Scar,
the Fargo I fucked up with is a Fargo Kew - again apologies. It is an English Fargo were as the Dodge Fargo was made in SA. Can someone please tell me how to add photos so I can show Scar the Fargo and some photos of the Studebaker. I am ignorant and I guess that shows through in me believing "TIM". By the way Tim plays for O'Mahoneys Hotel on Lyons Street in Warwick. Last name to follow soon.
Lisa

Unbelievable!! Fangio has not posted once!!

" i know where they buried 1943 Walla's in the crates under neath the football ground at a dis-used army base "

1943,,,,Hmmm,,, wasn't there a military parking area somewhere near the now M.C.G ?

Hi Lisa, about 12 years ago at a clearence sale not that far from you , an old cocky had died and his missus sold the property. At the auction there was 6 ww2 jeep bodies brand new and all the mechanical bits were wrapped in grease paper, I think the mob that got them were from military jeep club of N S W . I got a brand new generator plant, form 1942 with instruction manual and a box of parts for a complete rebuild , pistons rings bearings etc it was made by coventry motors and looked like an early Prefect engine only put out 2 kva and weighed about 1/2 a ton cost me $150 so yeah there is still stuff out there and it pays to listen to all the stories I ve been around a while and missed some good stuff by not believing, Remember that famous saying , dont let the arseholes get you down, Northey

It definetly pays to listen and somtimes look ... my sons fatrher in law is a wool buyer and is constantly at farms , the amount of junk he keeps coming home with and then reselling for a fortune is unbeileivable , seems the cockys tend to shovew all sorts of stuff in there sheds . and its not even the old stuff , the fucker came home with a 5.4 metre quinrtrex with a 90 hp motor on the back for five fucking grand . I had just sold mine weeks before for 22 grand and this was in better condition , Can't work out if he's a con man robbing the poor bastards or just a lucky bastard who falls on the bargains ,

Can bet your life if there really are two out there in there crates , this fucker will sniff them out or at least come up with a detailed map of where there buried.

Thanks Northey,

I am still tracing this bloke. His name is Tim Conquest according to a guy who plays against him in the darts competition. He has a home game at the O'Mahoneys Hotel in Warwick tomorrow night so I will be travelling in to take a gander. A lot of the farms around here have stayed in the family for over a hundred years and the farmers indulged in a good season, and scraped by in the hard ones. I was stupid to rush in and post here before checking this guy out. I won't be doing that again. I can see how people would think me a scammer. All I was going to do and did do, was pass on his number.

I just hope I find out his address so anyone who wants to visit him and see these "bikes" has the chance to.
Cheers
Lisa

There out there...  remember Lofty picking up a old WLA from a shed full of old bikes a couple of years ago ???...

IF ya dont follow up these leads you'll never know...   & you'll kick yourself when someone else gets them for a song...  

 

Jeez I'd love for this story to be true!

It's no co-incidence these 'shed finds' are usually in rural areas - that's where ya find SHEDS!

In the burbs with a brick N tile breeding box the only storage is usually quite small - it'll house the family car and a few shelves fulla paint tins.

No room for Grandad's old Walla!

And the big sheds are too easy for old Cockies to store & forget all manner of shit.

But the Walla in a box is like the Spitfire or the Willy's Jeep in a box - possible, but highly unlikley.

And coz we often hear these stories they become the stuff of 'urban legends'; hence the scepticism...

 

i was telling this story to one of my workmates, a bloke i have known for 15 years from Toowoomba. He said that his father took him to a farm in Warwick when he was about 12 years old ( which is about 37 years ago now ) and this guy had army Harley's wrapped in grease paper and created up.

 

Ahh jeez Jay!! The thread was winding down and now look what you've done. Where in Warwick?! Where? Ya got pics? Prove it! What's ya mates name? Carn, pics or it didn't happen!!  

 

Here are a couple of shots from my thread on the old bloke I met in NZ recently and the heaps of old vehicles he has in sheds out the back of a dairy farm, almost all in perfect running order and he doesn't touch them cosmetically, just routine maintenance. The first is a 1942 Indian (looks military so it had work before he got it 20 years ago) and a 1906 N Model Ford.

 

Outbid Macka,,, both ! 

Speaking of Bullshit Stories...

I worked with an old fella when I was an apprentice (in the mid 80's) that told me a story that almost had me buying a metal detector, packing my bags and fucking off up north.

He was a classic aussie yarn spinner (bullshit-artist) that could tell the most unbelievable yarn and make it sound 100% legit.

Anyway this particular story centred around his old man being in the North West at the end of WW2. The way he tells it, the yanks had gone fucking overboard in the last year of the war building airstrips and supply depots. He reckons they had more gear up there than you could imagine and not long after the war ended some Bean Counter in the US Army decided the whole lot was surplus to our requirements and should be disposed of.

The Bean Counter was a shiny arsed pencil neck from the big smoke that had no idea where Western Australia was or how isolated it was, nor did he give a fuck coz like the rest of his mob he was cashing in on the US of A's new found prosperity and got-the-fuck-out of the army.

So the few wood-ducks left on the ground up north took it upon themselves to set about putting the bulk of the supplies into "Storage". This allegedly involved using truckloads of grease, tar paper and crates to seal up all this gear which they promptly BURIED!

No shit, that's how the yarn went - they dug trench-holes with front end loaders and filled them with all this equipment, machinery, weapons, ammo and VEHICLES....
....yes folks, VEHICLES!

And buried in all these trenches were over 2 dozen pristine, never been used US Army issue Harley-fuckin-Davidsons. All nicely caked in preserving grease, wrapped in tar paper and neatly crated before being buried fuck knows how deep in the red dirt of North Western Australia.

Of course like all such tales there was a promise of riches at the end. The old fella looked at me sideways with a sparkle in his eye and said "And they've never been found - the silly cunts were in such a hurry to get the fuck out of dodge they misplaced all the Dump Location Maps and somewhere out there in all that bulldust is a treasure trove of history"

I never did buy that metal detector, that old cunt was full of shit.

 

I remember a pommy bloke telling me he regrets not buying some surplus pommy motorcycles at the end of WW2 when a field full were up for sale at (I think) 5 pounds each. Like everyone else, they'd had a gutful of all things Army and weren't really interested.

But the whole 'burying' surplus gear is very much a Military way of getting rid of shit; particularly at the end of conflicts like WW2 where thousands of vehicles are surplus to requirements. Dig a big hole, fill it with equipment and cover with dirt.

However, I'd be surprised if they'd go to the trouble of greasing and wrapping in tar paper thousands of items unless a future raising of the dead was planned.

And if a future exhumation was planned these 'dumps' would be well & truly mapped with all co-ordinates noted. I'm sure some dumps exist, but are the vehicles greased up or simply buried and rusting?

 

The story of the Harleys in Victoria has been around for years. Bandiana under the Football oval. The story goes they were excess to requirements after the war and no paperwork, so bury them so the problem goes away. In the 80's The Commander for Bandiana was approached by a group wanting to search the oval for the bikes. Offered to replace the oval with turf, full watering stystem etc but no joy. It is supposedly a bullshit story, but having seen what can be found in old Military warehouses I tend to believe the side of the story about burying them due to paperwork errors. The stuff is around. I know of a Canberra bomber that is sitting in a building in Woomera Range are at Kooliminka Rocket Testing base that was flown through the mushroom clouds during the Atomic Tests, and Jet Engines that were at ground zero. Just sitting in this locked shed. Apart from all the other toxic shit that they buried up there was well...

I have got stuff from the 1930's that was issued to Pioneers, a Bush Saw. In a leather pouch still in it's wax paper wrapping They and a load of other stuff was found in the q store at Tully when I was posted up there. The shit is out there just gotta be lucky and in the right place.

I would have liked to have first dibbs on these...  

11 New 1975 Norton Commandos Found in Belgium !

A "brand new" 1975 Norton Commando Interstate still in its crate, one of 11 found recently in Belgium

Heres something you don't come across every day: 11 brand new 1975 electric-start Norton Interstate motorcycles, still in the crate and awaiting final assembly!

The horde of Nortons came to light recently following the death of the owner of Motoshop Podevyn in Aalst, Belgium.

Incredibly, the bikes are just a small part of an even larger collection.

From what weve been able to learn, the owner of Motoshop Podevyn had quite a reputation for collecting bikes and parts, but he also collected quite a

reputation for being difficult to deal with, many former customers saying he rarely let go of parts or complete bikes from the huge collection he amassed over the years.

Here are the other 10 Nortons, still in their original, unopened packing crates.

Regardless, collect he did, and we can tell you from looking over the auction bill that this is going to be an amazing auction, with almost 400 lots being offered.

In addition to the 11 Nortons theres also an ex-Peter Williams Norton-powered space frame racer, a Rotax-powered 1989 Matchless G80 still in its crate, numerous

standard and customized Nortons, a Triumph T160, Bonnevilles, piles and piles of wheels and seats, and racks of used and new-old-stock gas tanks.

Blokes got a thing about Geese, maybe a relative of Robo....... 19 posts in little over 1/2 hr....

surprised no one mentioned ACID/WATER for the battery :-) did those old girls have batteries?

The US government have dumped a huge amount of surplus equipment in the past, so its no surprise to me if an old relic turns up in almost any location.

Do a google search for pics of Million dollar point, it's off an island named Santo in Vanuatu.
I dived there around twenty years ago and as the story goes, the us had an airforce base in town (and surrounding islands) the time came to leave and the US decided on a fair price for the people of Santo to "purchase" the equipment they were going to leave.
The Vanuatu government? decided the gear is already here, so its ours, to which the US decided if they can't pay they can't just have it, and pushed everything off the wharf into the bay, they also sunk the "President Coolidge" in the same location.
When diving we saw many jeeps etc on what is now a man made reef.

also walking through the rain forrests we came across crashed aircraft the locals had found, some very remote and seen by very few at the time.

Been to Gaudacanal, Soloman Islands. Military junk everywhere, both U.S. and Jap.

The locals find piles of artillary shells in the jungle and strip them down for the powder to make "fish bombs"

A few go off unexpectadly in the process.

Doesn't help when they nickname the Honiara Hospital "50/50"