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Old 18-07-2020, 07:00 PM   #181
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Has anyone got FG GT plates?
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Has anyone got FG GT plates?
Nooooo because someone 'may' say that that would translate to...

Effing GT
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It’s OK YF, you can still get “ENEMA”. That will be his nemesis.
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It’s OK YF, you can still get “ENEMA”. That will be his nemesis.
That's below the belt CB.... lets keep it clean shall we
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Old 20-07-2020, 08:06 PM   #185
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Old mate had to hand those wepn plates in hey.... thats pretty sad
Just saw a pic of the car in question in street machine,awesome car and the plates suited it to a tee,what has this world come to
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Just ordered me some plates. Should be here a coupla weeks!


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They make Daffy Duck plates down there?..........I may have to move
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They make Daffy Duck plates down there?..........I may have to move
Would suit a Mercedes Benz too. Roadrunner would be better.
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Cheap mate, and you own them outright no annual fees like other states.
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Did you really pay for that?

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I saw an offensive number plate the other day. AU-351

Why was it offensive? It was on a Commodore wagon!
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I saw an offensive number plate the other day. AU-351

Why was it offensive? It was on a Commodore wagon!
why all the hate on a wagon
ive had a lot of fun in the back of a s wagon and hope to yet have more
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why all the hate on a wagon
ive had a lot of fun in the back of a s wagon and hope to yet have more
Yeah but its more fun in a panel van.



I was 15 when I drew this. complete with offensive custom plates
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There is a blue Commodore Ute around the corner from me.

NSW plate - WPN-XXX (XXX are numbers that I can't recall).

Looks like a personal plate as well...

Hmmm
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There is a blue Commodore Ute around the corner from me.

NSW plate - WPN-XXX (XXX are numbers that I can't recall).

Looks like a personal plate as well...

Hmmm

Obviously, Those XXX's are the number of roadkills.

I bet its a big number too with offensive plates like that.
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Obviously, Those XXX's are the number of roadkills.

I bet its a big number too with offensive plates like that.
talkin bout road kills
wonder if red-brn (red baron) would be deamed offensive could have a few markers on side of car to number the amount of roos foxes rabbits ect ....
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Yeah but its more fun in a panel van.

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I was 15 when I drew this. complete with offensive custom plates
Must have been a strange world back then, I can't believe people idolised a half van half car hybrid.

Then again people idolise a half car half truck mongoloid manufactured in Thailand in 2020 so maybe it wasn't all that strange
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Must have been a strange world back then, I can't believe people idolised a half van half car hybrid.

Then again people idolise a half car half truck mongoloid manufactured in Thailand in 2020 so maybe it wasn't all that strange
Many young Aussie men (and women) idolised panel vans all through the 70s and 80s. It was our lifestyle, cruising the suburbs, hanging out at the chippys on the beach and going to the drive ins usually 3 - 4 times a week after work.
If you go back and look at the magazines of the time, the biggest sellers were Custom Vans and Trucks mag, with a little known mag starting up in the early 80s called Street Machine.
Just a look through these mags would find you adverts selling anything from custom chromed (remember them) parts, full custom stitched van interiors, custom mural spray painters and full fibreglass flare kits.
They were the bees knees in being a motoring statement at that time in history.
The van scene didn't seem to be bias towards one particular make, even the little Gemini, Bedford CF van and Toyota Corolla panel vans were popular.

Only w*g boys owned purple Valiants and the thought of modifying 7 seater people movers was unheard of.

Times move on and the dualcab ute thing is now king but basically the same human nature applies in that they are being modified to suit the owners custom needs.
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These days the automotive scene isn't as popular as it once was, at least in Melbourne.

There's less and less modified cars being used as daily drivers on the streets, it's rare to see modified JDM cars that were common place 10 years ago getting about.

Doesn't seem to attract new blood, Gen Y and now Gen Z don't seem too interested in the scene or as a hobby anymore compared to Boomers and Gen X.
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These days the automotive scene isn't as popular as it once was, at least in Melbourne.

There's less and less modified cars being used as daily drivers on the streets, it's rare to see modified JDM cars that were common place 10 years ago getting about.

Doesn't seem to attract new blood, Gen Y and now Gen Z don't seem too interested in the scene or as a hobby anymore compared to Boomers and Gen X.
To busy looking at down at their phones.

Sydney's modified car scene was huge back then.
The van nationals are held mid October every year (usually) in Albury so it good to see there is still a following. I took a heap of pictures at last years event.
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Getting back on subject the custom van scene had some pretty offensive murals and number plates back then.
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These days the automotive scene isn't as popular as it once was, at least in Melbourne.

There's less and less modified cars being used as daily drivers on the streets, it's rare to see modified JDM cars that were common place 10 years ago getting about.

Doesn't seem to attract new blood, Gen Y and now Gen Z don't seem too interested in the scene or as a hobby anymore compared to Boomers and Gen X.
'Modifying' a car these days seems to be bragging about the Supercheap chrome exhaust tips that you fitted all on your own.
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'Modifying' a car these days seems to be bragging about the Supercheap chrome exhaust tips that you fitted all on your own.
Could also be due to police crackdown, the only modified cars I'm seeing these days are jacked up Thailand specials with huge muddies and snorkels or still ye olde highly modified GQ/GU Patrol.

We've sort of gone from traditional backwards baseball cap wearing hoon to outdoors lifestyle Akubra wearing person with obligatory canine in dog cage.
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Could also be due to police crackdown, the only modified cars I'm seeing these days are jacked up Thailand specials with huge muddies and snorkels or still ye olde highly modified GQ/GU Patrol.

We've sort of gone from traditional backwards baseball cap wearing hoon to outdoors lifestyle Akubra wearing person with obligatory canine in dog cage.
Sorry I was thinking more of body mods...Google George Barris or Ed (Big Daddy) Roth.
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I had one of his T shirts at one time. Rat Fink featured on so many modded cars back them.
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There is a plumber's ute driving around in Queensland with the rego 125HIT. I thought it was well done, particularly as it part of the standard registration sequence.
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Must have been a strange world back then, I can't believe people idolised a half van half car hybrid.

Then again people idolise a half car half truck mongoloid manufactured in Thailand in 2020 so maybe it wasn't all that strange
Franco had more to do with what you could do in the back of them me thinks, some had nice "Shag" pile carpets....
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I've seen some borderline ones here in the West, Crapi on an old Capri, Jizzem, WTF? bogan spec VT commo, chick driving, Short @ss, and my fav, slimlines, WA vertically on the side, NKER on the horizontal display.
Over here it seems to be up to whoevers on the help desk that day to approve them.
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