2025 Muster in Gilgandra

As it is tradition, the 4CV register meets every two years over the Easter weekend for their muster. This year, we all gathered at Gilgandra in country NSW for a weekend of fun and frivolities.
People started arriving on Thursday for initial exploration of the town and to do some last minute shopping for the Friday barbeque, considering that the shops would be closed on Friday.
Friday was the official registration with the collection of the show bag with the detailed program for the weekend. The day was spent with admiring engine bays, bling on cars and many conversations. The crowed grew steadily during the day and there were many topics to discuss. The evening was spent with a barbeque, again a long standing tradition of the musters.
Saturday started with the car display at the Cooee March Memorial Park. We shared the park with the Gilgandra Tractor & Machinery Club. They were holding their yearly Tractor Pull competition. So, everybody drove across the road from the motel and parked their cars. We tried to be in kind of an age parade, from about 21 4CVs to a couple of Dauphines, Caravelles, Florides, R8 and R10s, an R17 and old and a new Alpine and a Clio from all over Australia.

The Tractor Pull is a fine spectacle. The competing tractors are grouped based on age and performance. They are hooked onto a contraption with 3 one ton concrete blocks. The track the pull is performed on is a softish sawdust surface. The idea is to pull the contraption until the tractor can’t pull anymore.

Saturday night is also the biannual general meeting of the register, where the national coordinator provides his report, finances are presented and office bearers nominated and confirmed. The official part of over in just an hour.

On Sunday, we explored a bit of the countryside. We left for a little place called Gulargambone. The small town has twelve buildings with murals including the water tower with a Kingfisher. The other attraction is the Ghosts of the Bullocks Past, a sculpture showing 6 bullocks made of steel rod and recycled wire netting towing a wagon.

Then it was off to lunch including some bush mechanicing to keep cars going

The swap market was held and parts changes hands, before it all wrapped up.
Monday saw many packing up and starting the journey home. For some a run just up the road, for others a treck across half the country.

It was soo good to catch up with the register again, meeting old friends and making new ones. And now, the preparation for the 2027 occasion in Orange have started.

Until then, save motoring