Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Islander,
Islander, that’s the REAL Jackson Bay. From a Big O perspective, you know, as South as you can drive on the Coast.
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Jackson Bay. Nice tree, nice place. Seems to co-exist OK with an embedded cabbage tree.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Some flora in Vanuatu – I have no idea what these are .
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to James Butler,
The other way around I think – the wipers sped up when one eased off the gas.
Correction on my part James, you're absolutely right. It seems the hose is popping off the inlet manifold of my memory. That'd explain those recollections of crawling through a Queensland downpour just so I could see through the windscreen, cos when you put your foot down the wipers slowed to a crawl.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to James Butler,
The other way around I think – the wipers sped up when one eased off the gas.
You’re right, some did, though not my FC ute. Of course it was a heap when I bought it, but I still feel guilty about driving it into the ground.
Here’s the original model for the Holden ad, from the era when Holdens were scaled-down Chevys, and Australians were scaled-down Americans.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to merc,
Nothing does gravel like a Holden but
Pie & sauce mate.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Just for you, my old Holden.
That looks like the first Holden with electric wipers. Prior to that they still had those dreadful vacuum jobs that ran off suction from the intake manifold. When you took your foot off the gas pedal not only did the car slow down, the wipers did too, regardless of the weather.
Most British and American cars had electric wipers for around a decade before Holden. Those Australians, they'll happily eat sawdust provided they can have tomato sauce with it.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
Great pic Robert. Those things were known as univeral carriers, or more commonly in NZ, bren gun carriers. An awful lot of them seem to have been flogged off to civilians after WW2. I remember a few derelict ones from my youth, but never saw a live one running. Here's a shot from a local wartime factory.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
They don’t make ’em like Marilyn Waring any more.
Nanaia Mahuta has crossed the floor.
Sofie, I had female National MPs in mind there.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
The day Nikki Kaye crosses the floor on anything . . .
They don't make 'em like Marilyn Waring any more.
