Always wanted to go there.!!

[Goldseeker]

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.

[ausjack]

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:

[robbiegal]

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

[Goldseeker]

When he was driving it around the quay/pier, it sounded just like a two stroke lawn mower.

[robbiegal]

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

[Robster]

You could fit a lot of them in the ship in the background.! :angel:

[Goldseeker]

Agreed, I have called that picture "The old and the new".

[robbiegal]

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.

[Robster]

I am sure someone will know Robbie.!! I spent a day on the original Queen Mary when it was a hotel in California.!!

[Goldseeker]

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.

[Robster]

Next stop is Lake Bonneville in Utah, home of the famous salt lakes and site of the world record chasing salt flat racers.!



Note the 'spun aluminium' front wheels.!

Cycling for the adventurous.!



Serious horsepower.!:wavemulticolor:



Slightly modified Harley.! :shok: