Recent content by bathurst-racer

When my eldest son was about 11years old I started to teach him some basic maintenance skills on his dirt bike. I even bought him a starter tool kit. I'd show him what to do and he would walk straight past his new tools and fish around in my tool box and select only Snap On stuff. Now he is 23...

I get Muscle Car Review and most Hemmings magazines which are all keepers. Car books are mainly American muscle related or Formula One. The Unfair Advantage has been replaced because my original copy was read so many times it fell to bits and It Was Fun by Tony Rudd looks like doing the same. I...

I work in the prison system. One day in the Court cells we were busy and then received five fresh custodies from the Police. They were housed in a cell together until we had time to deal with them. When it was time to search them two older officers with years more experience than me took them...

Hi Matt I was doing my mechanics apprenticeship in the late 70's and I agree that your tools look to be from about that era.

Hiya stripe from Bathurst.

My Grandfather opened his workshop in the mid 1920's. I have his vise, a few hand tools and some early shop manuals. He never knew I followed him into the motor trade but I think he would have thought it was a good thing. I never had the opportunity to work with my father on our cars which may...

I work in Corrections so my wallet usually stays in my work bag. Being in a jail or in court cells isn't the best place to have your ID in your back pocket. My phone has to go into a firearm locker at least twice a day and that takes a beating from my partner and I putting a couple of Glocks and...

My Grandfather opened his workshop in 1927. I have a vice that Dad told me was there as long as he could remember. I also have tools that they used when the workshop was running up until the early seventies. I agree with all of the memories and feelings about working with your families tools and...

Our best wishes and prayers to you and your family wth a special mention to those great people looking after you.

I bought mine in 1980/81.

Re: What did you do to your garage today? The last couple of weeks have been a thrash to get my car ready for the last round of the Track Championship. Before that my other car had an engine rebuild and was put back together along with a new diff. So today was spent putting stuff away and...

Thanks for the welcome. Hopefully the attachment of the Torana racing at Eastern Creek will appear somewhere in this reply. Yes it is a genuine LJ GTR XU-1 which I have owned for over 20 years. I have all the original parts but it races with a 3.3 litre blue bottom end with a good 9 port head...

Hi Everyone I've joined the site to see what other car guys are doing with their toys. I have always been interested in American factory muscle cars and would love a Boss 302 Mustang in my garage. Until that happens I'm racing a Holden Torana in our Nostalgia Drag Racing...