Friday, October 11, 2013

No, Graham, it wasn't me.

I'm not THAT reckless! Besides, my RR days are over for the time being.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Drive my Zee (I've turned American).


Little ships.

I've just been reading this pictorial account of a couple of Canberra blokes who drove a Fiat Multipla from Australia to England in 1969. This is how the car travelled from Sri Lanka to India.
It reminds me of when Trish sent her Mark 7 over from Hobart. It came on a very small boat and when it arrived in Port Adelaide they slung it up onto the wharf in exactly the same manner. That's the 7 Brian Deckert now has.

No worries about LHD or RHD.


Simply the best.

The very best Nagari sports IMHO.
Get well soon Jim.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Torana ute.

That'd do me!
And while we're at it......a Torana sports.

Kapunda - Week 69

Model T Fords spent a week in the Barossa.
There were 118 of them at Dutton Park.
Here's one outside the Sir John.
David Gibb's photo.

After 17 years in storage....

.....the Cociani coupe comes home this weekend.
I know that flat bed!
I wonder what this means.


Monday, October 7, 2013

"Coca Cola" Yellow.

The Nagari's original deep yellow was always called Coca Cola yellow in my circles because it was the colour of Coke trucks. Everyone tells me that those trucks were always red. My memory takes me back to the 50s when they were definately yellow and here's proof. Micro Models' International Coke truck was certainly "Coca Cola yellow".
And here's a real one from the mid 30s (Ford).

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Kapunda - Week 68.

My neighbour's 12' caravan ready to set off on its maiden trip after a 5 year rebuild. Not a long trip but a shake-down cruise to Clare for the long weekend.

Friday, October 4, 2013

A crack in the windscreen.


Studio shot.

Here's a pic from Phil's photo shoot.
Smart looking unit.
I'm harking back to when I had a studio like that with all the edges rounded off to create oblivion. Doing it on the cheap, for the corners we took a mould from half of a giant beach ball. If the studio was white, you could bet the next job would require black walls and floor. So out would come the black paint and the rollers on long poles. It used to get repainted weekly on average.
Here's a studio shot of Roger's 7 at Orange Lane.