyover times. Decided to sleep in instead.
Probably a good thing, given that we most likely would have gone to a place where the plane never ended up flying… A bit of a shame how that turned out, but the bits they did get are all very cool.
I can see at least 4 Jags – a couple of E Types, a Mark 2 and possibly a Mark X. I think there is also a nice silver Mercedes 300SL. I also think there are a couple of Morgan’s and almost certainly an Austin Healey ‘frog eye’ Sprite. There seems to lots of big Australian cars (obviously) but i think there is also a nice big Rolls Royce Silver Cloud / Bentley S.
I see that 300SL and at least one Aero 8. I think that is a red Porsche, probably a Carrera. I see more than a couple Austin Healeys. And I believe that is an old Plymouth down near the bottom.
Nice pictures!