Year of the Tracked Vehicle (Corowa 08)

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #1 18-03-08, 11:49

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Originally Posted by rynoki

Raylene and I had a blast at this our first Corowa. Although the heat at times was pretty intense, meeting many MLU faces kept the smile on ours.
The people, the vehicles and the local pubs all impressed. Sorry I didn't get to meet all those that were there and sorry for the no-show at the MLU group photo ( a case of wires crossed ). When will that be posted?
Here's a few snaps I took during our visit.

As per your request....

Douglas Greville · #2 18-03-08, 13:08

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Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

As per your request....

Drat, I forgot about the pic till about 5pm on the Saturday evening, too late.....

Who's going to do an L to R of names to go with the pic?

Regards
Doug

Max Hedges · #3 18-03-08, 13:41

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.
Max

Sydneymver · #4 18-03-08, 13:58

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/

Bruce McCann

Douglas Greville · #5 18-03-08, 14:10

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

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #6 18-03-08, 15:12

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Originally Posted by Douglas Greville

Here is my experience of Corowa 2008:

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

Regards
Doug

Nice report Doug, thanks!

Jif

Keith Webb · #7 19-03-08, 17:10

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Originally Posted by Douglas Greville

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:

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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:

Dinty · #8 20-03-08, 00:19

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

Douglas Greville · #9 20-03-08, 00:56

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Originally Posted by Keith Webb

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.

Doug

alexmacca30 · #10 19-03-08, 12:48

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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Bob Moseley (RIP) · #11 19-03-08, 13:45

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.
Bob

Tony Smith · #12 19-03-08, 00:28

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Originally Posted by Douglas Greville

Who's going to do an L to R of names to go with the pic?

Regards
Doug

1. Jan "Cher" Thompson (sings "If I could turn back time")
2. Richard Coutts-Smith
3. Pedr Horley
4. Tony Smith
5. Greg Beetson
6. Steve Davis
7. Rod Diery
8. Mrs Cove (sorry, how embarassing that I didn't get your name)
9. Rick Cove
10. Howard Holgate
11. Darian Carn
12. Robert "HR" Pearce
13. Keith "SEG" Webb
14. Max Hedges
15. Ben Gruber
16. Mark Gruber

Other Mlu'ers who missed the photo shoot, but were at Corowa:
Ashley Wilson, Robert Farmer, Ryan Robinson (Rynoki), James Plush (Plushy),
Doug Greville, Richard Green (Phoenix), Euan McDonald, John Hedges, Ian Pullen, Alex MacPherson (Alexmacca), Lang Kidby, Bruce McCann (Sydneymver).

So, that's at least 27, any more I've missed?

lynx42 · #13 19-03-08, 01:06

Well done Tony, Mrs.Cove is really known simply as 'Jill'. Thanks for naming all those in the photo as I missed a couple of them myself. It was great to meet and catch up with those, who until then had just been a name on the computer screen.

BSHEVLIN · #14 19-03-08, 10:42

corawa 2008 was a expensive trip for me went clean skined with no vehicle left with a the 2 pounder tank attack carrier. but had a great time first time at corawa for me nice to meet people in person and build contacts .
the parade looks spectacluar espescially from the gunners hatch on the m8
was like been in a ww2 convoy!

Gruber Bros. · #15 19-03-08, 11:00

Not sure if these were the cheapest vehicles to run for the weekend, but entertaining nevertheless. And echoing everyone else, what a fantastic weekend (even if mildly warm). Can't wait until next year!!

Keith Webb · #16 19-03-08, 12:23

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13. Keith "SEG" Webb

But wait... I think we ALL have one in this pic, and why not?!

Max Hedges · #17 19-03-08, 14:59

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Originally Posted by Gruber Bros.

Not sure if these were the cheapest vehicles to run for the weekend, but entertaining nevertheless. And echoing everyone else, what a fantastic weekend (even if mildly warm). Can't wait until next year!!

it sure didn't take much to make those two happy, you can go a long way with a ford steering wheel...... hey Rusty

Rod Diery · #18 19-03-08, 14:19

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Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Other Mlu'ers who missed the photo shoot, but were at Corowa:
Ashley Wilson, Robert Farmer, Ryan Robinson (Rynoki), James Plush (Plushy),
Doug Greville, Richard Green (Phoenix), Euan McDonald, John Hedges, Ian Pullen, Alex MacPherson (Alexmacca), Lang Kidby, Bruce McCann (Sydneymver).

So, that's at least 27, any more I've missed?

Mike Cecil was there too although unfortunately I didn't get a chance to meet him.

Rod

Snowy · #19 19-03-08, 14:41

Terrific photos...
Well I was on my way to Corowa this year, but never got there. I had a 6-day weekend arranged, and had flown out from Brisbane to Dubbo, intending to be picked up on the way through by a mate of mine hauling some jeep bodies, chassis and motors down to Corowa.

It was only after I arrived at Dubbo airport I got a distressed and apologetic call that his Land Rover Disco had blown a head gasket outside of Coonabarabran. Thus ended my hopes to get there. Sorry to the people I had arranged to meet, it was out of my control.

However all was not lost for my trip. We managed to salvage a few days and go recover something that I'm sure folks on this Board will be quite interested to hear about - more to come when I prepare some information about it.

Steve.