Get ready for the ultimate day out at the Barrington Coast Airshow!
Join us for a spectacular display of aerobatic planes and warbirds soaring through the skies. But that’s not all! Explore market stalls, indulge in delicious street food, enjoy thrilling amusement rides, and check out an incredible car show. 🚗🍔🎡✈️🛩️
• Each driver will receive free entry (passengers will require a ticket)
• Each vehicle will be allocated a specific 3.5×7 meter space on the display ground which will prevent crowding around the cars and provide room for owners to sit with their vehicles and observed the show.
• Vehicles are to be in place by 8.30am and not unnecessarily moved
• Show cars will be checked in at the Lansdowne Rd “bump in gate” – only listed vehicles will have access to the display area. No other air field parking will be available.
• Each vehicle should be “dressed” in presentation mode that should include a car description so the public know what they are looking at.
• Club windscreen banners and flags are encouraged. “Do Not Touch” signs are highly recommended.
It looked like rain on the morning of the Old Bar Beach Festival this year, which seemed to keep people away. A lower number of classic cars on display this year, with Kombi’s accounting for nearly half of the classic cars on display. However, the weather stayed fine all day, the cars present attracted plenty of attention. An increased number of market stalls meant there was plenty for everyone to see and do. It would be nice to see our club represented by more than just three cars next year 😋
Although a vehicle-mounted 16mm motion picture camera was used as early as 1973, the technology was first developed in the late 1970s by the Seven Network in Australia, who introduced it for the 1979 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 endurance race at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales with Sydney-based driver Peter Williamson able to give commentary from his Toyota Celica.
The most memorable thing about the 1979 Bathurst 1000 wasn’t Peter Brock’s six-lap victory. What captivated the record TV audience was a little-known driver in a class car.
Brock was the hero of the race, but the star of the show was Sydney car dealer Peter Williamson. His gift of the gab endeared him to viewers as he described the action from inside his screaming two-litre Toyota Celica.
Willo babbling, shouting and cursing from the cockpit in full vision was a revelation and a revolution. It was the debut of RaceCam, the world-first in-car live vision that changed the way we watched racing – and, ultimately, all sports.
Invented by Sydney TV station ATN 7 – the anchor of the national Seven Network – RaceCam revolutionised in-race broadcast coverage and profoundly influenced intimate camera coverage of every other sport.
Think cricket’s Stump Cam – and every other close-in vision and eavesdropping audio live feed. It all started with RaceCam.
In racing, the technology – refined, miniaturised and extended – has become the staple of Supercars, Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar and MotoGP. In fact, every kind of motorsport at every level.
RaceCam was the brainchild of then ATN 7 director of engineering, Geoff Healy. Legend has it that he was inspired by his son mounting a video camera on the dashboard on the way to school one morning.
The in-car vision got Healy thinking and he put his chief engineer John Porter onto the job of developing an in-car camera that could feed live pictures and sound via a microwave link from car to helicopter to outside broadcast truck and into the main feed.
Remarkably, it worked. RaceCam debuted at Bathurst in ’79 in Williamson’s Celica, which harried the V8s mercilessly in the run down the hill from Skyline to Forests Elbow.
At Bathurst in ’79, Williamson’s Celica was fitted with a large fixed camera to the left of the driver that looked straight out the windscreen. Willo was miked up with a one-way audio link and his entertaining running commentary was available throughout the race.
Although crude by today’s standard, the vivid – if sometimes static-impaired – pictures and scratchy sound were ground-breaking. Never before had viewers been taken inside a car live during a race. Racing coverage has never been the same since.
Get ready for the ultimate day out at the Barrington Coast Airshow!
Join us for a spectacular display of aerobatic planes and warbirds soaring through the skies.
But that’s not all! Explore market stalls, indulge in delicious street food, enjoy thrilling amusement rides, and check out an incredible car show. 🚗🍔🎡✈️
“Cars Under The Stars Forster” is a Business Promotional Events Host, and we will be hosting Car & Bike Show & Shine events from 1st of September 2024. There will be Day & Night events, we will work with the venue or business owners, with whatever date and time suits them to hold the show or open day to promote their Venue or Business.
Any businesses in the “Cars Under The Stars Forster” Area, from Newcastle to Port Macquarie. Are welcome and encouraged to contact us, we will be looking for Venue’s / Businesses in that area to hold events.
You are welcome to join us at any of our shows, it makes for a better show for the public, entrants & businesses with all of our history being represented from Historic, Custom and Standard to today’s cars and bikes, we are all about every type of car & bike.
We are open to chat with any business or venue owners wishing to hold open days to the full-on car events show & shine to promote you. here is to the future of the Mid North Coast Car Scene.
“Cars Under the Stars Forster”. Bringing Business & the Community together
This group is for all Car, Bike & Business owners and their family & friends, who just love the car scene and is interested in helping build it up while supporting Local Businesses, Communities and the car scene on the Mid North Coast.
LAKESIDETAVERNFATHERSDAY 1ST ANNUALCAR & BIKESHOWANDSHINE
Hosted by CARSUNDERTHESTARSFORSTER
Bringing Business and the Community Together Entrants’ Cars $10, Bikes $5
Please Note: on entry, we ask if you could please have the exact amount with you, so we don’t end up with a line up the road.
8:00am for entrants and 9:00 am on for spectators
