Hume Hwy

[Hogarthde]

Question to all those who operate a Western Star, or M.B., or Mack or Kenny or Big Swede, or even a Blue Oval, ; where is Pretty Sally ?

[Killer]

I only operate a Green Oval, but it is on the old Hume Hwy. between Wallan and Kilmore.

Cheers,
Mick.

[Tins]

I only operate a Green Oval, but it is on the old Hume Hwy. between Wallan and Kilmore.

Cheers,
Mick.

Spot on. It's still there, on the old road. It was a challenge for the old, "canvas covered load" semis fifty years ago. The trucks mentioned in the OP wouldn't even notice it, if the road still went that way.

[austastar]

Hi,
In the 60s it was a country lane by today's version.
Cheers

[Hogarthde]

Is it / was it a bit of a tussle both ways ?

[Tins]

Is it / was it a bit of a tussle both ways ?

I first it used in the 70s. Travelled the Hume most weeks in 73/4 in The Army. FC Holden and then MGB. Was a bugger getting stuck behind the semis as an impatient youngster, but it wasn't that bad. I think its reputation came from the 50s and 60s. It was probably dirt in the 50s. These days cyclists use it.

[V8Ian]

Pretty Sally was named after a woman who operated a sly grog establishment, in the bullock and horse days. I never got to meet her.
Pretty Sally later was an accident black spot, thanks to the sharp turn at the top.

[DieselLSE]

Pretty Sally was named after a woman who operated a sly grog establishment, in the bullock and horse days. I never got to meet her.
Odd. She mentions you in her memoir...

[V8Ian]

Odd. She mentions you in her memoir...
:Rolling:
My reputation must have gone before me. [biggrin]

[V8Ian]

Question to all those who operate a Western Star, or M.B., or Mack or Kenny or Big Swede, or even a Blue Oval, ; where is Pretty Sally ?
At rest. [wink11]

[scarry]

There is a FB site called Haulin the Hume.

Some interesting info on it,particularly for the Truck drivers.

[V8Ian]

The Vintage Heavy Commercial Vehicle club run an annual event, "Hauling the Hume".

[V8Ian]

Pretty Sally from the last "Haulin' the Hume", a big Swede being given a lesson by a hundred year old Henry. [biggrin]
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Next "Haulin' the Hume" is in a couple of weeks.

[Tins]

That road has changed a heck of a lot in the last 15 years, let alone 50.

And that's only a FM, so not big.

[V8Ian]

It's big compared to a Dyna.

[grey_ghost]

I drive it on a regular basis.. The hume (old and new) that is…

[Tins]

It's big compared to a Dyna.

So is my OKA.

[austastar]

Hmm,
Memories.
Loosing the rear of a beetle on the rail bridge near Picton .
Three days on a Vespa, Mel to Syd, sleeping under a park table near Albury, to wake to a breakfast tray from a nearby caravan .
Mini Cooper S over taking a truck up hill only to meet another one just out of a left side road.
Sleeping under a wire fence at Yass turn off and waking to a cracking June frost.
Hitching a ride with a couple of beery farmers in an FJ ute on a foggy night with zero forward vision.
Hitched with a Falcon Futura driving at insanely fast speeds.
Must have been nuts!
Cheers

[d2dave]

if the road still went that way.

Still does go that way when the Broadford weigh bridge is working.[bigwhistle]

[Tins]

Still does go that way when the Broadford weigh bridge is working.[bigwhistle]

My side of town, up to Yea, then across to Seymour in case the bloody task force is at the one in Yarck.

[JDNSW]

Pretty Sally from the last "Haulin' the Hume", a big Swede being given a lesson by a hundred year old Henry. [biggrin]
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Next "Haulin' the Hume" is in a couple of weeks.

The hundred year old Henry is the same (except for colour) as our family car until I was about eight. Did part of my learning to drive in it (in the back paddock).

[Hogarthde]

Shifted one about in the Buntine Pavilion in Alice.. the cone clutch had my clumsy feet in a tangle for a few minutes

[V8Ian]

So after the shortest two weeks ever.....


https://youtu.be/8b_xM48enKQ'si=5JeSodxXsoQRJ4t4

[Hogarthde]

Sounds like a few 2 strokes still burnin diesel Ian [smilebigeye]

[V8Ian]

Pretty Sally in the opening few minutes, Hogarthde. That poor little Standard 8/10 must have been working its guts out.


https://youtu.be/Y3eU-Qrvs1A?feature=shared

Chook, Saitch, showground camping was a thing before we were born!

[d2dave]

When I was a kid there used to be a BP at the top of Pretty Sally.

In the description of the YouTube it says that the trip was in a Holden. That aint no Holden.

As for the Standard, my sisters first car was a Standard 10. It had no opening boot.

All boot access was from folding down the back of the rear seat.

I still have the owners manual somewhere in my shed for this.

I will have a look when time permits and post a photo.