Rex hits a Roo at Mildura

[Geoff13]

Yes, I remember the "Super roo" Nev, I think it has an amusing logo sticker on each wing with a Kangaroo on wheels or something similar didn't it ?In fact when I lived in Vermont, my mate Pete rang me and told me he'd bought one and I was impressed as he was in his sixties then.

 

When I saw him later in the week, I asked him where the Capri was,. . .and he pointed to the tiny SOO BAROO on the driveway. . . .

Phil here in Oz those things that you call wings on cars, we call guards. You could confuse an aircraft forum if you start talking about wings on cars. One of the hardest concepts that I found to understand when I lived in Blighty in the 80's was wing mirrors.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Phil here in Oz those things that you call wings on cars, we call guards. You could confuse an aircraft forum if you start talking about wings on cars. One of the hardest concepts that I found to understand when I lived in Blighty in the 80's was wing mirrors.

I see what you mean Geoff,. . . the "Wing" mirror thing has pretty well disappeared from the lexicon nowadays, they're usually known as Door Mirrors now, makes some sense I guess. . . only older people use the wing description, ( apart from the front and rear corner / side panels of course ! )

 

Though I still think that "Bonnet" to describe the engine cowling sounds daft, bit of a throwback to when cars had huge lifting hinged access panels on both sides, which, when both were raised. looked from the front view, rather like a Bonnet . . .or HOOD ? and "Trunk" makes a lot more sense than "BOOT" imho. . .

 

Yep,. . .Us, the Aussies and the Yanks are divided by a common language !

 

 

[Geoff13]

Yes we are divided but these one of that group of three have gotten it correct. LOL

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Yes we are divided but these one of that group of three have gotten it correct. LOL

AWWW Geoff, that's nice of you to admit that,. . .gives me a warm fuzzy feelin' inside. . . . . .

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

 

The Super Roo. Started life on the XW GT Falcon. I don't remember any Capris that were badged with them. That's not to say none were. Only Mk 1's came into the country in parts and were assembled here.

 

My Uncle had a red 3lt V6 GT Capri. Had a great exhaust note, went like a scalded cat. Lots of fun on the dirt AMP forest roads around the Stroud area. Insurance payments were the killer. Must be worth a fair bit these days.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

The Super Roo. Started life on the XW GT Falcon. I don't remember any Capris that were badged with them. That's not to say none were. Only Mk 1's came into the country in parts and were assembled here.

 

My Uncle had a red 3lt V6 GT Capri. Had a great exhaust note, went like a scalded cat. Lots of fun on the dirt AMP forest roads around the Stroud area. Insurance payments were the killer. Must be worth a fair bit these days.

Yes,. . . .I remember the logo,. . .my friend Dave Pendry had them on his custard yellow Holden Monaro ( for a bit of a stir said he. . . ) don't know how he did that,. . .must have paid a good signwriter ! I'd doubt if Ford sold stickers over the counter back then ? ? ? His were altered so that the "Roo" was facing forward on both front wing panels ( Sorry Geoff- GUARDS )

 

 

[PA.]

They come as a matched pair.

 

Ebay link.

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Yes there is a left and right side . They certainly were used on the GT 300o V6 Capri. I bought one new in 1970 and a second hand one some years later. Basically an over engined stretched Escort with good lines and reasonable handling. A V8 engined version was built in South Africa and the base model had the 1600 x flow Cortina engine. Nev

 

 

[Oscar]

Sydney Allard built a turbo V6 Capri 'kit' as a limited production hot-rod, that was faster than the then top-line Porsche 911, with a highly innovative turbo set-up that reduced the (at the time, 'normal' ) huge turbo-lag by having a 2 1/2" SU carby set up with a solenoid that opened on throttle lift-off and provided a by-pass to remove back-pressure on the turbo. However, he would not sell them unless the prospective owners added his modification to decrease the Capri bump-steer issue. Sydney was a bit of a 'wide boy', and his experience at a Lake Como car show is the stuff of legend.. and a great story.

 

A family member has fond memories of a V6 Capri managing to pull a Blanik on a trailer from a flooded-out glider comp. many years ago; through several miles of flood plain. The rain had hit the comp and flooded the field to several inches, which caused a large number of very big centipedes to exit the ground inside their tent, at which point he and his mate decided to bugger off. They had to do the old 'remove the fan belt' trick to keep running, but the Capri plugged on and got them eventually to higher ground.

 

I had an XW GT with a full-race blueprinted Windsor in it, ex Paul Gulson's Bathurst car, and HO Phase 1 suspension. It went like the clappers... and had the Super-roo stickers, which looked completely out of place on a deep metallic-olive green car with a caramel-coloured vinyl roof. The only better point-to-point car I ever owned was a Jag. XJ12, and the XW was more fun to drive -and more economical.

 

With respect to the V6 Capri, the XW was 'solid'; my memories of the V6 Capri was that it was 'interesting' and a bit quirky, and somewhat too easily put off-line by bumps - at BOTH ends. The SuperRoo stickers were a bit of a warning.. on a long sweeper at high speed that wasn't dead smooth, it would HOP, and you needed to anticipate where to point the front wheels when it landed.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

They come as a matched pair.Ebay link.

 

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Thanks for that PA. . . . Obviously my mate Dave didn't have the "Ford" bit of the badge on his car, . . . since his motor was a GM Holden product !

 

( I couldn't check it out on Ebay in 1971, as the local WIFI coverage wasn't very good in Vermont. . .)

 

Phil.

 

 

[rankamateur]

This incident could have been so much worse!

 

 

We are lucky roos only have short necks.

 

 

[onetrack]

I could imagine a camel would be our Aussie equivalent of a giraffe. Never heard of a camel-strike by an aircraft, but that could be, because camels might have a little more intelligence than giraffes.

 

I've rarely seen camels hit at all, apart from one clobbered by a Greyhound coach in the middle of the night on the Nullarbor in the early 1970's. It made a real mess of the bus, killed the camel, too.

 

Camels-2.jpg by Ron N

 

 

[storchy neil]

hey onetrack them camels walk with spacing off 8ft so as the coaches go between them that's why you aint seen many dead neil

 

 

[Pearo]

Last year when I rode my motorcycle across to WA, I was chatting to a truck driver at noremsan who hit a camel at night! He said it bent the chassis on the truck.

 

I have hit a roo on the Motorcycle, that was bad enough....

 

 

[Keith Page]

Mildura Airport is surrounded by fences, so it’s not known how the kangaroo made it on to the tarmac.

Hope he had his ASIC card with him, or he's gonna be in a lotta trouble

Imagine that fence is a bit like the rabbit fence.

KP.

 

 

[rankamateur]

I have hit a roo on the Motorcycle, that was bad enough....

I have too, I distinctly remember as a 17 year old, flying trough the air thinking, "I wonder am I about to die?".

 

 

[zodiacpilot]

If it is a ASIC fence then it only goes half way around the airport.

Yep, its a ASIC fence, I personally have gotten out of my car & climbed thru the fence near the threshold of 36 & walked to the hangars, just to prove how bloody irrelevent a ASIC is!