.....the old' you never know whats in some of these farm sheds around the country', comments we make at times just unfolded as a reality to me.....just been not to far from home to measure up a job and found a cooper 's' in an old stables with all kinds of shit stacked around it....not for sale....
I love those old PB speedos. I had one in OZ and went everywhere staring at the soeedo too. Love that red change as you entered danger country. (dodgy brakes) I painted it blue and white with a 4 inch brush and drove it for a year or so until I traded it in in a MGB. The car yard guy reckoned he was robbed when he took a close look at the paint but too late by then. On reflection, I was the one robbed as I entered the "interesting" world of MGB ownership.
The ''finny'' Mercedes 220 had a similar speedo - but it was vertical.I never got used to that.I always made sure I got a Vauxhall speedo to flip into the red on a road test.
My '29 Dodge's speedo had a horizontal band that rotated indicating the speed against a stationary pointer. Quite a nifty setup really.
I had a Holden Belmont wagon that had been somewhat modified with the addition of 4WD, a substantial chassis, turbo diesel and 5 speed box. Naturally it was on tall wheels. The Belmont was never known to be a wonderfully handling car and the above modifications didn't help. It was more like tacking a yacht and cornering required forethought and a bit of armstrong. One time I took the rear driveshaft out for repair and drove it as a front wheel drive. It was in that configuration I managed an uphill FWD smoke-off at the lights in Cook St. I guess you don't see many Belmonts performing those antics these days. Anyway the cave slave caught her thumb in the door, blamed the car and I had to sell it. I haven't missed it.
Yeah, the Belmont's handle like crap. I gotta Kingswood, tracks much better. Was your wagon blue UNNA?
There were a couple of hard case 4x4's that came out of Gordon's Nursery on Scenic Drive - they used a Gypsy chassis with a Rover V8,and put an A40 pickup body on it.There was another with a Westminster body...I don't know whether it was the same chassis rebodied or not,but I knew the guy who bought the A40,and thought he still had it at the time the Westminster was on the road.Hard case seeing a Westminster jacked up high.
No. My 4WD Belmont was Karitane brown with white steelie wheels. It sold to a guy in Whakatane and is probably a pile of ferrous oxide by now. Or maybe it has been remade into a Chinese scooter.
Yeah, the Belmont's handle like crap. I gotta Kingswood, tracks much better. Was your wagon blue UNNA? Oh yeah...the slightly higher level of trim and slightly bigger dinosaur motor surely aids handling ( I used to drive mummy HQ 253 Premier and the XA/XB's in the Post Office so I know what pieces of crap 70's Aussie cars were....at least Mummys had a LSD)
whats that..............your mummy did LSD?????????????
whats that..............your mummy did LSD????????????? How else do you explain oval steering wheel.....filler cap behind the number plate......and Orchid metalic paint.....lwith less than 20 mpg......yeah baby.
