The Undead Car Club

Another amazing turnout for the Central Victorian Chrysler Club. Lots of well turned out cars again this year, swarming the streets of central Bendigo. Here’s a few pics of some of my favourites…… Enjoy. Damien.

Could be worth a look. 



Picnic at Hanging Rock (for the Undead at least) kicked off at 8.00am as I was taking in the chill early morning ambience of the main street of Woodend, which no joke was pretty nice.  Out of the procession of various classics through the town came Cam and Kayla in the Datsun, Andrew in his Red Alpha – and a couple of his mates in a gleaming black Daimler.  My white Charger (not a horse) made its first club appearance.  Our tardy President and inimitable First Lady presently appeared – swinging the requisite bottle of transmission fluid that his Pontiac drinks at a rate akin to Bob Hawke with a yard glass at an AWU barbeque.

The convoy headed up the hill and joined the throng – and what a throng it was.  Who knows whether the 2500 vehicle target was reached – we can personally verify there was a dead set shitload of cars.  They were everywhere.  It was like the opposite of when the Griswold’s turn up at WallyWorld.

We set up like many others to watch the procession and joined with the oohs and ahs as every shape and size rolled in.  With this volume of cars it was terrifically apparent that different people love different things (although we at the Undead can surely understand this).  From the sublime to the ridiculous, there were 7 litre engines, 7 litre fuel tanks and 7 seaters.  There was a GT Falcon that idled so ferociously it looked it wasn’t going to stay on the ground (nice); a truck with a giant mural of Princess Diana on it (not nice); there was even a goggo mobile.  And contrary to the advert – this one WAS the Dart.  

In amongst these classics and the predictable throngs of mustangs, monaros, toranas, corvettes etc etc, we were collectively a bit despairing in the acknowledgement that something made in 1989 was now 25 years old – which meant (groan) EA Falcons and VN Commodores are now considered ‘classic’.   Honestly, if one of these is your pride and joy then a least make it 2000hp, or amphibious, (or both – and enter it in the Southern 80 which is on the same weekend so you can’t come to Hanging Rock).  There is no accounting for taste.   

We split up to focus on our own particular favourites amongst the bazillion cars.  Briggsy sought out the muscle, Nat sought out the bugs, I sought out Captain Calamari.  Everyone sought out some shade.  The day quickly got progressively hotter, and one by one we petered out like the rest of the crowd as the sun was highest.  Does anyone’s airconditioning work?

In the end it’s a pretty good (and massive) show and especially so if you like diversity.  The four plus one cars representing the Undead were certainly not disgraced.  The more Zombies the merrier next year. 

– Ben 



Hey Guys. These are the model rules for an incorporated association in Victoria. The link takes you to a consumer affairs website where you can download the word file.

http://m.consumer.vic.gov.au/library/forms/clubs-and-not-for-profits/incorporated-associations/model-rules-for-an-incorporated-association.doc

Hey Guys

The Geelong Revival is on again Nov 28th – 30th.

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vintage caravans!
fashions with ruby rabbit!
drag racing in vintage, classic & contemporary cars!

Looking like another great well organised event. Check out the website.

Hope you can get there. Check out chopped.com.au for tickets.

First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for thier attendance, it was a great turn out with only a couple of apologies. I am so very happy (as i have also been told by other members) with the group of people that we have collected together to form this club. Everybody seemed to get along very well and everyone was keen to have input and discuss various issues and topics. The idea of our close knit club will continue to work very well and i applaud everyone for keeping their eyes on the prize and helping us, by doing things by the book, and thus continuing to keep this club running. As this may not be the case with some other clubs in the near future.

I feel the day was very successful, in that we discussed a lot of issues and got great ideas for the way we continue to run the club. We are presently working on those ideas and members will be notified by email of upcoming get togethers.

Any way thanks again to all for their input and bringing their undead vehicles on the day (check out the pics below).

Cheers, El Presidente’.

Now that all the initial red tape has been dealt with we can start to be a real car club. Our membership has grown and we are fast approaching our membership cap. We are starting to get cars registered and with a few more on the books we may actually be able to have a club run at some point. To the shed……!!!!

Hey there rusty old car lovers one and all. This is the first blog post of a new car club coming staight outa Bendigo, going by the name of “The Undead Car Club“.  Yeah zombies are cool, but so is the idea of bringing old cars back from the dead. We are a club of limited members dedicated to the preservation and resurrection of classic and historic cars and bikes, and this blog is intended as an arena for members to rant, post photos and document their project builds. I’m new to this blogging thing, and there will need to be changes made to this site from time to time until I get it right, so please be patient, the IT department isn’t paid well.