11th September 2026 Tony & Faye’s – Warradale Hotel Dinner.

A Dinner was organised for Friday 11th September at the Warradale Hotel (had done the usual pre-dinner check, relatively quiet and plenty of parking). Arrived at 6:15 p.m. as the hosts, for a 6:30 booking for 30. The car park was ‘packed to the hilt’ seems the warmer weather of spring brings ‘em out in droves, (even had security on the door).

We booked for 30 initially, and 27 with a couple of late cancellations attended.

A mix of the usual suspects and some new members enjoyed a few cordials and sat down to enjoy a meal. The waitress assigned to our booking, asked me to let her know when all the guests had arrived and she would take those table by table up to order and pay for the meal. Sounds pretty simple, the comment that came from members was it worked really well and might be suggested to venues at future dinners. Meals arrived fairly quickly, and as usual, the chatter disappeared while meals were consumed, a few drinks and conversation followed, and as usual we were left alone in what had been a crowded dining room. Meals were off the ‘Pub Menu’ and not restricted to a ‘set menu’, the general feedback was that everyone really enjoyed their meals and even though Sean had to drop Kirsty off and go to work, he got back in time to have a meal before the kitchen closed at 9:30.

All in all, it was a great night out, with good tucker and great company.

Thanks to all who came, Faye & Tony.

Write up: Tony Beer Smith

Photos courtesy: Tony Beer Smith

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Corvettes Rock the Bay - 8th February 2026

 

We had 120 entrants at this year’s Corvettes Rock the Bay including entrants from Victoria and New South Wales, which certainly filled Wigley reserve. The weather was perfect for a summer’s day.

We held a meet and greet lunch on Saturday at the Junction restaurant for our interstate friends which 22 attend and a pleasant afternoon was had by all.

Sunday morning and we had an early start, in the dark on the oval, with our volunteers setting up the marquees and marking out the display layout, vendor positions, entrance lanes and putting up banners making sure everything was ready for our entrants arrival.  .

Our vendors this year were Kiwanis, Shannons, GMSV, REPCO Marion, City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide, Southern Coffee, Don’t Melt Ice Cream, HeartKids, Don’s Woodcarving, Ian’s” Sunglasses & More” , Heartbeat Band and  our clubs Corvette Merchandise.

The Band “Heartbeat” entertained us throughout the day, Kiwanis had the BBQ going from early morning and there was a constant line up at the coffee and ice cream vans.

Also on display was John Kostic with his Malibu Corvette speedboat which was a hit and drew in the crowd all day and Malcom Ramsay’s C8 race car another favourite with attendees.

Our club members Ross Spurling and Arthur Hasse had their C36’s on display which were another hit with attendees and entrants alike.

REPCO had a “spin the wheel” competition going which prizes were awarded, and City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide had free merchandise giveaways throughout the day.

We would also like to thank City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide for providing a $250 gift voucher as the Early Bird Entrants prize, won by Peter McBride, congratulations Pete!

Our vendors really enjoyed the day, they were amazed at the number of Corvettes on display and we have had confirmation that REPCO, City Discount Tyres and a few more have already confirmed their attendance at our show next year.

Ticket sales for our raffle was very successful. A big thank you to Joy and Maelyn for their sales on the day. Thanks also to all club members who bought tickets and distributed books.

We had 7 trophies on offer for pre-registered entrants, 3 voted by the public, 3 voted by entrants and 1 favourite chosen by HeartKids.

Thank you to our trophy sponsors who were:-

Public Choice 1st: Sponsored by GMSV

Public Choice 2nd: Sponsored by Gary & Cathy McPhee in memory of Sean Baker, a “SUPERHERO”

Public Choice 3rd: Sponsored by Garry Bergen & Pam Applebee

Entrants Choice 1st: Sponsored by Neil & Norene Portlock in memory of Graham Johns

Entrants Choice 2nd: Sponsored by Peter & Lynda McBride

Entrants Choice 3rd: Sponsored by Ian Gregor

Heart Kids Choice 1st: Sponsored by Quantative Occupational Risk Management Services

The winners were-

             Entrants Choice

1st       Trevor Waters 2025 C8

2nd      Christopher Slee 1962 C1

3rd       Mark Hounslow 1972 C3

            Public Choice

1st       Darren Coates 2025 C8

2nd      Mark Williams 1969 C3

3rd       Andrew Gwinnett 1960 C1

            Heart Kid's Choice     

            Matthew Green 1971 C3

Congratulations to all!

Our events raffle was a huge success, raising funds for our charity with almost $4,000 of prizes generously donated by local businesses. We thank them for their support.

Congratulations to the following winners -

1st       418 - Robert Rundle

2nd      628 - Mark Hounslow

3rd       544 - Dino

4th       268 - Hazel Crowe

5th       442 - Dave Williams

6th.1    210 - Mike Manfield

6th.2    125 - Rowland Beardsell

6th.3    490 - Sergio Giacomelli

7th       629 - Andrew Gregory

8th       499 - Craig Hauser

9th       406 - A Hiotis

Drakes Supermarkets kindly donated the Hot Wheels cars that we gave away free to children under 12 years of age, we thank them for their generous support.

We would also like to thank the Government of South Australia and Shannons insurance for their financial support of our event.

We would like to thank all our volunteers, supporters, vendors, sponsors and especially our entrants for making this such a successful event.

There has been a lot of coverage of our event on social media so check out Horsepower Crew on their YouTube channel for coverage of our show.

In summing up, Shirelee & I would like to thank all the helpers who turn up before sunrise and those who stay back for the pack up, as without you guys it just would not happen, so thank you!

We would also like to thank our sub-committee Peter Bartlett, Chris Galloni, Angelo Dimasi, Norene Portlock and Neil Portlock for their dedication and tireless work. This event simply would not have happened and been such a success without your support and hard work, thank you!

We hope to see you all at Corvettes Rock the Bay 2027, Sunday 14^th February, yes Valentine’s Day.

So make sure you register and bring along your sweetheart and your partner for another great day celebrating our clubs premier event, which will also be our clubs 50^th anniversary year, we are already planning on something special!

Thank you from Shirelee and I.

Peter Mourdoukoutas

 

CRTB 2026

 

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Run To Palmer 4th January 2026

Thanks to all the club members who turned out for the 1st club run of the year. A massive thank you to Jade from the Palmer Hotel for having us. We ended up with well over 30 corvettes for the day.

Weather was great, food was great and company was pretty good as well

Thanks to Neil and Christine Bailey for a great run

 

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This years October long weekend club trip was once again organised by Peter & Lynda.

Meeting at the Boliver OTR to fuel up, coffee up and rev up for a great weekend. Everyone was on time so off we went with the next stop planned for lunch at the

Ardrossan Hotel. There “may” have been a couple of minor mechanical hiccups on the way but nothing we couldn’t overcome due to having a trusty Toyota Landcruiser amongst us.

Anyway, we all eventually arrived at Ardrossan for a great SA country pub lunch and a drink or two before heading further down the coast.

Peter and Lynda chose the quaint town of Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula as our base and booked out the entire Stansbury Holiday Motel (Thankfully) which allowed us to - let’s just say “Be ourselves”. The management of the motel were the nicest and easiest going people, you could meet. This made for a really chilled and relaxing place for us to stay.

That night, Lynda and her team of happy helpers performed some magic behind the scenes and before you knew it, we were being fed dinner in the gazebo overlooking the ocean. Plenty of food and plenty of laughs. A great night.

Saturday morning, the energetic ones amongst us walked into town to check out the

local Stansbury street market. Bought nothing and eventually wandered back ready for a drive.

Peter & Lynda planned for us a tour of some of the sites this part of the Peninsula has to offer. From historic plane crash sites to pink lakes. All was going well until

Peter walked crossed the road on a blind corner and almost got taken out by the local cop who was chasing someone at high speed. (Surprisingly – not one of us).

 That evening, we had 3 tables booked at the Dalrymple Hotel, Stansbury. The pub did a amazing job in getting the food out to us considering they were packed with long weekend holiday crowds. It was also great to have local club member Alan & partner Peta with friends join us adding to the good times.

Sunday came around. We fueled up in Minlaton and headed to Marion Bay via

Corny Point. Lunch was organised at the Marion Bay Tavern and once again, we all got fatter.

Some chose to visit Innes National Park and some chose to keep their cars clean. Eventually, we all made it back to our Motel.

Dinner that night was takeaway pizza from the Hotel in town. We crowded into the McBride's Penthouse to eat, drink and again, get fatter. Lyn organised a name draw with Tim and Chris winning a couple of great prizes without any effort. We were

too cold to go outside and have a competition game to find our winners. Later that night, I was once again forced to tell some far-fetched story about a dead camel just for everyone’s cheap entertainment.

 Monday morning came, and we had to join the queue of Yorke Peninsula holiday traffic back to Adelaide. All I can say is “Curse those caravan drivers”.

Good ol’ Pt Wakefield was chaos as usual but we detoured to the Rising Sun Hotel in the back streets for one last meal together.

The weekend had come to an end. The weather was kind. The company was great and there were laughs a plenty. I know everyone thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.

We all enjoyed every minute of it due to one big reason. That’s because of the amazing job that Peter & Lynda had put into it.

A HUGE THANKYOU FROM ALL OF US, PETER & LYNDA.

Also, a BIG THANKYOU to all the helpers over the weekend. It’s also what makes these weekends work so well.

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