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Sunday, the 28th of September dawned grey and overcast with the occasional light shower thrown in. Not the ideal day for a rally of vintage vehicles, but the participants of the Bay to Birdwood rally didn't seem to mind, in fact it actually added to the realism of a day out from a bygone era. The rally begins at the Barratt Reserve in the Adelaide coastal suburb of West Beach and then winds it's way into the city centre before traveling through the north eastern suburbs and on to the country township of Birdwood situated in the Adelaide Hills, a journey of about 55Kms. This year over a thousand vehicles took part, mainly motor cycles and motor cars, but a few commercial and military vehicles also joined the party and that is where my interest lay. I arrived at the Barratt Reserve at about 8, had a quick look around, snapped a few trucks that I could get on to before heading up to the Anzac Hwy to find a suitable position to photograph the passing rally. Of course the highway wasn't closed to other traffic so I had to contend with all manner of other vehicles. Not only that but as soon as the commercial vehicles started to make an appearance so did the rain. Fortunately only a couple of the shots suffered from rain drops on my lens.
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