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Who makes them in OZ?
I havent started on a linkage set up yet and the fb ek forum has been a great help thanks!
i play with the old greys regularly and have been told that Chrysler industrial flat heads and Kew crankshafts have the same bearing spacing and...
Bellos Customs chopped and taildragged a nice one
Sorry OzMerc memory lane reply’s to your thread, hope we haven’t taken it too far off track[IMG] My 2 XM vans at picnic point circa 1991
Haha closer again Dad was a flight engineer for Qantas and my father-in-law a welder at Qantas, at the same time as Warren and I think Warren may...
We may have been closer than you think ... I started out as a pastry cook and worked for a few years at Cronulla pie shop! They all called me...
Sunbeam?
An easy one for us was to head to Kurnell , it’s Australia’s “Plymouth Rock” except instead of making it a national monument , the Aussie...
Nice place to live, I lived at Thirroul for 7 years and spent my early years surfing the south coast,,, beautiful beaches and a great car...
Sounds like we grew up in southern Sydney at the same time, ( I’m a Bankstown boy) every car I bought got older and older and in worse and worse...
The gas company’s mix tolulene (paint thinners)and other solvents in and out of gas to extend it and to compensate for temperatures,, put that on...
It’s a natural progression as a car guy to get to hotrods, I started with Morris minors in the late 80s then 50s and 60s Gm and fords then rods,,,...
Nice looking tudor
Makes Lazze s sheet metal course worthwhile,,, I was booked in late last year to come over and learn from the best but COVID killed that idea! ,...
I’m lucky I suppose as I work in essential services so the slowdown didn’t affect me, although mid lockdown I was offered a similar job with a 7 x...
I couldn’t afford the 2 34 coupes that I was offered at a good Australian price some 20 yrs ago( about the same as you guys are paying for a good...
[ATTACH]Aussie 34 roadster less than 1000 made and not many V8s ( I’ve been told less than a third were 8s) internet photo
There was a restored Stanley steamer in my area when I was growing up, I was the only kid in the early 80s who knew what it was , I remember it...
I feel your pain , I lost Mum last year , it gets easier every day , but you never stop seeing them in your kids and your dreams, think of the...
Like 49 said ..... let them post,,, help them with info and you just may spark some interest in keeping or finding out more about old cars ,,,...
Nice work, nice shed just don’t get caught up in the us vs them streetrod stuff,,,, it’s a fashion , the nostalgia scene guys were building, pro...
It’s an avatar,,,, not an advertisement with a phone number or website attached mines bowling ball , Idont often have people trying to stick...
The most customized Aussie car in our history, reinterpreted /butchered as a custom in the 90s and I remember when that butt ugly car came out, it...
I’d have left your name the same , you do nice work and find cool stuff ,I sold you the blower and Qc and have followed your builds and finds...
[ATTACH]one for sale over here in Oz $1200 , a little too pricey for me
You can not and I mean cannot beat the Americans for their hospitality, I’d love to say the Aussies are just as good , but we are a very close...
Hahaha no one and I mean no one down here drinks Fosters! They must have brewed 1 batch in the 70s and we are still trying to get rid of it overseas
I Have associated with a few clubs in the past and heard all the bitchin and politics, so I just run with a few like minded buddies, and we stay...
I give it a big thumbs up from down under! Keep up the good work Matt!
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