Me in 1978

Mike Kelly · #1 06-09-06, 13:10

This is me in my Jeep in Sep. 1978 ..... it was a slatt grill 41 MB . DOD 31/12/41 . In those days LHD vehicles were a big NO NO here , so ways were found to get around the rules . I won't say what I did , but I got away with it .

Mike

Hanno Spoelstra · #2 06-09-06, 21:34

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Originally posted by Mike Kelly
I won't say what I did , but I got away with it .

C'mon Mike, fess up! I'm sure it's been too long ago to prosecute you on your confession.

H.

Mike Kelly · #3 07-09-06, 04:31

hi Hanno ,

Well, I did the old number plate switching thing .Here In Victoria , the only way to drive around in a LHD vehicle was , it had to have pre 1948 registration . The number plates here from 1939-53 were a two digit - three number system e.g., AA000 to ZZ999 . By 1946 they were up to J

I found a CMP F15A with original 1946 reg on it . I did the swap legally , but I didnt tell the guys at the RTA , the vehicle was LHD !
I recall going into the city to the RTA to do it, there were still many 1940's tramways buses in use in Melbourne til the mid 70's , with wartime plates on them . Old Leyland Tigers chugging along , thay must have clocked up millions of miles by then.

:http://www.skylineaviation.co.uk/buses/MTT.html

My first CMP in 1977 was a 1943 C15 wireless , the GMH bodied variant , it had been down , made into a pickup . I bought that Jeep pictured in 1976 , took 2 years rebuilding it , used heaps of bog in the panels ., much rough welding , my panel beating hasn't improved that much !

Below is a DUKW we found in a rubbish tip in the 1970's . I had long hair then .... not now .

Mike

Keith Webb · #4 07-09-06, 12:08

Others I've heard of were Ford Prefect utes, the description of which was close to a Jeep.

#5 07-09-06, 12:18

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Originally posted by Mike Kelly
Below is a DUKW we found in a rubbish tip in the 1970's . I had long hair then .... not now .

Mike

"Oh LOOK, LOOK," says Ma Yappy

"It's a HIPPY and a DUCK!!!"

(can't sleep tonight, gotta have some fun, eh?

)

See Ma yappy run now ... Master Mike is bigger and faster than her

Tony Smith · #6 07-09-06, 17:42

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Originally posted by Mike Kelly

I won't say what I did , but I got away with it .

Mike

The photo gives away the answer...... You drove it everywhere in reverse, therefore technically driving it from the right side. :idea:

Mike Kelly · #7 08-09-06, 15:29

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Originally posted by Keith Webb
Others I've heard of were Ford Prefect utes, the description of which was close to a Jeep.

Keith ,

late 1930's Willys cars were also popular with Jeep owners , Sedans were cut down into utes , registered , papers say 1940 Willys ute . Away you go .....

Mike

Mike Kelly · #8 08-09-06, 15:37

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Originally posted by Vets Dottir
"Oh LOOK, LOOK," says Ma Yappy

"It's a HIPPY and a DUCK!!!"

(can't sleep tonight, gotta have some fun, eh? )

See Ma yappy run now ... Master Mike is bigger and faster than her

Me thinks MA Yappy has been drinking too many budweisers , the horrid beer you poor lumberjacks have to put up with . Or am I wrong .

#9 09-09-06, 22:38

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Originally posted by Mike Kelly
Me thinks MA Yappy has been drinking too many budweisers , the horrid beer you poor lumberjacks have to put up with . Or am I wrong .

Darn it. You found me out

... (but it's rather a case of too much coffee and cigarettes fueling a genetic predisposition to cheeky-ness methinks

)

(I always wish we had coffee/tea cups smilies in here because i rarely partake of the creature and such spirits. Coffee is my drug of choice )

Ma Yappy