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« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2004, 12:57:37 AM »
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Emu I remember the old mans wagon was much the same. the only time it got any attension was when dad wanted to punish me. He would make me go and wash it out the front of or house and then call all my mate around so they could se me taken care of a ford. But I give that old car one thing the places dad took it when we would go rabbiting on the weekend most cars would have died in the arse.

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« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2004, 09:31:55 PM »
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Quite an interesting picture story there EMU .... Its funny how the cars of our childhood creep into our adult lives... I am into FC Holdens because as a kid I would watch the neighbours kids learning to drive a terracotta and adobe Biege FC around the paddocks... They eventually hacked the boot and tulip panel out with an axe and pulled the back seat out.... It was then used for feeding the cows their silage out of... the FC farm Ute had long since been parked in front of the chook pen and still sits there today... The crushers took away all the other cars  in the late eighties... Its this memory of FC holdens that I got into them... Even built  a tribute FC Ute and took pics of it beside the neighbors dead one.... Take a look.... cheers Streetneat
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« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2004, 09:52:10 PM »
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Great Stuff Streetneat!

Fine looking ute! The Blue one is quite cool too.  Wink

Good story too. I think psychologists call it "Early Conditioning" that makes us revert to things of childhood. I call it good taste.

Its great to have you on site. I think the club debate is blowing over. I pulled back from getting too involved after my first comment. I prefer my input to be classed more as "Light Entertainment/Comedy".
The summary is, these blokes are not really like any other car enthusiasts I know and are unlikely to deliberately cause you any grief. This site is the envy of many others. I have a mate with an FJ who continually whinges about the lack of a site like this for FJ ers. A lot of tribute goes to RET and probably some other anonymous, behind the scenes guys, who keep this forum so well managed.

Keep posting, I'm thoroughly enjoying your pics.
I am a bit jealous that you worked out how to post pics so quickly. It took me months!!  Cry

Bit slow, this Emu

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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2004, 11:35:13 AM »
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      I think your right about the earl conditioning thing. The only reason I went for Holdens was with Dad and four older brother's I needed to stand out a bit being the youngest. Funny part is that now that Dad has pasted only one of the older brother's (the oldest) is still 100% f**d.

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« Reply #24 on: February 22, 2004, 11:07:59 AM »
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I found one more of me n the FC.

That's me (The Baby Emu), my parents and my sister in front of the FC in  front of Sutherland hospital in Caringbah, Sydney. Christmas 1960.

This shot shows the number plate quite clearly.

Does anyone know if it is possible to track down any history from this car using this plate.
Ken, are there departmental records etc that can give me a lead? I'd love to know what happened to the old girl after dad sold it.

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« Reply #25 on: February 22, 2004, 02:02:42 PM »
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Emu, You can go to rta site & go to number plate ordering, (it's down at the time of this post) & type in the no. BVP-773 if it is available the system will let you order it for your car, but I don't know if you would have any luck re a search.
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« Reply #26 on: October 30, 2004, 05:56:37 AM »
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Just bringing this to the top seeing as how it took me hours to post all these  pics!

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« Reply #27 on: October 30, 2004, 06:48:14 AM »
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yawn  Grin
yep there good emu yawn  Grin
yawn  Grin
where are the latest yawn pics of HILDA ? Shocked

kiwi bird who wants ta see hilda pics  Cry
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« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2004, 07:09:01 AM »
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That's my life your yawning at there Kiwi.

Be careful!

Updated Hilda pics will be forthcoming.
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« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2004, 04:16:42 AM »
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yawn
really emu
hadnt noticed yawn yawn yawn
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« Reply #30 on: October 31, 2004, 09:47:08 AM »
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Thanks for bringing this back to the top, Emu.  Great pics and story.

Maybe the yawner from over the Tasman is short on history as well as short on legs.
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« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2004, 04:44:42 AM »
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Heh Emu
Great photos and family history very interesting and a thrill to see thanks for sharing!!! By the way love the wagon it was a pearler!
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« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2004, 05:27:49 AM »
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Great photos Emu,

Funny you should mention the sleeping in the back thing, I remember being 7 or 8 and laying on the back seat of mums FC wagon, we were racing dad to work and had an accident.  The back of the front seat acted like a great big trampoline and I clearly remember bouncing between the front and back seats without hurting myself at all.  In fact I remember the bloke we ran into getting a hammer out, bashing the crap out of the front guard to get it off the front tyre so we could continue the race...........great days indeed.

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« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2004, 09:33:37 PM »
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Hey Nige,

Great story!! Interesting how our perceptions of safe travel have changed from one generation to the next.

My mum used to let me stand on the seat in front of her and steer the car. One day I steered from Gymea Bay across the "Tom Ugly's" bridge to Nan n Pop's place in Sans Souci! Shocked

Gotta be some kind of record for a 3 or 4 year old.
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« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2004, 01:25:29 PM »
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Yea Guyzzz
   Safety sure has changed ,  our "child safety seat" was a padded , wooden fruit box , that sat neatly on the front seat of the car between mum & dad so we could see out the front , comfort PLUS .  same seat was used for my sister - 1947 + , me 1953 + (shhhhh) and my brother 1963 .  How far up the street would you get these days before being pulled over.  Tongue

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