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Old 24-10-2020, 05:50 AM   #271
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Love that pic of your Dad Charliewool, heres my ol boy at Muriwai Beach races, was timed at 107 mph. Really miss the smell of castor, Solos became a second level sport here in NZ when they replaced the cinders with clay at Western Springs.

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My old man also rode solos... First at Melbourne exhibition speedway and later at Maribyrnong’s Tracy’s speedway..
I remember a tale he told about a night at Melb. Ex. Speedway when the winners of the heats, then the semis, got to race Lionel Van Praag (the 1st Aussie world champ)
Dad was one of the 3 against Van Pragg.
Dad thought he got a great start, until Van pragg passed him in a shower of cinders on the first corner and disappeared into nowhere.. Lap 3, Van Pragg lapped the 3 of em, and went on to win by a lap and a half.. In a 4 LAP race!
Dad was riding a 4 stud JAP from memory after graduating from Rudges...
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We used to get Ole Olsen and Barry Briggs sometimes Ivan Mauger come to Western Springs in there off season, they used to do much the same as Van Pragg, gap the fast locals by a lap and a half, was cool to watch..
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My daughter is a Marine Biologist working in Broome.
Out for a walk along the beach when she saw a couple of "locals" spear this Saw Fish, then left it.
So her and her boyfriend loaded it into the car and took it home, it's going to be frozen and sent to a university in Perth that is studying them.
What a crying shame, these are on the "vulnerable" list.
At least researches will be able to get something out of it, it's death wasn't completely in vain.
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Been a little while since I've been out that way. There's been a heap of water in there for a few months now, but the recent rains have added some more, to the point that it has now covered the path in spots:

Not much change in the water level over the last two and a bit months. Maybe a little higher? Path is holding up pretty well given that it was only resurfaced a couple of weeks before the water came up, and has therefore been under water for at least 3 months now.

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A pic of my dad on his bike in Hungary in the late 40's early 50's?



Edit: Found another one



He's 90 now and lives across the road from us...
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Keeping in the vein of old bikes, here's my old man on a Harley 1975ish in Perth.
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Stopping for lunch. Nice shady park, clean toilets - been crossing my legs since Juno Pde!

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Dinner break. Back in Sydney 2AM approx.



Coil pack is definitely flaky, it’s got me there but will it make the return trip?
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Ole Olsen and Barry Briggs sometimes Ivan Mauger
As a young lad I had all their autographs.
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A random pic? They come randomly, every day


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Great brekky, nice cars.




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carrying on the bike theme my uncle had a great job in his retirement up in Nelson looking after a collection,bikes are all down in Invercargill these days.


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Something a bit more random,parked outside the watering hole the other day had this lovely old Brougham pull up behind me,thing was in fantastic nick.
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My old man also rode solos... First at Melbourne exhibition speedway and later at Maribyrnong’s Tracy’s speedway..
I remember a tale he told about a night at Melb. Ex. Speedway when the winners of the heats, then the semis, got to race Lionel Van Praag (the 1st Aussie world champ)
Dad was one of the 3 against Van Pragg.
Dad thought he got a great start, until Van pragg passed him in a shower of cinders on the first corner and disappeared into nowhere.. Lap 3, Van Pragg lapped the 3 of em, and went on to win by a lap and a half.. In a 4 LAP race!
Dad was riding a 4 stud JAP from memory after graduating from Rudges...
Random pic of dear old Dad (RIP mate!)
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Just wow you guys with the pics of your good ol Dads, great memories for youse to cherish and of the top Speedway days as mentioned.
My ol man was no rider as such buy an avid goer to the Sydney Showgrounds heydays for the company he worked for sponsered a bit, KLG spark plugs then Bars Leaks brand, he'd be handing over a trophy now and then from the infield.
He would drop us up to the members stand (never thought we were privildged, heck my brother and I were from 7-10yrs those days carrying on til the day it got closed :() but the greats were awesum to see as mentioned.
Ole as mentioned, what a fast rider, Ivan, well we all know what he did brilliant, our local Jim Airey gave the visiting riders a run for their money.
Billy !
The "Tests" back in those days imagine it now here.
Nigel Boocock, Peter Collins, Ove Fundin was another top rider, and Phil Crump from the memory banks.
Great great times when a young bloke, the dirt flying up smacking you in the face and bloody hurt ! the methanol fumes oh please give me more !
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A coupla of a little cactus that had never flowered in the several years we've had it and a nice bromeliad behind... ]
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carrying on the bike theme my uncle had a great job in his retirement up in Nelson looking after a collection,bikes are all down in Invercargill these days.
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thats john brittens bike , i think about five only made. and its value is very expensive. john britten designed and hand built the entire bike, i have the video, cast his own engine block, heads , everything. made the wheels, fairings ect,ect.

and its was very competitive against the factory ducati team, joey dunlop test rode the bike at one time, it was going to race in the T.T., isles or man race.
then john died of cancer, it was such a tragedy .
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how did my wifes 'friendly toy' end up there.
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Pilbara Mt Newman in the mid 80's.....actual accident but thankfully non-fatal.

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Pilbara Mt Newman in the mid 80's.....actual accident but thankfully non-fatal.
Hey DJR, out of curiosity, how does an accident like that happen? I'm going to assume that it was the driver of the truck that ran over the car and not the driver of the car running into the path of the truck. f that assumption is reasonable, then would it be safe to say that the dump truck was reversing at the time of the incident? Or was the car parked at the front of the dump truck, and hence obscured vision played a part in it?

Working at a brown coal fired power station with our own open cut mine, I'm well aware of incidents where vehicles have been flattened by the dredgers (and stackers) relocating, but that is primarily because of a significant number of blind spots.

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Are those cross-ply tyres?
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Hey DJR, out of curiosity, how does an accident like that happen? I'm going to assume that it was the driver of the truck that ran over the car and not the driver of the car running into the path of the truck. f that assumption is reasonable, then would it be safe to say that the dump truck was reversing at the time of the incident? Or was the car parked at the front of the dump truck, and hence obscured vision played a part in it?

Working at a brown coal fired power station with our own open cut mine, I'm well aware of incidents where vehicles have been flattened by the dredgers (and stackers) relocating, but that is primarily because of a significant number of blind spots.

Just curious.
believe it or not from what i saw back in them days it was usually the situation where the driver of the car/ute whatever has pulled up behind the dumpie where it cant be seen and goes talks to a near by operater ( usually the loader operator) dumpie is filled driver doesnt know car is there and backs up to leave , and there lies a crushed vehicle
they also didnt have the big see me flag antenas then eithet
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Hey DJR, out of curiosity, how does an accident like that happen? I'm going to assume that it was the driver of the truck that ran over the car and not the driver of the car running into the path of the truck. f that assumption is reasonable, then would it be safe to say that the dump truck was reversing at the time of the incident? Or was the car parked at the front of the dump truck, and hence obscured vision played a part in it?

Working at a brown coal fired power station with our own open cut mine, I'm well aware of incidents where vehicles have been flattened by the dredgers (and stackers) relocating, but that is primarily because of a significant number of blind spots.

Just curious.
If i remember correctly the Holden Ute was parked across the front of the Lectra Haul truck with a Trades Assistant sitting in it, the Tradie (AC Mechanic) was up in the cab of the running truck with the operator checking on the AC unit when operator moved the truck forward.

Apparently they didn't know the Ute was parked in front of it as the TA had dropped the Tradie off at the front of the truck by the stairs then took of to fill the water bottles up from the ice machine down at the mess, when he came back he went to park in the shade of the truck, which happened to be in front of it.

When the truck moved forward it rolled the ute over before driving the front wheels on to and over it, they stopped before the rear wheels went all the way over it, if the rear wheels had gone over it the TA would have had more than a broken collarbone and forearm to worry about, they pulled him out of the passenger side of the ute and out under the right side of the truck.

In the picture they had already started to move the Ute around to pull it out, prior to this it was laying at about 45° to the truck with the right hand side of the Ute body just under the right hand rear truck wheels, it's the only photo i can find of it now.

The investigation went on for ages with a lot of conflicting statements that resulted in some serious **** kicking and another book full of procedures implemented lol
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are drivers now required to always carry a change of underwear, but in that case that would have been the least of his worries.

Wonder if he stayed on working or found an easier way to make a living?
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Wonder if he stayed on working or found an easier way to make a living?
He stayed on but ended up working in the warehouse, he's still there today...
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I've whacked this one in here, as well as The Pub section on old matey's voting poll, anyway, came across this today, worthy of a spot here!! ..Brand new, Black and White Cabs, Toowoomba..


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If i remember correctly the Holden Ute was parked across the front of the Lectra Haul truck with a Trades Assistant sitting in it, the Tradie (AC Mechanic) was up in the cab of the running truck with the operator checking on the AC unit when operator moved the truck forward.

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Interesting picture of that crushed ute, I can recognize the shape of the HQ looking bonnet on that Holden but I've never seen a bash guard under the engine before on one. Certainly not a factory option.
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