The Rodding Roundtable
Motorhead Message Central => Rodder's Roundtable => Topic started by: tomslik on February 24, 2005, 08:41:44 AM
sure is fun learnin' a furrin' langage.... :lol:
Quote from: "tomslik"sure is fun learnin' a furrin' langage.... :lol:
Yup, looks like Fat Cat will have to install a new SpellCheck :lol: :lol: .Think it's called DownUnder 5.0. :wink:
Seriously though welcome aboard guys. It's a great place to hang out. 8)
bob
cheers, I feel like the new kid at a new school starting half way through the year because the old one burnt down :( anyway.........thanks for the warm welcome......Bert :wink: heres a pic of my son sandin back our 30 A rpu
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/Bertieboy/liamsandin.jpg)
Quote from: "Bert"cheers, I feel like the new kid at a new school starting half way through the year because the old one burnt down :( anyway.........thanks for the warm welcome......Bert :wink: heres a pic of my son sandin back our 30 A rpu
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/Bertieboy/liamsandin.jpg)
Welcome aboard Bert and all the rest of you funny talking guy's.
Looks like you have to get the kid to rub a little harder, there ain't no dust on the floor. LOL :lol:
Is that a removable panel on top of the cowl, are all aussie A's like that?
B :?: B
Na, I did all the hard work with a stripper wheel 8) , he was just smoothin the metal and gettin a feel.......Its an improved A, as for the top panel, its the whole tank as one piece I think........new to rodding, so we dont know alot about the models/panels etc......I might need to seperate the whole cowl though.....then i can strip and paint properly...heres some more pics....check out the wood in the door :roll: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/Bertieboy/cabdoor.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/Bertieboy/swagecutfull.jpg)
Quote from: "Faat Rod"
Is that a removable panel on top of the cowl, are all aussie A's like that?
B :?: B
g'day
that removable panel is the original fuel tank, our model A's are the same as yours :wink:
BTW, we call em an " improved A " which is a weird local term for the 30-31 models.
cheers, phil
Quote from: "34ford"Quote from: "tomslik"sure is fun learnin' a furrin' langage.... :lol:
Yup, looks like Fat Cat will have to install a new SpellCheck :lol: :lol: .Think it's called DownUnder 5.0. :wink:
Seriously though welcome aboard guys. It's a great place to hang out. 8)
bob
Careful; . . . Downunder 5.7 if you please!
Downunder 5.0 had a bug.......
When you drank more than 12 beers it turned everything you said into mindless giberish
We talk funny?... My sheila was watchin an episode of Jerry springer the other day on the tele and struth :shock: ......I couldnt understand one flamin thing they were sayin........pigs * we talk funny :lol: :lol: ................I suppose we drive on the right side too :P .....actually I have a hard time playin my sons playstation 2 Grand theft auto.....sheeeezz, Im always on the wrong side crashin and dodgin:roll: look out if I ever come over...one day I will, Id love too......I want to go to buddy guys legends club, cruise route 66{just to say I did it}check out california, fender factory, moon factory, some rod runs....all I need is time, $$$, lose my fear of flyin and Im there.............how do you like rod hadfields 55 chev...I visited his workshop when that thing was half built, it freaked me out then :-o .....................Cheers, Bert
Hey Bert, If you get even half a chance to go over there do it!. My wife and I spent 3 weeks driving from LA to Nashville and back. Well I drove all but 20 minutes of the trip.
The wife unit freaked herself out driving on the glove box side of the car which freaked me out LOL :wink:
We only had a couple of mishaps on the roads there and it is usually when there is no-one else around that ya kinda forget. Easiest way to remember is left shoulder to the centre of the road.
Unfortunately, there isnt much left of the Mother road mate, just bits and pieces.
Craig
cool, yes I know what you mean about the driving...I have drivin a lefty on our roads here which was fun :shock: ....not a good feeling hangin by the footpath whilst driving, though........I will keep practicing on GTA :lol: :lol: .......until such time i get to go.......what about the accerator being near the gearbox hump?....the cable/lever/rods, whatever, must exit the center of the firewall......now that, my friends.....is weird........ :wink: sitting on the right isnt real good for drag racing/launching is it? thats a good enough reason on its own to go visit :wink: .Bert
It is funny you know how easilly you get used to driving there.
The road laws are much the same as they are here, just reversed from left to right..... Where we have slip lanes at intersections with traffic lights and we can turn left if we give way....They are allowed to turn right at a red light if they give way. Except for where there is a sign saying they cant do so.
The most notable thing there on the roads is the speed they drive at. They are bloody lunatics lol (no offense...any lawyers lurking here? :roll: )
Maybe we would be too if we werent under the Draconian speed restrictions and hefty fine/points system we are now.
We would often be 5 mph over the limit there, in some cases in 75 mph zones... :!: Let me see 80 mph is 130 kph. that is a loss of licence for 12 months here :oops:
Mind you the interstates there are immaculate compared to our goat tracks.
Craig
edit: oh and the accelerator near the hump was no problem nor was the gear lever (auto) I did however manage to get a nice tan on my left arm to match my right arm from driving here. :lol:
The toughest part I found was that because I had driven left hook cars here for a while I was used to following the inside line and compensating for the width......I spent most of the first week in the US in the breakdown lane hugging the gutter and dodging parked cars.
Got to San Jose at 5 PM on a Friday and had to drive interstates 101 and 601 to get too me motel (sorry I mean Executive Serviced Appartment) though peak hour commute traffic.......
After 6 months there I had the same problem when I came home......
All I need to try now is a RHD car in the US.......then I have all combo's under control.
When I finish the '37 Roadster Ute (about 2 decades after I start on it) I want to take it stateside and do the full rod run season, then sell it
Of course doing some work on the 3 projects I have already started might help......
I was in Honolulu and rented a Mustang convertible, which I was sure would give a better chance of meeting some locals. I was down near Waikiki and a couple of sheilas heard me ordering lunch and said the they "just plumb loved " my accent.
We arranged to meet later, then I casually strolled over to the Mustang, and jumped in, only to find that some mongrel had stolen the steering wheel!! :oops:
I think I got away with it though - I opened the glove box and rummaged through that for a while, then slid across to the where the steering wheel was. I thought I heard them laughing as I drove off, but they may have been excited to meet me. Strange that, because they didn't turn up later.
Poida
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Quote from: "Poida"We arranged to meet later, then I casually strolled over to the Mustang, and jumped in, only to find that some mongrel had stolen the steering wheel!! :oops:
I think I got away with it though - I opened the glove box and rummaged through that for a while, then slid across to the where the steering wheel was.
SMOOOOOOTH :ha)
i'll have to remember that trick should i ever make it down under. :wink:
later jim
PS WELCOME TO ALL THE AUSSIES.
Quote from: "klassik"My wife and I spent 3 weeks driving from LA to Nashville and back. Well I drove all but 20 minutes of the trip.
Not that this is a competition or anything, but my wife and I spent 3 MONTHS in the US on our honeymoon and drove 13,500 miles!
Absolutely no dramas driving over there, you just adapt as it's kind of a mirror image. Everything is reversed, in fact, it's probably a lot easier than driving a LHD car over here.
Thoroughly recommended, although I'd watch out for Fat Cat and enjenjo. :P
O.K. last time I was there I drove NY, Philly, Cleveland, Chicago, Indy,
L'ville, Memphis, Norlins, Austin, San Antone, Taos, Denver and all points inbetween on roads from interstate to dirt. Lots of BF towns etc.
And if you think speed limits are slow here, I suffered one trip in the 55mph era too. That WAS slow.
Yeah it aint a contest mate but if you consider we were there for 3 weeks and drove 6300 miles. you were there and only did 13.500 in three months? so what were ya doing the rest of the time there?
So If we were there for 3 months, at the rate we travelled we would have covered 25,200 miles LOL.
Seriously though, I had a car like that once, ended up selling it. :lol:
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Oops just realised you were on ya honeymoon.
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Goat tracks :lol: .....not wrong, I hit a pot hole the other day near my place and it felt like it took out my frontend......sheeezz, I reckon there would be a fracture in the L/H frontend mount now :shock: .....doesnt help with being down low :oops: and where talking in a major australian capital city road........................yeah right 8) bert ............hey maybe I can sue the council :twisted:
Quote from: "X38"O.K. last time I was there I drove NY, Philly, Cleveland, Chicago, Indy,
L'ville, Memphis, Norlins, Austin, San Antone, Taos, Denver and all points inbetween on roads from interstate to dirt. Lots of BF towns etc.
And if you think speed limits are slow here, I suffered one trip in the 55mph era too. That WAS slow.
Looks like this is a competition after all... :)
San Diego - Vegas - flew to San Antone - Austin (Continental Club) - Houston - Nawlins - Memphis - Nashville - Macon - Jacksonville - Miami (via Garlits Museum) - Savannah - Richmond - Washington DC - Scranton - Boston (Hi Skip and Szaf, Thanksgiving Dinner) - NYC - Niagara (Canada) - Dayton (Hi Fat Cat, enjenjo) - Chicago - St Louis - Amarillo - Grants - Blanding (Hi 1FATGMC) - Wendover - Reno - Jenner (Pacific Coast) - Crescent City - Sandy (Hi Zapato) - Seattle - Vancouver - Whistler - Vancouver (for Christmas) - Roseburg - San Francisco - flew to Maui - flew to Waikiki for New Year's Eve
The drive from New Orleans to Nashville was done in one day, including a tour through Gracelands and Sun Studios.
Now that's a HONEYMOON! :) :) :)
Try this in 3 weeks, drove around LA for two days... then on to Vegas,... then Flagstaff (had the best country fried steak ever !!!) little diner across from the Motel 6,... then backwards to grand canyon and on to Albuquerque (13 hours on the road that day) ...Albuquerque to Santa Fe and on to Santa Rosa NM (14 hours driving) ...then to Mustang OK ,.....Littlrock AR, ....got ripped off at Graceland.....Nashville for three days, then Atlanta GA, ....Shreveport TX, ...Dallas TX, .....Conroe TX, ....Houston TX, ....San Antonio TX, El Paso,.... Phoenix AZ,..... Back to LA and four days of day trips around LA.
got home and nearly wrote the Chevy off driving on the wrong side of the road and put it in reverse thinking I was still using that lever as an indicator. My son thought it was very funny. Thank the gods for the powerglide.
Craig
Quote from: "klassik"It is funny you know how easilly you get used to driving there.
I second that. It actually felt better in a way (oops did I say that), well after 4 weeks of driving I got pretty used to it. Pulling out of drive ways was wierd at first.... used to looking right first instead of left. Nealy got us a few times.
One thing that just didn't make sense... whats the deal with those intersections that just have a red flashing light above them? Every man for himself? That got us in strife a few times in LA. Haven't you guys head of 'round-a-bouts' yet? :D
We did 13 states in 4 weeks. Mainly the west side. Recommend it to anyone.
Bloody showoffs..... geeeezz, Im Sooo lucky to have been to cairns{top of australia} :roll: ....thats it rub it in, go on...I can take it....... :cry: anyway, I want to go see some good, original sleezy blues bars :twisted: ....austin? perhaps....from different stories Ive read about the late master of blues SRV early days, it sounds like the place to go................Bert :wink:
What about the other less obvious little differences....such as I just gave a set of new, unused bosch headlight assemblies to a mate who fitted them on his VW buggy....I raved on and on about how good they would be......he pulled up the other night in my driveway, with this look :evil: ...........the halogen light that it shone on my gate indicated the slant went the other way :oops: US model... :lol: and then there is the wiper assemblies :roll: ..............Bert
(2 questions)
1 - Is Carps still around? I haven't seen the name for a while.
2 - Why did this post get so wide on my screen? I have to scroll across the page to read it. I changed the pixle sizing on the screen but then I needed my reading glasses to see it. Old age is the pits!
Beck
ps - I just noticed it is only "wide screen" on page 1 of this post.
My fault Beck :oops: ....it was the pics I posted I think......I need to drop them in size next time.........Im still an amature with this computer stuff 8) Bert
QuoteWhy did this post get so wide on my screen? I have to scroll across the page to read it
Extra large picture did it.
I lived in Japan for two years, I had no trouble learning to drive on the left. When I came back here though, first turn, I was on the wrong side of the road. It took me several days to get used to it again.
Over there, I drove cars with both left and right hand steering, the controls can get confusing, but no more than going from one brand to another here.I rented a Nissan on vacation the last two weeks, and all the controls are just exactly opposite the ones in my Bonneville, of course the ones in my Dodge are opposite the Bonneville too. Left wipers, right wipers, up to dim the lights, down to dim the lights, right headlight switch, left headlight switch, floor shift, column shift, I'm getting confused :cry:
Quote from: "Brootal"Looks like this is a competition after all... :)
San Diego - Vegas - flew to San Antone - Austin (Continental Club) - Houston - Nawlins - Memphis - Nashville - Macon - Jacksonville - Miami (via Garlits Museum) - Savannah - Richmond - Washington DC - Scranton - Boston (Hi Skip and Szaf, Thanksgiving Dinner) - NYC - Niagara (Canada) - Dayton (Hi Fat Cat, enjenjo) - Chicago - St Louis - Amarillo - Grants - Blanding (Hi 1FATGMC) - Wendover - Reno - Jenner (Pacific Coast) - Crescent City - Sandy (Hi Zapato) - Seattle - Vancouver - Whistler - Vancouver (for Christmas) - Roseburg - San Francisco - flew to Maui - flew to Waikiki for New Year's Eve
The drive from New Orleans to Nashville was done in one day, including a tour through Gracelands and Sun Studios.
Now that's a HONEYMOON! :) :) :)
So when did you get any time to....ahhhh.......errrr...... you know?
It was a honeymoon wasnt it?
I only had one problem driving around there. Every time I went to change gear the drivers door flew open :roll: