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Take Me For A Ride
Feb. 10th, 2021 11:18 pmAn interview this morning, then a little road trip up to the NSW Central Coast
Stopping in at Pie In The Sky, on the old Pacific Highway, for a late brunch, there were a few classic cars out for a drive...
Hrundi V. Bakshi was obviously around somewhere...
And for a quick getaway... how about a nearly 40-year old car that's worth something like AUD$300,000
At least the air-conditioning in Laura works better than those 2...
Stopping in at Pie In The Sky, on the old Pacific Highway, for a late brunch, there were a few classic cars out for a drive...
Hrundi V. Bakshi was obviously around somewhere...
And for a quick getaway... how about a nearly 40-year old car that's worth something like AUD$300,000
At least the air-conditioning in Laura works better than those 2...
Everything Olds Is New Again
Jul. 21st, 2020 09:15 amI just posted the link to a few friends, but here's a slightly cleaned-up version of a side-on view of that Oldsmobile...
Black is a colour part 2
Black is a colour part 2
Super Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse
Oct. 10th, 2019 04:53 pmOr, another thing as rare as that... 2 days off in a row!!
L-SP & I actually had 2 days off together... nice to get re-acquainted with the person who lately I've only seen asleep, in passing, or in various photos around the place. I feel like I've been living at work recently, with early starts, late finishes, long days, then cancelled days off, while L-SP has been getting used to her new work schedule & dealing with altered sleep patterns & pretty long days too. anyway, the good news is we seem to still get along well !!
There has been one major change to the household recently... Out with the old...
And in with the new...
We sold off the little hatchback we've had for a few years as well as my beloved OBluV8 who, after 15 years with me, has gone to, literally, live on a farm somewhere in outback New South Wales, about 100kms from the nearest big town, so every day will be a road trip for him. The guy who bought him seemed like someone who knew the foibles of older cars, but loved Fords & I felt comfortable letting OBluV8 go to someone who will look after him for the next 15 years of his life... So, if you include the work ute that I use, we have gone from 3 cars down to 2. We look forward to many road-trips (& especially off-road trips!!) in Laura - a name derived from the Vietnamese for "A long time coming", as the whole process of preparing paperwork, financial planning, delivery time & installation of optional extras seemed to take forever. For a couple of days, it looked like we'd be without any car at all...
The downhill slope to the end of the year has begun & I don't feel ready for it...
L-SP & I actually had 2 days off together... nice to get re-acquainted with the person who lately I've only seen asleep, in passing, or in various photos around the place. I feel like I've been living at work recently, with early starts, late finishes, long days, then cancelled days off, while L-SP has been getting used to her new work schedule & dealing with altered sleep patterns & pretty long days too. anyway, the good news is we seem to still get along well !!
There has been one major change to the household recently... Out with the old...
And in with the new...
We sold off the little hatchback we've had for a few years as well as my beloved OBluV8 who, after 15 years with me, has gone to, literally, live on a farm somewhere in outback New South Wales, about 100kms from the nearest big town, so every day will be a road trip for him. The guy who bought him seemed like someone who knew the foibles of older cars, but loved Fords & I felt comfortable letting OBluV8 go to someone who will look after him for the next 15 years of his life... So, if you include the work ute that I use, we have gone from 3 cars down to 2. We look forward to many road-trips (& especially off-road trips!!) in Laura - a name derived from the Vietnamese for "A long time coming", as the whole process of preparing paperwork, financial planning, delivery time & installation of optional extras seemed to take forever. For a couple of days, it looked like we'd be without any car at all...
The downhill slope to the end of the year has begun & I don't feel ready for it...
Wheels On Fire
Aug. 18th, 2019 10:04 pmChange is afoot at WaitingManor...
Getting a new car has been an on-again, off-again discussion for the last couple of years, usually going off again as we continued to pay down various other debts, handle the usual domestic issues & emergencies & deal with other priorities that leapfrogged to the top of the Do It NOW!! list... We've been a 2 car household for a few years & have actually been a 3 car household for the last year & a bit, as I've been driving a company ute to & from work & all over town as part of my general dogsbody duties. We don't really need 2 cars any more (& certainly don't need 3!!!), so we've periodically wondered what we'd get to replace the little hatchback runabout & my beloved Ford V8 OBluV8
The recent weekend in the snow & mountains has brought the conversation up again, as poor old OBluV8's suspension didn't like the cold, or the occasionally bumpy roads up there & bounced along more noisily & less comfortably than in the past, making me wince every time, like I was hurting the old boy... OBluV8 is 16 years old now, has done well over 200,000 kilometres &, even though the engine is as powerful & smooth-running as ever, there are bits that aren't aging as well. The time has come to decide whether to commit a large sum of money to restoring the old boy to former glory, or trade him in as a package deal with the hatchback - given that OBluV8 on his own, isn't worth very much these days, probably $3-4,000 for private sale, or less if traded in. Having ridden the roundabout of fuckwittery that is private car sales a few years ago, we are reluctant to ride again &, even if we did, there just isn't the air of style & auto-romance about the 2003 Fords, as there is for the late 60s/early 70s models. I don't think we can afford to wait for the zeitgeist to catch up...
I've never owned a car for this long... I'll miss the old boy
Photo by L-SP. Taken as I crossed the finish line at the Mount Panorama race track, home to the annual Bathurst 1000. Obviously, this was not a race day!!! Nice panning technique though...
Getting a new car has been an on-again, off-again discussion for the last couple of years, usually going off again as we continued to pay down various other debts, handle the usual domestic issues & emergencies & deal with other priorities that leapfrogged to the top of the Do It NOW!! list... We've been a 2 car household for a few years & have actually been a 3 car household for the last year & a bit, as I've been driving a company ute to & from work & all over town as part of my general dogsbody duties. We don't really need 2 cars any more (& certainly don't need 3!!!), so we've periodically wondered what we'd get to replace the little hatchback runabout & my beloved Ford V8 OBluV8
The recent weekend in the snow & mountains has brought the conversation up again, as poor old OBluV8's suspension didn't like the cold, or the occasionally bumpy roads up there & bounced along more noisily & less comfortably than in the past, making me wince every time, like I was hurting the old boy... OBluV8 is 16 years old now, has done well over 200,000 kilometres &, even though the engine is as powerful & smooth-running as ever, there are bits that aren't aging as well. The time has come to decide whether to commit a large sum of money to restoring the old boy to former glory, or trade him in as a package deal with the hatchback - given that OBluV8 on his own, isn't worth very much these days, probably $3-4,000 for private sale, or less if traded in. Having ridden the roundabout of fuckwittery that is private car sales a few years ago, we are reluctant to ride again &, even if we did, there just isn't the air of style & auto-romance about the 2003 Fords, as there is for the late 60s/early 70s models. I don't think we can afford to wait for the zeitgeist to catch up...
I've never owned a car for this long... I'll miss the old boy
Photo by L-SP. Taken as I crossed the finish line at the Mount Panorama race track, home to the annual Bathurst 1000. Obviously, this was not a race day!!! Nice panning technique though...
