MBCNSW November 2024 Night Drive – Bilpin Apple Pie

Yesterday was the final night drive of 2024.   As has become traditional, we headed to Bilpin for a late night feast of Apple pie.

The week had been very hot and humid in Sydney, and Thursday afternoon greeted us with a typical Sydney summer storm.   We’ve been a bit unlucky on some of these drives, having good weather during the week and then storms rolling in on a Thursday.

Despite the weather, we had a good turn out for the drive.  I took my 560SEL, and on the drive we had four W124s (230E, 300E, 300TE and E220T), a 380SEC, my old 280SE W116, a 280SE 3.5 W108 and two modern Mercedes.

I find the W126 to a great wet weather car.   They are so stable in bad weather and there are few cars I would rather drive in the rain.   Given the weather, there was not a lot of traffic on the road, so it was an easy cruise up to Bilpin.

Our destination was ‘The Big Apple Pie’ which is run by a club member who opens up late for us for these annual drives.   They are a lot of fun, and well worth getting to sleep at 2AM for a special event like this.   After a busy couple of weeks at work, it was a good opportunity to get out for a night drive.