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« on: April 20, 2008, 05:05:56 PM » |
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The SA EH Car Club came for a look the other day so I gave a few of the cars some fresh air.  It was a good chance to clean them up, take them for a run and move some around ready for some more work on them.  This is roughly a third of my cars.  Feel free to drool over the sheds.  The FC ute and trailer and the two tone green FC were the cars that went to The Nationals. Robin |
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2008, 05:13:20 PM » |
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Hey Robin
Nice pics.
Nice cars.
Nice sheds.
I enjoyed seeing your 2 tone green FC, as it is the same colour combination as mine.
I like the look of the FE wagon.
Must be hard to decide which car keys to pick up come time for a run.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2008, 05:18:52 PM » |
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Your my new idol... i love the fe wagon.
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2008, 05:30:31 PM » |
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Whilst it is hard to decide which car to take on a run the decision is often helped by answering the questions:
"Which ones are going?"
"Will they get there and back?"
This often makes the decision very easy.
Robin
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2008, 05:40:41 PM » |
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Another picture of the FE wagon. It has done 56000 miles now and was in the Echuca Museum for 20 years when the Hughes Brothers owned it. We have repainted the roof and restored the floor. One of my favourites too. Saw it on the website on a Thursday, drove to Ballarat on the Friday and bought it on the Saturday. PS:Hamish is even wearing his Nationals T shirt.  |
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2008, 05:58:37 PM » |
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Congratulations Robin you have achieved the fantasy of everybody on this website, i'm feeling very envious right now and i've got my drool bucket in front of me  |
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2008, 06:24:15 PM » |
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I only got two oldies and they get me into enough trouble,thou I,m still working on a bigger shed for her ride on mower maybe 30x20 I,ll keep dreamin and droolin
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2008, 07:09:40 PM » |
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Holly crap  ... Nice collection.. Done well. How do you maintain all those girls?? |
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2008, 07:10:03 PM » |
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So that's where all the FEs and FCs have gone Nice sheds too. ACE  |
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2008, 10:46:34 AM » |
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The whole idea was to have something to do when I retire. Should keep me busy. Do you want to see the rest of them?
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2008, 11:25:25 AM » |
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2008, 11:30:26 AM » |
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Haven't actually retired yet. Still a few years away.
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2008, 12:54:39 PM » |
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We'd still like to see the others, hang on i'll get my drool bucket ready |
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2008, 04:19:59 PM » |
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A couple more. The business sedans (217's). I have collected cars from all states except NT and WA. The FE taxi was in Queensland, but I purchased it from Canberra where it had been somewhat neglected. Mind you I have not got around to doing much with it yet either. It has the working meter and taxi light on the roof. Sadly the original red interior is gone and a tan FE special interior is in its place. The car was ordered in black paint. The FC Staff Car was of course Ken McLean's from Victoria.  http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,8026.0.htmlRobin |
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2008, 05:40:45 PM » |
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Do you have a picture of the Taxi Meter in the car? ACE |
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« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2008, 06:23:30 PM » |
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Hi Robin just wondered if the samon fc wagon is the one from Qld originally? I saw it on ebay a couple of times and then lost track of it as it used to be next door to where i was working .
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« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2008, 07:19:32 PM » |
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how many do you actally have??
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« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2008, 07:49:22 PM » |
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With the purchase of my FC217, Robin has now achieved the amazing feat of having all 14 FE and FC models. Plus a few extras along the way - A top effort since most of the cars are really stunning examples as well.
Ken
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2008, 09:19:16 AM » |
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1. A picture of the Taxi meter. (sorry slightly blurred)  2. The Terraglow and Adobe Beige wagon was from Queensland. 3. I currently have 20.5 FE and FC's including the trailer. I have cut back a bit as I was up to 22 at one stage. 4. Ken is right, I set out to have one of each of the models. I don't actually have an original FE van but I have all the bits to build one. On top of the 14 models I have some spare parts cars, my original FC and a vanette. Here's a couple more photos: Front of the Taxi  Shed shots from a while back   Robin |
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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2008, 10:16:41 AM » |
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That taxi meter must be extremely rare, a different world back then, notice the dollars are only double digits, that wouldn't get you very far nowadays.
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