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Coca Cola and Fanta yo yo's. The ones to get were the red Coca Cola and the black Coca Cola super yo yo...... Walk the dog, rock the cradle, rocket ship, dog bite, around the world ......

I remember we were living in Manly, Sydney in 1974 when colour TV came to Australia. After school we would all race over to the Retrovision store to watch the colour TV's on display through the front window.

"Retrovision, first for colour TV" was how the ad went.

Our first colour TV was a Rank Arena which dad bought when we moved to Townsville in 1976. Ours was remote control.... Dad would tell me to get up and change the Chanel or turn the volume up and I would do it..... We could choose between Chanel 2 (abc), Chanel 0, Chanel 7 and Chanel 9. Unless you were in the country and only had 2 chanels.

We also went to the grand opening of the Opera House while in Manly in 1973..... I also collected Scanlens footy cards and Bobby Fulton was my favourite player for the Sea Eagles. I would ride to school on my metallic green Malvern Star dragster with T bar three speed and banana seat with sissy bar.
I'm restoring a Malvern Star Dragstar at the moment for my wife. I managed to find a good one in red and hers was originally red, so that was a bonus. Hers didn't have the stick shift, but I've got one now and am thinking about fitting it, although she doesn't care either way. Medium sissy bar and a white metallic vinyl banana seat with flowers on it. I hope to have it ready for her birthday in March.