Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:24 am  

Saxy wrote:

laying yourself wide open to comments about "1950's opinions" there, RD .... really weird, flawed, awful-yet-brilliant cars though. My two ex-babies:

What’s the bottom one we had a Chevy Impala when we were kids which looked like that (we lived abroad).

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:32 am  

1970 Ford Fairlane 500, built in Aus and exported to SA - 351 Windsor (5.8 litre), 3-speed auto, loads of lazy power and wallowy suspension

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:24 am  

We lived in South Africa at the time. When I was in Aus I had a Holden Station wagon and the driving characteristics were very similar!

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:29 am  

VERY different experience to the Cobra that had the 350 Chevy in it and did 0-100kph in 4.78 seconds, no power steering, hard as nails Jag suspension, and far too much power to do anything other than a straight line - huuuuuuge fun

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:51 am  

Saxy wrote:

VERY different experience to the Cobra that had the 350 Chevy in it and did 0-100kph in 4.78 seconds, no power steering, hard as nails Jag suspension, and far too much power to do anything other than a straight line - huuuuuuge fun

Suited to the roads over there I guess? Just spotted your location, we lived not too far away but a much smaller town called Delmas.

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:56 am  

Know it - did a lot of NGO work in Daveyton, Kwa-Thema etc around Springs in the last few years - on the road to Delmas....farming?

[Uncle Rico]

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:29 pm  

We left Warrington in the mid 60's ending up in Vanderbijlpark, not quite neighbours. My dad swapped Crosfield's for a SA steel plant and his prized Ford Corsair for an Austin A30 happy days

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:23 pm  

All these years talking loser chat on here with the odd CC win, and we finally hit on a topic of gold.
Some cars and bikes of wow.

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:41 pm  

Saxy wrote:

Know it - did a lot of NGO work in Daveyton, Kwa-Thema etc around Springs in the last few years - on the road to Delmas....farming?

Dad worked in the coal mines, most of my friends were fam boys (we are talking late 60’s though), it was still the Transvaal in those days!

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:42 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

We left Warrington in the mid 60's ending up in Vanderbijlpark, not quite neighbours. My dad swapped Crosfield's for a SA steel plant and his prized Ford Corsair for an Austin A30 happy days

A few “boers” as well as a few “bores” on here, I put myself as overlapping on the Venn diagram.