cster
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Post by cster on Jun 3, 2024 20:13:20 GMT 10
A chap named paulRoySpurgeon has put up a vanning holiday from back near 1957ish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eU-Qrvs1AIt goes for about 22 minutes and travels from Melbourne to Sydney. |
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Post by shesgotthelook on Jun 5, 2024 9:06:20 GMT 10
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Post by cobber on Jun 5, 2024 12:47:14 GMT 10
Two great old movies about how it was, thanks for posting them….. funny thing is, it’s just the way I remember it 🤪 And here’s another one ( part 1 of 3 ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT18CSPCdB8Cobber. |
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Post by Mustang on Jun 5, 2024 19:59:03 GMT 10
AAaaahhh camping with fresh air.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jun 5, 2024 21:43:29 GMT 10
G'day Cster and Shesgotthelook,
A couple of interesting little films to watch. Thanks for posting the links.
The van in Cster's film looks like a home built caravan based on the shape and the front and rear window. The blurb says that the van was towed by a Holden, and there are lots of Holdens in the film, but I think the tow car is actually a Standard 8 with the sliding windows and no boot lid. That would be a big trip for a little car with an 803cc engine! What do you reckon Cobber?
Don Ricardo
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Post by cobber on Jun 6, 2024 14:01:51 GMT 10
Yes Don R that little Standard 8 would have been puffin most of the trip but they were not in a hurry, neither were the life savers at Cronulla, another sign of the times I noticed was women wearing dresses even on holidays. 🙄 😉
Cobber. |
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Post by Mustang on Jun 7, 2024 18:44:26 GMT 10
G'day Cster and Shesgotthelook, A couple of interesting little films to watch. Thanks for posting the links. The van in Cster's film looks like a home built caravan based on the shape and the front and rear window. The blurb says that the van was towed by a Holden, and there are lots of Holdens in the film, but I think the tow car is actually a Standard 8 with the sliding windows and no boot lid. That would be a big trip for a little car with an 803cc engine! What do you reckon Cobber? Don Ricardo Cant imagine that little car on the old Hume !!!!!! |
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Post by tomqvaxy on Jun 22, 2024 22:20:05 GMT 10
thanks all for posting the videos. i have not had a great deal of success getting to the early caravans; my searches usually end up with small fiberglass trailers of which i am not too fond.
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jun 24, 2024 9:52:37 GMT 10
Watching those films was well worth wasting some time this morning! The Standard car was my first ever car, but I had the flash one - the Standard 10!!! Now that's saying something for someone younger than cobber! I paid 250 quid for it when I was on a working holiday in Tassie, picking apples and pears. I earned enough to pay for it in cash with one week's wages. Worked like a trojan picking all day and packing shed at night to do it!
The fashions of those days always intrigue me, as does the fact that people were so much slimmer without the need for going to gyms et-al.
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Post by cobber on Jun 24, 2024 16:45:45 GMT 10
If you would like to see old caravans in the UK just type ‘British Pathe historic caravans’ into the search field on YouTube then scroll through the results.
Not as interesting as dinkum Aussie stuff in my opinion.
Cobber.
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 25, 2024 9:22:25 GMT 10
hi ray
we're almost twins.
my first car was a pale blue standard eight.
i bought it in 1964 for 40 quid when i got my first annual leave payment as a first year apprentice (that was almost my whole holiday pay).
the clutch burned out on the way home from picking it up (couldn't afford to fix the clutch so had to borrow money from dad to pay for it).
oh the good old days.
geoff ('n jude)
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jun 25, 2024 19:59:52 GMT 10
Hey Geoff. Mine was a pale blue too!!! I got mine in 1963.
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