Rob & Karen’s Run - “Stockwell and Beyond”

Sunday of the long weekend delivered all that was promised – a hot day.
The meeting place was McDonalds Smithfield but the dramas started before we even got to the meeting point.
I had a few cancellations due to health and heat but still had 33 on my list so I replied to the hotels text on the Saturday that we would have 35 attend (just in case I had missed someone).
On the way to the meeting point Andrea passed as we were fuelling the Corvette but we found her parked on the side of the road with the bonnet up just down the road (it’s a Corvette).
A quick look found the wire from the alternator was loose so she may have been running on
battery power only, needless to say her day wasn’t going to plan with the Corvette going home on a truck.
At the meet point most were in the carpark and a select few (lots) were in McDonalds escaping the heat and filling their bellies with food and coffee and required a phone call to get them out.
The briefing completed and maps of the route handed out, we were on our way. Three sets of lights and into the mid north.
Now the plan was to have a run that we could stick to the speed limit and give the cars a good run, until we got just past the Roseworthy College, they were rebuilding the road – no black stuff- crap- I have driven that road hundreds of times no need to do a pre run recy - good thing the speed limit was VERY low as 19 Corvettes and a few daily drivers crawled, what seemed like forever, and then newly surfaced black stuff at the same speed – now at this rapid rate the 60-60 air conditioning doesn’t work real well but you get time to look at the scenery.
The rest of the run went to plan with the whole convoy flowing well. We picked up Rachael and Randall at Saddleworth in their 91 who were picking us up at Wasleys but were there TOO
early so decided to try dresses on at a shop in Saddleworth as we rolled through.
The group actually made the lunch stop (now 20 Corvettes and a few daily drivers and a Hellcat) at the Stockwell Hotel just before midday with a member who shall remain nameless was a little late due to the rate of catchup that was detected by those that must be obeyed.
The hotel catered for my original 30 booked with a long table set but didn’t get or couldn’t read that I had updated it to 35 but they catered for the 38 or 40 that actually turned up.
The food came out in good time and was enjoyed and the beer was cold.
For those at the back of the convoy they had all day Monday to get the dust off the car and for those that travel with the roof off, out of the inside as well.
The run was 144km from meeting point to lunch stop, I think that we covered about 220 km with the Southerners probably getting close to 400km – a nice day out.
Thankyou to all that attended.