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The one I’d love to have today was my Coral 1962 EK Holden. With the grey 2.5 6 cylinder motor and 3 speed Hydramatic transmission. Never very fast but reliable as a Swiss watch. We did our courting in it and it carried us through flood, dust storms and bushfires . Replaced it with a 68 Chrysler VE Valient with the 225 cu inch slant 6 Hemi engine, 3 speed column manual. Worst car ever for handling, quality and reliability. It’s only redeeming feature was it could spin the wheels in every gear 😎

1962 EK Holden in a quiet Aussie country town. The tester was the local Crown Sergeant and the test composed of around the block and then down to the local hotel to drop him off for lunch with an angle parking outside it. In my defence I did go on to get HR and HC licences as well as bus endorsement. Never got a Multi Combination as there weren’t B-Doubles around at the time. Never had a motorbike licence but do have a boat licence 😁

A 1/48 Tamiya F-35A with Ronin RAAF Decals for 3 Squadron, Eduard SpAce cockpit decals and new to me KASL Mk16 ejection seat. The resin seat is a little beauty. Just waiting on some SMS Have Glass and Haze Grey paints.

Have a read about Douglas McArthur and the debacle in the Philippines. Known as Dugout Doug by Australian servicemen.

I didn’t want to confuse people who hadn’t served, won’t even mention a mug of gunfire!

HP sauce only. Only improved with a runny egg in the sandwich, or is that another conversation ?

I'm far from an expert on RAN operations during the Vietnam War, but I remember reading that apart from one escort voyage accompanying HMAS Sydney (the Vung Tai ferry), Melbourne was not involved in the RAN detachment to Vietnam. Even then she did not enter Vietnamese waters. The main RAN involvement was the Helicopter Flight, clearance divers and a number of destroyers attached to the navel gun line. Have you checked the Australian War Memorial website. It has a very large collection of photos, documents etc. https://www.awm.gov.au Bob

Haircuts aside, doesn't look too bad. But still Star Warish combat scenes.

I used to work for the national phone company and when I worked on area maintenance, the job programming was done by an old tech who had been on the area for years using IBM cards and his knowledge. He knew that you didn't program jobs on the main roads before 10am or after 3pm because of the clearway and many other similar addresses that had unique access problems. Years later as a manager of a depot that maintained Payphones a new computer job program system was introduced. It was developed for the lines section so all addresses were prioritised by the cable addresses. Large shopping centres could have a number of different cable feeds so not unusual for 2 or 3 techs turn up to fix phones 10 metres apart but on different cables ! After much work and troubles we got the system to work fairly well but it did involve having 3 programers manually fixing the problems.

If she wants to move the lizards, spiders and carpet snake out she's welcome. But as long as she realises the snake keeps the mice and bush rats out.

A HPM Hobbies conversion set for the 1/72 Airfix Beaufort to convert it to a DAP Beaufort Mk VIII early and their ASV antenna set for the same. Usual high quality castings and clear Instructions and quick postage from Singapore.

What do you call a women with one leg shorter than the other ? Eileen! What do you call a women with both legs the same length ? Noleen ! What do you call a man with a rabbit down his trousers ? Warren !

The other thing to remember is the difference in the Stirlings bomb bay layout. The Stirling had a divided bay with 3 longitudinal bulkheads and could not carry the 4000lb high capacity bombs or I believe the large incendiary carriers. It also had bomb "cells" in the lower wing close to the fuselage.

Love the J40 Landcruiser but should be shot for the colour. Spent many a happy day shaking teeth loose bouncing one of them along fire trails in the Blue Mountains to go camping and fishing. Highly desirable now days and worth a motzzer. Mate had one with a 4 litre 6 cylinder petrol engine which when it died had a Holden V8 installed, lots of kits available to legally do the conversion. It flew but had you had to anticipate stopping, cornering etc. and helped to tow your own petrol tanker. 😎😂

That was A8-291 lost on 18/4/99. RAAFTAILNO: A8-291 USAFSERIALNUMBER: 68-291 NOTES: OriginallybuiltforSTRATEGICAIRCOMMAND(SAC). Converted to F111G on 1/7/91. This A/C was transferred to the RAAF inventory as A8-291. The Aircraft crashed into Pulau Air Island (South China Sea) on 19 April 1999 during exercises off Butterworth. Both the crew were killed. The A/C was a 6SQN asset A/C AFHRS - 6340.5 Pilot: FLTLT Anthony SHORT Navigator: SQNLDR Stephen HOBBS Killed DATE CRASHED: 19/04/1999 LOCATION: Pulau Air Island Info from Pigsbum.com