From: Nigel Hay -MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 23:48:56 PDT
Sadly, I was the only Military vehicle at this Classic Car show.
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Greville [mailto:dgrev@iinet.net.au]
Sent: 04 October 2004 05:59
To: Nigel Hay -MILWEB
Cc: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] last Sunday's offroad adventure
Nigel Hay
> The first times I took my newly restored Ward La France M1 heavy Wrecker
> out it seriously rained and anyone sensible would have stayed on the
> showground roads like all the other cars. However Nigel knows best and
> decided to go up a long grass slope.
> Bar grips are no good on very wet long grass slopes and about halfway up
the
> M1 began to slip and slide. 6wd and low range still wouldn't get it up the
> slope, so in front of the inevitable crowd I had to suffer the humiliation
> of defeat.....
No mate you are suffering from CRAFT, what you were actually doing was
giving one of the tracked vehicle owners an excuse to do some recovery
work and demonstrate their vehicle AND be able to do so on the grass
for good reason......... it was all pre-planned wasn't it? ;-)
Regards
Doug
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