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Sunday, August 10, 2014
HCVA Rally one last pic
I forgot that Liam had sent me this picture and I like it, it's 1930 waiting in line out of the Fire Museum
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Historic Commercial Vehicle Association - Golden Jubilee Rally
On Sunday the 3rd August 2014 the Historic Commercial Vehicle Association (HCVA), which I have been a member of since the day I picked up 2413 from Tempe, held a rally to mark 50 years of the association which has had at it's heart the preservation and restoration of historic commercial vehicles.
While the HCVA established the Sydney Bus and Truck Museum (now Sydney Bus Museum) in the 1980's, the museum operations were split off in 2008. The focus of the HCVA are events for enthusiasts and private preservation and restoration projects (like mine hehe)
I was hoping to carry out 1930's engine transplant before the rally, however this was not to be, so instead the rally became the current engines last hurrah!
Some pictures from the day
While the HCVA established the Sydney Bus and Truck Museum (now Sydney Bus Museum) in the 1980's, the museum operations were split off in 2008. The focus of the HCVA are events for enthusiasts and private preservation and restoration projects (like mine hehe)
I was hoping to carry out 1930's engine transplant before the rally, however this was not to be, so instead the rally became the current engines last hurrah!
Some pictures from the day
ex 2304 NAMBUS at Olympic Park
The line up on the M4
Some sunnier photos of NAMBUS
The convoy
MO 1964 alongside MO 4420, both former Fearnes buses
The line up on the road out of the Fire Musuem
All in all about 25 buses turned up for the day which was quite an exceptional number!
2413's shakedown......
To start off with, a Newcastle friend who is also currently restoring a mkII Merc - 2127 has got access to alot of archive material and I was able to find out when 2413 was actually overhauled, it was completed in May of 1988.... a bit late to have her done for the 25th anniversary of the original job, but I'm sure I will beat the 30th anniversary hehehe
So, the 'new' engine is in 2413, time to give it a run and see if there are any bugs......
A friend of mine had built his own house at Peakhurst and had purchased a 6 metre high scaffold for the job and he was going to sell it, when I heard this, I realised it would be perfect for getting onto bus roofs, much better than placing blind faith in a ladder.....
The deal was done and what a perfect excuse to go for a long run in 2413
So myself, PJ and LB all headed up to Oakville one Saturday morning, then headed for Peakhurst
Get's kinda boring on the motorway, but it was nice to be taking her further than from the back gate to the front gate at Oakville....
There had been a niggling thought in the back of my mind (as well as others who knew '13's history) she has suffered from fuel fungus off an on for as long as I've owned her and it reared it's head during this trip!
We ended up pulling off the motorway, and getting to the bowser just before the fungus clogged the fuel pump - I crossed my fingers for the remainder of the journey......
We arrived at Peakhurst, my friend and his three year old son were out the front, dad mowing and son doing the same with his own tools (and imagination).
When the bus turned up I don't think he knew what to make of it all......
But we loaded all the pieces onto 2413 and the son got to sit in the drivers seat - now this boys grandfather may well have driven this bus many times during his own time at Kingsgrove, my friend took a picture of his son in the seat and apparently now he wants to look at the picture all the time!
Since it was my weekend on at work, I got myself dropped off at home and 2413 went down Kingsgrove Rd for the first time since withdrawal from STA service
Out the front of my place - and from on high, hmmmmm that roof needs another clean
2413 heads off into the sunset
Apparently there was another fungus issue on the way back to Oakville
So looks like the next job is changing the tank over - fun, oh well at least it's done then
At the moment 2413 is waiting for a spot for me to park her under cover and really get into her, seems like I might not be the first (but have owned my bus the longest) bus to get into overhaul livery - but probably the first into proper Chullora overhaul livery.
Newcastle carried out overhauls at Hamilton workshops, while they had the directive on how to outshop their overhauls, they did things differently up there, such as leaving the doors Rivera White rather than changing the colour to Basilica Blue (mimicking the mkV mercs being delivered from late 1987 through to 1990) so 2413 waits.... she's since swapped spots with 1930 in this shot
So, the 'new' engine is in 2413, time to give it a run and see if there are any bugs......
A friend of mine had built his own house at Peakhurst and had purchased a 6 metre high scaffold for the job and he was going to sell it, when I heard this, I realised it would be perfect for getting onto bus roofs, much better than placing blind faith in a ladder.....
The deal was done and what a perfect excuse to go for a long run in 2413
So myself, PJ and LB all headed up to Oakville one Saturday morning, then headed for Peakhurst
Get's kinda boring on the motorway, but it was nice to be taking her further than from the back gate to the front gate at Oakville....
There had been a niggling thought in the back of my mind (as well as others who knew '13's history) she has suffered from fuel fungus off an on for as long as I've owned her and it reared it's head during this trip!
We ended up pulling off the motorway, and getting to the bowser just before the fungus clogged the fuel pump - I crossed my fingers for the remainder of the journey......
We arrived at Peakhurst, my friend and his three year old son were out the front, dad mowing and son doing the same with his own tools (and imagination).
When the bus turned up I don't think he knew what to make of it all......
But we loaded all the pieces onto 2413 and the son got to sit in the drivers seat - now this boys grandfather may well have driven this bus many times during his own time at Kingsgrove, my friend took a picture of his son in the seat and apparently now he wants to look at the picture all the time!
Since it was my weekend on at work, I got myself dropped off at home and 2413 went down Kingsgrove Rd for the first time since withdrawal from STA service
Out the front of my place - and from on high, hmmmmm that roof needs another clean
2413 heads off into the sunset
Apparently there was another fungus issue on the way back to Oakville
So looks like the next job is changing the tank over - fun, oh well at least it's done then
At the moment 2413 is waiting for a spot for me to park her under cover and really get into her, seems like I might not be the first (but have owned my bus the longest) bus to get into overhaul livery - but probably the first into proper Chullora overhaul livery.
Newcastle carried out overhauls at Hamilton workshops, while they had the directive on how to outshop their overhauls, they did things differently up there, such as leaving the doors Rivera White rather than changing the colour to Basilica Blue (mimicking the mkV mercs being delivered from late 1987 through to 1990) so 2413 waits.... she's since swapped spots with 1930 in this shot
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