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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Nov 19, 2012 21:38:26 GMT
A friends sons Stevens Prom
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Post by norvin on Nov 20, 2012 13:58:45 GMT
My car rescued from a garage after 16 years on flat tyres.
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Post by norvin on Nov 21, 2012 14:03:37 GMT
My car again Years later at Chatham Docks.
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Post by eightofthem (Andy) on Nov 21, 2012 19:56:36 GMT
Love that colour
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Post by Warwick on Nov 21, 2012 22:11:46 GMT
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Post by cyf on Nov 22, 2012 20:29:13 GMT
Very Australian with the dirt and the hat. Reminds me a Midnight Oil video, when the band drives in the desert in a 4WD, think it's "beds are burning"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2012 11:49:21 GMT
Good photo Warwick...when was this? I like the half open bonnet cooling system.
General question (harking and harrassing back to earlier thread) are there many ways an Aussie tries to mitigate the heat effects to body and car?!
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Post by David on Nov 23, 2012 12:25:11 GMT
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Post by stan on Nov 23, 2012 12:43:11 GMT
Good photo Warwick...when was this? I like the half open bonnet cooling system. General question (harking and harrassing back to earlier thread) are there many ways an Aussie tries to mitigate the heat effects to body and car?! Well of course they open a few cool tinnies mate! Everybody knows that! The pictures just get better and better on here.
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Post by cyf on Nov 24, 2012 18:19:07 GMT
A P5B Saloon in Laon 2011
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Post by stan on Nov 24, 2012 21:28:17 GMT
Very nice CYF but what are the dots on te paintwork? Reflection of......? Of dust on your lens?
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Post by Warwick on Nov 24, 2012 22:02:36 GMT
Good photo Warwick...when was this? I like the half open bonnet cooling system. General question (harking and harrassing back to earlier thread) are there many ways an Aussie tries to mitigate the heat effects to body and car?! Peter, it was taken in 1931 during the Great Depression. The driver is Frank Roveta, a musician and a previous owner. He is pictured returning from a location-scouting trip to the outback, for the yet to be announced Midnight Oil's album, Diesel & Dust. If the cooling system is kept in good condition, most cars sold here could cope with the heat. Before air-con, and it wasn't very common until the '80s, you had to drive with the windows down and the quarter vents reversed to scoop in air. The worst part was getting into a car with vinyl seats in summer, wearing shorts. Nicely framed photo Admin. I noticed the little emoticon at the bottom corner.
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Post by cyf on Nov 25, 2012 9:29:36 GMT
Hey, I was right with "beds are burning" then
stan, it's dust on the lens, end of a sunny dry day
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Post by stan on Nov 25, 2012 10:31:52 GMT
People normally have to use Photoshop for that sort of effect! Hehe
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Post by cyf on Nov 25, 2012 21:46:36 GMT
My first P5 (you know how it ends), the day I bought it With the brick wall and the word "drugs" spray on it (the word "sex" is not visible....), you can think it's in England, but no, it was in France
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Post by Warwick on Nov 26, 2012 3:02:28 GMT
Good photo Warwick...when was this? Peter, it was taken in 1931 during the Great Depression. The driver is Frank Roveta, a musician and a previous owner. He is pictured returning from a location-scouting trip to the outback, for the yet to be announced Midnight Oil's album, Diesel & Dust. Sorry Peter & Cyf, It's such an old looking photo, I couldn't resist. It was actually taken in Brisbane in 1999 when its owner (Frank Roveta) was handing it over to Jeff Jones, the owner before me. I bought it from Jeff in 2007. A couple of years later, he found the photo and gave me a copy of the postcard size print. I scanned the print. It's the only photo I have of the car prior to it being restored, reupholstered and repainted. The RCCA in Melbourne has a file in its vehicle registry dating back to earlier owners who were club members in the 1980s, but the photo on file is incorrect. Frank Roveta was indeed a musician, and a member of an Australian band called Shutterspeed. I tracked him down several years ago but alas he has no photos or old paperwork. He bought the car unregistered and a bit worse for wear from somewhere near Lismore in northern New South Wales in about 1994. Unfortunately he doesn't recall any details such as names or addresses. I now know the name and address (at that time) of the first owner because Jeff found the original sales paperwork and sent it to me a couple of years ago. His name was E. S. Harding. There is then a gap of 19 years before the car turns up in the RCCA archives (1989) with the original registration number (KPY-500) but a different owner (Richard J. Carter). I haven't been able to trace him but I have spoken to the man who serviced it for him (P&S Automotive Services), thanks to the paperwork from Jeff. However, that same year (1989) the car appears in the archives of the Queensland Rover Owner's Club still bearing the original Victorian rego number (KPY-500) but now belonging to Robert Hill - so it seems to have been sold and moved from Melbourne to Brisbane in 1989, but retained its Victorian registration number. This could mean that it was used in Queensland as a Victorian registered car for the period of grace allowed, or it wasn't in use or registered. Interestingly it appears again in the RCCA archives in Melbourne in 1992; still belonging to Robert Hill of Manly in Queensland and still KPY-500. I have not been able to trace Robert Hill. Where the car was or who owned it between this 1992 archive entry from Queensland and when Frank Roveta bought it a couple of years later, unregistered and in storage in rural NSW, remains a mystery - but one that I would like to solve one day. As you can see from the photo, the old girl was a bit tired looking towards the end of her first 30 years. Jeff did a magnificent job of restoring her and won some show awards. He did all the upholstery work himself and seems to have the skills of a John Wallett when it comes to leather and needlework.
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Post by Roy of the Rovers on Nov 26, 2012 9:59:40 GMT
Quote" He did all the upholstery work himself and seems to have the skills of a John Wallett when it comes to leather and needlework. " Blasphemy!
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Post by lagain on Nov 26, 2012 18:58:03 GMT
As there is no picture today, do not forget your antifreeze/
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Post by cyf on Nov 26, 2012 21:05:37 GMT
Warwick, you practical jocker!
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Post by Warwick on Nov 26, 2012 22:35:41 GMT
As there is no picture today, do not forget your antifreeze Not around here. It's going to be a ghastly 36 C tomorrow. 44 in Adelaide! Hard to believe though as it's 17 C and raining at the moment.
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Post by djm16 on Nov 27, 2012 4:54:14 GMT
ghastly 36 C Haha! It is not hot here until it is 45 in the shade (Perth WA). 36? Pretty temperate in comparison.
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Post by Warwick on Nov 27, 2012 5:31:15 GMT
At least you've got the Fremantle Doctor to look forward to. Our climate seems to have gone Queenslandish. We don't get those clean hot days anymore. It gets very humid.
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Post by David on Nov 27, 2012 11:00:11 GMT
All this flooding reminded me of Bristol in 1968 ( I was but a lad) , the time of the BIG flood. Photos taken by my late father on a bellows Voigtlander 35mm camera, from a dingy. And yes amongst the photos you will find a fully laden artic lorry that was 'washed' down a street. The paving stones were lifted by the force of water. CLICK below for spot the car model time s653.beta.photobucket.com/user/Naranto/library/Bristol%20Floods%201968
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 11:02:40 GMT
Hi Warwick thanks for the story. Great photo, great story, great car!
As for humidity its so humid up here that people are evacuating their homes...and now apparently ice and snow are forecast!
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Post by p5tgc on Nov 27, 2012 19:26:41 GMT
Here's one from the Davie Richards photo album. Taken on the eve of the 2007 P5 Club National Rally, which I seem to remember was also a bit on the damp side!
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