I Trust everyone knows the comfort inn at hay burnt down.we were booked in and only just found out about it.

bugger

was on Jan 11th, you'd have expected anyone booked in there would be notified, but I guess not

http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/11-fire-trucks-extinguish-hay-motel-fire/1721998.aspx

Yeah. How hard is it to open the book at the front desk and give people a call....Oh wait...

You just can't get decent service anywhere these days......................

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

Nasty... real kick in the guts for such a small, tight knit community. I remember as a kid the footy club in Burra was built over several years with great input from everyone in the community - a few months later it was burned down - along with all the trophies and memorabilia of many years of local sports - rebuilt it but it took a while and didn't do much for morale.

On the upside, how did they manage to get ELEVEN fire appliances and a big f-off tanker to Hay? Hats off to the CFA boys! (How's that for decent service!) Those guys from Griffith and Deniliquin must have really been flying across the plains! (though I'm guessing they wouldn't see a fire this big very often...)

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Dave - 64 Nurburg White Morris 850 & 67 Morris Mini Deluxe (Bro's Car)
Previous Rides - 62 Morris 850 (Sold '03 - Now 'Lulu-62') & 76 Clubman S (Sold '99 - SFW-863)
+ Too many other classics

Not long since the new Hay High School has been opened since it was partialy burnt down.

Didn't the golf club with all the mini memorabilia burn a few years ago???

Ian

I should really confirm my room at the Cobb Inlander before they and other motels take up the ones who would normally stay at the comfort in.

I guess I could always sleep in Simon's tent... that really would be worst case scenario.

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Yep - 30 years worth of Mini Nationals memorabilia gone.

The new club just doesn't have the same character.

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Julie.............

About as bad as sleeping out there in the back of a mini, which is what I did in '72 I think.
Parked in the MCCSA tent on the old motorkhana site. I like to think it was to provide security, but actually I was too tightarsed to pay for a room.

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.