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Originally posted by Dirk Leegwater
OK guys, nice picture ? talking about CMP's ???
Met een vriendelijke groet,
Dirk Leegwater
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Thanks, Dirk!
July, 2000. Left to right, ME, Richard 'McStolly' Notton, Brian Gough. Note the MLU sign, painted by Bruce Parker, now resident in the Ballard garage (the sign, not Bruce), home of the F15A Polsten truck in the background. Immediately behind Brian is our friend Andreas Mehlhorn's original Kettenkrad, the best way of getting around Beltring or any other MV show!
BTW, for the record, Doug, I support Richard in this Beltring thing. My visit in the year 2000 was wonderful, but the return trip in 2001 showed a marked deterioration in services... but while I had free entry as a judge and journalist, I pity those who were forced to pay an ever-increasing burden for the privilege of bringing their fragile, age-old army trucks for display, simply to enrich the pockets of those who run the place. It offends my sensibilities.
I'm old infantry... yes, I can be dirty for a week... do I want to, especially if I have to pay for the privilege? No. Do I want to crap in the woods? No.
What started out as a magnificent gesture and form-of-expression seems to have turned into yet another government-like drain on one's pocket book. I cannot support THAT. We suffer enough from the "originals" as it is.
Besides, the bottom line is that I can look at old army trucks anywhere... but if I'm going to pay the money to fly the pond and keep me in beer for a couple of weeks, I'm going where my friends are. And that ain't Beltring.
This year, that's the Solent MVT show.
Cheers, all.
G.