MBCNSW June 2023 Cars and Coffee

This morning I attended the MBCNSW cars and coffee event in Silverwater.   It was held at the Armory café down by the water.    It is quite nice down there, and there is plenty of parking.    The venue the club used last time is probably nicer, but has a severe shortage of parking.  This forced the cars to triple park and making it very difficult to leave.

This venue has loads of parking, but the downside is that there are a lot of other cars already in the parking lot from the general public so its a bit of a shame seeing a gormless SUV in the line up.  Silverwater is quite a good central location, you can get there from pretty much anywhere in Sydney in an hour or less.

There was a good range of cars there.  Surprisingly the W124 was by far the most common.   It’s only in the last couple of years that the W124 is starting to see a growing interest in the club.   The coupes and the wagons always had somewhat of a following, but it is also great to see the saloon get some attention too.    Not only did I manage to photograph a few W124s, two more arrived just as I left.  A coupe and a saloon.

The highlight for me though was seeing the W108 and W111 saloons parked side by side.   It was a great contrast between the two models.    They are both lovely cars.   And there was also a 300 Adenauer in excellent shape.   Surprisingly for all their popularity in the club there was only a single W126 (A 560SEL) and two 107s. My 450SLC and a 500SL.  There were obviously some modern Mercedes too.

I took my 450SLC.  I’ve been driving it almost daily the last few weeks, and have been really enjoying the Becker radio I just installed.   I did the final fine tuning of the install last night.  It’s sitting far better in the dash now.   After owning the car for over 20 years, I still enjoy driving it.

As well as the cars and coffee, there was also a club breakfast that I didn’t attend.  It was good to go and have a quick look at the cars and say hello and be back at home well before 10am.