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[Barry Boor]

The contents of your shed are all very well, Repco, but I'm far more interested to know how often you play basketball? And do you play one-on-one with the wife? (or is that too personal a question?)

[Repco22]

The contents of your shed are all very well, Repco, but I'm far more interested to know how often you play basketball? And do you play one-on-one with the wife? (or is that too personal a question?)

No Barry, but I was dribbling at the thought of all those dollies.

[andyrp26]

[quote name='Barry Boor' date='Jul 31 2012, 07:24' post='5858618']
When this thread begun I think there should have been a certain degree of clarification as to what constitutes a SHED and what is technically a GARAGE.

To me, anything that has doors big enough to pass a vehicle through is a garage, not a shed.
OK. That being the case this is my shed.

Edited by andyrp26, 31 July 2012 - 18:26.

[E1pix]

Cool "shed" Mr. Waller. Love it. An apt demonstration that no shed is complete without a Waller on the Wall.

Yes, I thought that was a midget grill. Many fond memories of those for me.

Pardon my dumbosity... hard to tell, is that a Shetland pony or a goat?

And now for the Big Q: can you dunk like Michael Jordan? If not, have you a springboard so I can show you how?

[GMACKIE]

OK. That being the case this is my shed.

Hey, Erol.....did you spot the 'Qualcast' mower?

[David Birchall]

Repco22: The piece hanging to the left of the grill is the front/rear gearbox mainshaft seal housing from a from a 1959 Alpha DeCredenza FWD Zamboni lawnmower...

Close?

[fredeuce]

Repco22,
Interesting that you have some speedway items in stock in your shed. That is something that is of interest to me.

Here are some shot of the inside of my shed with "Pool Room" up stairs. Oddly, no pool table!

Edited by fredeuce, 31 July 2012 - 22:43.

[Repco22]

Cool "shed" Mr. Waller. Love it. An apt demonstration that no shed is complete without a Waller on the Wall.

Yes, I thought that was a midget grill. Many fond memories of those for me.

Pardon my dumbosity... hard to tell, is that a Shetland pony or a goat?

And now for the Big Q: can you dunk like Michael Jordan?;) If not, have you a springboard so I can show you how?

E1, Re animals; I'm not sure but there are two of them and they eat like horses. My most terrifying time was when I had three classic cars under an open carport and a woman moved in next door with a goat which used to escape. Goats have a habit of climbing onto cars.....
Thanks for the offer but dunking biscuits is about my limit.
Damn you David Birchall! I thought no one would EVER get it!
Hi Fredeuce. We've spoken on the phone. I saw your midget on the HAMB forum. It must be the only one in the world with a De Dion rear end, or did that two cylinder one that Jack Brabham sold to Kym Bonython have one too? Not strictly a speedway car though as I think JB was building it for himself to run in hillclimbs as well.
Regarding 'sheds'; bets might not be all in yet but yours is looking to me like an easy winner.

[Barry Boor]

By a country mile, Rod.

Now that IS a shed....

[RTH]

Then of course you need a shed to keep some of your best motorsport magazines

Edited by RTH, 01 August 2012 - 06:50.

[mercnut]

Repco22,
Interesting that you have some speedway items in stock in your shed. That is something that is of interest to me.

Here are some shot of the inside of my shed with "Pool Room" up stairs. Oddly, no pool table!

interesting rear end,tim hocking (recentlydeceased)in brisbane tried a de dion rear in the ex ray redding v8 daimler midget (for sale on brian darby's vintage speedway w/site) using the centre section from a halibrand diff & suspended with air pump up shocks,didn't work, !!incidently i owned the other v8 daimler midget in brisbane,ex keith blicharski.

[Repco22]

By a country mile, Rod.

Now that IS a shed....

Barry! It can't be. It's got a car in it!
Mercnut; That's interesting. Rear-engined midgets didn't seem to work either.

[Lee Nicolle]

Turner?

I thought so, I saw one like that recently

[Lee Nicolle]

A great thread thanks Rich, but aren't there some sad cases out there in Fantasyland!


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Is that rust under the Alfa's bumper?
Is the Pope a Catholic?


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Projects, projects...


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Hercus lathe, made in Adelaide and copied from US 9 inch South Bend. Once common in Australian schools.


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Those bits of aluminium between the Maybach panel and the clock are from the ex-Tony Gaze HWM-Jag sports. I'm thinking if the car ever gets chopped up with an oxy torch and disposed of in the privacy of a stately English home I'll have the basis of an authentic and valuable reconstruction. In the meantime I try not to think about it and busy myself with other projects.
Collectors' Quiz; First to correctly identify the item hanging to the left of the grille wins a guided tour of my shed. Tea/coffee incl. Cryptic clue; It turns anti-clockwise and is associated with the grille.

Midget or early Sprinter diff?
Those old Hercus lathes, exactly what I used at school.

[Lee Nicolle]

When this thread begun I think there should have been a certain degree of clarification as to what constitutes a SHED and what is technically a GARAGE.

To me, anything that has doors big enough to pass a vehicle through is a garage, not a shed.

I'd like to see other people's opinion of where one ends and the other begins.

Mind you, there are some extremely interesting things in some of these 'sheds'.

Barry, to me [and us Aussies] a shed is bigger the better. Mine is 40x20 ft, with a 20x20 mezzanine plus a 20x20 behind it. Far too small.
I used to have a 70x30, that was just nice. But the location was poor.

Edited by Lee Nicolle, 01 August 2012 - 11:40.

[Lee Nicolle]

interesting rear end,tim hocking (recentlydeceased)in brisbane tried a de dion rear in the ex ray redding v8 daimler midget (for sale on brian darby's vintage speedway w/site) using the centre section from a halibrand diff & suspended with air pump up shocks,didn't work, !!incidently i owned the other v8 daimler midget in brisbane,ex keith blicharski.

And I see the Morris Minor donation to speedway, the torsion bars and arms. My Supermod has them too. The old Snowy White car has them both ends.

[Repco22]

Midget or early Sprinter diff?
Those old Hercus lathes, exactly what I used at school.

Hi Lee. It's a midget diff.

[RTH]

Barry, to me [and us Aussies] a shed is bigger the better. Mine is 40x20 ft, with a 20x20 mezzanine plus a 20x20 behind it. Far too small.
I used to have a 70x30, that was just nice. But the location was poor.

Blimey Lee, something 70x30 in England would be classified as a Palace !

[E1pix]

E1, Re animals; I'm not sure but there are two of them and they eat like horses. My most terrifying time was when I had three classic cars under an open carport and a woman moved in next door with a goat which used to escape. Goats have a habit of climbing onto cars.....

Yes, goats can climb onto pretty much everything! In your case, that wouldn't be good.

The mountain variety we have here are astonishing, climbing things most people would need a rope for. We lost count at 55 in our camp at 12,500' once.

[brucemoxon]

It's called The Blokeatorium and One Day I'll Get It Sorted Out.

For now...











Plan is to shelve it all the way around, apart from windows and so on (and maybe the door - but that suggests I might let Other People come in...)

It's also got a TV Cable to it., its own shower and toilet and even a kitchenette.





Bruce Moxon

[TooTall]

It's called The Blokeatorium and One Day I'll Get It Sorted Out.

For now...











Plan is to shelve it all the way around, apart from windows and so on (and maybe the door - but that suggests I might let Other People come in...)


It's also got a TV Cable to it., its own shower and toilet and even a kitchenette.


Bruce Moxon

That looks very much like my "office", which originally was an attached garage, so distantly related to a shed I 'spose.

Kurt O.

Edited by TooTall, 02 August 2012 - 02:46.

[David Birchall]

And your going to "improve" it?
How?

[brucemoxon]

And your going to "improve" it?
How?

Like I said, more shelving, for both books and models (glass-fronted cabinets for the models - of which I have approaching 1,000). Better lighting for modelling and painting. TV. Stereo. A pole. Some brewing equipment. Humidor. An estrogen-detector/barrier (might make the pole redundant, of course).

The stereo and TV and DVD player are already down there, but it's all boxed up at the moment. And the stereo (an Akai I picked up for a song at a garage sale) has a turntable - out comes the vinyl..

Maybe a couch.




BM

[Barry Boor]

Hey, Bruce, do you collect old cameras? I have a bagful back in Wales that I'd love to see go to a good home.

Before I left for Malta, I almost dumped them but just couldn't do it.

[Lee Nicolle]

Blimey Lee, something 70x30 in England would be classified as a Palace !

I think Liz has a breakfast room larger than that, though she can afford the staff and heating I guess.

[brucemoxon]

Hey, Bruce, do you collect old cameras? I have a bagful back in Wales that I'd love to see go to a good home.

Before I left for Malta, I almost dumped them but just couldn't do it.

I do!

My uncle was a newspaper photographer and had a fantastic collection that was housed in his town's museum (Narrabri, about 500km North-West of Sydney). When he and my aunt moved to a retirement village the collection had to go - everything was labelled and clean - it was lovely. Anyway, he sold them for a song to a museum in a coastal town closer to Sydney. That place never displayed them properly - they were just tucked here and there about the place in nooks and crannies - labels were in the wrong places mis-identifying stuff or not there at all. Then the museum's owner split with his wife and the cameras were sold for even less, and in clumps or individually. There was some marvellous stuff in there - Speed Graphics, really old glass-plate cameras where you stuck your head under a hood and fired off flash powder to get a shot. Just great.

Anyway, Alf started again - he had a couple of dozen but got too old and sick. He gave me most of what you see here not long before he died. I've added a few here and there and I hope to one day get as many of them working as possible. At least one of the Box Brownies works, just got to get some 120 film and re-roll it onto the 620 spools. The bride tends to creep up behind me when I'm on Ebay and whacks me across the back of the head sometimes too. Some of these have been used on stage, as props for musicals and plays.

So yes, I collect old cameras, I guess! But surely there's a worthy collector closer to where they are?




BM

[brucemoxon]

That looks very much like my "office", which originally was an attached garage, so distantly related to a shed I 'spose.

Kurt O.

Definitely a shed. If you look carefully in the background of the last picture, you can see a spade...



BM

[Wirra]

Like I said, more shelving, for both books and models (glass-fronted cabinets for the models - of which I have approaching 1,000). Better lighting for modelling and painting. TV. Stereo. A pole. Some brewing equipment. Humidor. An estrogen-detector/barrier (might make the pole redundant, of course)...

Yeah, sure... And one day I'll finish that FIAT.

A quintessential part of having a shed is the 'gunna'. If ever you finished it you would have to start doing those repairs to the house... think about that.

[brucemoxon]

Yeah, sure... And one day I'll finish that FIAT.

A quintessential part of having a shed is the 'gunna'. If ever you finished it you would have to start doing those repairs to the house... think about that.

Oh bother...

Actually, I do have to so some painting here and there. And refinish the floor. And re-oil the back deck. And replace some of the boards. And fix the screen door. And put up blinds...

Thanks a LOT Peter!




Bruce

[Paul Rochdale]

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Mine is neither a garage nor a shed. I call it a 'workshop' as that's where I get work done. This is an old image as the bikes have been relegated to the old garage, the Rochdale Olympic has been replaced by a Lomax 223 under construction, the floor is carpeted and two old UPVC windows have been installed. I happen to like tidiness in a workshop as I am apt to lose stuff, much to my irritation.

Sheds are where I store lawnmowers(2), strimmers(3), lawn rakes, shredders(2), spades, shovels and assorted gardening tools, and car spares.

Edited by Paul Rochdale, 02 August 2012 - 09:48.

[RTH]

Very nice Paul .... any photos of the Rochdale ?

[ken devine]

Rod that is a great mural, No14 is Aub Melrose Austin 7 and no6 should be Barry Ranford in the Ranford Special.

[Paul Rochdale]

Very nice Paul .... any photos of the Rochdale ?

Not a good one. After years under a tarpaulin, she was at last under cover. I'd owned her for twenty years and had lost enthusiasm for restoring her so sold her to a man who owns 35 (really) Gilberns and then bought an unfinished Lomax 223 (three wheeler). This I am making progress with.
The workshop now has chipboards around the walls, windows, triple socket outlets, lighting, carpet, my collection of US motorcycle licence plates displayed, industrial compressor, an engineers lathe. In short, paradise, and the envy of my mates.

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PS I bought the workshop off eBay for £700, rented a 7.5 ton truck and travelled to Lancashire from Kent where we dismantled it, loaded it up and brought it home. I'd always wanted a timber workshop declining a friend's offer to build me a brick one. Wood is warm.

Edited by Paul Rochdale, 02 August 2012 - 09:58.

[Tony Matthews]

Wood is warm.

Especially when it's on fire...

[Repco22]

Especially when it's on fire...

Oh Tony! You are a one!
Ken Devine; Thanks. Years ago, Peter Briggs and I discussed a mural for his motor museum depicting WA's racing history. After a while we both seemed to lose interest and probably just as well or I'd still be painting it!

[RTH]

Not a good one. After years under a tarpaulin, she was at last under cover. I'd owned her for twenty years and had lost enthusiasm for restoring her so sold her to a man who owns 35 (really) Gilberns and then bought an unfinished Lomax 223

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Interesting car, GRP moncoque I think , and pre dated the Elite, looked not unlike a Porsche 356 coupe they must have been very light, pity they could not have kept going and developed the concept further.

http://en.wikipedia..../Rochdale_(car)

Edited by RTH, 02 August 2012 - 12:14.

[David Beard]

Interesting car, GRP moncoque I think , and pre dated the Elite, looked not unlike a Porsche 356 coupe they must have been very light, pity they could not have kept going and developed the concept further.

http://en.wikipedia..../Rochdale_(car)

I don't think it pre dated the Elite Richard? But there were earlier Rochdales, probably before the Elite, which were essentially bodies for Ford chassis based specials though. (But I'm no expert, of course)

[Paul Rochdale]

Yes, as a former Rochdale OC magazine editor, let me say that the Olympic was a quite remarkable little car. It didn't predate the Elite, also a GRP monocoque, but was much simpler to manufacture. Designed by Richard Parker, the Phase I was based on the Riley 1.5 with front torsion bar suspension and engine, whilst the Phase II has a Ford Cortina GT engine, Triumph Spitfire suspension and an opening rear hatch. Rochdale Motor Panels had spent a lot for a small firm to develop the Olympic, whereas the earlier cars were just rebodied Ford Populars, and were loath to spend more on developing the car further. When Parker was enticed by Chapman into going to Lotus, and the tax saving was dropped for kitcars, customers preferred a Mini or Anglia than an Olympic. The writing was on the wall.

[Wilyman]

Rod,
Intrigued by the finned alloy brake drum. Healy accessory ?
Blast! I couldn't identify the midget hub carrier. The anti-clockwise clue got me. The Kurtis look alike grille, is that locally made?
Their early grilles had horizontal bars with "ears". But you knew that eh?

Wily. *118

[Repco22]

Rod,
Intrigued by the finned alloy brake drum. Healy accessory ?
Blast! I couldn't identify the midget hub carrier. The anti-clockwise clue got me. The Kurtis look alike grille, is that locally made?
Their early grilles had horizontal bars with "ears". But you knew that eh?;)

Wily. *118

Hi John. Those brake drums are 10" X 1.5" with alloy shoes and are ex-Fiat but I don't know which model. The grille is an Australian casting from a Kurtis midget grille. I'm not aware of Kurtis midgets having the type of grille you describe but that sort of thing was often seen on his early Indy cars.
BTW, sorry to go off topic briefly but have you ever laid eyes on possibly the last word in US, razzle- dazzle, chrome-plated Indy grilles? It appeared on the Agajanian/Ruttman car that failed to qualify for the '58 Indy. It was a modified Kurtis 500G and the grille looked something like this;


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[ianselva]

Rod,
Intrigued by the finned alloy brake drum. Healy accessory ?
Blast! I couldn't identify the midget hub carrier. The anti-clockwise clue got me. The Kurtis look alike grille, is that locally made?
Their early grilles had horizontal bars with "ears". But you knew that eh?;)

Wily. *118

I think the drums are after-market ones for Fiat 1100 as fitted to Italian Formula Juniors, as I had a set on a 1958 Volpini. I cant recall the maker.

Ian

[Repco22]

I think the drums are after-market ones for Fiat 1100 as fitted to Italian Formula Juniors, as I had a set on a 1958 Volpini. I cant recall the maker.

Ian

Thanks Ian. That's been a mystery for a long time.

[Wilyman]

Hi John. Those brake drums are 10" X 1.5" with alloy shoes and are ex-Fiat but I don't know which model. The grille is an Australian casting from a Kurtis midget grille. I'm not aware of Kurtis midgets having the type of grille you describe but that sort of thing was often seen on his early Indy cars.
BTW, sorry to go off topic briefly but have you ever laid eyes on possibly the last word in US, razzle- dazzle, chrome-plated Indy grilles? It appeared on the Agajanian/Ruttman car that failed to qualify for the '58 Indy. It was a modified Kurtis 500G and the grille looked something like this;


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Geez! That Indy grille looks like the result of someone's nightmare.

Thanks for the alloy brake drum detail. Yes definately Fiat 1100 of pre and post war design. Any F jnr of the post war design eg Volpini as mentioned would have had these. Might include Cisitalia as well.
The 1952 Simca Huit that I owned had finned alloy drums and alloy shoes, beautifully made. The drums didn't have the large side drillings. The Simca of that period still had Fiat connections.

Wily *118

[Repco22]

Geez! That Indy grille looks like the result of someone's nightmare.

Thanks for the alloy brake drum detail. Yes definately Fiat 1100 of pre and post war design. Any F jnr of the post war design eg Volpini as mentioned would have had these. Might include Cisitalia as well.
The 1952 Simca Huit that I owned had finned alloy drums and alloy shoes, beautifully made. The drums didn't have the large side drillings. The Simca of that period still had Fiat connections.

Wily *118

That's good to know John. The alloy shoes do have 'FIAT' on them and I've since found pics of the 1100 drums. Those holes appear to have been added, possibly by the Ayres bothers. They are not perfectly round and look to be too close to the circumference for a factory job. The late Jack Ayres was going to use them in a special.
BTW, the linings are only about 1.25" wide.


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