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Steve and Beate Newing travelled from Gatton with their 1928 V8 Ford Roadster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 9, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

While pedal power ruled the streets of Maidenwell on Saturday, hot rods and street machines took over the local sportsground.<\/p>\n

The annual “Raising Hell in Maidenwell” show’n’shine – the public day of the three-day car rally organised by the South Burnett Gas Guzzlers club – attracted good crowds to inspect the line-up of classic hotrods, street machines and interesting rare models.<\/p>\n

One of the latter was Dave Lucas’s 1952 Studebaker Starlight coupe “Anniversary Model”, one of only a handful in Australia. \u00a0Dave is a member of the Studebaker Car Club of Queensland, which also represented by a number of other vehicles at Maidenwell.<\/p>\n

Gas Guzzlers spokesman Trevor Ivins said the day had been a real success with more than 70 vehicles on display and raising funds for the Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n

A Mitsubishi Magna, donated to the club, was auctioned and raised $1900.<\/p>\n

Parked along the edge of the arena was also a display of 20 vintage vans … “caravans”, that is.<\/p>\n

The owners of these fully-restored egg-shaped vans seemed to be having a good time camping out despite the chilly start to the day.<\/p>\n