Welcome to the official website of the Melburg Or Bust Car Show
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Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria
On this site you will find all the information you need about Melburg Or Bust, a car show like no other in Australia, you will discover when it is and how to get there, how to get your car in the show, who will be displaying, what great demonstrations will be happening, and you can even see some of the fantastic cars that will be on display there. Below is a news section that will be updated regularly to bring you all the latest information on the show. Oh yeah, and the weather forcast is still just about perfect 28 degrees!
NEWS:
5/2/2008
A huge thanks to everyone who showed up, We had a far smaller turnout then hoped, but those who did make it were fantastic, congratulations on giving a show a chance on its first running. Also a big thankyou to all of our volunteers, friends and family, to the traders for showing up, and of course to our sponsors, Ecowash, Australian Classic Car Magazine, Cruzin Magazine, Valvemaster and www.aussieveedubbers.com . You will see that there is now a photos page in the top menue with a whole bunch of photos. Thanks to the owner of the beautiful red Val for taking them and I hope you don't mind us using them on the site as my camera batteries were flat and we only had photos of the presentations.
21/1/2008
Only 2 days to go now! Thanks to Australian Classic Car Magazine and Valvemaster every car entering the show will recieve a copy of Aus Classic Car and a goodie from Valvemaster, as well as going into the draw to win one of 2, 6 month subscriptions to Aus Classic Car. that's ontop of all the prizes and awards listed on the 'Awards' page!
30/1/2008
Melburg Or Bust is proud to announce the Peoples Choice award, an Extreme Ecowash with all the trimmings from ecowash. This is valued at upto $300 and will get your car lookign absolutely amazing! even better, its waterless, so its good for the environment too. Ecowash is even going to be onsite at the show so you will be able to get your show car cleaned from as little as $35 during the day. take a look on the AWARDS page for more detail on all prizes and awards.
29/1/2008
Sorry about the downtime folks, the sites been so popular over January that we ran over our bandwidth for the month. All is good now, Big thanks to Brad from www.aussieveedubbers.com for fixing it up for us. Only a few days until the show now, all very exiting, I will be announcign the prize for Peoples Choice in the next couple of days, so stay tuned, it is a Great one! everything is falling into place, the forecast looks fantastic, will be a great day, don't miss it!
30/12/2007
Year's nearly over but the Tshirt design is finally finalised. see a thumbnail of it above or go to the T-shirt page for order details! remember, pre-entry gets $5 off a tee.
11/12/2007
More Announcements, Australian Classic Car has been kind enough to provide a 12 month subscription for Top Original as well as a couple fo 6 month subscriptions as lucky door prizes for displayers and a free back copy of Australian Classic Car for every displayer.
Also, RYAN FORD of Kustom Linez will be on site to show off his fantastic pinstriping skills.
5/12/2007
We are proud to announce that 'Cruzin Magazine' has provided us with as 12 month subscription as first prize for Top Custom. Also, we are now putting a call out to clubs and businesses looking to display at the show, for more information click the Club and Trader links above.
12/10/2007
That's right! the design hasnt been finalised yet, but official Melburg Or Bust Tshirts will be hand screen printed and ready for sale on the day of the show (and possibly before). Get $5 off the price of your Melburg Or Bust tee when you pre-register for the show.
13/9/2007
Postal address and bank account for early registration now up.
4/9/2007
You may have noticed, the early registration form is now uploaded. I highly recommend that as many people as possible register early, as it will make things alot quicker easier for you on the day and will guarantee you a spot. Currently only online registration and payment is possible, although I will have a bank account and snail mail address setup hopefully within the next fortnight.
24/8/2007
Great News Everybody! Melburg Or Bust now has a data and a venue! I can now announce that Melburg Or Bust will be held at Monash University Clayton on Febuary 2 2008. there will be space for approximately 300 cars plus displays and demonstrations from some of the coolest custom and restoration houses around.
10/8/2007
Well the news today isn't quite as exiting as I had hoped it would be. I had my meeting with admin and all went very well, but there are still some details to be confirmed with security before I can announce the details to the world, so stay tuned, I am expecting to have final clearance within a week. :D
1/8/2007
As you will probably have noticed a fair bit of the website isnt up and running at the moment. this will change rapidly as my website buildign skills are a little rusty and some of the information to some simply isn't available yet. At the moment I am just waiting on the final meeting with the owners of the venue before I can announce the location and date, but I can say for now that it is a HUGE venue, with enough space for over 400 display vehicles plus heaps of room for other displays and demonstrations. On the demonstration front, I currently have a Tiki carver who will be doing some demonstrating, and I am looking for a pinstriper and a whitewaller who would be willing to donate some time to do demos as well, or if you can think of anything may make for an interesting demonstration please let me know!
You will see above that there is 3 slots for Featured Rides, and I am encouraging anyone that pre-books for the show to include a pic of their ride and just a few details, so that I can display your ride proudly on the Show Stoppers page and possibly it can make it up into the Featured rides as well.
The Idea for this show came about out of frustration really, as well as a realisation. If we look back to the 50s/60s and consider how car customising really started, we realise that it was young people, buying cheap cars that were 20-40 years old as their first/second/early mode of transport and modifying these vehicles, often doing all of the work themselves and often on a tight budget, they were lowering, repainting, smoothing, re-powering, doing whatever they could to make the vehicles as good as possible. Now if you fast-foward to today alot of custom car shows are organised and aimed at the same group of people, now entering their 60s and 70s, still building cars based on the same vehicles that they were 50 years ago but now those vehicles are no longer affordable nor easy to come by.
What is exiting now though is that there is a new generation of people who have bucked the new-car buying trend and are doing what their fathers and grandfathers before them did, they are in their teens, 20s and 30s and purchasing cars that are relatively cheap, vehicles that are 20 - 40 years old, and using many similar methods to make these vehicles as good as they can be. This is what this show is about. Melburg or Bust was created because I am sick of being too young, having too small an engine, too many alterations from stock, wrong make etc. etc. I wanted to see a car show which celebrated individuality. at Melburg Or Bust there will be no discrimination between car make, model, size, style. Whether you drive a slammed and smoothed Commer Van, a Rat-look VW Beetle, a dechromed Mk1 Ford Cortina, a jacked up Holden HQ Overlander, a matt black Valiant VC wagon with red rims or a clean stock Volvo 122S Amazon, If it has a chrome bumper (or had one) and your proud to be driving it then we want to see it at the show!
I would like to say a big thanks to Aussieveedubbers.com for proudly hosting this website
