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Post by firefighter on May 28, 2017 22:02:43 GMT 10
Along with the Moparman family Gay and myself 3 weekends ago spent the weekend in north east Victoria stopping at Painters Island Caravan Park Wangaratta, organizing the itinerary for the nats next year
North East Victoria is at its best in Autumn with the leaves turning glorious gold and red colours.
Gavin ( moparman ) is looking after the tour of the historic town of Chiltern, Antique shops, Car Museum, Athenaeum Museum, and Dow Pharmacy, and a visit to Lake View Historic House with a cuppa included.
The itinerary will cover most historic towns and wineries in and around N E Victoria Bright Beechworth, Yackandanah, Myrtleford, Corowa Car Museum, Glenrowan (Ned Kelly), Historic Winton raceway
Milawa Gourmet region and wineries including a tour at Brown Brothers
We also checked out the historic floating gold dredge at Eldorado ....gold is still being found in this area
Forum member Surf Tragic has offered members a tour of his shed and his 7 Don caravans
Gotta bike..... bring it with you as this area is well known for its premier rail trails
Forum member Scot (Leanne) will have spare bikes at her site for members to use
We can have a fire at the caravan park and Leanne is organizing a trailer load of wood for us
Brenton is looking into bringing his sewing machine for upholstering demo
Gay & Di have started on the Quilt for the auction
Received a phone call today from Wally Robinson his uncle Don was the founder of Don caravans
Wally has booked a site for the nationals
There is so much to do and see in this area we might need longer to see it
The itinerary will be posted on the forum a couple months before the nats
The nat's team
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Post by brenten on May 29, 2017 8:56:57 GMT 10
thanks to all the moderators for all there time planning a greats nats for all of us to enjoy.....brenten and robyn
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Post by cobber on May 29, 2017 9:23:06 GMT 10
Thank you team .....How lucky we are to have people like you dedicated to making sure we have a good time at the 2018 VC forum nationals. I am really looking forward to seeing inside the "mini Don factory"    Cobber. |
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Post by don257 on May 29, 2017 9:34:47 GMT 10
GREAT WORK Geoff and team!!!!!!!
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Post by mel on Jun 2, 2017 16:04:49 GMT 10
Sounds great. Thanks to the nat's team for organising, I am looking forward to it.
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Post by mustangpall on Jun 4, 2017 16:18:17 GMT 10
Well done all team members looking forward to these Nats can't wait to catch up with everyone again. Cliff & Ingrid.
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Post by firefighter on Jun 20, 2017 11:03:36 GMT 10
Hi all Forum member the General has left Western Australia heading for the 2018 nats
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Post by thegeneral on Jun 21, 2017 10:32:26 GMT 10
Puff puff nearly at the top of the Greenmount hill already
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Post by firefighter on Jul 10, 2017 20:40:33 GMT 10
Moparman found this clip with the Topp twins in New Zealand with there Austin...... vintage caravan and dog /child touring caravan parks and entertaining caravanning members ....... We have signed them up to attend the nats at Wang after you watch this one there is a few more clips from the Topp twins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5Fwi8WwDg
f/f
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Post by kerri on Jul 10, 2017 21:18:54 GMT 10
Hi firefighterI just watched. Funny. When I was a kid in the late 70's, I had the same pink jumpsuit but in blue. I probably have a photo somewhere. Kerri |
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Post by firefighter on Jul 11, 2017 20:18:12 GMT 10
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Post by firefighter on Jul 25, 2017 20:44:20 GMT 10
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Post by moparman on Aug 25, 2017 17:57:42 GMT 10
Hi All
As most on the forum would now be aware of the recent and sudden passing of firefighter.
We would like to reassure everyone that the 2018 VC forum Nationals are still on track, with organizing still on going.
Also we welcome on board ralphndi who have now joined the nats team.
Stay tuned for further updates!
Moparman & the nats team.
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Post by brenten on Aug 25, 2017 20:24:57 GMT 10
Thanks moparman and nats team for continuing the good work...brenten
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Post by don257 on Aug 30, 2017 7:58:56 GMT 10
Great Work Guys!!!!! Lets make this a great turn out hey ,Doug
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Post by margra on Aug 31, 2017 18:11:01 GMT 10
Thanks for continuing the big job of arranging the 18 nationals
Graham
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Post by mustangpall on Nov 28, 2017 20:30:06 GMT 10
Are there any more updates on the Nationals? Do we have any idea of how many are booked in so far? Will there be a dinner event?
Just curious we are booked in for the week.
Ingrid Pallister
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Post by catherine636 on Nov 30, 2017 15:52:38 GMT 10
Hi there, I can’t come for the whole week but was toying with the first 3-4 nights only - will the itinerary have stuff going on each day? I don’t want to miss out on too much! The VW crowd have a show in Albury on the Sunday 22nd, if a car show was on, sat 21 would be good and I can get a heap of them along!
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Post by Don Ricardo on Dec 4, 2017 15:10:21 GMT 10
Thanks to Mustangpall for the question... It's a reminder that its: 137 days to go until the start of the
2018 Vintage Caravan Nationals
Wangaratta, NE Victoria
Friday, 20 April to Friday, 27 April
More information here
The event planning group is working hard behind the scenes to get everything ready for the best Vintage Caravan Nationals yet. We hope to announce the full program for the week shortly, so stay tuned...but the program is expected to include: - Welcome BBQ
- Car show and shine
- Wine & cheese night and a winery visit or two
- Charity auction
- Visit to Surf Tragic's 'NE Victoria Don Workshop'
- Runs to places of interest
- Nationals Dinner
- Happy hour each evening
Anyone with a vintage or classic caravan is very welcome to attend the Nationals for all or part of the week. AND you don't have to own a vintage or classic caravan to join us. Book a cabin, join in all the action and get inspired by 100+ vintage caravans.
If you have any questions, or need further information, post on this thread or PM Moparman, Ralphndi or Don Ricardo
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Post by brenten on Dec 5, 2017 10:14:38 GMT 10
thanks for the update brenten and robyn
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Post by moparman on Dec 9, 2017 7:06:09 GMT 10
Painters Island Caravan Park have added a post on there facebook page promoting the 2018 Nationals, there is also some great drone shots of there park as well. Just click on the link and have a look www.facebook.com/paintersisland/ Moparman |
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Post by fuzzyfuso1945 on Jan 6, 2018 16:30:11 GMT 10
Hi All who will be attending the Nationals can't wait it is only 15 weeks next Friday till D-day when we all will be setting up ready for another great week of fun & frivolity,& lots of chin wagging, and boy am I looking forward to the Auction this year, hence my posting at this time, I would like to put a suggestion into the moderators who decide the Special charity that the funds go to. My suggestion for this year is The Mark Hughes Brain Cancer Foundation in Newcastle, my reason for this suggestion is Kel has just lost his brother to this hideous disease & two of our friends who will be attending with us lost their son to the same disease last year, and to top it off we lost three close friends as well last year. I am sure we are not alone, and I am sure there is a lot of others out there within our Forum who have been affected by this disease.It is only a suggestion but I hope it will be considered in all of your considerations. Thanks for taking the time to read this & if it is not appropriate feel free to remove from this posting. Regards Kel & Gai.
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Post by don257 on Jan 7, 2018 9:43:50 GMT 10
Thanks Richard for the update, cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!! Doug &Vick
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Post by oldcarharry on Jan 7, 2018 15:39:28 GMT 10
Do we have to pre order stickers and pennants ?
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jan 8, 2018 16:54:37 GMT 10
Do we have to pre order stickers and pennants ? Hi Oldcarharry, Thanks of asking. Yes, you will need to pre-order stickers and pennants. The 2018 Nationals organising group hopes to post details in the next week or two. Don Ricardo |
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