How do ya get there ?

[Wallaby Jack]

We did "where do ya live", so now, How do ya get there ?

Miss Fannie, this may be a place for a Kiwi......

I have a 1985 Toyota HiAce van.
I've had it for 2.5 years.
It has a Ford 302 V8 and auto gearbox fitted (10 years ago).
It's drivin' me nuts :goofy

[Wallaby Jack]

yes I did say it has a V8, it used to have a 2.5litre diesel when it came out in '85....

[Wallaby Jack]

.... and it has signage, of sorts....

[Wallaby Jack]

and it has signage, of importance......

[Wallaby Jack]

oh yes, it also has an extra radiator out front.......
... an' it's got "Belles" on it too ..... :w2

[Wallaby Jack]

......... just another day in tha office....

[Wallaby Jack]

....... an' this is my desk .....

[Catawba Kate]

Ok this is my baby and Barrel Head and I call her "tater".

[Catawba Kate]

Ours is a Toyota Prius, 2005 and here is the engine.

[Catawba Kate]

Here is the inside.

[Catawba Kate]

This is the button how we start the car.

[Clancy]

Steering wheel is on the wrong side Kate!!!

[Catawba Kate]

This is the monitor. It has GPS and we can see how the engine and battery are doing.

[Catawba Kate]

Steering wheel is on the wrong side Kate!!!
No Clancy!! Somehow you guys didn't get the memo. They changed it!!!:lool :lool

[Wallaby Jack]

We might not have got tha memo, an' it mighta all been'd changed....

.... BUT , that don't make it right !!!!! .... :bhd :rant :bhd :bhd :bhd


:w2

[Wallaby Jack]

........ er, Miss Kate, apart frum tha steerin' wheel misplacement, your ve-hickle appears to be sufferin' frum consumption ......

:wallaby

[Catawba Kate]

We might not have got tha memo, an' it mighta all been'd changed....

.... BUT , that don't make it right !!!!! .... :bhd :rant :bhd :bhd :bhd


:w2
Wallaby, left, left side!!! Not right!!!:gg :gg :gg

[Wallaby Jack]

Sorry ta disagree with ya Ma'am, but tha opposite of right side is WRONG side......


I drove in your country once, :scarediest thing I have ever did....
... like I said, ... wrong side....

anyways, if ya ain't gonna do it right, .................. ?

[Judge Lead]

Wallaby, the easiest way to remember which side of the road to drive on is

'Centre of the road is closest to the driver'.

That is unless you got a 30 yr old American car that has not been corrected.:gg :gg :lool here where the steering wheel is on the CORRECT side :rofl :go.

The biggest problem I found was turning left at the intersection. Had to correct myself a couple of times before I fully grasped the idea above.:faint

[Nellie Blue]

Here's mine:

2000 Tundra 4x4....Paid in full!!! (just got the title yesterday!!!)

It'll crawl over rocks on two wheels (Right front, left rear)...it'll go thru snow with no chains...it'll play in the knee deep mud pulling a trailer...and it drives down the freeway feeling like a car instead of a truck.

Oh look, you caught it at a rare moment when it was clean! It gets a bath about once a year whether it needs it or not! :lool

[DogWoman]

AHHHHH!!! Nellie, you got a TUNDRA???? Oh girl, we gotta talk at Utah War!

When our Tacoma blows up, we want to replace it with the NEW TUNDRA (towing rated for 10,000 lbs). Can't wait till that baby comes out.

Don't think my Tacoma drives much different than a Tundra except that we can go on roads a bit more narrow. They climb rocks like you wouldn't believe!

[Nellie Blue]

Yep, Dog Woman.... I LOVE MY TUNDRA!!! :jp :jp :jp

I've got over 105,000 miles on it and it's been good to me! When the day comes that I have to replace it, I'll replace it with one of those new Tundras also (love that bigger engine)....but I'm going to enjoy not having a payment for a little while! :D :D :D

[Kid Sopris]

JUST Once...I would like to show up at EOT in this!

[DogWoman]

YEAH!!!! There you go!

[Kid Sopris]

But I would settle for this everytime!

[DogWoman]

The first year we shot Utah War, a shooter came in driving a semi with flat bed. There was nothing on this flat bed BUT HIS GUN CART.

I can imagine people wondering what it was as they passed him!

[Chantry]

Here is how I get to the shoots.

[Wallaby Jack]

Hey that's fancy ........
.......er, what is it ?


we don't got things like that over/under this side of tha fishin' hole,

mayhaps we should mention Make and Model, an' possibly vintage........

[Kid Sopris]

WJ, That there is one of them new Cataract's, no Cardiac, no that's not it...oh I got it....Cadillacs! :lool

[Chantry]

Hey that's fancy ........
.......er, what is it ?


we don't got things like that over/under this side of tha fishin' hole,

mayhaps we should mention Make and Model, an' possibly vintage........

Thanks, I am pretty happy with this car. It is a 1994 Cadillac Eldorado with a 270 hp 4.6 liter Northstar V8. And it even gets semi decent gas mileage (26-27 miles per gallon@70 mph)

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Well, I've posted these in another thread, but I'll post here too.....this is how I am now getting everywhere...matches, grocery store and that place that is a four letter word that I won't mention.....my Kiwi Honda Element.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

And there is a Carolina Belles Bust Out sticker on it, too.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

It is a 5-speed manual shift, with the gear shift on the dash...so handy and easy to manuever

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

The front seats fully recline and lay even with the back seats which will fully recline, also. So, if you need to take a nap or you want to go camping and not sleep in a tent, here ya go.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

The seats will also fold up and hook onto the side bars for even more space. Or, you can completely remove the seats for even more room!!!

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

It has suicide doors which make it so easy to load up.

[Catawba Kate]

Suicide doors??:lool :lool I got to ride in Fannie's Kiwi this weekend. It is a NICE ride!! You don't have to worry about wearing your muddy boots in it either (and mine were pretty muddy!):lool

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Suicide doors??:lool :lool I got to ride in Fannie's Kiwi this weekend. It is a NICE ride!! You don't have to worry about wearing your muddy boots in it either (and mine were pretty muddy!):lool
That's right, because the floor board is waterproof, you just open the doors and hose it out.

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Fannie stop makin me drool!

Well my new baby ( from Jan 06 this year) is a new to me 98' Burbon (chevy Suburban) but I car him "Burbon" I adore my full sized SUV I can load all three kids gun cart, weekend visiting essentials (thats a few suitcases for you men folk) and still have room for the Holly dog and wikkett (though we don't take them to the desert in the summer too hot for the long haired babies)

THIS sunday we are taking Cookie and Lizzie Shooting with the Churro Valley Regulators! (wahoo!) I doubt it will be a regular trip for them but its will be so fun having friends come up instead of making that LONG drive down to see them!

IMA...are you reading this?!?!? there is always room for two more!

Greeneyed (I shall post a picture of my Burbon all loaded up for the shoot Sunday!) Gypsy

[Manon Antoinette]

I'd prefer this travelling device with some black friesians :)

http://i7.tinypic.com/20zs6fa.jpg

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Here's how Susie gets around, mine'll have to come later.......

[Nellie Blue]

This is what I stay in when I get there...

[Coffee Em]

Hey, Manon, can I be a funereal footman (footwoman?) on your hearse and team of Friesians? Or maybe I could have a nice rig like this for running errands...

[Ida Hands]

That hearse would have been perfect for a group I used to ride with...The Winchester Widows! All that was needed was a coffin with a dead husband in the back!

[Chihuahua Floyd]

Lioness,
Do you have to supply your own dead husband?
CF (I ain't gonna volunteer for that job!!)

[Manon Antoinette]

I have an ex-husband perfect for the job of dead husband ;) I did once tell him I wouldn't shed a tear if he dropped dead on the spot and meant it :go I would've been a merry widow :rofl :lool

Funeral footwoman would be good :lool

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Something like this Manon Antoinette

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/Settlement.jpg
:tap :tap

SV-IR

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

My toys

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/1955chevyseries2.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/abovefnt.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/minieaglesrock.jpg

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Vic, I didn't think those old Chevy's got overseas. Bet that Mini's a beast..........Buck:99

[Four-Eyed Buck]

While I'm at it, Miz Fannie I saw your Kiwi's twin tonight while me and the girls were out and about..................Buck:chick

[Nellie Blue]

Vic, I almost fell out of my chair laughing!!! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

And I LOVE the Cheby!!!!

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Vic, I didn't think those old Chevy's got overseas. Bet that Mini's a beast..........Buck:99
Hi FEB i bought the Chevy while on hols in California and got her shipped home. At the moment she is undergoing a full custom rebuild. The mini-- this i use for motorsport although i havent used her in anger for 4 years now to many irons in the fire but a blast to drive

SV-IR

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Vic, I almost fell out of my chair laughing!!! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

And I LOVE the Cheby!!!!
Thanks NB boy is she a solid old truck made to last.
SV-IR:ty

[Manon Antoinette]

Well, Vic, close :lool except he still has to sell the house and pay me my half :rofl since he's the one living in it and the car is a lease-company car, this scenario is not feasible :rofl :gg :lool

I loooooove this car:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/1955chevyseries2.jpg

I also love old Ford pick-ups :faint When I was 10 years old I wanted to become a truck-driver :rofl

[Nellie Blue]

The odd thing about that photo it that the houses in the background look like they could be right here in America! We're all becoming alike...world-wide!!!

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

The odd thing about that photo it that the houses in the background look like they could be right here in America! We're all becoming alike...world-wide!!!
Good obseravtion NB actually those houses are in America , Lake Elsinore California to be exact where i bought her. But here she is in Northern Ireland just before i stripped her down to rebuild.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/Pb180013.jpg

Here is a pic of my daughter and my grandson Josh with the company supplied runabout called a Smart car. Just two seats and a little turbocharged 600cc engine. It is desgined for city use, not so good on a stormy day!!!!

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/P1010882.jpg

[Chihuahua Floyd]

Vic,
I's seem one of the little cars on a new cable show over here, cute little feller.
CF

[Nellie Blue]

To funny, Vic!

Luv the little cutie also (actually both of them...the car and the kid!) although I'd be afraid to drive it in this town! I get nervous in my big ol' safety conscious Tundra! Crazy Drivers!!! :help

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Yea N.B. not much of a contest against your Tundra it would be just like hitting a little pothole in the road:faint

Here are a couple more pics of Josh
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/P1010860.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/P1010861.jpg

[Nellie Blue]

Too cute!! :kiss

[Manon Antoinette]

Aaaah no not the SMART... I need a Landrover Freelander for my shopping ;) we call the Smart-car a shoppingcart on wheels, once the groceries are in nothing else will fit! :rofl

[Judge Lead]

To think, the Sydney Police Dept bought a Smart car and drive around town with the Blue/White checkering and Police written all over it.
To see some of those big, burly coppers extricate themselves from this Smart car remindes me of the days they used to drive Mini Coopers as highway pursuit cars.

Something to see.:rofl :rofl :lool

Regards

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

oh yes, it also has an extra radiator out front.......
... an' it's got "Belles" on it too ..... :w2


I am a linesman for the county!!!!!

[Kid Sopris]

How it looks with a little help from :Nellie Thank You !

[Duzy Wales]

How about a Harley ?

[Kid Sopris]

Duzy...I am Lookin...HARD !

[Kid Sopris]

But, There was a time in a Galaxy, far, far away, in another life...When a soldier of peace worked in a delicate field of walkin the straight and narrow while infiltraing a different world. A world of outlaws, narcotics, violence, gangs..Domestic Terroirism in it's rawest form.
A Harley it's not, but it did get published and the author and owner was only known by it's personalized license plate.. "RLGSTN". But it's all in the book.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Believe me, Kid's Trailblazer needed those wings to carry the load of boxes we sent him last year for the Convention.:lool

[Wallaby Jack]

Last year I got to tha Nationals (Aust.) on/in this guncart......

[DogWoman]

Those smartcars remind me of a motorized roller skate. I'd be terrified to ride in one of those on I-15. A semi driving past would blow you across the county!

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Those smartcars remind me of a motorized roller skate. I'd be terrified to ride in one of those on I-15. A semi driving past would blow you across the county!
They really auta be called Not so Smart Cars!!:jp

[Doc workday]

Here is a jeep like mine, Mine is dark blue & gold trim

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Here is a pic i came accross while i was HOAKN through my albums. I am 4th from the left.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/scotty350/bishopscourtminisrotated.jpg
:99

[Wallaby Jack]

Did you guys get a "bulk purchase discount" on all them wheel rims ?

:w2

[Coffee Em]

Vic, I always wanted a vintage pickup (ideally, with a custom gypsy vardo pickup camper for it!), and El Husband and I covet a Smart for in-town driving around here.

As for that scorchin' Mini, their class was always my favorite to watch in SCCA road racing. I remember seeing someone spin out and roll his at a corner. He jumped out, he and a couple of corner workers rolled it back rubber-side-down, and he drove back onto the course, turf still clinging to the roof! That was back before the new version, but still...

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Em, Last SCCA race I was at was at Mid-Ohio. The RX-2 Mazda's were the hot thing. Boy, what a different sound they made............Buck:lool :go

[Dakota Dan from OZ]

I have 2000 model Toyota Prado 4x4 that I use to get to the range.

Dakota :go

[Dakota Dan from OZ]

A view from the other end.

Dakota :go

[Doc workday]

Here is another way I can get there :)

[Allie Mo]

Hello Friends,

I've been too "lazy" to go take a :ss of my new car. A new car is a really big deal to me as we always "drive 'em 'till the wheels fall off." I absolutely love my new Jeep Liberty.

:rant BTW, this is a vent post. I've had a terrible year. My sewing machine is back in the shop. My red dress may never get finished the way I planned.

My husband is on disability. I had to go back to work in May to help pay for the house and unexpected purchase of a new car.

I walk to work in the dark and pass scary people every day. :scared

I got in the poison oak again.

Now, look at my new car. Someone stole a piece of it last night. Oh, it also got keyed in three places. :mad

:ty for listening, I think I've got it all out. :rant

Regards,

Allie Mo

There's more but I will :cry if I even think about it.

[Nellie Blue]

Grrrrr! Dang idiots! They're jealous cuz you've got something nice!

[Annie Gunneldoo]

Dang it Allie. That makes me so mad.
I would load up and go huntin' if anyone touched my baby.
Yep, it's a Jeep Liberty too.
Great minds think alike.
Let me know if you find the low-lifes who did this.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Sorry to hear this Miz Allie. Possibly that part is expensive or hard to get. Had that happen to a Ford Ranger I had, they took the aluminum trim panel off the tail gate. It was expensive, plus scrap prices were high at the time......Buck:grr :cgun

[Clay Mosby]

:rant
I honestly believe this is a direct result of the fact that we don't have parents any more in this country. Instead we have folks who try to be a "friend", who try to let their children "express" or "find" themselves.

Or we have folks that pretty much ignore thier kids and let them do what they will. Oh they may bemoan the way their kids act, or blame it on their kids falling in with the "wrong" crowd. BULLS***!!!! If they'd had real parents doing a good job, like mine did, they wouldn't have had a chance to fall in with any crowd except one made up of decent folks.

It's because of this lack of control that bad things like this happen to good people like Allie Mo.
:rant

OK, now that I got that outta my system, Allie, really sorry to hear about this.

Just want you to know that Jess Brown has been an inspiration to me in how he handles what life throws his way, and that you and he Filly and I count among our friends.

Regards,
Clay Mosby

[Ida Hands]

Oh OH! That really trips my trigger! I was parked at work one day, came out and one of our customers had keyed my SUV. He didn't like where I parked. and HE had parked in MY SPACE.
Recently, I had to get a new car because my dear SUV was on it's way out. I bought a black 1999 Mustang Cobra SVT. Lovely car. I didn't want a stick (it is). I didn't want a small car (it is). I didn't want a Mustang (it is) AND I didn't want to purchase it from a certain dealer (I did). All in all, it is a GREAT car. I was doing so well THEN my Mother's car, a 1986 Ford Bronco, our best and favorite car went down. My son and I went out and I purchased them a 2006 Dodge Charger. Room for 4+, drives like a dream, my Mom can drive it, saves loads of gas over the Cobra, looks good, really safe, and a good deal. I have payments all over again...YUCK! but it's safe. It looks something like this (add the stripe): Oh, and the little black one is what my Cobra looks like. That is not a really good photo, though.

[Allie Mo]

Dear Friends,

Thank you for the condolences on the defiling of my new car.

Daw, er Clay...you and Filly are two of my favorite folks. You are genuine Good Guys. Thanks about the kind words for Jess too. I wish I had his strength of character.

Annie, I love the red Liberty and even thought of buying one in that color. However, we have no garage here nor at the new place and rarely wash our cars. So, I went with a dirt-compatible color. :lool

Regards and :kiss ,

Allie Mo

[Ima Horsinaround]

Allie Mo,

Sorry to hear about your sewing machine, car, husband, work etc... Wish there was somethin' I could do to help. You could borrow my extra machine but driving to Utah is obviously out of the question. BTW....have you asked the sewing repair shop for a "loaner" until your machine is fixed?

Hang in there...things will get better!:sewing

Ima Horsinaround

[Allie Mo]

Hi Ima,

:ty for the kind thoughts.

:rant Maybe I should start my own little rant thread...

Hubbie picked up my :sewing today. There was a nasty note on it saying not to mess with the bobbin tension, the adjustment screw was missing. Well, it wasn't when I took it in.

Hubbie ordered a new wheel well cover. Ouch $75 + and he's going to do the labor.

I hurt my knee Sunday clearing brush and can hardly walk today. It got worse every day this week. :rant

:ty for "listening" again.

Regards,

Allie grumpy Mo