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How Many Zippers in Oz

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:02 pm
by Top Gunner14
I'm just wondering on how many zippers there are on our shores. These are all the ones i know of:

Bad Ass-Shorts
Young's-under refurbishment
Mean Mother-Johney Castle
Davis(blue cars, yellow spine)
Zacchini's
Wittingslow's ex(on there new website, they have one, is this true :?: )

Are there any others i've missed? And also with young's zipper, it won't be out for a while, my mate from school who's aunty is one of the boss' said they are refurbishing it themselves

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:28 pm
by Hurricane
We have the following Zippers In Australia

Johnny Castles MEAN MOTHER Zipper
Youngs Zipper
Shorts Bad Ass Zipper
Davis's Blue Zipper (ex wittingslow unit)
Zacchini's Zipper

So 5 of them

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:32 pm
by Top Gunner14
I was told the davis one used to be owned by john phelan and ashley cosgrove. So whats going on here :?:

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:31 am
by illusions
yes davis's zipper was phelans zipper but phelan sold it to dean wat else do you need to know lol its a zipper

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:56 pm
by zipperdude22
its the zipper lol what dont you want to know about one of mans greatest creations!!!!!

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:12 pm
by Top Gunner14
Illusions, everyone else is sayin' that it was wittingslow's and then they sold it to davis. It is one of man's best inventions!!!

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:05 pm
by illusions
i can tell you that john phelan owned the zipper before davis's. lol i think you blokes need to get a hobby!!!!

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:13 pm
by Top Gunner14
Yeh, i know that's all ur tellin' us. Look, i'm just confused cause a couple of other people are saying it's wittingslow's ex and that they sold it to Davis. All i'm asking is 4 the facts. And i was told by my mate who works with phelan that they owned that zipper.

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:22 pm
by illusions
yes john phelan sold the zipper to dean davis last year. wittingslows could have owned it before john im not sure about that but john sold the zipper to dean......

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:46 pm
by Top Gunner14
Ok. Thanx illusions. Didn't mean 2 stur u up

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:48 pm
by princess
By the way Illusions I am a girl (lady, woman, chick) and this is my hobby :D

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:48 pm
by illusions
ok princess i wasnt being rude :?

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:16 pm
by x 648
that zipper was witts they sold it to dolens in wagga then it went to john then dean

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:22 pm
by illusions
yeh i i was sure john sold it to dean

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:13 am
by HUSSRAINBOW
are we most certain ZIPPER wont make a return to the melbourne show... since 2003.... PATHETIC!

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:40 am
by princess
sorry illusions, just my weird sense of humour, lol :lol:

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:54 pm
by Top Gunner14
So that zipper has had 4 owners. Ok, that's a bit suprising the zipper doesn't go to melbourne anymore either

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:33 pm
by HUSSRAINBOW
its cos of that stupid "small" accident, i wouldnt even call it that, at the 2003 show, apparently a door was loose or something... it was probably the stupid family of the girls that didnt want zipper back at the show... wreck our fun!

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:05 pm
by princess
Poor Huss, maybe you need a lie down :lol:, you will just have to keep coming to Sydney.

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:15 am
by HUSSRAINBOW
oh ill be there in 2008... im not missing sydney from now on, ive been 2004,06,07 aint planning on missing it!

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:33 am
by benclare
Good on you Huss! I've been to every RES since 1983 and even made sure I flew home from overseas just so I could go, this despite me being in the States and surrounded by awesome rides and theme parks; I was missing the RES too much.

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:49 pm
by Top Gunner14
Shame bout the zopper in melb as i said. Shame u have 2 come up to sydney but sydney is a fun show. Also, who are the manufacturers of the zippers here in oz? These are the ones i know of:

Youngs-Chance
Short's-Chance
Davis'-Ferrari
Zacchini-UNKNOWN
Mean Mother-UNKNOWN

And with zacchini's zipper, what shows does it go to?

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:44 pm
by Hurricane
Lol soz for the late reply but both zacchini's and johnny's are Ferrari models.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:23 am
by Top Gunner14
No probs, also Dean Davis' model is a Ferrari too

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:04 pm
by Matt Diabolism
So has anyone been lucky enough to ride all our Zippers,and if so,which would you rate as the best...in terms of look/presentation and ride experience?.