Bum Steer

It wasn't a Morris Marshall at all. Change that to Morris Major series 1.

Clemente's new wheels

Norm calls it the new car, I call it the new Clemente. Anyway, they've specifically designed and had made the first batch of 60 wheels. Very impressive.

Zeta grille

This is the early Zeta runabout grille.

It's actually the 6-cyl Morris Marshall grille turned upside down.
This is a Morris Marshall, for sale on the What's in your paddock? site.

Maybe it's not upside down.
I only mentioned it because Immanuel Hansen was looking for a Morris Marshall grille. It turned out he needed it for his Zeta. When asked which model Zeta he had he said "the ugly one". Luckily I knew he had the early model. By the way, has anybody found a wheel yet?
Now here's something that could make or break a marriage.

A honeymoon in a Zeta.

Nothing is new No. 3.

Covini C6W

Too late, Ken Tyrrell thought of that yearts ago.

But Tyrrell weren't the only ones in Formula One with 6-wheelers. Williams and March had a dabble too.

Two JWF Milanos on Carpoint at the same time.

Here's the first.
http://ninemsn.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/private/details.aspx?Cr=0&R=10855543&keywords=&trecs=2&__Ns=pCar_RankSort_Int32|1||pCar_Price_Decimal|1||pCar_Make_String|0||pCar_Model_String|0&__sid=1310090BC8D4&__Nne=15&__Qpb=1&seot=1&__N=1216%201246%201247%201252%201282%204294692791&silo=1011
And the other.
http://ninemsn.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/private/details.aspx?Cr=1&R=10822281&keywords=&trecs=2&__Ns=pCar_RankSort_Int32|1||pCar_Price_Decimal|1||pCar_Make_String|0||pCar_Model_String|0&__sid=1310090BC8D4&__Nne=15&__Qpb=1&seot=1&__N=1216%201246%201247%201252%201282%204294692791&silo=1011
While my preference would have to be for a Zephyr powered one, look at the pedigree of John Scott's MG Milano - first owner Bruce Leer, followed by Moss Angliss.

South Australian Clubperson of the Year.

Goodonya Beven.

McArlus Cars - 26 - Body painted.

Well it’s been a big week at my place this last week, and yesterday it got a little bigger.

The painter called to say the body was ready, and to please pick it up!

It has come out really well. All of the joins and marks have been tidied up nicely, and it has had a 2 pack finish in “Octane”, a color that came out as an option on Falcons a year or two ago, and matches almost exactly the models that I have of the real Mclaren Can Am cars.

The painter has taken a few in progress shots, which I’ll forward when I get them, in the meantime here’s some pictures of the body back at home.

I need to get busy and put it all back together!

Simon.

The Ian Boughton JWF Italia

Hello John,
                     You might be amused by the attached snap of my father's first "project" car - a JWF ITALA. Sorry about the dodgy shot - the photo is framed behind glass and hanging on the shed wall. Dad built this car in Darwin over three years,1962 to 1965. He used a singer 4AD chassis, Holden grey engine with brass bodied triple SU's which he liberated from an Alvis Silver Eagle derelict in the town dump. Originally it was metallic gold with black seats with red strip in the centre of the seats. Dad did a tricky graft job cutting and shutting the Holden and Singer bellhousings so that he could run the Singer box behind the grey. The old girl reputedly clocked 103mph. It may not have been the fastest car in town, but it looked the "fastest"! The brakes were dodgy as father had not got the master cylinder to slave cylinder ratios right - remember, he was 26 and it was his first project! Dad was posted to Point Cook in '66 and he traded the Holden special on a second hand Holden station wagon. The triple SU's weren't part of the trade as they ended up on the old station wagon!

Dad and I have often wondered if the old special has survived.

Regards,

Brett Boughton
Perth

Good lighting in the shed Brett. There's a task for the Darwinites. Tracking down the Italia. Plus, maybe, some Alvis Silver Eagle bits.

A few other Zetas in Museums.

This one is at Ruston's rose garden in Renmark.

 Birdwood has two types of Zeta runabout. This type.....

and this one, a later and much tidier version.

One of them is going through a refurbishment/restoration at the Mill at present and they are in need of something to finish it off. That something is one of those 12" wheels that seem to be elusive. What is there about 12" wheels? They're also chasing one for a 120Y they're doing - slightly different width.
Then there's the green sports.

While we're in a Lightburn mood, here's an ad for the old heavy duty washing machine.

I've noticed you can still buy a new Lightburn concrete mixer although I'm sure someone has purchased the name and the trademark and bringing in Chinese versions. They certainly won't be made at Camden. The old factory site became a housing estate although the EPA are still messing around with the soil down there.

Collections in America.

All sorts of things crop up in American collections. Look at Bruce Weiner's Microcar Museum in Madison, Georgia. The place is chockers with all these "little" cars, enough to make Ian Wilson jealous I'll bet.....and check this out, not one Dart, but a couple.

Oops, make that three.
Zetas too.

At the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, California, lo and behold, an old Melbourne tram.

Over at Houston, Texas, the Booker-Lowe Art Gallery is not the only gallery in the United States dedicated to Australian Aboriginal art.

When I was a very young bloke, along with my dad, I had a job as a stockman (BYOH) at the Gepps Cross Abattoirs. It was mainly chasing decrepit old animals into the boiling down works to be turned into soap and drafting train loads of brumbies which were popular at the time for dog meat. Anyway, one day a train came in loaded with camels from the outback. They had been bought by some camel collector in Texas and if I remember correctly they were "pink dromedaries" and Australia was the only country where they still existed.

Anyway they were all despatched to the US. Well, all except one. Somehow one young one was left behind so we took him home. He lived then in our stable yard at Fullarton until one day a woman was hanging her washing out in the flats next door and Ahab put his head over the fence to say good morning. She rang the Unley cops and they rang the council and before long the dog catcher turns up to go crook about an unregistered camel and poor old Ahab ended up at Monarto. Anyway, the point I was making was that Americans will collect anything.

There are no Bolwells in America that I know of. There was one in California but that has returned to Australia (the wide bodied one) and that now resides in New South Wales. I have not heard of any JWFs over there either. However, Roo's Buchanan lives in Oregon and races in Historic events on the West Coast.

Tribute to Philip Bradey

Philip died suddenly the other day of pneumonia in hospital. He would have only been in his 40s. Extremely well known for his exploits in the ex Prince Bira MG K3 as was his dad, Peter (co-builder of the Lasos sports cars) and his dad, Tom, before him. What Philip didn't know about pre-selector gearboxes wasn't worth knowing. Tony Parkinson has come up with this YouTube lap of Lobethal as a tribute.
 

Is this why Mark wants his pilot's licence?