"I'm gunna do it tomorrow"

[Wombat]

Alby Mangels! Whatever happened to Alby mangels?
I think he was a Brickie by trade.
Judy Green was the blonde hottie he towed around on the second trip; a Melbourne based model sometimes seen on 'Sale of the Century'.
His movies and adventures went the way of 'American Chopper'; the TV Producers pushed for stunts and situations but the average viewer could see it was made for camera.

[Wombat]

And nowadays Albys fashion sense would get him into strife in the front bar at the Tingalpa Pub...

[paul]

I SEEM TO REMEMBER THAT ALBY AND JUDY WERE INVOLED IN A BAD CAR CRASH  AT SOME STAGE AND  I THINK SHE GOT BADLY INJURED

[DJRacing]

Years ago we had a tv programme that I think was from Oz(unsure I was just a kid) and the bloke was a bit of an adventurer racing around sand hills in a massive dune buggy. Who the hell was he? Was it an Oz TV show?

[Wombat]

A massive dune buggy? Nope, I don't remember that one.
As a little bloke I loved 'Rat Patrol'; they tore up and down sand dunes in a Jeep with a 50 cal mounted in the rear.
Maybe that was it?
But I think that was two Jeeps with three blokes in each - set in North Africa during WW2.
That's the nearest I can get.

[Rosco400]

Years ago we had a tv programme that I think was from Oz(unsure I was just a kid) and the bloke was a bit of an adventurer racing around sand hills in a massive dune buggy. Who the hell was he? Was it an Oz TV show?

Might have been the Leyland brothers, Mike and Mal, they ripped around the country side in all sorts of vehicles, had the famous catch phrase" Where the fu$k are we Mal" to which Mal would reply "fu$ked if I know Mike"

Or it could have been thunderbirds, sure that classic was shot in Downtown Melbourne before it was built out

[VMX247]

Its an old thread I know,,a good read but on page one and two
I feel this has a connection because it's an 1900's hospital laundry trolley ,which was possibly connected to a war,our soldiers and someones memories.
Who know's ?
I have a soft spot for olden day items,as you may have noticed, and don't wish for no fandangle new laundry cupboards. ...
so "I'm gunna do it tomorrow has arrived".
I flooded the laundry floor yesterday ,so that inspired me too clean my old basket ,that's stores a few eskys and laundry items.
I found numerous labels,pins,buttons and curtain clips between the cane weaving along with a vintage five diamond gold ring,the center diamond is about the size of a match head..
I wish it could tell me its past....

[firko]

Cool Alison....Was it your ring that you lost in the past or was it a new find? Whichever, good find.
Just looking back at this thread....whatever happened to Wombat? One minute he was posting nearly every day..then gone.

Is he another victim of the dummy spit epidemic of a year or two ago?

[VMX247]

Cool Alison....Was it your ring that you lost in the past or was it a new find? Whichever, good find.
Just looking back at this thread....whatever happened to Wombat? One minute he was posting nearly every day..then gone.

Is he another victim of the dummy spit epidemic of a year or two ago?

No not my gold ring..someone from days gone by,I've owned the trolley for 10 years ,,lord knows how long its been there before.
I caught up with Wombat at the VMX Nats  and he posted in early 2010,,he's fine just having a wee break 
cheers

[pancho]

The little 2/ car was called a DAF and i believe it resides now in the DAF truck museum. [I think that's in Holland.] What I liked about Alby Mangales bullshit was the fact that some people realise that regardles how frightful and dangerous the situation is they are in on their lonesome, WHOSE WORKING THE MOVIE CAMERA?. Plus I can believe that those old blitz waggons could be coaxed back into action, but how do you get volts out of a battery thats been flat for 20 or 30 years? cheers pancho.

[vmx42]

Is that a young Firko in the photo [top left hand side]?

[DR]

left handed too

[firko]

That's most certainly a photo of the cutest little tyke in Maroubra circa 1954 and well spotted Doc, I'm indeed a left hander despite five years of the nuns at St Josephs tying my left hand behind my back and forcing me to write with my right hand during early school years. All they achieved with that devious little plan was to create an anti authoritarian atheist who still uses his left hand.

[Curly3]

Don't forget Firko, if you sit on it until it goes numb, it feels like somene elses.

[DR]

eh Firko, I'm a lefty as well 7 years at St John's catholic school and I copped the same from the Nuns for the first few years. Their favorite was the steel egde ruler on it's edge across the knuckles and worst offender was a big fat Sister Francis..she was a really nasty piece of work