Classic Cars and Coffee - Sunday 6th February 2022

The first Classic Cars and Coffee for the year was held on 6th February 2022. The weather was very hot!

I wasn't there are the start - of course - but the organizers and others took lots of photos.

The Datsun crew arrives in convoy

Renault Gordini

Abarth

Jensen FF photographed by Hiroshima Screamers

I chose to ride my IWL Troll scooter instead of drive. Photograph by Hiroshima Screamers. https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2020/08/iwl-troll-review-1963.html

My friend James on his IWL Berlin. Photographed by Hiroshima Screamers

James has recently acquired his IWL Berlin and this was the first time we were able to get the two scooters together. It's quite noticeable how much larger the Troll is compared to the Berlin.

The Berlin was IWL's best selling and most beloved scooter. It is known in Germany as 'the Legend from Ludwigsfeld.' It was introduced in 1959 and remained in production until 1963. It was powered by a 150cc engine derived from the DKW RT125 motor that had been redeveloped by IWL. In 1963 the Berlin was replaced by the larger touring scooter, the Troll. The Troll shared many features with MZ motorcycles of the period, including its engine. https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2020/05/iwl-scooters-legend-from-ludwigsfelde.html

It's great to see there is another IWL in Perth. That makes two.

Jaguar XK120

Lancias

Chrysler Valiant S

Volkswagen Beetle

Volkswagen Thing

Cadillac

MG

Not sure what this military monster was but it did make a statement

Landrover club

Wolsley and Citroen 2CV

Wolsley

1934 Singer

Vauxhall Velox (this one was built in Perth)

1958 Chevrolet

The French contingent

Citroen Traction Avant

Holden EK

Jensen 54

Jensen 54

Erskine

Holden FB

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Classic Cars and Coffee New Year's Eve 2021

Thankfully, after the State Government's idiotic Covid lockdown for Christmas and New Year, the guys at Classic Cars and Coffee managed to get approval for a New Year's event. The fun police were very concerned that there would be no dancing.

The end of year event is always huge, despite the fact that many people go away over the break. I arrived a little after 8am and had to park in one of the overflow carparks. Just after I arrived they had to close the gates as the carparks were full.



The weather in Perth over Christmas has been excessively hot - peaking at 46 degrees celsius on Christmas Eve! Temperature had dropped to a milder 36 degrees by New Year's Eve, but even so the light was extremely bright which has washed some of the colour from my photos.

Chevrolet

Datsun 240Z

A newcomer to Perth and my favourite car of the day - Skoda 1000MB. The Czech industrial concern, Skoda, took over Tatraplan construction in 1951 and the experience must have given them the idea of building a rear engine budget car. The result was the 1000MB, which was powered by a four cylinder, transversely mounted, water-cooled engine in the rear. The car is reminiscent of the French Renault 8 or 10, but is better looking in my opinion.

This car was originally part of the Gosford Museum collection. I was actually interested in buying this car at the time of the auction, but I had my hands full with my 1953 DKW project so thought better of it.

The Skoda 1000MB, Skoda Octavia and Land Rover Mark 1

GW

1965 Porsche 356B

1934 Lagonda and a trio of Tomasos

Cadillac club

A quite lovely Pontiac

Renault 4CV

The Shannon's Insurance Goggomobil

Another newcomer to the show and what a machine! 1953 Maicoletta

German motorcycle manufacturer, Maico, built the absolute king of large touring scooters with the Maicoletta. It is powered by a 250cc single cylinder two-stroke engine. The starter is rather unique - and I still don't fully understand how it works. It has a pendulum starter which rocks the engine back and forth and then fires the ignition. Maico believed it was so reliable that they never fitted the Maicoletta with a kick starter, so if the pendulum starter failed (as it was want to do over time), you could only get the scooter running by push starting.

I mentioned the pendulum starter earlier... well, of course, when people are watching it decides to play up.

Suzuki Re5 water cooled rotary

Alfa Romeos

By around 10am the heat was beginning to build and it was time to hit the road.

Citroen-Hoffman, Citroen CX and Reliant Scimitar.

The next Classic Cars and Coffee is on 6 February 2022.

Classic Cars and Coffee - 27th December 2021 Cancelled

WA State Premier, Mark McGowan, got an early Christmas present this morning when a backpacker tourist, arriving from Queensland a few weeks ago, tested 'positive' in a phony PCR test. Poor Mark has been desperate to to find some way of F-ing with the people and ruining Christmas. Over the past couple of weeks the pressure has been ramping on Mark and his immoral, reprehensible and discriminatory mandatory V policies. The government is on its way to becoming the Number One cause of unemployment in a state which is desperately crying out for workers. Tens of thousands of West Australians - normally docile and apolitical - have been protesting every week. Similarly, across the country, nearly a million citizens march to express disgust with over various State and Federal governments. These numbers dwarf the anti-Vietnam war marches of the 1960s and 70s - not that you'd know if you watched mainstream TV.

As the governments around the country have flailed about trying to silence this dissent and quash the many legal cases working their way through the courts, they have been desperate for some new distraction to restoke the fear - and right on time here comes omicron. Despite the extensive studies demonstrating the moronic variant probably represents the end of the pandemic phase of this disease (that means, the virus spreads quickly, but causes only minor illness - like a cold - leaving lasting immunity in its wake. This is how all viral diseases evolve. A disease that causes serious illness and death, dies with its host, limiting its opportunity to spread so evolutionary pressure always directs the disease to become milder), the government and its media fearmongers have seized on omicron to lock us all down and ruin Christmas. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v1

So, Classic Cars and Coffee for 27th December 2021 is cancelled. New Year's Eve 31st December 2021 has been penciled in. We shall see. I personally doubt it. The government has never simply dropped snap restrictions but have slowly weaned them away over two to four weeks.

Dear valued classic car enthusiast,

As many of you may already have seen, we have had to postpone the event due to the State Governments latest Covid mandate.

The decision has been made to hold the event on New Years Eve, Friday December 31st.

The last time it was held on December 31st it had record numbers so hopefully this is the case this year and that the "snap" restrictions" end on Tuesday the 28th as currently planned.

We are sorry about the disruption, however it is out of our control and we want to do the right thing by all. Best thing is it is bound to be cooler!

Our advice from the State Government is that they are monitoring the cases over the next couple of days and will extend this past the 28th if there are more outbreaks. Either way if the new date gets postponed further we will know over the coming day or so and will let you all know accordingly so as to plan.

All the very best from all of us at Classic Cars and Coffee and I hope you all have a great Christmas break, hopefully see you on the 31st!

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