Running On Empty

With fuel prices through the roof, here's how to save up to 40 per cent on consumption.

Profile Hamish & Andy

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, afternoon DJs on Sydney's 2DayFM, have spoken to a lot of famous people over the years. But not everyone. "If Jesus came back, I'd love to have him on the show," says Andy. Their plans for the show are simple. "Not to lose it," says Andy. "And squeeze a few more Pink and Pussycat Dolls songs onto the air," adds Hamish. But if the show ended tomorrow, life for the comedic duo would be far from dull. "I'd probably be fitting roof racks on cars. I'm hoping to get back ...

Leading A Close-knit Community

IT was the surfboard and roof-rack on the mayoral limousine that tipped, well, at least one resident over the edge.

A Rack Of Refugees

LAST week in this place I reproduced a classified ad I wrote for The Age Classifieds in 1967. The gist of it was that I had a Vauxhall Victor roof-rack for sale. Such was the market for second-hand Vauxhall Victor roof-racks at the time that I had not one inquiry.

Happy Hookers Hope To Encounter Some Snapper Snapping

THE holiday roads will be chockers with happy hookers towing boats, carrying beach rods on their roof racks or with the tips protruding perilously from windows, hoping the long weekend delivers tight lines and plenty of fish for the frying.

Good Signs All Along The Coast

SO you've battled your way to your not-so-secret Easter holiday destination, bought some bait, taken the rods off the roof racks and have the tackle in the cane creel. Where to now? At Coffs Harbour there are spotted and Spanish mackerel and pan-sized snapper offshore. The estuaries have big fla

Instant Boats Just Add Water

Portable boats are just the thing for exploring. Pack one with the luggage and you're away. THE bionic boat has plastic limbs with metal bones. Its four body parts can be taken off the roof of the four-wheel-drive and assembled in minutes, to create a giant aquatic insect. Seated in its thora

Kidnap Fear Over Boy

HOBART: A witness's sighting, enhanced by hypnotherapy, has given Tasmanian police a lead on what they now fear was the abduction of a nine-year-old boy south of Hobart. The witness saw a boy near a white Holden Commodore station wagon with silver roof-racks and black-on-yellow numberplate

It's Time For Winter Games

WINTER. The season when many a young man's heart turns to snow. Let me confess, though, that I have never been personally afflicted. I sit back and watch as my well-heeled friends go through their strange winter ski-rituals. With chains on their tyres and skis on their roof racks, they battle t

Car Roof Bars Weak And Dangerous, Tests Show

ADELAIDE: Many roof bars sold for family cars in Australia are dangerously inadequate, tests by the Royal Automobile Association have revealed. Not one of 48 roof-bar brands could pass a standard "light load" of 35 kilograms when fitted to a Holden Commodore roof, the RAA's chief