Holy Jupiter, Batman! What a coincidence!

Last month we talked about Jowett Jupiters a bit after Neil T picked up a JWF Italia bodied jupiter to go with his original one. A lot of people have said "I don't really know what a Jupiter looks like". Lo and behold when we all rolled into Burra for the President's Trophy Trial, so did this Jowett Jupiter from Sydney, on its way to Perth for the National Jowett and Bradford Rally.

Casper

That was the name given to the ghostly undercoat grey Mark 7 of Ken Sratton. I heard from Steve Medlen tonight and he still has Casper. He sent over a couple of pictures. The first one was taken not long after Steve acquired it, still in its ProdSports guise.

The second one was taken at the Wagga Easter organised by fellow Wagga resident, Darrell Hunt. The hatch is the first one produced by Fibrecar while Steve was away in Malaysia with the RAAF.

Kapunda - week 8

Well, week 8 has been and gone really. And lots of nice cars have been and gone too, including a swag of Bolwells passing through Kapunda on their way to Burra and here's me with no camera. Well, I did have my phone I guess. So here's a couple of Nissans. They seem to be breezing through town on a regular basis.

Japanese version of the Giocattolo?

This is an early 80s Civic with a mid-mounted Legend V6.

I think it's a one-off.

Espana

This is our Nagari owning Spanish member. The other weekend he competed in two races at Jarama in his red Leon, coming second in each. As Mark Webber would say, "not bad for 79".

Quit Targa West 2010

Well, the Targa West has been run and won for another year, check the link. I'm just pointing out that the documentary will be shown on 7TWO at 2.00pm Saturday, October 2nd across Australia.

6 Hour

Today was a great day for the President's Trophy Trial, lots of Bolwells and the odd Clubbie, Cobra, Scimitar, 124 Spider and MX5, and a good lunch in Burra. However, I just happened to leave my camera on a table in the beer garden next door to the Indonesian restaurant so can't show you any photos until I can get it back. So, meanwhile, I never did show you our team for the 6-hour a few months ago. Nobody took any photos but Barry took a movie. Here's some stills straight off the TV screen.

It was a really wet day and our team of novices did well to to finish mid-field. 51 is Peter, about to go under a Sprite or Midget, 52 is John, 53 is Colin and 54 is Norm of course.
More details on the Pres' event as soon as I get my camera back.

Exclusivity

Apart from a love of red wine, what do these two men have in common that makes them unique and exclusive in the whole world?

Stewart Warner guages

Rob W from Launceston, with his very original Nagari coupe, is looking for a Stewart Warner battery guage and temp guage to make it even more original. Can anybody help?

930

Hey you Banana Bending Bolly owners. If you see this rather nice Porsche out and about, say g'day. It's my old friend Paul Tolcher.

McArlus Cars - 8

The new trailer.

I feel a little guilty with this update, because it has been designed by me, I didn’t make the trailer. 

I am however quite pleased with it.

Ken had given me an old enclosed trailer that I stripped down, but it really need a lot of work to get it going and registered, especially to the standard now accepted as minimum at McARLUS CARS!

As the cars get closer to completion, the last thing I was fancying was a spending a few months of spare time building a trailer.

I came across these people on ebay (again!) and ended up buying from them.

If anyone is interested it came from TrailerTec in Wodonga and cost me $3800 delivered to my door in Melbourne.

I’m really pleased with the result

Regards,

Simon

Kapunda - week 7

Storm damage, a giant red gum came down in our street. Even the mighty stobie pole is no match for the river red if it lands on it.

And this is an ACCO Inter. How often do you see one of these nowadays? Not too often unless you travel on the Freeling to Templers road where you'll never miss this one. Andrew and I had to go over to Owen the other day which takes us past this ACCO. Between here and Owen we could have bought 3 Bedfords all still with their grain bins but this is the only ACCO I've seen in ages. By the way, there was a nice '54 Chev in Owen and a beaut red TR4 in the main street through Hamley Bridge. All wheel drive ACCOs were very popular with the Australian army and later they were converted to camper trucks and primary producers' trucks. There's still this special kind of died in the wool International person in rural Australia, usually ex Inter salesmen and service people. There's even at least one Scout in Kapunda. What must they have thought when the European truck company Iveco bought International Australia in 1992? AND then in 2001 when they dropped the International name altogether.