How to get a set of NOS Wasp hubcaps in 20 easy steps....
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:35 pm
Needless to say, this has been edited down from last time.
1) Drive through a small country town off the highway with a closed up Holden dealership and peer in through the window.
2) Ensure to wet yourself with excitement when you see the two hubcaps on the wall inside.
3) Go home and think about how you will get them for two months.
4) Buy a trailer off eBay
5) Buy an Isuzu Unicab via private sources.
6) Drive to Yarrawonga to pick up said trailer, drive to Murchison to pick up said Unicab, then to Wallan to drop it off at 65Bellett's place.
7) Drive to Richmond to see your sister.
8) Drive to Philip Island. Bring beer.
9) Get rowdy with PR91, 2lDOHC and a few other punters. Please ensure that four-out-of-five Bellett.net moderaters are nowhere near a computer for at least three days.
10) Watch awesome historic racing cars; the buzzy RX2s jousting with each other in the 'under 3.0 litre class' (I think) were the pick for excitement, but seeing the R32 GTRs face off against the old VL Walkinshaws was also a grand thing to behold.
11) Receive a phone call from GToo who says, "Uh, yeah, uh, hi Dave. Uh, someone's put some stuff on Bellett.net that, uh, is... well fairly explicit". In response, tell Ross 2lDOHC, who then rings Antus, who removes said post.
12) THERE IS NO NUMBER 12! Nothing to see here. Move along. There was never a number 12. What you talkin' 'bout Willis? I didn't see nothing.
13) Leave Philip Island, drive to Wallan to pick up the trailer and Unicab, then drive home to Adelaide.
14) Stop in said town off the highway to show Ross the dealership.
15) Speak to someone in Thrifty Link hardware across the road, who just gives you the owner's name and address, no questions asked.
16) Visit the owner and explain that you really would like to buy the hubcaps coz this weird half-finished jeep on your trailer uses the same hubcaps and you have a ute at home that uses them as well. Impress him with your knowledge by stating that they are probably Isuzu KB hubcaps as the Wasp wasn't sold through Holden and while the Chevrolet LUV was, it has a Chev badge embossed on it. Careful inspection of an Isuzu KB brochure will reveal they essentially returned to Wasp hubcaps in about 1978, but only for a short time until the Holden Rodeo came out.
17) Try not to fall over when he offers to give you the hubcaps in exchange for getting a second-hand fridge off his trailer for him.
18) Get a tour of the dealership, get mildly disappointed when the only other Isuzu items he still has in stock are diesel oil filters and the bottom half of a seat belt for a Rodeo, but bask in your own smugness when you find that the hubcaps say "KB" on texta on the back of them.
19) Walk out with a huge grin having met a nice guy who was happy to share his former glories with you. He had some cool stories about when he was dealer principle of the place, including a meeting with Isuzu when Holden wanted to discontinue the WB 1-tonner. He said "Look guys, what we need is a car that is exactly the same as what we've already got; sedan comfort, 1-tonne capacity and big motors." They said...."Hmm, it will take around 10 years from start to finish to design that". So we got the Rodeo, which was truck comfort and handling an a reliable but slow package!
20) Blast to the border, sucking down gas at 22l/100k's at 110-120km/h coz you want to get home before midnight.
21) Get home before midnight having bought a car and a trailer, gotten drunk and hungover, watched cars racing, had lunch with Colin Bond, Harry Firth, Kevin Bartlett, Jimmy Richards and Sir Jack Brabham (at seperate tables, not making eye contact with the hairy man who schemed his way in to the VIP lunch), caught up with some mates and finally, got two NOS Wasp hubcaps for the price of lifting a fridge off a trailer and $250 worth of LPG!
1) Drive through a small country town off the highway with a closed up Holden dealership and peer in through the window.
2) Ensure to wet yourself with excitement when you see the two hubcaps on the wall inside.
3) Go home and think about how you will get them for two months.
4) Buy a trailer off eBay
5) Buy an Isuzu Unicab via private sources.
6) Drive to Yarrawonga to pick up said trailer, drive to Murchison to pick up said Unicab, then to Wallan to drop it off at 65Bellett's place.
7) Drive to Richmond to see your sister.
8) Drive to Philip Island. Bring beer.
9) Get rowdy with PR91, 2lDOHC and a few other punters. Please ensure that four-out-of-five Bellett.net moderaters are nowhere near a computer for at least three days.
10) Watch awesome historic racing cars; the buzzy RX2s jousting with each other in the 'under 3.0 litre class' (I think) were the pick for excitement, but seeing the R32 GTRs face off against the old VL Walkinshaws was also a grand thing to behold.
11) Receive a phone call from GToo who says, "Uh, yeah, uh, hi Dave. Uh, someone's put some stuff on Bellett.net that, uh, is... well fairly explicit". In response, tell Ross 2lDOHC, who then rings Antus, who removes said post.
12) THERE IS NO NUMBER 12! Nothing to see here. Move along. There was never a number 12. What you talkin' 'bout Willis? I didn't see nothing.
13) Leave Philip Island, drive to Wallan to pick up the trailer and Unicab, then drive home to Adelaide.
14) Stop in said town off the highway to show Ross the dealership.
15) Speak to someone in Thrifty Link hardware across the road, who just gives you the owner's name and address, no questions asked.
16) Visit the owner and explain that you really would like to buy the hubcaps coz this weird half-finished jeep on your trailer uses the same hubcaps and you have a ute at home that uses them as well. Impress him with your knowledge by stating that they are probably Isuzu KB hubcaps as the Wasp wasn't sold through Holden and while the Chevrolet LUV was, it has a Chev badge embossed on it. Careful inspection of an Isuzu KB brochure will reveal they essentially returned to Wasp hubcaps in about 1978, but only for a short time until the Holden Rodeo came out.
17) Try not to fall over when he offers to give you the hubcaps in exchange for getting a second-hand fridge off his trailer for him.
18) Get a tour of the dealership, get mildly disappointed when the only other Isuzu items he still has in stock are diesel oil filters and the bottom half of a seat belt for a Rodeo, but bask in your own smugness when you find that the hubcaps say "KB" on texta on the back of them.
19) Walk out with a huge grin having met a nice guy who was happy to share his former glories with you. He had some cool stories about when he was dealer principle of the place, including a meeting with Isuzu when Holden wanted to discontinue the WB 1-tonner. He said "Look guys, what we need is a car that is exactly the same as what we've already got; sedan comfort, 1-tonne capacity and big motors." They said...."Hmm, it will take around 10 years from start to finish to design that". So we got the Rodeo, which was truck comfort and handling an a reliable but slow package!
20) Blast to the border, sucking down gas at 22l/100k's at 110-120km/h coz you want to get home before midnight.
21) Get home before midnight having bought a car and a trailer, gotten drunk and hungover, watched cars racing, had lunch with Colin Bond, Harry Firth, Kevin Bartlett, Jimmy Richards and Sir Jack Brabham (at seperate tables, not making eye contact with the hairy man who schemed his way in to the VIP lunch), caught up with some mates and finally, got two NOS Wasp hubcaps for the price of lifting a fridge off a trailer and $250 worth of LPG!
