for all you 120y guys... how would you like to add this to your collection?

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its at the national motor museum in birdwood, adelaide. no 1200's but this datto was immaculate.





i also found this in the same museum...

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interesting stuff i remember it popping up on this site some time ago.. i wonder if d'man knew where it was kept?





And on the way out of birdwood i found this..

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it was parked alone and looked to be one of the few unmolested 1200's out there.

i must say, the road out to birdwood was just as enjoyable as the car museum itself.
As was the road out to mt. lofty which i think was called greenhill rd or something similar to that.

i would have loved to drive those roads in my datto! nevermind, needless to say the hyundai getz (hire car)
that i was driving definately got a work out

its a lovely state you adelaide people have there. i look foreward to visiting again someday

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Some of the Classic Adelaide stages pass through there, also thats where some of our "1200 cruises" go.

I wanted to hold the latest cruise while you were here but time didn't permit... sorry.


Adam.

they have roads in adelaide?????

Yeah we have TV too!!


Good to hear you enjoyed the place ANGE.

nah that hill coming into and then out of adelaide to melbourne is a turbo cars dream all the way to the top...... just on boost all the way when i drove it near mt lofty i think it was

no problems adam

we all know what its like trying to get a few datto's together let alone trying to do it on short notice.

mik your not talking about that glen osmand freeway or whatever its called out to mt lofty are you?

the slight incline had the auto getz i was driving going up a gear, then down a gear, then up a gear, then down a gear, every 5 seconds just so it could hold 100kph on the speedo

i hate auto!


what was interesting was on the inbound side going downhill the kitty litter runoff areas they had set up in a couple of places which i presume are for heavy trucks who run out of brakes down the hill

i was tempted to try it out

thats he one ange... the familia did it with ease back in the day.... was fun too overtaking the smoke billowing excels too.

Well, by way of reply to Ange's PM, I gotta stay that it looks like the same one, but with new paint & flares. I suppose that it's possible that more than one was made, but I doubt it. [See the first post in this thread.]
That's me at the wheel, in Goulburn, back in about 1981 or so.

In the museum shot it looks like it was revamped after almost 20 years to do duty & fly the flag for the Sydney Olympics

"Telecom" back in the day used it for a promo ad on TV... Back in the mid eighties i think

It was used extensively in street parades. The handset would raise & lower as it drove along.
That's how come I was driving it. Lilac time festival in Goulburn.