Location: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Registered: May 2002
TOYOTA NATIONALS
Sun, 19 January 2003 22:17
There are many people wondering if the Toyota Nationals are in fact happening and if so what is going on. As I'm sure you'll appreciate, organising such an event with a limited budget and resources is not easy particularly in the current climate of insurance and increased regulations.
Although all the ground work has now been done and almost everything is in place, we are still holding off just a little longer for a few final details to be confirmed. Rather than let people hanging though I have created this post firstly, to inform everyone of the basic plan for the weekend and secondly to get a feel for the level of interest.
The Toyota Nationals is open to all piston-powered Toyotas and will be held in Dubbo NSW over the Easter long weekend from Friday the 18th to Sunday the 20th April. The Toyota Nationals can be thought of a national level club event with the Toyota enthusiast in mind. The last time the Nationals was run the range Toyotas was huge from early originals to modified right up to late model performance imports. We expect to turn-out this year to be same if not better.
There are 3 events planned. These are:
1) Show and Shine to be held at Dubbo City Toyota/Lexus on Saturday the 19th April. (There is no cost for this).
2) Motorkhana to be held on Sunday the 20th April. The cost is expected to be $40 for a day CAMS licence (L2SE) or $52 for a full CAMS licence (L2NS).
3) Drag Racing to be also held on Sunday the 20th April. This event will be a combined event with the Dubbo City Car Club and run on an ANDRA approved 1/8 mile track. Toyotas will compete in their own bracket but there is the option to have a shoot-out at the end of the day. The cost is expected to be $50 per car that includes all licences and insurance.
We realise the weekend is expensive and are trying our best to reduce the cost of both the motorkhana and drag racing. We are hoping to make the entry fee for each of these events a flat $40.
In order for us to finalise planning for the event I would like to get a feel for the level of interest for the Drags and Motorkhana or the event in general. This will assist us greatly in determining the cost for these events. I look forward to your feedback.
I think toyota made only a handful of rotaries, during that original craze and none of them were released to the public. So if you had a toyota made rotary I'm sure grant would let you in.
I travelled home to Tasmania a few years a go to collect my Celica from storage. We put in on the boat (very stressful evolution) then drove it to Sydney. I spent a week cleaning it only to find out two days before we were due to head off to Dubbo, that it was cancelled due to insurance reasons. We had both taken time off work and spent up big making the old girl look it's best for the Toyota fans. Talk about a disappointment.
Good luck in 2003, I hope it all goes well!
Justin
maybe a couple more years and I'll get over it and return!
Sun, 19 January 2003 22:17
