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Southern Cross Rally, 1971


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#101 cheapracer

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Posted 14 June 2011 - 03:03

..or looking to see if the dropped Weber jet made it all the way through....


Or the missing Weber DCOE40 choke hairpin clip ....

Almost there with the beams Seldo, has turned out very interesting - front and rear ;)

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#102 seldo

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 02:00

Or the missing Weber DCOE40 choke hairpin clip ....

Almost there with the beams Seldo, has turned out very interesting - front and rear ;)

Must be time for some more pics...:)

#103 275 GTB-4

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 11:33

When mum and dad were pioneering grey nomads they were in Port Macquarie at the start of a Southern Cross (year?). They took a few slides on Agfacolor and most have ‘blued’ badly. Here is one that survived.

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John McNicoll was a Fiat dealer in Fyshwick and lived in Chifley ACT....possibly from Cooma NSW :wave:

#104 seldo

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 12:33

John McNicoll was a Fiat dealer in Fyshwick and lived in Chifley ACT....possibly from Cooma NSW :wave:

John was also the Ford dealer in Cooma. Was our entrant and main backer at Bathurst in '71

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Posted 22 July 2011 - 12:25

No eye deer where or what...but what a fabulous shot of a fully committed Bugger!!

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#106 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 01:12

No eye deer where or what...but what a fabulous shot of a fully committed Bugger!!

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I think that landing is going to hurt wheels turned left and the car is launching that way

#107 lyntonh

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 01:03

Some interest is being shown in this thread,

so I've just refreshed several photos that had fallen off imageshack again.



#108 GreenMachine

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Posted 24 September 2016 - 02:31

Thanks Lynton, much appreciated. I hope others might follow your lead ...

I noted the reference to Gerry Ball upthread. I lived near Canberra, and had a Datsun 1600, and he did some work on it to tweak the handling - it became a very nice fast road car.