Sometimes you just need a little nudge… In September, a cheeky DM on Facebook that said “You coming to Euroa?” was enough to get me planning to adjust my social calendar to make it happen. I’m really glad I did.

The National Show and Shine is a day show in which the town of Euroa closes its streets to normal traffic and where all the streets and parks host a huge array of beautiful classic cars and bikes. Prides and joys all of them, and such a variety of American, British and other classics.

I went up with Lucie, repping for the Victorian Mini Club and you’ll see from the pics below that herself looked lovely in the line up of other minis. Her friends Elsie and Maisie, the Morris 850s and their owners Angela and Tony and I had the good fortune to share a house and a meal. It was a great time, and it was a great inspiration for getting some of the cosmetic issues I want to resolve sorted so she makes a bit of a better showing over the summer season… Holding out for my tax return…

In any case… here is a gallery of pics from the day, you can see my bent for British cars in that I basically didn’t take pics of anything else… OOPS!!

Sunday December 4th was the first opportunity I had to take Miss Lucie out and put her through her paces. We convened at Bundoora Park, north of Melbourne for the BMC (British Motor Corporation) Grand Day Out. It was my first ‘Show and Shine’ and I kind of nervously parked her in back and happily chatted to people as they came past but wasn’t sure what to expect and felt a bit intimidated to be honest.

In any case, there was quite a bit of interest in Lucie and I had a number of conversations with people, fended off a couple of offers to purchase to her as well!! I actually learned a lot that day, not only about how these events play out, (about taking a thermos of coffee and a seat to sit behind your car) and about how Elfs were knock down kits when they went to NZ, how that affected their build etc. It was a pretty great experience.

Except for the sunburn…