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03-06-2016, 01:17 PM
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Flairs - Truckers Delight
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Or maybe it was an XA or XC.
The year was 1995. I was at a local fete/fair and in the amusements section, some fella had a hardtop falcon, a bumbag and a bunch of sledgehammers. $5 for 10 minutes, or somesuch. Well, me being a gung-ho kid, couldn't wait for the chance to bash up 'some old Ford'. Weilded away at the thing, smashed the roof in, A pillars were super easy to bend, had a clobber at the rear flanks and ended up by sticking the hammer through the grille. Was a thoroughly fun time. You wouldn't get that opportunity today!
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03-06-2016, 01:29 PM
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Lifetime ban on its way
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03-06-2016, 01:41 PM
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Not of the Sooty variety!
 
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No more red cordial for you!
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03-06-2016, 02:45 PM
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Once PHASED.
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Lol. The bloke who offered the coupe up should have been flayed alive on the spot. Pobably a Holden fan....
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03-06-2016, 02:59 PM
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03-06-2016, 04:43 PM
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You sir, should be turned into a lamp shade, you heathen.
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03-06-2016, 07:53 PM
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Meh , as long as it wasn't my car
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03-06-2016, 07:58 PM
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Then you find out it was actually $5 to park...
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03-06-2016, 08:04 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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kick them windows out and put chooks in em
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03-06-2016, 09:13 PM
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T Series Club AUST.
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I wrecked out a Landau coupe , what's my punnishment lol
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03-06-2016, 09:25 PM
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Never mind , Coupes are over rated anyway lol
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03-06-2016, 09:35 PM
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You would. Just be prepared to pay for the luxury. |
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03-06-2016, 09:55 PM
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Kicking back
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You have to look at like this... if today at was a vn or an ea no one would really care. But in 20 years time (kind of like the op) it would be sacralidge. Shame it wasn't a camira or a lazer lynx.
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03-06-2016, 11:16 PM
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The Destroyer
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probably was a floater
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04-06-2016, 03:01 AM
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Cruising...
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But an XB coupe? Argh even if it were a Laser. However if it were an I20, Corrolla, Santa fe, sportage, xtrail or any of the rest of the hideous souless crap that is sold these days then im in.
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04-06-2016, 05:29 AM
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I'm sure that "fella" would have been kicking his sorry *** watching the prices of coupes skyrocket :]
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04-06-2016, 08:29 AM
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I remember the old bash a bomb stall at the school fete. Our school used Japanese wrecks as the thinner steel in the bodies gave the customers more bang for their buck.
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06-06-2016, 05:44 AM
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If only people could foresee the value of the coupe.
I too trashed an XB couple and sent it on it's way to the crushers. Would have been mid to late 90's. Coupes could be bought for around $3000 to $4000.
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06-06-2016, 05:03 PM
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But in all honesty it was probably a slightly rusted six-cyl falcon 500 with a bent chassis or somesuch. I remember people selling pretty good condition GT hardtops for $8k in the 90s. I sent a running driveable AU S-pak to the scrappers last month, I wonder if there's gonna be this many tears when I tell the story in 20 years time? Probably not.
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06-06-2016, 05:38 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Old XB Falcons would have been a 'dime a dozen' back in the day.
How people used them, and what they did to them, are totally at odds to how we see them now. Came across this on facebook, from a time before 4WD's became so widespread: 
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06-06-2016, 07:27 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I cut up two XB coupes and and XC 302 four speed coupe along with a load of panel cuts from various wrecking yards back in the 1990s. I also cut up a Sundowner van. They weren't worth a pinch of nanny goats poo back then. I saved a hell of a lot more though, along with a shed load of parts. All sold off now but 5 years ago I had 13 cars in storage, 4 of them coupes.
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Confession - I intentionally smashed up an XB Coupe
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