The wierdest vehicle you have owned?

[Omaroo]

Just thinking that my younger brother, Steven, has some strange and wonderful stuff in his current garage.

What unusual machinery do you or someone you know have?

Steven's garage has these in it:

Studebaker M29 Weasel


1943 Ford GPW


Amphicat (Steven's was actually "Fleagle"s from the BananaSplits TV show). Here's a link to the Tra La La (One banana, two banana thre.....etc) song: http://www.franklarosa.com/vinyl/Aud...ile=TraLaLa.rm



A clip of the ATV from the show for those of us old enough to remember growing up with it (1968-1970):

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvs...banana-splits/

[DEFENDERZOOK]

for me it would have to be the defender.......

its the slowest...loudest......harshest......roughest..... most uncomfortable thing i have ever driven......
and i love it.....!!
it is unstoppable........

[George130]

These days the Fender for me.
I used to have a Dato 260C with 1980 Ford LTD Front bumper (Couldn't get an original but was given the ford one). I had 2 5 mil sheets of steel behind the plastic.
Friend has and old Jeep mail van from the USA, 1970 Ambulance Dodge Phenix, 1960,s Mercs, 1927 Chev (Mostly rust now)

[bluetongue]

Well the fender is definately up there. It is by sure my favorite...

But some of the other strange (... or in my case... stupid!??) ones over the years...
* I bought a 1976 basketball-orange-coloured datsun 120Y for 600 bucks from my old flat mate so him and his other dole-bludging mates had some cash to purchase some weed.... 120-why?... I still don't know to this day if it was a good purchase or not. Had 2 bald tires, front-fender that stuck out about a foot from the car... but the little thing went and went and went without fail
* 1974 volvo 164E... fuel injected, leather seats, heated seats, in-line 6 cyl, aircon, 18 mpg (if I was lucky)... it had character (for a volvo) but it was the biggest fuel-guzzling-tempermental-piece-of-crap I've ever owned... I accidentally left a plastic bag of prawns in the boot after fishing one w/e down at wollongong.... that was pretty much the end of that car... could never get rid of the smell
* 1974 auto mazda rx4... man that thing was ugly and with the auto gearbox it sounded nothing like the brrr-brrr-brrr that you normally hear, it was just brrrrrrrrrr.... but it was friggin fast!!! Downside was that it used 10L of oil and needed a new set of spark-plugs per week
* oh yeah... and at the age of 22 when I thought I'd do the responsible thing and purchase a 'decent' vehicle I bought a 1989 model nissan pulsar in 1992 for 8990.... those caryard-sharks got me good with 25% interest repayments... car was fine but ended up costing me over 19K

[RobHay]

I once had a Leopard Tank in my Shed.

My younger brother was with 1st Armoured Regt. and was on his way to Shoal Water Bay when the transporter broke down outside of Maryborough Q. Had to unload the tank and as I lived close by they stored it at my place, until they could recover it.

Those things are huge. Got some photo's some where so will have a dig around.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Chris

I owned a very wierd vehicle once - it only had 1 diff - I bought it kept it for 5 months and gave it to my sister-in-law.

For some reason I also have this in my back yard!



Lotz-A

[barney]

had a pink and black morris major elite as my first car, handed down from my grandparents who bought it new the year i was born, it was then handed to my brother who nearly killed the poor thing, then dad and i put a new motor in it and i drove it for 2 yrs until i caught the 4wd bug in 1982 and bought a brand new suzuki sierra for $6900.

[disconut]

I had a bright green 2 door Austin 7 convertible at age 18, and an old Nash Rambler, the one without the front wheel arches. Ugly as!

Trev.

[camel_landy]

I had one of these for years:

Sunbeam Raper Fastback


Then other than various Landys, I've also had a couple of these:



...and Zook.... If you thought the Defender was noisy & uncomfortable....

[JDNSW]

I learnt to drive on cars (or trucks) my father owned after I got big enough to reach the pedals.

1923 Ford Model T truck - very basic, top speed 15mph.

1922 Reo Speedwagon One ton. Top speed 60mph, first gear a real crawling gear, only three gears, no synchromesh - think about gear changes on that! Engine a mixture of old and new - non-detachable heads, open valve gear (Inlet over exhaust), but alloy pistons and full pressure lubrication, except for the oil cups on the rockers.

1931 Swift. 10hp side valve, right hand gate change gears. Two wire electrical system, vacuum tank fuel system, fabric overed wooden frame saloon body. Very reliable and nice to drive.

1948 Austin 16. Got my licence on this. Very nice to drive, outperformed the contemporary Holden, mainly because of the four speed box, and far more comfortable, but the mechanical brakes made life interesting (and the brake rods always rattled).

John