Vintage caravanners rage at Williams

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Well guys and gals, yet another great weekend of vintage caravanning, fun and frivolity has passed in the West ....... with the weekend visit to Jesse Martin's museum in Williams, about 150 kms south of Perth.

The weekend was a BLAST, when the crazy vintage caravanners took over the Williams Pub on Saturday night ........we have our own road show in the form of regular forum contributors, & owners of the 1953 Chev Mafia Staff Car & matching period ali teardrop - Will & Lyn, being both excellent singers and entertainers .......they bought their Karoke equipment, amplifiers, speakers etc and had the lounge of the Williams pub raging.......

Billy Cork was the star of the Karoke singsong with Billy singing about three songs in fine style, and yours truly having his first go at Karoke singing Daddy Cool's " Come back again" ......luckily the pub patrons were well primed, making the GM's singing less painfull.

The pub's cook Kathy also was a keen Karoke participant after cooking us all delicious pub meals.

The visit to Jesse Martin's farm - come - musuem was just awsesome, with Jesse having shed after shed after shed of old stuff, including an early period pub/bar, a general store chock a block with 1930's to 1950's groceries, tins packaging etc (like the junk I collect for my caravanning projects) cars, tractors, stationary engines, signs, an old school bus, just absolutely everything old and & of interest .......except a vintage caravan !!!
The Holden guys took a real interest in a good restorable EK ute, just sitting in a shed, one of many cars in lots of sheds.

Another great weekend was had by all, and we're all hanging out for the next event !!!

Mark















new kid on the block ....Trev & Carrots 1967 "Aristocrat" van - 9 foot long & looking great stripped back to the bare Ali .......



A couple of guys from the FE FC club joined us ......this is Brad Povey's real nice original FC sedan





Will & Lyn ....the entertainers


upset this bloke, and ya might end up with a horse's head in ya bed



The GM ....(who can't sing !!!)



Billy Cork & the cook ......Kath


A bloke Trev picked up on Friday night at the Bridgetown club .....Carrots couldn't make it, so he conned a bloke into going with him ......welcome Richard ...but Trev wouldn't let Richard sleep in the 9' footer van with him !!

[trev n carrots]

mark absolute top w/end. i had a ball & i think richard's hooked.....hes a nice fella but he aint sleepin in my bed..........not on the 1st date .
looking forward to the next run ;D
cheers trev



oh yeah..did i tell you im now the proud owner of another van...about a 10fter complete with port hole & ice chest.......gotta pick it up on the w/end
i shouldnt have stopped for a look.......how am i gunna tell carrots

[will]

Im gonna tell carrots because that sounds just like the bondwood ten footer with a porthole that I want in fact I will tell her now
Carrots you most definately dont need another vintage caravan in your yard I do need one for my ford ute to tow and if you want to sell it on the sly dont tell trev about this and I will pick it up wherever whenever and just in case you dont know trev is not to be trusted when negotiating things he actually offered lyn and I 350 times the amount I negotiated with pete to work at the bridgetown old timers club new years eve dont you find that hard to believe for a genuine practising christian apart from those trivialities the weekend was fantastic Jesse martins place was awsome and almost to unbelievable to think that he has achieved all of that since 1976 when his son was killed in a motorbike accident and his wife died from cancer all of the money he raises goes to the hospital $3 dollars a head what an amazing man its obvious he turned his grief into hard work and a super human effort to perpetuate the memory of both his wife and son
saturday night was a blast and we all had fun and i kept a close eye on richard and trev and kept them out of trouble see ya soon hopefully at the next weekend

Will and Lyn

[ditzygypsy]

yea ha............... sounds like you guys all had a ball. The GM filled me in. Sounds like I missed a great time. Bugga. ........... and to miss out on hearing our grand poobah sing..........................

Good on ya Will and Lyn for the Karoke.............. poor Williams would not have known what hit them.

From what I was told it was a "Blast!!!!!!!!!" Keep it comming.

[trev and carrots]

i think we missed a fun weekend ditzy !!
im not sure why trev wouldnt let richard sleep in
the van with him....i definately heard richard say
he was going to shave his legs for the occassion...
mind you i think the air may have been a lot
better outside the van....nothing against trev..
but you know these blokes have lots of the
windy stuff.....i know this from binningup...small
vans and windy stuff are not romantic at all !!!

[trev and carrots]

yes WILL trev doesnt need another van
richard made trev promise he could be there when he sprung it on me..he said she will go troppo....
his jaw just dropped when i merely said oh well i spose
there is "room " for one more....haha...
im sure the enthusiasm our men have for this vintage stuff kinda inspires us to tag along...its our choice to enjoy it or not....i love it and have met so many great ppl thru the cars and now the vans...its been a fun ride so far...carrots

[surferboy]

BUGGER... I missed out on the Kareoke !!!
Cathy will be happy we couldnt go.

[WILL]

THE SINGING SURFER SOUNDS GOOD DOESNT IT NOW WE KNOW CATHY DOESNT LIKE KARAOKE SHE WILL BE THE FIRST ONE WE PICK ON TO SING WHEN WE CATCH UP NEXT TIME
WILL AND LYN

[trev and carrots]

Thanks Will for the DVD....looks like you all had a ball.
Trev told me our global Mod was an ok singer.
I have watched the DVD and in my opinion this judgement must have been made whilst in a relaxed state after many a Williams Pub ale..no offence to u mark
you all let your hair down ( the hairy bros especially)
and had fun..good stuff... ;D

[surferboy]

I'M PICKIN UP GOOD VIBRATIONS
SHE'S GIVIN ME EXITATIONS
HUM HUM HUM
HUM HUM HUM
GOOD GOOD GOOD
GOOD VIBRATIONS
HUM HUM MUMBLE MUMBLE HUM
SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING
WHOOOOWHOOOOOOOOOOWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Just practicing
I want to be prepared for the next run

[trev and carrots]

;D we should sing together surfer boy ...
i can add a do-wah or two in there and i reckon we might have a song between us....carrots - the hummer

[Reddo]

Just read the story on the Williams Pub/Museum run

Williams Pub sounds like a great place for a "session" . Will keep an eye open to see if any of you lot make it onto Australian Idol. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Amazing what a few beers does to a blokes confidence not to mention what it does to your singing ability.
Confidence goes up as ability goes down.
Just remember if everyone was good at Kareoke then it would be bloody boring . Ya gotta have someone to laugh at/with.
I ( and a few others i would imagine) would love to get hold of that EK Ute. Seems a shame to have something that good locked away. Then I suppose thats what makes these museums so good. you never know whats sittin in the next shed.
Was there any old pommy motorbikes laying around???.
Besides vans, old cars i also have a love of old bikes and get a real buzz outa digging up this sorta stuff in sheds and barns.
Even if they aren't for sale its like hunting old vans . half the fun is hunting them down and finding them. even talking to the owners and getting the history on these old relics is a good past time.

Would love to get over to the "other side of OZ" sometime and hook up with you lot . Will have to get stuck into my van and then get a few thousand miles up on the EH Wagon + a few thousand bucks in the bank before that dream can come true.
If you ever make it over to this side of Oz where the sun comes up over the water then make sure you give us a call.

In the mean time keep those stories and pichas comin'

Reddo & Trish
Newcastle NSW

[will]

: Hi Reddo
yes mate they all made it on to Australian Idle
you should have seen the sorry Idle bunch the next Day
not really mate they all pulled better than expected it must have been the healthy Williams Air
I have found that just word of mouth to most people interested in old cars seems to get people on track locating the old vans is a load of fun we search the papers and net and its a great way of enjoying the benefits of including others finding them an old van Billy picked up his 66 franklin buried in a back yard up to the axles and we worked on it solidly for around a week and he spent another week as well all in all the whole project including materials was around $1000.00 plus the beer around double that that might be a white lie

catch ya soon Reddo

regards Will

[cobber]

Will and Lyn,

Just recieved the CD-R of the Williams extravaganza, a very nice production and the sound track was just perfect for the occasion. You are a bottler Will, thanks.
I think you blokes over there are doing too good a job on your restorations--the Vans look new.
But it’s good to see you are having a good time and showing the Vans off wherever you go.
BTW, the pub cook looked like a real groovy little lass, was she a “back packer” working her way round Oz (they are usually uninhibited) or is that the way the pub
cooks are in W.A.?
And Reddo! Newcastle mate? just up the road, why don’t you come down to the NRMA Motorfest in January and say G’Day?

Cobber.

[will]

Hi Cobber
Glad you enjoyed the C.D I am having problems with the Studio 9 movie maker soft ware at the moment I will have to use the windows version next time and see how the movie comes out its a good record of the early days of site and it is fun doing it hope to catch up with you NSW guys next year one way or another
To everyone
have a safe and joyous christmas and new year

Will and Lyn