Corowa 2011 - Year of the British and European Vehicles

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Wonder if the size of Corowa 2010 event finally made the council sit up and take notice, they seem to put work into attracting new events, but could well be that the Swim In has been below the radar to some extant because of the length of time it has been held, and its modest begining. Always wondered how much attention the council payed after they decided to resurface the the road to the Airport on the same day as the parade for Year of The Bren Gun Carrier.
I have always found the Locals to be fine, they generally are either intertested or totally ignore the event. Thats fine, we are the ones taking over their town for the week, as long as they don't start with the tar and feathers all is good. They are generally more than considerate on the road, roundabouts in particular, and give you plenty of room when trying to back out of angle parks with limited rear vision.
So a general thankyou to the people of Corowa.
Doug, people not only leave early, they arrive even earlier, the full length of the event from first arrival to last departure must be 2 weeks. I promise that next year if I am allowed to sleep, I will stay until Sunday.
Rich.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Richard

I had to laugh at "Always wondered how much attention the council payed after they decided to resurface the the road to the Airport on the same day as the parade for Year of The Bren Gun Carrier." because there is something about new pavement and MV events.

Every year the State is doing paving work on one or the other of the major roads leading to the rally site and they always are having the traffic drive on the side they just laid and rolled. Non-directional tires leave such a lovely imprint. Whats really a laugh is you'll come along the next year and the tire marks are still there.

Corowa really sounds like a great event, I've enjoyed the videos.

Cheers

[Howard]

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Corowa branch of the MLU Forum!

There was probably more MIA than in the photo itself...

[Jan Thompson]

For those who missed the MLU photo hopefully you are able to mak it next year at 12.30pm on Saturday 17th March. It would be good to know who was there at the event but forgot about the MLU photo.

[Euan McDonald]

I'm sure I stood in the back row during the MLU photo. It would appear that after the pic was taken and I left the group staged another pic without me.

[Douglas Greville]

Euan

I was in the 2010 pic and remember somewhere between 3 and 5 people taking the pics. Yet I have only seen the one that was posted on MLU.

The trick is, to wait for the "official" photo to be taken and then you can wander off. No idea how to tell who the official is though.

I note that after last year's extended photo session, almost everyone has hats on this year, good to see.

Regards
Doug

[Howard]

Originally Posted by Euan McDonald

I'm sure I stood in the back row during the MLU photo. It would appear that after the pic was taken and I left the group staged another pic without me.

Yeah Euan, you might be right... I now recall that there was actually two "MLU" shoots when someone turned up & missed the first shoot...
When Keefy is back he'll post the other one that Richard took I'm sure.

[hrpearce]

Euan is found

[Euan McDonald]

Thanks Robert, I was thinking that I may have been in Adelaide all weekend and missed the event.

[Howard]

Originally Posted by Euan McDonald

I'm sure I stood in the back row during the MLU photo. It would appear that after the pic was taken and I left the group staged another pic without me.

Will this do??

[Euan McDonald]

Thanks H.
(Some people have way to much time.)

[Richard Farrant]

I have just had an article on Corowa 2011, published in the UK magazine, Vintage Roadscene. It covers six pages with all colour photos. Should be on the newsagents shelves now.

[Douglas Greville]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Richard

I had to laugh at "Always wondered how much attention the council payed after they decided to resurface the the road to the Airport on the same day as the parade for Year of The Bren Gun Carrier." because there is something about new pavement and MV events.
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Cheers

Phil

It is a council "thing" worldwide apparently. When we were in Oxford, England in 2000 (doing the Beltring thing) the local council were doing major road works in the city centre - at the height of the summer tourist season. The congestion was unbelievable. The locals told us it happens every year.

In Oxford, uni students are banned from having cars, so outside of tourist season the roads are much quieter as the uni students are on push bikes, foot or public transport. The ideal time to do road maintenance one would have thought.

As to Corowa, February would be ideal bitumising weather............ and nicely avoid a hundred or more MVs heading for the airport.

Regards
Doug