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CraziestOzzy

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Posted: 06:46am 03 Mar 2009

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...just kidding about the title...but I did see a bad-ass small camper van driving along the main road through town today, with a huge windmill sticking up from the back turning very happily

Edited by CraziestOzzy 2009-03-04

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Dinges
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Posted: 10:06am 03 Mar 2009

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Did it have Tasmanian license plates and was there a

sitting behind the steering wheel?

If so, I think I've just figured out Oztules' latest OU scheme.

Peter.

oztules

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Posted: 12:48pm 03 Mar 2009

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Curses, found out again!!

Village idiot...or... just another hack out of his depth

Dinges
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Posted: 05:00pm 03 Mar 2009

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No worries Oz - I won't spill the beans.

Actually, I was hoping for you to sell me a dealership license...

Peter.
(with $-signs in his eyes)

Bryan1

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Posted: 07:19am 04 Mar 2009

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oztules said Curses, found out again!!

Next time your out for a drive in that van Oz make sure my bloody leash isn't still attached.

From a bruised an battered Mutley....

DaViD

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Posted: 05:42pm 04 Mar 2009

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You fellas arn't right at all!!!!! BUT I KIKE YA!!!!!

If your not living on the edge your taking up to much space!

DaViD

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Posted: 05:45pm 04 Mar 2009

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oops should have read I LIKE YA!!!!!
I'm not right either I guess

If your not living on the edge your taking up to much space!

eirbyte

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Posted: 09:45pm 04 Mar 2009

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Hi feel bad for not posting for a while and now after months of testing I can let you all see our wind powered transit.

(Photo shows lock down mode as we are parked)

It works best on our west coast when we go north -south we have it on the right side and then change it to the left side for coming back up north again.

We are still trying to work out a automatic system for moving it any ideas

We get around 25wh to the European kilometer mile thing

All the best
Jimmy

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GWatPE

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Posted: 11:05pm 04 Mar 2009

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In Aus, we have trouble with rego for tyres and bumpers, that are outside the body line of the vehicle. Don't know how this contraption would go as a permanent arrangement.

Gordon.

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CraziestOzzy

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Posted: 11:11pm 04 Mar 2009

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eirbyte, that's a dead-ringer for the van I saw, except the mill was on the back "powering" the van

I would personally put that mill you have on the back and use a sliding rail to slide the mill onto the roof rack when you need access to the rear doors.

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