Post by phargan on Feb 13, 2008 7:23:17 GMT 10
South East Queensland 6th. Getogether
8-9-10 February 2008.
What a successful weekend! We enjoyed it very much and made many new friends and put some faces to the names that we have been getting used to over the past couple of months. Matching the Web names with the real names was a little slow for me though.
Four vans met up at the Ettamogah Pub at around 10 am on the 8th and arrived in convoy at the caravan park in Mooloolaba causing a little stir.
On the Saturday, the local press released photos and story of our gathering and by Sunday it seemed like half the town was either gawking from the hill above, parading up and down looking at the collection from the safety of their air conditioning or walking in and getting to know some or all of us. My wife Yoko even gave a guided tour of our minute van to a group of Japanese who had arrived Saturday morning from Tokyo! How about that for notoriety! The police came to say g’day, two in a car and two on bicycles and were most interested that some people (us) had come up from Nimbin NSW.
Our thanks to David Dosse for organizing a most pleasurable weekend, all the participants, and we will look forward to the next one with eager anticipation.
Best Regards.
Paul & Yoko Hargan. ;D
I had been wondering about the age of my caravan and so had many members of this illustrious website and I have delved through all the information I could find re Caravan Park Ltd. The general opinion seemed to be between 1947, when the company opened in Newcastle and the mid fifties when they moved to Sydney.
I have had new windows made up to replace the dry rotten originals and as I fitted one this week I thought I'd take the aluminium rain gutter off from just above the window of my 'Hunter Minor' to get the paint off it so that the rain can get away. I carefully prized it off and turned it over and there, written on the back surface, in pencil!! was "W. Page & S. Ross" "28-10-50" That cheered up my day!
So, I think that lays to rest the question of the longevity of my mini-Minor.
8-9-10 February 2008.
What a successful weekend! We enjoyed it very much and made many new friends and put some faces to the names that we have been getting used to over the past couple of months. Matching the Web names with the real names was a little slow for me though.
Four vans met up at the Ettamogah Pub at around 10 am on the 8th and arrived in convoy at the caravan park in Mooloolaba causing a little stir.
On the Saturday, the local press released photos and story of our gathering and by Sunday it seemed like half the town was either gawking from the hill above, parading up and down looking at the collection from the safety of their air conditioning or walking in and getting to know some or all of us. My wife Yoko even gave a guided tour of our minute van to a group of Japanese who had arrived Saturday morning from Tokyo! How about that for notoriety! The police came to say g’day, two in a car and two on bicycles and were most interested that some people (us) had come up from Nimbin NSW.
Our thanks to David Dosse for organizing a most pleasurable weekend, all the participants, and we will look forward to the next one with eager anticipation.
Best Regards.
Paul & Yoko Hargan. ;D
I had been wondering about the age of my caravan and so had many members of this illustrious website and I have delved through all the information I could find re Caravan Park Ltd. The general opinion seemed to be between 1947, when the company opened in Newcastle and the mid fifties when they moved to Sydney.
I have had new windows made up to replace the dry rotten originals and as I fitted one this week I thought I'd take the aluminium rain gutter off from just above the window of my 'Hunter Minor' to get the paint off it so that the rain can get away. I carefully prized it off and turned it over and there, written on the back surface, in pencil!! was "W. Page & S. Ross" "28-10-50" That cheered up my day!
So, I think that lays to rest the question of the longevity of my mini-Minor.
