anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Replied by atkipete on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Swishy might be able to do the illustrations for you, then bring it out as a book.

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Replied by bigcam on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Here you go mate. Next time click on the IMG Code, then paste on to here. Now you've got the hang of it, you can whack up a heap more, no one will complain.

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Replied by prodrive on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Hmm bigcam, doesn't seem to be working i better get back and read all the instructions again...

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Replied by prodrive on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

maybe this one will work..

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Replied by GM Diesel on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Ive got this old strap car trailer in the yard.
Apparently it used to run backwards and fowards across the paddock in the 60's-70's. BPW axle.

Basil

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Replied by on topic Re: anyone seen old car carriers the 70's / 80's?

Bazza - That's a pretty straight old trailer for a rig that has no doubt done a couple of million miles of hammering back and forth across, what wasn't the smoothest road in the nation, at that time ..

I can see how they got two cars on top .. but I can't see how they got a car up on the deck above the turntable, on the lower deck? Did they have long ramps that are no longer there??

Talking about car-carrying trailers reminds me of an episode I saw in 1975. I lived on our gold mine at Higginsville, about 60kms North of Norseman, in those days .. and just up the road a couple of kliks was a big hill, called Binaronca Hill. It had a fairly sharp curve and a big cutting, right on the top.

The cutting was on the inside of the curve, and the road sloped with a pretty good crossfall towards the cutting. The wall of the cutting, and the roadside drain, were a nice greasy clay. As you headed North to Coolgardie, the cutting wall was on your left.

I was contracting at the Redross mine, which was about 2kms the far side of Binaronca Hill, so I had to climb over Binaronca every morning with the tandem ACCO-1840, to go to work, carting sand to backfill the mine.

One wet Winter morning, I was chugging over the top of Binaronca .. and I was stunned to see a set of truck and trailer wheeltracks .. that ran off the road (into the greasy wet clay), on the inside of the curve .. ran up the WALL of the cutting about 4 or 5 metres (keeping in mind, that this wall was about 55

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