prompted from another thread

Here`s a little story if anyones interested

I was promted to type this from the Valla thread & i didn`t want to fill that thread with my sh!t, so here you go-->

---age 18 i started buying a few splitty & bay single cabs & i used to carry the minis with them
but stoopid me off-loaded the things "Just" before the boom :-(
anyways ,,, i already had been bitten by the Vee_Dub bug as my dad used to work for Henk at Auto center (Way way way back in the day) so i was already born both a mini & vee-dub nut-case :-) (see, it`s not really my fault) :-)

anyways, long story short, over the years i had always carried my minis & customers minis & race minis all over the place, Literally years & years & years i did that,,,, anyone in Brisbane who hadn`t seen me carrying minis in the back of my Spittly utes (Oh & a few bay Single cabs too along the way) well you must-have had your eyes shut for a damn long time :-)

we even went & did this thing (Targa Tasmania rally)



in this thing-->


& ... carried the whole package all the way down to Tasmania & followed the event as crew-vehicle & then all the way back to Brisbane, with basically a whole spare mini mechanicals in it & 2x fuel tanks, tools & water & oil & & & & & & , so much stuff that (1.92tonnes all up actually) ,,, well,, ah,,, does "on the bump stops" mean anything to anyone for this entire distance??? :-) :-) :-)--> with this thing-->

that`s Bondi sydney


even stopped off at (The Pass) at Byron for a surf on the way :-)


it was pure "GOLD" that whole trip :-)-->

:-)

Here`s the story i typed up for the Targa tassie Rally web-site-->
[url]

ah damn , can`t find the thing

ah well,,, there you go... alloy foiled again :-)



here`s another old one with my Turbo charged Alloy V8 sports-sedan mini in/on the back :-) (a fair bit earlier in the peace tho)




& even further back in the early days (early 20s)


i have heaps & heaps more old storys & pics & shots & "episodes" etcs of carrying minis on my kombi utes,,, & trips all over the place,,, ahhhh,,, really wish i still had my first one tho,,, These are 2 of very few pics i have of it tho sadly,




it ended up becoming this un-breako monster, alloy V8 , 4 wheel discs, IRS rear , full roll-cage, winch,
twin tanks, etc etc etc & just awesome car,,,

funny enough it was even better than my Alloy V8 powered off-road race buggy :-)


i had plenty of single cab bay utes over the years too, but my favourites are the early splittys of course & i dearly wish i still had at least 2 of em, but some day soon i`d be keen on a duel-cab splitty with R32 or R33 turbo 4x4 Nissan Skyline running gear under it :-) but just looking stock with "maybe slightly wider std-ish steel rims--> soooo sleeper its just sick :-)

sorry to the purists for that remark, maybe try to blame the insanity from the mini disease ok??? :-)

sooooo,,,, cutting that long story short--> i have this "package now"-->


the buggy is only 290kgs total, has 160hp injected 20v yamaha R1 motorbike engine in it :-) Does 12grand :-), front wheel drive, :-) think of it as a cross between a mini & a go-kart :-) & yeah it turns & stops pretty good if you can imagine :-) :-) :-) :-) the Kombi is 32v Quad-cam Alloy Injected V8 powered, pretty good auto-cross kombi :-)

anyways,,, there you go,,, a bit of reminiscing for you all, hope you don`t mind
cheers
Matt

Mate thats a classic.....great to see pics from back in the day

👍👍👍👍 cool!😵😵‍💫

😎 Some great shotsof old 😎

👍Well done .Cheers Les

The single cab with the falcon tail lights was owned by cousin for a while a few years back. Suffered a bit of fatigue from a few a big wheel stands on the beach. Tarted it up and sold it from memory!!

great stuff to read, i know some one in melb would be over the moon
to see that last pic with daulcab.