AHOC Brass Monkey Run 2013
WHAT IS THE BRASS MONKEY ALL ABOUT?
The Brass Monkey is an open invitation charity event organised by the Austin Healy Owners Club and the premier roadster run from Sydney. The Brass Monkey should be on all MX-5ers bucket list if they love the adventure of a great drive in an MX-5. The Brass Monkey Run is not an official event of the MX-5 Club of NSW. AHOC is a CAMS registered car club and the MX-5 BreakFast Club is the authorised reseller of tickets to the MX-5 community.
WHY GET OUT OF BED FOR A DAWN BUSTER RUN?
If you have never been part of a Brass Monkey then do not be discouraged by a dawn buster run over the Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands to Goulburn because you think it is too early, dark and cold. The AHOC Brass Monkey is an adventure and not to be missed event. Appropriately dressed in your MX-5 with the roof down, windows up and heater on, a Surfers Paradise Meter Maid would not need defrosting for breakfast if you were so lucky as to have a Meter Maid riding shotgun.
WHAT IS THE ROUTE?
Get to Goulburn down the Hume Highway as best you can. The Brass Monkey starts running under the stars at 6.20am and waits for nobody. You should be ready to go from the Frank Partridge Lay-By & Truck Rest Area approximately 10km south of the Narellan Road overpass and interchange at Campbelltown on the Hume Highway south bound at 5.45am for a 6.20am start. If you miss the start you have 126km to catch up on the road or at the destination venue, see Route Map in the Links, or meet up at the breakfast venue in the Goulburn services Club. There is a Goulburn Town Map in the Links from the bridge to the club if you have nobody to follow into Goulburn or get lost on the Hume Highway!
WHAT ARE THE RULES?
The Brass Monkey is a waypoint run that has no Run Leader, Run Sheet, Route Map, Code of Conduct, Incident Sheet or rules outside those enforced by the boys in blue. It is most important to remember that you drive at a pace at which you feel most comfortable with your top down unless you drive a car with a tin lid. With the greatest respect to old English sports cars they fall well short of the performance of an NA6. If you like a relaxed stress free drive down the highway then what better way to do that than to cruise in a bunch with Healeys, MGs and classic cars over country roads on a Sunday morning.
WHY POST THE BRASS MONKEY RUN ON THE EVENTS CALENDAR?
This is a CAMS sanctioned social event and the biggest roadster run of the year. The AHOC has invited all the members of the MX-5 Club of NSW to join in the fun whether they prefer BreakFast Club, Cruiser or Mid Week style runs. In the past seven years the participation of MX-5s has grown from 3 in 2005 to become the most numerous marque on the Brass Monkey. Though not a race the MX-5 Club members have been first to park at the brekkie venue for the past five years and for most of those years the majority if not all the top ten finishers. The Brass Monkey is suitable and recommended to all MX-5 Club members who have a passion for a classic event, a great drive in good company and willingness to accept getting up for a very early start on a crisp winters morning.
PLEASE NOTE THE BRASS MONKEY IS A FUN RUN WHERE NOBODY IS EXPECTED OR ASKED TO DRIVE ABOVE THEIR COMFORT LEVELS
WHAT DOES IT COST?
A ticket costs $16.00 with all the profits going to charity. The ticket price includes a buffet breakfast with up to 200 other participants. You must produce your ticket on entering the breakfast venue to the AHOC door officials.
PAYMENT: AHOC DOES NOT ACCEPT OR PROCESS ANY EFT OR CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS
Payment of $16.00 for each ticket is by CASH or if you are a financial member of the MX-5 Club of NSW then you may pay by CHEQUE drawn in favour of AUSTIN HEALEY OWNERS CLUB.
REGISTRATION
The BreakFast Club has been allocated 50 tickets for the MX-5 community for either sale or return to AHOC on 30 June 2013. Each year the 200 plus tickets are sold before our return date with all unsold MX-5 tickets rare reallocated by the AHOC to people on their waiting list or for their late entries.
To register before our closing date of 30 June 2013 you must:
- Download and complete the Registration Form in the Links.
- Prepare a stamped & self-addressed envelope.
- Post payment with self addressed & stamped envelope to Michael Soulos at PO Box 2230 Burwood North NSW 2134 to arrive before the cut off date.
COLLECTING TICKETS
Your ticket will be posted to you in your self-addressed & stamped envelope with your ticket(s) and a receipt. The names of registered persons will go up in the thread for this event on the Events Page on the MX5CarTalk Forum within a week of processing.
