the SU electric fuel pump packed up - the only way we got home was to pull the rear seat back out and get the rear seat passenger to keep clouting it with a jacking handle
..that reminds me of the Ford Prefect I had in student days in Sydney. The fuel pump was just good enough to deliver on the flat but not up the steeper slopes. Stuck down near Maroubra Beach one hot summers surfing day . .. and in need of getting back up to university at Kensington . . .the brains trust cranked open the windscreen, attached a length of string to the little primer lever under the fuel pump then by rapid jiggling up the hills made it back for lunch. That car was only marginally better than the 1948 Hillman Minx with its frigging cable brakes, with its shot front suspension that caused the beam axle to iron out the peaks of the undulations in the back roads through the wilds of outlying suburbs of Perth WA. . . Ah youth's persistence in folly.
best graffiti in Oxford Street Paddo during the gay and lesbian mardi gras
RALPH COME BACK IT WAS ONLY A RASH
the one about crabs jumping six feet gets a mention in Arthur Affleck's (the very first RFDS pilot at Cloncurry in 1928) .. his autobiography THE WANDERING YEARS. He collected the inscriptions he encountered in many a hotel bathroom in pubs throughout the outback.. . PLEASE DON'T KANGAROO THE SEAT . . OUR BREED OF CROC CAN JUMP SIX FEET.
GENTLEMANS WHO PEE IN THE BATH AREN'T NO GENTLEMENS
A Qantas Constellation staging though Karachi to Darwin and Sydney had a snag in the maintenance log on arrival Darwin. It said URINAL HAS BEEN USED AS ARSENAL. The engineer in Darwin wrote it off with PROBLEM RECTUMFIED . (That one attributed to the late highly esteemed George Roberts. His book he called QANTAS BY GEORGE. George had little time or respect for the late 'Scotty' Allan of Qantas. Scotty's book was called SCOTTY ALLAN - AUSTRALIA'S FLYING SCOTSMAN. George was overheard to say when the book came out that it needed the 'F' deleted in FLYING.)