HONDA S600 ROADSTER
e d i R y a D ’ B s e i d r a W A rticle by Dav id Ward
A FINE MORNING SHOWED PROMISE, BUT IT HAD BEEN CHUCKING IT DOWN THE PREVIOUS COUPLE OF DAYS, SO A TURNOUT OF TWELVE MEMBERS AT THE GLEN OSMOND SERVICE STATION ON SUNDAY, JUNE 21, WAS REALLY GOOD.
Three saw us off and nine of us headed up the freeway just as it began to rain. Unperturbed we peeled off at the first turn-off and headed through the twists and turns through Glen Osmond, past the golf course, with views overlooking the city if you’ve got time to look - out of the suburbs past Penfolds Winery, then up the Norton Summit Road, navigating its tricky hairpins, especially so in the conditions. Out on the Montacute Road and then the dive down into Basket Range, down into the valley, with water flowing over the road, and avoiding the slippery
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green bits, then up the other side, alongside the flowing Sixth Creek, complete with waterfall for the attentive! Up through Carey Gulley and across the valley to pick up the newly re-surfaced Deviation Road, a challenge on the best of days. All still together, in the intermittent weather, we headed along the Lobethal Road to Lenswood and then across Chapel Hill towards Cudlee Creek. A quick whizz up the end of Gorge Road following along the Torrens River and then picking up the AdelaideMannum Road past the over-flowing Torrens Weir,
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