Registry of Ex Military Land Rovers
REMLR General => Events => Topic started by: Jan Thompson on April 11, 2013, 04:34:30 PM
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The Annual Corowa Swim-In & Military Vehicle Gathering was held as usual in March, at Corowa, NSW, Australia. In the week before the event, KVE was able to make contact with Mark Fletcher, known as 'Fletch' from the TV series, 'Classic Restos' and he came along during the week to cover our event. His programme is shown in Australia, New Zealand, USA and UK and focuses on car, truck and motor cycle shows, where he talks to owners about their vehicles, he has a good following. Military vehicle collectors are a new avenue for him and the variation of vehicle types made it interesting.
Mark Fletcher, known as 'Fletch' to the Aussies has always been interested in vehicles from yester-year and he achieved one of his dreams in 2007 when he started the TV show 'Classic Restos'. He has fun filming and producing the show. The show has now grown with Classic Restos Route 66, Classic Restos Bikes and Classic Restos Trucks. He has just started his second series of Classic Restos Trucks.
This is the first time he has covered a military vehicle event and it wont be the last! He plans to continue attending our Swim-In at Corowa and has had discussions with some of us about going to the UK.
It will be on shown on TVS Television Sydney CH44 on 24th April and C31 Television Melbourne CH44 on 18th April
For other stations details please see the attachment.
I will share some of my newsletter report with you:
A few years ago we had made contact with Mark Fletcher, known as ‘Fletch’ from the TV program “Classic Restos” and he was hoping to attend our event prior to covering the Chryslers on the Murray but couldn’t make it. A casual phone call by Richard on the Thursday before Corowa prompted him to remember being previously contacted and after several phone calls a deal was struck and he was able to attend prior to going across to Albury. He arrived on Wednesday in his 1969 Dodge Charger to start filming on Thursday. We took him out to the Wahgunyah Hotel for dinner where he met some of the participants which gave him an insight into the military vehicle scene as he has not done a program on military vehicles before. He was impressed that I was willing to help him with the filming and interviews and I made sure we covered a cross section of vehicles and participants. The day started at 7.30am with some footage down by the river and lagoon. Scott Rough provided the transport in his jeep and we made sure the Corowa Shire and Ball Park Caravan Park were highly promoted. At 9:30 the photographer from the Border Morning Mail wanted to catch up with us and he asked for some vehicles to go down to the River. I phoned Richard who was wandering around Ball Park and he managed to rustle up some vehicles. The first person he spoke to was Bill Sjoblom with his Moke. Bill seemed surprised to be asked but Richard said it would make a good cross section of types. Another one was Richard Sanders in his GPA. They lined up at the top of the slope to the river awaiting the call to move, a funny thing was other vehicles started to join the line, thinking it was the start point for the Thursday drive to the Rutherglen Public School. Fletch enjoyed the ride in the GPA and later in the afternoon in Bill Bates’ White Half Track. Interviews were done with the following people: Scott Rough - Jeep, Richard Sanders – GPA, David Smith – Meteor Engine, Jack Neville – Marmon Herrington, Limber and 25 pounder, David Furness – Nash staff Car, Bob Schutt – Armoured Scout Car, Julian Smith on his BSA, Cameron Reed in his Blitz and Hugh Thompson. He was also on site to get footage of people leaving on the Thursday trips. This will be shown in 4 major countries around the world so it will be good publicity for our event. Copies will be available once the TV program has been aired. Please contact me if you are interested.
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Here are some photos I took
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I dont think we get TVS here, will they be a webcast?
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I dont think we get TVS here, will they be a webcast?
Hi Juddy,
Check the attachment at the bottom of Jan's post, it lists all the TV stations that broadcast the programme. For Queensland it is C31 Television Brisbane CH44 , Free to Air - Digital.
regards, Richard
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Thanks Richard...... We should be Ok with free to air.....
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Hi Juddy,
I do not think we know what date it will be shown on Brisbane TV, it seems to vary in different States, so best to keep a check on the TV listings.
regards, Richard
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Today I caught up with Fletch and I now have the DVD from the Corowa event. All who were interviewed are in the DVD along with other vehicles who were in attendance. It is a great coverage of our event and all money raised from the sales of DVD's will go back into having him attend next year. I am impressed at the number of people who want copies and will be able to let you know how much KVE will charge per copy shortly after the Committee makes a decision.
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Great to hear! When they become available can they be put in the vendors for sale section please?
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Hi all,
Posting this on behalf of Jan as she has an error message coming up:
For people who aren't able to get Classic Restos on their TV they will be able to see it on a website for probably a couple of weeks from Friday 19th April. If you go onto the website and down near the bottom of the screen you will see 3 Classic Resto programs. The one to click on is the episode which airs on 18th April. It is not as sharp as seeing it on the TV so let me know if you want a copy which is extremely good quality. All the money raised will go towards having Fletch at our 2014 event and we hope he may be able to do more than one show. You never know in the future he may do a Series of 13 titled 'Classic Military Vehicles'.
http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/classic-restos
For people who have Gold Channel 84 the show will be seen in about 4 months. Those in the UK are currently 4-6 months behind.
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Thanks Richard
Is the website video, region restricted? or is watchable world wide?
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Hi Juddy,
watchable worldwide, I am looking at it from the UK. Try it out now to see the latest episode for a trial run.
Regards, Richard
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Site is down it says
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Site is down it says
Hi Juddy,
I see it is not working on here, but went to my Bookmarks and it opened alright from there, trying this again;
http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/classic-restos
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Tried this link, its not on the page.
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Tried this link, its not on the page.
No, I meant try the link out for the current episode of the programme so you know it works. The Corowa one should, by our reckoning, be on the webpage from Friday onward.
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Hi all,
Just got the broadcast dates for the Classic Restos programme on the 2013 Corowa military vehicle event. These are straight from the programme maker and apply to the Melbourne and Sydney tv stations:
Wednesday 17th April TVS Sydney - V8 Dirt Drags
Thursday 18th April C31 Melbourne - Corowa Military Show
Wednesday 24th April TVS Sydney - Corowa Military Show
Thursday 25th April C31 Melbourne - Chryslers On The Murray pt1
Wednesday 1st May TVS Sydney - Chryslers On The Murray pt1
Thursday 2nd May C31 Melbourne - Freestones Roadhaven
Then for 3 weeks you will see compilation episodes + lots more.
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Classic Restore re on Corowa is on Ch31 Melb on the following times. So if any one misses it there are repeats scheduled.
Thursday 7:30pm
Repeated Saturday 5pm,
Wednesday 12am,
Thursday 6am
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Classic Restore re on Corowa is on Ch31 Melb on the following times. So if any one misses it there are repeats scheduled.
Thursday 7:30pm
Repeated Saturday 5pm,
Wednesday 12am,
Thursday 6am
Hi Jan,
What about regional TV, I'm in Ballarat and we don't get Melb TV, maybe I need to go to the website and find the episode there?
Thanks
Scott
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Classic Restore re on Corowa is on Ch31 Melb on the following times. So if any one misses it there are repeats scheduled.
Thursday 7:30pm
Repeated Saturday 5pm,
Wednesday 12am,
Thursday 6am
Hi Jan,
What about regional TV, I'm in Ballarat and we don't get Melb TV, maybe I need to go to the website and find the episode there?
Thanks
Scott
Hi Scott,
Think I can answer this for you, go to the C31 website here: http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/classic-restos
You wil see last week's programme date, I think the latest one will not come up until about Saturday after it has been shown live. Just check it in next day or two. I think it will remain on there for about two weeks.
regards, Richard
KVE Committee member
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Thanks Richard, thats what I thought, same as the normal tv stuff, once its aired generally its them put up as a webcast..
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Just to let you know that the Corowa episode of Classic Restos is now online, my guess is it will be for about two weeks only, so go to;
http://www.c31.org.au/schedule/view/episode/85531
regards,
Richard
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Details of the DVD sale can be found in the vendors area.
Pete
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I am unable to get into the vendors section to see what has been put. Can someone please advise me how to do this?
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Heres a link, its your posts just moved to the for sale area ;)
http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?topic=1022.0
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The link comes up as it is missing or off limits to me
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Maybe something one of the admin can fix I will message them
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Yeah, I think it's because Jan is either not a paid up member (?) or if she is, her email address doesn't match between REMLR and this forum.
Regardles, I moved the DVD sale again.... this time to Parts For Sale http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?topic=1022.0 (http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?topic=1022.0)
Sorry for the stuff around Jan.
Pete
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Ahh yes, that section is in the registrants only area, I should put KVE in as a REMLR registrant libe bandiana is and give jan access.
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Thanks Richard. This would be appreciated. It would be good if we could advertise other DVD's, left over Corowa Caps, plaques etc.
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KVE Inc Added as a REMLR Registrant with the number 379, and you as the representitive Jan. You should see the two registrants only areas now, and I will move the for sale thread to the vendors area.