For those of you who havent heard, the Bay to Birdwood run was run recently. All entrants are pre 1956. Turn out of well over a thousand cars. The run invloves a 75km route through the Adelaide Hills. In Australia we seem to have a large range of both American and English cars along with some european ones, which makes for a good rally. I thought some of you early minor people may be interested.
If anyone has more interest Google Bay to Birdwood, the offical site has many thousands of photos.
I'd love an e series one day!
someones very nice side valve, they came in period costume to but I didnt get a shot of that unfortunately.
My car in good company!
What an excellent collection of cars, much more interesting than just looking at Morris Minors all day (except side valves).
I haven't got XGH 341 on my register so I can't help you with the owner.
Sorry Mike I dont have any details on xgh 341 except to say it is a new registration plate max one to two years old, but suspect much less. If I find out any details I shall pass them on.
In south Australia, Alpha numeric plates began in the early sixties i think, Before that they were only numeric, and where white numbers on a black background. My Granfather worked int he government garages in hte 20's and could remember who all the cars 1-100 belonged to.
Alpha numeric plates began with RAA-000, over the years went through S, U,V,W and now X. T was reserved for trailers and bikes.
Today it is possible for a small price to have reissued an R or S series plate for about $100, just to confuse the matter. There are also a whole range of different personal plates.
The reason why they change I guess, is that when a car beomes unregistered the motor registra ask for there return. I have never bothered and never encountered a problem. If cars move states then they will also be issued with a new number.
I guess with my car as you had it with an R plate, i would guess that at some point it had been moved form interstate or overseas. Otherwise it should have had just a numeric plate. At some point in recent years, its rego ran out, plates where returned and when re registered it got a W plate.
The series II car i had, I was going to register as SII-803, hence my username. I should change my rego to SMM-918.
Thanks for that info. That explains why the same car keeps turning up with different plates.
Its a good thing there aren't so many cars out there or they would soon run out of plates especially as trailers have their own plates.
