Remember when.....

[Wilesy]

Remember when…….you could buy a rifle at K-Mart? :o

I was 17 and told the girl behind the counter that I was 18, and I bought my first double barreled shot gun! ;D

Buying 5 packets of shells at the same counter, and carrying it to the boot of my brand new second hand EH Holden filled with bog….and heading bush with my mate to go shooting…..and I am only 42, so that was only back in 1978…………… ::)

My best mate Roger is 15 years older than me, and he has a son 10 years younger than me, and our worlds in which we grew up are that far apart, you wouldn’t believe it.

I used to buy doubled bunger fire works with my lunch money and letting them off in the girl’s toilet……

You would go to jail these day’s if you even talked about doing stuff like that……

10 years is a long time really…….10 years ago there was windows 3.1 :o

Boy, am I glad I grew up when I did.....I can't imagine the memories of the kids today thinking about their high scores on playstation 2.....

lol.. how true wilesy..
unfortunately i missed out on buying a shottie from k fart.. but i sure remember buying bungers from the wog shop ( not used in a derogatory manner...) ( this also frustrates me.. why can't we speak like we would in private..everyone called it wogshop including the bloke that owned the joint!!!)don't get me started on that..lol..
anyway.. yeah i remember buying bungers from the local fish and chip fine dining establishment.. :-\

[Wilesy]

ROTFLOL,

The wog shop...I remember them...ours was called Calligerouse's....he had a finger missing.

You used to be able to pinch the Coca-Cola bottles from his back door, and bring them back into the shop and get your $.5c for them and buy a heap of cobber lollies 8) 2 for a cent

If you were a woos...you would buy musk sticks ::)

LOL.. cobber lollies.. they were the best!!
no musk sticks for me mate ;D ;D ;D

Im only 36, but I remember the milkman clip clopping up the street early morn, and the baker.

I remember guns at K Mart,

20c of chips, and 5c potato cakes, and winfield reds were $1.30 a pack of 20.....

There even used to be boxes of lollies called FAGS which were like cigarettes in a box, white with a red end, which have had a name change these days too.....

[Wilesy]

Lol,

Or the freckles my red headed mate used to buy....

Everyone back then had a red headed mate with freckles.

You would buy them and race away on your Malvern Star with your banana seat and sissy bar....

Sigh....

[johnn0]

...........and u didn't have to buy a gourmet tomato to get one that tasted like a tomato!

LMAO>. the fags.. they were a classic.. and you'd have one hanging out ya gob while riding that said malvern star with the banana seat ( with a card in the spokes! )
no stack hats then either!!!

only 21. probably the play station memories :'(

[Guts]

I remember going bush and IF!!!!!!!! you seen somebody with 5!!!!!! BFG muddies he was the MAN!!!!! and 33`s well that used to make you go behind a tree and have a pull ::)

I`m only 28 so I don`t have the memories of some here but I can remember the thunderbirds ;D

[slowlux]

i remember when i was a young boy going bush, and seeing the 95 hiluxs with lift kits and snorkels, i thought they were the biggest trucks in the world! of course at this time i was only a little bit bigger than the BF G's they had on. of course im only 16.

hilux, thats better than playstation memories ;D ;D ;D

thunderbirds are go.
or the star-trekkin film clip
"that's life jim but not as we know"

[Wilesy]

I remember me and my red headed mate Garry, treddlying on our push bikes for miles out of Armidale to a place called blue hole….

We both lay on the ground and drank clear water to our hearts content from the clear water stream.

As we were lying there, there was a little penny turtle swimming past us in the water we were drinking…..

You wouldn’t even wash your hands in the local creek these days…

The beauty of growing up in the country.

Walking through the bush as a 10 year old with your slug gun looking and feeling like a king with your rifle over your shoulder, ready to pop any unsuspecting bird or rabbit that may threaten our lives….

[slowlux]

ahhh yes, the memories of young boys

[Wilesy]

Oh...

That's a worry....I have memories of young girls :-*

boy im only 24 and wow all the things we did as kids !!
anyone remember the old spud guns??
well i still got mine in original condition and now they make ones that actually fire a whole spud got one of them to but !
wow just amazing of how things change i remember the first computer i owend was run off tapes and not discs!!!
woooow~~~~

[slowlux]

Oh...

That's a worry....I have memories of young girls :-*


no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no thats not what i meant! i meant us being young bioys and our memories

mmm spud gun, just made a thread bout that last nite. am bruised today from explosion ;D

mmm spud gun, just made a thread bout that last nite. am bruised today from explosion ;D

i have only had one blow apart on me but i have used metho for so long tried aerostart for a while not a big bang!@!
we put 11 kgs of rotten oranges through one and on the last one boom the barrel was like rubber and we still let it go only thing if i get caught with mine ill loose all my real guns !
pitty how in some states they are ilegal and others not

Oh...

That's a worry....I have memories of young girls :-*


no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no thats not what i meant! i meant us being young bioys and our memories


ROFLMAO... surrrreeee hilux ;)
if the hilux is a rockin don't come a knockin ;D.. lol.. j/k mate

penny turtles.. i remember them.. funny ya don't see these things now..lol..well actually there are no turtles here :-\.. but ya know what i mean..lol
p.s my red headed mate was a shocker.. he was always comin up with new schemes.. and he was like that well into his twenty's.. haven't seen him for years though..lol

[luxute]

You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever ;D

your only young and stupid once, after that your just stupid ;D

[Wilesy]

Oh...

That's a worry....I have memories of young girls :-*


no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no thats not what i meant! i meant us being young bioys and our memories


ROTFLMAO ;D http://images.animfactory.com/animations/people_m_z/miscellaneous/bean_laughing_md_wht.gif

[Wilesy]

.....

The Thunderbirds movie is being made as we speak...

Everything old is new again,....

Though my 20" dragster with banana seat, 3 sp shifter on the knacker bar hasnt made a comeback yet....

And 20 yr ago I had a 45 series tray witht he back cut off at the shckles, hot 350, 2" body lift, 60 gearbox and t/case bronco power steering, 35" bf MT's 4w disc brakes, drilled rear studs, modified high mount etc etc, and the Cross Country Jeep Club were the only other few serious trucks around then.....

[Emo]

treddlying on our push bikes


Gee, I haven't heard that term for a while. I had a dragster with the banana seat and the three speed T-Bar shift. Can't remember the brand but I remember that it cost about $24 in 1972 and I got it at the Woolworths store. I got a blue one and my brother got a red one.

[Wilesy]

The bloke next door to where we lived had just bought a brand new Leyland P76 Targa Florio...with stripes on it just like Starsky & Hutch.....

We thought he was just the richest guy ::)

I nearly (If I could afford it) bought a Grand Cherokee Cheif...Remember the Chief.....

I see that Holden has brought back the panelvan :P

May not be a Sandman, but looks Ok though.

wow...... all these flash backs!!! I remember when i left skewl and started working, a pack winfield 20's cost 21 cents and a litre of petrol was 18 cents...... penny bungers were 1 cent each and thunder bungers were 5 cents each. The newspaper cost 12 cents, and a postage stamp was 20 cents........ wow.......
listening to Kiss and the music that was REAL music back in the 70's, hangin out with your friends on the corner under the street light until 2am and we never had to vandalise anything...... You could get yourself wiped out on a bottle of Brandivino for about a buck 50, blackberry nip was about 3 bux a bottle and a carton of beer was less than 10 bux....... *sigh* memories
I also had the dragster bike with the 3 speed "ball tearer" stick shift, the sissy bar at the back... and the "ape hanger" handlebars. If you were any good.... you turned yer bike into a chopper and extended the front forks, i guess an earlier lift kit for yer bike ;D i had a bike for years and years that i extended TWICE the normal length... i thought i was the ducks guts cuz everybody looked at me when i rode past...... they were more than likely thinking what a tool i was.... not in awe as i used to think hehehe
Oh... i forgot the ammo from K-Mart.... i got my 22 semi auto from K-Mart... 5 bux for a box of 50 shells..... over the counter, back in the days when it cost 5 bux for a shooters licence and you got it over the counter hehe my how things have changed

[Wilesy]

Lol,

A flaggon of wine...

Kiss eh...I didn't think you were the Bay City Rollers type of bloke :o

70's music...now that's music 8)

my first car was a 1969 HB Torana... all 1.3 litres of pure vauxhall muscle car HAHAHAHAHA i actually had 2 of them!!!

[Wilesy]

Lol,

Mine was an EH 179 3 on the tree.....

I was so convinced it would beat my mates Valiant Pacer V8 Auto....I am glad I didn't race him.

I couldn't afford a radio, so I had a transistor (Sanyo) hanging from the rear view mirror, and white fur glued to the dash...YuK!

[Sir4x4]

The Thunderbirds movie is being made as we speak...

Everything old is new again,....

Though my 20" dragster with banana seat, 3 sp shifter on the knacker bar hasnt made a comeback yet....


Check this out.................................THERE BACK :o 8) ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3400205.stm

[Sir4x4]

My first car was a blue EK Holden wagon with a white roof and it had an 8track stereo in it 8) 8) 8)

i see a pattern here... my first car was a 64 EH station wagon.. with timber sports steering wheel..the back all decked out like a shaggin wagon. a 179 bored out to a 182 ( i used to love saying that for some reason..lol)
and it was a fair dinkum cop magnet, i got pulled over every saturday night.. the army of mates hangin out the back with the tailgate down didn't help..lol

aahhhhhhh 8 track....... i had one of those :-X Was given to me by an uncle who put one of those new fangled cassette players into his HQ wagon..... it came with 12 cartridges!!! I was stoked!!!

My first car was a mark 1 escort, which I worked on with a v8 conversion before getting my licence, but got an XD wagon, lowered lots, dragway 10" and 8" wheels, and decked the inside out black carpet, black apolstery, huge stereo, twin chevy pipes, was nearly new at the time.

My gruntwheel before cars wad a mongoose cromo framed, with graphite wheels, which was a $1200 bike back then, grade 6 I was doing one morning, and 2 arvo paper rounds earning $56 a week, and years later started my builders apprenticeship, working 40 hours for $86 a week.... :'(

whoa!!! 86 bux!!! my first year wage as an apprentice Fiiter & Machinist was $59 per week.... i payed 5 cents tax out of that LOL

[Wilesy]

Geez, That's big money...I was earning $55.00 a week including saturday mornings as an apprentice butcher....

I think my car payments on the EH was $40.00 a week!

Didn't leave much left to take the girls out with >:(

It was Green with a white roof ( Insert vomit icon here...) shaked like buggery at 65 miles per hour...

Wasn't as rich as you blokes here...

Geez, That's big money...I was earning $55.00 a week including saturday mornings as an apprentice butcher....

I think my car payments on the EH was $40.00 a week!

Didn't leave much left to take the girls out with >:(

It was Green with a white roof ( Insert vomit icon here...) shaked like buggery at 65 miles per hour...

Wasn't as rich as you blokes here...


lol.. i saved up for my EH, paid $1200 for it and i was stoked.. drove it everywhere..
it used to pop out of gear at 50mph.. i soon got in a habit of holding her in third while driving ;D

[Wilesy]

That's exactly what I paid for mine ::)

Only Hire Purchase seemed easier to me than saving up for it >:(

I paid $4,990 drive away for my very first 4x4.....a brand new Suzuki LJ80......soft top 800cc 4 stroke.

geez, have times changed.

[splodge]

My first car was an old Renault 10 with a siezed motor. Dad tried to convince me to get it going but it wasn't flash enough. I ended up with a beaten up Chrysler Galant which I crashed into a mile marker (remember them) post a week after I got my P plates.

whoa!!! 86 bux!!! my first year wage as an apprentice Fiiter & Machinist was $59 per week.... i payed 5 cents tax out of that LOL


At least the building game went well at the time, got 3 pay rises to $110 a week, and a rdo in the first 6 weeks of work, always did saturday 1/2 days and 2hrs OT every day too, for the whole of my apprenticeship, as well as working my own business when I was 3rd yr, on, remember getting a new 86 XF fairmont ghia, 4 speed efi, with sunroof at the time, the big 3 peice stereo in dash....... was the ducks guts then LOL

[ozhumvee]

Mt first wheels was a series 2 morris minor, used to take it to Red Hill at Oxford Falls and go drving on the bush tracks. Carried two builders planks on the roof to use as bridges to get up and down the rough bits. Then got a EK Hydramatic, blew the motor and trans in a week, put a bored 149 grey motor in and a man 3 speed with impala floor shift. Went well but useless off road ;-)) nothing under 1500 rpm.
Then in 74 bought a 1970 3 speed 40 series for $3k, had Toyota's (mostly troopies) ever since until I bought the Humvee in 02. Got it registered march 03 after a lot of work doing RHD conversion and getting engineered to comply with ADR's.

Geez, That's big money...I was earning $55.00 a week including saturday mornings as an apprentice butcher....

I think my car payments on the EH was $40.00 a week!

Didn't leave much left to take the girls out with >:(

It was Green with a white roof ( Insert vomit icon here...) shaked like buggery at 65 miles per hour...

Wasn't as rich as you blokes here...


hehe i payed $110 for my first car, fortunately, i got it from a friends dad and he let me pay it off 10 bux per week. payed board to mum $25 and fuel in the car $10 and money for smokes (back when i used to smoke) and it left me with a small amount to head into Sydney on sat'dy nights to a lil club called "The Island Trader" down at Circular Quay, get shit faced on a few beers and get the train home at 2am when the place shut... was a ritual for me

[mrZ]

i remember the spud guns, we made a reducer so that we could shoot cocktail frankfurts!!

We have been looking at a conduit size handgun which would fire Kool Fruits or maltesers.... ;)

[Wilesy]

We have been looking at a conduit size handgun which would fire Kool Fruits or maltesers.... ;)


Lol,

I like the red ones.....Only wooses like the white ones :P

wow...... all these flash backs!!! I remember when i left skewl and started working, a pack winfield 20's cost 21 cents and a litre of petrol was 18 cents...... penny bungers were 1 cent each and thunder bungers were 5 cents each. The newspaper cost 12 cents, and a postage stamp was 20 cents........ wow.......
listening to Kiss and the music that was REAL music back in the 70's, hangin out with your friends on the corner under the street light until 2am and we never had to vandalise anything...... You could get yourself wiped out on a bottle of Brandivino for about a buck 50, blackberry nip was about 3 bux a bottle and a carton of beer was less than 10 bux....... *sigh* memories
I also had the dragster bike with the 3 speed "ball tearer" stick shift, the sissy bar at the back... and the "ape hanger" handlebars. If you were any good.... you turned yer bike into a chopper and extended the front forks, i guess an earlier lift kit for yer bike ;D i had a bike for years and years that i extended TWICE the normal length... i thought i was the ducks guts cuz everybody looked at me when i rode past...... they were more than likely thinking what a tool i was.... not in awe as i used to think hehehe
Oh... i forgot the ammo from K-Mart.... i got my 22 semi auto from K-Mart... 5 bux for a box of 50 shells..... over the counter, back in the days when it cost 5 bux for a shooters licence and you got it over the counter hehe my how things have changed


22 bullets are still 5 bucks for 50 !!!

remember the days when the simpsons was a show worth looking forward to, it was so politically incorect that anyone could have a laugh. now we've all changed and its hard for them to shock us.

[mrZ]

still a bit of a laugh now then

there are a few good ones out, like homer gettin stoned. spose they couldn't have aired that years ago?

[BLU-125]

In '75 a soft top LJ50 cost about $3150 & I was making about &150pw. The LJ was able to provide plenty of entertainment because if you had nothing to do on Saturday afternoons you could watch it rust...............

[alki]

In '75 a soft top LJ50 cost about $3150 & I was making about &150pw. The LJ was able to provide plenty of entertainment because if you had nothing to do on Saturday afternoons you could watch it rust...............




Was that new?
If it was,than cars were prety cheap than (comparing to income)
It would only take 21 weeks to earn new 4b.
At the moment,you'd need to earn at least $2500pw :o,to earn new 4b

[Wilesy]

Yeah, I should think that that would have been new.

$150.00 a week was a lot of money back then. But I suppose like everything, it depends on what you do for a living.

When I finished my apprenticeship in 1979 I was on $160.00 P/W and I started working for Goodyear Tyre Co as a Tyre Builder and earn’t in my first week $390.00 clear!

It was like getting my holiday pay every week, comparing what a tradesman was earning.

Though it was like working for the oil Companies, someone had to die for you to get in....

I was lucky, I walked in through the gate without the watchman seeing me and went right to admin and luckily they just fired someone that hour and gave me the job right away…talk about luck!

[zook37]

I remember when a can of coke was 50cents. :'(

[Wilesy]

I remember when Capstain Cigaretes were $.64c per packet of 10!

Then Wills Wild Woodbine were a staggering $.69c per packet :o

If you were real rich, you could afford the Marlboro Red :D

That's way back when I used to smoke......I am so glad I gave up, both of my parents died of smoking related deseases :'(

[zook37]

Marlboro reds use to be my poison of choice when I was a sales rep. Nothing to do but smoke to fill in time on those 8 hour stints out west. Gave it up when I took an office job. Still have the occasional puff at parties but would never take it up as a habit again. :(

[Wilesy]

That's how you spell Marlboro....

See, that long ago I forget....

Oh well, I only smoked Winny Red anyway.

70 per day......not good :o

remember the days when the simpsons was a show worth looking forward to, it was so politically incorect that anyone could have a laugh. now we've all changed and its hard for them to shock us.


I think the Simpsons isnt shock value to some, like the movie "The Castle" wasnt funny to some, because they are to close to home....... ;D :P

[Mike]

Sigh! when I started my apprenticeship as a carpenter & joiner, (1965) I was earning 8 pounds a week. ($16) 3 pounds to Mum for board, and still plenty to play with. My first car was an FC Holden.
Earlier, I remember the milky driving a horse and cart, and the milk was delivered in a billy. The baker didn't drive his cart, as the horse new when to walk and when to stop, so he ran back and forth with his deliveries. Some days he would give us fresh rolls. I also remember having ice delivered for the ice chest, before we got a fridge, but that's really delving into the memeory bank.
Once, when we moved to a new house, we found an old rusty shotgun barrel. My older brother fitted a wooden plug to the breach and we would could fire marbles at the back fence, with a penny bomb for propellant. Really safe, eh?
We had a wind up gramaphone as well.
I'd better stop now, You are starting to see how old I am.

Happy trails, Mike.

[Wilesy]

Oh Mate,

I don't remember that far back....

I remember my mate being the only one in the street which had a toilet out back which was a pit! Phooah

I made sure I never needed to go to the toot at his place...

His father was a sheerer, and his mother worked at the Pub.

They had a great big shed out back, in which there was always a dead sheep hanging up with a cotton bag wrapped around it...

I made sure I never stayed over for tea as well...

He did have a pretty sister though 8)

She was much older at 10, as I was only 7 :P

I'm only 23, so I'm a bit young to get too nostalgic.

I do recall Fags (the lolly cigarettes, that is), which I believe are now called 'Dags', and the Thunderbirds on TV every Saturday morning. As I recall Tom Selleck and David Hasslehoff both had careers way back then, notably involving desirable cars.

McDonalds only made junk food, but nobody seemed to mind. Australia celebrated the bicentenary, but when indigenous Aussies pointed out that there were people here prior to 1788, noone seemed to notice. Kylie still had a last name. Jason Donovan still had his dignity.

Crap 80s rock music also seems to ring a few bells, for some reason.

Talking of changing times, though, my dad (who grew up on a farm in Victoria) still has the 1896 Winchester .22 rifle he was given for his 12th birthday.

The only time you hear about 12 year-olds with firearms these days is when there's been a high school shooting in the US!

Ahhh how times have changed.

[Wilesy]

Talking of changing times, though, my dad (who grew up on a farm in Victoria) still has the 1896 Winchester .22 rifle he was given for his 12th birthday.

The only time you hear about 12 year-olds with firearms these days is when there's been a high school shooting in the US!

Ahhh how times have changed.


Boy, isn't that the truth!

I had a Stirling semi-automatic .22 rifle, with telescopic sights when I was 12!

I never did have a winchester....I did wish though.

[baby_troupe]

I had a Stirling semi-automatic .22 rifle, with telescopic sights when I was 12!
Small world. I had one of the same, around the same age.
Bought a ruger at 20 though (nice weapon)

[cruiser1]

I started winding out a list of remember whens.....when...... I........started.........howling uncontrolablely :'( :'(. Nah I have some great memories of days gone by, of youthful exuberance or was that stupidity. Mostly of the Moreton Bay islands before it was trendy to go there. Rusty old barges and beech huts. Mmm. Car chassis',four wheels and a bench seat with Holden engines or whatever we could scrounge were our early sand driving experience....... ;)

[BushBoy]

Ah the memories........... :-\
oops, im only 17, ;D

Fags are now called Fads
i was shooting a .22 at 12, getting those birds out of our fruit trees.
i remember when Longbeach Mild 40's were only $13.90, oh wait they still are, (don't worry i don't smoke often, and won't)
What's a playstation? i never had one, i grew up outdoors.
my first car is a magna. will get a 4wd soon, never mind.
cheers.

Small world. I had one of the same, around the same age.
Bought a ruger at 20 though (nice weapon)

is it a plastic paddle???

I remember when a can of coke was 50cents. :'(






hehehe i can remember a can of coke costing 20 cents!!!! i'm old!!! :-X

[Fenring]

We were talking to out 11 year old today about what his childhood memories would be - the day I got a high score on Battlefield 1942, the day I watched five DVD's back to back, the day I missed the Simpson's, etc etc. Four weeks of school holidays, and hardly set foot out the door. My folks got me my first air rifle from K Mart for X mas when I was about 11. The sparrow population has never recovered..... ;D

[baby_troupe]

Small world. I had one of the same, around the same age.
Bought a ruger at 20 though (nice weapon)

is it a plastic paddle???

Nah. Mine was timber.
Unfortunately I had to hand it in with that amnesty caused when that d1ckhead Martin Bryant went loose in Port Arthur.

my old man had a "mini 14" that was banned, he cut it up with the angle grinder. wouldn't give his pride and joy to the police, mustv'e brocken his heart cutting it into little pieces like that :'(

i remember when you could get shitfaced drunk for 10 bux...... tonight.... i'm shitfaced cuz somebody else got me the beer ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



*burp*

[Fenring]

Get on the metho Rodeo - only a few bucks a bottle, mix it with milk! Works for some folks...

[baby_troupe]

Depends on the tan doesn't it :P

[Fenring]

The latest thing here is "chroming" - sniffing cans of spray paint - something the fair skinned kids learned off the tanned boys. Still, better than spraying it on trains, buildings etc. I've been tru 2 "buybacks" now - just got rid off all my handguns. At least I've made the nation a safer place I 'spose....

[etho]

LMAO>. the fags.. they were a classic.. and you'd have one hanging out ya gob while riding that said malvern star with the banana seat ( with a card in the spokes! )
no stack hats then either!!!


my malvern star had the "T"bar auto sort of gear shift on the bar between your legs.......coool..., did anyone else used to fit a really tiny front wheel off their younger siblings bike to make it look more like a chopper? or was i just a b#$trd of a brother?

[etho]

Depends on the tan doesn't it :P


most i've come across havent had one(tan), havent had a liver or brain cell left to their name either come to think of it..did actually have one guy recommend it with o/juice,reckoned it tasted great, but then he did'nt even know which town he was in, must have been a pollie or something..

[Wilesy]

my malvern star had the "T"bar auto sort of gear shift on the bar between your legs.......coool..., did anyone else used to fit a really tiny front wheel off their younger siblings bike to make it look more like a chopper? or was i just a b#$trd of a brother?


I did that, with a scooter wheel which we knocked off the little kid down the street.

Me and my mate both had a wheel, and gave the scooter back to the kid wheeless.

what about the cane?? i'm too young for that ;D, but if it was still around i would have copped a beating at school. did anyone cop it bad :'(

Everyone keeps coming back to Playstation for some reason.

I remember getting an original Nintendo (two buttons!) in the late 80s. Upgraded to a Sega Megadrive a few years later, before shortly returning to the big 'N' with a Super Nintendo (mmm... six button controller), then went to PCs before getting a Playstation, which I still toy with from time to time (Gran Turismo, mainly).

I've since had a mate construct a PC for me that dumps all over consoles from on high, so now I just laugh at XBoxes, PS2s, GameCubes and all that stuff.

That's growing up in the 90s for ya!

"My doctor says I should stop playing so many video games. He says I have the wrists of a 70-year-old" - Kearney, The Simpsons.

[Wilesy]

When I was a teenager, I remember at the pool hall they just had a new game machine installed called Space Invaders :o

It was that futuristic that there used to be a line of people waiting to play.

If you were real rich, you could buy an atari 64, which you could play tennis on which consisted of 2 lines for bats, and a square ball that used to even make a sound....bleep...bleep... ;D

I remember the cane......DO I REMEMBER THE CANE >:(

[RainMaker]

People over 35 should be dead. Here's why ............

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets. When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them!

Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS !!!!!! ;D

[Wilesy]

That is unbelievable!

It's like reading about my childhood ::)

I am so glad that I'm over 35 8)

It was natural selection ;D
survival of the fittest ;D
and we made it through ;D
kids of today don't know what they're missin! ;D

[cruiser1]

Well done Rainmaker! That all rings so true ;)

[baby_troupe]

I agree, but with one exception, what were street lights. We had to be home before sunset or we would get the strap (does anyone remember the strap)

yep.. i remember the strap.. and the cane >:( ;D

[Wilesy]

and the belt...and the feather duster.....and the boot...Lol

[baby_troupe]

And now we remember those, what was the level of crime for our age group when we we younger, compared to that of today's undisciplined lot?

but drug habit = crime to pay for it.......

Make good quality drugs free at the supermarket, and those who dont OD first up, wont be around long, problem solved.... ;)

[RobertM]

Or we could just send them to Naru as we seem to send other problems that won't go away there :-X

[Wilesy]

What the heck...

Send them to Tazmania :P

[Fenring]

I had a lime green dragster with the 3 speed T bar. I was as flash as a rat with a gold tooth. One of my mates had a bike with a sidecar on it - didn't handle too well tho. I remember what a fuss video games were in the 70's - Space Invaders was being labelled as a dangerous addiction - I think maybe they were right, looking at kids nowadays. Still, in those days fourbys were like tractors, top speed of 80 to 90, guzzled fuel, handled like shite too. Then again juice was cheap, time was aplenty, lots of tracks, and people didn't know any better. A bloke could get all misty eyed thinking about this stuff..... :'(

*shudder*... i never got the strap... i got the friggin huge ass wooden spoon across the ass
:'(

on the few occaisions i ran from my father... he threw a shoe at me...... LOL

[flappan]

I got the Lecky Kettle cord :o

Had a Malvern Star Dragster . . .
Moved up to a SE Racing PK Ripper BMX Bike . . . cost me around $1200 from memory (same sort of vintage as your Mongoose Sheddy).
First Car was a VW Beetle . . . Went alright cause a mate Raced Speedway Type 3 VW.
We had our own Rifle range, so I've been around guns for as long as I can remember.
Go to the shop for lollies with 20c , and come back with a bag full (everything seemed to be , 4 for a cent)
Remember playing Astoroids.
Building Billy carts with plastic wheels so you could do 360's down the road. No brakes of course ;)
Being Involved in building the first BMX track in town.
Riding skate boards, and bikes around the corridors of the high school. Be charged for trespassing these days.

[Wilesy]

I got my roller skates, pulled them apart, and stuck them onto a board with the middle sticking out the front to use as a steering device...

Laying on your belly and racing down the middle of the road steering this little piece of board.....

Geez, I was dumb....Nothing has changed much :P

[flappan]

Our billycarts were state of the art.

We had metal handles for steering (off a pram or something) so you could drive it one handed, go up on 2 wheels, and punt people off who had chain or rope for steering 8)

[Wilesy]

Geez mate,

Your way in front of me....

I did have the cleanest Dragstar in Armidale though 8)

I remember when i got my new "slick" tyre for my dragster.... square shoulder....with two grooves around it..... looked shit hot!!! when i first rode it down to the milkbar to play the pinnies.... everybody came out to have a look :o

[Wilesy]

I was big enough to scrap my bell, and replace it with a horn 8)

I remember way back then, putting dad's tyre black on the hooter to make it look good...

All I managed to do was get black all over Dad's garage.....

He just took delivery of a Valiant regal 2 door hard top in Gold...His pride and joy!

I remember him telling me that it was the same price as the Mercedes at that time......but he thought the Valiant looked better.

It's funny though, looking back at old photos of people, as this one of my Mum & Dad in 1974 when Dad picked up his new valiant, they looked so vibrant and alive,and in Love, and today they are both deceased. :'(

Life really does go past quickly.

http://www.offroad.au.com/overlander/mum.jpg

People over 35 should be dead. Here's why ............

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.


No argument from me, but here's the thing I don't get:

The people born between the 40s and 70s are now predominantly the ones in Parliament, making the laws, practicing as lawyers, serving as judges and magistrates, serving on councils, and in school parents' associations, editing newspapers and what we see in the media, and so-on.

So basically, it's members of that risk-taking generation that've turned into paranoid safety nazis, dragging the rest of us along with them.

What went wrong?

BTW – You lot don't know what you were missing out on when it came to corporal punishment. My mum used a horse riding crop!

[Emo]

My first car was a 1969 Toyota Corona (the one with the shovel nose). I was a four speed column shift.
I used to sneak out and have a smoke thinking that my parents couldn't smell it when I walked back in the house. I think that the brand was Glendale.
The only soft drink that I drank for years was called Tarino. It was an oragne drink like Fanta but not as sweet.
When you wanted to get pissed the choice was either Brandivino or apple cider. Got you legless quickly and cheap.
My first skateboard had the white chalky wheels that used to wear away. If you were rich you could afford the red wheels or if you were super rich you could afford the clear wheels.
I used to own a little AM transistor radio. The brand was Atlas and I used to hang it from the handlebars of my dragster. I would ride around listening to Alvin Stardust or The Glitter Band.
TV consisted of Number 96 or $64,000 Question.


Those were the days.

[Wilesy]

People over 35 should be dead. Here's why ............

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.


No argument from me, but here's the thing I don't get:

The people born between the 40s and 70s are now predominantly the ones in Parliament, making the laws, practicing as lawyers, serving as judges and magistrates, serving on councils, and in school parents' associations, editing newspapers and what we see in the media, and so-on.

So basically, it's members of that risk-taking generation that've turned into paranoid safety nazis, dragging the rest of us along with them.

What went wrong?


Very good point,

Probably it's because we are the ones, that could see what we got up too, so we don't want our own kids getting up to the same dangerous stuff we got up to....if that sort of makes sence...

I never let my kids out of my sight, in fear of some weirdo grabbing them and running off, or some flasher with a yellow rain coat...

I never let my kids out of my sight, in fear of some weirdo grabbing them and running off, or some flasher with a yellow rain coat...


What about a yellow 4WD Monthly rain jacket?!

[Wilesy]

I never let my kids out of my sight, in fear of some weirdo grabbing them and running off, or some flasher with a yellow rain coat...


What about a yellow 4WD Monthly rain jacket?!


Lol,

I'll have to get me one of those....

Then again, I always buy something which can't be seen in the bush.....

If I am wandering about somewhere I shouldn't be, I don't want to give the farmer an easy target :P

No argument from me, but here's the thing I don't get:

The people born between the 40s and 70s are now predominantly the ones in Parliament, making the laws, practicing as lawyers, serving as judges and magistrates, serving on councils, and in school parents' associations, editing newspapers and what we see in the media, and so-on.

So basically, it's members of that risk-taking generation that've turned into paranoid safety nazis, dragging the rest of us along with them.

What went wrong?

BTW – You lot don't know what you were missing out on when it came to corporal punishment. My mum used a horse riding crop!


you'll probably find that all those people are the ones that weren't allowed to do all the fun stuff in the first place!!! ;D
so they're taking out on the rest of us.. but i don't care cause I got their lunch money!!! lol ;D

[Wilesy]

ROTFLOL,

You would get some seroius Counseling time for taking someones lunch money these days....

You would probably go for their Nike's instead!

[baby_troupe]

The funny thing I heard recently was that the punishment for truency is suspension from school.
Isn't that why we wagged school when we were kids anyway, so we wouldn't have to go?

[mrZ]

i remember those old atari's

ROTFLOL,

You would get some seroius Counseling time for taking someones lunch money these days....

You would probably go for their Nike's instead!


LMAO..
they probably use credit cards for lunch now anyway.. ;D

[baby_troupe]

i remember those old atari's

Sure do.
Remember the old TRS80s
Back in the days when 8K memory was a lot.

My current PC has 512 MB :o

[zook37]

My first state of the art computer was a good ol commodore 64.
gotta love the cassette video games. Then I got an atari, groundbreaking graphics in it's time ;D

Then along came Sega and Nintendo, still got the original nintendo, I fire it up every now and again for a lash at the original Mario Bros. Still can't clock the damn thing >:(

Now we have PS2's and X-Box, can't wait to see how they improve on these. ;D Bring on probably mainstream virtual reality. Hey.. they could have a V.R. version of the paris dakar rally. sweeeeeet! 8)

hey maybe there could be a rock-crawling game on ps2 ;D

I thought i saw somewhere a 4WD racing game for PS1..... I'll have to go through my sons collection

thats the way roe, teach em young. ;)

[baby_troupe]

I thought i saw somewhere a 4WD racing game for PS1..... I'll have to go through my sons collection

I have one for PC ;D
Cabela's 4x4 Offroad Adventure II

[zook37]

There are a couple for PS2, Test Drive off road & Paris Dakar Rally spring to mind, Then there is Wild Wild Racing. Baja buggies and the like, very very cool. ;D

[Wilesy]

Oh Man.....

I have Colin McRay Rally 04, which has just been released 8)

That thing is so unbelieveable....with a steering wheel, on a 65 inch wide screen tele with theatre sound, it blows the walls apart.

Geez I love that game....and the fact that I haven't grown up yet :o

[Eddy]

hey maybe there could be a rock-crawling game on ps2 ;D
Set up the car right and you can go rock crawling on Colin Mcray rally ;D
(thats where I seem to be most of the time whenever I play on that thing)

lol.. big and not so big boys toys ;D ;D

[Wilesy]

hey maybe there could be a rock-crawling game on ps2 ;D
Set up the car right and you can go rock crawling on Colin Mcray rally ;D
(thats where I seem to be most of the time whenever I play on that thing)


You are absolutely right...

That game is just incredible! So life like.

I was worried about the big tele that the graphics would suffer, but it still looks like virtual reality.

I don't know how they can improve the graphics on that game ::)

AHA!!! SO the older guys with all the great memories that said that all the kids these days sit around on playstations are doin the same ;D even what time you don't spend on the lounge your spendin in front of that computer. yeah that's right THE ONE YOUR LOOKIN AT RIGHT NOW :-X LMGDFAO

[Wilesy]

AHA!!! SO the older guys with all the great memories that said that all the kids these days sit around on playstations are doin the same ;D even what time you don't spend on the lounge your spendin in front of that computer. yeah that's right THE ONE YOUR LOOKIN AT RIGHT NOW :-X LMGDFAO


LMAO,

Yeah, but we have paid our dues......

LMAO.. your caught mate.. ya gotta admit he's got ya there..
woo hang on a minute...ummm
yeah we paid our dues ;) ;)

LMAO,

Yeah, but we have paid our dues......

Hold on a sec Wilesy..........I can't find it........... oh, there it is i found it.......wanna hear some violin??? ;D

[Mike]

Sigh!...... Saturday arvo, we went to the pictures at the local Town Hall. For 2 bob (20 cents) you got in, got a coke, some lollies and even had some money left.

Yes, I remember my Dad's strap, the cane and our teachers also used a "yard" stick. If you ever went home and told that the teacher had hit you, you'd get more, because you obviously deserved it.

Happy trails, Mike.

I would like to thank you Mike.... for making me feel not so old any more LOL :D :D :D

[Wilesy]

Now this is the stuff my kids get up too.... 8)

The Playstation, well that's mine ::)


Fun Stuff my kids do.... (http://www.4wdlinks.com.au/gallery/album25/aab?full=1)

Thats cute wilsey :)
My kids have far too much!! they have a playstation, a television, a CD player and a computer... EACH!! :-X they are hooked up to a network of 8 computers with a storage capacity of about 600 gigabytes..... ADSL.... a DVD player with theatre sound (in the living room).... and they STILL sit around the house after one or two days....... "I'm boreeedddddddd"
Not as easily amused as i was as a kid hehe

[Wilesy]

Lol,

Yeah, I know what you mean.

When I was little I got a portable record player, you know the sort, it looked when it was closed up like a sewing machine >:(

I was so proud, I bought a record (45 RPM) every thursday night (Dad's Pay day) and brought it home to play.

My first one was from memory Fox on the Run by The Sweet.

I played it until the needle went blunt :o

Remember Needles on record players???

If you were rich, you could afford the Diamond tipped..Lol.

[Mike]

Ahhhh, but on the old wind up gramaphone, when the needle got blunt there were 2 options. 1 sharpen it, (shows how state of the art these jobbies were) or you could successfully play a couple of records with a box thorn needle.

Sigh!

Happy trails, Mike.

I think i thanked you before Mike....... but i would like to thank you again for making me feel young LOL!!!

[OzJeeper]

I thought I was rich on my first pay-day. 14 Pound 10 1/2 pence.
When they bought in decimal currencey, we scoffed at it as play money. Took years and years to convert to metric.

First car was a Morris Minor Panel Van (don't know whay - just bought it) .

I put together and sold 250 hi-riser bikes for a big department store when they were the rage at Xmas.

Attended Sunbury 1970, '71 and '72. Billy Thorpe!!!
Wulwalhalla Rock was the pits...

In 1976 I was selling petrol for .14c a litre.....

Remember the huge truckie blockade?

Ah well....

[Wilesy]

I remember that.....

The big song on the radio at that time was Convoy! ;D

i remember the truckie blockade!! >:( i got stuck at Hornsby for 7 hours trying to get to Gosford >:(

I remember that.....

The big song on the radio at that time was Convoy! ;D


;D thats a 10/4 rubbie ducky ;D

them bears where everywhere ;D

more will come back to me.. just give me time ;D

[Wilesy]

You wanna look back in time.....

Here's Wilesy as a little 3 year old, held by his mum and big sister. ;D

http://www.offroad.au.com/overlander/old%20photo%209.jpg

Geez, he was a handsome little bloke even back then ::)
Taken in Johannesburg, South Africa

hehehehe wanna see a cute and fugly comparison???? ;)

This is me at about 11 months of age:
http://www.vistawebdesigns.com/4wdpics/minime.jpg

and THIS is what i turned into!! :-X
http://www.vistawebdesigns.com/4wdpics/me!.jpg

It's a shame what time does to us!! hehehe

[Wilesy]

ROTFLOL,

It looks like your hair went south ::)

some ppl claim to remember being born, that true, anyone here remember??? if so did you come out bash your father over the head an say " how do you friggin like it"
serious question though ;D

[Wilesy]

I can remember as far back as being 2-1/2, as I remember my mum going to hospital to have my brother.

Here ya go Wilsey...... i edited the torn bits out of yer pic :) You can get it reprinted hehe just to remind you of how old you are now :-X
http://www.vistawebdesigns.com/4wdpics/wilesys_pic.jpg

[Wilesy]

WoW

Thanks mate, that looks great, thanks.

any time :)
i like doing stuff like that with photoshop....... should do it on the side for a bit of spare cash :o ;D

I can remember needing a map and compass to drive the Gibb River Road, and those cheese cutter tyres on the Landrover Series II that I had to park "up-hill" so I could roll start the beast in the mornings. Sometimes thought you'd need to sacrifice a virgin as part of the starting ritual - those were the days!!! ;D

well you are lucky that you don't need to find a virgin these days ::)
That would be near impossible LOL

well you are lucky that you don't need to find a virgin these days
That would be near impossible LOL
You'd have to find them pretty young for that these days. ;D

I can remember needing a map and compass to drive the Gibb River Road, and those cheese cutter tyres on the Landrover Series II that I had to park "up-hill" so I could roll start the beast in the mornings. Sometimes thought you'd need to sacrifice a virgin as part of the starting ritual - those were the days!!! ;D


lol.. all the blokes that travel now with the "essential travelling kit" of a new patrol, gps mounted on the dash $15000 camping trailer, HF radio's and all the gadgets straight out of ARB (All Rich Buying) catalouge!!! would love to see that..lol
I even love pulling up next to em in the tojo..
they can't understand how ya can go bush without all the stuff the ARB man and magazines said ya need...lol

[etho]

hey maybe there could be a rock-crawling game on ps2 ;D


if anyone has gta3 on pc, you can get into the handling.cfg file and tweak the suspension/handling/centre of gravity etc.. of the vehicles, the "landstalkers" in mine now sport a 12" lift (looks like it on screen anyway) huge suspension travel and virtually impossible to tip over.....it sounds desperate i know, but damn you can have some fun "off-road"...you can also convert other vehicles to 4wd...possibilities are endless

[etho]

well you are lucky that you don't need to find a virgin these days
That would be near impossible LOL
You'd have to find them pretty young for that these days. ;D


virgin sacrifice procedure ( with exploded diagrams ) on pg 114 of land-rover factory manual... should also appear on the little alloy plaque next to the 4wd engagement instructions on the firewall... ;D

I remember that.....

The big song on the radio at that time was Convoy! ;D


;D thats a 10/4 rubbie ducky ;D

them bears where everywhere ;D

more will come back to me.. just give me time ;D


Tragic stuff croozerute, but here are the lyrics, I hope they don't haunt all night long....

Convoy, by C.W. McCall


Yeah breaker one nine this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig Pen C'mon
Uh yeah Ten-Four Pig Pen fer sure fer sure.
By golly it's clean clear to Flag Town, C'mon
Yeah its a big Ten -Four there Pig Pen
Yeah we definitely got the front door, good buddy
Mercy Sakes Alive looks like we've got us a convoy

It was a dark a the moon
On the sixth of June
And a Kenworth pullin logs
Cab over Pete with a refer on
And a Jimmy haulin hogs
We was headin for bear '
On 'I-One Oh
Bout a mile out Shakey Town
I says Pig Pen this here's the rubber duck
And I'm about to put the hammer down.

Cause we got a little 'ole convoy
Rockin through the night
Yeah we got a little 'ole convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
C'mon and join our Convoy
Ain't nothin gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin convoy 'cross the USA
Convoy....Convoy.....

Yeah breaker Pig Pen this here's the Duck
And uh you wanna back off them hogs
Uh ten-four 'bout five mile or so
Ten-Roger them hogs is gettin intense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
And them bears was wall to wall
Yeah them smokies as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says callin all trucks
This here's the Duck
We about to go a huntin bear

'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin through the night
Yeah we got a great big convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
C'mon and join our convoy
Aint nothin gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin convoy 'cross the USA
Convoy.....Convoy

Uh you wanna give me a ten-nine on that Pig Pen
Uh negatory Pig Pen you're still too close
Yeah them hogs is startin to close up my sinuses
Mercy Sakes you'd better back off another ten.

Well we rolled up Innerstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all of our swindel sheets
and left 'em settin on the scales
By the time we hit that Shy Town
Them bears was a gettin smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois national guard
Theres armored cars and tanks and jeeps
And rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well we shot the line
We went for broke
With a thousand screamin trucks
And eleven long haired Friends of Jesus
In a Chartreuse microbus

Yeah Rubber Duck to Sod Buster
C'mon there yeah Ten-Four Sod Buster
Listen you wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?
Yeah he's haulin dynamite and he needs all the help he can get

Well we laid a strip for the Jersey Shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I says Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin 98
I says let them truckers roll,
Ten-Four.

'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin through the night
Yeah we got a mighty convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
C'mon and join our convoy
Aint nothin gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin convoy 'cross the USA
Convoy.....Convoy


Ah Ten-Four Pig Pen what's you're Twenty?
Omaha?!
Well they oughtta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
[fading]
Well mercy sakes good buddy we gonna back on outta here
So keep the buttons off yer glass and the bears off yer...tail
We'll catch you on the flip flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone - Bye Bye

now, is that 8) or what :-X

Can anyone think of more tragic single that made number 1?

wooohooo hehehe thats a great song!!
think i might ring the radio and request it ;D

[mrZ]

who sung it?

C.W.Mcall ;D rubber duck..

Mercy Sakes Alive looks like we've got us a convoy

;D

gunna have to be the forum meet-up song me thinks ;)

gunna have to be the forum meet-up song me thinks ;)


LOL good one ;D

[zook37]

Absolutely ;D

wooohooo hehehe thats a great song!!
think i might ring the radio and request it ;D


For those of you that have never heard this song, you would be completely unaware of just how "sticky" it really is, like s**t to a blanket. It will stick in your head for days, haunting you even as you sleep (or at least try to). Make the request if you want, but you have been warned! ::)

[zook37]

My father used to have one cassette with convoy on it, he would play it over and over, one night we pinched it from his car, cut the tape in several places and put it back in the player. He was devastated when the cassette player in his brand new XF falcon just chewed the crap out of his favorite tape in the whole world. We ended up feeling so guilty that my brother and I pooled our pocket money and bought him a new tap. Never owned up to the sabotage though. :-[

[Wilesy]

Nothin like good ol' Country Music 8)

I have just got home after a day 4 byin, we left at 5am this morning and we just got home....been boogyin all day to the Dixie Chicks....to the total disgust to Roger who hates Country Music...but bad luck, he wants to drive with me.... :o

My wife isn't talking to me. :'(

Oh well, who cares ;D

My 3rd Crownie tastes sooo :ogood

wooohooo hehehe thats a great song!!
think i might ring the radio and request it ;D


For those of you that have never heard this song, you would be completely unaware of just how "sticky" it really is, like s**t to a blanket. It will stick in your head for days, haunting you even as you sleep (or at least try to). Make the request if you want, but you have been warned! ::)

thats absolutely true.. i've been singing it in my head just after reading it here..lol
without even listening to it!!! ;D

have you the southern drawl that goes with, nothing worse than your (i assume aussie) brain faking a yank accent eh!

damn that song sucks

[Wilesy]

Oh that's sad......

As Wilesy turns up the volume on his CD player playing Tom-T-Hall's frost on the pumpkin....

LMAO.. yeah i've got the whole fake drawl going with it.. love it!! ;D
hey wilesy.. keep that country pumping mate..lol
I like both sorts of music.. country AND western..lol

[Wilesy]

Mate,

There is absolutely nothing better than good o'l Country Music 8)

You know, driving up the track, listening to John Denver, laying back in your leather seats, as the climate control keeps you cool, as the sun beats down ever so gently on your head through the moon roof....sipping on your piping hot Macona coffee....

Mate,

There is absolutely nothing better than good o'l Country Music 8)

You know, driving up the track, listening to John Denver, laying back in your leather seats, as the climate control keeps you cool, as the sun beats down ever so gently on your head through the moon roof....sipping on your piping hot Macona coffee....



LOL.. or in my case.. having Lee Kernaghen cranking on the Cd loud enough to overcome the road noise and 4.2 diesel.. while sticking to the hot vinyl seats in 45 degrees while sluggin down a blend 43!! ;D

[Wilesy]

8)

I have every album Lee & Tania have released ;D

I just have to share this, it is my Birthday next week, and Roger my mate isn't going to see me until next week, so he bought me a Present ;D

What a nice fella, he bought me one of these http://www.offroad.au.com/overlander/bthday.jpg

Dammit it Wilesy, I was wanting to know just who outbid me on ebay >:(

Nice present Wilsey.... will have to the wife that picture and see if she will take the hint ;D

Mate,

There is absolutely nothing better than good o'l Country Music 8)

You know, driving up the track, listening to John Denver, laying back in your leather seats, as the climate control keeps you cool, as the sun beats down ever so gently on your head through the moon roof....sipping on your piping hot Macona coffee....




puhleaseeeee ::) ::) ::)

there was a reason i didn't let the missus drag me to the tamworth country music festival this year. took a whole year too get the torture tunes outta my head :-X lol

Dammit it Wilesy, I was wanting to know just who outbid me on ebay >:(

bloody you and me both mate >:(

hey wilesy let us know how it is mate?? im looking at a couple on e bay now.. stay away high'n'mighty.. these ones are mine!! ;D ;D ;D

[Wilesy]

Geez, guy's ::)

I didn't buy it, my mate did, and he hasn't got the net ::)

I don't even know what brand it is and what it's worth, but it seems to go well enough.

[baby_troupe]

8)

I have every album Lee & Tania have released ;D

I just have to share this, it is my Birthday next week, and Roger my mate isn't going to see me until next week, so he bought me a Present ;D

What a nice fella, he bought me one of these http://www.offroad.au.com/overlander/bthday.jpg

That looks the same as the one you can buy in Big W for about 60 - 70 bucks Peter.

[Wilesy]

Oh,

Fair enough, thanks mate.

I suppose having two isn't such a bad thing, I have one that I paid $150.00 for pumping up my tractor tyres, but I always forget it....

So, now I have 2 ;D

[mrZ]

;Dlol just listened to the convoy song now its stuck in my head! 10 4 rubber ducky ;D

[Troopy93]

I remember when

a packet of Viscount or Escort 10's and a pack of matches was 2 bob,

if ya shook ya can of coke and opened it, it would empty the can,

cold coke would make ya eyes water when ya skulled it,

"Mates" were 2 a cent,

You could get a Chopper pushy with 5 gears,

If ya got caught doin a burnout the copper would clip ya under the ear,

Pots were 21c and glasses were 17c,

ya could run out the door at 7 in the morning spend all day over the bush and no one would worry about ya getting mugged, stabbed, jabbed, just worry if ya were hungry,

ya could carry ya 22 or shotty around the street and not be classed a weirdo/ killer/ freak/ mass murderer,

I gotta stop cos it's depressing me..

[Wilesy]

Sigh.....

[Wilesy]

Actually,

You want to know the best thing I remember?

Coming home after a great day in the bush, 4bying, dirt biking, Quad riding, or whatever.....and not waking up the next morning feeling like you have been hit by a Mack truck!

Like I mean to say, I am pretty fit, and not by any stretch of the imagination a weak sort of bloke, but geez >:(

I am having trouble getting in and out of my truck today after spending about 9 solid hours on the quad :o

Oh, to be 21 again ;)

I know what you mean Wilsey..... I started work at a produce store yesterday..... first full time work in over 5 years.... i thought i would get myself 3 parts fit again and rode the deadly treadly to work (about 5 k's) and spent a good part of the day luggin around 40 - 50 kilo bags of feed and stuff.......... am feeling every bit of it this morning!! not all that long ago, i could carry one on each shoulder..... they say that when ya reach 40, you reach the top of the hill......but i still reckon i can see the end of the road from here LOL or i should say... from there...... am 2 more years down that hill now :-X

[Wilesy]

Lol,

I turn 42 on friday, and under the stairs is a big present which I am not supposed to know about......

It better not be a zimmer frame >:(

[baby_troupe]

The pressie could be an ABFLEX 2000 ;D


Re the fitness thing, I play an inter company cricket match once per year & each year it takes longer to recover from.
This year we played Sunday & I was still feeling sore on Thursday.
Most muscles started to recover before the weekend though.

BTW I am 9 years your junior Pete.

[Wilesy]

The other weekend just gone, we went out MotorX riding, and my mate who is 5 years older than me came off his bike, smashed his anke, and de-gloved his foot!

You should see the damage he did ::)

I have never seen so much blood, he has vowed never to get on another bike again.

At least he can still drive his new Rangie 8)

[cruiser1]

Was havin a BBQ some friends a couple a months go. One of my friends 15yr old sons asks me to toss a footy around. You know, like throwing Gridiron passes. Well ::) I woke the next day and thought I had dislocated my shoulder and broken my arm ;D I think I wore a sling for a couple of days ::). I will only kick the @#$%ing things now ;D
Oh, and I'M 5 months your senior Wilsey ;)

Posted by: Wilesy Posted on: Today at 09:39:47am
The other weekend just gone, we went out MotorX riding, and my mate who is 5 years older than me came off his bike, smashed his anke, and de-gloved his foot!

You should see the damage he did

I have never seen so much blood, he has vowed never to get on another bike again.



thanx wilesy, on my way to get my m/b licence right now. I'll be thinkin of that while answering the test i think.

[Mike]

Hey Pete, don't knock the Zimmer. I'm 56 this month and hoping for a new set of A/Ts for it, hehehe!

Happy trails, and happy birthday, Mike.

[Wilesy]

Hey Pete, don't knock the Zimmer. I'm 56 this month and hoping for a new set of A/Ts for it, hehehe!

Happy trails, and happy birthday, Mike.


Happy bithday for this month 8) what date?????

Haven't heard much from you recently, hope all is well with you and your Zimmer....

[mrZ]

Actually,

You want to know the best thing I remember?

Coming home after a great day in the bush, 4bying, dirt biking, Quad riding, or whatever.....and not waking up the next morning feeling like you have been hit by a Mack truck!

Like I mean to say, I am pretty fit, and not by any stretch of the imagination a weak sort of bloke, but geez >:(

I am having trouble getting in and out of my truck today after spending about 9 solid hours on the quad :o

Oh, to be 21 again ;)



that only means one thing, your not getting on it enough!......
the bike that is ;D

;Dlol just listened to the convoy song now its stuck in my head! 10 4 rubber ducky ;D


Just playing around with posting images - never done it before

http://users.impulse.net.au/Hare_Trigger/dizduck.gif

wonder if worked? How big can a picture be?

I turn 43 this year ::)
further to my last post......... this morning, i feel even older and it hurts my arms holding them up to type this LOL they say i'll get used to it before too long......... if not, i'll be borrowing that frame from ya wilsey!!

[Wilesy]

Mate,
I'll give it too ya for free 8)

Having a birthday is great, I just answered the doorbell, and this bloke from a courier Co asked me to sign on the line......I accepted the parcel and ran inside and opened it :o It was a Birthday pressie from my sister in Queensland 8)

It is a generator :o It's this little petrol powered 2 stroke generator which is blue (Looks really cool) and is called a Hurricane 850. Never heard of them ::)

I was talking to her on the phone the other day, and I had a little whinge about the size of the generator I had and what a pain it was to take it anywhere, so she bought me a better sized one for my birthday, what a cool sister.

Does anyone know anything about these little machines????

I did a search on the web and couldn't find anything.

[cruiser1]

Happy B/day. Cool pressy ;D
Is that the one they have been selling through Repco? How quiet is it?

[Wilesy]

I have no idea where they sell them, I have never seen one like this before.

It has these two little knobs with this special plug and a set of wires with aligator clips on it to connect to it to charge a battery, which looks like a handy little thing to have.

It is sooooo quiet, I am really impressed. I just pulled the cord slowly once and it started.....

It is rated at 850 watts. My Birthday isn't until Friday ::)

I guess she wanted to make sure I recieved it in time.

It is also very light.

Hey wilesy is it something like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2377833403&category=63 2

[Wilesy]

Hey wilesy is it something like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2377833403&category=63 2


It looks nearly exactly the same, only it say's Hurricane on the front and looks a little better quality, but pretty much the same.

Thanks mate, I have looked everywhere to find out something about these little things, I assume it would be pretty much the same item only a different brand.

[cruiser1]

Sounds very nice :P
I have rarely found a use for a generator. What will you use yours for? I carry 3 batteries all together so I gennerally have plenty of 12 volt. Oh yeah, and my wife's old man sells batteries ;D, so I just grab a new one before every trip 8)

[Wilesy]

This is it 8)
I have absolutely no idea what I will use it for, because I have always had such a big bugger which is a pain to take with you, but I am sure I will find a need for it.

http://www.offroad.au.com/overlander/IMG_6310.jpg

[Mike]

Hi Pete. Nice gennie. I've been a bit quiet for a couple of reason, first, internal modem probs, which have obviously been happening for a long time, but being a computor cretin, I didn't realise. A mate gave me a new external modem and problem solvered. Second some pretty harsh chemo over the last 4 months knocked me about more than I admitted, I think. However, had the last one last week and depending on the next CT scan in a couple of weeks, Dr thinks I could be in for a reasonably long remission this time. As long as I'm fit eneough to work the Melbourne F1 GP and the Clipsal, I'll be back on track. Remember, there's lots worse off than me and In the words of a famous mate of mine, "Life's Good".

BTW, my birthday is on the 21st of Feb.

Happy trails, Mike.

[Wilesy]

Mate,

That is the best news, I am so happy things are looking on the up.

It's a bit of a drag when your health isn't going well, if your health is good, everything else doesn't matter.

Denise's eyes seem to be recovering a bit, so at this stage health in our family is looking good also.

Great news. ;D

[mrZ]

i bought one of those little hurricane generators just before xmas from repco, i gave it a decent workout ran it for hours and hours, and am really happy with it so far, for the price ;D

[Wilesy]

Thanks for that, that's great news.

I have checked out the prices of those type of generator, and for $250.00 it is very cheap, and pumps out 1 KVA.

Doesn't sound much, but I have one that produces 5 kva and it set me back $2,800 :o

I suppose it would be a bit stupid having 5 of them all running around your camp.....

[slowlux]

everybody remember this thread?

funny stuff...

[slowlux]

Lol,



Everyone back then had a red headed mate with freckles.






hahahhaha, its just so true!!

[HnM]

ahhh yes, the memories of young boys


Yeah, I rememeber the start of this thread ::)

so do i :o ::)

[slowlux]

ahhh yes, the memories of young boys




Yeah, I rememeber the start of this thread ::)


hahaha, yes i remember! It was all a big misunderstanding!!

And i have absoloutely no come back to that

[taziiy]

Yeah i remeber it :D

What did we get a little bored today did we ???

[Wilesy]

Lol,

This is the first thread I posted on this forum ::)

[slowlux]

Yeah i remeber it :D

What did we get a little bored today did we ???


extremely so, no money=no petrol=no wheelin, Hot weather=just generally shit and no one at all was posting on the forum.

[GQANDGU]

First car was a 1950 Hillman Imp - side valve motor. Drove it for 12 months until it expired (with a bang & a cloud of smoke) one Saturday night trying to keep up with a mate's FX holden.

Made a 'Gun' out of an old set of bike handle bars - shove a 'penny bunger' down the pipe, drop in a large ball bearing or a glass marble and point it away from you - would send a glass marble through a paling fence or embed a steel ball bearing into a gum tree. Was good for about 25 shots before the pipe exploded. Miracle no-one was killed or maimed.

:-X my first car was a 1969 HB Torana!! all 1300cc's of muscle car!! ::)

[Searsy]

I don't have a car yet. Still saving but it'll be a long road to getting my first 4WD just how i want it.

[Snofox]

Oh...

That's a worry....I have memories of young girls :-*


no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no thats not what i meant! i meant us being young bioys and our memories


LOL, you got a guilty conscience !!!!

[Wilesy]

:-X my first car was a 1969 HB Torana!! all 1300cc's of muscle car!! ::)


Lol,

Remember the Sunbird ::)

You thought your Torana went bad.....Those Sunbirds were nearly as bad as the Hilman Hunter, or the very first Camira ;D

Or even the Leyland P76 ::) Remember them.....

I had a mate who's father was really rich, and he had a Targa Florio P76 :D

Sigh....we don't have great cars like that any more... :'(

[Serika]

I remember being 6 years old in 1971 and:
Paying 5c for a half sized can of drink
A Whizz Fizz was so huge you shared it - then fought over the plastic ring on the spoon.
Sleeping in the Beetles "rumble seat" on the 6 hour trip from Forster to Sydney
Making dams in the creek at the back of our yard
Catching tadpoles
My purple dragster with the floral seat and plastic basket
Waltons hampers!!!!!
The comment someone else made about "being home before the streetlights came on"
Shaking the crap out of little gum trees to catch the christmas beetles
Aaaaahhhhhhhhh......I've depressed myself now...I feel old :-\

geez squik...... you know how to make people feel good LOL i was 10 in 1971 :-[ now i DO feel old. I remember digging around the base of trees at school for christmas beetles, and it was allowed :o I remember Waltons........ cuz i had an account with them...... i remember Wagon Wheels being HUGEEEEEEEE not like the pissy offerings these days...... Choo-Choo bars..... Big Charlies....... *sigh* see what ya done!! now i'm depressed LOL :P

:-X my first car was a 1969 HB Torana!! all 1300cc's of muscle car!! ::)


Lol,

Remember the Sunbird ::)

You thought your Torana went bad.....Those Sunbirds were nearly as bad as the Hilman Hunter, or the very first Camira ;D

Or even the Leyland P76 ::) Remember them.....

I had a mate who's father was really rich, and he had a Targa Florio P76 :D

Sigh....we don't have great cars like that any more... :'(


the Sunbird :-X First engine they had was a disaster!! they were made in the Phillipines i think... they were called the "Starfire 4" most people called them the "Backfire 4" ::) The second generation motor was better......... but only just :-\ I think they were trying to hold on to the last Torana shape....... waste of time...... just like manufacturing the camira

[Wilesy]

I remember being 6 years old in 1971 and:
Paying 5c for a half sized can of drink
A Whizz Fizz was so huge you shared it - then fought over the plastic ring on the spoon.
Sleeping in the Beetles "rumble seat" on the 6 hour trip from Forster to Sydney
Making dams in the creek at the back of our yard
Catching tadpoles
My purple dragster with the floral seat and plastic basket
Waltons hampers!!!!!
The comment someone else made about "being home before the streetlights came on"
Shaking the crap out of little gum trees to catch the christmas beetles
Aaaaahhhhhhhhh......I've depressed myself now...I feel old :-\





That's Brilliant!

I was 9 in 1971 8)

I used to catch Citadas (SP) and hoping to find the Black Prince ::)

I remember the Waltons man who used top collect Mum & Dads weekly payments at the front door :o

Then we had a Kerosene heater, and the Kero Man would come once a month and fill up the tank on the side of the house with Kerosene!

[slowlux]

does everyone remember their first 4wd experience?

i think mine was when i was about 4, we just got our brand new paj and headed out to arkaroola. Did some king 4wding down some extremely rocky creekbeds that went for like 4 hours!!! and to top that off, i think i had my 5th birthday there 8)

[Mall_Maller]

Then we had a Kerosene heater, and the Kero Man would come once a month and fill up the tank on the side of the house with Kerosene!

What about the old Oil Heaters :o

Used to get the tank filled once a year.



Also what about slow combustion stoves. No fire burning, no hot bath that night.

[mickyd]

I remember buying smokes for my Mother when I was 6 or 7 from a milk bar. All 27 years ago. $1 chips would feed 6, big macs from maccas were 50c, petrol was cheaper than the price of what gas is now, pinball machines cost you only 20c a pop, seatbelts in cars were hardly worn and didn't have to be fitted in the rear, .05 what was that...

[Mall_Maller]

.05 what was that...

Wasn't that Brocky's racing number ;D

[2 BRUTAL]

milk used to be home delivered and you'd wait for the truck in the arvo's so you could get some ice of him to eat.
we used to put different coloured pregs out for the milko so he knew what type of milk you wanted and what size.
milk used to be in glass bottles with alfoil tops.

[GQANDGU]

does everyone remember their first 4wd experience?

i think mine was when i was about 4, we just got our brand new paj and headed out to arkaroola. Did some king 4wding down some extremely rocky creekbeds that went for like 4 hours!!! and to top that off, i think i had my 5th birthday there 8)


Mine was in an OLD (even then) Canvass top Landy with a Valiant Slant 6 motor transplant. At Lake Eildon before sealed roads down to Fraser NP or Taylor Bay. Straight over the top of the mountain from Taylor's and into Eildon township. Bloody thing vapourised in summer heat on return trip and it was so steep we slid sideways back down mountain, bounced onto track proper and continued on as if nothing had happened. Pucker factor (if I knew then what it meant) was at least 9 - but we laughed it off and did it again next day.

[Reddo]

does everyone remember their first 4wd experience?



Yeah, my old man borrowed my uncle’s fourskinner to get some wood and I remember ridding in the front seat when I was 9 years old. Now that I think about it, I had some skinny Dunlop RD grippers on it, and was green ;D.

I also remember getting the old mans 4wd tractor bogged in a dam, and shitting myself if he found out. So I pulled it right forward into the dam and then chucked in some large logs and drove on the top of them. I was 13 I think 8).

Sorry to get off on a tangent Wilesy :-\

[BLU-125]

After the war, (no, WW2.... the big one), my grandfather, who had an earth moving business, used to buy a lot of surplus Army gear. In 1959, (I was 9), my dad (who worked for grand father) took me to a job they were doing on an Island near McLean (on the Clarence River).

I was wrapped to find the job's runabout was an Austin Champ. Over the next few weeks I learned to drive in this thing and it was an amazing bit of gear.........and it had a Rolls Royce engine............

Ah the mammaries................hang on, that came later..........sorry!

[taziiy]

I dont want to think back that far i will get a head ache ;D

[Reddo]

I dont want to think back that far i will get a head ache ;D


ROFLMGDAO, just yesterday makes my head spin ;D

[taziiy]

was is that funny its true hey ;D

[crankycruiser]

Is everyone remenising in here?? ;D *spelling*

[taziiy]

I think so it looks that way :D

[Reddo]

Is everyone remenising in here?? ;D *spelling*


*Reminiscing ;D

yes. 8)

[crankycruiser]

All hail the spelling king! ;D

[taziiy]

he just used the dicionary and looked it up :D

[Reddo]

All hail the spelling king! ;D



Thank you my loyal followers

Do I get a little hat now??????? Please can I have a hat :-*

[crankycruiser]

Yeah well it took him long enuf to find out...

I reckon he went and asked his Mummy ;D

[Reddo]

he just used the dicionary and looked it up :D


BS, i did it off the top of my head >:(

[taziiy]

http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/dunce_full.jpg

http://forum.dvddecrypter.com/style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif

[Reddo]

Yeah well it took him long enuf to find out...

I reckon he went and asked his Mummy ;D


Yep, your mum is very helpfull to me ;D

[crankycruiser]

ROFLMGDAO..!! ;D

Sure we belive u Reddo.... ::)

[Reddo]

http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/dunce_full.jpg

http://forum.dvddecrypter.com/style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif



Your lucky you live in NSW Biatch ;D ROFLMGDAO ha ha ha ha

[Reddo]

ROFLMGDAO..!! ;D

Sure we belive u Reddo.... ::)


Doesn’t matter to me. She knows it ;D

[taziiy]

yeah have to love this internet thing ;D

[Serika]

Re Wilesys comment: Catching a Black Prince Cicada!!

Wow if you went to school with one of those, you had legendary status! 8)

We used to catch skinks (little lizards) and stir them until they were really pissed off then you'd hold them up to your earlobe and they would latch on - presto - lizard earrings ;D

[Wilesy]

I only think I have seen a couple of Black Princes in my life!

I don't think kids today have half the fun we did as kids, as everything has changed so much.

We used to go to the local stream, and catch penny turtles and bring them home and keep them as pets.

We used to go camping at Eurunga Falls near Blue Hole just outside Armidale and wake up in the mornings, and crawl along the ground to the river bank, and flick tiny stones into the water and watch the Platypus come to the surface looking for what had fallen from the tree.

I don't think this Country is quite as pure as it once was only just a few years back when we were kids.... :'(

a few years back Wilsey? :o yer almost as old as meeeeee when we was kids is a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG time ago :-\

8)

[HnM]

:-X my first car was a 1969 HB Torana!! all 1300cc's of muscle car!! ::)


Lol,

Remember the Sunbird ::)

You thought your Torana went bad.....Those Sunbirds were nearly as bad as the Hilman Hunter, or the very first Camira ;D

Or even the Leyland P76 ::) Remember them.....

I had a mate who's father was really rich, and he had a Targa Florio P76 :D

Sigh....we don't have great cars like that any more... :'(


the Sunbird :-X First engine they had was a disaster!! they were made in the Phillipines i think... they were called the "Starfire 4" most people called them the "Backfire 4" ::) The second generation motor was better......... but only just :-\ I think they were trying to hold on to the last Torana shape....... waste of time...... just like manufacturing the camira


The starfire was the same engine used in toyota Corona's and I have heard it called a never fire before. ;D

[HnM]

he just used the dicionary and looked it up :D

Dictionary ;)

[HnM]

Those poor tadpoles squik, I used to catch them too and try to keep them as pets in an esky full of water with the lid off.
They didn't seem to like the tap water and would slowly explode, it was pretty disgusting.
and I had a pet turtle that dad found on the road called murtle and I took him to school for show and tell ;D