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It sounds you are so very happy with your purchase Sean. I’m very happy for you.

Hydrogen can be great with more development. The infrastructure on a vehicle is quite daunting.

Yep, Take a wide berth on this for sure.

Ultra rare then Bryce. What a sleeper!

As always Bryce, fantastic coverage & images. Probably one of the rarest cars there is that burgundy Brock Director. This was the car that put the final nail in Peter Brock’s coffin. It was also the car the infamous “energy polariser” was fitted. Only 12 examples were made.

I couldn’t possibly put a value on you Styria. Even with everything still in tip top condition you are, too unique, too special, and above all, one of a kind, thus priceless.

What a shame that something, quite easy to maintain, is often criminally neglected.

It seems any “classic” or “vintage” car just pulls big money in this day and age. Like Putin, it seems some people want to revive anything Soviet.

That would be a good reason to have such a low first gear Bryce. Some cars certainly are not thought out well, or only use certain components allowed?

Lol No These are designed for hundreds of thousands of hours mate, or many millions of k’s :cool:

Wow, Not long at all Styria. Amazing things like that even went into service. At the other end of the scale, we have what we call crawler gears for super heavy loads (250 tonnes) that can do a maximum of 2kph at full torque revs of 1450 rpm out of a 16 litre 700hp truck while using 1 litre of...

Yes, A great trick Styria, select second gear, before first or reverse. First gear is whiney due to the fact the gears were straight cut gears. A straight cut gear, or a spur gear only has one point of contact and very course when engaged, and very weak due to the single tooth contact...

How hard can it be? Revs Torque Throttle position Do not push clutch to far as the clutch brake is engaged (stops input shaft from spinning to engage a gear when stationary as there are no synchros to do this) Range change switch Splitter switch Gear stick or gear cable wear to take into account...

Yes, A GTG would be good there. I may have to bring the Fairmont down when I’ve finished it. A really nice selection of cars there Bryce, but isn’t that Ferrari just WOW.

Here is a bit of a demo in a Kenworth road train Brian.

I will endeavour to do so Michel. The build of straight RoadRanger manuals now is about 1 in every 200 builds. Generally these would be destined for WA delivery. But I will keep an eye out.

Some real bargains there.

:cool: Can’t agree more Brian. All my nieces and nephews cars I have bought for them over the years are manual. They enjoy their cars more. I really need to bring an 18 speed non synchro box for you to drive Brian. You could pretty much say, you have driven them all then.

That’s a lot of gears Sean.

Speaking of the PV Brian. Have you got a set of these for country picnics?