Hardtuned private track day - Anzac Day 25/04/12

[Nick]
Last Wednesday some close mates and myself took my S14 out to the Holden driver training centre at Norwell Park Raceway. This was a private track day organised by Hardtuned.net and was held on Anzac Day.

Approximately 50 cars attended varying from Japanese, exotic's and Aussie muscle and was the perfect way to celebrate what we remember our service men and women for. Our freedom. The atmosphere on the day was very relaxed with drivers able to test out their skills and push to the limit in spints/drags around the track and drifting on the giant skidpan, aswell as a BBQ and DJ trackside.

Big shout out goes to Grant for all of this footage!

And here's a short video from some drift freeplay on skidpan, unfortunently as soon as they put cones out for the gymkhana and i actually had to steer the car around cones i didnt do so well...safe to say the S14 ate a fair few cones....more practise!

Hardtuned is planning another day in 3 months time so stay tuned...

Hidden Treasure

[Dave] Today (01/04/12) I was invited to attend the HSV Owners Club of QLD private viewing of the Bowden's family car collection. This is a collection that is not open to the general public you have to be invited their. The invitations are often to automotive clubs so only true enthusiast get the privilege to see these wonderful machines.

 We started by meeting up at Nudgee with other club memebers. Their were a few rare cars their such as a W427, 2 vintage HDT and one modern HDT Commodore.  Once we were all their we headed up the highway.

 We met at another service station where we were met with this beautiful Merc. One lucky member got to ride shot gun in this for the rest of the way.

 Once their we were given a very informative tour of the cars history and stories that go with them. Not all the collection is currently their. Space is at a premium and the vehicles are packed in like sardines. That meant trying to get decent photos of particular cars was hard, that and I only had my trusty phone to use.

 This particular Manaro featured a hand control lever for the throttle!

 Street machine readers may recognise this hot rod. A true work of art that needs to be seen to be appreciated.

 The cars the HSV club members had been waiting to see.

This was a very nice genuine competition Shelby Cobra in original form.

That is all the photos I have. I want to thank the Bowden's for the opportunity to see these cars. They are true rev heads who like nothing more then getting these cars driven the way they should not put into museums never to move again.