Latest
news - updated
21 November
**Stop Press** - Aircraft
fly over
The Tyabb Airport and Peter Barnardi
have organised a flyover of vintage aircraft. With military style
timing three planes will flyover the Hastings Foreshore Reserve at
1:30pm.
The planes include a 1941 Ryan
p122, a 1947 Cessna 140 and a 1951 De Havilland DHC 1 Chipmunk
This Sunday!
The date has sprung upon us quickly
this year. Yesterday (15th) Melbourne experienced one of the all time
great Spring days & we anticipate this coming Sunday to replicate
this - albeit with a slight sea breeze off the Western Port Bay -
the stunning Hastings backdrop.
Entries are open to all vehicles
- no exceptions to this
There are two alternatives for
where to arrive- read below.
No Frill's Car Cruise
Notes
We hereby advise that a comprehensive
paper of "Cruise notes" will be handed out to all who arrive
at Brandon Park Shopping Centre for the start of the event.
The Cruise will cover the most
scenic country roads the Mornington peninsula has to offer, including
the famed Arthurs Seat Rd.
No Frills Car Show Venue
Map
Click
here for the venue map of the Hastings Foreshore. This map shows
the access point for vehicles on to the grass area - and shows the
location of our various stalls.
Hastings Market Stalls
to attend
The Hastings community is getting
behind our event in a big way. The Chamber of Commerce has opened
doors to the support of local businesses, and indeed that of the Thursday
market stalls.
We are looking forward to seeing
a few market stalls at the event.
Trade & food stall
line-up
A superb spread of local trade,
market and food stalls will support the event. This includes the
Tyabb Scouts with a BBQ & soft drink stall, the Retina Australia
Victoria marquee (pictured top right), Dippin Dots Ice Cream, Esspresso
to Go coffee stall & Dolph's Automobilia stall.
If you have a business and would
like to have a stand at this year's show, please contact Charles Rogers.
2009 awards to be presented
We are glad to have a few left
over trophies from previous years' events so will be presenting a
few prizes at the 2009 No Frill's event.
There will be 4 awards, three
being judged by key supporters of the event and the final being judged
by the public - People's Choice.
The other awards will be; President's
Award (for closed cars), Chairman's Award (for open cars) and the
Councillor Award (for the most unusual/unconventional car). These
will be presented during the prize ceremony at 2:30pm.
Car
club shows pull good turn-outs
2009
Mustang Round-up, Studebaker & Citroen Concours’
Date: Sunday 18th October
The
Cars of the World team visited these three events this year. The first,
the Mustang Round-up saw 256 Mustang’s on display with the guest
of honour being one Allan Moffatt. There were some very interesting
cars on show, including the limosine, ute and trailer – all
can be found in the photo gallery.
From
here we went to the Studebaker Concours d’Elegance at the Moorabbin
Airport. A picturseque setting with light aircraft coming and going
in the background. There were about 70 Studebakers there. Then it
was onto Como Park North in South Yarra for the Citroen Concours.
There was a complete cross-section of cars here from pre-war to current
models, all up about 80 cars were there.
Car
Cruise assembly point announced
The
No Frill’s Car Cruise, a cavalcade open to all attending the
2009 event will commence at Brandon Park Shopping Centre’s K-Mart
car park. Click here for more information.
Elfin
Heritage to be on display
The
Elfin Heritage Centre have announced they will be showing 4 rare and
historic Elfin's at Hastings on the 22 November.
The
4 cars include the new Elfin MS8 Steamliner and the original spec
Elfin Streamliner & two very special race cars - the Elfin 400
Repco Brabham and the Elfin 300 Coventry Climax.
Entertainment
line-up
Due
to popular demand we have secured the 
Southern
Cross Jazz Band back for the 2009 event. They will be live in roving
performance at Hastings from 12noon.
2010
date announced
We
are proud to announce the date for 2010 will be Sunday 21st November.
We are planning the biggest yet Cars of the World in 2010 –
stay tuned to this page for more details in the near future.
Hastings
Chamber of Commerce shows full support
We
are glad to have the full support of the Hastings-Western port Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.
There
will be a range of local community stalls, car related trade stalls
and heaps of room to spread out - the area can fit 2,000 cars.
