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Bring back the Privateers, and the pirate problem would be gone in a month... Anyone who is willing to take them on gets supplied with a ship, they supply the crew, and off they go, take care of it how you will, we won't ask questions, you'll be rewarded hansomely when you fix the...

All the auto makers over there shot themselves in the foot in the nineties with those useless great gas guzzling SUV's...they thought it was what the market wanted and needed, so they tooled up to build Dodge Rams, Ford F250's, and Chev Suburbans by the truckload, and then oil prices went up...

Should I mention that I've been running the tape measure over my Celica and making a few tentative enquiries with the Transport Department about fitting an Alloytec into it? The trans tunnel and bigger brakes seem to be my major sticking points...at the moment it's all just a scribble on a note...

"Jobs" were one of the reasons this stupid idea never got off the ground way back in the early eighties and when it reared it's head again in the nineties...the jobs of the thousands of workshops and second hand parts dealers and accessories shops and suppliers and so on...if everyone had a car...

The scary thing is that it would only take a stroke of the beuracractic ****...sorry, "pen", to bring in something as stupid as this...look at the facts...they can bring in new road rules and laws at a whim, they can bring in new design rules which they do not tell people much about which make a...

You can bet your balls that if this stupid proposal was every brought in (and any government that did wouldn't last at the next election), it would be exactly like the small car yards that have the same "$3000 minimum trade on anything you can drive in" deals from time to time...the fine print...

evil_monkey is right...I too immediately had thoughts of our old 1982 Rodeo ute, the body of which is only in one peice because all the rust molecules are holding hands, and getting $3000 for it! But then I noticed that it said "certificate"...they wouldn't give you cash, it would be a...

Sure, there might be dozens of cars driving around with "cages" in them...the police might even turn a blind eye...but have even a minor shunt, and your insurance company will ignore any claims, as well as if anyone inside is hurt by it, your arse is grass and the lawyers will be the...

One of my dream cars has always been a Mazda Roadpacer with a nice paint job, 18" chrome wheels of an appropriate design for the style of the car, huge brakes...and a rotary engine we never saw in Australia...the 13J-MM, "four rotor, 630bhp@9000rpm Peripheral port intake with variable length...

So it rears its ugly head again...this idea (or one very similar to it) came out back in the eighties, then the nineties. They must be hoping people forget quickly...unfortunately, I don't...:D "Crush a bomb: car industry stimulus proposal Monday March 23, 2009, 10:36 am The car industry...

I noticed that with the wheels as well... As for the four banger...I figure we could keep the practicality of our super reliable old Rodeo and have something that looks different...that little engine just keeps on going and going and going...in fact, it hasn't had an oil change...

Just wondered if anyone knows who makes this kit car body which fits on an old Rodeo chassis. I took the pics at the 2007 Rockhampton swap meet...it was fitted to a long wheelbase early Rodeo chassis. The reason it caught our attention was that we own a 1982 Rodeo...and to be blunt, the...

Danny8....one thing to remember...you might have indeed been able to spend the money on a V8 conversion...but if you put that car in a show, everyone will walk right by "just another V8 Commodore like everyone elses"...but you will be surprised the crowds that will be drawn by a nicely detailed...

....you lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky bastards.....:yeah: I still miss my damn VH Charger every day since I sold it...and that was back when I was eighteen...25 years ago...:cry: Even now I am tormented...there is an area I drive the coal train through every few days, waaaay out...

...just make sure you have a switch to turn the damn things off now and then, rather than dazzle and annoy the **** out of everyone day and night when you aren't driving in "fog"...:bang:

Gold!! The first one reminds me of a very old joke about a country guy in court for charges of having sex with a pig. The judge tries to contain himself from laughing, but eventually he can't contain himself and says "will the defendant tell me one thing? Was it a male pig or a female...

I always get annoyed as hell when they compare our fuel prices to those paid by people in, say, London, New York, or Los Angeles...a mate of mine lived in London for four years, and when I asked him what sort of car he owned when he was there, he shrugged and said "didn't have one". I asked how...

Four "different" ones I have seen lately...one was a Toyota Aurion, very nice dark blue, alloys, dark windows. Another was a new Falcon wagon, very dark tint, and steel wheels. Two really unusual ones of these were a reasonably new black SS Commodore ute, and a VS Berlina with dark tint and...

1: A hunting guide was leading two hunters in the wilds of Canada. They had flown in in a float plane, and had landed on a lake. The hunters had shot a huge prize moose, and there was an arguement about how they were going to get it out...the pilot said it was way to heavy to strap to the...

...you can say what you like about the French being cowards, but if it had been me, I would have reacted exactly like those soldiers when that big ass missile (which would probably by the firing stage have been armed) popped weakly out the end of the launcher and plonked down at my feet..."aahh...

Also you could try toy or modelling shops that have a good selection of plastic model kits and equipment...there are several products like that which you use for "masking up" things like canopy lines on model aircraft and other finely detailed stuff. I believe it has a name something like liquid...

...what he said about the front wheel arches...seen a few already with scrapes on the top edges, obviously from not being able to see the edge of it waaay out there on the other side, or maybe shopping trolleys finding the edge... One tip Holden...don't try and go too radical, make it an...

Yep, big fine if the EPA gets hold of you...they take a very dim view of anyone tampering with that kind of thing. Back when you could still buy leaded fuel alongside unleaded, the environment guys actually had a litmus paper type test strip they could wipe inside of the end of your exhaust pipe...

Choice of gearbox should be a simple choice across the whole range...they are all basically the same car. The spare is a sore point even with Holden dealers...the one here says he is fitting every new Commodore he sells with a full sized matching spare. After looking at the huge deep...

...the only further thing you could say about that joke is a comment along the lines of "the game the whole family can play"...

I take my whipping happily...:yeah: That fuel door locking with the car makes a lot more sense...the guy seemed to be pushing the point of how easy it was to open the cap, and I was too busy working out how many options I could order to take it up to my "expected" (and normal price on road...

It seems to me these newer engines are getting worse. Exclude the V8s here, because obviously you have to compare apples with apples... Weight, pure and simple. A VB-VC Commodore weighed only about 1300kg, but they were a smaller car. The VN weighed what? About 1400 or less? Now we...

I've talked to a few guys who are, like me, close to purchasing a VE, and some have come up with what are probably trivial little things about the new model...some are very minor, but some are reasonably major. A couple came up with the A-pillar blind spot...to be honest, when we test drove...

That's one thing we noticed...seems a bit odd that when you fit the "country pack" suspension (meaning, logically, that you expect to be spending some time on a lot of crappy roads) they don't include the LSD, which will help if you are getting out of a sticky situation... The height looks...

I forgot to add that he also said that all new Commodores he sells there now have full sized matching spare wheels at no extra cost...I had a look in the boot and saw the deep spare wheel well with a puny little space saver in the bottom of it (the alloy spare had yet to be put in, he was...

Someone beat me to the punch...yep, they are valuable for the platinum they contain...I'm just surprised that the pond scum haven't twigged to this long before now...:bang:

Oh good lord....that's warped my mind...

To be blunt, makers of large cars are getting desperate for sales and retaining customers... Case in point: Three weeks ago, I priced an SV6 manual...price on road was around $44000 to $45000. Today at the same dealership, I went and actually test drove an identical car, and was quoted...

I try not to argue with Ford fans about which six cylinder is better now...the new turbo 6 cylinder has 300kw after all...

...remind me again why Holden doesn't have the development money to work on a proper turbo diesel V6? Oh that's right...they are too busy wasting money on bigger and bigger V8's for a shrinking large car market when petrol is edging up near $2 a liter... ...smart move Holden...

Of course I would, with a few bits of advice for my fifteen year old self...first, girls will like it if you kiss them "there"...second, don't buy that rusty Mazda as a first car...keep driving the slow old Austin A30 and save up and buy that damn 6 cylinder four door 1957 Chev which was down...

Two things only need to be added to the house... ...angel dust hidden in a supply of "reward" food, and a nice new batch of razor sharp hunting knives...sit back and watch the fun...:thumbsup:

Full load is up to 10,000 tonnes chock fulla lovely coal...

If the guy indeed "delibrately" swerved at them, he deserves everything he gets... I will play devils advocate here and say that I too have had some quite close calls with competition cyclists out on the highway...nothing gets the heart started just after dawn quite like coming over a rise...

Amazing figures...always been meaning to get down to Willowbank and see them. Here's some figures for the engine in my new 120-tonne ride... Turbocharged two-stroke V-12 diesel, 710 cubic inch per cylinder (or a total capacity of 140 liters), producing 3000hp, fed from an 8000 ltr...