Home safe & sound from the 2010 nationals. & How was it?
ABSOLUTELY FAAAAAAN TASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!
944 km, plus running around. 2 adults + 2 GROOOWING kids & a bootful of gear. Mechanical dramas - A wiper blade came adrift - had to snap it back in & give it a squeeze with the pliers.
Wildlife - Backed-off for 2 Kangas, one 3km from home.
Pretty Nice Trip!
How many cars? So many I kept loosing count! 38? Think thats right! ...... 38!!!!!
But I'm sleepy, so I'll load the pics tomorrow.
TOP BELLETTY WEEKEND!!!!
Matt.

good to hear u guys got home safely mate, and was great to catch up again.

i wish it was a 944k round trip for me.... was more than that 1 way!
but wouldn't miss it for the world.

off to the cup tomorrow.... well, today.... then head off tuesday morning, and arrived home wednesday again.

tell milli i'll try to get be there for her next year too!

cheers.

cmon matt you must be rested up by now lets see all the good shots..... good you got home safe and likewise to all other belletters cheers davo in qld

Apetite wetter..................

What I like to see when I look out the kitchen window!



How Many??
Lunch in the park. Yep, They go aaaaaall the way up, cross the yop & aaaaaaall the way back!



Siding Springs run. Carpark. FILLED IT UP!





Davo, YA SHOULDA BIN THERE!!!!!

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YEA THANKS MATT YOU JUST RUINED MY DAY NOW .......IT LOOKED LIKE A REAL HOOT SOME PICS OF CARS IN THERE NEVER SEEN BEFORE REGARDS AND THANKS AGAIN DAVO

dave, alot of cars that us 'old' guys know of that have never been on here before were there.

but what a week!
1.5 day drive to get there,
2.5 days of cars and seeing my "bellett family",
1 day at the Coona Cup.... watching the "phillies".... there must be something in the water up there, coz DAMNNNNNNN!!!!!!!....
1.5 day drive home.

the score card was:
2048km round trip,
another trophy brought home that goes "straight to the pool room" (and yes, we drove thru Boonie Doon to get there.... seriously ),
god knows how many cans, stubbies and bottles consumed,
45,712 bugs to clean off the car,
and 1 crow that learnt the hard way that he was too slow....

then when i got home, i had a quick 270km round trip to Phillip Island in the arvo to pick up some stuff!

but now it's back to the reality of work, and it sucks, because it's now the longest time bewteen this Nats and the next!

was awesome to see everyone again, and to meet alot of new faces too.

btw... here's my view in the mirror from the whole trip....



cheers!

Glad to hear everyone made it home safely...well nearly everyone
As we had picked up a new member to the orphange Walter the wasp was towed home off the back of the truck. This is not normally a problem until you pack the front of the cab with luggage. Somewhere between there and here the gear lever was knocked into 3rd(we think) and Walter travelled home at about 7000rpm for sometime.
looks like greg will get to play with the motor after all.
It still runs and drives, just like a james bond movie with the smoke haze to hide you.
liz

I dream of my car sitting on 7000 rpm.
Not too good in reality though

Stickman

Sad to hear Liz sounds like a small block may be the go

hi every one wat agreat weekend and cee every one ,talking to old faces and new ones got home safely , car run like a dream no prob, 2500 km ,310 bucks petrol , 1 bird couple of stone chips later , all has to be done next year , cheers rod

Liz.... ouch.... but a ford windsor goes in real nice.... trust me....

Rod.... great to hear u did well too mate!

3rd gear 7000rpm
sorry to hear that ... thanks again for the help.

Nice to have met you Rod, glad the trip home was so uneventful.

Cheers
Rob

Great Pics Matt!!! And I have to agree with what every body has already said and say "What an Awesome 6 days of Belletting".

I managed to travel about 2300km's with out having to put a spanner on my car, I do have alot of rattles and squeaks to chase but my little car performed great. I also managed to travel 2300 km's with out number plates and I only got pulled over once in Shepparton.

Can't wait for next year!!!!

hey gav.... someone must have ironed out a few bugs with u before the trip then....??

Ooohhhh, Liz, thats real bad luck. Sorry to hear that.
But I wouldn't go the V8, I reckon you'd need half a ton of ballast on the back to get traction!
But a nice little twin carb twin cam - they come up from time to time!

Glad everyone had a great time. You all made it one for us. Thank you all.
Cheers, Matt.

C'Mon Greg, better get going on Walter the Wasp for 26th January 2011!!

Get on his case Liz, so you are ready!!( )
Not a good result for you, sorry about that, hopefully you will be able to make 26th Jan??
It was great to meet tyou and Greg, and renew the contact with Geoff, you ceratinly have some verty nice cars in your family.
Hopefully catch up in a little over 2 months.
DM.

Hi Dave the engine is out and away being bored. .

agreed on a road car.
but for a laugh if u have a spare wasp and a 308 holden lying around....


can vouch for that matt!
and with webers, they sound awesome!
noisy, but very awesome.

GREATY WORK GREG, keep it up, looks like 16 cars accepted for Motorfest, I received an early advice this morning, so you Guys and Liz are in!!! Your details will be mailed out in December as previuosly quoted!!
Keep the beers and the food going for him Liz he has started well!!! (LOL).
Cheers DM.

It's not me rebuilding walter we have a retired mechanic that still puts a day here and there.When we got home patches was supposed to go to town a be painted in a booth but the panel shop want's to leave it for a few weeks as he is busy. In the meantime i have a few other things on the go between work jobs. I am currently fitting a twin cam g180w into a sedan in which we are waiting for a sump. This is a project car for my mother [hoon] what chance did i have. Then there is rolie that we picked up in coona He has his rear quarters,one door,roof repaired from the tree that he tried to catch and is now in primer.
As for a wasp transplant i can get a v6 isuzu engine we have one in the holding yard a m62 eaton supercharger half in and half out the bonnet would look sweet.
If you think i am dreaming the old man will vouch it could happen as he ownes a v6 supercharged pajero as do i it was a little experiment a few years back. All done in the shed other then the manifolds that were casted down the road. l reackon a wasp with a blown v6 would be hot and would look tuff but Lizzie ownes both wasps also. I have to do what i am told.
Georges would be go as most is done.

Walter gets his old engine back standard on the outside outher than a pair of carbs but molested on the inside . with a new diff centre he will take some catching. .