Thread: Rover Park Tour de Midget

Distinguished Colleagues,

Another splendid occasion away with the good folk of the GCLRO. With various parties leaving from varied geographical environs, a motley assortment of 4 wheel drive legends were to congregate within the northern reaches of NSW - Rover Park to be precise. Now, as obscurity is my mistress, I have produced some comments on this fine weekend from a somewhat unorthodox angle....

The purpose of this meeting was to investigate the possible use of "smurfs" to delineate esoteric aspects of the more poorly understood parameters of automotive engineering and design. To this end, the exercise was a complete success.

So, by late Friday night - most had arrived, with the last remaining candidates on board by early Saturday. Now - to find some Tenterfield leprechauns....

Some of the motors hunting midgets down by the river...



Of course - there were many fine examples of Solihul's work on display - but the vehicle of choice by the elite (Queen Elizabeth 11, SAS regiment, X-box etc) were also well represented. Here we see the use of partially buried dwarfs to provide rut fill, thereby avoiding over articulation of the Defender's rear wheel...



Once the vehicle has negotiated the rutted terrain, one simply digs up the dwarf and either straps them to the roof rack - or in this case, allow them the drive the remaining section of track by way of reward - here we see a smurf driving the Defender down the easy section...



Some useful parameters had now been established, regarding midget automotive ballast usage, so analytical discussion was now put forth by Professor Grimace around the campfire...



Discussion was taken to a deeper level with contributions from world authorities Lord Harry, Dr James and other noted GCLRO dignitaries...





Discussion and analysis raged to the wee hours - but eventually our convention retired to a solid night's slumber - morning saw Professor Louis working his magic with the bunsen burner...



It had been decided that we required a large contingent of Tenterfield leprechauns to use in a purpose built proving ground - but more on that later. So off we went - searching by the water, a well known meeting place of the midget...



No luck - looking, looking...



There! There! Scallops finds one! Quick - in the vehicles - let's go hunting dwarfs.... Philippe leads the charge - belting the Disco over the challenging terrain...




Next, Scallops sees the midget running out to the side - and goes off in hot pursuit...



Now it was Stevo's turn - you haven't lived 'till you've seen Stevo go after a bit of midget action...



Not to be outdone, Mark thought he spotted one too...



Professor Louis, seen here utilising a midget to activate his dual air lockers...



By now, the midgets knew we meant business - they were running everywhere - the glorious GCLRO boys went in hard after them.... but the Midget's resilience was starting to take its toll - the look on Harry's face left us thinking we were losing this war...



But then - when all seemed lost - Professor Grimace came in with the big gun - the powerhouse Rangie went in hard - Smurfs - resistance is futile, the game is over...



But wouldn't you know it - the small folk had another win. A sacrificial, selfless dwarf somehow managed to jam himself inside the good Professor's wheel arch and the game was over - GCLRO = 0, Dwarfs = Victory....



Alas - the midgets had escaped - even the ones we had buried to avoid over articulation had freed themselves....



Still - in hindsight, I feel we all learnt something this weekend. It's not a question of how far your hair is from your toes - the weekend proved to all that it's how one uses what they got that counts!

The Scallop wishes to thank all my learned colleagues for this most informative experience and wishes to point out that no vertically challenged individuals were hurt in this experience.

Thanks Philippe, Harry et al for another great trip. Not as cold as I thought it'd be but the fire helped.

Scallops


Stikman


Harry


Stikman


Grimace with pit crew



Stevo


Scallops


Stevo


The crew at Peach Cove


A short video of the creek run.......hey Hendrik, your Tash is a piker
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38fuJb6vmlo"]YouTube - Rover park[/ame]

Who was it that told me the road to Mt Lindsay Hwy was winding? Lovely drive but had to have a dozen vomit stops for Matt Lesson learned.....