2013 RCCRC - Reliability Run Melbourne AUS

Ok fellas so the Reliability Run for 2013 has been run and is done & dusted. A fantastic event was enjoyed by the Entrants and the camaraderie was plain to see and enjoyed by all. No real "casualties to speak of during the run and all made it home safe n sound !!

After the inaugural event last year which was a blast, keeping up with "tradition" proved to be a slight challenge !! Last year we were fortunate to host both Ryan and Blake all the way from Texas and this year, Coby from Church Magazine made the huge commitment to fly out and join in on the fun as well as make the effort to capture the event on camera.

A HUGE thanx must go to Thommo, Bails, Greg, Ben @ Rancho Deluxe and all the RCCRC Crew who once again put on this fantastic event - well done gang. The RCCRC would like to thank the Entrants for the efforts made to attend, the extremely hight standard of the vehicles, their exemplary conduct and ongoing support of the Club itself - thumbs up fellas.

Blessed with good weather for the second year in a row, the initial rally point was a warehouse/factory in SE Melbourne that stores a private collection of custom built Elfin sportscars - an extremely hospitable host and very interesting collection of both vintage open wheeler Lotus race cars and some late model custom built Elfin open wheelers as well.

The rally point for the run kickoff was the RAAF Air Force base on the outskirts of Melbourne's West in Point Cook where the RAAF Museum was open to all and we are able to access the grounds to assemble before the run. This was an operating and training RAAF base during WWII and some of the buildings are still standing/being used even at this time. A really cool meeting place to set off from for the event itself would'nt you think?

Well enough preamble - here are some initial pix to kick off the thread and more of the story/pix to come....feel free to add 'em gang !!

Roll on 2014 !!

Rat

 

OK RB, where are the pictures; I cannot see them.
Davo.

 

Pix from Fri nite to get the thread a rollin, better ones to come !!

 

Some images courtesy of Loaded Dice....

 

Cobe from church mag got a cool gig driving a deuce roadster on the run, thanks to Dave Sutherland for the ride, above and beyond and thanks to Cobe for taking the time to come over for our run, a real gentleman


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It was pleasure ,Coby was nervous when he arrived to pickup the Roadster ,I took him for a quick ride and explained a few things threw him in the drivers seat and said there you go.
He promtly drove out the driveway onto the wrong side of the road.
After a few laps around the court we were all a bit more relaxed about his driving.
If Coby could take the time to come halfway around the world for a little Rodrun it was the least I could do.
Thanks to Thommo and all the RCRR crew for a memorable weekend.cheers David

 

More from the first check point....

 

Keepin it rolling....

























Sorry fellas haha

 

More to come...guys post away if ya got 'em !!

 

Cool pics. Must be negatives though the steering wheel is on the wrong side hahahahaha. Looks like it was a lot of fun.


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I think there was nearly as many left hand drive cars there as right hand drive.

 

Thanks for posting the pics Frank it was a fantastic day.

Can't wait for next year.

 

The club trophy, spirit of the run, went to Adam Lukes and his brother Greg, 9 1/2 hr drive from nowra in New South Wales in a flathead, 3 sp, quickchange powered deuce roadster, attended everything, never without a smile, these guys are true hot rodders and deserve the plaudits.well done


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Damn it, there is two threads running side by side?
I've just uploaded @ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=772058

Cheers
Lazy

 

Here's a few more pics from the run. Thanks to all the entrants who came along to make a fantastic day. Doug

 

I'm too stupid to post pics from my phone, but I assure you there's still a smile on my face. David lending me a car was completely unexpected. That said, he needs to change his name from "Got a 32" to "32 hoarder"! He couldn't have been a nicer guy with some killer cars. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It's hard to describe the quality of cars here. Unreal. And the hoops they jump through to own them is pretty ridiculous. Their passion is second to none.

I'm well aware of how lucky I am to be invited to this awesome event and wouldn't hesitate to come back. Great cars and even better people. Long love Australian hot rodding!!!

 

Awesome pics guys!!! Thanks for the morning coffee. Looks like a great event with some flatout beautiful rides. Greatly appreciate the coverage...A thread like this is inspiring in many ways.

 

Well going to mention a few names here that made this weekend happen,
Bails and his brother, the artwork, the book, the Friday night dinner( and Susan) the auction items.
Greg, mc the event, secretary, organising and motivating.
Jimmy b, awesome artwork, auction items, your down here next time jimmy.
Tom, sucking down the vapours making the timing tags, providing meeting spot, enthusiasm. Ken, mapping out run, printing and just being ken. Craig, killer dinner at our meeting, selection committee, checkpoint.jason, hard year man but made it through when it counted, checkpoint, meetings. Deano, put the pump on with stamping the tags, came through, I'll give ya more time next year deano. Doug, every meeting, driving and checking the run, organising on the day(thanks Melissa for the help)
Ben, thanks for all the work, great breakfast and opening the shop up.
Stovebolt, backed it all up from last year.frank, thanks for everything brother, look after the gold chain.wayne from Kustomink, our first sponsor, thanks a bunch. Coby, we're honoured to have you out brother, we hope its not the last.
To all our entrants, especially our interstate and country entrants, thank you.to all those that supported our auctions, thanks heaps.
To Jess, once again I owe you big time ,the cooking, getting the kids to bed,the support. We hope to see you all next year, thommo


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Looks like an awesome run with some killer cars.

Way to go guys! Thanks for posting the pics.



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Most excellent!!!

 

looks like a helluva lotta fun...

 

And to thommo, you're the glue, the drive, keeping us all enthused and on target - the run wouldn't happen without you. Thanks a heap, we've all had a ball just being part of the team that puts this together. Doug

 

Thanks to every one involved their partners and the entrants you guys make it worth it. Lets see if we can do it again!

 

I am only in it for the money!

 

Well said Doug ! Thankyou all involved that was fun !!

 

That was fun can we do that again.

Seriously guys thank you for such a great event well done to all involved.

 

Awesome work guys.

 

Great images of kool cars and people, a big contrast to the contents of the Vic Hot Rod Show. So many flatheads! And the line up at Ben's workshop, all great...thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks again for the run, had a great time even if I did wrap a guard around the front wheel.....a part of it!