Corvettes Rock the Bay - 8th February 2025
We had 120 entrants at this year’s Corvettes Rock the Bay including entrants from Victoria and New South Wales, which certainly filled Wigley reserve. The weather was perfect for a summer’s day.
We held a meet and greet lunch on Saturday at the Junction restaurant for our interstate friends which 22 attend and a pleasant afternoon was had by all.
Sunday morning and we had an early start, in the dark on the oval, with our volunteers setting up the marquees and marking out the display layout, vendor positions, entrance lanes and putting up banners making sure everything was ready for our entrants arrival. .
Our vendors this year were Kiwanis, Shannons, GMSV, REPCO Marion, City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide, Southern Coffee, Don’t Melt Ice Cream, HeartKids, Don’s Woodcarving, Ian’s” Sunglasses & More” , Heartbeat Band and our clubs Corvette Merchandise.
The Band “Heartbeat” entertained us throughout the day, Kiwanis had the BBQ going from early morning and there was a constant line up at the coffee and ice cream vans.
Also on display was John Kostic with his Malibu Corvette speedboat which was a hit and drew in the crowd all day and Malcom Ramsay’s C8 race car another favourite with attendees.
Our club members Ross Spurling and Arthur Hasse had their C36’s on display which were another hit with attendees and entrants alike.
REPCO had a “spin the wheel” competition going which prizes were awarded, and City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide had free merchandise giveaways throughout the day.
We would also like to thank City Discount Tyres Port Adelaide for providing a $250 gift voucher as the Early Bird Entrants prize, won by Peter McBride, congratulations Pete!
Our vendors really enjoyed the day, they were amazed at the number of Corvettes on display and we have had confirmation that REPCO, City Discount Tyres and a few more have already confirmed their attendance at our show next year.
Ticket sales for our raffle was very successful. A big thank you to Joy and Maelyn for their sales on the day. Thanks also to all club members who bought tickets and distributed books.
We had 7 trophies on offer for pre-registered entrants, 3 voted by the public, 3 voted by entrants and 1 favourite chosen by HeartKids.
Thank you to our trophy sponsors who were:-
Public Choice 1st: Sponsored by GMSV
Public Choice 2nd: Sponsored by Gary & Cathy McPhee in memory of Sean Baker, a “SUPERHERO”
Public Choice 3rd: Sponsored by Garry Bergen & Pam Applebee
Entrants Choice 1st: Sponsored by Neil & Norene Portlock in memory of Graham Johns
Entrants Choice 2nd: Sponsored by Peter & Lynda McBride
Entrants Choice 3rd: Sponsored by Ian Gregor
Heart Kids Choice 1st: Sponsored by Quantative Occupational Risk Management Services
The winners were-
Entrants Choice
1st Trevor Waters 2025 C8
2nd Christopher Slee 1962 C1
3rd Mark Hounslow 1972 C3
Public Choice
1st Darren Coates 2025 C8
2nd Mark Williams 1969 C3
3rd Andrew Gwinnett 1960 C1
Heart Kid's Choice
Matthew Green 1971 C3
Congratulations to all!
Our events raffle was a huge success, raising funds for our charity with almost $4,000 of prizes generously donated by local businesses. We thank them for their support.
Congratulations to the following winners -
1st 418 - Robert Rundle
2nd 628 - Mark Hounslow
3rd 544 - Dino
4th 268 - Hazel Crowe
5th 442 - Dave Williams
6th.1 210 - Mike Manfield
6th.2 125 - Rowland Beardsell
6th.3 490 - Sergio Giacomelli
7th 629 - Andrew Gregory
8th 499 - Craig Hauser
9th 406 - A Hiotis
Drakes Supermarkets kindly donated the Hot Wheels cars that we gave away free to children under 12 years of age, we thank them for their generous support.
We would also like to thank the Government of South Australia and Shannons insurance for their financial support of our event.
We would like to thank all our volunteers, supporters, vendors, sponsors and especially our entrants for making this such a successful event.
There has been a lot of coverage of our event on social media so check out Horsepower Crew on their YouTube channel for coverage of our show.
In summing up, Shirelee & I would like to thank all the helpers who turn up before sunrise and those who stay back for the pack up, as without you guys it just would not happen, so thank you!
We would also like to thank our sub-committee Peter Bartlett, Chris Galloni, Angelo Dimasi, Norene Portlock and Neil Portlock for their dedication and tireless work. This event simply would not have happened and been such a success without your support and hard work, thank you!
We hope to see you all at Corvettes Rock the Bay 2027, Sunday 14th February, yes Valentine’s Day.
So make sure you register and bring along your sweetheart and your partner for another great day celebrating our clubs premier event, which will also be our clubs 50th anniversary year, we are already planning on something special!
Thank you from Shirelee and I.
Peter Mourdoukoutas
