SCRAMBLE DOWNUNDER: The Final wash-up ...

[Doggy Digger]

Hi all,
Here's a few snippets, after book has finished its run.
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I printed 140 for Easter, plus a run-on of 60 a month ago.  It was a tonnage
of paper, and we solved the Sydney-to-Broadford issue by trucking the boxes
to GMC a week earlier.   Thanks Geoff :-)
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First guy to get one was whippet-quick Jeff KEEN, who got it by post, about ten days
before the Easter release date.   The latest to get one is Phil ELDRIDGE - a few days ago.
(About 18 left, and I'll take them out to CD9)
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To the west, went copies for Alison (of course!) ... and Graeme SMYTHE.  Several went
north to Qld.  (Shane W, Worms, S LEMON, M LYONS, IT400, T MAJOR ...)
And, to the east, one went over to Peter PLOEN in New Zealand.
He reported that his mates were crawling all over it. 
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By the Numbers:
Anton ALERS (Mornington) -       3 copies (One for his 1976 sponsor in Holland)
Blair HARLEY (Sydney) -            4 copies (One for Frank STANBOROUGH)
Tony CLARKE (Bendigo) -           3 copies
Rob SHOEMARK (Sydney)  -       2 copies
Dennis CURRAN (Melb)      -       3 copies (one for son of desert racer Graham SMITH, RIP)
Merv WHITELAW (Melb)      -      3 copies
Anthony GUNTER (the Gong) -    2 copies (one for Carl FULLER)
Tom CORNELISSEN (Koo-ee) -    2 copies (one for Qld-based Kiwi Graeme SWORD) 
Henry LEATHAM (Bairnsdale) -    2 copies (One for Trevor WILLIAMS)
STACKER extended family -        3 copies
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HONORARY FREE COPIES
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Gary O'BRIEN (Geelong) -          Vic A-Grader (He solved so many of my photo queries!)
John BURROWS (Adelaide) -       Aussie Champ, bike fettler and shop owner
Stan 'Sleepy' JONES (Narre) -    Aussie Champ, tuner and bike shop owner
Trevor FLOOD (Melb) -               Aussie Champ, tuner and bike shop owner
Jeff LEISK (WA) -                      Aussie Champ, bike dealer
Winston WYATT (Wang) -           1970s C-grader
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SUMMARY:
   It turned out to be a great way to add momentum to our Victorian MX Reunion
at Broadford Easter Bonanza.  Thanks again to Les, Barf, Hilly, Goof et al for
the immense three months of work they did on that never-to-be-repeated bonza event.
I believe that, because of the Reunion, there will be a good few dozen extra blokes
heading for CD9 for an extra dose of VMX.

   As I've said several times earler, I hope readers got enough out of book ...
seeing as it's heavily biased to 1969 thru 1976 Victorian race days.

   Thank you all for your support during my research, and for your enthusiasm
for the book.   I loved making it.

Hoping to see heaps of you at CD9   
                                                                 - Roger

[jerry]

Hear hear! J

[firko]

I'm honoured to have all five of Rogers amazing books....All four signed editions of Skidmarks, (including the ultra rare issue #1 of which only a dozen were printed) and the equally great Scrambles Downunder. I've also got a couple of copies of his great CD7 homage. Because of their content and limited distribution I reckon these books will eventually attain cult status (if they haven't already) and will before long begin to change hands for serious money.
Rogers eye for the quirky, weird and unusual is truly unique and our sport's a far richer place from him being a part of it .

[TeeBone]

Happily still thumbing through mine in the West - the more you look, the more you realise you haven't seen in previous flick throughs and the more the grey matter kicks in remembering.
I'd say Rog's books HAVE attained cult status and happy to have them all bar SKIDMARKS #1.

LOVE YA WORK, Rog!