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From: Noddy on 11 Jul 2010 10:17 "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:4c39d23d$0$11092$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > My problem isn't time but convincing the missus to spend that kind of cash > on any car when she would rather spend it on overseas travel:-) > A GT40 is a more realistic dream than the helicopter I really want but > what the hell, dreams are cheap:-) They are. It's the making them a reality that really hurts. Just ask Ozone :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Feral on 11 Jul 2010 16:31 D Walford wrote: > We had a HR and 2 HK's, I liked the HK's but hated the HR mainly because > IMO the HK's steered and handled so much better. I'm amazed you didn't tweak, and do what I did. Unless you got out of the HR before HK midnight spares were available. ;-) -- Take Care. ~~ Feral Al ( @..@) (\- :-P -/) ((.>__oo__<.)) ^^^ % ^^^
From: D Walford on 11 Jul 2010 19:02 On 12/07/2010 6:31 AM, Feral wrote: > D Walford wrote: > >> We had a HR and 2 HK's, I liked the HK's but hated the HR mainly because >> IMO the HK's steered and handled so much better. > > I'm amazed you didn't tweak, and do what I did. Unless you got out of > the HR before HK midnight spares were available. ;-) > Only had the HR for about 3 mths, I couldn't put up with it any longer but to be fair it was a badly neglected POS when I bought it for next to nothing. One of the HK's we owned was a Belmont wagon, very basic 161 3 on the tree but ultra reliable and a good car to drive for its day. Daryl
From: Noddy on 11 Jul 2010 23:18 " Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message news:4c3901e6$0$24370$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > Self allocated Christmas bonuses eh! Noooice I worked for a short time in a panel shop in North Melbourne in the 80's, and there used to be a guy who worked at Fisherman's Bend who owned the one and only FJ Holden station wagon in existence, and he used to drive it past the place every day. I knew he worked at Fisherman's Bend is because he called into the panel shop one day on his way home from Port Melbourne to get a quote on repainting the car. He'd apparently worked for GMH for 30 odd years, and was the tool room supervisor at the time. The car as I remember it was a bright yellow FJ wagon with white trim around the windows and tops of the doors, and it looked like a 4 door panel van with an after market window kit. It was a complete functioning wagon with a back seat and wagon specific rear doors. I don't know if it was mock up that was based on a van of if it was built specifically as a wagon, but it was a design concept that GMH were playing with in the early 1950's and it wasn't particularly pretty (which is why I guess there were never any production wagon versions) and they canned it. He bought the car for next to nothing when they shelved the idea, and had apparently been using it as his daily driver ever since. I have no idea whatever happened to it (or him) as I never saw it after I left the panel shop, but if it exists today it'd be a very rare and valuable car indeed. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 11 Jul 2010 23:21
"atec77" <atec77(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:i19p75$o8v$2(a)news.eternal-september.org... > My blue hr van had a power-glide and disks std I call bullshit on that, but if it *was* true it'd be a massive contradiction in terms. Putting a powerglide behind a stock red motor would make it slow enough to make the standard unassisted drums perfectly adequate :) -- Regards, Noddy. |