Rhyl & District Motor Club

WELCOMES YOU
TO THE
Teepee, Snail & Bin wagon Owners Section
aka the old, bold & often cold.
"Famous Five go Marshalling"

It all STARTED as a bit of a laugh when Sandra & Iain brought the caravan along to the start line at the Cambrian Rally last year.
Iain spent half an hour being instructed by fellow geriatric "Jones the Paint" in how to park the caravan up without causing too much of an obstruction to the Start Area of our stage - Suffice to say "the paint" nearly got PLANTED by Baxter and Baxter ended up parking it himself!
"Not enough space for that thing here" and "what the hell did you wanna bring THAT for" were a couple of comments to be heard emitting from the undergrowth early next morning, when WE woke from a blissful and WARM nights sleep in the comfort of our centrally heated caravan, to find Mr Blue frozen to the spot alongside his tank of a 4x4 in which he'd tried to get comfy for an hour or two, without success, and marshals everywhere, disappearing into the greenery, only to reappear a few moments later ......... (we all knew where they'd gone!)
Given a half hour and we were up & about, kettle was boiling and the aroma of freshly cooking (burning?) bacon and roasting coffee was to be noted wafting around, high in the mountains above Penmachno.........
Cue several other Rhyl AND Clwyd Vale members now rolling up to the stage start and all being told to return after the rally had gone through, for a POST event BBQ! .......
.......... There then followed a lot of pretty noisy cars going past us over a couple of hours period, drivers & navigators of several of the vehicles being known to all at the stage start - and duly wished well on the stage.
Soon as the closing car had passed us, on went the BBQ again and stage marshals appeared from everywhere! ........ NOW who's'"stewpid" idea was it to bring the caravan along eh?????????? Where ELSE would you have stared 10lb of bacon & sausage (hygienically!) and about 5 loaves and crates of buns, for the butties????? (and that was just Dave's portion!) ......... and made tea & coffee for hoards?........

Caravan on a CAR Rally STILL such a daft idea hu?...... looks like other club members are now on the same wavelength as Sandra & I ...... Keith & Linda now take THIER caravan to events the night before too ........... and Jones the Paint is the latest to succumb to the idea, buying a caravan only a couple of weeks ago ready to "go on holiday" to the next rally! - We've upgraded to a camper van now (a bit easier for the old geriatric 'ere to handle!) and there's a rumour that Ped might even be acquiring a unit at some point soon...........
HEADLINE NEWS - 26/06/08
Roz 'n Ped have now aquired a mobile 38 berth bunkhouse on wheels (aka a Super Swift caravan) - there's the next prime candidates for Mull methinks?
bookings and bets for the "how many heffers can you get in a caravan at once" competition are now being taken.......

Whats this about Mez & Jen being up for Mull in a tent??....... is this just a "tale" or is there truth in the winds?
The Webmaster has heard stories that Baz & Claire are canvas freaks too, Claire being forever young.............. perhaps she'll talk him into seeing a rally from the "other side" one of these days?

If YOU fancy coming rally marshalling with us all with a caravan, or a tent (or even just sleeping in the back of a van if you're desperate!) then we'd love to have you join us! The next "camping expeditions are, MID WALES STAGES, in June, Isle of Man in July, Isle of Mull in October and (probably) the Cambrian in November. We usually go at least the day before an event (to help set up the stages if necessary) and have some sort of a BBQ or a couple of drinks & food of some sort the evening before and, if time allows, the evening after too.........
We go to bed at a reasonable time, and don't have to get up at stupid o'clock to get to the stage on the day of the event, 'cos we're already there!!
If it rains, we can dry out, if it's cold, we can warn up!

All stage team members are welcome to join us - it's a bit of a "social event" - why not join us on the next event?............
I suspect Kerry (Rhyl 6) might even persuade Rick to get their caravan out of mothballs and join us one of these days?........

Iain (Rhyl 4) & Sandra (Rhyl 5)
Arthur (Rhyl 1)
Keith & Linda (Rhyl 2)
"The Famous Five"
TEAM RHYL RADIO
(aka, Team Vagabond)