strange thing about that pic, since the late 50s, cars have changed radically, in almost every respect, but the supermarkets have hardly changed at all !!
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So that's the new ride Pup. How long did you and mac practice for that pic?
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So that's the new ride Pup. How long did you and mac practice for that pic?
4 hours Mac kept doing his hair every 15 minutes
Today at Greenmount ..... absolutely beautiful FJ custom - bloody nice job by this fastidious owner 
Yeah cool custom "Humpy" Pup, I like that chromies "n" all Looks like you're getting out and about up there mate,good on ya
The owner had put a heap of time into her Al - we said you'd love it when you saw it 
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low down 61 Lincoln Continental with torque thrust 2s,WW's and bullet caps
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So that's the new ride Pup. How long did you and mac practice for that pic?
4 hours Mac kept doing his hair every 15 minutes
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The owner had put a heap of time into her Al - we said you'd love it when you saw it
Yeah,I love it mate.Looks like a mix of 60s Custom/Drag racer.There was a lot Custom and Drag car FX/Js back then I've got a lot of old magazines of them.I used to go to Castlereagh Drags in western Sydney as a kid because my mate I still surf with these days father used to race,ah the good old days
Al G I love how peeps like you and Pup can rattle off all that info
Here is Pup as a grom. Engine grease on his weeties, milk is for bitches
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Al G I love how peeps like you and Pup can rattle off all that info
Here is Pup as a grom. Engine grease on his weeties, milk is for bitches
Haha,Pup as a grom,he'd fit well into that chopped VW drag car ,drag slicks look awesome under it
Had a mate at Nambucca Heads who had an all steel chopped early 60s VW bug body,pretty sure he's still got it!...
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Al G I love how peeps like you and Pup can rattle off all that info
Here is Pup as a grom. Engine grease on his weeties, milk is for bitches
That's pretty wicked isn't it brother and actually you're not all that far from the truth either .... Dad had a few VW's including Beetles , Kombi's ,1 Karmann Ghia that Mum owned , a Passat ..... but the crowning glory was the Beach Buggy I learnt to drive in pretty early on .... when he built it I had to get underneath & pass him his tools and hold parts etc .... the chassis was simply an old beetle customized , the shell a mainly fiberglass kit
Ahhh days I will cherish forever brother
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chrispy said..
Al G I love how peeps like you and Pup can rattle off all that info
Here is Pup as a grom. Engine grease on his weeties, milk is for bitches
That's pretty wicked isn't it brother and actually you're not all that far from the truth either .... Dad had a few VW's including Beetles , Kombi's ,1 Karmann Ghia that Mum owned , a Passat ..... but the crowning glory was the Beach Buggy I learnt to drive in pretty early on .... when he built it I had to get underneath & pass him his tools and hold parts etc .... the chassis was simply an old beetle customized , the shell a mainly fiberglass kit
Ahhh days I will cherish forever brother
That's cool Pup,my old man was into Holdens but not really the car type 
,loved his Footy .I reckon it would have been great helping dad out on the projects
I remember when I grew up in Western Sydney back in the early 70s just around the corner from Liverpool Speedway(no wonder I've got a bit of revhead in me) there was a VW mechanic and he had a Type 3 ute he made out of a wagon,very cool It was his workshop truck.Then there was the VW drag car legend Pete Keegan he had a shop in Wollongong.
I grew up near westmead speedway, my favs were the little midgets, don't know what sort of motors they had in them, probably out of a bike, but the racing was always so close, no one ever got too far in front.
the highlight was at the end of the day when all the kids were allowed to run onto the track to pick up the throw away goggles, in those days they didn't use taped on tear always, these were like real goggles with cheap elastic straps on them. they were pretty useless as eye protection, but we would still wear them when we were in our billy carts and pretend we were racing speedway down the Lockwood rd hill.
We would go pretty well, until the reality of having no brakes at the bottom would set in, hell I lost some bark on the corner at the bottom of that hill, and then fat old Mr Johnson who dob us in to mum.
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I grew up near westmead speedway, my favs were the little midgets, don't know what sort of motors they had in them, probably out of a bike, but the racing was always so close, no one ever got too far in front.
the highlight was at the end of the day when all the kids were allowed to run onto the track to pick up the throw away goggles, in those days they didn't use taped on tear always, these were like real goggles with cheap elastic straps on them. they were pretty useless as eye protection, but we would still wear them when we were in our billy carts and pretend we were racing speedway down the Lockwood rd hill.
We would go pretty well, until the reality of having no brakes at the bottom would set in, hell I lost some bark on the corner at the bottom of that hill, and then fat old Mr Johnson who dob us in to mum.
Geez OB,Westmead Speedway, I first went there when I was about 5,I vaguely remember 32,34 Ford sedans and coupes(stock cars) with the steel tubing around them racing there.
What suburb did you grow up in OB 
,I grew up in Fairfield West!...
I'm pretty sure the Midgets had motor bike engines originally but you could put a 4 or 6 cylinder in them but no bigger than a 6 cylinder,I'll have to research that!..
The legendary Scott Dillon was a Speedway driver,starting off in midgets then progressing to a Rambler,I met him a few times at Coffs and got a pic with him!.. 
Merrylands, my mum is 90 and still lives there in a village with people she used to go to kindergarten with, hers will probably be the last generation where that will ever happen, unless you went to kindy in Beirut..
It wasn't those type of speedway cars, the ones I recall were even smaller than that, almost like go-karts, I think they may have called them micro midgets.
I remember the tin top hot rods, they were mean nasty looking things, and they had bars all around the wheels, just like dodgem cars, but even back then I used to think they were too big for the track and there was never enough overtaking.
Back then there were some people who just dominated and it would get a bit boring, like in the solo bikes, Jim Airey was just impossible to beat, at the sydney showground they would start him half a lap behind in a 3 or 4 lap race and he would be in front after 2 laps.
That must have been around February 1966 because I vaguely recall being at the Showground when decimal currency first came in and I also think that may have been the year we saw a side car passenger get killed right in front of us.
Sorry to go so far off topic, but 1966 was an important year for me because it's the year that I spent 2 weeks surfing while on holiday up in woopi during the dying days of the classic longboard era, then I never surfed again for many decades.
The love of longboards never left me, but the love of cars did when I realized how much time I wasted on them, and the love of bikes left me after the first couple of people I knew closely were killed by them.
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Merrylands, my mum is 90 and still lives there in a village with people she used to go to kindergarten with, hers will probably be the last generation where that will ever happen, unless you went to kindy in Beirut..
It wasn't those type of speedway cars, the ones I recall were even smaller than that, almost like go-karts, I think they may have called them micro midgets.
I remember the tin top hot rods, they were mean nasty looking things, and they had bars all around the wheels, just like dodgem cars, but even back then I used to think they were too big for the track and there was never enough overtaking.
Back then there were some people who just dominated and it would get a bit boring, like in the solo bikes, Jim Airey was just impossible to beat, at the sydney showground they would start him half a lap behind in a 3 or 4 lap race and he would be in front after 2 laps.
That must have been around February 1966 because I vaguely recall being at the Showground when decimal currency first came in and I also think that may have been the year we saw a side car passenger get killed right in front of us.
Sorry to go so far off topic, but 1966 was an important year for me because it's the year that I spent 2 weeks surfing while on holiday up in woopi during the dying days of the classic longboard era, then I never surfed again for many decades.
The love of longboards never left me, but the love of cars did when I realized how much time I wasted on them, and the love of bikes left me after the first couple of people I knew closely were killed by them.
Brother - that first paragraph of yours almost brought a well of tears in me .... it's a thing that is fast disappearing in our society if it hasn't already .... God bless your Mum Obs mate .... and thankyou for that post 
