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1st annual Australian AMC/Rambler show Albury 2014 |
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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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Posted: Apr/12/2013 at 5:33am |
Hi everyone. This thread was previously the AMC Riverina Rambler Raid but the show is gaining some pretty good momentum and many have indicated that really the show should become an Australian and/or National event where ALL clubs, forum members, individuals and anyone else interested in AMC/Ramblers can get together each year and meet up and enjoy the amazing and rare cars we have. It will now be advertised everywhere from now on as;
1st annual Australian AMC/Rambler show
& AMC 60th anniversary celebration
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Chryslers on the Murray, 15th/16th March 2014
Thread fomerly titled "Official invite to COTM 2014". I thought a formal name for our AMC participation at COTM sounded good
"Chryslers on the Murray" (COTM) is an awesome car show held in Albury on the NSW/VIC border each year. The show has been going since the early 90's and is now the biggest Chrysler show outside of the USA with around 700 cars and over 10,000 people attending the event. Although they have always been welcome I am pleased to announce AMC's are now OFFICIALLY invited to attend this great event as of next year including having our own area put aside to show the 10,000 plus spectators what great cars AMC made. Keep the weekend of 15th/16th March 2014 in your calender and let's make it also the largest AMC show outside of the USA. Stay tuned to this post for more details. This should be fun
I will be contacting the various AMC clubs and adding more details on forum as time goes on but for some information please see; http://www.chryslersonthemurray.com/
Although it is all early days yet I welcome ANY ideas for example I am looking at locating a very large AMC flag to put up. Also will be looking into if Jim Richards Javelin is available for the show etc etc plus each year the Chryslers have a theme ie Chargers one year, R and S Valiants the next etc but for our first year I would like to attract at least one of EVERY model AMI/AMC made/assembled ie at least one Classic, Marlin, Ambassodor, Rebel, Hornet, AMX, American, Javelin, Matador, Matador X, Gremlin, Pacer etc and even some that AMI didn't make such as an Eagle, Concorde etc
This is our chance ladies and gentlemen to show what special cars we have got to such a big established audience. Let's do it! Edited by 70Hornet - Nov/10/2013 at 12:02am |
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Pokerchip
AMC Addicted Joined: Apr/24/2009 Location: Brisbane QLD Status: Offline Points: 528 |
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My friend and his family make the trip every year from Northern NSW, so I think my '64 can make it no problem
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70Hornet
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Awesome mate! American = 1 Cars come from all over Australia for this show and it really is worth it. We might have a look at getting everyone into the same motel, as a big part of the weekend is the socialising. There is a motel up the road from me which I reckon would be perfect for an AMC invasion so I will have a chat with them to see if we can get a group discount for everyone. The Chrysler club is actually getting excited about our AMC invasion and will have a nice area set aside for all of our cars. The cars at the show don't have to be perfect showcars by any means and many original unrestored Chryslers attend as well as many everyday drivers so if you are thinking of bringing your car don't for a minute think it won't be worthy coz ANY old car is worth looking at in my books. Can't wait to see a heap of AMC's together!!!
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Pokerchip
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I've been to COTM in 2011 and 2012 when I lived in Albury. In hindsight I could have taken my '66 Classic Hardtop when I still had it and been the only AMC there! For a while I thought I was the only AMC owner in the area until I saw a Matador one day haha
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70Hornet
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Yeah the AMC/Ramblers have always been welcome to COTM but it has never really been advertised as such until now. We have now been officially invited and we will have our own designated area to display our cars and I will be helping with this. You are right about Albury there doesn't seem to be too many local AMC's or is there?. There is a red Javelin in Jindera and there was a maroon 75 Hornet running around up until a couple of years ago but the rest are either in people's sheds or there just arnt any around here? Will be great to see you down here Pokerchip in your 64 and will be good to see as many of the forum members with their cars so we can put a face to the forum member. Yeah it's early days but I thought it would be good to get the ball rolling so people have plenty of time to make arrangements and/or finish off cars etc. Can't wait! ANY ideas, suggestions please put it up on this thread. If you are in a club have a word with your other AMC/Rambler owners about the day as we could really make something of this
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huddy1955
AMC Addicted Joined: Feb/12/2012 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 743 |
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I must put this date on my calender, March is usually a quiet month in my books so it is a possibility that my wagon and myself could attend. I have always wanted to make it to that show.
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1963 Rambler Classic 660 wagon 1969 AMX 343 auto NO# 09 of 24 1973 Rambler Matador Wagon 360 1985 Jeep J20 pick up 360 2000 Jeep Cherokee Classic plenty of parts cars |
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WesternRed
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Out of curiosity I just plugged it into the Tomtom, 3496km for me (each way), would be a heck of a road trip, but as mentioned in the other thread, a few of the local Chrysler guys make the trip over each year. My old man actually drove my Javelin from Tassie to Perth when I brought it back in 2006. It survived the trip with no major issues except for one flat tyre and a spare that went square not long afterwards.
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Pokerchip
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Well its only 1400km approx. from Lismore, where my Rambler is, to Albury. I drove from Albury to Lismore in one 14 hr marathon once. Next time I will make a road trip of it I think
EDIT: 70Hornet, I noticed you are marketing this COTM thing alot You should think about coming up to the Gold Coast for the Cooly Rocks festival during the Queens Birthday weekend. Last year we had about 17 AMC Ramblers lined up, hopefully more this year. Edited by Pokerchip - Apr/15/2013 at 6:53am |
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Lucas660
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It's 378 kilometers drive for me. The furthest I have driven in my Rambler in one hit is 150 clicks!!!
Might as well come up though. |
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70Hornet
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