I went for a drive.

[Hasbeen]

Yes, that shouldn't be big news, but is 10 days since I moved any of the "good" cars.

This is the deepest flood in this area in my 20+ years here. The water has been over the roads in many unexpected places, leaving much debris everywhere. I spent 5 hours yesterday, with the chain saw, helping cut up & move some of the heavier stuff, to give access for locals to many areas.

The winds were over 100Km/H for a day or more, so also much fallen branches over the roads as well, from our brittle gum trees. The roads were not the place for a car you cared about, with many locals complaining about scratched cars.

I've been using the Mazda for running around, but by yesterday the roads were safe enough to take the 7 out. I only went to get some replacement food for the 2 freezer loads chucked out, & some fruit, milk & a new coffee maker, but 70Km in the 7, after a hot shower has made the world right again.

God I love that car.

Hasbeen

[andyf]

Taking the car out after a period of time is always a great feeling isn't it? I have taken mine off the road due to being unable to drive it after developing a DVT. It will give me a chance to get some outstanding jobs done. Nevertheless I miss it having not driven it for a few months, enjoy it mate.


1980 Persian Aqua DHC

[dursleyman]

Hasbeen

Sounds like things are really looking up if you are able to get out and enjoy your 7.

Puts a smile back on your face doesn't it.

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[FI Spyder]

I know the feeling. While I've had a few dry days every week or two I've refrained as the roads are quite muddy from dike construction in places and farm trucks dragging mud from fields. Won't be long now. First car show in April.

http://www.victoriaminis.com/2013%20RestoFair%20Poster.pdf

Haven't gone for a few years might this year if the weathers right.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[Workshop Help]

Yesterday, I too, went for a drive. There was a workshop for the National Flood Insurance Program down in Waco, Texas for the annual certifications. It was only 350 miles round trip so down the road a certain TR7 goes. Left at 4:30A and rolled back into the machine shed at 7:15P. It would have been about an hour earlier but the DFW metro traffic is something else at the end of the day.

Now, who was it whining about being afraid to actually use their TR7's as a practical transportation tool? Maybe they should tag along with me for some acclimation.

Mildred Hargis

[Beans]

It's not that I am afraid of using the 7's, but for my daily job they are often not practical enough [:D]



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[dursleyman]

Hasbeen, off topic, but what is your "local" view of this Brit who got himself lost in the bush when he went for a jog this week?
Seems crackers to me to go wandering off like that.

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[Ianftr8]

seems a very extreme weight loss program to me!

Ian Freeman
1979 TR8 DHC
Triumph Courier
Triumph owner for 31 years

[Stag76]

There hasn't been any negative reaction to it. The backpackers who go the the remote areas seem to work hard and enjoy contributing to the community. He was only 5klms from home, but with the country being flat open forest it can easily happen. General feeling is relief that he's safe.

TR7 Convertible
Sprint Motor
MegaSquirt EFI

[Hasbeen]

Yes we do have trouble with people from cities in our bush. It is not only visitors either, many of our own city folk have no better sense of direction then visitors from other cities around the world. When out on scrubby flat plains with very limited visibility, often less than 100 yards, & no hills or mountains to get your bearings from, getting lost is very easy, even in short distances.

Having searchers out looking for people over due is not unusual, & chopper rescue of bush walkers is very common.

All he did wrong is to not tell someone what he was doing, or where he was going, so a search could start earlier, & be more targeted.

Seems like a nice young bloke, who announced today he is donating the money he is receiving from a pommy news paper, for his story, to the rescue organisation who found him.

He is very welcome & probably a little wiser now.

Hasbeen

[dursleyman]

Hasbeen, Thanks for that insight, sounds like he was not quite as silly as it sounded. Didn't realise that navigation there was so tricky either.
Where I live it all hills so you always have a feel for where you are or at least the direction you need to go.
I had him down as a complete muppet but have now revised my opinion. Glad I asked you.

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[FI Spyder]

Hikers are getting lost all the time in the mountains on the north side of Vancouver. They get a hefty bill after the search and rescue and helicopters find them. I often think how can they possibly get lost with the ocean on one side and a major city on another but think back to the day many years ago when I was going to UBC and was skiing in Whistler. It was just starting to be developed. I decided to ski down the mountain at the end of the day for the first time (rather than take the chair down like usual) by myself and took a wrong ski trail that petered out to nothing and light was failing fast. I was cross country skiing on my down hill ski's in the bush/forest and ended one mountain over when I noticed the lights down at the bottom of the valley. By the time I made it to the lodge I was all tuckered out. Good thing as no one knew I was lost.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[Stag76]

The wonderful Australian Press are at it again. They've flogged the "Happy Ending" version of the "Lost Backpacker" story to death, including gushy interviews with his mother, and are now reporting that "Some People", as yet un-named, are asking if he was really lost, or simply staging his own Bear Grills (it won't let me spell it correctly) type adventure. He lost a lot of weight, was badly dehydrated and in real danger.


TR7 Convertible
Sprint Motor
MegaSquirt EFI