Last post (for 52 days or more )..

 That's it...only a few hours and I am off to EUROPE for 8 weeks....don't forget our troops this coming Monday..."Lest we forget"....

Hope you can achieve all that's put in front of you...hot rodders, we can do anything..

 Now, if you run out of material to look at, don't forget all the cool stories on www.jalopyjournal.com , H.A.M.B. section..

and of course, can't go past www.pewsplace.com for your weekly updates from California

 so...my bags packed....(check the trunk I still have..dragged that back home full of parts from our first USA trip back in August 1976...who remembers doing this!)

 so don't be in the dumps  with no downunderdeuce blog material....you know I will hit you with pics when I get back in mid-June..

 see ya...locals, go to coffee at 34 Worthing Rd on May 15, and I will see you for coffee on June 19

see ya, Les W....catch up with you when i get back...you need to stay in OZ for the June coffee, then the June meet week run to Lowood on 23rd...then ya can bugger off back to Texas!!...

Post #634..just might be your last for two months...

 "Up, up and away, with TAA..the fri"..wait...wrong song...not long to go now..sat arvo and I'm on the big bird outa here...a nice relaxing trip with my wife Anita, , and former business partner and Brother in law, Col and his wife Dawn...

fun trip planned, gobble up all that money I was going to spend on another hot rod...but, I need to travel...I love discovering new places....and next year, maybe, do the 6 month caravan trip around Australia...youll be thwarted for blog material again!

 Les W still sends a few pictures back from Texas...some of you may catch up with him again, as he has to make another quick return trip to Aus, before heading back for the remainder of the year in Texas...His long term dream of staying for quite a while in USA is finally coming true..

 Nice A in the Murrays Custom Rods shop..

 always great to call in on Don Smith, and his every changing and increasing stable of hot rods and race cars...now, isn't that deuce 'so right"..

 He has the knack of getting the look correct in all his cars..

 forget the foreground..check that rear setup!!

 Pass the salt, please...talk him into coming to Lake Gairdner, Les...

 I'm starting to love the look of wires again...

 Hey..there's an idea for my tub...paint it in 'Simon Transport burnt ochre" like my sedan..should I?

 The things you see...

 Hello..What's going on here...Les has a hemi in his pickup truck now.....hmmm.

Me ol' mate Les..45 years ago.. See ya Les, won't catch up with you for a while...have fun over  there..

 Locals...don't forget to check this car show/food/music this coming Saturday in Capalaba.

last reminder locals...next coffee morning is May 15..and is at 34 Worthing Street Victoria Point, just a little way back up a bit from our normal venue..hosts are Garry and Debbie Moore, and Steve and Cassie Pesch...

 with 7 weeks away, I decided to have some work done on the old Deuce sedan....over time, one wiper stopped working, interior light stopped, horn went out, CD player stopped, and now the headlights went out...time for a major rewire job, so sent it away today over to Kevin Parkes..

 I checked out just one of Kevins new projects..(he has many)..this is his RodBods 34 coupe, after it came back from some work done at Toowoomba Rod & Custom..just about everything is purchased and ready to start assembling...but as usual, too many other jobs come in....

Lilow independant front, coil over  rear with disc brake 9", injected late Windsor, another good build!

 There has been a lot of stories on facebook about the upcoming "BOOGALOO INVITATIONAL" at Castlemaine, April 30....looks like a great event, pity it's so far away for us banana benders..

 Here's a few pics of cars being thrashed on, ready for the event..

of course, being Castlemaine, and the Boogaloo being old old school cars...how fitting for Swifty to have the iconic 60s bucket there!

Hey..local followers..how cool is this!

Hope we get to see a bit of this in England!

Saturday night blog.....gotta keep you fed!!

 I've been working the last few days, on preparing for the big trip....got the bags packed today..(a week early)..did some last minute tune-up of the itinerary, mowed the lawn, and put things in place ready for the house sitters to arrive...8 days from now, i will be in Budapest, Hungary... you won't get any blogs for 8 weeks...

Next 15 days will be cruising up the Danube and Rhine Rivers.....

 short stop in Amsterdam, then catch a train to France...

a week in France..looking up Anita and Cols relatives/heritage from the town of Fruges

 Then off to England to see their uncle Arthur..and some friends up near Cambridge

No car shows, but a must do is the WW2 museum at Duxford..lots of Spitfires here...Anita and Cols dad flew a Spitfire in WW2

 Then off to Ireland for 9 days of Blarney stone kissing, and potatoes cooked a gazillion ways

will be between 10C to 18C most of the first 6 weeks, so we will high-tail it outa there to Italy to do the cruise ship to Greece....then back home on the 15th June, just in time to organise my June 19 coffee morning at Victoria point, and the June 23 mid-week lunch rod run to Lowood...never a dull moment in my life!!

 wet...the bubble burst on my mid-week run....we drove thry rain on and off all the way to Boonah..

 However, those that did come,, the weather cleared once we got to the Dugandan Pub...good food, some newbies, so all good...next one is to Lowood Pub, on June 23..details when i get back..

 some pics from Les W..he called over to Bob Wilson (Wilson makes those cool brake kits )..
like the can opener/return spring holder..

 I think...this is his old salt flat deuce, that's going back on the street...is this correct, LW?

 Bob and Charlie....at a loss for words, it seems...

 lot of interesting pieces on this car

 Les sends his greetings to you-all back home..

 did i put these up?...Tom Weeks in the blue shirt does a nice blog on his www.hotrodcraft.com site

 here's the interior shot from that radial engined pickup truck..

last, but not least...a hot VW!