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  1. Hi All, I thought I would share a last few photos from the final days of our Buick Club of NSW East Coast Meet. Sunday we had a show and shine day at a local transport museum in Inverell with all 34 Buicks. Amongst the quite extensive museum collection were '18, '24 and '39 Buicks. Sunday night we had our dinner at the local Returned Serviceman's Club and a farewell breakfast on Monday morning. We left Inverell for the town of Wauchope (pronounced 'war hope' - don't ask me how this happened) which was a 200 mile drive through fantastic undulating countryside with the final 35 miles being a steep and very winding descent to sea level which all of our little group ('25, '28, '29, '30, '71 Riv and a '46 Chev) handled extremely well. The following morning we visited a local club member and his extensive car restoration work shop and his collection of several very large Packards, an E-type Jag, '78 Holden Monaro and a '29 Buick roadster. Following a morning tea and a chat we set off south for a night at a sea side area called Tea Gardens and spent a relaxing evening sitting out in the unseasonably warm weather drinking well deserved beers. Wednesday we set off on the last leg home, stopping near my turn off on the Central Coast for a last coffee and chat before the others set off for Sydney and home. Total trip was about 770 miles with approximately 55 gallons of petrol/ gas used resulting in about 14mpg at an approximate cost of about $290.00 US ($5.25 US a gallon). Photos are - '38 sloper, early Buicks at the show and shine, transport museum collection, my '30, view out the window on the way to Wauchope. Cheers Paul
  2. Another great day out on the road, today we visited an historic town with an even more historic general store which up until 1999 had been run by the same family for the better part of a century, we also attended a digeridoo performance and a sign making factory set up by a group of mainly young Americans from a Christian community originally from upstate New York amongst other locations.
  3. More from Australia, we visited a local bloke who owns a farm machinery wrecking yard in Inverell, He also has an acre sized shed containing dozens of historic tractors etc as well as a large paddock of threshers and other tractor related trailers and a bunch of 1930s and '40s Chevy, Dodge and British trucks. The afternoon we visited a pioneer park which featured dozens of historic buildings from the 1830s to the 1920s which had been relocated from their original locations.
  4. Hi All, we are back on the road here in Australia for the Buick Club East Coast meet. we left yesterday for the country town of Inverell in northern New South Wales. we had an over night stop in the little town of Gloucester, some 150 miles north of Sydney. we have another 6 days of driving old Buicks to look forward to. More posts to come, Cheers Paul
  5. I suggest in its original colour(s)
  6. With regard to the missing data plate, have a look on the front left hand side door sill (under the mat/ carpet) and see if there is anything there. I didn't have a firewall mounted data plate on my South African '36 but did find a plate on the door sill, the information was limited but it did identify it as being an export model with other codes that suggested it might have been sold via the Lendrum and Hartman in London. Cheers Paul
  7. Hi Dave, welcome to the forum. I have found the members here to be extremely friendly and helpful over the 7 years I have been a member. Our search for your Buick continues. I am looking forward to the day, you, Michael D. and I can get out on the roads in our Buicks. Cheers Paul
  8. Hi All, Yesterday I attended the 'Shannon's (a car insurance company here in Australia) Sydney Classic' car show at Eastern Creek race track. There were about 2000 cars in attendance of all makes and models. The Buick Car Club of NSW had 20 Buicks in attendance. We also had a opportunity to take a spin around the track. The attached pictures shows some of the Buicks lined up waiting to do their lap, that's my '30 third from the front. It was a 150 mile round trip for me. Cheers Paul
  9. You might also like to subscribe to the free pre-war Buick magazine. All you need to do is go to the Buick Club of Queensland website and subscribe. Cheers Paul
  10. Hi Justin, fabulous Buick, congratulations! I just googled the original owners street address, lovely old house. He must have been worth a bit of coin back in the day. The '29 would have looked great parked in the driveway. Cheers Paul
  11. Hi All, Just returned from a trip out to the south-west New South Wales and a country town called Leeton (Picture 6). The town was founded rather more recently than I imagined (April 1912) which would seem to account for the large number of Art Deco buildings that make up most of the towns CBD and is the home of a number of iconic Art Deco water towers designed by an American architect, Walter Burley Griffin who is famous in Australia as the designer of our national capital, Canberra. This makes Leeton a great location for an Art Deco festival and the reason why my wife and I and eight other friends set off last Thursday for the 1000 mile round trip with me in the '36 and my friend Michael in a '41 Sedanette with others following in modern vehicles (Picture One). The trip took in as many small country towns as we could (Pictures 4 and 5). We broke the journey at the 320 mile point with a stay in a beautiful historic bed and breakfast in a little town called Grenfell which has a small Chrysler museum of all things. The following day we set off for the short 130 mile hop to Leeton. We spent the next few days attending activities around town and dinners and balls at night staying in an historic hotel (Picture 2) up on the hill in the centre of town. We ran into a local fellow who owned a 1934 convertible coupe he had found rusting in a paddock in 1981 and restored it as a restomod with Holden V8 and running gear and '36 Buick front suspension pulled from another paddock wreck. (Picture 3) Monday we set off further west to a small town call Whitton and a recently developed whiskey and gin distillery called the Whitton Malt House. The place processes grain for the attached restaurant and tasting business but also provides grain to most of Australia's beer production industries. We stayed in boutique cabins arrayed around a made-made lake and spend a relaxing evening chatting over drinks and cheese before setting off back to Grenfell again for the night, finding a 1927(?) Buick radiator cap in a local antique store, and then the long trip home on Tuesday. Both Buicks ran well without any problems. I used 90 gallons of fuel at the rate of 12 mpg at a cost of $400.00 USD, Cheers Paul
  12. Hi All, An update on the clock situation. Having left it lubricating for some time I gave it a try over the weekend and managed to get it to unscrew. As you can see it has a last patent date of 9th July 1912.
  13. I wish, it would mean a large block of land and with prices in and around Sydney over $900,000US average for a postage stamp property I don't see a sign off!
  14. I agree, you look at the design evolution of modern cars and there is little difference between a 2005 model and the current models
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