I also went to Phillip Island on the Sunday for the show & shine with my son Todd.

We found the day very disapointing in several ways, the location is not great for attracting people to check out the vans. could'nt buy food or drink after about 1 pm and at the conclusion of the show and shine it was announced that prize winners would be handed out till around 7.30 that night. If you are going to attract people to a show and shine you would at least award prizes on the day. It only seemed to be catered for the campers and not the show and shine event.

The Monaro nationals were held in Ballarat in 2008 and attracted thousands of people on the Saturday, and had over 400 cars. Regional citys in Victoria would jump at the opertunity to attract such events to their towns.
The Majority of Victoria's population is central and west but they insist on having it in the east of the state.If it was held in an town instead of the back blocks it would attract more people.
I know of many people whom went on the Sunday to veiw the vans whom also thought the location was crap and lack of numbers of vans to look at compered with Geelong the year before and wont come back next year to that location.:cry: