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We totally enjoyed the day! Heaps of people, heaps of trucks. Cool hazards. Well done to the organizers!! I can see this event being a regular annual event. Was simply an awesome day!

It will be cool to hear what others thought.

First, I'd like to congratulate my brother Adam in wipping my ass in points and skills today. (I did tell you he is a better driver than me, he always has been) But for his first event? He did faaaarking well.
I had a good first round. Only 70 points in penalties. But the second round something like 400. I lost count after 300. 2 DNF's. Totally got it wrong..

BUT! me and my co driver had a blast!!

I didn't take any pix. Well, just one of Craigs truck (it's a weapon).



Looking forward to seeing other peoples pix/vids.
Did anyone get pix of vvilly's truck on it's side????


Thanks again to all the marshals, Jase, Rick, Frank and other organizers!

Cheers,
Pete.

Yea it was a very good event, thanks to the organisers they done an awesome job. We were in the open class and we had a great day and done really well we enjoyed the challenge of competing against the buggies.
Good meeting more ORE members to it was good tosee you all there.

Good to see a good turn out of 40s too, i counted 7including the ones in the carpark.

im uploadin my pics at the mo. only got 60. bugger i should have taken my SLR with the bigger zoom.

jono




tire rub pete,


First one thur the deep water










the driver was saying both lockers in

for all my pics
http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg19 ... ud%20plug/

a few vids.. uploadin now..

COOL!

great day out looking forward to the next one bring on sheffield.
co driver for that one first outing for Kyran's new truck.
can't wait

nice to see my old truck there, i heard the new owner had rolled and fucked it a week after he bought it. Still looks to be in one bit.

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:Yea it was a very good event, thanks to the organisers they done an awesome job. We were in the open class and we had a great day and done really well we enjoyed the challenge of competing against the buggies.
Good meeting more ORE members to it was good tosee you all there.

Good to see a good turn out of 40s too, i counted 7including the ones in the carpark.

was a great day ,what 40 was yours ....

I was in the mustard 40 with no roof or doors.

ya went well mate , all the 40s did , was a few ...was one of the marshals on course 8...going in sheffield after watching that fun today

yeti wrote:ya went well mate , all the 40s did , was a few ...was one of the marshals on course 8...going in sheffield after watching that fun today

Yea i chatted to you a couple of times before doing the course, i liked number 8 aye cause i had to do the open track it was a good challenge, itll be good to see you again at sheffield.

alrighty.. was a great days outing..

the event was great, mud was present, kids enjoyed, nibz was smiling, organisers were still ugly ( ) ..

sorry in advance for the vids.. couldnt gain access through the mud moat as i had a child that thought the fashionable option for a mudplug were her shoes, nibz had told her otherwise..

***international disclaimer***
some of the vids may have a little bloke yappin and makin noise in the soundtrack.. i put it down to a gremlin in the system, not joey..

Got a couple of the truck on its side.
Going over....

Looking forward to seeing other peoples pix/vids.
Did anyone get pix of vvilly's truck on it's side????




Going

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hahaha thats what i have so far more to follow i am waiting for the video from a mate lol

great day had my camera but to busy to take pic's
was the other marshal on 8 every one enjoying them selves but was someone who did no 8 in 2WD and got around !! and he does have tyre rub from where I was......................petefj40
don't plan to marshal sheffeild plan to be driving it
nibs didn't see you
red devil great pic of action on no 8 and they didn't need both lockers as was too easy

here are my photos so far
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000233560913&v=app_2392950137#!/album.php?id=100000233560913&aid=21874&s=0&hash=a36a2063c7c52f12ce9cfa7de66606bb

Nice pix of you falling asleep there Jase.
Good bunch of pix tho!

lol i had a blast aye

and still drove home haha

aroma wrote:great day had my camera but to busy to take pic's
was the other marshal on 8 every one enjoying them selves but was someone who did no 8 in 2WD and got around !! and he does have tyre rub from where I was......................petefj40
don't plan to marshal sheffeild plan to be driving it
nibs didn't see you
red devil great pic of action on no 8 and they didn't need both lockers as was too easy

8 was a wicked hazard Warren! Was good to finally meet ya!
2WD rocks! lol

I drove home to vvilly!!
Just sounded like a tractor with one muffler looking like the following.
Oh and the alternator died.




Great seeing all the pix!!
Loving that hummer. lol

his alarm kept going off, people kept looking with there hands and it set it off haha

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:I was in the mustard 40 with no roof or doors.

got some photos of ya in my link above

A friend of my sisters took a whole bunch of photos of the event.

http://www.bladewind.co.nz/20100731/

Great event, well set out and well organised. I like the concept of not making it a race - much better for getting "Entry level" trucks involved, and reduces the damage factor. Really good to see a good turnout of old Classics - an old Series 2 (I think) Landie and a good fleet of FJ/BJ40's. I wished I still had mine going... Still, I had a heap of fun in the LWB Nissan "Hippo".

It was worth the trip from Blenheim - great effort guys! And the tracks are looking good for the Winch Challenge. There's a HEAP of work been done. Pity I can't make if for that one, but it looks like a great course for anyone wanting to have a first go at competition...

vvilly wrote:

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:I was in the mustard 40 with no roof or doors.

got some photos of ya in my link above

Haha seems like afew people have the same pics and vids of us swimming in the water lol.

muddy wrote: Really good to see a good turnout of old Classics - an old Series 2 (I think) Landie and a good fleet of FJ/BJ40's. I wished I still had mine going...

It was good to see the oldies there and yea a shame you didnt still have the 40, but good to see you there anyway.

aroma wrote:great day had my camera but to busy to take pic's
was the other marshal on 8 every one enjoying them selves but was someone who did no 8 in 2WD and got around !! and he does have tyre rub from where I was......................petefj40
don't plan to marshal sheffeild plan to be driving it
nibs didn't see you
red devil great pic of action on no 8 and they didn't need both lockers as was too easy

all done with my little one on my back. lili was sayin truck will get stuck, then tractor pull it out.

she started to get cold at lunch so we headed to the pools.

Was a great day!
Managed to get stuck in a bog that wasn't part of the course on hazard 3 pretty early on She started pointing to it as I was coming over the top and I didn't want to argue so I pegged it instead of braking thinking I had a chance, but man that stuff was sticky! 2 tractors later and I was out with no oil on the dipstick then my score sheet got blown away so called it a day.
Was happy out with the camera so no worries.
Will be back next year, but maybe in a Nissan

Its great to be reading such positive feedback For our first 4WD event we are really stoked with how well it all worked out. So good we had to cut the fence wire in the carpark to make more room (some poor bugger took out one of the fencepost that we left standing though ). We got a nice break with the weather too cause on Sunday morning it was absolute shite. I appreciate the support from you folks on here either as competitors or spectators. Without you guys the event would not have turned out as successfully as it did. We have a few things to work on, but I'll let you all know when we run the next event

H2OLOVA wrote:Its great to be reading such positive feedback For our first 4WD event we are really stoked with how well it all worked out. So good we had to cut the fence wire in the carpark to make more room (some poor bugger took out one of the fencepost that we left standing though ). We got a nice break with the weather too cause on Sunday morning it was absolute shite. I appreciate the support from you folks on here either as competitors or spectators. Without you guys the event would not have turned out as successfully as it did. We have a few things to work on, but I'll let you all know when we run the next event

Sweet as Jase it was good we all enjoyed it we were going to come over on the sunday but as you said it did turn to s*&t so will have to bring sarah out for a play another day


Jase

Does anyone have the results from the different classes? it would be good to see who the top guys were?