cedric van heerden wrote:Hi David, That happens to me when I put either the caravan or bike trailer on the back of the Vito, the esky sits at the back and the ice for the esky is bought on our way out, back door won't open over hitch. You would think we would have learnt by now. Cedric
Cedric, the solution is so simple.... just don't hook up the caravan or trailer until you have the ice in the esky and everything else under control. You could even save fuel costs and make driving easier if you didn't hitch them up until after you got to your destination. The Vito is big enough that you could live in the back of it anyway. There's enough room in there for a swimming pool, a shed, and space to keep a pony.
Mark, its not that Cedric doesn't know what to do, but he is usually just so excited about going riding that he forgets things like the timing of the buying of the ice. Its like a stage production to watch. As the people who have seen the Van Heerden Brooweena DVD will know already, Pat even videoed Cedric loading the bikes for the trip down to Brooweena!
Another thing is that because of Cedrics admission about the esky, I now know why he once phoned me after he had arrived at an Easter 2-day trial to ask me to buy some ice for him on my way there - and that was not long after they bought the Vito.
I just thought about something else to do with Van Heerden cars/vans. Last weekend we had the Rocky Trials Club Inc breakup dinner and it is traditional to roast a few people for various things that happen during the year and one of them was for a Van Heerden speciality - the need for seemingly large numbers of vehicles to get places where most families only need one. They (four riders - Frank and Cedric Van Heerden and Tharyn and Rob Thomas) won the RTC Inc greenhouse emissions award for 2009 for travelling down from Gladstone to Conondale and back in four vehicles. Yes there were mitigating circumstances (babies, work call-outs etc etc etc) but it was an outstanding effort overall.
