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The closest I have to anything like that is this Continental R-670 pot. It has around 1500cc displacement and is in good nick despite the outside appearance. Has valves, rockers, pushrod tubes and exhaust header. It's got a coating of protective gunk inside covering what looks like a chrome bore. Unfortunately I don't have the machining skills of Al Hackel or the equipment to make a motor out of it. If I was mad enough I'd give it a crack. I doubt my little mill would have the accuracy for a job like that.

This bloke in the U.S., Al Hackel, built a custom chopper using a single pot from a Wright R975-46 9-cylinder radial engine. Displacement is around 1700cc, which is a pretty big thumper. He made the bottom end himself, conrod, crankcase, crankshaft etc., but got someone else to make the cam. It has a piston from a Continental engine. Mated to a Harley gearbox. This is his Instagram page on it for anyone interested: https://www.instagram.com/alhackel/ There's a short video on there of a bloke kickstarting it at a show.

Were there around a couple of hundred Indians sitting on top of the jets, expecting a free trip home? 😄

Ion Idriess books are all worthy reading, if a little dated today. There's a historian lady in Kalgoorlie (Moya Sharp) who has an amazing website covering the history of the Kalgoorlie Goldfields. It's mind-boggling what she's dug up. She originally had two women helpers, but it appears they have both passed on, so she's running it solely on her own now. She covers everything from tragedies, to family histories, to gold and lease scams and gold stealing, individual prospectors stories, train crashes, and histories of a multitude of Goldfields ghost towns. Some of the tragedies of the Goldfields would make you weep, especially the ones involving children. Life was hard and short for many, back in the "good old days". There are enough stories on this website to keep you occupied for months, if not years. I'm about to give her a few bucks to support her site, because she has done such an amazing job of recording the history of the Kalgoorlie region. https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/about/

Victoria used to produce a good Prospectors Guide. I have a couple of copies from different eras.

I have been to a military air show in India. Unpredictable, with no crowd line.

I've got a copy of the Ion Idriess book on prospecting for gold somewhere. Haven't read it in many years but I remember it as a good read.

My wife and I moved into this house with our two young toddler sons just before Christmas 1978. The temps were very high that year, so we had a reverse cycle wall mounted unit installed in the lounge room. We rarely used the heater function, because the house had ducted gas heating. In hot weather my wife used to sleep in the lounge room. The unit is still working and was a boon for my daughter last week.

This bloke needs help:

Here is a perfect example of why the tank needed help. This Ass is wearing a thong

What images like this?

We've got a big 3HP Mitsubishi reverse cycle air conditioner that cools virtually the whole house when it's running, and we keep the house closed up. The unit isn't that expensive to run, but we've got 6.8Kw of solar panels on the roof that do a good job of keeping the power bill down. The original unit went well for 18 years, then a power surge blew the circuit board in the A/C section on the inside wall. It effectively meant we had to scrap it. No-one would accept responsibility for the power surge. We know it was caused by tree loppers a few streets away, they dropped a limb over a power line, and when Western Power restored the power again, it surged and blew the board. WP refused point blank to accept any responsibility and our insurance company declined to pay for repairs or replacement, because the power line didn't fall on our property. So we had to wear the $1800 cost to replace the entire unit. We bought an identical unit, as the Mitsubishi A/C's we have, have performed so well. We have two other units in 2 bedrooms, they are 1HP each, and they have been in service since 2005 and still work admirably. Evaporative A/C's are alright up to a point, then you have to open up the house to get rid of the humidity buildup.

You mean to tell us? - that an image of Trump wasn't in the first results?? 😄