Thread: The most unusual car you've ever owned...

1969 datto rally car, only standard part was the rear view mirror.
rolled in coffs harbour 7 years ago and still being rebuilt - amazing how kids slow u down
also had 2 Mk1 escorts, nissan homer, and an international B414 tractor 60's vintage and still going strong

Didn't anyone at all own a "gee oh gee gee oh - goggomobile" or V8 P76?

Just asking!!

Andy

The kid just had his thirty first birthday,you tell me what the car is.

Sunbeam Talbot 90 IIA like (but not as good as) this when I was 19.

I would say a Mercury Cougar Eliminator.

Originally Posted by roversmith

The kid just had his thirty first birthday,you tell me what the car is.

Citroen 2CV, bright yellow, toured Europe in it and had a big sticker of a duck on the bonnet that said "duck off". Also once owned a Maserati Mistral, I wish I still had that one!

Originally Posted by lebanon

I would say a Mercury Cougar Eliminator.

Near enough,Mercury cougar XR7. 1969

My father found a 1914 Dennis fire engine on a farm up at Benambra, it was used to pump water out of the murray for irrigation. It was in a bad way so dad asked the farmer if he could buy it. I remember as a kid dad took the Valiant station wagon with a tri axle trailer up and we towed it back, all 4 tonnes of it!!, The old Hemi aged a few years with that trip. It was a nightmare trip one which we laughed about for many years. When we finally arrived back home the old Hemi couldnt pull it up our drive way, so our neighbour kindly offered to tow it with his new jeep, He got half way up the driveway and smoke started pouring out from under the jeep, he'd burnt the clutch out. He was a very unhappy chappy, the old man was a truck mechanic so he fixed his clutch a few months later. Anyhow that was the reason we bought the Series 2A as at the time it was the only vehicle capable of towing the Dennis.

Dad (and I) spent 20 years restoring it and built a wheeled escape for it, its funny how as a kid little things get stuck in your mind, I remember he came racing in from the shed and called the family out to hear him start the engine for the 1st time, Me and him were stoked that it ran after spending months rebuilding it, but Mum and my sister couldn't give a stuff. From memory it was a 4 speed box and hard as hell to drive although the old man did it quite well.

It was stationed at Eastern hill and was No1 pumper, its pump capacity was 1000 G/pm and for that time was a huge improvement on the current pumpers. It also had solid rubber tyres which woulda been hell on the cobblestone roads in the CBD. We used it in the Moomba day parades and it featured in a couple of Australian period dramas, not sure if anyone remembers Carson's Law. Godfrey's house burnt down and we came thundering up the driveway.

The pic below is not our vehicle its exactly the same model and type, although it doesn't have the wheeled Escape. I have loads of pics but their all on slides and negatives, I need to convert them to Jpg.

When it was polished and cleaned it was a magnificent looking Vehicle, I remember spending hours in the shed with the old man fussing over it, and I'd gladly do it all again