Event Reports

After months of sunny days in Auckland, the weather people forecast showers for the day of our Top Down Tour. The morning was overcast with a bit of wind but [...]

Our combined event at the North Shore Vintage Car Club kicked off with a Show & Shine at 9.30am. When we arrived at 9ish, there were already at least 10 [...]

It takes a special mind-set to polish our beautiful cars to their shiny Sunday-best for Show and Shine, knowing that within half an hour we would be roaring around a [...]

After months of hot sunny days in Auckland the day of the Inaugural Ladies Run and High Tea picnic dawned a little mixed on the weather front. We had rain [...]

This was our first experience as “organisers” for a Mercedes Club event. Mike Peters did the hard work with Hampton Downs but he was called away for the weekend and [...]

Taking the long way to the Puhoi Tavern for lunch on a glorious Sunday, what a way to start the year. As the crow flies it is 43km from our [...]

My, hasn’t the year zoomed by! Talking of “zoomed”, in November we were fortunate enough to have a guest speaker, North Shore Mercedes-Benz Managing Director Craig Innes, who gave a [...]

With so many events having been cancelled during the year, we were really looking forward to this one … it really did feel like Christmas to an Aucklander. The arrival [...]

As Covid restrictions eased in Auckland we were able to organise a picnic run to Kawakawa Bay.  We fluked having the 25 maximum allowable under Covid restrictions. The sun came [...]

This story is a tale of learning. Graeme Collie had a good idea that we should have a virtual Oktoberfest via a Zoom meeting. This was to stimulate club member [...]