Trafalgar Holden Museum Is Now Open

Gidday,

Trafalgar, my home town in Gippsland which is approx 124kms on the Princes Hwy due east of the Melbourne CBD now has a new attractions which opened on the 18th October.

The Trafalgar Holden Museum is location in Waterloo Road and well worth a look if you love your old Holden cars and a group of locals have worked long and hard to transform the old disused butter factory into a wonderful show piece for our small town, come out, have a look and spend a few dollars in the town :)

Check our there facebook page also : https://www.facebook.com/TrafalgarHoldenMuseum

btw we supplied the signs for the museum and also my signshop is only 300 meters up the road so call by there for a chat if I the door is open :)

Cheers

A Classic Delage and a Sporty Honda

Gidday

Had a nice sunny run down the Princes Hwy to Bunyip and back which is only a 80km round trip, as I had to look at a lettering job on this late 1990's Honda NXS-R, is the only "R" in Australia and it is in an lovely original condition, also there was this classic old French Delage which was big and beautiful and my old Monty certainly looked like a rough old diamond sitting in the middle of these two and as always the Chevy never missed a beat cruising along at 47mph or 75kph.

Cheers

Springtime - Is Good Driving Weather Once Again

Gidday,

Yes the sun is out and shining most days again now that spring is here, so the hood-less Chevy gets a few more outings this time of year.. Cheers

Monty The Chev - Resto Vid

Gidday,

I should of done this a few years back, Cheers.

"We'll get it running, but we're not painting it all fancy" - Wayne Fowler

A Bit Of A Once Over - 1928 Chevrolet

Gidday,

Finally got a break with the winter weather last Sunday so I rolled the Chevy out of the shed for a bit of TLC, a quick wipe over with some WD40 and then a run up the road and back, all went well and it just purred along like every other time at 47mph, so very sweetly.
Apart from that I have done not much else to it at all these past few months, only flush out the radiator and refill with coolant, I start it up on a weekly basis and get the temp up nice and hot and while that it happening and am constantly listening for rattles and squeaks, checking nuts and bolts and watching for any new leaks that might have occurred, all rather boring but it must be done and you have to keep on top of the little things before they get out of hand and become a costly repair.

Cheers Grant

A few Spares - 1928 Chevrolet

Gidday,

The other day myself and Ray Dean located a few cheap 1928 Chevrolet parts, yes your typical "I have no room" shed clean out was taking place and the bloke wanted them out of there and yes we brought them over the internet seen only by the grainy picture below for a very good price and will collect soon which included one complete engine (less carbie) 3 gearboxes and a diff, and although the diff and two of the gearboxes which are 4 speeds and are from a 1928 truck, these will be moved along quickly which will pay for the engine and one good 3 speed gearbox.

Ray plans to quickly get the engine home and up on the stand for firstly a compression test, bolt on a restored "Carter" carbie from his fully catalogued spare parts man-cave inventory, change the oil, spark plugs and check the timing and point, basically he will weave his magic once again and get this thing running in no time hopefully like a swiss watch!

The engine itself has been stored indoors, is sealed up with spark plugs intact so that's a bonus as often when they are located they have just been left to sit and rust away out in the weather and at worse we can strip it for spares as over the last few years they are also becoming a little expensive and more so rare in complete form like this.

Now all we need is a spare chassis which do pop up from time to time on the internet and we have ourselves the makings of a 1928 Speedster similar in appearance to these pictured below - Cheers

My favourite this one, love the rust!!

Flinders Street Railway Station Melbourne - 103 years apart

Gidday,

Not a great deal of change for the building after 103 years, this being the difference between the two photos.

Taken in 1910

Taken in 2013

Old Gippsland Farmhouse - 1928 Chevrolet

Gidday,

Not to much to write about with the old Monty lately as it is running along so very smooth,  just check the basics like water and oil, fill it up with fuel with a splash of diesel included in the mix to keep the insides a little happier and then just jump in, put a big smile on your face and drive it at a steady 47mph, to easy!! but in saying that it is due for a for oil and filter change, a good going over with the grease gun and then run the spanners over the underside of the chassis to tighten up any loose nut n bolts.

Anyway with this freakish run of warmer than normal autumn weather we are getting here in Gippsland I drove out to his old farmhouse that I have had my eye on for some time to take some pictures and once permission from the land owner was given it was open with the gates and I was soon driving over the paddocks to reach it down in the back corner of the property and it is really only a good stones throw from where dad grew up at Trafalgar East on the family farm back in the 1940's and now all I have to do is wash the cow shit off the tyres but it does add to the character of the car :)

Cheers Grant

Handpainted Signage On A Sunbeam Vintage Car

Gidday,

This job came into my signshop a little while back as the owner of this lovely Sunbeam vintage car has just had it all repainted British Racing Green so the red handpainted lettering along the sides of the bonnet had to be added back onto it and also this time around a ''Union Jack'' was added onto a vented panel which was a little tricky to do, anyway all went well and I was extremely happy with the end result - Cheers

 

UPDATE:

And here is the end result with John sending me through these two pictures today of the Sunbeam below, freshly repainted in all its glory with new hand painted branding..

The car is now being prepared for shipment to Seattle in the USA where is it going to take part in a 1500 mile rally down to pebble beach for the www.pebblebeachconcours.net event, what is great trip that would be and I wish you well John.

Cheers
Grant

Three Generations

Taken in 1999 with Dad, myself and my son Codi sitting in the front seat during one of the rare occasions when Monty was relocated from one shed, across the road to the next.