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Published: July 20th 2014
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The Marilyn Monroe Car
Images of Marilyn were all down the sides as well. I woke late and the “Muscle on the Mountain” Car Rally was well underway by the time I’d had my breakfast. Barry got up before me and came back with the news that there was a dragon car on display. I followed him out and was surprised to see the whole oval covered in cars and people. They’d been expecting about 700 vehicles and Barry thought they had close to that.
The “Dragon’s Landing” was actually a white Holden which had a few dragon figures sitting under the bonnet each holding a letter to spell “Holden”. In the back was another larger figure carrying a shield that said “Protected By Dragons” and a curled up one laying near the tailgate. The best was a transfer of a brilliant blue dragon that covered the whole roof. Unfortunately, none of the photos came out very well, so you’ll have to imagine it!
There were lots of other Holdens and Fords as well as Yank Tanks, like Mustangs, Lincoln Continentals and Stingrays, not to mention Jeeps. One of the Holdens Barry recognised was his father’s second car an EH, just a different colour. He also saw a Morris
A Low-Down Car
This car was so low to the ground that its bumper was almost on the ground. It was raised by airbags before it could be driven. Oxford, which was his father’s first car – only this one was the hatchback version – the Traveller, which was my mother’s first car. Another Holden Torana was one of Peter Brock’s Marlboro racing cars from Bathurst with his trademark “05” number and his name, and Hindley (don’t remember him), on the side. There were also two of the pace cars from the Indianapolis 500, still in their original colours.
We saw a few vintage cars, but most were only vintage on the outside. They’d taken 1930s and 1940s cars and souped them up with high powered engines into Hot Rods and given them fancy paint jobs. Bet they surprise a few people on the road when they race past!
In fact, some were so proud of their engines that they had metal mirrors fitted to the inside of the bonnet so you could see everything in the engine better. One such car even had a number plate “Supdup”. We were very amused later in the day to see that same car, just a few kilometres down the road in the town centre being hauled onto a tow truck. Not as souped up as
An EH Holden
This was Barry's father's second car, only his was blue. they thought, methinks!
A few owners had had amazing pictures air-brushed onto their cars, some on the roof, some on the sides and bonnet and some even inside the lid of the bonnet and on the engine. There was a roaring jaguar with flames around him; Marilyn Munroe, with her white dress blowing up; a couple with skulls and ghosts; and one very gruesome one of various movie slashers causing death and destruction and a lot of blood spray – even under the bonnet.
One of the air- brushed cars was surprising for another reason, too. It was so small and low to the ground that it was almost touching it with the bumper. Barry queried how it could get a roadworthy certificate and the owner said it had airbags underneath that raised it up to the correct height before it moved off.
A different kind of paintwork that amazed us was the metallic ones that changed colours as you walked around them and the light reflected differently. One, a Ford Falcon 351 GT, was a vivid red in the sunlight and looked black out of it. Another, a restored 1948
A Restored 1948 Chevrolet Pick-Up
The paintwork on this was amazing, changing from yellow-green, to aqua and coppery brown depending on how the light caught it. Chevrolet Pick-up, was yellow green or coppery brown when viewed from the front and a strong blue-green from the back. It was astonishing and lovely.
We had a coffee each from a trailer, the purple “Coffee Cubby”, which had been camped at the Park since the night we arrived and the owners of which I’d chatted to before, and he kindly gave me a discount. By that time, a lot of the cars had left so we went back to the van and I made toasted cheese and tomato.
We didn’t have enough time to go anywhere far so we went to the Maleny Cheese Factory, which wasn’t working as it was Sunday. They were still operating the cafe and tastings so we tried a few different cheeses and liked the Port Cheddar, so I bought one, as well as a Ginger Yoghurt for Barry. I found some jams and conserves, too, so I bought a Raspberry and Ginger Jam, and a Mixed Berry Savoury Conserve. They sound delicious.
By this time it was after 3pm, so we just went back into Maple Street and looked at the Art Gallery above
A Gory Car
The paintwork on this car was vividly bloody and had characters from slasher movies on all sides. the Visitor Information Centre. There were several artists’ works displayed, some were very cute and some very abstract. Next we headed for the Messina Gallery, where we had seen some amazing photos in the window. We enjoyed looking at them and reading how patient he’d had to be to capture the wonderful scenes, with rainbows and storms.
We had just a short while before the sun went down so we walked along the “Boardwalk” (which was a concrete path!) behind the Library, hoping to see the platypus but he was elusive or asleep. We did, however, see an Azure Kingfisher, with his lovely blue head and orange breast (Barry had spotted him flying into the tree and so saw the blue wings, too). He was beautiful, but didn’t stay long.
Our final stop was to sit outside the Maleny Library and use their active WiFi to post my blogs and do a few emails. It takes a while to upload and caption the photos and by the time I’d finished it was dark and I was freezing, so back to the van and the heater on full blast!
After a coffee
Close Up Koala
This was the only koala we've seen so far on this trip, and he's another wooden sculpture! to warm me up, I cooked some of the Sausage King’s tasty Beef sausages and some 10 minute flavoured noodles with veg. Barry had some of his Ginger Yoghurt for desert and said it was delicious (spoiling good ginger, I reckon!)
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