umm, speed dail......

Believe it or not, it actually worked & was used to make calls.
The number was dialed on the press buttons & the conversation took place via the small speaker near the '6' button.

Wonder where it is now??

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Sorry just had to...

You honour me by using it as your avatar.

definitely a kodak moment!

Without trying to offend, you look a bit like a 70's porn star with that do!!

Dial 0 for 0rgasm!

That sounds more like a compliment to me.

I just realised that it is a porno shot... Max Power, Max speed... Did the phone have a vibrate setting?

Porn Star? Well eat your heart out, it worked for me
[I got their numbers]

this is just too funny!!!!

Mate looks like the phone didnt stop ringing. In reference to this link Worked For Me

I vaguely remember a couple of years ago that someone had found another pic [possibly of this mobile phone] in a workshop or shed in SA somewhere. Can any of the other members remember?

Thats awesom
Austin powers eat your heart out
YEAH BABY

Yes, It had been repainted in a similar, but slightly darker colour & it was in a collection or a museum, possibly/probably in South Australia.
EDIT Since determined to be a second vehicle & not the one I drove.

That would be I.

I found it in the 'National Motor Museum' in Birdwood, South Oz

I can dig up the photo if you like...



EDIT:

here she is....

Might as well. Add it into your post & keep the two together in the one thread.

just noticed the speaker you talk of is up near the 3 on the later discovered phone.
Also different wheels and different looking rear spoiler... and 2 extra buttons (that look like they have been added later and arent operational at a guess)

I wonder if perhaps there was a small fleet of them built? wonder how many are left?

You're right, it is different, & a carefull look will show quite a number of differences.

I also recall now that somebody had said that there were two of them, so this must be the other.
I don't believe that there was a fleet of them but the one I drove came with its own trailer & a truck to haul it was seconded from somewhere whenever they moved it to another area. It's home base was either Sydney or Canberra whenever it wasn't being used.

When the first of the press button phones were released they had ten buttons only. It was at least a year before the twelve button version became available & it may have been even longer.
This one must be the 'new & improved' model.

How the flick did Maxwell Smart get that into his shoe?? I prefer your one Dodgy. The red pinstripes are heaps better that the yellow stripes.

Nice amount of dish on the wheels on the SA mobile phone......

wicked pic dodgeman!! what were the specs on that beast?

The specs?

Fibreglass body [like a Corvette]
Open cockpit. [like a WW1 fighter]
Monoposto driving position [like a Formula 1 car]
Monocoque chassis [also like Formula 1 cars]
Rear engine [Like F1 again]
Air cooled boxer engine [like a Porche]
Wire mags & fat rubber [like all good hot cars had]

It had handling characteristics that had to be experienced to be believed & the handset went up & down just because it could.
What a chick magnet.

dude
that is just classic! That is definatly someting to tell the grandkids about.
When I was a young fellow, I drove a phone down the road....

So what is the actual engine or car?
What did it start out as?

And don't say phone...

Edit : Oh actually. It was a VW? yes?

The actual engine?
Well, ummm, errr, it's ummm a Porche-like advanced design particularly siuted to special purpose, specific performance,...... ahhh crap,... yes it's a VW on a shortened platform chassis with 3rd & 4th gear blocked out. It's flat out at about 25k with a restrictor under the carb to keep the pace down a bit.

Now there's a VW I like...

hey dodgeman
just out of interest (read as answer only if you want to) did you work for telstra?? If you did,(now this is a real stab in the dark) did you have anything to do with the optic fibre cable across the nullabor??

I started work with the PMG [Post Master General's department] at 7:30am on the 24th of January in 1966. They became Telecom Australia & then Telstra. I'm still there.
During the time of the Sydney - Melbourne optic fibre project i was the District Fleet Manager, based in Goulburn NSW & i was responsible for the vehicle, plant & equipment fleet for the O.F. team, but i had nothing to do with the Nullabor project

ok. my grandfather did a fair bit of work on the nullabor project, so i thought i'd take a stab in the dark and see if it was such a small world
He worked with telecom for many years as well, would have retired about 10-15 years ago.

time to dredge up this antique...

hehe very cool. Yes it's funny that phones didn't always have pushbuttons.

i would love to see that thing drift. 1981 i was born that year!