A funny thing happened on the way to the workshop...

[Keith Webb]

A certian CMP owner wanted to move his C15A from Eltham to Clayton, where his workshop is (about a 30km trip). I was following in my daughter's Daihatsu Charade which managed to keep up.. not far into the trip I noticed a police car behind me (I was behind the CMP), and it just sat there as we crawled up the hills. I should mention at this stage the truck was loaded with antique furniture and was driving on a club permit which has limited use. The cop obviously thought we were in the furniture business and pulled him over thinking he'd caught a big fish here.... I pulled over too, and a long conversation ensued with the cop who was in full officious mode. The funny part about it was we'd stopped directly outside my 79 year old mother's house and in due course I noticed her in the garden performing elaborate hand on brow charades at this spectacle of a Blitz with cop car, flashing lights and all. Eventually the cop went back to the car and spent about 10 minutes on the radio, after which he called him over and proceeded to give him the big lecture. We laughed about it later - deciding a childish lecture was far preferrable to a $500 fine, but it had been a near thing!
The "crime" was to not have the paperwork with the truck - it was a legitimate trip, but the furniture did make it look a bit suspicious.