Colin Anderson - RIP

[Mike K]

Sorry to hear of this news.

I first met Colin during the VMVC xmas trip to Barooga NSW late 1976. He had his restored bren carrier running and he was kind enough to let us all have a drive of it , I can still see his face cringe with all the gear crunching going on .

He had a particular passion for collecting and restoring Australian pattern military vehicles. He was a teenager during the war and was in the Air Training Corps , he told us he managed a flight in a B24 at Tocumwal. He was a brilliant self taught panel beater and he ran the Shepparton TAFE hobby panel beating classes for some time. He told us during the war he and his parents went on a holiday to Geelong and they did a tour of the Ford plant .

Colin also restored veteran cars , doing this since the late 1950's.

This is a story written by Colin: http://www.oocities.org/vmvc1au/pontiutestory.html