REDDO HITS 1000 POSTS...... AGAIN !

[cobber]

'arold, (Reddo)

Let me be the first to congratulate you on your up coming 1000 th post.... for the second time, get on with it ....... I'm sure it will be a memorable one .

Since joining the forum as a new member on the 20th July 2007 you have averaged 3.2467532 posts per day which is quite an achievement.

Without your input the forum would be a much quieter place, you are usually the first to welcome new members, you are usually the first to offer advice to people seeking it, you are always the first to take on the task of organising a run down this part of the world, you hand make prizes to award to unsuspecting recipients, you have been the first with suggestions to raise money to support the forum, you are usually the first to get a laugh around the camp fire, you are usually the first to fall off his chair around the camp fire........... enough

During this time you have amused me... amazed me...badgered me.. belittled me... cheered me up.. ...disgusted me...entertained me... flabbergasted me.... got on my goat... horrified me... informed me.... joked with me... king hit me......... I could work my way through the whole alphabet and find a word to define the effect your posts have had, needless to say some of it has been absolute dribble .

I now declare that you are truly worthy of the title “TRUE BLUE”, welcome to the "TRUE BLUE CLUB".

As a few of the Vintage Caravan forum widows have been heard to say... it is now time for you to “get a life” .

Cobber.

[Roehm3108]

Sooooo - does that make Reddo TRUE BLUE TRUE BLUE Isn't that the name of some smelly cheese ;D ;D ;D
Cngrats, Reddo, for adding so much to the life of this forum from the East Coast. I agree with Cobber, your contribution in so many ways have helped put vintage vanning to the fore (as well as probably put the prices up).
Looking forward to the next 1000 posts ;D ;D ;D
Ray

[Deleted]

Hi Cobber and Ray

Thanks for the kind words...
Well here it is post number 1000 or ...... 2807 if you want to include the 1807 i left behind when i spat the dumb a while back.

Dunno whether i am worthy of any accolades for reaching the big 1000 . I see posts as being treated the same as birthdays when ya get into your senior years. Ya know they are steadily building up , but you choose to ignore them .

I cant remember exactly when i joined up the first time.. ... i think it was around October 2004..may have been later ... . Perhaps with cobbers expertise as a research and statistical expert he can dig up my first post.
I think there was around 25 to 30 of us on the forum back then... Mark, Ditzy, Will and Lynn, Trev and carrots, loveshack, brad and gemma, surferboy, snail, was some i remember from the west coast.. East coast Cobber was here before me by a few months i think, MRFJ55, Belinda,where around back then too.... Too many posts and good times under the bridge to acknowledge all of the
"Class of 2004"
My first major run with the van mob was to Coledale...October 2005 ..it was the only event on the east coast ....I think Maurie and Belinda where the instigaters of that first run. By that stage JBJ, Humpty, spyder, Tickos, Carapark and a few others had signed up and we had a ball. ;D

There has been countless runs and events on either side of the continent since then. Each event has drawn out a few new starters and we have steadily grown in numbers. I cant think of anyone who has attended a vintage van getogether that has said that they wouldnt be coming back... everyone leaves with great memorys of go times and great friendships being forged.

There has been countless "debates"on the forum over what is considered the best type/style of van, the best towcar car, etc ,etc. in the end we all choose to "agree to disagree" and move forward. The forum has been a great source of information for people like ourselves that have come across it while searching for info . Most of us have found this site after first buying a van as a bit of a joke and then slowly but surely become addicted to the hobby to the point of obssession / addiction ( understatement in some cases )

So whats in the pipeline for the future... I currently have "Mildred" in the shed as an ongoing project. Hope to have her all dressed up for the East coast tour this year. The Sloper Chev breathed its first breath the other day and i promptly stuck the missus in the car and done a lap around the neighbourhood. Bit scarey with only the handbrake for stoppers........ again i would like to think it will be fit enough to tow mildred on the tour....
All takes time and money. Plenty of the first , none of the latter. On top of all that I have just bought Wills "DC3TD" it will be unloaded in sydney in a few weeks time.
Matilda sits in the carport screaming for a little bit of TLC.

So ...my future involvement in the vintage van movement looks to be ongoing for at least the rest of this year.
....... Sorry Cobber .. in know that is not what you where hoping ta hear... but ya gunna havta just put up with me for a while yet..... You might get lucky ... I continue to mess with volatile substances like fobbergross down in the shed of invention.. You can all live in hope that i might blow myself off the face of the earth.... ;D

Sorry about the dribble guys... Its just me.........I know it can be annoying but to me its the grease betwen the gears that keeps the wheels turning on the forum at times when it seems we are grinding to a halt....... If the airways remain busy i can wind the "dribble wick" back a bit and let yas all go hammer and tongs .

3000 posts ... yup.. sometime next week i reckon ;D ;D ;D

Reddo

[sutcac]

................yeah....onya Reddo ..............you keep this place tickin' ............

........'twas you that welcomed me aboard after my initial post as a newby a few years back....might not have stayed ,if it wasn't for that first greeting ................

..................this forum just wouldn't be the same withoutcha!! ;D

...well done ! ;D

[1954homemade]

Yes I second Sutcac's words - "the forum wouldn't be the same without you Reddo".

It's all your fault that we are members , if we hadn't met you at Cessnock Swap and been told about the East Coast Tour and Coledale - I don't think we would have done anything about looking at and/or joining the forum. We had been told about the website a year previously but hadn't got around to checking it out.

Your numerous comments never fail to brighten my day and bring a smile to my face - may they long continue !!! ;D ;D

Di

[Don Ricardo]

G'day Reddo,

Sorry for arriving late for your party (got held up on the freeway ;D), but hearty congratulations on reaching the KILOPOST - again!!

When you had your holiday last year and started from 0 again, I thought to myself "here's a go, I'll see if I can keep ahead of Reddo - after all I've got a 200 head start". Fat Chance!!

I don't have the liquid tongue, the flying fingers and the way with words of the imimitable Mr Reddo, but then not many people do - which is what makes your contribution unique!

Thanks for the advice, the info, the fun and above all the encouragement you share with us all. And you can keep going towards 2000...I've given up! ;D ;D ;D

Regards,

Don Ricardo