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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2016, 04:30:39 PM »
Good to see someone treat any of these magic vehicles with respect.  Well done.
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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #31 on: May 12, 2016, 08:35:13 PM »
Good to see someone treat any of these magic vehicles with respect.  Well done.
Greg Mac.

Thanks Greg, we loved them and it broke our hearts to see the Administrators take them all away after the efforts of everyone involved and Tom's vision... Alas life goes on and we're slowly gathering ourselves up from the ruins  :-\

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #32 on: May 13, 2016, 10:57:45 AM »
is there a link?

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #33 on: May 13, 2016, 12:32:26 PM »
2 questions for El:

Is the AWOL signage removable vinyl stickers or paint?, and,

Is there a way that any buyers of these vehicles could contact "somebody" from AWOL to be reunited with the service log books of the vehicle they purchase? I suspect that AWOL might be better custodians of those documents now rather than the administrators or Grays BNE.

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #34 on: May 13, 2016, 08:31:19 PM »
All vehicles at Gray's yard in Brisbane.

Most modifications seem reversible.

40+, range, winch and non winch variants.

- 6x6;
- 6x6 dual cab;
- 4x4 FFR;
- 4x4 RFSV;
- 4x4 SRV;
- 4x4 hard-top personnel TD5;
- 4x4 hard-top;
- Cantor (ex ambo??, internal conversion);
- trailers;
- civilian camper trailer;
- civvy Isuzu NPR;
- civvy Coaster.

Some on-roaded, some wrecks, some in-progress.

Bidding reportedly 25th May.

All vehicles in absolute disrepair and not even worth looking at wink-winkedy-wink. Also most fitted with the unreliable (wink wink) 4BD1.


Are any of the trailers there, s'pose there will be a few of them as well ?

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2016, 09:11:49 PM »
Trailers and spares, odds and ends sold on the 19/04
48461 GS Perentie
51685 RFSV 91 Truck Surveillance
51609 RFSV 90 Truck Surveillance
51789 RFSV 91 Truck Surveillance

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2016, 11:50:17 PM »
2 questions for El:

Is the AWOL signage removable vinyl stickers or paint?, and,

Is there a way that any buyers of these vehicles could contact "somebody" from AWOL to be reunited with the service log books of the vehicle they purchase? I suspect that AWOL might be better custodians of those documents now rather than the administrators or Grays BNE.

Hi Gunner,

The AWOL signage are vinyl stickers yes. Tom and I removed them off his personally owned vehicle on the weekend and they came off easily. I just used my fingernails, Tom used a blade. I was quicker  ;) and managed to get each letter off in one piece. It just takes a little time and patience. We wiped off the odd spot of residue with a spray alcohol I think it was, it came off easily. All of the vehicles in the fleet have had touch up paint work done and look really nice. We regularly applied lanolin to them and this brings them up a treat. This will be the final step on the one we de-stickered and I am certain there will be no remaining sign of AWOL on her body (except for the one star we kept on  ;) ).

There is only Tom and myself (Tom's partner) remaining of what was AWOL  :'( (emotional girly stuff haha). Of course we want Gray's to get the best price possible for the vehicles for the creditors so we are hounding them and the Administrators to re-install the GS Windows (grrr it's so easy, such a quick job) and take the records to match them to the vehicles as these will be appealing to buyers. Yes I have them all in safe storage after retrieving them from the rubbish pile  >:( and if they do not take them I will be happy to post them to buyers at their expense. Once the auction starts, if they have not taken them, I will list all the ones I have on this thread - from a glance about 3/4 of the fleet. Any that I have remaining 6 months after the sale I will forward on to REMLR  :D

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #37 on: May 14, 2016, 07:29:04 AM »
Thank you for taking the initiative with the records El  - what you are proposing to do sounds right.  :)
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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #38 on: May 14, 2016, 08:46:24 AM »
Spray alcohol ??  Is there a shop I can get home supplies of some of that.  Hic.
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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #39 on: May 14, 2016, 10:01:15 AM »
G 'day El (and Tom).
Glad to hear that the gm120 log books were rescued.
Such a great shame that our hard work came so close to fruition.
Could you check if Tom rescued my black bag from the office before the locks went on?
Dave
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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #40 on: May 14, 2016, 02:50:10 PM »
G 'day El (and Tom).
Glad to hear that the gm120 log books were rescued.
Such a great shame that our hard work came so close to fruition.
Could you check if Tom rescued my black bag from the office before the locks went on?
Dave

Oh Dave, it rings a bell... I'll be in touch 😉

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #41 on: May 14, 2016, 02:54:31 PM »
Spray alcohol ??  Is there a shop I can get home supplies of some of that.  Hic.

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #42 on: May 14, 2016, 02:59:57 PM »
Thanks El.
There you go, Greg. So convenient! Now you don't have to come up with so many excuses to by metho. Small town talk and all. ;)
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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #43 on: May 24, 2016, 11:10:19 AM »
any link to the sale?

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Re: AWOL Adventures
« Reply #44 on: May 24, 2016, 12:04:28 PM »
haven't you been reading this thread ?

http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?topic=4186.msg42613;topicseen#msg42613

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