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Kennedy is a dope.   Nev

I wouldn't consider that more than a VERY cursory Coverage. All this stuff is a world market not necessarily for Tyre Kickers. Gary Cooper made the Elfin Clubman in South Australia in the 60s. Renmax in Sydney built nickel bronze welded space framed  Mid engined openwheeler cars  in lower quantity at the same time. Clubman racing was a CLASS like Formula Junior  Formula Ford and  Formula Vee and Tasman formula . COOPER Cars UK had their distinctively sprung open wheeler green cars up to the 2.5 liter Coventry Climax engined car and the Blue Brabhams were there to all in the running. The Clubman class was front engined and a live rear axle to provide a good entry level circuit and hill climb vehicle using the Ford Kent Motor and the Ubiquitous Triumph Herald front suspension used on all bar  the COOPER UK which had transverse leaf springs like some TQ rear engined Motorcycle engined cars which were surprisingly quick.  The LO COST appears to be a late US based entry to  the personalised basic  kit car rather than any serious circuit car. No doubt it won't be the last (clone) but I doubt it will ever be a CATERHAM. There was also a dutchbuilt car of somenote but I can't recall the Name at the moment. They are ALL very expensive these days.  Nev

Yes walking seems pretty SLOW doesn't it?  Nev

Time passes faster when you are having fun and very Slow if you have to hold your breath.  Nev

I'm a 24 Hour clock person. No AM/ PM confusion .ARC to time is easier too with your navigation. Nev

Call an early election and then lose about 12% of your vote. How do you build a government  based on THAT? Dog knows TASSIE Needs a good govt if any place does, NOW. Where did Rockliff spring from.? . IF he doesn't wake up to some reality, the gov't won't last 3 sittings. . Jacqui could stand to lose credibility through no Fault of her own IF she doesn't handle this situation with great Care. . Bad time to expand in the state  Gov't. Her Senate (Federal) seat is probably safe BUT who knows? She is well regarded by both Parties there but the Tassie Hordes might have other ideas, or more likely  NO IDEA. . I doubt Politics is top of the Hit Parade there. In the end you get what you deserve. Apathy precedes disaster. Get another coupla Glasses of Gin into you.  Nev

I think you can build any of them as a Kit car.  Nev

Read a bit about CATERHAMS,   Nev

Reynolds number isn't stamped on Chain  Links.  It's why a Jumbo sized Bumble bee will never fly. Nev

Flying around earth, Newton is all you need to be a safe pilot.. There's been some dickhead descriptions of how lift happens.  Nev

He's got more HIDE than A  Rhino sore arse. Nev

Yeah THEY are pretty Docile if you watch some of the clips of kids learning on them during the war with their "The GROUND Must be down there SOMEWHERE" Landings.   Nev

I've been offered quite a few rides in warplanes and have no intention of being over a town hoping  some engine part that has age hardened won't let me down. The Dh 60 VH-ULM worried me about it's  aged wooden  frame.  A newly Built Bleriot X1 would be fine at the right aerodrome. SLOW. Nev.

Remember when "WAS it Ronnie Barker" and the cleaning lady asked IF he'd ever suffered from Housemaids Knee?  Nev

Ice about 4000 metres thick covers it. Reddit have something, Australia easily fits in the area.   You can see remnants of the ANDES.  Nev

Small time compared to OUR Very OWN GINA. She's "WORTH"?? 36 Billion AUD. Nev

Took me a while to do that one. "Sniff" Bit nostalgic..   Nev

You'd have to be unnatural not to have a soft spot for steam. I did have a small steam engine but the temptation was too great to let the REAL roller pass  when it was sitting there steaming and sounding like a stove cooling., I think it was a Fowler.  I built MODEL planes too and one evening when I was playing tennis at Warners Bay I looked up and saw a DC6b winging it's way towards PNG and said "I wanna Drive one of those things". Well I didn't make it. I only got to fly a DC4/C54 to PNG but it was close and a big change from a Tiger Moth that I was Instructing People on at the time. Those days will never come again. I think we can be pretty sure of that. . It wasn't actually THAT safe.. (Till Jets came along).   Nev

Melbourne's Latitude is 36 South. Is that to the  sea ICE or to land?   Nev

A Commer VAN. !!  TAA used to have some of them. Small HILLMAN motor powered and narrow track made them easy to capsize. Most vans in those days used to crack at the bottom of the rear door corners.  Nev

No idea. I was too busy selling newspapers  to know these things and there were beaut things like Motorbikes and model planes to play with and Popular Mechanics to engage your mind  and a steam roller left out the front of the House with steam pressure still on the Gauges for Me to Drive if I got to it quick enough after the road workers left..  Nev

 A popular "desk toy" at one stage. If you replace the Hard balls with lead ones it won't work.. Nev

Most people live in the cities these days and there's no trend the other way very likely to change anything. Face reality. . Nev. 

Sometimes I feel a lot of the vehicles are now too rare and valuable to be raced after all this time of survival as I know it doesn't do them a lot of good and some of the Drivers are not that good either.  They are not the original drivers as they are all as old as me or dead. Also the people who had expertise on the older technology are thin on the ground and a lot of the restoration damages the original stuff rather than fixing it. Parts age harden and fail and a lot of that stuff is not made anymore.. I  was involved when the stuff was current and saw plenty of destruction then when you COULD buy it and it was an industry. and the development had a place in improving cars on the road. Now a few who can pay the high prices for ORIGINAL cars seek a relatively cheap way of having a brief moment of glory in things irreplaceable.  and can't see that it's not sustainable  and don't care that much or have any respect  for their rarity either. It comes and goes in waves and I've seen it over the years. With a it of organisation  reproduction things can be made new but in all racing those who've been there and were part of it know a lot of rule bending makes speed kings of many of us. The clubman racer and back yard artisan who can beat the newer stuff for a while are long gone. It's Super high tech that even a lot of Auto makes cannot afford to be in  and drivers and team managers getting unbelievable figures  for the skills they have.. I had lots of fun while it lasted back then but it was when many of the Mods people did ended up in production vehicles in later  improved versions of the Family car which were by and Large pretty BAD in many ways.  Nev

That's what you do when you are a KING. Like the "Golden RULE" Those who have all the Gold Make ALL the rules. and IF you are into music HE who PAYS the PIPER CALLS the TUNE. .   Nev