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Holden's VK Commodore launched in 1984. This monor update on the six year old V-Car body saw the introduction of '6-window' styling - a fixed window which ford part of the C-Pillar. The VK also received large, dark-silver-grey polymer bumpers front and rear, along with clear turn signals at the front, and darkened taillamp lenses at the rear.
Mechanically, the car was largely carryover from engine used for many years under various Holden model bonnets. This was to be the last model though, using the old Holden 'black engine' straight-six powerplants. In the base SL, this used carburetored fuel metering, and produced 86 kW (115 hp).
Said engine in this VK SL, owned by Ben, had, somehow, cracked a piston, and I was asked whether or not I thought I could bring the engine back to functioning condition. Always interested in a challenge, I said 'yes'.
Now, these things are never straightforward, particularly when you are an engineering student rather than a mechanic (who has tools), so I ran into numerous troubles. These included a head that was stuck down on the block. (actually it wasn't, but a Holden iron-headed inline six is remarkably heavy). Also, removing the sump ended up being a car-jack based exercise. And also, the drawing out of the cracked piston.
Chief question was could the bore be tidied up enough to hold decent compression, so I spent quite a lot of time, sitting in the engine bay with a honing tool attached to an electric drill, cleaning it up.
Proof was in the pudding, putting it all back together again.
Another lesson, learned. You should probably label and tag everything you disconnect so that you can put it back together again properly. But it did work, so that's something.
A couple of month's later a group of us went out to the cinema, returning to an empty parking spot, and no VK. I am not sure what film we had all just watched, but for some reason we all burst out laughing.
The VK was recovered, but Ben's tools in the luggage compartment had all been stolen, and were not recovered.
Call sign: Blackjack Red One.
Hawker Hunter XG194 was delivered to the RAF on October 3rd 1956. Flown by Air Commodore Roger Topp, C.O. of 111 Sqn, she was the lead aircraft in the world famous Black Arrows Display Team when they performed a 22 aircraft loop at Farnborough Air show in July 1958.
Wattisham Airfield Museum has named her ‘Blackjack’ in honour of Air Commodore Topp as Blackjack Red One was his call sign whilst performing this record breaking manoeuvre.
Artifact no.: 1996.0114
Manufacturer: Commodore Business Machines Ltd., Agincourt, Ontario, Canada
1983
This PC was manufactured in Canada by Commodore Business Machines Ltd. of Agincourt, Ontario.
Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca
Photo credit: CSTMC
Commodore 64
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
The trawler Commodore in drydock in Ballard at the Pacific Fishermen shipyard. The patches on the hull and designs and colours on the fence attracted me, as well as the way she dominates everything around her. Couldn't quite get the intensity of those patches with watercolour, maybe better done with opaque medium, gouache or oils—or oil pastel.
Based on the general duties Commodore, these two cars will receive discreet lightbars and markings to blend in with traffic on the open roads better.
Camera used: Beirette vsn
Film used: Kentmere Pan 100
Location: My bedroom!
For a very short period, this was the best selling CD-based video game console....
The Commodore Mine complex of four mine buildings above Creede was served by the railroad. In April 1891, the Commodore claim was staked by John C. Mackenzie. The mine consists of 5 levels with almost 200 miles of tunnels and underground workings lying within the mine. The photo shows portals and support buildings to the left of the ore house and chutes. The Commodore is the southern most mine lying on the Amethyst Vein and was last mined in 1976, a span of nearly 85 years of production.
Commodore SX-64 displaying the Reddit r/retrobattlestations BASIC Week 2: Halloween Boogaloo code that I ported. Halloween is my favorite, if you couldn't tell. The yellow cart on top is a Chameleon cart which is a multipurpose utility cartridge that enhances the C64 greatly including giving you VGA output and an SD card slot.
Get the code and more at my blog:
Condor Ferries Ro/Ro ferry Commodore Goodwill passing the Spitbank Fort in the Solent as it heads into Porstmouth at the end of it's journey from Guernsey.
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
The first computer I ever had was a Commodore VIC 20 that me and my brother got for Christmas in 1982. We got it with some books and some magazines, but no games and no cassette drive at first. So all we could do was type in the game examples from the books, try the game, and loose it all when we turned it off. On top of that it broke after about three days (some hardware error, not our fault), so we had to send it in for repairs. Probably took a month or so before we got it back.
Since we got no software with it, just the book with games and the magazines me and my brother took turn to type in the games that were listed. That way I learned both to type and the basics of BASIC. Didn't take very long before I made my own games for it. One was even so big that it filled up the entire 3K of available RAM....
when the green lit it made this amazing buzzing sound (which probably has to do with the dim portion of the sign)
you may remember this.
Other than Rod K., my heroes of cool have got to be these guys. I can never look this awesome, even if I was standing behind a glowing cross and walls of Marshall amps.
Note: Some of you may know my misery regarding when Justice first came to Vancouver. I brought my wide angle lens and was denied by security because I had a "professional camera" (oh please). So tonight I brought my stalker lens and had a rematch with Justice hitting up the Commodore Ballroom. Sweet.
A very late PET from 1982, the year Commodore discontinued the PET line.
It's a 4032, with 32kilobytes of RAM, and a 9" monitor.
Visible to the right is a CBM 2040 disk drive, each disk could hold up to 170k!
How far we've come. I'm looking for the IE-488 cable needed to connect the drives to the computer, anybody got one hanging around?
COMMODORE ENTERPRISE : IMO 7631042
Built 1977 by Appledore Shipbuilders UK, yard No as118
Launch Date: 28 Oct 1977 and Completed: Nov 1977
Tons: 1246GRT / DWT: 3171
Length overall:95.2M x Beam: 13.8M
Machinery, Single Screw, Engine: Mirrlees Blackstone 4 stroke 6 cyl : Speed 13knots
Subsequent Names and History
1977: COMMODORE ENTERPRISE – Commodore Transporters Ltd., Portsmouth,
1987: SCOTT SURVIVOR – Sheedy Shipping Corp.Monrovia, Haugesund
1988: SCOTT SURVIVOR – K/S A/S Tramarin, Haugesund.
1988: SCOTT SURVIVOR – K/S A/S Norscon , Haugesund.
1992: COMMODORE S – K/S A/S Norscon , Haugesund.
1993: COMMODORE S – Amina A/S., Haugesund.
1994: CONTINENTAL ALPHA – Amina A/S., Haugesund.
1994: VICTORIA - Amina A/S, Haugesund.
1994: re-engined, Wichmann 4 stroke 8 cylinder: Speed 13 knots / re-measured, now 2764 GRT - 3283 DWT
1999: VICTORIA – Amina A/S. , Bridgetown.
2001: VICTORIA – Amina A/S., Bridgetown
2002: WILSON FJORD – Wilson Ship Management (Bergen) A/S., Bridgetown
2015: MALK M - Range Shipmanagement Ltd, Giurgiulesti
2017: MALK M - East Shipping Lines Ltd, Giurgiulesti
2019 : Still extant