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Good read/watch
« on: May 24, 2013, 12:12:01 PM »
Landline is a good show..
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60 years ago, two men took on the challenge of riding motorcycles around the continent as a reliability trial called Transmatilda. It was a time when only 10 per cent of Australia's country roads were sealed. And now that epic journey is being re-enacted. Mike Sexton reports.
 
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2013/s3762379.htm
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2013, 12:24:28 PM »
Great story, thanks for sharing  :cheers:
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2013, 06:36:56 PM »
My Auntie did it twice solo in the '50's
on a BSA 2 and quarter
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2013, 08:24:51 PM »
Great story thanks for sharing.
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2013, 08:38:40 PM »
Great stuff!

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Re: Good read/watch
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2015, 10:46:32 AM »
Another great read/watch

http://alturl.com/3iskr  :cup:
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2015, 01:29:57 PM »
Great story on the original post too Bird ... And yes #@*&  cancer
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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2015, 10:18:36 AM »
They don't make em like that anymore.... The kinda old bloke you could sit back with a beer and listen to tell stories for hours.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/at-age-90-expilot-discovered-that-cars-just-dont-fly-very-well-20151105-gks0gb.html
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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2015, 12:20:25 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2015, 12:46:02 PM »
Quote from: Bird on November 06, 2015, 10:18:36 AM
They don't make em like that anymore.... The kinda old bloke you could sit back with a beer and listen to tell stories for hours.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/at-age-90-expilot-discovered-that-cars-just-dont-fly-very-well-20151105-gks0gb.html

Just imagine the amount of fantastic stories that have gone untold by these sorts of blokes ..I'm thankfull for the years I was able to sit and talk with my dad about his life .. Just wish I had taped the bloody lot it though ..
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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2015, 01:23:22 PM »
Quote from: Bird on November 06, 2015, 10:18:36 AM
They don't make em like that anymore.... The kinda old bloke you could sit back with a beer and listen to tell stories for hours.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/at-age-90-expilot-discovered-that-cars-just-dont-fly-very-well-20151105-gks0gb.html



Great story.  I loved these parts.


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Murray Adams cheated death for 96 years. The collateral damage of three wrecked planes, four cars and two tractors was just the beginning. There was the near-death pneumonia episode following a ski trip to Mount Buller that took six months and a fulltime nurse to recover from


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Murray took a role as manager and secretary of the National Safety Council of Australia (Queensland chapter), a role his family often likened to "putting the fox in charge of the henhouse".


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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2015, 08:12:02 PM »
A Fortunate Life by A.B.Facey reminded me of my dad so I asked him to write about his life for me, it came back ok, all 1 and a half foolscap pages, just didn't occur to him that his life was anything worth writing about or was of any interest to any one else  :'( :'( :'( :'(
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