Well we're back early, my father ran out of cars to break.....
First we had to drive from Melbourne to Benalla on Sat afternoon, but at 1:30 we heard that the Hume Highway was closed from Wallan to Broadford.
After lots of internet searching, we found that the Northern Highway was open to bypass the closed section. We met up with another guy just outside Melbourne (originally six cars were going to go up together, but the others decided to wait and see.
The servo we met at didn't have any premium fuel, so we had to stop at Wallan to fill up the MG. The other two cars ended up on the other side of the road, so had to do a U-turn to rejoiin the highway.
I was driving the MGa, and my father was driving my Liberty. He waited for some traffic lights to his left to go red, then started his U turn, and collided with an old HQ Holden that appeared from somewhere. This was where the green circle is.
The left side of my bumber ended up on the ground, and all the polystyrene foam behind it fell out. We managed to stick it back into position with gaffa tape.
So, we made it to Benalla on Sat night, then out to Winton on Sunday. There was heaps of smoke haze over the track, you can only just see it in the background.
My father and I had two runs each, then during his second run, the exhaust pipe broke apart just in front of the join between the extractors and the tailpipe. We tried wiring the tailpipe up to stop it catching anything on the track, and took the car to scrutineering to see if they would let us run.
The scrutineers didn't think it was safe enough, so the next optionn was to remove the tailpipe altogether. The only way to do that was to borrow a hacksaw and cut it in half.
We missed our third runs while doing this, then the organisers announced the meeting would be ended once all the third runs were complete, so we just had to carefully drive back to Melbourne, with the MG's exhaust pipe in the back of the Liberty. I drove the MG, and it's damn loud with no muffler at all!
(We called into Wallan again on the way home, and found the remains of my headlight protectors...)
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:30 am
Glad that everyones OK and you've just got some 'minor' fender bends to worry about. 
Bob.
