Thread: Embarrassment

Yeah mate, Lucy really liked the button on my wife's jacket!!!Hey, I forgot that LandRover book, we got so involved in that "Great Wall Bloke" story!!!

Jas,, it was my pleasure to meet you and your lovely family. Just sitting around chatting was a fantastic experience.

I'm glad you are all still grinning over the 2a now that you have seen it in daylight!

Sorry about the timing, Jim.

Jas - when it's cold and the first start of the day - full choke, 2 'blips' on the accelerator and hit the 'go' button and it'll start up first time, every time

Thanks for all the goodies that were placed in the back of my car - most appreciated.

hehe - sorry to keep you up so late yakking - not!

Jase, I put this on the Landytown site, hope the link works!!!

LandyTown :: Banjo's Latest Purchase!!


Yup, it does!!!

Originally Posted by banjo

Its a 1972 2a LWB wagon fitted with a 253 holden V8 with a nissan cabstar 5 speed gearbox..

Fred sat in the drivers seat today & asked me to start it as i was sittin next to her.Once it warmed a bit she hit the accelerator a few times & said that sounds so AWESOME..shame she cant drive it till shes about 21 & on full licence.hehehehehehehe

RTA may have changed the rules, but my son was allowed to learn to drive on a V8 [1984 Range Rover classic], then when he got his P's was not allowed to drive the v8 any more. But because at that stage the v8 was our only car, we went in with a medical certificate saying sometimes my Knee or foot stopped me from driving it [I have Pseudo-gout], and we got an excemption so my son could drive our V8 on his P's. We had argued it was a small V8 and not that powerful though.

As I said rules may have changed, but my son learned on a v8, then got an exemption to drive it on his P's. Might be different with other cars in the family, but I would find out.

Ps, do not show Fred this post, let her think she can only drive Harry .









Hello Fred.

Banjo, I should have added that we do live in the Bush, and could justify having a V8 4X4, as I am a pensioner and could not afford a diesel 4x4 —our Range Rover cost was only $2000, all we could afford to buy at that time. And that was a part of the reason my son got an exemption on his driving our V8 on his P’s. But we had no problem with him driving the V8 when he was on his L’s, and he went for his P-plate licence test twice on that Range Rover V8 with its V8 badge [first time he failed because he changed lanes while he went through the roundabout.] That V8 was not a problem to RTA examiner. See a L-plate driver always has an experienced driver instructing him, so it was not a problem for someone to learn to drive on a V8. But on Ps it can become a problem as the young driver usually do want to go fast without the parent seated next to them.

Do check with RTA if the laws has changed since my son got his licence 7 years ago.

We asked NRMA insurance and found that it was not a problem for our son to learn on the V8 from an insurance point of view, but once he was on his Ps they put an extremely large excess for him on our insurance.

Of course having them learn on an 4 cylinder causes the parent instructor to have better health as they are not always white knuckled, screaming out something like:-- “slow down, you will kill us all”—the main problem with teaching kiddys to drive on the v8.

Also you could tell Fred that if she can learn on Harry, she may then be able to drive the V8 on private property bush tracks [assuming you can find some nearby who will let you drive on their property.]

An L-plate driver has to get 100 hours of driving experience before going for the License. This does not all have to be on-road, some could be off-road in the V8, i would think. I would think if you can find a private property to drive on. You fill-out that log book where you drive point to point. I would doubt they would say that 10km of low ratio first through mud should not count towards those hours that you are required to do-- you could tell them if they question it you were being taught what to do when it is slipery, if you listed it in your log book.

Tell them it is so she would drive you hospital/home if you get too sick or injured [snakebite, broken leg. etc.] to drive on a planned off-road trip—assuming you are planning to do off-road trips.

Places like Stockton Beach may be counted as roads; at least the beach on Frazer Island is, So that you cannot have a P-plate driver driving on the beach without a V8 exemption.

And you are also expected to obey most road rules on the beach if you do any such trips.

Started a new thread today..

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-ii-...n-new-toy.html

Like the new Wagon Banjo - Telecom Tessie springs to mind

Not that I'm thinking clearly down here in Adelaide in the cold

A weekend in Singapore, a week in the Philippines visiting friends then down to Adelaide for a family visit has been a shock to the system. BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRR cold weather

Hi Jason and Jim.
I have been keeping across your travels on here, and am pleased to advise that I will be in your area next week for a couple of weeks.
Ill call to get Karen to put the jug on.
Looking forward to meeting up again.
Brian