Australian Belly Tank

[Milwaukee Midget]

Doctor G., the only thing more exciting than the story itself is the elegant manner in which you tell it.  Bravo.

Rev, your selflessness is a model to us all.

Pete, Colonel - well done.

This is awe inspiring.

Sunshine rocks!

[Buickguy3]

Great Build, and a great story. Too bad it's only once a year. Probably all that anybody can afford. Look forward to seeing some of you at Speed Week in Wendover in August. Look for the black Jag with the old Buick straight 8 anchor in it. We'll be flogging it again this year. Looking forward to the "Salt Talks" , also. We'll tilt a couple of brews.

[Reverend Hedgash]

We visited the actual plane our tanks came from.

Can you believe that it is actually on the way, like really really on the way, as in you can see it from the road when you drive pretty much the fastest way from Melbourne to Lake G? I know this may not be significant coindence for many, but it just furthers that strange list we have for this project that somehow gives it an almost mystical tinge. (or is that minge?)

Yep, this is good old WH700 with its nose over the fence like a cow in a paddock. I think I'll pay tribute each year on the way from now on now that I know where it is and give its nose a rub.

(Also DrG tells me that the plane owner's cousin is in the DLRA. Now with a population of 20 million and a club membership now hitting a thousand, that is fairly long odds, even if his family are catholic. More co-inkydink?)

[Reverend Hedgash]

Wet (again) windy and cold.
Its like standing on a coolgardie safe.

The first couple of nights in the tent were freezing and if it weren't for the alcohol and fatigue I would have not gotten any z's at all.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Cold but pretty.

[Reverend Hedgash]

They say Melbourne is four seasons in one day, but lake G is up there too.
Hey, there's a ghost!!! greetings from down under

[Reverend Hedgash]

Al Fountain bellytank $20 part fail ouch.

Very nice healey

[Reverend Hedgash]

Brett destoop, 231mph on a water bottle he cast himself in his backyard, in an oven he made, with bodywork he made, leathers he designed, and dynoed on a machine he built himself. Doesn't drive a bike during the week, rather a water truck. Crazy lovely fellow with balls of steel. 231mph? Insane.

[Reverend Hedgash]

36hp contender, I belive they went 1 mph over the record? I hear that some US beetles are coming down here next year and the general consensus was that was a really good thing to have this mini event within the event.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Unlucky Norm Hardinge, ran on target for his 200mph but timing lights failed and the motor hurt. Bonneville this year for sure!

[Reverend Hedgash]

Us in the pits.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Pete (PJQ) doing his bit with the recovery services with the old troopy.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Good to see this diesel beheamoth back in town. Reminds me of the Eagle Lander in Space 1999 but what wouldn't I give to give it a body redesign with aero and style in mind.... anyone heard of Blastolene? Well they could eat their lunch!

[Reverend Hedgash]

Somebody gave us some tee shirts... and here they are! We have our tame German photographer's photos to come but these are a sneak peak... thanks greatly for them. (The front wheels are our transport wheels...)

[Reverend Hedgash]

These guys have bigger support vehicles than us, but then they have more paper methinks...