The POOL ROOM

[LoBelly]

Originally Posted by Rebel1

...The reason for the heavy bar is that in the city any motorist turning right from a dual lane road must do so only from the left lane...

...wouldn't be any fun driving in the city if it was easy...

very good Rebel - you actually made me laugh out loud
- especially when you put 'nectar of the gods' in the same hemisphere as XXXX.

Speaking of hemispheres - I'm sure Mr Trularin perceives the relative locale of the deep south in the northern hemisphere and the north of Australia here in the southern hemisphere...

And as to your assertion about the stray cats, any student of history can tell you that in the mid 1800's there was a gold rush in Victoria accompanied by a large influx of Chinese immigration. QED



LoBelly

[Rebel1]

Mr LoBelly esquire Sir,

As you imply I have not studied the history of Victoria. I have no excuse than to advise I am the progeny of some poor soul who came across in the first fleet.

So it is that my great great great great past criminal relative upon release from detention ventured North seeking land of fortune. As a youngster I often wondered why he choose to come north rather than south. It was not until I researched my family tree that I found the criminal who founded our family name had been jailed for larceny in the mother country.

Now, you have to admit, that the crime of larceny is a crime of intelligence. He was not just some petty thief who stole loafs of bread, he was a smart thief. A man of intelligence. So it was natural for him to come north.

So it is that he found his way to Queensland and lived to a ripe old age and never again did any wrongs against society. Queensland to this day remains a prosperous state, The state still owns some utilities, a transport system, has $hitloads of black gold still in the ground, and enjoys an excellent standard of living and sees it's fair share of sunshine. XXXX beer is brewed here and worshiped as the nectar of the gods. In fact I'm told by some who practice religion more actively than I that many churches would prefer to provide XXXX for communal that the watery wine they are currently forced to sip and which is sourced from parts south.

Now...my first wife's criminal relative didn't come north. He went south. He was just a common thief of unknown crime but we are sure it was something as simple as raping and pillaging. We believe he eventually lifted his stature in life and became a politician.

Anyways, the purpose of this brief history lesson is to acknowledge that not much has changed in Victoria since then. I suppose my wife's past criminal relative was quite active in propagating the population of Victoria as the politicians still rape and pillage the public purse, the state owns nothing of any value, they're running out of water, and the local breweries still produce a product closely resembling cats pi$$..

I'm sure if Mr Trularin would care to google victoria he will find what I say is indeed the truth.

[Barry Nelson]

As always said never let the truth get the way of a good story!
I seem to remember some famous poly called JO was a bit sus.
his wife, so the story goes made pumpkin scones using VB(beer)
in the mix.
Barry Nelson.

[BMK]

Trularin

Those in bib and brace overalls and pick ups with big bull bars wandered down south from the cane fields of Queensland.

Just remember the hemispheres turn it all around. Know you get the picture. It's hotter up north in this hemisphere -

The southerners here are up in the north in hot wet areas of Queensland...

[letsboogie351]

My worst fears were realised many years ago when we had a brewery strike in Victoria. Businesses desperate for a sale were bringin" truck loads of that XXXX stuff into the state. Thank god the brewery workers came to their senses. I don't know how the cane toads can pass off muddy water as beer! I think that strike was when I got a liking for wine. There was one beer and only one that I can recall that was worse than xxxx. Yep you guessed it "Courage" luckily it didn't last too long. And as for Bundy we all know that it is only one step away from being metho.

[Rebel1]

Ahhhhh, I can remember when every brewery in Oz was closed by union actions.

No Oz made beer at all....very sad times.

To fill the drought some-one started importing shiploads of a beer not unlike VB in taste called South Pacific or SP for short.

Consequently it was referred to as Swamp Pi$$.

[boxhead]

Since this isnt Cobra related I thought I would put it in here.

About 2 years ago I dragged an old Valiant Charger from out bush back home, my wife Ronda has been a fan of these for as long as I have known her, so figured the next car I build for us to keep should be one she really wants.
Here is a pic of the Charger how I found it.

When I found it it had no wheels and had been sitting on the desert sand for atleast 12 years that people know off.
I got it home and knew I would not really be doing much to it until Cobra was registered and painted, so I have pulled it apart a little and has sat like this since getting it home.


Over the years I have tried to pass the word around that I am looking for Valiant stuff and been accumulating some cars to use as parts.
Here is a VK sedan, turns out is an x cop car (as plated on id tag) and I have sold some of the cop items on this car.
I bought it for the drive line (318 fireball, 727 auto and lsd diff), it will also donate its brake system (booster and disc front end, inc cross member)


And here is an X-Speedway Charger I bought, initially for its floor and quarter panels (but I am having bad thoughts about returning it to the track so I can have a go, but the thought of wrecking such good rear quarter panels is scaring me).


If this one did not have such bad rust in the plenums and firewall then it would be this car being fixed (even though the roof had been cut off to drop the cage in).
Then recently (on the Saturday at the Nationals) my wifes uncle who lives in Alice Springs passed away (he was not very well and had become a bit of a recluse since his wife passed in 1999), both he and his daughter knew I was looking for Valiant bits and he had said to me I could have his old station wagon (VH model, with hearse racks in the back)(he bought the car with the intentions of starting a funeral service until the franchise changed there mind as Alice Springs was not big enough for 2 funeral services, this was back in 1972), at the time I did not want to take it from him as it is the only car he ever bought brand new and he was attached to it.
Well on Saturday it was time to get the old girl home.
Here is what it looked like Saturday morning.


This is where it has sat since the last time George drove it in 2002.

I organised a permit on Friday to drive it home (probably should have got it running first and checked the brakes but I felt confident)
So I had, fuel, spare battery, air compressor and a heap of tools when I turned up at the house at about 11.00am Saturday (late start due to a bigger night than anticipated at the casino for mates birthday)
I dropped the new battery in and cranked it over, cranked over very well so that was a good start, I added about 15 litres of fuel to the fuel tank and squirted some aerostart down the carbie, cranked over but not a hint of starting, figured there must be no spark.
Removed dissy cap and confirmed the rotor was there and spinning, ignition on and manually trigger the points, no spark, so I took the points out and cleaned them up, refitted and gapped, test again, still no spark.
Checked coil, power in ok but nothing out.
Raced home and pulled the coil of the x cop car, (hope it isnt dead) fitted it up, tested, now I have a good spark.
Refitted the cap, another squirt down the carbie and crank, look out she fired up this time (no fuel in carbie so it stopped straight away, but atleast I knew I was heading in the right direction).
I poured some fuel in the carbie and fired up, did this about 4 times, could see the fuel in the filter, so atleast the pump was working.
On the 5th go , she fired up and settled into an idle like it had been running yesterday.
Smiles all round.
Shut her down and thought I better check all the vitals for the drive home.
Brake fluid is good, clutch works, no water in radiator, top it up, oh no, there is water coming out of the front of motor as quick as I can pour it in.
It is now about 12.30, and I am thinking, if I am quick I can get a trailer and tow it home, so I race over to the hire company, Damn it, I missed them.
So I go back to the car and decide I better see where the water leak is.
Found that the lower radiator hose has corroded off at the water pump outlet, needs a new pump and hose.
Thought I may as well go to Repco and see what a pump will cost me and get one ordered.
I get this old guy and tell him what I am after, he doesnt even look in a manuel, he dissapears out the back and returns with a dusty box and a hose,
I giggle and comment that they must have had that one for a while.
I also grab a couple of large clamps and gasket cement, total price $65.00

So I return to the wagon, out comes the radiator, off with the a/c compressor and alternator brackets.
Water pump out and replaced, refitted everything and fill with water.
All good now, nothing is leaking.
I pumped up the tyres then start her up again and back it out onto the street, check the brakes, all good, so I drive down to the local carwash, give her a quick tub and drive her home.
The tyres are definatly a little second hand after being flat for so long, but the shakes where not to bad if I stayed below 40mph.
When I got her home I cleaned out the inside a bit and wiped the dust off.
Here are some pics, but now I am in 2 minds what to do, it has plenty of great bits for my project, but is it too good to wreck?






There are more pics at .
http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/j...head/?start=20


So what did you do on the weekend?

[tomcat racing]

hey rebel, i just sat down with a bundy and coke and read your threads, what a laugh, youre pretty close to the mark and the futher north you get those bullbars become more common. big bullbars and bundy stickers are pretty common up here. that ute looks pretty tame compared to some of the ones getting around up here. regards tomcat

[Rebel1]

Tomcat, It's an obvious fact those youngsters down south have not sampled a proper rum like Bundy and also seem to have bu$$a all taste when it comes to a good beer.

Sadly I think the VB they digest affects their cognitive abilities. Poor misguided souls constantly think the center of the cobra world rotates around Melbourne, when in reality it is here in good ole Queensland where it all happens.

Yeah, I agree with you, that bullbar looks pretty tame. I've seen some petite Queensland lasses at B&S balls drive bigger badder rigs.

Keep up the good work in central Queensland.

[tomcat racing]

rebel, imagine grafting one of those bullbars onto the front of a cobra, now there would be a sight to behold and would turn some heads, id love to do it just for a joke.

TOMCAT

[trularin]

Okay, I went to a convention down town and met a couple of Aussies who told me that XXXX beer I had asked about was Dingo Pi$$.

It seems that beer has a bad rep.

[Rebel1]

Originally Posted by trularin

Okay, I went to a convention down town and met a couple of Aussies who told me that XXXX beer I had asked about was Dingo Pi$$.

It seems that beer has a bad rep.

trularin, some-one is having a lend of you. You've been got at by a couple of Aussies having some fun at your expense.

In Aussieland dingo pi$$ is a highly valued commodity ..... It all came about way back in the dreamtime.

Indigenous Australians (Aboriginals) used to wander around the dry arid interior of Australia in tribes. They would essentially travel from water hole to water hole .... stay a while .... live off the land ... then move on.

They also had a want to pass their experiences and history from generation to generation and the way they did this was by painting on cliff and cave walls in the hills and rocky outcrops.

Some of these paintings are hundreds of years old and are clearly legible today. But consider this ... all this painting was going on way before the invention of paint.

So like the American indian these Aboriginals would mix their paints from clay, ochre, and different colored minerals they dug from the ground and mixed with water. However, there was always a question that baffled scientific study.

That question was what caused these simple paints to last hundreds of years. Modern paints don't last this long without major fade and weathering. Furthermore, these paintings were mostly found miles from any water holes and in locations where it would have been very difficult to carry water.

Now I'm gonna let you into the secret .... dingo pi$$.

Seems every tribe had made pets of a couple of dingos and these wild dogs would accompany the tribe on it's wanderings around Australia and these same dogs would follow the tribe elders on their painting expeditions into the hills.

So the tribe elder would just wait till his dingos did a wee and used that to mix his paints. Simple really and like much of aussie indigenous people, quite ingenious.

Science has since found that Dingo Pi$$ contains some very rare compounds. There are reasons for this but explanation would make this post a little long so we'll leave that till some other time.

So it is that dingo pi$$ is highly sought and valued and there's nowhere near as many dingos around these days so it just gets more difficult to find.

Hense, these Aussies you met in a bar were telling you the truth it was just your lack of aussie culture which led you to mis-understand their explanation.

Therefore saying a top class ale like XXXX is like dingo Pi$$ is like saying it is liquid gold ....a good drop.

[BMK]

Trularin

You are learning far to much about us..

OK what is the tip for the election - Mmmm should I discuss Politics...

[BMK]

Rebel1

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[trularin]

Oh, I thought it was because XXXX Beer was just about the worse beer there was...like wild dog urine.

[Rebel1]

Originally Posted by trularin

Oh, I thought it was because XXXX Beer was just about the worse beer there was...like wild dog urine.

Yeah, but like i said....you got it all wrong, they weren't referring to taste. After all, who has tasted dingo pi$$. Unless of course it was a gay bar you were visiting.

It's the same as that other Aussie icon of foodstuffs, a product we love which foreigners find absolutely vile .... our very own Vegemite.

Here in Oz we feed it to our kids and they love it. Kids demand it on their school lunches. New Mothers use it on toast when their kids are teething. Yet you folks find it almost impossible to eat.

Bundy Rum, XXXX beer and Vegemite, much maligned but recognized as the foodstuff of champions in Oz.

Having said that there are pockets in Australia, Victoria is one such area, where the local inhabitants don't appreciate these products but we accept that. As taught in Marketing 101 you just can't please 100% of the folks 100% of the time.

[BMK]

Mmmm don't drink XXXX, don't eat Vegemite and hell don't drink Bundy Rum..how un Australian.

Toast and Marmalade, Crown Lager and fine malt rum... as if.

[sambo]

Boxhead I think if you wreck that old girl you'll get a very angry visit from some Valiant club members! Hardly a classic but you just don't see many originals like that around these days.

[Aussie Mike]

I reckon it'd make a great tow car for the Cobra or the Charger. Bung a couple of decent sized LPG tanks under it. Pile all your tools and spares in the back. Turn up the A/C and the stereo and your off.

I'd even suggest pulling the 265 and dropping a Gen3 ad auto in there. Leave the body stock and you'd have a real sleeper that got modern car economy.

Cheers

[boxhead]

If I do anything with the wagon it might be to put it on club plates and use it for carshows and that kind of thing.
It does need a couple of small dents taken out and a good polish (obviuosly touch up the paint after dent repairs) and the tailgate is very rusty, but there is a rust free one here, http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RARE-VALIANT-...1%7C240%3A1318
I still think it will eventually become a donor for the charger (and the thought was if I go speedway racing I would use the engine and box from the wagon into the black charger.
But in all reality the red charger wont be on a rotisere and in the shed for atleast 12 months yet.

I would also prefer to get rid of the coffin racks in the back and find a back seat for it, an original one in the same color could be a hard find.

As to using it as a tow car, that is not going to happen.
I have this in mind for that
The back of the tub and tailgate are pretty bad, the latest thought is I will cut the back of the body off, just behind the back window (make it almost a space cab) and fit a flat bed tray or a style side tray.
I have a 308 injected motor from a VN I could use for it, and a mate up the road has just offered me a transit van that I can take the front end out of (similar to HT holden) and the rear end is a salsbury with leaf springs, I will be measuring chassis widths and wheel bases before I take him up on the offer.