As I said this time last year, every year, on the Valentine's Day weekend, the Macedon Ranges & District Motor Club hosts the 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' car show. It's a great event with thousands of interesting cars in a unique venue and really is a giant picnic. Here's this year's selection, starting (above) with a Yank Tank in front of the Rock.
While there's a fair amount of repetition of popular classics, there's enough rare and odd stuff if you keep looking. There's a French bias in this list, just because the French built so much neat machinery. After all what car show would be complete without a DS Goddess?
The Nash above is the first of many contenders of why the American machines are bigger than the British; although a Mini on the wing's hardly fair!
That famous signature logo pops up all over.
And of course a good representation from Germany. Beetles (or Bugs) are still popular worldwide, but Australia has a good representation of the other 60s types on the road as well.
However you don't see many of these here, however common they are in Europe. This one for Greg!
I'm not sure, but I think that may be Thunderbird 9. FAB!*
Neat logo, and an English reminder. Not so exotic in the local lingo, sadly.
Winner of Best Commercial and oldest driver (at 88, for the owner) this magnificent Thornycroft, with solid tyres.
And if your parents are dedicated, no need for the young ones to miss out. However the green machines 'off-driveway' capability seemed as limited as you'd expect. Think the motor got a bit grumpy. 
Just in from the Sudan, or possibly a Victorian barn...
The locals were very patient with all the visitors. This guy seemed a lot more sensible than his many admirers (they are wild animals and they can kick hard, folks). The Moggies seemed almost as rare this year. 
One of the overall views. It's a great venue.
And to finish, Austin corner. Didn't Noddy drive one of these?More pictures, including the above, can be seen here in my photo account.
James
*Thanks to the various people who've kindly helped the idiot who tried to make a lame joke about how the car looks a bit like one of the Thunderbird Supermarionation machines, and was nothing to do with Ford Thunderbird cars, or the USAF Thunderbirds, or a drink or any stations west... It's actually a 1965 Buick Rivera. Please do not continue to write in.
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That DS is gorgeous, and the "as is" Traction would be one brilliant car all shined up and painted in gloss black. The rear doors are suicide-style, something that, though unfortunately named, represents an underused option for todays vehicles.
Agreed, Greg! Looking at the door hinges, the 'suicide doors' on the Traction Avant (so much nicer than 'Front Drive'!) are the front pair, and so called (as you know) that when the latch was released while underway, the airflow would snatch them fully open. I don't believe (even with all the other over-complex interlocks and failure-prone 'safty devices') that modern cars can be legally built with such a door arrangement, the front hinge system being a simple and effective door safety setup all of it's own. Interesting point.
James
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