I have recently scanned about 3,000 slides and negatives for family and friends including most of my travels. Would love to share a few.! Really miss the old 'Slide Nights'. :angel:
Cape Canaveral (U.S.A.) circa 1991.!
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Wow!! love them all!
That rocket engine? (3rd pic) is amazing.
far out!
Awesome pics, that first 1 of space shuttle with huge line of people under it, can you go inside shuttle and have a squiz ?
Robster, you never cease to amaze me!
Wonderful photos, thanks so much for sharing.
there was a 3 hour wait to get inside the shuttle and we were on a tight schedule. There was a launch about a week later.!! :dodgy:
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That is one place that is my bucket list.
One of my other bucket list items to visit Pearl Harbour and board the "Mighty Mo". Did that and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Me in the Admiral's Chair, on the Mighty Mo.(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10120/SANY0103_Cropped.JPG)
Sensational ship.!! Wonderful History.!! :good:
Hey team fantastic pic's :good: and GS my ship the Darwin bought that baby in for the 88 bicentenary and mate is it one mother of a ship and really makes ours look like a joke..the sheer power that it wields is just totally awesome and to think that one of the big guns apparently fire about the weight of a VW beetle and those white domes are phalanx system or common name of seawiz as they sound like a big velcor zipper being undone when firing it's 1000 rounds in about 3.5 seconds with each projectile splitting into 4, yes I was a seawiz loader so probably sterile now. The Darwin had a compliment of about 200 but always have more on board and when you compare that to the 5000 on the mo and then all the arsenal they have like the seawiz where we had one they have 4 and then there's things like charf for taking out incoming missiles and I thought we had a few but when you see something like the mighty mo you they can see and appreciate pure power and it's a shame our fleet is so sad being a brown water navy and not blue. A brown water navy doesn't have an aircraft carrier, they should have replaced the melbourne :(
Battleships and aircraft carriers are beautiful things. Don't know about replacing the Melbourne though as subs regard juicy soft targets as future artificial reefs.
Street Rod Nationals Bakersfield California 1991. :sun_bespectacled:
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Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='53696' dateline='1404009632'Battleships and aircraft carriers are beautiful things. Don't know about replacing the Melbourne though as subs regard juicy soft targets as future artificial reefs.
Yes very true Neal but I still like them :)
Wow Robster, beautiful cars and pic's mate :good:
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Cool pics Robster ..... my first Street Rod Nationals was in Mildura in 1983. Only had a crappy old kodak camera at the time, but have lots of pics buried here somewhere though.
I think my first was in Narrandera in '78 followed by Albury in '79.! Good times.! :yahoo:
Two of my all time favourites.!!
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Chopped, Channeled, Lowered, Widened, Would have loved to have seen the finished project.
The picture below was taken several months ago here in Melbourne. I call it the "Old and the New".
The car is one of 250 Mechersmits, importwed into Australia in the early 50's, I think, and the present owner, seated in the car, paid $24,500 for the car and then had it shipped to Melbourne a couple of years ago. The canopy was smashed in the transit and he paid many many $'s to have a replacement specially made.
If I new how to upload a movie I could show you the car, and many hotrods that we saw in Canberra for all to see.
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Sweet cars Robster :drooling:
GS I want one, how cool is that but don't think it would be much good on the open road or after a run to bunnings but still very cool :good:
never heard of that car
just did a google and read about them on wikkie
funny looking car
that one above looks as if it is on the of the 1957 (and on) models - soft top canopy with fixed windows
very cool
but you'd never get me in one!
too low for me
When he was driving it around the quay/pier, it sounded just like a two stroke lawn mower.
apparently the motor is right behind the passenger seat
imagine if it backfired!!
jeepers i'd be flying outta that seat!! ha ha
maximum speed in excess of 90 km/h (56 mph)
The KR200 ran on a 191 cc (11.7 cu in) Fichtel & Sachs air-cooled single cylinder two-stroke engine positioned in front of the rear wheel,[6] just behind the passenger's sea
You could fit a lot of them in the ship in the background.! :angel:
Agreed, I have called that picture "The old and the new".
I am sure that my father sailed on the Queen Mary in his war service
off to war and then back again
then back off to war
then back home again and so on until the malaria (from his PNG service) finally made him too sick to continue to serve in the occupation forces in Japan. He was in some of the first troops that were set there. The photos of the atomic decimation in his albums that he had were just shocking. - just the country nothing graphic regarding people. I think he lasted somewhere between one -two years there then they shipped him home again.
Too sick to continue to serve so he was discharged (probably by then he had atomic poisoning as well!). I sometimes wonder if I have some remnants of Enola Gays' atomic matter in my genes. off topic, I know - just the Queen Mary 2 trigged some memories for me.
I am sure someone will know Robbie.!! I spent a day on the original Queen Mary when it was a hotel in California.!!
The original Cunard Liners, Queen mary and Queen Elizabeth were seen by me many times as the entered and left Southampton in the UK.
I lived at Portsmouth for seven years and occasionally these ships and others, like the SS United States, SS France etc would be sighted moving up the Solent.
The days of the really great ships is no longer. Just massive great floating cities now. Not the same now.
Next stop is Lake Bonneville in Utah, home of the famous salt lakes and site of the world record chasing salt flat racers.!
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Note the 'spun aluminium' front wheels.!
Cycling for the adventurous.!
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Serious horsepower.!:wavemulticolor:
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Slightly modified Harley.! :shok:
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