Year of the Tracked Vehicle (Corowa 08)

[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

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

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]

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:

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]

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]

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

[phoenix]

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

[Mike K]

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 .

Mike

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

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 .

Mike

There were quite a few throngs of enthusiastic viewers:



Even Her Maj popped in for a gander.



There was a salute too.



Heaps more pics here and here, the pics this time courtesy of my wife Belinda who made her first appearance.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Heaps more pics here and here, the pics this time courtesy of my wife Belinda who made her first appearance.

So Keefy, after that are you still married then??

BTW, great shot of the old bugger taking the salute!

[BSHEVLIN]

col filtness has put up photos he took while at corowa on his sight

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