Narromine Car Club Charity Show & Shine: Classic Restos - Series 47

than a delivery truck. If you want to call it that, then I'd put something about us, so I'll put my mom and dad on this side and my grandpa on the other side to give it a little bit of character. That is not another reason to talk about typifying the Australian, yes. That's exactly it, so when you acquired the vehicle, it was in poor condition? Mackerel, no, it was in a shocking way, it was just rusty. rusty rod, if you want to call it that, yeah, you got it up to the rails, obviously, you did a complete restoration from scratch, it had two, yeah, four, four, four thousand dollars, yes, everything, every little part, yes, and how did you go about finding parts for it?

What happened? I bought a two load trail trailer full of stuff, uh, from a bui parts coast break and did a lot of it too. You had to know that you can't get them all, but anyway, that's what I've done, I love it, uh, I guess the authenticity of the vehicle, as well as the signs that you've done here, I think that's really cute, Well, we had to put something in it to say that it gives it a bit of character. and you know, 1926 macro vehicle, uh, very agricultural by today's standards, what's it like to drive it?

Do you really enjoy it very much? You do it, but you have to work hard, you really have to work hard. because the full shock gearbox mechanical brakes uh and the gears you always sort them, you know you can't help it, but great, unless, like those days were, you have to drive them slow, but you know Pokémon is stable, do you remember in the past? The day the guys who had just come back from the horses drove this and thought it was hard work or do you think they possibly would have slipped into a luxury level?

Well, I don't think they would have thought they had a speed machine, but you know. I can get out of town in about half an hour. I'll be on horseback for half a day. You know, that will be the difference. You know, and I guess too. We mentioned mechanical brakes, but before that, well, they really have, they wouldn't have had anything to compare them to, wouldn't they taste exactly like the van that just had a handbrake, you see, so it has a footbrake and a handbrake, so it's not, it's not a fade, you know, yeah? maca, tell us where you go back to with the

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vehicles, probably around uh, I think, I think I bought the fx holden in around uh 72, I think that's how I came back, you've added that you've had a fancy restaurant before the old one, so I go, I went back there 72 I guess you know this, but my dad also had these kinds of cars.

See, like the Northbrook store, they had a Chef Four Tier Four truck, you know, and what's your first memory of one? When he was four years old, my father drove to the Northbrook store in the Sharepoint truck, you know, that was in the '50s, of course, and those things stick, right? Oh yeah, keep my word, my word, definitely, definitely, yeah, it takes you back to your father's day when you drive in this oh I guess it's a little yeah yeah that's how you gotta work harder so really you think about me driving concentrating too hard to keep it in the lane oh I could use Armstrong Steer and I'm telling you a big steering wheel, you need it too yeah yeah well I think it's wonderful what you've done here.

It's an Australian legacy, right? It really is and can be represented so well through our vehicles. tradition and when we like maca here we come back with familiar things like that, yeah, that's just uh, that's a very valuable thing, isn't it? Oh, my word, my word, very precious, you know that could work well, my um, considering this is another guys moment. to time people on

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rest days oh no I don't want to talk I can't talk well for a guy who can't talk you did great oh yeah good of you mate everyone gets along well , yeah, and it's been a It's a pleasure to interview you with the Buick here, uh, but before we go, I should have asked this question about three weeks ago, um, what powers it on the front, uh, it's 23 and a half horsepower strength, that's right, 23 and a half of water, my bull right on the lawnmower.

At home it has 22 and a half horsepower, it's incredible, isn't it? 92 horsepower, plus you don't have blades on a base plate that rotates underneath, that's probably what I need to see, what it's about, it's really interesting when we. We're digressing here, but we're talking about horsepower figures, but these days they had a lot of torque, it wasn't so much the horsepower number, but the torque and the gearing that got you going, right, buddy? ? They're all damn closed. those who are there, yes, yes, the huge mess, the amount of power in the old girl, yes, take a bend down the river, take the bend in the river, okay, maca, take care of yourself, friend, and great, catch up with you here at Naramon, thank you very much. lots of flech, it would be nice to do it with you too, thanks buddy when I was a kid, I love cars, I've been a motorsports enthusiast all my life, my life is hot rods, designing them, building them and racing them, hand built with a steel roof stainless.

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Good day, I'm roz, I'm from naramine, this is our tonner, yes, I had it for about 27 years. I bought it to put it to good use when we purchased our contract harvesting head. like our job and we got to the point where we had to change and put it in blocks and Steve said one day we could do it anyway, then the sun grew a little bit and he said, hey dad, let's go into this session and restore it and some time to think about it and um yeah around 03 they started tearing it all down little by little and removing it to support the chassis um yeah taxi engineer it was all just chassis that's it and yeah this ute means everything to us it's very special because yes, our son James and Steve, my husband, spent a lot of time and put a lot of love and effort into it and to this day.

Yes, both, I am very proud of both of them, of what they have done and we love it. James our son did all the welding on the tray, yes he put it together himself, he was probably only 16 years old. at that moment, um, the world that you know, a beautiful world, very precise, you know, you measure twice, you just don't measure once, you always measure twice to, um, get it right, but you know he's a big important part of this restoration. It's got a high quality Statesman front end, it's got a 253 engine, it's got four speeds on the floor, yeah, and it sounds good when you restore a vehicle like we have here, you know, you try to make it yours so it's different from everyone else's. , you want it. to be different and this has a statesman front a gts dash checkered plate tray trailing wheels um yeah some things like that you trade in and it's yours then and yeah we love it this wonderful massey ferguson tractor was bought new in 1957 and still owned by the same family today, these are the stories, along with many others, that you find when you travel to regional areas and on that note, I hope you really enjoyed this week's episode of classic remains. by the narrow minded car

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