Aussie ingenuity.........good and bad

[VMX247]

[GMC]

Some distant relative’s contraption, Dads second cousins or something (not distant enough)
No idea why but reason is not usually considered when building something.
Cops would have pink fits if they saw this on the roads nowadays

[Tim754]

Well aside from one slightly bald front tyre .....

[VMX247]

Shame half the photos have been deleted on this topic.
Though have come across this one !! Any ideas on the pipe ?? 

[80-85 husky]

just looking at the "contraption" reminded me of one "ol mate" made down the road from our place. he was hell on wheels and was always hooning big time. He ended up with a Cortina effectively stripped to the chassis with a seat and steering wheel. it had a 302 shoe horned in and he smoked the tyres everywhere all over the district.

His great trick was to run down all the "new" plastic white posts on one particular strip of road and did this regularly until one of the locals got pissed off with noise and slipped a star picket behind one of the posts.... that was the end of the rocket....

[oldie]

Someone was throwing out an old stationary engine, Bamford I think, so my Dad grabbed it & restored it. It was a water cooled model so he stuck a Mini radiator to it, it sat doing nothing for a while until the motor on the bench grinder shit itself, it was an old school belt driven unit. So he attached the Bamford to a shaft down the middle of the shed & the bench grinder was then belt driven from this. Everytime you wanted to grind something you had to get the crank handle & wind the beast up. The only thing worse than starting it was trying to stop it. You had to press a button on the magneto, but with it's big flywheels it kept rolling on for ages, if your finger got tired from holding the button down & it was still turning over at 0.5 RPM it would bloody fire back into life again. It ended up easier just to grab a file.
The old thumper did sound great though.

Thanks for sharing mate, talk about laughing, I couldn't stop, bloody funny.  (Y)

he modified the shaft and attached his shearing head to it.

he had it hooked up by belt to an enormous saw blade

Great to hear some other fathers were as bad as mine and I was not alone.

   

[Canam370]

Shame half the photos have been deleted on this topic.
Though have come across this one !! Any ideas on the pipe ?? 

That'll be similar to or even might be KB's thermos muffler!

[VMX247]

That'll be similar to or even might be KB's thermos muffler!

ye be the winner.   note : don't leave your drink vessel at your mates 

[pokey]

I was looking at that silencer thumbing my chin and thought hmmm. Stewy ( oldfart)wouldnt have to cart his primus stove and kettle around for his cuppa  if he had one of those things. Three laps and tea is made.