When electric vehicles revert to type

Surely John Swanton of Coogee isn’t the lone 1 to bash a treble instrumentality erstwhile noticing that the Build Your Dreams electrical cars are badged with the letters BYD. “At archetypal glimpse I thought it work BYO. Cheers!”

“Don Leayr’s 30 shillings to capable his Volkswagen (C8) with substance whitethorn not beryllium specified a bargain,” claims Peter Dougherty of Grafton. “Back then, a middy of brew was a tick implicit a shilling, truthful 30 shillings bought 30 middies. At $5 oregon truthful arsenic they are now, you request $150. That magnitude would surely overfill his car. Incidentally, I had my archetypal brew successful 1950 astatine Tattersalls Hotel successful Armidale. The middy outgo 10 pence.”

“Those foot-operated levers for the Volkswagen Beetle reserve substance proviso were great,” reckons Peter Cole of Narrabeen. “Except erstwhile your woman utilized it the erstwhile time and didn’t archer you. Beetlemania!”

“Looking to the future, tin anyone suggest a look for AUKUS biscuits?” requests Jim Pollitt of Wahroonga.

So overmuch messing with mediocre aged East Ryde (C8). Peter Miniutti of Ashbury says: “My household moved to East Ryde backmost successful the ’60s erstwhile it was known arsenic the “Dress Circle Estate”. Much fancier than “Belair”. Granny was going to suggest changing it to Ryde Heights but unfortunately, that sanction has been taken by Houston’s “premier indoor cycling studios” and appears to beryllium inhabited by immoderate of the astir annoying radical you volition ever see.

“Marauding cockies (C8) are the crushed my religion nary longer has a steeple,” asserts Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “Many years agone an unholy riot of these birds nipped, chipped, ripped and stripped its woody operation into unsightly instability, truthful that what was near had to beryllium removed.”

Ken Finlayson of East Corrimal can’t ideate twice-daily station (C8): “Living successful the bush 20 miles from Armidale successful the aboriginal ’50s, our message was delivered via equine and sulky, 3 times a week. Now, successful suburbia, it seems we are returning to that frequency.” Conversely, Philip Cross of Robina (Qld), presently successful Japan, has noticed their reddish station bureau boxes. “They bare them doubly connected Sundays and nationalist holidays. Otherwise, it’s 3 times a day. And precise times, similar 11:03am.”

“When did the Kokoda Trail go the Kokoda Track?” asks John Elmgreen of Mosman. “Have they upgraded it, to a ‘track’, to marque it easier for middle-aged leaders of countries to traverse?”

Column8@smh.com.au

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