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[masalai]

What it bloody well says - put it here dopey!

[masalai]

I was watchint the "Mt Panorama 1000" road race for supersedans or something - still booring but as a 'road race' a bit more interesting than watching similar care go found and round in a circle on a banked track (here, that is called "donuts" or a circus stunt called "wall of death")....

[Mychael]

Originally Posted by masalai

I was watchint the "Mt Panorama 1000" road race for supersedans or something - still booring but as a 'road race' a bit more interesting than watching similar care go found and round in a circle on a banked track (here, that is called "donuts" or a circus stunt called "wall of death")....

Now in this day and age I've never understood the "tribal" attitude of the Holden/Ford rednecks.
I mean today with globalisation what are they actually barracking for, the $20 plastic name badge?. If you got right into it the cars most likely share many components and in the case of the race cars the identical Hollinger gearbox.

In fact my mate who was quite high up in Holden back from the late fifties until the early eighties told me that ford used to let them use their spray paint booths over night and on weekends when Holden did not have the equipment to do a particular process. Holden used to reciprocate by giving help to Ford when needed.

Mychael

[Fanie]

35 deg C here in Pretoria. If you mix resin within 10 seconds and throw it at the boat it begins to set in mid-air You can pick up ready boiled eggs from under the cooked chickens if they lay in the sun here. Just switching the car on shows it's on temperature already. Oil viscosity is 10, not 40.

[Butch .H]

Same in PMB turned on the hosepipe and blew hot air at all the plants. Going to storm just now. Frgging Phillamons swiched the power off again.Nice in the 3rd world.

[thudpucker]

Well, up here it was so dry last summer the Bushes were following the Dogs around hoping they'd be the one the dog picked.

I like Dirt Track racing. The Circle tracks are actually ovals. It's one of those things you really should try...at least once...for the cheap thrills of it all.


Up here, we are losing Dirt tracks almost daily because of the Economy. Maybe it'l all come back some day but right now attendance and participation is pretty dismal.

[Fanie]

Same in PMB turned on the hosepipe and blew hot air at all the plants.

That's called steam cleanin'

Phew Thudpucker, so dry you take the boat to an oval eh !!

[masalai]

Wow, Beaut and everything is on topic - well I'll be ****** - (I hope when LL returns from overseas....

Mychael I am assured the differences are strictly cosmetic so I just watch for driver skill and humungus crashes (usually solo or 2 car events, Not the multi-car pileups on the banked oval surfaces - seems yanks can't even draw a circle????)....

My choice was rallying and hillclimbs in "small" cars - not SUV's or APC's, but I suppose a bit of novelty occasionally is fun - like lawnmower racing.... I still hold the record in racing ("time trials" after midnight on the night of the full moon after a "social nite on the town") around Penang Island 55 minutes - I think the distance was 47km or miles???? can't remember that far back - around 1966.... in a Sunbeam Alpine we put a V8 engine in....

[thudpucker]

We can draw circles, when we do get lines like that we cant stay inside of them. So they solved that by making ovals. Some of us like to go fast once in awhile.

In 65 or so the Aussies were changing the monetary system from Pounds, Pebbles and Ounces to the Decimal system.
I almost went down there to work in the business machine industry making the swapovers. I might have stayed down there for a very long time.

More than half the guys in America, if asked if they'd like to visit another country, would pick Austrailia. I did, but wound up in Alaska.

The Aussies made an odd rule about keeing your elbows in while driving....we cannot conform, It's just the way we are! Elbows out while driving on a nice summers day.

[masalai]

The young (and some older) retards still do the "elbow out thing" - the reason was quite a few accidents with severe arm squashing hehehe..... and seatbelts are compulsory or wear a fine and other penalties.... Drivers still need education as they feel/think they can multitask - most cant even drive.... even if they knew the road rules... let alone think, talk, gesticulate, smoke, eat, talk on the phone, check out chicks, wolf wistle or any of a number of things whilst driving a car.... Many need to wear a baseball cap so they know which way they are looking...........

When are you septics gonna catch up with the world and start using "metric" instead of miles, bushels, gallons, barrels, feet, PSI and a lot of other stuff inherited from the English and changes a bit so as to call it your own????? I accept the tradition of knots and nautical miles etc as that is part of the "tradition of the sea" - - - BUT time to catch up with the rest of the world and standardise.... Also your spelling needs a bit of "tradition" not yankee lazyness?????? hehehe

[freesail]

Haven't been back on this forum for a while, uni exams coming up very soon.

Anybody here an audiophile?

[Mychael]

Originally Posted by masalai

? can't remember that far back - around 1966.... in a Sunbeam Alpine we put a V8 engine in....

Then it's a Sunbeam Tiger if my memory serves me.
I claim allegiance to the Marque of Triumph, owning a 1958 TR3A.

Mychael

[Butch .H]

OOOH! Mychael (1958) Thems museum type dates bud .Mas has been a naughty bugger for a long long............time

[Fanie]

audiophile ? I know you used to get a dactaphile in the dynasaur age... you know, that huge flying bat thing... could be a mutant though. Smallest dynasaur is the clitaurus... said to be seriously dangerous to man, probably why big foot and big whatever they had back then, that was big, became extinct.

Mychael, it's spelled 'tricycle', not 'tr3a'

Eh Grumpa, better be naughty while the big boss is away. When she's back it's back to the streight and narrow for you.

[thudpucker]

Originally Posted by freesail

Haven't been back on this forum for a while, uni exams coming up very soon.

Anybody here an audiophile?

No, I'm a Republican!

I have a couple Apple Boxes of Cassete tapes of my kind of music, that I'd love to know how to input the music off the tapes into my Computer!
Do you know anything about that?