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Old 25-07-2019, 10:17 PM   #1
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Default HO down the Hume

For those of you on Facebook have a look here.
Not sure exactly what's going on with the car, but with 3M and Car-o-liner being thanked, I wonder if they're going to reassemble the body? Will be an interesting story.

https://www.facebook.com/90105385690...1864643494451/
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Old 25-07-2019, 10:44 PM   #2
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Old 25-07-2019, 11:06 PM   #3
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Yep, it's a picture thats always stuck in my mind, i'll be following it for sure......

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Old 26-07-2019, 01:28 AM   #4
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You know the most awesome thing about this. Check the mirror, bloke has his eye closed.




































Only kidding, thats the guy in the back seat with the camera, or is it???????
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Photo was taken by the photographer Uwe Kuessner.Driver was Mel Nichols,who @ the time I think editor @ Wheels magazine.It appeared in the October 1971 edition.
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Old 26-07-2019, 10:59 AM   #6
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You know the most awesome thing about this. Check the mirror, bloke has his eye closed.
So I'm not the only one who noticed it all these years I always thought he was praying, as at that speed if anything happened, it was a certain one-way ticket to meet his maker.
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Old 26-07-2019, 11:31 AM   #7
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So I'm not the only one who noticed it all these years I always thought he was praying, as at that speed if anything happened, it was a certain one-way ticket to meet his maker.
Could be related to an early 70's car on cheese cutters getting would off the clock. I'm sure even the might HO would have been wandering a bit
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The good old days
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Both Speedo and tacho would have been reading more than likely optimistic
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Old 26-07-2019, 01:20 PM   #10
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Both Speedo and tacho would have been reading more than likely optimistic
Negative Nelly!
Or Coulda been reading under?
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Old 26-07-2019, 01:37 PM   #11
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You know the most awesome thing about this. Check the mirror, bloke has his eye closed.




Only kidding, thats the guy in the back seat with the camera, or is it???????
He probably just blinked when a Torana took him on the last bend.








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Old 26-07-2019, 01:41 PM   #12
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Absolutely iconic photo, it’s the past freedom of our country.
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Old 26-07-2019, 02:29 PM   #13
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Nice picture. Took the old Hume back from Violet Town to Chiltern this morning, wouldn't want to be pushing it in a HO as there were a few of Mexican bubble gum machines taking pictures.
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Old 26-07-2019, 02:31 PM   #14
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Two of my favourite towns. You fortunate bugger!
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My base is in one of them.
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I often pass though Chiltern on the way to Howlong
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I often pass though Chiltern on the way to Howlong
Nice sleepy little town. Sleepier since Hub 62 café closed. Howlong's not much bigger.
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Old 26-07-2019, 04:09 PM   #18
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There used to be rumours of race H.O,s running the Hume at 160 rather than the 140 odd n the photo
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