Looking for the old post from hudson on flathead modifications--how do I pull them up? Thanks........52er

hello,
the "search" function is your friend. amongst other things you can find old posts.
CLICK HERE
You will have to search through Hudsons posts and pick the ones you want.
The search function will provide lots of information,provided you take the time to look around and navigate from item to item.

regards,Rod

so - Mr 52er,did you find the post you wanted?

regards,Rod

Yes sir---about half way on the rebuild on the 265 flattie, and thanks again........Lee

'tis good.

regards,Rod

Rod, we have a friend who married a gal during WWII her family had a sugar cane farm in Prosipine--spelling is wrong I`am sure. She has since died but her husband is still alive, we bring him out for breakfast on the weekends, he`s 94. Neat stories about down under from her, especially her father--MICK---he sounded like the original Dundee. He stood tall on a horse and carried a whip and snapped the heads off the snakes in the fields.

Proserpine... that's well towards the north of Queensland...

I've never been there, but there are sugar cane fields along our east coast from northern New South Wales all the way through to Cairns, maybe 1000 miles with sugar dotting the scenery.

A lot of Italian migrants worked those farms in the thirties and forties, cutting by hand in the heat. Little trains on railways with only 2' between the rails chuffing along to the mills with their loads... mills with smoke disgorging into the blue sky as they burned the unwanted residue to make steam to run the mill.

They probably met in Townsville, which is very much a military centre here. But there were many other military bases set up during the war, especially airfields to disperse planes so they'd be safer from attack.

94, eh? An Aussie living in New York these days turns 93 next month. He won the Australian Grand Prix in 1939, a real hero and a brilliant driver. His family came out from NY this time last year and closed his business (put him out of a job!) and sold everything up so he could go live with them. In October he's due to come back to be guest of honor at the 70th anniversary of that great win he had in his little supercharged MG. He averaged something like 82mph for the distance too, over a course made up of public roads... google 'Lobethal' and 'Tomlinson' and you might find out more about this aged gentleman who still today can address a crowd and tell them to the nut and bolt how he prepared that car and won that race.

Ray, she`s was a tough Irish woman---McCormick was her madien name. He was a Captain. Sounds like a real pretty farm they had. Just neat stories and great people..........Lee