I know you weren’t in Monte Carlo last weekend but you should have been. Bonhams’ Monaco sale “Les Grandes Marques a Monaco” (a car auction) at the Fairmont Hotel (pets welcome), was going off with the 1953 Jaguar XK120C ‘C-Type’ fetching a sta...

Good old Simsy, the motorist’s new friend. As you know Roddy Sims is boss of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. He took to this great paper last week to sing the praises of his car import scheme that kicks off in 2018.

Who doesn’t want to tour the beautiful coal burning Yallourn power station? Well we didn’t, but our intrepid team of six cars and three support trucks who were dopey enough to think we knew where we going actually managed:

It’s a nice 236 mile drive from Cootamundra to Albury (population 45,267). Unfortunately we were not meant to be going to Albury but Adelong (population 884) 177 miles before.

Shit Box Rally – Boîte de Merde Ralley – Mia Méra: Rally. Hullo again sports fans around the globe – Hüllő kai páli na fílathloi se ólo ton kósmo – Bonjour le fans sportif

Excitement has a new name – It’s Thargomindah. Well really Thargomindah to Cobar via Bourke or 650 miles of tarmac terror.

Shit Box Rally – Boîte de Merde Ralley – Mia Méra: Rally. Hullo again sports fans around the globe – Hüllő kai páli na fílathloi se ólo ton kósmo  Bonjour le fans sportif

Shit Box Rally – Boîte de Merde Ralley – Mia Méra: Rally. Hullo again sports fans around the globe – Hüllő kai páli na fílathloi se ólo ton kósmo

Now I know you are expecting the on-the-spot reports from the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique and the Boite de Merde Ralley Mackay. Unfortunately, we have had to carry those over to next week because there are some car companies we need to put in the naughty corner