Cool Rides - Part 9

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Originally Posted by Smitty

.. from a visit to Fox

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Is this a 770?

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Originally Posted by Pickles

Is this a 770?

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my next photo with the sign for the car says - 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet

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Originally Posted by Smitty

my next photo with the sign for the car says - 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet

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Ah ok, I can't see that image. The car looked just so "BIG", I thought it might be a 770. I've been to the Fox Museum & I've seen a black 540 there!
Regards, M.

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then....
there is this bunch of loonies. Some retired, some on holidays, one went Brucey... I am bored
Bruce went ... yeah so am I. Hey idea ! lets drive around Australia...! Yeah
Kim goes... but we did that before, twice! Mind you the country was different pre-covid

Brucey goes.. Ha, can fix that! Lets do it TWICE! Yawn from everyone else then
HEY EVERYONE lets do a figure8 'Round Australia'. so.... they are

HQ GTS, A9X, LJ XU1, cuple Mustangs, one of the last Monaros SII type
an old Porsche of course, a very old VB Commodore done up as Brockys
Round Asutralia car which played up so much Day1 its parked somewhere


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but even stranger, as they approach the Alice today (Day 8 out of Mlebourne)

pull up at a servo on the highway..... a bloke in a 2CV doing Perth - Sydney via Darwin
as you do !

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and wacky, wackier! (is that a word?). There are some real crazies in this world
2 brothers driving goggomobiles around Australia.. sedan and sports versions

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Very tough old Corvette. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Smitty

then....
there is this bunch of loonies. Some retired, some on holidays, one went Brucey... I am bored
Bruce went ... yeah so am I. Hey idea ! lets drive around Australia...! Yeah
Kim goes... but we did that before, twice! Mind you the country was different pre-covid

Brucey goes.. Ha, can fix that! Lets do it TWICE! Yawn from everyone else then
HEY EVERYONE lets do a figure8 'Round Australia'. so.... they are

HQ GTS, A9X, LJ XU1, cuple Mustangs, one of the last Monaros SII type
an old Porsche of course, a very old VB Commodore done up as Brockys
Round Asutralia car which played up so much Day1 its parked somewhere


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I think the "tribute" VB may be owned & run by a member of the HSVOC (Vic), possibly the person with his back to us in that image!

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Originally Posted by Pickles

I think the "tribute" VB may be owned & run by a member of the HSVOC (Vic), possibly the person with his back to us in that image!

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.. indeed! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN9jYw8qm2o

Had one many years ago & very time I see one I want to buy another


it's one car I really forever regret selling. :bawl:

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Originally Posted by whitels1ss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN9jYw8qm2o

Had one many years ago & very time I see one I want to buy another


it's one car I really forever regret selling. :bawl:

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Never owned one, but I did have a ride as a passenger in one in the 60s., As I write this today, I can still see the long, vented bonnet through the windscreen, as we drove along Bell St. Preston!

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