The Random thought thread

[onetrack]

I bought a 13.5KVa 3 cyl Lister generator off a bloke in the Northern suburbs. When I went to pick it up, I found he was a hot rod parts specialist, a hot rod builder, a car importer and general wheeler-dealer in anything American and classic design. He said COVID kicked his business in the bum, it started to pick up again, then the shipping costs went ballistic, so he's winding the business down.

 

He was in a large rented factory/warehouse (I think it was 2 units combined), and he tried to buy it off the old lady that owned it a number of years ago, but she wouldn't sell.

Unbeknowns to him, there was a big family squabble over who was preparing to get what, after she died - so she sold everything and cashed in, and is just going to divvy up her estate in cash inheritances. 

 

So, the new owner of the factory/warehouse wants to move in, and he has to get out. The bloke says he's built a new factory unit of his own, not too far away, so he's not overly stressed out about the eviction.

 

But he's having a cleanout as part of the move, and the winding down. One of his cars for sale is this 1958 Buick, a classic piece of American overindulgence. It looks like it's sold, and it was only advertised a couple of days ago.

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1313503580780180

[facthunter]

98years old. Looks good for an unrestored. IF you want one.  Nev

[onetrack]

Ahhh, I make the Buick 67 yrs old, Nev, I don't know how you got 98 yrs old. He does have quite a number of early 1930's Fords in the factory unit, mostly roadster style, I'm not sure if they were repro's or original bodies. The Americans knock out a huge number of 1930's repro hot rod bodies. He did mention he had a stack of 1957 Chev parts as well.

 

One of the interesting things he said was, he went to all the car show gatherings with a stall - and people would come up to him and say, "I've got an old car in the shed, would you be interested in buying it?"

He claimed he scored a lot of vintage cars in that manner, and people would sell them to him, whereas they wouldn't sell the vehicle to a casual inquirer - because he was in that line of business.

 

But I would think people would sell to him because he may have offered more money than a casual inquirer, and sellers would know he had the funds, rather than just being a tyre kicker, or someone scheming out a get-rich-quick scheme by acquiring a vintage car for a low figure.

 

I used to score a lot of vintage cars for a song by contracting for farmers. I had access to every back paddock on farms once I was there, and found a lot of amazing vehicles. Two that come to mind are a 1932 Model B Ford V8 roadster (genuine original, not cut down into a ute), and a 1930 Model A Ford coupe, an Australian built model.

 

The Australian-built 1930 Model A Ford coupe was different to the American-built ones as Ford didn't have the big presses here in 1930, that they had in America. The American coupe had an all steel roof and steel doors.

The Australian coupe followed the older style of construction with a fixed roof made from wooden strips overlaid with canvas, that was painted with a bituminous paint. It had wooden-framed doors that were full height.

The 1930 Model A coupe is so rare that the Ford collector bloke I acquired it for, who was in his 60's in the 1970's, said he had only ever seen one in his life, it belonged to a doctor when he was young bloke and it was fairly new. He was over the moon when I bought it for him, he owned 45 Ford cars, all between 1928 and 1935 and he had every body style for every year - except for the 1930 Model A coupe.

 

I'm spewing now, that I sold the 1932 Ford Model B V8 for $600 about 1983, when I needed some money. I could nearly retire on what they bring today, even unrestored (if there's any left unrestored).

 

When I was living and working in the W.A. Goldfields in the mid-1970's, there was an old bloke in Kalgoorlie who still drove into and around town in a 1932 Ford Model B roadster, completely original.

[facthunter]

I was referring to the 27 Olds O/T.  The Buick is of a style I never got addicted to   though they were a "class" car. Packards  I like and I'd have anything with Shelby  on it. Later It's Lotus .Nev

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14770943/Labor-building-tax-dirty-concrete-steel.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia

[ClintonB]

A 1935 Dodge Coupe pulled up next to me and son in law at Dan Murphy's the other day, I was on full rego plates and they were the old black with white writing NSW ones so it had been on the road for a long time.

Nice to see at 90 years young this stuff is still out there. Original cream and Brown 2 tone paint, not hot rodded in the least.

 

[onetrack]

This International C-1 ute appeared on FB in mid-March 2025, it was located South of Perth at Donnybrook. What an incredible survivor. It sold within about 3 days. I've only ever seen about 3 of them.

 

The 1/2 ton C-1 was only built for three years by IHC, but they still managed to produce 76,820 of them!

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3985338768364897

 

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1937-international-c1-pickup.htm

 

Edited June 4 by onetrack

[red750]

Dermott Brereton has said that due to the numerous injuries he suffered during his playing career with Hawthorn, he can no longer put his socks and shoes on. His wife has to do it for him.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Here's the article: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/i-just-can-t-put-on-shoes-and-socks-dermott-brereton-s-crippling-legacy-20250606-p5m5ig.html

 

And he says we would do it again, but go harder..

 

Definitely one in a million that attracted a lot of heat

[Jerry_Atrick]

Still considered the best grand final ever, look at what happens to "Dermie" on the first bounce: 

 

[ClintonB]

I just looked at brain teaser forum, according to last read post I looked at it in May 2024,where the hell has a year gone, i looked at another one without checking dates  and thought WTF, yenn  and old Korella had posted on it, over 3 years ago. 
this sucks losing time like this. I’ve got so much to do and it seems like so little time to do it.

 

[spacesailor]

Welcome to my world .

It's getting faster as I'm getting older .

It takes twice as long to get my socks on , or walk a  couple K's.

Than it did , before you were born .   LoL

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

My theory is as one ages, a unit of time (say a minute) represents an ever decreasing percentage of ones life time, which results in the perception of time moving so quickly as one gets older.

 

How's that for a random thought?

 

[red750]

59 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

 

It takes twice as long to get my socks on , or walk a  couple K's.

Than it did , before you were born .   LoL

You can get a sock slider

[red750]

You can get a sock slider. I have one.

 

 

[spacesailor]

Check the angle of his hips !.

I couldn't manage the slider as there wasn't any leg strength to push the foot forward .

Also I did enjoy the attention.  LoL

Nice new hip ! , so no attention. 

spacesailor

[red750]

Monash Uni have stuffed up another embryo implant. Kind of ironic that they are conducting an internal investigation.

[red750]

Here's a radical thought for the Random Thought thread.

 

Instead of those Buy One, Get One More ads, why not Buy One, Pay Half the Price?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Its not the supermarkets or stores that are stumping up the buy one get one free.. It is the suppliers that are paying for the promotion (unless a store has a slow seller that is costing them to keep). The suppliers want to attract people to their product and behavioural economics (which is a fancy term for the psychology of selling) has realised that more people will react for to getting more items for their money than saving money on a single item.

 

If you're with a mate, and there are two drinks or choccies for the price of one, you are likely to shout your mate because it will cost you the same. Your mate feels good, you feel good, and you've paid the same as it was 50% off.. but you don't care that you paid it, because you were buying one anyway. If you buy two at 50% off each, for some reason it doesn't have that same feel good factor because you know you are spending more than you have to for yourself, and your mate knows it too, so if he is not as enamoured with that particular drink/choccie, he is likely to buy something else for himself.

 

Given the idea is to get your product to more people, or have the same people enjoy it for more time and therefore more exposure and if they like it, will buy more of it at full price, it is often more effevitve in their aim of selling more on a sustained basis than simply reducing the price of one

[spacesailor]

 But !.

To buy one. Even if you don't need a second one is a waste , if you dicard that freebie to the rubbish bin .

 

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

There is an old saying that was attributed to a prominent eary US food entrepreneur (Kraft?), but turns out to be a general response to the massive amouunt of food waste in western countries, especially the USA, "I make more money from the food consumers waste at the bottom of the jar, than they eat"..

 

The amount of food waste befire the "multi-buy" promotions kicked in was massive, and I am not sure these multi-buys have increased it. I am guessing they would more increase obesity levels..