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Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« on: January 23, 2014, 05:03:46 PM »
I was going through some old maps & mags & rediscovered this from 1976
It shows how technology & techniques change over the times.
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2014, 05:05:51 PM »
Quote from: Steffo1 on January 23, 2014, 05:03:46 PM
I was going through some old maps & mags & rediscovered this from 1976
It shows how technology & techniques change over the times.

Geez you must be an old bugger Steffo1
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2014, 05:15:04 PM »
C'mon B11! You've read it hey?
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2014, 05:35:55 PM »
Yep, I have a copy too.
As to his tyre comments, I recon they are prob directed at cross ply tyres.
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2014, 06:19:08 PM »
Quote from: B&B on January 23, 2014, 05:35:55 PM
Yep, I have a copy too.
As to his tyre comments, I recon they are prob directed at cross ply tyres.
Yep that's what I reckon, Something like the old Dunlop Roadtrack Majors
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2014, 06:20:03 PM »
I spoke to him and his wife in September last year at his gallery in broken hill. Still going strong in his early eighties.
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2014, 06:38:14 PM »
I loved watching his shows.. and it was a pleasure meeting him in his studio and having a chat..


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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2014, 06:52:05 PM »
I went to school with his grandson, he was a couple of years below me in my brother's year.  They are a really nice family, just genuine people.
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2014, 07:40:29 PM »
I think you will find it was1978 as the Hi lux on the cover was 1st introduced in 1978 ,It was the 3rd generation of the Hi lux and the 1st with 4wd. I bought one [1979 ] 2nd hand in 1981 as my 1st car and 4wd ,but mine was a rare Short wheel base model, same cab but wheel base was about 300mm or at least the tray was. Mine was canary yellow with the same type of canopy like in the book photo,a mighty 18r [2.0lt] motor to push it along. I then upgraded to a new 1984 xtra cab on the release of that 4th generation. They even had wind down windows for climate control air.
These 4wd's set my future as I have only had a 4wd since and travelled this big country in them .
I do have the same book somewhere, and I think Jack Abslom had a Cassette or 2 with his music on it also .
here is a wiki link to Hi Lux history
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2014, 07:50:16 PM »
Didn't he cross the country and go off the beaten track in a sigma.??

Wonder how much oil he used...
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2014, 08:40:01 PM »
He most likely did have cross plys in those days.  What he said though is not necessarily wrong today but it depends on the tyre.   Cooper and Micky Thompson for example do say to reduce pressures in off road conditions and no doubt many other manufacturers say the same thing.  I fitted these things http://www.goodyearautocare.com.au/TyreDetailAction.do?website=GAC&websegmentcode=RV&mtpcode=00120&from=nPerPage  in 205 size to my Lux seven years ago and, seeing the factory recommended pressures looked ridiculously low at 25 front at all times and 25 to 34 rear depending on load, I rang Goodyear's technical informtion number for advice. 

I was told to use the factory pressures; do not reduce them off road; never exceed them by more than 4 psi; each 1 psi increase at the rear will support an additional 70 kgs and their testing has shown the 4psi rule is not accurate due to too many variables.   

Since then they have been everywhere from the freeways around Sydney to the Victorian High Country to the Gunbarrel Hwy and many other Outback tracks on the same pressures I left home with.  The wear has been even right across the thread and I have yet to get a puncture.  That does not mean they are puncture proof, I just haven't run over anything capable of causing one yet.  I must also add the car has always been well under GVM on all trips so it has yet to go anywhere with 34 in the rear.

I would always recommend ringing the manufacturer of your tyres whenever you buy a new set.  Nobody knows more about them than the people who designed and manufactured them.  Your car's suspension has been designed to work with the standard size and specification tyres and the recommended pressures are a vital part of the design.






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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2014, 08:53:46 PM »
I recall his shows as a kid, around the same time or just after Leyland Brothers?
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2014, 09:41:14 PM »
Jack was good, but Alby Mangels always had the chicks!

Used to love his movie nights around the country towns.

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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2014, 09:49:28 PM »
I've got an old copy of Jacks camp oven cookbook written in the early 80's with his (I think) great uncle.  Got a few good ideas in it.


As for old Alby.  Anyone in Melbourne hear the MMM radio interview with old Alby and Mick Molloy last year?  He's a pretty relaxed unit these days...
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2014, 09:55:43 PM »
Quote from: kylarama on January 23, 2014, 09:49:28 PM

As for old Alby.  Anyone in Melbourne hear the MMM radio interview with old Alby and Mick Molloy last year?  He's a pretty relaxed unit these days...


No, not yet, but here it is!

http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/shows/hot-breakfast-eddie-mcguire/blog/2012/4/the-super-relaxed-alby-mangels-interview/

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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2014, 10:34:40 PM »
Nice bloke Jack went to school with one of his nieces. He visited our school in west lakes a couple of times and gave talks even as a young lad I always loved hearing about the bush. And that old sigma station wagon I think he use to drive around.
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2014, 10:37:04 PM »
We met Jack a few years ago at his gallery in Broken Hill and he spent some time talking to us about his work.  I asked him how long he would stay at a place to get the picture he wanted and he gave me a strange look and said "How long would it take you to walk from here to Brisbane?".  I said I had no idea and he replied "But you'd know when you got there, wouldn't you?".

He signed the backs of the two prints we bought.  A really nice man.


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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2014, 11:21:31 PM »
Quote from: kylarama on January 23, 2014, 09:49:28 PM
I've got an old copy of Jacks camp oven cookbook written in the early 80's with his (I think) great uncle.  Got a few good ideas in it.
Ours lives in the kitchen utensils box during CO season
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2014, 05:55:17 AM »
I have a later edition of that book, I must say that a few of the things have saved me a long walk on more than one occasion.

The book is travelling around it the 5th 4by, I wonder how many k's its done? :)
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2014, 09:40:52 AM »
Ive got 2 of his books, i won them at a town fete in Albury. Many years ago!
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Re: Who Remembers Jack Absalom?
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2014, 11:00:06 AM »
Quote from: rags on January 23, 2014, 07:40:29 PM
I think you will find it was1978 as the Hi lux on the cover was 1st introduced in 1978 ,It was the 3rd generation of the Hi lux and the 1st with 4wd. I bought one [1979 ] 2nd hand in 1981 as my 1st car and 4wd ,but mine was a rare Short wheel base model, same cab but wheel base was about 300mm or at least the tray was. Mine was canary yellow with the same type of canopy like in the book photo,a mighty 18r [2.0lt] motor to push it along. I then upgraded to a new 1984 xtra cab on the release of that 4th generation. They even had wind down windows for climate control air.
These 4wd's set my future as I have only had a 4wd since and travelled this big country in them .
I do have the same book somewhere, and I think Jack Abslom had a Cassette or 2 with his music on it also .
here is a wiki link to Hi Lux history
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux

You're quite right mate. Well spotted.
I just checked & I 've got a reprint of the original.
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