Friday, July 1, 2011

Experience esCarpade Queenslad Style!

Dennis Trigg and Ben Mildren travelled up to Queensland recently (18 - 19 June) to catch up with our northern counterparts. The idea was to conduct a QLD Experience esCarpade and double it with a bit of a pre-scrutineering session, something QLD has missed out on until this year.

For the "Experience" part of the day Ben decided to use the section of road 90% of entrants didn't get to drive last year, the section from Kilcoy through Maleny and Montville into Palmwoods.

While there are a total of six cars in QLD only three were able to make it. The good news was that new entrants, Michael Brown in Car 18K (Holden VL) and Darren Redsell in Car 51 (Mitsubishi Pajero), brought their cars along for Dennis to have a look at. Tony Holland's VK also tuned out for a viewing.

Those that weren't operable were the Agnew's Torana and Merc and Damien Sheather's Booger Falcon, but they still came along for the ride.

The pre-scrutineering was a huge success while the drive was a spectacular mix of dirt and bitumen with incredible views of the Glass House Mountains.

A big thanks to Dennis Trigg for sacrificing another weekend for esCarpade and to Penny Sorbello, CQ Fundraising Coordinator in South QLD for helping organise the whole thing and for being a massive help on the day.