............Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
1,200 cars.

Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.

Anyone else remember Glitrap's?

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On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>
> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
> 1,200 cars.

Take whatever he claims with a massive grain of salt, and get excited
about it when he actually does it.

Remember his "Titanic"?

> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>
> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?

No.

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On 13/5/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>
> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
> 1,200 cars.
>
> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>
> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>
>
I remember the name, I might have been there when it was located at
Dreamworld a very long time ago.
Be interesting to see if it actually happens, like many politicians he
has a history of not delivering on what he promises.

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On 13/05/2023 7:38 pm, Noddy wrote:
> On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
>> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>>
>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
>> 1,200 cars.
>
> Take whatever he claims with a massive grain of salt, and get excited
> about it when he actually does it.
>
> Remember his "Titanic"?

**Yeah, good point.

>
>
>> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>>
>> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>
> No.

**As a kid on holidays, I would haunt the place every year (my dad used
to drag the family to Kirra Caravan Park every year for our annual
holidays). It was friggin' awesome. They used to demonstrate the Baker
Electric car. They had a Stanley Steamer (that set a speed record, way
back - 120mph, I think), another car that had a very cool drive system,
which enabled the car to be driven in reverse at the same top speed as
forwards, a Repco-Brabham racing car and other neat stuff.

Refs:

https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/classic-wheels/1968-gilltrap-auto-museum-review

https://www.goldcoaststories.com.au/gilltraps-auto-museum/

https://www.enginelabs.com/news/historic-engines-stanley-steamer/

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Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>
> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/
> 1,200 cars.

That would well and truely beat Lindsay Fox's version in Melbourne:
http://www.foxcollection.org.au/about-us.html

But it's at the right end of the country for me.

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On 14/05/2023 5:31 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> On 13/05/2023 7:38 pm, Noddy wrote:
>> On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
>>> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>>>
>>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
>>> 1,200 cars.
>>
>> Take whatever he claims with a massive grain of salt, and get excited
>> about it when he actually does it.
>>
>> Remember his "Titanic"?
>
> **Yeah, good point.
>
>>
>>
>>> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>>>
>>> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>>
>> No.
>
> **As a kid on holidays, I would haunt the place every year (my dad used
> to drag the family to Kirra Caravan Park every year for our annual
> holidays). It was friggin' awesome. They used to demonstrate the Baker
> Electric car. They had a Stanley Steamer (that set a speed record, way
> back - 120mph, I think), another car that had a very cool drive system,
> which enabled the car to be driven in reverse at the same top speed as
> forwards, a Repco-Brabham racing car and other neat stuff.
>
> Refs:
>
> https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/classic-wheels/1968-gilltrap-auto-museum-review
>
> https://www.goldcoaststories.com.au/gilltraps-auto-museum/
>
> https://www.enginelabs.com/news/historic-engines-stanley-steamer/

Sounds like a fun place.

It reminds me a little of the Geraldine Vintage Car Museum in Geraldine,
New Zealand. A great little place with lots of interesting cars and
machinery. My in-laws lived directly across the street from it in
Geraldine, so whenever we went over for a visit I'd always hand out
there and "volunteer" helping with a few old cars or bits of machinery
whenever they were having a running day.

Gerladine is a lovely little country town that is one of the last
"tourist" stops on the way to Mt.Cook, so if you're ever in that part of
the world I thoroughly recommend lunch at the bakery and a visit to the
museum.

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On 14/5/2023 9:13 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
>> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>>
>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/
>> 1,200 cars.
>
> That would well and truely beat Lindsay Fox's version in Melbourne:
> http://www.foxcollection.org.au/about-us.html

Without knowing exactly what will be displayed at the Palmer car museum
its impossible to say that it will beat the Fox collection, maybe in
numbers but unknown if it could beat it for rarity and quality.

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On 14/5/2023 9:15 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 14/05/2023 5:31 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 13/05/2023 7:38 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>> On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money
>>>> he stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering
>>>> employees:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
>>>> 1,200 cars.
>>>
>>> Take whatever he claims with a massive grain of salt, and get excited
>>> about it when he actually does it.
>>>
>>> Remember his "Titanic"?
>>
>> **Yeah, good point.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> **As a kid on holidays, I would haunt the place every year (my dad
>> used to drag the family to Kirra Caravan Park every year for our
>> annual holidays). It was friggin' awesome. They used to demonstrate
>> the Baker Electric car. They had a Stanley Steamer (that set a speed
>> record, way back - 120mph, I think), another car that had a very cool
>> drive system, which enabled the car to be driven in reverse at the
>> same top speed as forwards, a Repco-Brabham racing car and other neat
>> stuff.
>>
>> Refs:
>>
>> https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/classic-wheels/1968-gilltrap-auto-museum-review
>>
>> https://www.goldcoaststories.com.au/gilltraps-auto-museum/
>>
>> https://www.enginelabs.com/news/historic-engines-stanley-steamer/
>
> Sounds like a fun place.
>
> It reminds me a little of the Geraldine Vintage Car Museum in Geraldine,
> New Zealand. A great little place with lots of interesting cars and
> machinery. My in-laws lived directly across the street from it in
> Geraldine, so whenever we went over for a visit I'd always hand out
> there and "volunteer" helping with a few old cars or bits of machinery
> whenever they were having a running day.

*Hand out/volunteer* your usual lies and bullshit Darren? Did you
perhaps mention that you were Australia's number one automotive faker?
>
> Gerladine is a lovely little country town that is one of the last
> "tourist" stops on the way to Mt.Cook, so if you're ever in that part of
> the world I thoroughly recommend lunch at the bakery and a visit to the
> museum.
>

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On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>
> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
> 1,200 cars.

Palmer has had a car museum at Coolum for quite a number of years.
Palmer bought the Coolum Resort and ran it into the ground forcing out
the permanent residents. He kept the golf course open which, I think,
was actually what he really wanted. He opened a car museum there 10
years ago, probably not as grand as the one that he is proposing, but
had a lot of old vehicles. I don't know if it is still open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EanmYVPgEqs

I took my son's two boys up there probably 8 years ago to see the life
size dinosaur models that he had installed. They were looking a bit sad
then and sometime later they just rotted away from lack of maintenance.
The car museum was there then but we didn't go in. The resort must have
been nice once but, even then, it was looking down at heel and tumble
weeds were blowing through the place. Very sad, it was once an
attraction and employment for the locals, bit a lot of what Clive
touches turns to shit.

> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>
> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>
>

On 14/05/2023 9:15 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 14/05/2023 5:31 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 13/05/2023 7:38 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>> On 13/05/2023 6:14 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money
>>>> he stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering
>>>> employees:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_1&utm_medium=partner
>>>> 1,200 cars.
>>>
>>> Take whatever he claims with a massive grain of salt, and get excited
>>> about it when he actually does it.
>>>
>>> Remember his "Titanic"?
>>
>> **Yeah, good point.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sorta puts Giltrap's Auto Museum to shame. I loved Giltrap's.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else remember Glitrap's?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> **As a kid on holidays, I would haunt the place every year (my dad
>> used to drag the family to Kirra Caravan Park every year for our
>> annual holidays). It was friggin' awesome. They used to demonstrate
>> the Baker Electric car. They had a Stanley Steamer (that set a speed
>> record, way back - 120mph, I think), another car that had a very cool
>> drive system, which enabled the car to be driven in reverse at the
>> same top speed as forwards, a Repco-Brabham racing car and other neat
>> stuff.
>>
>> Refs:
>>
>> https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/classic-wheels/1968-gilltrap-auto-museum-review
>>
>> https://www.goldcoaststories.com.au/gilltraps-auto-museum/
>>
>> https://www.enginelabs.com/news/historic-engines-stanley-steamer/
>
> Sounds like a fun place.
>
> It reminds me a little of the Geraldine Vintage Car Museum in Geraldine,
> New Zealand. A great little place with lots of interesting cars and
> machinery. My in-laws lived directly across the street from it in
> Geraldine, so whenever we went over for a visit I'd always hand out
> there and "volunteer" helping with a few old cars or bits of machinery
> whenever they were having a running day.
>
> Gerladine is a lovely little country town that is one of the last
> "tourist" stops on the way to Mt.Cook, so if you're ever in that part of
> the world I thoroughly recommend lunch at the bakery and a visit to the
> museum.
>
If you go further south to Invercargill, there is a very nice motorcycle
museum. From the look of their website, it has changed a bit since I was
there in 2016, it was in a hardware shop then.

https://www.motorcyclemecca.nz/museum-info/

On 14/05/2023 5:14 pm, Keithr0 wrote:
> On 14/05/2023 9:15 am, Noddy wrote:

>> Gerladine is a lovely little country town that is one of the last
>> "tourist" stops on the way to Mt.Cook, so if you're ever in that part
>> of the world I thoroughly recommend lunch at the bakery and a visit to
>> the museum.
>>
> If you go further south to Invercargill, there is a very nice motorcycle
> museum. From the look of their website, it has changed a bit since I was
> there in 2016, it was in a hardware shop then.
>
> https://www.motorcyclemecca.nz/museum-info/

Yep. I was there a bit before that and it was nothing like it is now.
The movie about Burt Monroe seems to have put it on the map.

Interestingly, John Britten's stuff seems to be scattered about a bit.
The display dedicated to him at the Invercargill Motorcycle Museum looks
impressive, but the motor home he built on an old International truck is
permanently based at the Geraldine Car Museum.

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On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 20:49:29 UTC+10, Noddy wrote:
> On 14/05/2023 5:14 pm, Keithr0 wrote:
> > On 14/05/2023 9:15 am, Noddy wrote:
>
> >> Gerladine is a lovely little country town that is one of the last
> >> "tourist" stops on the way to Mt.Cook, so if you're ever in that part
> >> of the world I thoroughly recommend lunch at the bakery and a visit to
> >> the museum.
> >>
> > If you go further south to Invercargill, there is a very nice motorcycle
> > museum. From the look of their website, it has changed a bit since I was
> > there in 2016, it was in a hardware shop then.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Its part of "transport World" now.. A place I haven`t been.
Meant to when I was last in Inver`s visiting my sister...Next time. Well worth the time apparently.
> >
> > https://www.motorcyclemecca.nz/museum-info/
> Yep. I was there a bit before that and it was nothing like it is now.
> The movie about Burt Monroe seems to have put it on the map.
>
> Interestingly, John Britten's stuff seems to be scattered about a bit.
> The display dedicated to him at the Invercargill Motorcycle Museum looks
> impressive, but the motor home he built on an old International truck is
> permanently based at the Geraldine Car Museum.
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Surprised it`s not in Invers..
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On 15/05/2023 4:44 pm, jonz@ nothere.com wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 20:49:29 UTC+10, Noddy wrote:

>> Interestingly, John Britten's stuff seems to be scattered about a bit.
>> The display dedicated to him at the Invercargill Motorcycle Museum looks
>> impressive, but the motor home he built on an old International truck is
>> permanently based at the Geraldine Car Museum.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Surprised it`s not in Invers..

No idea why it's in Geraldine. I did ask once how it came to be there
but the bloke I spoke to couldn't tell me anything more than "it was
donated"

<Shrug> It would certainly make more sense for it to be at the bike
museum as part of the Britten display, as it kind of looks out of place
at the Geraldine museum.

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Daryl wrote:
> On 14/5/2023 9:13 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
>>> ...........Clive Palmer is doing something good with all the money he
>>> stole from the Australian taxpayers and his long suffering employees:
>>>
>>> https://www.drive.com.au/news/clive-palmer-plans-100-million-car-museum-on-sunshine-coast-report/
>>>
>>> 1,200 cars.
>>
>> That would well and truely beat Lindsay Fox's version in Melbourne:
>> http://www.foxcollection.org.au/about-us.html
>
> Without knowing exactly what will be displayed at the Palmer car museum
> its impossible to say that it will beat the Fox collection, maybe in
> numbers but unknown if it could beat it for rarity and quality.
>

A Lightburn Zeta, a P76 and an AU Falcon?