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Old 10-01-2014, 06:57 PM   #121
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That was a bit of a sign of the times you can still see with some old abandoned servos...they had a small hotel attached.
It used to be an awful lot further between servos back then, and roads weren't as good (as surprising as that may seem in some places...). A long trip could take a long time as people didn't generally try to drive as far in a day back then. I still remember when I was a kid in the seventies as we drove up north from Nambour to Innisfail to see family there. It would take maybe three days, staying overnight somewhere twice, and during the day you just didn't keep barrelling along, it was about the trip as much as the destination, as corny as that sounds.
I still get nostalgic as we travel along Highway One and see old roadside rest areas where I remember us stopping off for sandwiches and drinks from an old esky and a cuppa, with plenty of other families stopping off for the midday meal, people talking with strangers about where they were going and where they'd been.

Holy crap I sound like an old fart...but they were good times.

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Old 13-01-2014, 01:55 AM   #122
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I remember as a kid stopping at a Golden Fleece restaurant every time the family drove to Ballarat from Melbourne to visit relatives. Prime dining of a cheese sandwich and milk. As kids we looked forward to it. Much better than the McDonalds option these days...
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Old 14-06-2015, 09:22 AM   #123
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Ham steak and pineapple from the Golden Fleece in Dimboola!
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https://www.caltexcareers.com.au/int...linetrans.html
Caltex. It's a name, a star, that first appeared in Australia in the same year we ... Caltex acquired Golden Fleece in 1981 and merged with AMPOL in 1995.
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Old 14-06-2015, 07:22 PM   #125
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were there ampol servo's? vague in my memory remember the mobile service station
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were there ampol servo's? vague in my memory remember the mobile service station
they were pretty much everywhere until the 90's. There's a couple of websites that have old servo's in them. flikr and http://pastlivesofthenearfuture.com/tag/ampol/
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they were pretty much everywhere until the 90's. There's a couple of websites that have old servo's in them. flikr and http://pastlivesofthenearfuture.com/tag/ampol/
We drove past that old Ampol at Narrandera just last week on the way to the Gold Coast.
Interesting that it sold recently and a DA was submitted for reuse as a service station.
From memory there was a large Caltex almost next to it?
Also saw a Golden Fleece sign at an old but still operating servo. It wasnt prominent more hidden by trees. Cant remember exactly which town, somewhere on the Newell.
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they were pretty much everywhere until the 90's. There's a couple of websites that have old servo's in them. flikr and http://pastlivesofthenearfuture.com/tag/ampol/
Still a few around, one I past the other day in Beresfield https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32....i6656?hl=en-GB
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Who remembers the old fyna or fina, can't remember the spelling, between Sunbury and Gisborne? Also SOLO servos. On Milleara rd. Those were the days.
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Old 14-06-2015, 08:54 PM   #130
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I took this photo after filling up my Olden in 2011... but it could have been 1982.
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I used to love the old time roadhouses. As a kid we used to do trips to Canberra to visit family, we lived in East Gippsland. We would go via Cann River. The roadhouse there had the best burgers going so we always stopped there on the way home. I recall it was a Mobil servo.

On the way up we ate at Bombala. Back then you did not attempt the Cann Valley Highway with a carload of kids with full stomachs!!
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Who remembers the old fyna or fina, can't remember the spelling, between Sunbury and Gisborne? Also SOLO servos. On Milleara rd. Those were the days.
Thats the derelict building in South Gisborne on the old Calder fwy, just off the new freeway. Fina. A local car club has bought it and is converting it into club rooms.
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Old 15-06-2015, 09:42 AM   #133
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My late uncle spent a lot of his working life (after the war) as a tanker driver with Golden Fleece. He actually started with them when they were the Purr Pull Petrol Company. His shed has so many Golden Fleece tins, drums, bottles and artefacts mostly in excellent condition.
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Old 15-06-2015, 12:23 PM   #134
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Always stopped at the Golden Fleece on long trips. Pretty sure there were still some around in the late 80s, I'm sure I remember stopping when we were house hunting around 85-87.
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Old 15-06-2015, 12:47 PM   #135
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Another possible forgotten servo branding was Esso. Back when you would buyreplacement bulbs over the counter instead of a pastry
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Another possible forgotten servo branding was Esso. Back when you would buyreplacement bulbs over the counter instead of a pastry
A good mate of my Dad had an Esso servo in town. A full workshop which sold spare parts and a forecourt attendant. He also sold Esso branded tyres which I'm sure were made by Uniroyal.

My dad got his first set of Steel Belted Esso Radials on his HQ Holden, he thought he was so cutting edge!!
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Drive past this occasionally.
Tempted to ask how much they want for it, but suspect they get asked 10x a day.

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Oh and I also want this sign (different town)

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If thats the old Ford dealer I think it is, it still has faded ads in the window for the new Ford Telstar and Meteor. If its not, there is at least one more of those signs out there on a long abandoned Ford dealership.
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Old 13-08-2017, 08:03 AM   #140
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Hi, I've got a "Golden Fleece" reps car it's a Golden Fleece XB coupe, it's blue not yellow but seeming we are on topic about this I'm not sure how rare it is ,does anyone know , also paint colour is "YO44 (blue)which I can't find on any sites can anyone help me out?
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2 year old thread reopened....WAHOO welcome in stranger
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Hi, I've got a "Golden Fleece" reps car it's a Golden Fleece XB coupe, it's blue not yellow but seeming we are on topic about this I'm not sure how rare it is ,does anyone know , also paint colour is "YO44 (blue)which I can't find on any sites can anyone help me out?
Someone in the Classic section may be able to help.

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Still a few around, one I past the other day in Beresfield https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32....i6656?hl=en-GB
That's interesting I grew up in that street. That garage was a Mobil when I was a kid there was an Esso across the road also a Neptune 300 meters down the road and a shell beyond that but at that time it was the new England highway before Beresfield was bypassed .
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Hi, I've got a "Golden Fleece" reps car it's a Golden Fleece XB coupe, it's blue not yellow but seeming we are on topic about this I'm not sure how rare it is ,does anyone know , also paint colour is "YO44 (blue)which I can't find on any sites can anyone help me out?
Dulux code EY044 is indeed 'Golden Fleece Blue' with Dulux reference number 04227. No idea how rare is is but I wouldn't imagine there'd be too many of them around mate!
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One of the guys at work was telling me years ago they went away on a family holiday and stopped in a town for breakfast. The kids wanted to go to Maccas for breakfast, so he gave them some money, him and the boss went across the road to a roadhouse. The kids finished and came across to the roadhouse just as their breakfast was being brought out to them, the kids couldn't believe the size of the serve and it was cheaper than Maccas. Next day they all had breakfast together in a roadhouse.
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There was two Golden Fleece servos in the area I grew up, Whitehorse Road Box Hill which was the Atlas Taxi Depot and and another the corner of Belmore Road and Kalonga Rds Mont Albert North. This was the local Ampol https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...9823994&type=3pol
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