Broke Fair 2008

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A 29 degree early september saturday with the forecast oif a severe thunderstorm saturday night and rain sunday put a few people off this years broke fair.
I went out saturday arvo with the wifes 1934 beeza on the back of the chev with Rosie towing along behind.
Each year the bike club camps out there on saturday night and we set up a display on sunday morning early.
Only one bloke and his missus turned up to stay the night..... but thats all it takes to light a campfire and have a yarn and sink a few beers.

We set up sunday morning in hope that a few bikes might come out for a run...


Waddya mean it aint a motorbike?? Its got 2 wheels aint it!!


Ummmmmmm Is this about the "rectum stretcher" Joke officers .. I can explain

One that missed out on Gelignite Jacks fire sticks


Tidy little van


A few Made in England war horses

Bunch of Chevys hangin tuff



Fair share of rods


Our very own .. John and Pam Daniels E type... John and Pam arent members of the forum but visit quite often . They where at Munmorah this year in a couple of thier other toys.. The EH panel van and the Silver bondy with red and blue dots..
They're are looking forward to the east coast tour . Bringing a 350 HQ?? Monaro and the van.


A couple of years newer than the Kaybees work truck , a regular at this event.

A nicely restored FJ van.

Dozens ands dozens of cars... Only one vintage van .... could have sold it ten times over.

Got a few repairs to do.......
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Hinge up Table tore away from the wall spitting screws all over the place..

Lost the Chinamans hat and brass shafts off the chimney halfway through a bad section of roadworks.. went back couldnt find it.

The reddotel ice chest has a leak somewhere... not all the water goes down the drain pipe.

Magnetic lock on top cupboard over stove is not strong enough... No match for one of the worst stretches of road i have ever driven over... right in the middle of Hunter Valley wine country.

The good news
Got leads on another 3 bondys.. . gotta be happy with that...

Honestly office .. i am not Reddo...... You are making a terrible mistake..... Ok, Ok.... put down that gun and capsicum spray.. I will come peacefully.

Reddo

[JBJ]

Hi Reddo,


Looks like a great event. Makes me wish ( sometimes) that I lived closer to civilisation, so I could attend more functions.


I've got a dome top vent that came out of Lucille thats yours if you want it. Let me know if you want to try it & I'll mail it tomorrow.


JBJ

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Hi Dennis

Thanks for the offer.

The one on the van was a copper dome a bit over 100mm in dia.
It had 3 X 1/4" brass rods about 500mm long brazed to it which helped centre it in the flue and they where bent so they rubbed on the walls of the flue and held the cap up off the flue while cooking..
It had a 4th rod that came from the centre of the dome straight down the centre of the chimney flue with a loop handle on the end.
See pictures in "Mildred a sister for Matilda"

Not your average flap cap that just fixes on to the top of the stack.
If ya look at the first photo i used some good old Aussie inginiuity and sat an enamel bowl over the top of the chimney to stop the rain going straight down and into the gas burners on the stove,

If this "Thing" resemble what you have can ya flick me a photo or something.
I can easily make a chimney cap from the enamel bowl and some 1/4 "Bar .the bowls i have are cream and green and are a perfect match to the paint job ;D

But the original gizzmo would be good.

I stopped at Neath pub on the way up... (Man is not a camel on a 29 degree day ).. and noticed the cap and rods had climbed up the flue about a foot. I got in the van and pulled it back down. The thought did cross my mind to tie it off to the water pump but i had nothing to tie it down with and my beer was getting hot.... i am paying the price for not giving it more attention at the time.
Live and learn

Reddo

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top pics Reddo .......luv the little Redex Austin, and the Bourbon
F Truck ......and it always makes a show like that interesting when the 1940's army move in ;D .....similar to our "Brookton Old Time Motor Show".

I know the fustration you feel at losing the chimney bits
.......suffered similar feelings recently when I lost the orig hatch off the Furness caravan I dragged home, just coz I forgot to secure it properly ......bin there for 60 years, and then some dickhead comes along & loses it

Mark

[Don Ricardo]

G'day Reddo,

I thought you were pretty quiet over the weekend. Now I know what you were up to.

Thanks for giving us the run down on the fair. Looks like there was plenty of interesting items to look at!

Well done on flying the V V flag with Rosie. This was her first outing if I am not mistaken? Shame about the top of the flue... I think many of us have been there. My effort was taking off the chinaman's hat with a relatively low branch on a golden elm...in our driveway...in the first two minutes of our trip!!

Don Ricardo

[yellowuki]

Love the army gear, I notice one of them had a red cross painted on That's probably first aid for the drivers of the Landrovers after the backbreaking task of driving one of the good old pommy things ;D

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;D

There is always a "mixed bag" at this fair.
Clubs like the Morris, Jaguar, Vintage truck, GT falcon , '48/67 Holden club, Humptys club .. The Hunter Antique touring Society .. or HATS for short always front up with a few nicely restored cars and the sunliners/Olympics. Word musta got out that the Bondys where coming and they stayed away this year ?? One of my favourites .. the Golden fleece fuel tanker towed with a big fargo didnt front this year.
There is about 6 Veteran, vintage, classic bike club locally and they all have broke fair on thier calanders. When i was pres of the Hunter Valley Norton Owners club a few years back i raised the question as to why the bike clubs dont band together and put on a display out there. They all turn up at different times and park outside along the road , in between cars , in the side streets away from the display area
I logged the weekend as a 2 day event. Ride/trailer the old bikes out on saturday morning. set up camp and then go for a run down to Wollombi village to the Famous Dr Jurds Wine bar/Hotel and back around through Cessnock and over to broke to fill the arvo in.
Those that couldnt make it saturday could ride out there on sunday morning and set thier bikes up on display with ours.
Being a spring time event the poor organisers get thier fair share of dud weekends when it flogs down rain and people stay away in droves. I think thats what happened to our clubbys this weekend. reports of heavy showers in some areas and clear skys in others was enough for the "dooner huggers" to stay in bed on sunday morning.

There is dozens of small market stalls and the local wood working, winemaking, honey collecting societys, school P&C, NPWS, Rural Fire,The big moning companies turn up with massive marquees full of propaganda to try and convince the locals that open cut mining is better in thier backyard than cattle...... dont get me started on that subject

I spent a few hours watching the wood chopping championships. Those guys are incredible. talk about swing an axe. i wouldnt want one of them coming after me for telling an unsavoury joke about wood cutters . They use poplar tree logs from up around grafton nowadays for the events. A big drop in demand for matchsticks has meant that there is a surplus of this plantation timber.
Also means that the wood choppers get it a bit easier than trying to lay into an old iron bark or something of that nature.
One thing that amazed me was they all wear joggers . Now i know that a good pair of joggers will give good grip when standing on a log or when ya running but...... the thought of a razor sharp axe smacking down about 2" away from your little pinkies inside your joggers is a frightening one. Me .... I would be wearing steel cappers with a lump of BBQ plate starpped on top of them

Anyway folks. We only have 4 weekends to the start of the tour 5 to coledale . Rosie is in need of some work ,and i have a list of "things to do" written out on a sheet of paper so big that an elephant could wipe its bum with it....
Better get my skates on aye.
Less time on the 'puter ......more time with a hammer in my hand.

Reddo.