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21-10-12, 03:09
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It amazes me how a certain shape jumps out at you, you can be driving down a track and the brain will just put a name to a vague silhouette. The carrier remains are in a tin/gold mining area, and were found after I spotted a Chev CMP engine cover rusting away in the scrub. The jeeps were motoring along the track quite well at the time, yet the brain says "Bingo"
Don't think that there is much left on this one worth having. Funnily enough the Tin/gold Mine has been reactivated, last time I was up there it had what was basically a modern day tracked carrier sitting at the front gate. History repeating itself perhaps. Rich.
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21-10-12, 03:27
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You had better grab it Rich. Too many carriers are missing all of that front armour. The vision hatches are still there and the right hand one has an extremely rare windscreen holder. I've only every seen about 7 carriers with that bit.
Regards Rick.
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21-10-12, 03:36
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Rich,
I'm sure someone will want the shutters and mechanisms, though... Interesting about the 'reactivation': when gold goes up in value, so do the number of mining licence applications, though I'm certain that most never make a cent. Some I had to monitor in Victoria were small, one-man ones that just kept on plodding on, no matter what the price of gold. I'm sure it was a lifestyle to the operators, rather than a living. I didn't envy the Inspector: the operators were so used to cobbling together anything that would 'work' without regard to the Regs. My job was at least a little easier in that regard: the environmental requirements were pretty straight forward. Mike C
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