Facebook event for this meet: https://www.facebook.com/events/599852466728217
Location: We will be meeting at the Bunnings carpark in Melton, on the same spot we met last year. We will be parking in the parking spaces closest to Barries Road, near the second entrance to the carpark. That's the quietest part of the carpark and there are always quite a few parking spaces there.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=bunnings ... 35&iwloc=A
149-169 Barries Road
Melton VIC 3337, Australia
Date: Sunday, 20th of October (confirmed)
Format: meet at 12pm (lunch time) at the location above, leave at 1:30pm once everyone has arrived and chatted. We can then discuss if anyone wants to go for a drive to say St Kilda Pier or any other location. There are a few petrol stations not far from the meeting place and there are also a few fast food restaurants and a large shopping centre very near. So you can either bring lunch with you and eat while you chat to other members in the meet or we can all go together after we meet to Maccas or something.
Attending:
BAD-SIG (Fabio Caris) - GE Sigma SE
Here is a bit of a background story on me, what happened to my old blue Sigma, why I've been away so long, etc.:
For those of you who remember, I used to run and organize our cruises and meets here in Victoria from about the year 2002 until about 2006. Back then I was driving my light blue 1979 GE Sigma SE. Here is a photo of it in it's hey-day:
After a truck ripped the front bumper off in 2006, I decided to pull it off the road to do a ground up restoration with my dad's help. Not long after, dad sadly got cancer and died a couple of years later in 2008. So I kinda left the poor Sigma sitting on the front lawn for all these years and the weather has taken it's toll on the car's body, leaving many fist-sized holes. Here is a photo of it now, before it got towed away to car-heaven:
So, after missing my dad for so long and missing driving and working on the Sigma, I decided it was best to buy a new one in better condition. So back in 2011 I found a local, one owner, 1978 GE Sigma SE, with only minor rust in the boot and roof due to vinyl roof. And so the process of fixing, modifying and improving it began, doing it to the same formula that I had modified my blue Sigma, except I decided to keep it as an automatic and not convert it to a 5spd manual like I had done to my blue Sigma. So now that the car is finished, it's time to take it out!
