Period Transporter (Aus) Suggestions

[deano59]

or a old j model beford truck i think it is like the old marked gardeners used to use

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by deano59

or a old j model beford truck i think it is like the old marked gardeners used to use

Hey Deano...do we know each other??
The first vehicle I drove legally on the road was a Bedford J3, and my father was a market gardener! (...and the first vehicle I drove illegally on the road was the Bedford's predecessor, a Diamond T)
Cheers,
Glen

[deano59]

Originally Posted by xb-60

Hey Deano...do we know each other??
The first vehicle I drove legally on the road was a Bedford J3, and my father was a market gardener! (...and the first vehicle I drove illegally on the road was the Bedford's predecessor, a Diamond T)
Cheers,
Glen

my first job when i left school was on the market gardens near virginia i worked for a few of them but mostly for cocci bros who interestingly enough went into the cobra business for a while classic glass cars i think they called themselves . i still live in the area and drop in on them from time to time ..
those old j trucks you could not kill them i was 15 yrs old and gave them a floggin going from one path of produce to another paddock no license and if the two wells copper caught ya you would just give him a box of lettuces or a bag of carrots and away ya went lol im sure he used to catch me once a month when his pantry was empty .
they was good times hard work but good times non the less.
cheers dean

[xb-60]

Dean....the Two Wells copper was probably the same one who spoke to me a couple of times at Port Gawler beach when I had to try to explain that no, I wasn't racing my kart on the beach. The J3 was my racecar (OK, go-kart) transport. It's OK spookypt, there is some relativity to the thread.
The first Bedford J3 did easy U-ies, hanging the tail out in the Virginia main street (duals on the rear, no load, wet road) and I even remember trying a second to third gearchange mid U-ie. That J3 met its end late one night in a head-on with a drunk driver on PW road. A couple of messages there...if you drink, don't drive, and if you drive, don't hit a truck, even a little one. My dad was OK physically, the drunk driver died.
That first J3 I used for Christmas hayrides on the Virginia or Elizabeth backblocks, or One Tree Hill and Snake Gully.
The replacement J was a smaller one with singles on the rear, and it was really only half the truck.
Cheers,
Glen

[xb-60]

Spook - I have another suggestion, and it's not a Bedford J3...

What about a furniture/removal van?

See this picture....



Ok, yes that's Enzo, and it's a Fiat not a Ferrari, but look in the background to the left. What about that? It's one of Ferrari's F1 transporters, but it sure looks like your typical removalists van, yeah?

Cheers,
Glen

[spookypt]

Thanks Glen. How's all those "clips" on the RHS against the wall!

[Aussie Mike]

That's a Fiat 132. I had one of them back in 1986. Rustiest car I've ever owned. What a pile of crap.

[deano59]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

That's a Fiat 132. I had one of them back in 1986. Rustiest car I've ever owned. What a pile of crap.

i thought you had more taste mike than to have owned a fix it again tony

[Aussie Mike]

I wasn't always this classy.

It was the 80s. I was swayed by that Fiat twin cam motor and the cosmo mags it was wearing. Plus i couldnt afford the 124 that i really wanted.

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

I wasn't always this classy....

Mike - you want class? Should have gone with one of these...





Cheers,
Glen

[Aussie Mike]

Hard to tell what it is. It looks like an Alfa Romeo Alfetta but I could be wrong.

Always and still do like Alfas

[spookypt]

Mike the pic is of a large aerial with a medium sized European car attached.

My mate loved FIATS. Used to race his rego'd 124 around Lakeside in the 80's. Hit the guardrail one weekend and drove it around for the rest of its life with the front LHS guard stoved in with "lakeside Victim" written on the side in white ink.

Fella down the road from my mums house had the largest wrecking yard of Fiats on the East Coast. Paul Franjoza!!! Nothing more Italian. Should of heard his mother go off when she got angry. Woa

[xb-60]

A close up...

[750hp]

Here's a pretty tasty trio being auctioned at Goodwood in September. Love the look of this transporter!

[750hp]

Dad tried to talk me into getting a 124AC Sport as my first car. I ended up with an XY Fairmont with a 351 Clevo.
I think I chose well

[Rog246]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

That's a Fiat 132. I had one of them back in 1986. Rustiest car I've ever owned. What a pile of crap.

Hey come on Mike that was not rust !!
It was just the 1980's version of Italian planned obsolesence

[Aussie Mike]

I heard that at Fiat motor wreckers the would just get a couple of big blokes to grab the drip rails on each side of the car. They'd shake the car vigorously back and forth for a few minutes and then sift the resulting big pile of rust flakes for salvageable parts.

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

I heard that at Fiat motor wreckers the would just get a couple of big blokes to grab the drip rails on each side of the car. They'd shake the car vigorously back and forth for a few minutes and then sift the resulting big pile of rust flakes for salvageable parts.

Well....I did say if you want class, you need an Alfa. Seriously though, I bought it at 32k km / 5 years old. It's now pushing 40 years old, and it still has the clutch that it left the factory with. It had a repaint about 15 years ago, and a replacement rebuilt engine (only because the rear main seal was leaking 'significantly').

Back to you Spook. Any plans firming up?

[dhs.buckley]

I had an Alfa 33 4x4 wagon with twin webers, it certainly was a spritely little thing.
Doesn't Clarkson say if you have not owned an Alfa then your not really a car person?
its still sitting in my fathers shed with about 130,000klm on it, only reason for retirement was a leaking radiator.

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by dhs.buckley

I had an Alfa 33 4x4 wagon with twin webers, it certainly was a spritely little thing.
Doesn't Clarkson say if you have not owned an Alfa then your not really a car person?
its still sitting in my fathers shed with about 130,000klm on it, only reason for retirement was a leaking radiator.

I think Clarkson also said "Everyone should drive an Alfa Romeo once in their lifetime....but only once"
....I obviously disregarded his advice.

Cheers,
Glen