Thread: Wheels Across a Wilderness- Leyland Bros

Brings back fond memories of when this big place called ozz was like venturing to where no man had ever gone before.
I loved watching them when I was a youngster..gee I am getting old.
I liked it when thay had to replace a clutch in the desert , dont know why but that one stuck in my mind...
sorry
Brad remaniscing (shutup Ron) I have has too many scothches and cokess

anyone ever see the bush mechanics show about the aborigines, the fixed a clutched in an old ford and made the disc material from shaped wood, it apparently worked, I remembermike and mal leylands show as a youngster when they were driving old cherokees, they had an old series 1 wagon which some museum has somewhere, old harry butler he was a landy fan as was the perrenial the Bush Tucker Man ol Les Hiddins, great show and still is today, way better then the simpsons

loved watching the bush machanics .... In one episode i remember seeing them replace a gearbox crossmember in a EH holden ..... not sure if the found wire or rope but they broke off an old branch and layed it acroos the floor ( sticking out either side of the car ) and tying the gearbox to the branch ...... classic show

See the one where they were all jammed in an old dunnydoor, the fuel pump went so the jury rigged the windscreen washer bottle as a tank and pump, putting along down the track fingering the washer motor to give her fuel, then they got a flat and the buggers took of wheel nuts using a pairof plyers, I thought that was a bit rich.

yeah seen most of them .... alot got abit far fetched though . was funny to watch . and back to the leyland brothers ... i remember them as a kid watching them i think on a sunday night with the family .... was great

This is where Tv has gone down the girgler, stuff like the Leyland bros and Harry butler was good tv, it was benificial in that it did its part to promote Australia for what it is, then came Albey mangles and buggered the whole thing up with the world safari movies, we should go back to tv like that and less simpsons and other american rubbish

The only Simpson I'm interested in is the Simpson Desert! You're right about American crap on Commercial(not really free to air, given that last year advertisers spent $3.5 billion with "free to air" TV. Figure that out as all that advertising cost is added to the products you buy). The yanks spend say $500,000 per episode on their lousy sitcoms and commercial stations here buy 'em for about $10k.

getting of topic again, we in Oz have a fantastic TV and film making facilities with great actors, yet they think coz they can buy all this yank crap cheaper we want to watch it, all the CSI this CSI that its all too much, wheres the Australian content? atleast giveme re runs of Dads Army thats way funnier and much better TV for the kids,