Meet the family

hrpearce · #1 16-11-12, 13:24

The year 11 food teck class catered for the year12's graduation tonight and it was a great success. The food was well presented the speatches short and the background music quiet enough to allow normal convisation around the tables.

hrpearce · #2 05-12-12, 10:14

Greg bought his first car today, guess who had to fill the fuel tank to get it home.

Mike K · #3 05-12-12, 10:51

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Greg bought his first car today, guess who had to fill the fuel tank to get it home.

He will be better off running it on gas LOL

My XF got a new 4.1 donk last year . The Borg Warner autos are long lasting if you dont thrash them . Still lots of XF's on the road around here , they are a favourite BOGAN car

Ford kept that front end from 1960 in the XF's

Mike

motto · #4 05-12-12, 13:26

Hi Mike.

You'd be old enough to remember the ads on TV for the new Ford Falcon with the 'Million Pound Drive' front suspension. They were spruiking that it had cost a million pounds to develop what was a not very well executed McPherson strut. Within a few years it wasn't that unusual to see a Foul-can (We always called them that, we were a GM family) on the side of the road with a front wheel back underneath the car due to the failure of the fore and aft stabiliser rod. Not impressed.

David (Still a GM man)

Mike K · #5 06-12-12, 00:43

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Originally Posted by motto

Hi Mike.

You'd be old enough to remember the ads on TV for the new Ford Falcon with the 'Million Pound Drive' front suspension. They were spruiking that it had cost a million pounds to develop what was a not very well executed McPherson strut. Within a few years it wasn't that unusual to see a Foul-can (We always called them that, we were a GM family) on the side of the road with a front wheel back underneath the car due to the failure of the fore and aft stabiliser rod. Not impressed.

David (Still a GM man)

Hi Dave

Not quite old enough to recall those TV ads

But I do remember the local cops using light blue Ford Anglia's , the 105E model.

The first Australian Falcon, the 1960 XK, suffered from weak ball joints , they were not strong enough for the rough country roads . Ford beefed up the ball joints in the XL model and that solved the problem. They used that exact same front suspension design on Falcons right thru to 1987 .

My neighbour down the road is a Falcon collector, I will ask him about the stabiliser rods failing, he will know about it .

Mike

hrpearce · #6 31-01-13, 20:46

Our first borne is 18 today, party tomorrow.

Marc van Aalderen · #7 31-01-13, 20:53

Hi Robert,

Congratulations! We had that great event last year when our oldest daughter turned 18.

Cheers,

hrpearce · #8 19-02-13, 20:41

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Greg bought his first car today, guess who had to fill the fuel tank to get it home.

I drove the XF to a bull sale near Holbrook yesterday and it runs along nicely. It is booked in to have the brakes fixed on Thursday then Greg can start driving it.

hrpearce · #9 17-03-13, 11:21

Vicki and myself at Sam and Matt's wedding on Saturday.

aj.lec · #10 17-03-13, 11:46

All scrubbed up and looking very dapper

Hope you both had a good time

hrpearce · #11 22-03-13, 05:48

Greg received a phone call today. He is now about to join the working class.
He will be moving to Queanbeyan next month to start a heavy vehicle mechanic apprenticeship.

aj.lec · #12 22-03-13, 08:17

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Greg received a phone call today. He is now about to join the working class.
He will be moving to Queanbeyan next month to start a heavy vehicle mechanic apprenticeship.

Congratulations Greg. Good trade to get in to for work prospects

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