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From: veritas on 19 Dec 2009 18:32 PhilD wrote: > I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and so far > the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car in any of > the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to the one that > has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden that look to be > either XR/XT and HD/HR. In ther foreground, it is a 'Madonna' ~ ~ Mother and child.
From: George W Frost on 19 Dec 2009 22:28 "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message news:4b2cd09a$0$99716$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... > > "George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:6s3Xm.63272$ze1.37131(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> That was an easy one for you Noddy > > Not really. My eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, and I couldn't > tell what kind of tail light was in the wagon. The black moulding on the > tailgate gave it away as an XT :) > >> The HD had the sort of pointed headlight cowling on the guard, whereas >> the HD was more flattened and sedate > > I think you mean the *HR* had the front guard edges flattened back. Sorry, I apologize, my misteak a typo on my part I did mean the HR >> They changed it , I think because everyone was dinging in the guard edge >> and it would cost a new guard to replace > > I remember (post model release as I'm not *that* old) the HD was heavily > criticised for it's front guards as many people considered them a danger > to pedestrians. The "knife edge" of the front gaurds was heavily > criticised and the press about the things was pretty negative at the time. > Holden hurried the HR into production to counter it, which is why the HD > had one of the shortest production runs of any new Holden (if not *the* > shortest). > > I can just remember as a young kid ( I would have been 3 or 4 at the time) > my old man buying a new "run-out" HD wagon as dealers were giving the > things away at the time because of their popularity (or lack of it). > >> the XT has the indicator bar in the taillight, as the XR had the small >> rounded shaped one > > They did indeed, but did you know that the XR Fairmont taillight was > unique to the Fairmont? They were a round light with a small indicator in > the centre like a regular XR light, but unlike the regular XR light the > Fairmont had a square indicator instead of a round one. Quite rare these > days and they fetch good money when they come up at swap meets on > occasion. > > The square indicator was taken from some US model (I can't remember which) > and fitted to the XR lamp to make the "Fairmont" unit. It was a pretty > insignificant change that most people didn't notice, and Ford learned a > lesson in cost cutting. From the XT onwards they got over themselves and > used a standard Falcon light in all models except the Fairlane and later > LTD. > > -- > Regards, > Noddy. > > >
From: George W Frost on 19 Dec 2009 22:30 " Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message news:4b2d3453$0$5421$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message > news:rS2Xm.63262$ze1.24463(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > : I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and so > far > : the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car in > any of > : the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to the one > that > : has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden that look to be > : either XR/XT and HD/HR. > : > : Can anyone give a better identification of either? > : > : http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/AA044.jpg > : > : > : PhilD > : > : > The Mini has green plates, what year where they introduced in QLD? > > The green plate is caused by mould growing from sitting outside the pub too long
From: George W Frost on 19 Dec 2009 22:31 "veritas" <veritas(a)jjgf.com> wrote in message news:hgjnq1$obg$1(a)aioe.org... > PhilD wrote: >> I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and so >> far the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car in >> any of the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to the >> one that has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden that >> look to be either XR/XT and HD/HR. > > > In ther foreground, it is a 'Madonna' ~ ~ Mother and child. so now we have a musical topic?
From: Richard Sherratt on 20 Dec 2009 01:26
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:32:19 +1100, D Walford <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote: >Noddy wrote: >> "George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:j93Xm.63265$ze1.53033(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> >>> Almost forgot >>> The truck is a 5 yard tipper >> >> A TK Beddy that looks pretty fresh. >> >> Jeez, if I had a buck for every time I had to pull the head off one of those >> things out through the gull wing service doors where there was *just* enough >> room to lift the enormously heavy head clear of it's studs under the floor >> I'd have about 9 bucks. > >I must have been lucky and avoided jobs like that. >I still laugh when I remember an older Bedford being towed into our >workshop and the driver saying it had a crook starter, no6 conrod had >punched a hole in the block and embedded itself in the starter on the >way out:-) Well, he was right. Just not the whole story :-) -- Regards. Richard. |