Don and Bronte were amongst the
few of us who chose to linger a little longer
at Old Dadswell Town, so on Sunday night
we made ourselves comfy on the lounges
by the fire to talk more about the caravan
and the car. Don told me that they had
bought the 1953 Clipper two and a half
years ago and had spent the next twelve
months restoring it.
“We originally got into the vintage
caravans through our involvement with
the Murray Mallee Auto Club”, Don told
me. “At a lot of the car club functions
people used them for accommodation.
It was really John and Christine Hunter
who got us into it. We had wanted one
for a long time, but it had to be the right
one”, explained Don. “When the right one
came up, we nabbed it!”
They found the van in Beaufort,
Victoria, which is one of the lovely little
towns near Ballarat that I had travelled
through on my way to Old Dadswell Town.
Don Tamblyn and Bronte Elliott live in the
oddly named town of Younghusband on
the banks of the Murray River in South
Australia. It is about an hour and a half
west of Adelaide and about five hundred
kilometres away from Beaufort, Victoria.
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