Having just retured from 6 weeks in Europe flying around in vintage aircraft I now have time to start restoring my Chev ute and get more information to the convoy participants. (Members might be interested to see Youtube - look up "Vimy at Farnborough" or something similar, of a bit of excitement I had at the Farnborough Air Show a couple of weeks ago)
It was nice to catch up with some of the MLU members at Beltring - my impression of my first time visit to this show was it is a very expensive business having anything to do with military vehicles in Europe and UK particularly. There seems to be much less willingness to help each other out for a "carton of beer" or exchange of bits with everything having an increasing price (not just with dealers but amongst the enthusiasts themselves). Everyone understands this but it definitely makes military vehicle ownership a much more competitive and less friendly hobby.
Anyhow, we are lucky in Australia and although that attitude certainly exists with part-time "entrepreneurs", most of our convoy members have had willing help from many people to get their vehicles restored.
Lang
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31-08-08, 01:45
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