We were just about done at the recent Castlemaine swap meet in Central Victoria. My mate’s freshly bought oil-filter adaptor kit guaranteed that no filter would ever again frustrate his attempts to grip
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Garage Gurus: Rob Blackbourn talks about the Hillman Imp
Local releases of significant new models during the early 1960s loom larger in my memory than perhaps they deserve, but I think I know why. That period covered my student days, a time when I couldn’t
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Garage Gurus – Rob Blackbourn – Standard Issue – Issue 515
All I wanted from my latest Google outing was to refresh my memory about the upgrades that GM-H made to its basic EH model to produce its first ‘Bathurst Special’, the EH S4. As usual the YouTube
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Rob Blackbourn Issue 513 – Down the Back
Writer Rob Blackbourn is a regular contributor to Unique Cars Magazine, sharing his thoughts on all things cars and in Issue 513 it was the back end of the beasts that had him chatting…
You can never
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Alert and alarmed – Garage Gurus
The time when the classic in the back of your shed wasn’t fundamentally different from your daily transport is long gone as Rob Blackbourn explains in this edition of Garage Gurus…
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100 Not Out – Numbers Man – Rob Blackbourn
Compared with the early-1960s, there are now around seven times as many vehicles competing for space on Australia’s roads. So, no surprise, some stuff had to change …
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Breakin’ Up – Rob Blackbourn – Garage Gurus – Issue 507
My mate Bill called recently to let us know the self-serve motor-wreckers in Springvale (Vic) would be shutting up shop permanently in coming days. If we had any plans to chase up parts, the time to do
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We have ignition! – Blackbourn
Who knew that today’s top-fuel dragster engines totally consume their spark-plug electrodes during each crazy sub-four-second run? Stumbling over that startling spark-plug snippet prompted this look at that humble engine component.
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Two Bob’s worth – Blackbourn
Seeing THE surviving Epex-Foster self-serve panel in Central Victoria’s Castlemaine recently caught me by surprise. Hadn’t seen one of these ‘two-bob-in-the-slot’ units since pre-decimal currency days.
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Stop It! – Blackbourn
I had barely pulled up in the driveway when my daughter started stepping down from the old Discovery 4×4. She was putting one foot on the ground at the moment my foot was coming off the brake pedal,
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