Wednesday, May 30, 2018

One for the rich and famous.

CAUTION: Zebra crossing.
South Australia not only gets to build the submarines but the Brabham BT-62 track car will also be built in Adelaide. A French company will build the subs for the tidy sum of $50 billion however PM Turnbull is chuffed that it will generate 2800 jobs.

Monday, May 28, 2018

Aussie's do well at the track.

Where there's a Will there's a way..
A great weekend for Australia in world motorsport this weekend with Danny Ric winning (read cleaning up) at Monaco and Will Powers winning the famed Indy 500.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

How hard is this?

Is this a good example of over-engineering?
I have seen a couple of re-inventions of the wheel this week but this one takes the cake. Yep, it is a hard tail bridge but just how 'hard' is it? First there are no strings through the body, instead the strings are locked by the key holes and actually pull upwards putting pressure on the steel mounting plate.

To reveal where this rare bird has been spotted read on..

Monday, May 21, 2018

Gadinga duck, gadinga duck..

Is JP a crackpot of a genius? What ever we think, it saves us a job as guitar players.. strumming. I'm sure Jimi Hendrix could have made this little steel reinforced Squier speak in tongue's particularly when JP makes his mains-powered Mark 2 model. I just love mechanical inventions.

Kelly wins for Nissan at Winton

L - R: Bob, Brian, Larry, Funky Dan, Moses, Maurice, Barry, Robin....
The Supercars tore it up at Winton on the weekend in what turned out to be quite a race. On the same week that Nissan had announced that it was withdrawing its support from the Kelly brothers Rick Kelly drove his Nissan Altima to victory in Race 13 or the Supercar Series.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Is this Gibson's archilles' heel?

Yep, it gets my wow!
I watched a YouTube video yesterday of a guy that had seven of these fake Chinese Gibson Les Paul's and that got me wondering just how many of these Chibson's, Chender's. Chickenbaker's, and P.R.S.CN's are around and how they are affecting the real guitar market.

This could be a winner?

Nice but..
It seems Nissan have given their Supercar program the flick stating the Altima is no longer being sold in Australia as the reason. Whether or not the Kelly gang will keep running the Altima's without factory backing is yet to be seen but pretty much doubted.

Monday, May 14, 2018

F1.. fun and games?

Same circus, different clowns.
Is Formula 1 the most expensive sport there is? Most teams employ hundreds, many hundreds of mechanics, tyre changers, designers and computer nerds so there are a few million in wages, not to mention the aerodynamicists, or the guys that brew up the fuel. Each team would have a budget in excess of what the Melbourne City Council has. So why is it that Red Bull employ a couple of crazy go-kart drivers?