Thread: Need help on bus origins.
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11-20-2013 02:29 PM #226
SAY IT JB! SAY IT!
Is that clear enough??? 8-)
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11-20-2013 03:24 PM #227
Those blokes are far too dense to catch the drift of the name alone, so you've GOT to spell it out!! Maybe......
Baby Elephant.jpg
The Baby Elephant
So named because the obfuscation and recalcitrance of NZTA
Ensured that this project took longer than an elephant to gestate!!!
With sincere thanks to the folks from Fair Go!!Last edited by rspears; 11-20-2013 at 03:51 PM.
Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.
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11-21-2013 07:37 PM #228
You've got it!
That's pretty well exactly what I had envisaged.
With perhaps a few signature bars of 'Baby Elephant Walk' from Daktari.
As an aside; Matt Donaldson told me that the engineer told him that that bus was the cause of an internal audit in NZTA.
True or not; I can't say.
But I'd like to think so; so that no other poor bugger has to endure what we did.
Also: re the reference to the top of the gear lever; it came off a Corsair that Dave Howlett actually flew (and crashed) during WWII, and upon him becoming late it was gifted to me.
So it's a piece of nostalgic history that will mean nothing to anybody else; but it does mean something to me, and even though Dave may be late, his memory will be kept alive.Last edited by johnboy; 11-21-2013 at 07:42 PM. Reason: spelin mistook
johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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11-22-2013 05:02 AM #229
Let's see if this works..
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11-23-2013 10:16 AM #230
That's it!
Thanks for that.
I note it's from the movie 'Hatari',not 'Daktari' as I called it.
There is a reason for that; it's called 'senile decay'.
I do remember now that Daktari was a 'made for tv' programme, and Hatari was the movie.
It's a bugger getting old!
Our 50th wedding anniversary is just a bit over three years away . . . I'd better remember that!
(Now what's my name again?)johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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11-23-2013 02:08 PM #231
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11-23-2013 07:58 PM #232
johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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11-24-2013 05:07 AM #233
HAH! Let me know how that works out for ya!!!
Seems to me that no matter what side of the earth you're on.. A wife will react the same if you miss the wedding anniversary!
Then she'll give you the "LOOK"! And then you're done for!!
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01-29-2014 11:18 AM #234
So jb, how's the progress on the bus? Ran across this picture, and wondered if maybe you'd changed plans a bit....Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.
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01-29-2014 06:36 PM #235
Changed plans?
Ummmm . . . no.
I'm a gabby / mouthy sort of fella.
But that has me speechless.
I don't know what to say.
I don't even know what to think.
In all probability the fella that built that . . . that . . . that . . . that whatever it is; had a very deprived childhood and needs a mother really badly.
johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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01-29-2014 06:57 PM #236
Crikey!
That experience left me all shaky!
I don't know if my heart can take shocks like that!
Seriously though; the bus is making progress, albeit rather slowly, there has been the long Christmas / New Year break, and of course the Donaldsons had projects that had been booked prior to the eventual certification of our machine.
The anchorages for the seat belts have been engineered, mounted, and certified.
The floor is all done, and while not level, it is all now on one plane, sloping slightly to the front.
That was a surprisingly major job; as it varied as much as 5/8" in several places.
But it was achieved with string lines about a foot apart, and many packers of varying thicknesses.
Straightforward enough, but time consuming.
When we saw it last (about three weeks ago,) the wall panels from the windows down were being affixed to the walls.
Arrangements too had been made to have the graffiti that the kids of Billings Oklahoma High School had written on the ceiling to be photographed and then transferred to the new ceiling.
We're now about due to take another run up to Thames to check it out again.Last edited by johnboy; 01-29-2014 at 08:00 PM.
johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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