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Ford screwed the Falcon
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Falcon: 1960 - 2016 My cars Current ride 2016 FG X XR6 - 6 speed manual Previous rides 2009 FG XR6 - 6 speed auto 2006 BF MkII XT ESP - 6 speed auto 2003 BA XT V8 - 5 speed manual 1999 AU Forte - 5 speed manual 1997 EL Fairmont - 4 speed auto 1990 EAII Fairmont Ghia - 4 speed auto |
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Adelaide is the backwater.
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We're mostly hoarders & cat ladies here......
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Canberra seems to have a lot of survivors cars, considering the high average income.
Less rust than coastal areas and more tight-*****.
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Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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‘Alf a car, I suppose.
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Maybe bit less of the Keep up with the Jones' phenomenom here also. My neighbours were Jones' and they drove a crappy Mazda 323. |
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Daihatsu Copen. Looked tiny in peak hour traffic.
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It is because they have the most citizen friendly registration laws. Tasmania and WA are also not to bad. The same cars in Victoria and others would be long gone with uneconomic repairs to keep the car 'roadworthy'.
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Sharper than a marble
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Laughing... now THAT would have made for a good fantasy read.. 253 munches a Ho eee... the only way I could see that happening is if the HJ was being towed by a FA-18 ![]() ![]() The only thing that would have got blown away would have been the crankshaft falling out the bottom of the 2 fifty 3.. hehehe My car was lowered to the bump stops... almost.. and handled really well on airport runway type highways, and corners to, as long as they were smoothish corners with no mid corner bumps. The Bruce highway was newish back then and an absolute dream to drive fast on. I used to love spotting a car in the distance ahead of me at night, say, a kilometre up the road, cracking open the back ones and seeing how long it would take me to catch up, and then suck the number plates off the car I just passed at double the speed they were doing. Total madness now, I know, probably was even was back then, but hey, you only live once and I liked to. Try doing that now and you would be locked up for a considerable amount of time, and maybe even make the 6 o'clock news as a bonus... Just good times back in those days. No cameras, no Lie Dar, just a cop sitting on a chair in some bushes with a big dish (old school radar) and a walkie talkie to talk to his mate waiting up the road, idling, in his Hwy patrol car.. which was a XE 351 back in the days I'm talking about. Got tones of good memories from back then. Should write them down before I start hiding my own easter eggs I spose..
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I cracked 200 once back in the 80’s heading towards Murray Bridge on the south eastern freeway…. Late at night and only myself on the road.
One and only time the old XY has done those speeds - and bloody stupid. Young and dumb ![]()
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