A few Car Carriers

And finally the world's very first car transporter the 1896 Winton.

Think eye used this pic B 4

Mobile car park yes th@'s 18 auto mobiles


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I thought that the K200 without the remote steps were abd enough to climb in and out of. Those would have been a nightmare.

PaulFH wrote:

That is a Dodge underneath all the sheet metal..

Just cos I used to drive this old girl.. which was great until it fell through the Salt Lake.

and just cos-

So what was you doing on the lake Rich ?
Funny place to take a short cut

Paul

Pauly that was at Lake Gairdner, in South Australia.
We used to do a lot of film and TV work, so we would load up whatever the latest project was, and take it or them to whatever location was the required setting.
That particular job was a stills shoot (for a billboard) for a Mazda MX5, and the idea was to get a clean background. So the salt lake is perfect.
That was actually the second or third time we'd been there for that shoot I think, the first time it was overcast so the light was no good, the second time it pelted with rain and we were on the lake with it literally three inches under water.
We were always shooting on dawn or dusk, we had done the dusk the previous night , and were back out there again early ready for the dawn light. We'd simply left the truck and the cars on the lake the night before, there is no bugger there so they are quite safe, and we were ensconsed at Mt Ive homestead about twenty or so K's away. But on arriving that morning at 4 am and driving on to the lake to start filming, we literally couldn't find the cars! If you have ever used a spotlight on the ocean or anywhere like that, there is virtually no reflection, so your "great" lights just dont work very well.
Clever me thought "oh the truck has really great lights, I'll find the cars" and I was trundling along doing big sweeps until I thought "Gee, the salt is looking quite pink here".. and down she went- at the same time I remembered being warned to stay away from the edges of the lake because it gets soft, and you can tell you are close to the edge because it changes colour from hard white to soft pink...
As Lake Gairdner is most often used for salt lake racing and setting land speed records, this was also the trip that my mad mate decided to set the 'world land speed record" for postie bikes, (as I carried a postie bike in the truck, handy for running around)
So he brought his Wayne Gardner replica leathers and helmet, and buggerised around doing silly stuff on the postie bike, whilst we spent a whole day getting the truck out with the people from the Mt Ive station. (who i think may have been too long in the bush)
It was a bloody big job, no point digging, literally jack and plank and jack and plank, then try to get a big run at it, then it falls through again and you just keep doing it. And the salt must be one of the worlds worst places to work- hard bright light, bloody hot, the salt is wet and sticks to everything, and hurts like hell after a while.
Anyway it was a bloody big and tiring job, I think we left there at about 10pm that night, and got home a few days later totally shagged and exhausted after a bloody long and tiring trip.
The next time we were there was a water truck story, I'll try to write that down one of these days. Shame we couldn't film like you do Pauly, we would have had some good little doco's!
Cheers
Rich