Car Display at Lorbek Luxury Cars

Sunday 19th June

What a perfect winter’s sunny day, for PCV members and their families to come together to display their cars and catch up with old friends and meet new ones on Sunday 19 June 2022. The venue was Lorbek Luxury Cars in Port Melbourne where we had the run of the large car park to display our vehicles and what a display it was.

Upon arrival we were ushered into areas to park with similar model vehicles. It was all very efficiently run and organised by Clyde White and his crew of PCV volunteers.

Once parked it was time to register, get food vouchers at Lorbek’s showroom entrance and then grab a quick coffee and wander their large warehouse style showroom, to view their vast array of exotic and very well presented vehicles. It was like entering Aladdin’s cave with every corner producing another lot of treasure.

To start with the 356 Register set up a display of their members’ cars at the entrance to the Lorbek showroom. Once inside and having walked past a fine array of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens amongst many others you were confronted by “Realsteel” the 2022 top street machine at MotorEx, being a 1978 Porsche 911SC, costing $1.3m to customise. Truly a work of art.

Across from Realsteel, was Steve with his collection of pedal cars. Now it has been more years than I care to remember since I have been in a pedal car, but there were a number of these kids’ trinkets from the past and I spent quite a bit of time discussing them with their passionate owner. The club worked very hard to attract this display of a very rare collection, in public setting. Two of these rare nuggets really were of great interest. That being Alan Jones’s Austin Pathfinder (I could imagine Alan burning around the pits in the days when his father Stan raced) and what may have been Black Jack Brabham’s childhood pedal car. Steve was very accommodating in telling the history of how he acquired these two cars and even opened the engine bay of the Jones car, which hadn’t seen the light of day, for over 20 years. The level of detail of things made in those days was amazing.

Once outside, there was a massive collection of Porsche scale models to view and purchase. Looking at all these attractions and enjoying the company of fellow club members built up a large appetite and the food truck did not disappoint. For the small fee of $20 to enter this event, we were treated with a range of food truck dishes ranging from calamari to lamb and finishing off with ice cream, it was the perfect way to while away the afternoon.

Each Porsche model was well represented but there can only be one favorite car of the day as judged by Srecko Lorbek, being the Cayman GT4 of Michael Moon and his partner Meg. This car looked resplendent in white with martini livery. Michael and Meg have been members of the club for 12 months and the car is equipped with the track pack which Michael has been quietly exploring. As the winner Michael not only gets the glassware trophy, but also a full valet which will come in handy after the next PCV track day. All in all it was a fantastic day shared with likeminded enthusiasts.

Thank you from the organiser Clyde White I would like to thank Lorbek Luxury Cars for their generosity in sponsoring the event and more specifically Srecko and David Lorbek and Harry Hamann.

A further thank you to Steve Lofthouse, for all his work and support, also Peta Slack Smith, Justin Reed, Helen Baxter and our group of club Marshals for all their wonderful hard work.