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General / General Board / FE-FC Club Contact Details
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on: August 01, 2021, 01:57:32 PM
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Here are all the current contact details for the clubs. If your club's details have changed, please PM a Mod or Admin and we will fix it up for you. NSW ClubFE-FC Holden Car Club of NSW |
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General / General Board / Re: Rocker Cover Racer found
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on: June 09, 2021, 08:54:07 PM
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Seems more like Field of Dreams here, "build it and they will come". It wasn't under active consideration at all.
I'm not averse to the idea, but we'd need to source a track from somewhere around BH. It would be prohibitively expensive to truck one there.
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Technical Board / General Technical / Re: Door lock cylinder retainer issue
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on: June 05, 2021, 03:47:46 PM
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As others have said, it's a gamble getting exactly the right length and profile, sight unseen. But it's not that surprising that the Chevrolet ones are the right size, of any you've looked at. I recall reading somewhere once that Holden were very (and justifiably) proud of the 95%+ Australian manufactured content in their cars of that era, and that the fully imported parts included things like locks, ignition barrels and so on. You certainly see a lot of familiar looking interior parts on a 54 Chev (and not just the locally assembled ones!)
cheers
RET
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General / General Board / Re: Rocker Cover Racer found
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on: June 05, 2021, 03:36:01 PM
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I can't recognise anyone from the first photo beyond those already identified. For what it's worth in the photo with Phil's monster I can recognise Ken McLean, a very young looking Russell Bates, Siggy and Craig Wilson at the far right. The faces of the two blokes either side of Russell I remember from long ago Nats, but not sure of either's name. I'm sure Ken knows who they are.
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General / General Board / Re: Rocker Cover Racer found
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on: June 02, 2021, 08:19:55 PM
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You're absolutely spot on with your recollection of when we had rocker cover races at the Nats, Ken.
I don't know if any photos exist of Phil's monster-truck rocker-cover, but I do recall there was a fracas over it. It really wasn't very safe, letting it loose down the ramp and away between the line-up of cars. A weight rule was implemented for the next event.
That's a great blast from the past.
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General / FE-FC Holden Nationals / Re: 2022 FE-FC Holden Nationals
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on: April 24, 2021, 04:24:32 PM
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Ladies and Gentlemen...
Start your engines! We're a year out from the event, so now's the time to book your accommodation in Broken Hill. All venues are now accepting bookings.
Note that we are not having a particular Nationals HQ location. There is no single accommodation venue big enough to hold all attendees, and there are accommodation options in the town to suit every possible preference and budget. If you received a Nats goodie bag through your club, you'll find a document in there with listing of accommodation options. Otherwise, just google "Broken Hill accommodation", there are caravan parks, AirBnBs, hotels, motels, even farm-stays.
With the recent announcement regarding filming of Mad Max Furiosa in Broken Hill next year, we strongly recommend that you don't delay booking your accommodation.Note: we have heard that one or two accommodation venues are saying that "they are not taking bookings because of Mad Max". Should you get this response, please PM me, or reply here with the name of the establishment. The Broken Hill Council and Tourist Information Office have already made enquiries about this on our behalf, and would like to know details should anyone get told this. |
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Galleries / Project Cars - FEs and FCs Under Construction / Re: FE progress
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on: February 03, 2021, 08:10:17 PM
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While I'm at it, I have been searching the forum trying to find out which tin master cylinder reservoirs were original to an early FE, I have a few tall ones and the squat short ones; what is the story here. Thanks. Al
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Technical Board / Modification Help / Re: To be or not to be.... Window tint or not....
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on: January 07, 2021, 03:43:58 PM
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85% ? What does that actually mean? I would assume it means that if the ambient temp is 35º, and the temperature in the locked car is 50º, then the film cuts the 15º difference by 85%, meaning it would only be 37º in the car. But then there's those weasel words "up to"... Look it's your car, you do what you want, but personally I think the tinting on "Rosie" looks awful, and I have my doubts it makes that much difference, even in Queensland. I have seen tinting on obviously modified cars (which Rosie was not), and it has looked okay. I think it's the tint against the cream roof on Rosie that turns me off. Bottom line, if you're going to drive your FE in the baking sun, you'd do it with the windows down, cowl vent open, and the quarters turned inside out to give you as much draft as you can get when moving.  |
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Galleries / Members' FEs and FCs / Re: Just an update on Linking and Uploading Images on the Forum
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on: December 19, 2020, 04:07:19 PM
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+1 for imgur, I use it all the time. There's an 'embed code for bulletin boards and forums' option that is exactly what you need to copy/paste here to get the image to appear. You don't have to sign up, but if you do it makes it a lot easier to keep track of all your images, create albums for them etc. And here's a pro tip which applies to any image links: if you don't want to resize your images (or forget to), you can also force them to appear on the forum at a sane size by editing the code as follows: to [img width=800]your URL here[/img] |
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