Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006

Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006 On Sunday the 21st of May we celebrated the clubs 32nd Birthday with a drive to Maroondah Reservoir for lunch. At 8.30am the first group met at our Club Rooms in Moorabbin for a 9.00 am departure,
The weather was quite fine but it had quite a winter chill in the air.
Just after 9.00am we departed for Pakenham via Dandenong to join our second group. We all assembled as arranged in Doherty Street at approximately 10.00am and waited as the others joined us.

As our group slowly grew in size, our cars started to attracted a bit interest with a few of the locals coming around for a look; its not often that you see around thirty American Classic and High Performance cars parked in a side street of a country town.
At approximately 10.30am as organised we split up into two groups those us that wished to travel at a much brisker pace left first (a whole three of them), the rest of us approximately thirty cars left a few minutes later.
After all receiving a set of printed instructions (so none us could get lost - hopefully) we were on our way, we headed out onto the Princess Highway towards Warrigal for a short distance and then turned left at the Healesville - Koo Wee Rup road and headed through Pakenham Upper.

Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006 Our group continued through Mt Burnett and on to Cockatoo were turned off to the Woori Yallock Road we then continued on through Nangana towards Yellingbo.
In this area on the previous Friday as I was going over our route to make sure all my directions were correct, I came across two of the next generation Commodores going in the other direction, both with their leather car bras fitted to the front and rear ends to disguise them (I had just seen spy pictures of them in the Sun Cars Section that morning).

After going through Yellingbo (a ‘huge place’, with only one house to be seen) we headed towards Woori Yallock, where we had to a couple of turns along the Warburton Highway to stay on the Healesville Koo Wee Rup road. We then went past the biggest Strawberry farm I have ever seen just prior to going along the back of the Healesville Sanctuary near Bagger Creek. At the end of this road we turned right to head through Healesville and onto our final destination at Maroondah Reservoir just prior to 12.00 noon.

Upon our arrival at the Watts River Rotunda we meet up with some of our other members that had travelled directly to there.
Alan McCormack had erected all the Banners for all the sub groups, thoughts being, Chevrolet Car Club, Camaro Firebird group, Vic Vettes group, and two new banners, which were one for the Gippsland/Latrobe group, and the other one for our Northern chapter.

At around 12.15 pm we all (around 80 of us in total) sat down to a magnificent Spit Roast lunch with all the trimmings which was followed up with Apple Strudel or a choice of a couple different Cheese Cakes.
A truly magnificent lunch for only a mere $25.00 per head.

Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006

After lunch we had our President Robert Goldman gave us a short Speech thanking us all for or participation in such great event.
He then went on to present a number of Service Awards to the following members:

Norm Darwin for his untiring effort’s as editor of the Bowtie Club Magazine.
Max Baudinette for his leadership of the South Western Region and there efforts in raising funds for the Warrnambool Base Hospital.
Larry Dickson from the Northern Chapter for his service to this group and leading them through some difficult times. And also for efforts of gaining Radio and Press support in rejuvenating the group’s numbers.
Neil Titford of the Gippsland/Latrobe group for establishing and running this Sub Group.
John Smith for consistent years of service to the club.
Jon Burstow for establishing and maintaining our Club Web Site. (and a heap of other stuff)
Jon was also named Member of the year by our President.

Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006

Chevrolet Car Club - Birthday Run May 2006 After the presentations were completed a number of us went to the Gembrook Motor museum with Michael Klein (he intends to have a separate report on what he, and some other members viewed there as I was unable to attend).

I would also thank Alan and Jill McCormack for their assistance by getting there a bit earlier than the rest of us to set up the Banners and put the soft drinks on ice. I would also like to thank June McGuigan and Sybil Taylor who ran the raffle.

David O’Neil # 3357.