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03-01-2023, 04:34 PM | #1111 | ||
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03-01-2023, 04:37 PM | #1112 | ||
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Indeed; as would J.R.R.Tolkien.
Go further Citroenbender - it starts with the Enclosure Acts and the taking of the commons.
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03-01-2023, 05:17 PM | #1113 | ||
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Off topic - this was hard to find, but a worthy read.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020925...usg/landls.htm explains everything, the terrible dispossession of the people from their land, the wandering, the accumulation in the cities (and thus what to do with them? Industrial revolution, schooling, having to wear peaky blinders, football lol )- and even convicts who were catching game on their common lands... people replaced with sheep. Huge incarceration rates, the prisons fill up, the hulks on the rivers fill up, what can we do? Hello settlement of Australia as a convict colony, and the dispossession of the blackfellas... Common land replaced with titled land, we can all have a bit of the title world today and yes we can benefit from this, but this whole system rests on top of a more ancient way of doing things that got swept under the rug. It's particularly important today when house (title) prices have gone to such highs vs what average/median wages are. Imagine just being born, doing your trade, not having to worry about any of that housing BS in your village as there was common land and ancestral homes... Rant off, but that's the foundation of the modern world we live in!
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03-01-2023, 07:20 PM | #1114 | ||
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When I was at high school, a guy had a 1980's XJ as his first car. The guys father was a mechanic and ripped out the Jaguar engine and replaced it with a SOHC Falcon 4.0 in it instead. So, sexy Jaguar styling with Ford inline 6 reliability.
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03-01-2023, 08:29 PM | #1115 | |||
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03-01-2023, 08:41 PM | #1116 | ||
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Spot on, its the budget to see the quality through to the end that was and still is the problem.
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04-01-2023, 03:49 PM | #1117 | |||
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04-01-2023, 03:58 PM | #1118 | ||
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Passed lots of Trailer Queens today northbound on the Hume.
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04-01-2023, 04:33 PM | #1120 | ||
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04-01-2023, 04:51 PM | #1121 | ||
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04-01-2023, 04:54 PM | #1122 | ||
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Keep up Gaso, meaning I wonder why he didn't already have a ride organized. I know how much he likes PT.
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05-01-2023, 12:09 PM | #1123 | ||
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Haven't seen any XD Falcons lately but spotted these for sale on marketplace in Shepparton. I think they need saving. (not by me)
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...tory_type=post
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06-01-2023, 12:48 PM | #1124 | ||
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Pulled up behind this thing the other day,drove one many moons ago and hated it but in fairness havent seen one for a long time so fits in thread.
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06-01-2023, 01:03 PM | #1125 | |||
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06-01-2023, 05:20 PM | #1127 | ||
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Broncos and f series trucks. Although they do come up for sale.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/cher...rbo/1305579248
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06-01-2023, 10:18 PM | #1128 | |||
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09-01-2023, 10:14 AM | #1129 | ||
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Followed a nicely kept bog stock (looking) red windowless Holden Belmont panel van through town this morning. V8 sounded great and the crowning glory being on old full rego plates.
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09-01-2023, 12:05 PM | #1130 | ||
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V8 in a Belmont?
They were the base most basic model Holden werent they? All 6s? Maybe was fitted later in life. Old family friend used to have one. Was an ex ambo with a third door behind front passenger door. Thats where I used to sit amongst all the rubbish this guy collected. You wouldnt believe what was in there...his shed and house were the same. |
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09-01-2023, 12:35 PM | #1131 | ||
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09-01-2023, 12:58 PM | #1132 | |||
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Muirs gave me these when my old man bought a new Holden car or truck every year. Belmonts were available with a V8 option starting at around $153. Both 253 and 308 were available. In fact all Sandmans were Belmonts and not Kingswoods as so many think, that along with never being a 14 CWT weight van and side windows never being factory installed on Sandmans. Note the price of the LE @ around $11 000 geeze I wish I could have bought a couple. Another interesting gem the dealer gave me as a kid was this book.
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09-01-2023, 01:43 PM | #1133 | |||
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And cringe, looking how close to that brick column it is
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09-01-2023, 01:46 PM | #1134 | |||
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Still a great example.
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09-01-2023, 02:57 PM | #1135 | ||
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Yeah but the club rego is a decent cost saving and means lower running costs if you want more toys. Its just a plate.
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09-01-2023, 03:12 PM | #1136 | |||
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09-01-2023, 03:16 PM | #1137 | ||
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Not what I was talking about.
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09-01-2023, 03:16 PM | #1138 | ||
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Yeah, Muirs Top Ryde.
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09-01-2023, 04:35 PM | #1139 | ||
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An early model Lotus Esprit. And get this, it was towing a trailer.
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09-01-2023, 05:40 PM | #1140 | ||
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did you actually see a tow ball? might have been tied onto rear bumper... just a thought
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