[Rusty]

Took the truck to Cooma Motor Fest today meet some really great military vehicle owners and a few shiny car marshling arseholes.

I think areshole may be a little polite but I will stick with that for now. On arrival waited 20 minutes to get in the gate, at the entrance gate I was told to take my truck around the back via a different road. Once I did this I then found that I had to rejoin the line at the inner gate, now I was behind all the shiny cars that 10 minutes before I was in front of.

Gate two the Oval
Got to gate two and was told by the shiny car areshole marshall to take my truck out the back away from the oval and find a spot for it next to the back fence. I pointed out that there were a good dozen military vehicles on the oval, to which he replied you will not get there we need room for cars.

By now I was pissed off and replied I will go over the shiny cars and drove in while the prick kicked the dirt. Now I had prepaid a $25.00 booking fee to be part of the event just like the shiny cars but I was really feeling not welcome at the event because my vehicle was painted matt green and bigger.

Registration
Iwent to see another shiny car marshling areshole to register my attendance and was told he only did cars somone would be down to do trucks latter this never eventuated and as I did not have inside knowledge on who to see about registration I missed out all together. This did not seem to matter anyway as military people who did find the marshell responsible found out as tropheys were being given out that there vehicles had been overlooked anyway.

Insult did not end here
In talking to car entrants and found that those who paid on the day recieved a $10 discount on entry. The event published a penalty for not paying early or maybe as they say in the trade "mates rates".

Now I have been to several country show events were ribbons are handed out for best this and that and never once have I seen a military vehicle awarded any prize despite some great restorations or original vehicles. Antique vehicle owners recieve consessional registration fees and we all join car clubs that have a mix of vehicle types. Only the major city centres have enough membership of green machines to form standa alone clubs. I know in my local club there is an underlying tension between the Matt and Shiny car owners but in general to date we have pulled together to advance the whole club.

Now a point I would like to make is in regards to Corowa every year people bring down a variety of machine some freshly restored others have seen years of faithfull use. I would not mind seeing a competition run for those who wish to nominate there work for judging by people who know and appreciate what they are looking at, what do people think about this?

Heres a few photos from Cooma less the areshole of course