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Old 18-03-08, 13:41
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I'll do the front row
Robert.. Keith.. me... Ben and Mark who are the Gruber brothers and they also drove our carrier for the day
I managed to catchup with a couple MLU and put faces to names, and it was nice to meet Rod who came all the way from WA. I enjoyed my walk around the caravan park catching up with old friends and having many cuppa's with them on the way.
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Old 18-03-08, 13:58
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Yes, Keith and Alex,

The beer in hand in the murray river is mine, well spotted Alex.

Doug i'm sorry i never caught up with you, and also for missing the MLU photo shoot.

Alex did you like the "Burning bridges " soundtrack over the short film

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Corowa%202008/

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Old 18-03-08, 14:10
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> Doug i'm sorry i never caught up with you, and also for missing the MLU
> photo shoot.

I caught a glimpse of you selling someone a CD on Saturday at the airport, but by the time I got back to that location you had gone. :-(

Here is my experience of Corowa 2008:

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/coro-01.html

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Old 18-03-08, 15:12
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Here is my experience of Corowa 2008:

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/coro-01.html

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Nice report Doug, thanks!

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Old 19-03-08, 17:10
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Bruce

> Doug i'm sorry i never caught up with you, and also for missing the MLU
> photo shoot.

I caught a glimpse of you selling someone a CD on Saturday at the airport, but by the time I got back to that location you had gone. :-(

Here is my experience of Corowa 2008:

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/coro-01.html

Regards
Doug
Hi Doug

Great report,

But to quote a segment:

Quote:
Wheeled armour consisted of:

1 x M8 Greyhound
3 x Ferrets (2 x UK, 1 x Oz)

Remarkable by their complete absence were M3 White Scout Cars, Dingos and Lynxs.
There was one White AOP Scout Car there:
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Old 20-03-08, 00:19
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G'day All, Absolutley great pix and text, thanks to all those people who took the time to post them. I love the video clip done by Bruce M. One thing that I had noticed in some pix is the lack of people in the town, from my past experiences of the parade the town was chocka with the good citizens of Corowa and all the enthusiasts, it is only in some of the later pix showing a 'White Scout car' that I saw any people at all, anyway great stuff cheers Dennis
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Old 20-03-08, 00:56
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Hi Doug

Great report,

But to quote a segment:

There was one White AOP Scout Car there:
Keith

Ah yes, thanks for that. I do recall seeing the White, just once as it chucked a lap of the airport and was busy at the time, so it didn't get retained by the memory cells. ;-)

I have corrected that comment.

Nice to see that someone has kept it as an AOP, so far all the owners I have struck have been in a great rush to chop the top off and return them to original US configuration.

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Old 20-03-08, 03:22
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Some picies from me















and the navy seeing me off home (plus HMAS Darwin and a resupply ship)


oh, and I forgot about the photo shoot, I fas sagged in the landy form the heat
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Old 20-03-08, 04:03
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So many pics , just like being there . MLU ers shoot and snap anything in sight . I heard the weather forecast and decided to give it a miss . I had gone through a previous distressing experience of Corowa in 1983 .. bloody hot it was and the Fordson WOT2 motor boiled on the way up. A mobile sauna bath it was .The supermarket would have been a popular spot this year ... nice and cool .

The yellow White OP scout car: restored by John Mackie of Hilston NSW ( it was at the 2007 event ).

Possibly they could hold the event a week or two later, but the heat wave thing is relatively rare in March and the organisers were unlucky it turned out that way. Mother nature again had her say .

I've also noted the lack of local population turning out to watch the parade over the years .... Probably , In their eyes , I guess one green machine looks like another .

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Old 19-03-08, 12:48
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Alex did you like the "Burning bridges " soundtrack over the short film

Bruce, Really liked the video with sound track was just a tad on the brill side .
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Old 19-03-08, 13:45
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Hi All - as you know Ada & I didn't get to Corowa this year for more reasons than you can poke a stick at. However the quality and number of images posted in this thread and my memory cells makes me almost feel I was there. I think this year has been the best ever, almost immediate, coverage of the week on MLU. Well done all, especially Plushy and Doug.
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