Author Archive | Tom O'Toole

Trent from St George Bakery

St George

Boy oh boy, what a day it was yesterday. We made it into St George on two cylinders, coughing, spluttering and backfiring… they heard us coming from miles away! Trent, the baker here in St George could hear us coming and was waiting for us so he could help. He’s got a T Model and […]

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Wonderful Goondiwindi and beyond

WELL! David Ford, the auto electrician here in Goondiwindi, and one of his mates, Cal, worked on our A Model all day yesterday and managed to adept the new but incompatible starter motor we were sent from Melbourne so that it now works!!! They weren’t gonna be beat!!! What champions! We were very happy chappies, […]

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Keith the mechanic

We made it to Goondiwindi!!

Well, well. Our morning started with yet another flat tyre! Had that fixed and now we’re sitting in the garage waiting for the starter motor to get fixed. Marty, my business partner, managed to locate a brand new one and had it sent up from Melbourne but… it turns out it’s not compatible with the […]

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Byron Bay

Boy oh boy what a day we had yesterday! We had wind. We had rain. We went through the rain forest, we went through the mountains. But we made it. We had three people help us to push start the car this morning at 6,30am to get it going. Yesterday we never turned the motor […]

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Great media coverage of our trip

Huge thank you to the media in the Bathurst region. You guys gave us phenomenal coverage, on TV, radio and in the paper. Thanks heaps for helping us spread the word! Here are the links to both WIN News and Prime7 News in the Central West region: https://www.facebook.com/PRIME7NewsCentralWest/videos/1670142246400796/ https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsCentralWest/videos/1582026318580227/

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