October 25, 2023

Len Holden with his ’42 Ford hotrod. He says the Friday meetups are better than watching Better Homes & Gardens. by Janine Hill A DEARTH of entertainment on Friday night TV has sparked a weekly event bringing cars and community together in Nambour. Hot rodder Len Holden put out the call in September for owners of pre-1975 cars to get together in the Bury Street carpark one Friday night and the gathering has gained momentum every week. Len was simply sick of trying to find something to watch on TV at the end of the working week when he decided to organise the get-together. “There’s Better Homes and Gardens but I don’t really like most of the crew on there at the moment,” Len said.  “The bloke with the dog was alright but the fella they’ve got on there now, he just wants to spend $2000 on plants every week. Fast Ed, he’s alright.” Despite his surname, which he inherited from his father, who happened to be a believer – “I had to wait for my Dad to die before I bought a Ford”- Len has a ’42 Ford pick-up which he rebuilt from the ground up as hot rod.

Former Nambour High students Dan Munday, a producer on Survivor, left, and Powderfinger drummer Jon Coghill. by Janine Hill NAMBOUR will get the last look, for now, at eight locally dreamed, locally driven film projects. A special screening of a collection of four short films, a documentary, two reality shows and a Powderfinger music video from the past two years of Sunny Coast Showdown will be held at Nambour’s Majestic Cinema on Friday, 3 November. Sunny Coast Showdown is a film and television talent incubator created by former Nambour High students Jon Coghill, of Powderfinger, and Dan Munday, a producer on Survivor and four-time Emmy nominee who spent 10 years working for the likes of MGM and NBC.  “A couple of years after returning home Jon, who I knew from school, and I were on a surf trip and he brought up the idea of producing short films as a competition and Showdown was born,” Dan said. “We met and partnered with the incredible team at Sunshine Coast Screen Collective and the rest is history.” For the past two years, Sunny Coast Showdown has invited submissions of local scripts and ideas for short films, documentaries, reality TV and music videos and