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Old 26-01-2024, 05:52 PM   #2071
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and in Pommie land & Europe they plant those donks in VW Caddy vans
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Old 26-01-2024, 09:15 PM   #2072
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Although an acquired taste, I love how they sound!





They do sound great but FYI little old 2.0L K20A can dust them pretty easily.

You bloke I saw the other day with a passat V6 AWD with the V6 and it sounded great.
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Old 27-01-2024, 10:35 PM   #2073
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I just found out that there are only 145 P76s still registered in Australia. There's probably lots more unregistered, though.
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Old 27-01-2024, 11:49 PM   #2074
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A few good spots, dark blue T3 (I think) on the Hume southbound today. Yesterday in Heidelberg, a “survivor” red XE S-Pac. And in Warrandyte yesterday, a red Pursuit with older blonde woman driving.

Also yesterday in Jolly’s, Geelong - someone thought it worth pairing white Falcon utes.
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I thought I was the only one that did that!
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Old 30-01-2024, 02:19 PM   #2075
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Can't say i've ever seen one in the wild, but esp not on my daily commute down the expressway...



Beats the usual random exotica every second of which you know comes from the Shahin garage. Beautiful car!
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Spotted a Ford Corsair yesterday.
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Old 30-01-2024, 03:13 PM   #2077
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Nice. Only 122 Corsairs remain registered.
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Old 30-01-2024, 04:56 PM   #2078
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Nice. Only 122 Corsairs remain registered.
How are you checking that, so say for example how many Honda Accord Euro R's are registered? Can you get that kind of definition?
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Old 30-01-2024, 05:03 PM   #2079
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How are you checking that, so say for example how many Honda Accord Euro R's are registered? Can you get that kind of definition?
See here: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/roa...a-january-2023

No information on Accord Euro R.
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its only generic ... you cant drill down to different model designations.
I wanted to see how many 1990 KF Ford Laser GHIA's were still around. Can only see just Ford Laser's altogether. Which there seems to be 720 of them still rolling around with rego
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In the mid 90s one of my friends parents bought a ford corsair. They wanted a pintara but the ford was cheaper then the nissan. Another case of badge engineering. Wouldn't mind a nissan ute though.....
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speaking of mid 90's and Ford .... always had a soft spot for the V6 Telstars (4WS models) and the Probe as well.
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Old 30-01-2024, 06:28 PM   #2083
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Not a car but these these used to roam the street's before the one tonners were popular. Spotted this at Waikaraka speedway on Saturday night. A mate still has a couple at his tow yard from the old days.
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My mum and I still drives her 1988 626, just looked at the link and its only 1 of 47 still on the road.

Wondering if it's just full rego, or also includes historic rego.
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Spotted a well weathered, with driver to match, HT/HK/HG two door on The Distributer in Orange yesterday.
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It would be great to see a 289 Ford Customline around again they had some keen body roll
And tyre screech
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Had 56 Customline at one time.They did have plenty of body roll and I thought it went pretty well but in comparison would probably be beaten by a 1ltr Thai built now.Mine was a 272” the 289 didn’t come out until the real late compact Fairlane.
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G220 Fairlane, black and looked like it just came off the showroom floor.
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Bright orange XA ute.
Super neat, likely a resto from my 10 second observation at 50km/h
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Couple of Fords parked up in sweltering heat at Junee station.
Geeze it was hot there.

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Rarest thing in that pic is the Captiva in the background.
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Friday afternoon in Sydney’s northern suburbs, Alfa 164 on full Queensland rego. Windows down; suspect the AC dead or usual stripped blend door gears.
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Rarest thing in that pic is the Captiva in the background.
Biggest shitbox on our roads ever, between that and the Epica I'm not sure which is worse.
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Biggest shitbox on our roads ever, between that and the Epica I'm not sure which is worse.
TK Barina (aka Kalos), Cruze, Viva (aka Lacetti).....................or any non-Commodore Holden. At least the Epica had an inline 6.
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Biggest shitbox on our roads ever, between that and the Epica I'm not sure which is worse.
Epica had a small capacity inline six...that's gotta count for something hey? That practically makes it a BMW 3 series.
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And designed by Porsche no less!
I see we posted the same thing at the same time

The worst of the lot would have to be the Barina/Kalos. 2 star ANCAP back when ANCAP actually meant something. Interestingly you could still get the Opel-based previous Barina in van form as the Opel Combo, and Wheels said it was a better steer than the Daewoo Barina!

I would say I don’t see them often but that’s not true because my next door neighbour has a red one
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Back on topic I saw this beauty yesterday. Clean as a whistle, and with a Windsor under the bonnet!

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