Old technology still works
Submitted: Monday, Jul 19, 2004 at 20:57
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Willem
Today being a bitterly cold day here in Pboro 600m asl, I had to drive to a neighbouring town. My Patrol is parked in the Flinders and the missus demanded the Commodore so I had to fire up my old '67 Valiant slant 6 for the journey. Had not started it for a month and after about ten kicks at the accellerator she fired up. Took another 5 minutes to warm up and to get the gearbox oil hot otherwise you go nowhere. Drove down to the servo and filled it up with juice(unleaded and Flash) and pumped the tyres up as
well. Very soon we were winging our way along the black top at 70mph(yep over the speed limit) with the wind whistling along the side pillars. She drives beautifully with no power steering( just don't try
parking it) and the extractors give that deep resonance which emanates from the exhaust.
Old technology...ever so reliable.