Meanwhile back with the lads surfing was the go and check out the Surf Chasers!
Prior to my joining the Group
The boys needed a suitable Surf-Chaser for their weekend forage to the coast, the Surf was calling.
The Pipe Line Pirates.
Ian, Tony, Phill, Dyke, and Ralston had a nine surfboard wrack mounted on the roof of a Nash sedan, Surf Chaser, nine board rack, Emblazoned on the sides, ‘Pipe Line Pirates’.
What’s in a name? Sadly get the wrong reaction from the rival contemporaries, one night after driving past a local dance venue for teenagers on North Terrace, the cry went out something to the sound of
‘Pipe Line Posers’.
Acute embarrassment, the order of the night, a new paint scheme for the Surf Chaser sought.
The Nash finished its day on the side of Willunga Hill after putting a con rod thru the side of the engine block. The boys left it in a farmer’s yard for quite a few months before toeing it away; replacement, a Plymouth sedan with a 6-board rack.
With the new chaser, the next surfing safari was planned for Daly Heads, a place I had recently visited with Roger, I was asked to show the Group the way, yes I’m in.
The Chaser, the Plymouth with a six-board wrack bolted right through the roof of the Plymouth’s was impressive.
This first of many trips to Daly Heads Yorks Peninsula, this trip I had intended to travel with the lads, however when enquiring about the setting of time, Loon said “midnight”, hence when I turned up a Loon’s place on the dot I discovered the boys had left already. I followed in my Mini, not the original plan a good move as it turned out.
I managed to catch them by Port Wakefield and was invited to show them the way to Daly Heads. Well! That set the trend of taking the first turn-off out of Minlaton for Warooka and inevitably being one turn-off too soon and adding a mystery element of where the F are we tours. Finding the Heads require crossing a farmer’s field of wheat to the beach. After a great weekend camping and surfing, the Plymouth had gearbox trouble which restricted the return speed to 30mph, as I had a need to be back in Adelaide before the boys the Mini was the go-and-go I did.
The search was always on for a suitable Surf-Chaser.
There was a Hearse in the Croydon area, great space in the back for Surfboards but only 2 seaters. Poo
(very near the type of Body they looked at)
Next, there was the Dodge, 1935 great looking car compact would be great but only a 4 seater very tight in the back seat. Poo Poo.
Then Derrick came up with the Surf-Chaser to drawl over the 1934 Plymouth in superb original condition, yes, please.
