Overcast, cold, windy day. Left RACV at 9:00 AM, motored to Nelson Place in Williamstown to have morning tea/coffee with Australian contingent for a total of about 35 Alvis motor cars.
All cars were “ticketed” by two uniformed British bobbies in a proper 1958 Wolseley Six Eighty police car complete with working roof mounted siren and bumper mounted bell. Splendid!
Pressed on for lunch at the Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club, on an island accessed by two one-lane causeways. Wildlife birds observed were, Pelicans, Galahs, Cormorants, Kookaburras, Australian Magpies, and Royal Spoonbills.
The afternoon drive took us across the Bellarine Peninsula on to Geelong for the night’s stay.
Repairs for the day included: Removing, freeing and replacing the clutch bearing and shaft on the Diffey 1926 12/50 Beetleback; repairing a petrol leak in #1 S.U. carb float chamber on the Nicholl 1928 14.75 tourer crewed by the Easts; solving a 5 cylinder firing only on the Day 1961 TD21 by fettling the distributor; and buying gasket material, making and replacing gaskets, removing/replacing the triple S.U. carbs and inlet/exhaust manifold on the Mornane 1937 Speed 25, all in under 2 hours! My son, Brett, has done the latter, and now has a time to beat!
Pressed on for lunch at the Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club, on an island accessed by two one-lane causeways. Wildlife birds observed were, Pelicans, Galahs, Cormorants, Kookaburras, Australian Magpies, and Royal Spoonbills.
The afternoon drive took us across the Bellarine Peninsula on to Geelong for the night’s stay.
Repairs for the day included: Removing, freeing and replacing the clutch bearing and shaft on the Diffey 1926 12/50 Beetleback; repairing a petrol leak in #1 S.U. carb float chamber on the Nicholl 1928 14.75 tourer crewed by the Easts; solving a 5 cylinder firing only on the Day 1961 TD21 by fettling the distributor; and buying gasket material, making and replacing gaskets, removing/replacing the triple S.U. carbs and inlet/exhaust manifold on the Mornane 1937 Speed 25, all in under 2 hours! My son, Brett, has done the latter, and now has a time to beat!
PY running faultlessly, after an initial slipping clutch scare which somehow resolved itself.
Total miles for the day: 125
Total miles for the day: 125
1 comment:
What? All that bird watching and not one single sighting of a Jillaroo? Time to get your head out from under the bonnet, mate, and start takin' a butcher's.
Tiger
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