Quote Originally Posted by Frederick Lacey View Post
Hi John, wish they were illegal here, getting ridiculous these last few years, bonfire night Nov 5th or nearest weekend now goes on
for at least 3 weeks, they don't go bang anymore they go BANG, every time one goes off my mongrel tries to dig a basement under
the carpet, A & E departments end up being busy with burns especially youngsters who grab the red hot part of a sparkler as its
finishing, thatched cottages and houses are losing their roofs, farmers are losing their hay and straw stacks when rockets land on them.

The series on at the moment is in Ballarat in 1959, and full of the old cars, including ford Zodiacs and Zephers, I spent 10 years of MN
money on a Ford Consul in 1959 so brings back a bit of nostalgia.

The reason I was surprised is that I didn't expect you to celebrate something in Australia that happened here in 1605.

Fred.

It was at the height of the mass immigration from UK the ten pound poms and being nostalgic kept up the practice. As to the old cars, there is rarely a weekend goes by and there is not a rally of them somewhere. One a few weeks back for Minis brought almost 200 of them to the site.