Lindsay Fox, founder of Linfox transport industries, has assembled an enviable collection of vintage, veteran, classic and high-end modern cars which are on display in a large restored brick building in Docklands.
Date: Saturday 25th August.
Time: 11am, followed by lunch at 1pm at the Nixon Hotel which is about 250 metres further up Batman Hill Drive. The collection is open from 10 am to 1pm on Saturdays and takes about an hour and a half to inspect
Place: 749 Collins St, Docklands, entrance in Batman Hill Drive.
Access: By train, it is 400 metres West down Collins St from the Southern entrance to Southern Cross station.
By car, there is a free car park at the entrance to the display in Batman hill Drive about 100 metres up from Wurrundjeri Way which seems to be the best access route via the Monash/Westgate freeways.
The catch is that the car park closes when the display closes at 1pm. However I’m advised that there will be no football that afternoon at Docklands stadium and when I visited last Saturday there was plenty of
on-street parking to which we can transfer our cars when we leave the display. There are several off-street commercial car parks in the immediate area should you choose to use one.
Cost: $12 per person, concession $10. Pay individually at the entrance.
Booking by 18th August: Please let John Parsons know at pastorjohnhelen@yahoo.com.au or on 59 776 115 so he can notify the pub.
Further information: www.foxcollection.org.au for details on the cars in the collection.
After lunch you may choose to wander through what is still to many of us a new and largely unexplored area of Central Melbourne with wharves and coffee shops, among other things. Then, of course, there is the rest of the inner city and surrounds. This outing could be just the first stage of a long and interesting day or weekend visit to the heart of our city.
Thanks and see you soon.
Regards,
John Parsons
President.