Prologue night.

Almost a week ago now but last Wednesday night was stage 1 of the Targa Classic Adelaide at the Showgrounds. I don't think anyone expected the 24,000 crowd and it made things difficult getting near the front to take a few action shots. I'm getting a bit old for climbing up the side of the ferris wheel and didn't have the foresight to bring the truck down for standing on. There was a great selection of food vans all with long queues all night. Anyway, we had a display of 9 Bollies there which was a half reasonable number really.

From front to back is Pete S's red Nagari, Pete M's white Mk.7 coupe, Dino's orange Mk.7 roadster and Bill's yellow Mk.5. See the silver 2006 Monaro? The Monaro Club had their display partially out in the weather and it started to look like rain. The owner panicked as it had never experienced a raindrop so we kindly squeezed him in with us where he rubbed and nurtured it for the rest of the night. You can see him in action here.

Looking East towards the hills we have Ron's bronze Mk.7, John H's orange and undercoat Mk.7, Phil's blue one, Scott's Nagari sports with Jim's sports tucked in behind that. Sadly, the individual photo I took of the dark green sports (my all-time favourite) turned out to be of poor quality. Sorry about that.

A collection of V8s with Phil's very smart looking blue Mark 7 in the middle.

The yellow car in the foreground came in for lots of attention and not only for it being the only Bolwell to get a lap of the track.  It's seldom you see a Mark 5 these days and people were intrigued by the big bubble back window. John Veale reminisced about the maroon one that kicked around Adelaide in the 60s (Philip Coulthard). Does anybody know what happened to that? Healey driver, John Rowe, wondered what it was too and I was able to tell him that there's one over his way these days now.

This has turned out to be a very smart motor car. Goodonya Dino.

Finally, the other car in our section, hiding behind the Monaro was the red Plus 8.