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31-12-2023, 11:47 PM | #1981 | ||
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01-01-2024, 06:05 AM | #1982 | |||
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01-01-2024, 07:21 AM | #1984 | ||
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Cheap commuter transport maybe.
Nothing wrong with it, no ones going to steal it down at the railway station carpark. nice catch btw.
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01-01-2024, 07:28 AM | #1985 | ||
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Driving to Batlow yesterday, and I was thinking of the last time I went there probably 10 years ago I was driving my EL XR8.
Anyway further up the road I see a red sedan, get closer and realise its an EL, get a bit closer and notice its got a wing and twin pipes. Yep, It looked like an original EL XR8 185kw with a rear window louvre.
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01-01-2024, 10:00 AM | #1986 | ||
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Coming through Cooma yesterday and Google sent me around the industrial estate as a shortcut. A fine collection of AP6s in a yard. Haven't seen one on the road for a while.
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01-01-2024, 10:31 AM | #1987 | ||
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FB marketplace is full of cheap cars that are all 100 times better than a RB Gemini. The base model SL/X didn't even come with power steering, and air cond. may not have been equipped either. Again, I don't know why you'd choose a RB over the alteratives.
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01-01-2024, 11:06 AM | #1988 | ||
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All with crapped out electronics hence the price usually. Gem Gem won't have any. Might have inherited it from Granny, who knows. We all have our choices.
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01-01-2024, 01:23 PM | #1989 | ||
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Very clean XF windowless pano, on heritage plates. Seen turning off the Calder Freeway onto Kings Rd at Taylors Lakes.
I may have made my admiration a bit obvious
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01-01-2024, 01:25 PM | #1990 | ||
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Original plates tells me that it was almost certainly inherited from Granny, or it may be Granny herself driving! In 2011 when I was in first year uni, there was a 65 or so year old lady working at the uni in admin who drove a 1980 Escort GL purchased new. Always admired that thing.
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01-01-2024, 01:41 PM | #1991 | |||
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I've got reproductions of the green and white garden state plates on my Caprice, technically its the wrong era for the year of the car (1994 was the last year of garden state plates) but most people don't know that |
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01-01-2024, 01:49 PM | #1992 | ||
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Mazda RX2, 3 and 4's.
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01-01-2024, 02:03 PM | #1993 | |||
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Maybe they also all deteriorated? See how the paint is coming off the plates. Car was registered in 1999 with this plate as a new car, then at some point they changed to 'the place to be' slogan (early 2000s? Got two 'place to be' plates sitting in garage - one from my Caprice and one from another car bought new in 2003). Thats it original number plate frame too, it did well sitting out in the sun from 1999 to 2023 and not breaking |
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01-01-2024, 05:35 PM | #1994 | |||
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01-01-2024, 05:39 PM | #1995 | ||
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01-01-2024, 05:42 PM | #1996 | ||
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Spotted a collector grade AE86 Trueno parked in Gnippe this afternoon.
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01-01-2024, 05:47 PM | #1997 | ||
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I was driving behind a x type jag today. It was a pez front wheel drive 2.1L v6 one, but it was the same colour as my dads one. His was an awd that he bought new in 2002 and kept till he passed in 2019. The leather was nice in his car, the rest of it was.... well, a 2002 x type. I dont think many of those rubbish jags survive.
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01-01-2024, 05:49 PM | #1998 | |||
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02-01-2024, 12:26 AM | #2000 | ||
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Yep. No exhaust cutouts on the rear bumper and different wheels. Also the pez 2.1L was an 05 or 06. The 2.1 front wheel drives weren't available in 02. And it had the leaping cat bonnet ornament. They were only put back on from the 05 x type. The earlier ones had a flat badge, something about pedestrian saftey.
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02-01-2024, 06:45 AM | #2001 | |||
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02-01-2024, 01:52 PM | #2002 | |||
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02-01-2024, 02:08 PM | #2003 | ||
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White Peugeot 205, couldn’t tell if Si or GTi from the road, at HG Motors Lane Cove. And an enthusiast-kept Maserati 430 in olive metallic, Artarmon.
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03-01-2024, 12:19 AM | #2004 | |||
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03-01-2024, 08:48 PM | #2005 | ||
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Not to mention a notoriously unreliable motor with designed in timing chain issues. Grab a Falcon instead
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03-01-2024, 11:25 PM | #2006 | ||
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Problem is they only have a 5 digit speedo.
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04-01-2024, 06:38 AM | #2007 | ||
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But make sure it's a van eh, best $1100 spent.
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04-01-2024, 05:15 PM | #2008 | ||
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