Real Fine Stuff Londonderry NSW September 26th 2009

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Hey guys, special favor to ask

As most of you are on other forums and clubs, if you are in Sydney or surrounding areas can I (we) ask you to let people know of this event, if you would like me to post you flyers etc please PM me your address and I'll get them in the mail to you ASAP. and if you could post the above flyers on the other forums that would be great.

I have mentioned before this is in conjunction with the State wide RFS open day, we are trying to raise funds to build a 3rd engine bay between our old building and new (council / state govt provided building) the place is a bit of a construction site as A few people on here can attest to, but we’re doing our best, put simply there more people who come with cool cars (it doesn’t need to be a rod) the more there is for people to look at the longer they stay, and the hungrier they get the more food the buy the more money we raise

But it’s not just about money, many of you come from rural areas, and have homes to prepare for summer, we can help guide you in the best way to do so and things to look for when preparing.

And well if nothing else we love showing people over our big red trucks

OK here’s a bit of info now and no doubt there will be more to come, this day is shaping up to be a cracker with loads of people and organisations willing to give us their support.

As you know this event is being held in conjunction with the NSW Rural Fire Service state open day, so if you are in NSW, live in a rural or semi rural area and cant make it to Londonderry, be sure to drop in at your local RFS station as the guys and girls will be only too happy to show you around and help you plan and give you all the information you need to prepare for the 2009/2010 fire season, I know we say it every year but looking at the statistics its been quite some time since NSW has had a ‘real’ fire season, so if you prepare your home and property now it could very well pay results come summer.

At Londonderry we are a Village category station this means we not only do bush grass and scrub fire but we also respond to homes and other structures as well as Motor vehicle accidents and any thing else your normal full time or retained fire brigade would turn out too.

This will be the focus of our demonstrations, what to do if you have a kitchen fire, how to choose an extinguisher, demonstrations on using the extinguisher. We are also planning a joint demonstration with another organisation with a simulated motor vehicle accident, (this is planed to go worst case scenario )

So we figure as we have a car there to do with as we see fit, why not blow the engine up, it’s a little different to guessing how many jelly beans in a jar as we don’t know before we turn the key how long it will last.

On top of this we are planning a little audience participation, so how strong are you guys???? How about we face off 2 Fire tankers + 2 lengths of rope 2 teams, who can tug the tanker over the distance faster????? Come on guys show us what ya got!!!!

You would think all that would fill the day up wouldn’t you? Well we haven’t stopped there, we also have DylanDrew performing on the truck stage and are working on securing other acts.

We have a page off the Macquarie Towns Hot Rod Club Website that is updated as new things are announced so check it frequently for the latest info http://www.hotrodclub.info/Rodrun.htm

For any one that may be interested our fire brigade has serviced not only the community of Londonderry but also other regions around NSW and even interstate over the last 50+ years. Last year Londonderry RFS was one of the busiest volunteer brigades in the state attending well over 200 incident calls. As well as responding to fire / emergency calls we as a brigade have spent thousands of hours both educating and actively preventing fire with in the community.
The reason we are holding this day as part of the State wide RFS open day scheme is to raise much needed funds to extend our existing fire station with a third engine bay, this is to house the third vehicle our brigade has that is currently housed at our Captains residence, as you can imagine this is not the ideal situation so we are working hard to raise the necessary funds to carryout this extension.

aww I want to come!
Hey I see you've got Shannons on the flier, are they looking after you?
If you want it on the website or need anything just give me a yell.

Thanks Eb's

Yea Tonys looking after us from Shannons

if you could stick it on their web site thought I would realy apprecieate it

As many of you know I have a few mates from this board helping me with this event

here's a teaser pic Hew & Kid knocked up over the weekend

Just to clarify a few points that seem to be the focus of most phone calls I have relating to the event

There is no pre registration, just turn up on the day, the guys from the hotrod clubs will park you, they will then come to you and you fill out a simple entry thing pay your $5.00 and enjoy the day. We figure your there to support us and have a good time so why bother with pre registration formalities.

Yes every one in your car gets in with the $5.00 entry fee, hell you’ve been supportive enough to come out we’re not gonna hit you up any extra for your passengers.

ITS NOT JUST HOT RODS, the event is open to any thing with wheels, including but defiantly not limited to, hotrod’s customs, classics, muscle cars, drag cars, street machines, imports, rotaries, 4WD’s late model cars, mini trucks, feral Ute’s bikes, choppers, working trucks, fender benders, if its got wheels bring it out we’d love to see it.

As you can see, by the amount of styles of cars encouraged to enter it would be impossible to have category’s so there are no categories, you won’t be winning best Sedan, Coupe Ute or pick up. The judging is done by the firefighters and there will be a trophy for each ranging field officer, Captain, Senior Deputy Captain, Deputy Captain & 2 X Fire fighters trophies.

As some of you may know I’ve asked a few mates from this forum and Ozrodders to help me out with the 'Real Fine Stuff Automotive Day' that My Fire brigade and Blue Mountains HRC and Macquarie Towns HRC are hosting.

Well one of my helpers from Ozrodders (CARPS) and I caught up briefly at Rat Day (very briefly, so much so Hewey found him for me when I was leaving and I drove past his car and paused long enough to say thanks and then tare arse to Bec's parents for Fathers day lunch)

Any how here is the Captains award Carps did for the day

This thing really has me salivating, now I can’t wait to see the stuff the other guys are doing

Here’s the Captains Trophy so you know what were talking about no there not your average gold coloured plastic thing, you get form the local trophy shop.

What a cracker of a day

Hew took some crakers as well

Looks like you had a good turnout there mate, including some nice flathead powered examples :-) :-) Well done!