the all aussie dribble thread!

[ausneil 1]

Wingham Expo

Another interesting vehicle on display. I followed this truck into the show ground, it must be heavy as it arrived on a bogey drive table top truck going very steady, it was a high load as well.

the young fella is my youngest son.

 

[splitpost]

Go the Gogomobile! Surprised the truck behind it didnt drive over it, the thing looks like it would fit underneath.

i wonder if he's got a spare fretz,
cool pics Neil,
them old Army trucks are beasts,the wifes uncle served and some of the stories he's told me about them trucks are just unreal

 

[ozflea]

Yes a fella from Greta my old hometown had a Gogomobile it was powered by a mighty 2 stroke and coloured white he used to drive around when i was a kid alright provided you weren't in a hurry or being chased by a coal truck i think they the gogomobile was made at the same time as another small car the Harnet another 2 stroke wonder of cause both cars were Australian made

Goggomobil Dart on race track - YouTube

Fifth Gear Goggomobil on Dragstrip 09 - YouTube

McBob.

 

[MCW]

Wingham Expo

look what was in the line up of old cars, trucks and machines on dissplay...

Never seen that at the shows or expo's before.

Hah hah. My old man had a Goggomobile when he was a teenager in the 60's. His was white. It was a Dart Mk 2 and was running a 600cc twin cylinder Puch motor. From what he said it was a piece of sh*t as the motor wasn't designed for warmer climates like Australia and kept overheating. He had to add extra oil to the fuel to keep it cool which kept doing the plugs in. Photo below plus a few others I found when I looked through a heap that I scanned for him about 10 years ago. The 850 Mini one was funny. He was driving to Alice Springs in the 60's when they got hit with a massive storm. The little Mini was going OK but the electric fuel pump shorted out when it got too much water. He ended up driving along with the fuel feeding from Jerry cans on the roof Also some piccys of the Ferret Scout Car he used to drive in the army (nasho). He was in Centurion tanks but the concussion from the main gun kept perforating his eardrums...

Anyway...

 

[derwoodii]

ha got a pic of my old man next that, to or a very simliar tropic of capricorn sign. I dunno what car, think its holden will have to find it now,,,sigh that means rumageing around for the photo albums & that means findin tons of stuff I,d lost or forgot I had ,,,,yup thanks MCW I'll be gone for days.

 

[ozflea]

Like the mini photos ............... mini's and water dont mix for every time a sparrow pissed the bloody things would stop

McBob.

 

[MCW]

Like the mini photos ............... mini's and water dont mix for every time a sparrow pissed the bloody things would stop

McBob.

Spot on there Bob. I ran later model Minis for years (1974 and 1976 Clubmans) and never had a problem but everybody else seemed to. Mine had worked over Cooper S motors though so I mightn't have been going slow enough for water to get in In fact I was probably too busy fixing busted engine mounts and stuffed CV joints from doing wheelies to even drive in the rain...

 

[ozflea]

Spot on there Bob. I ran later model Minis for years (1974 and 1976 Clubmans) and never had a problem but everybody else seemed to. Mine had worked over Cooper S motors though so I mightn't have been going slow enough for water to get in In fact I was probably too busy fixing busted engine mounts and stuffed CV joints from doing wheelies to even drive in the rain...

Even though i owned a few plus a clubman man they were terrible bloody things terrible to work on hated them liked Morris Minors better could do an engine change in 20 minutes and that included no engine lifter

 

[AUSSIE1]

Yesterday's job took me into the Tallangatta Valley. You wouldn't have any reason to go up there unless you lived in the valley, but it was a beaut drive.

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Later back out to Tallangatta and down to the Hume weir to let Axel stretch his legs.

From the roof of today's job up the Buffalo Valley. I didn't shoot up to lake Buffalo just up thev road as i had to head where there was phone reception so I could jump on the net to win my screen for the Beemer.

Those bluddy pines keeping an eye on me! Near where i did my logging training actually!

 

[ozflea]

Yesterday's job took me into the Tallangatta Valley. You wouldn't have any reason to go up there unless you lived in the valley, but it was a beaut drive.

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Later back out to Tallangatta and down to the Hume weir to let Axel stretch his legs.

From the roof of today's job up the Buffalo Valley. I didn't shoot up to lake Buffalo just up thev road as i had to head where there was phone reception so I could jump on the net to win my screen for the Beemer.

Those bluddy pines keeping an eye on me! Near where i did my logging training actually!

Nice country

Bob.

 

[tdi-rick]

Yesterday's job took me into the Tallangatta Valley. You wouldn't have any reason to go up there unless you lived in the valley, but it was a beaut drive.

[snip]
Those bluddy pines keeping an eye on me! Near where i did my logging training actually!

You've had a bucket load more rain than we've had Al, everything's hayed off here and we're looking pretty dry ATM, but then you do have winter dominant rainfall too (I think ?)

 

[AUSSIE1]

Nice country

Bob.

Yeah that it is Bob.

You've had a bucket load more rain than we've had Al, everything's hayed off here and we're looking pretty dry ATM, but then you do have winter dominant rainfall too (I think ?)

Yeah Rick, so much for our dry winter! Good rain mid to late winter with heavy down pours through spring and early summer.

 

[derwoodii]

Yesterday's job took me into the Tallangatta Valley. You wouldn't have any reason to go up there unless you lived in the valley, but it was a beaut drive.



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ohh man i,m there just there on the bend beside that willow its 1985 I got me rod a Jarvis walker Daiwa reel n me gun aww ma 10/22 fishin shootin bunnies and later i had me girl at the farm, sigh sadly she din't work out so good but 2 outta 3 not bad:msp_tongue:

 

[AUSSIE1]

ohh man i,m there just there on the bend beside that willow its 1985 I got me rod a Jarvis walker Daiwa reel n me gun aww ma 10/22 fishin shootin bunnies and later i had me girl at the farm, sigh sadly she din't work out so good but 2 outta 3 not bad:msp_tongue:

I'll have to carry the rod in the car. That would have to be excellent trout water.

 

[MCW]

Even though i owned a few plus a clubman man they were terrible bloody things terrible to work on hated them liked Morris Minors better could do an engine change in 20 minutes and that included no engine lifter

I lost count of how many times I had motors out, heads off, gearboxes off etc etc. I had custom made spanners, welded nuts on the engine mounts etc etc all to make it easier.
I ended up where I could have an engine out in about 45 minutes (or less) and a head off in 15. I loved those things but never again - I had more problems than you can poke a stick at and a near full race motor sounded cool at the time until it crapped itself at 27,000km with endless problems in between It used to lay rubber through first and second gear and use about 11L/100km driving nicely. Not good with a 25L tank The faster one also used to overheat in Summer so I ended up bypassing the heater and running an extra small radiator at the front to keep it cool (actually a Mazda 808 heater core).
Second time round I didn't quite go so stupid on the engine and managed to get a few extra km out of it before that one shat itself as well. I still have a soft spot for Minis but I'd never ever own one again. Unless a Cooper S came up for a steal.

 

[Nardoo]

Yesterday's job took me into the Tallangatta Valley. You wouldn't have any reason to go up there unless you lived in the valley, but it was a beaut drive.

Al, great photos! I grew up on the Hume Weir and isn't it great to see the water so high. Is that Ludlows or further up at Huon? And the Tallangatta Valley - my Dad was born in Tallangatta ninety years ago this year. His Mum and Dad ran the Koetong Hotel, well actually Grandma and his older sisters ran the pub and Grandpa ran the sawmill. I guess that is why I got interested in saws. My grandpa was a sawmiller and later, dad used to cart logs out of the high country.
And you are not going to believe this but after Koetong they moved to the Buffalo River and built a little house beside the old bridge at Nug Nug - just up from your pic. That was in the late twenties and years later, Dad used to point out the falling down shack to us when we were kids. What memories your pictures invoked Al, thank you.


Al.

 

[AUSSIE1]

Al, great photos! I grew up on the Hume Weir and isn't it great to see the water so high. Is that Ludlows or further up at Huon? And the Tallangatta Valley - my Dad was born in Tallangatta ninety years ago this year. His Mum and Dad ran the Koetong Hotel, well actually Grandma and his older sisters ran the pub and Grandpa ran the sawmill. I guess that is why I got interested in saws. My grandpa was a sawmiller and later, dad used to cart logs out of the high country.
And you are not going to believe this but after Koetong they moved to the Buffalo River and built a little house beside the old bridge at Nug Nug - just up from your pic. That was in the late twenties and years later, Dad used to point out the falling down shack to us when we were kids. What memories your pictures invoked Al, thank you.


Al.

My pleasure Al. Thanks for your post. Great reading.
On the Hume, I'm sitting near the caravan park actually in Tallangatta. Behind me are the houses. I used to stay at the Koetong pub when i was logging the pine in behind the pub. Pass through there plenty of times a year. Nug Nug, yep. Where's the old bridge? Was next to the current one? I can picture an old house quite clearly across the road into the Nug Nug caravan park. Where I worked today was only a couple of K's before there. That would have been "old Tallangatta" before it was shifted in the 50's where your father would have lived?

 

[AUSSIE1]

Well it had to happen and it's only the start with plenty to follow. Asylum boat boys sue Australia.

Asylum boat boys sue Australia - Yahoo!7 News

 

[Paddymelon]

Well it had to happen and it's only the start with plenty to follow. Asylum boat boys sue Australia.

Asylum boat boys sue Australia - Yahoo!7 News

Disgraceful...it really is embarrassing to be represented by such a government full of imbeciles, makes you want to leave the country sometimes...:msp_angry:

 

[AUSSIE1]

Disgraceful...it really is embarrassing to be represented by such a government full of imbeciles, makes you want to leave the country sometimes...:msp_angry:

Yeah we'll recycle those boats! Will take a few tubes of silastic tho!