Year of the Tracked Vehicle (Corowa 08)

phoenix · #1 18-03-08, 04:52

Landies are creeping up on the jeeps, but a way to go yet. At least we outnumbered the Champs

I have about 380 photos, plus another 290 odd of documents that are stored at bandiana. I'll probably post some later this week. probably about 5-6 gb of images all up!

Sydneymver · #2 18-03-08, 10:46

Here is a link to phoobucket to view a few movie files of last weeks great event.

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

turn up the sound and grab a drink,
enjoy, see ya next year
Bruce McCann

#3 18-03-08, 11:35

Excellent! I couldn't crank 'er though as it's the wee hours and neighbors would get cranky with me if I did that this time of night/morning, darn. Will crank 'er in the day ...

What was that truck with the normal front tires but had a tracked rear end???

Kartmann

#4 18-03-08, 11:39

Uh oh ... photos not showing up Ryan, not sure if this only on my end or posting didn't "take" ...

#5 18-03-08, 11:41

Okay ... I see them now so false alarm and ignore my last post!!! Sorry Ryan

#6 18-03-08, 11:43

Verra strange, and kind of nice, to see a carrier at a garage gas pumps!!!!

Douglas Greville · #7 18-03-08, 12:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vets Dottir 2nd

Verra strange, and kind of nice, to see a carrier at a garage gas pumps!!!!

I filled my car up at about 8pm Saturday night and noticed the
white BGC track marks, by that time they were hardly noticeable, so
are probably gone by now.

Hey, nice to meet Rod Diery and Tony Smith in person after many years
of "knowing" them over the internet.

Regards
Doug

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #8 18-03-08, 11:42

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Originally Posted by Vets Dottir 2nd

Uh oh ... photos not showing up Ryan, not sure if this only on my end or posting didn't "take" ...

(1) The answer to your question: an American halftrack.

(2) All Ryan's photos are coming up for me, must be on your end. Try a refresh.

#9 18-03-08, 11:43

Thank you for both Geoff

Ryan · #10 18-03-08, 11:50

Could have been me as I was attempting an edit before aborting the idea and submitting a new post. Geoff's correct, and am I correct in saying an M3 halftrack? M5's and 9's have rounded rear corners yeah?

Cool! Thanks Geoff.
Bugger, should have been there.

Keith Webb · #11 18-03-08, 22:40

Maurice, a local farmer kindly allowed access to his property and had laid out a 6km track along the banks of the Murray River for all to enjoy. Here's a link to the page.

The armour sets out.

Our escort Land-Rover (in which soundman Brian Laurence and I were passengers) decided to pull the Stuarts up with a rather brisk stop. The look of incredulity was surely mirrored by me... but not Brian who wound up in a tangled heap of expensive equipment towards the front of the vehicle as he had nothing to grab hold of other than the mic and mixer.

This is how close the stop was. The worst of it was I'd been taking stills and missed it on video.

A S.E.G. from Pedr.

I can't explain why Rick Sheerman's hindquarters are attracting such rapt attention from the crew of this carrier.

Machine gunner's view of a carrier.

Lang Kidby's beautiful Dodge Carryall in equally beautiful surroundings.

More here.

Ryan · #12 18-03-08, 11:19

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.

Ryan · #13 18-03-08, 11:25

And some more pics.

Ryan · #14 18-03-08, 11:41

I was wondering if someone was going to mention saturday night. Hope there are no negative consequences for following years.
The last pics is of Rod Diery, myself and Tony Smith before the saturday night " Corowa moment".

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #15 18-03-08, 11:49

Quote:

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 · #16 18-03-08, 13:08

Quote:

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 · #17 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 · #18 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 · #19 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

alexmacca30 · #20 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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Tony Smith · #21 19-03-08, 00:28

Quote:

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 · #22 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 · #23 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!

Rod Diery · #24 19-03-08, 14:19

Quote:

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 · #25 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.