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Old 16-02-2011, 03:03 PM   #3151
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Oh no! Proton Jumbuck you time is up!
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Old 16-02-2011, 04:31 PM   #3152
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Lol, he's even got the ladder up there.
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Thats actually pretty cool.
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Old 16-02-2011, 11:27 PM   #3155
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Old 17-02-2011, 12:31 AM   #3157
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LOL you're supposed to put the vinyl on AFTER you shut the doors.
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Old 17-02-2011, 12:41 AM   #3158
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Well those first two on the blue Mazda are me hehe...
I just realised. I should have got one of you with your arm out like you were holding something, then chopped the "Iggy Poppin" bucket in your avatar into your arm like you were holding it.

But then again, I'm lazy. Takes me a week to get standard pics up. Photochop ones would take me a couple of years!
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Old 18-02-2011, 11:09 AM   #3159
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Old 18-02-2011, 11:35 AM   #3161
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^^^ Looks like he drove straight on the trailer and kept going!!!

Either that or he didn't tie it down at all!
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Old 18-02-2011, 11:39 AM   #3162
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The thing i find funny(apart from the obvious) is the 'plastic' car is not damaged as much as the old school 'metal' car
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Old 18-02-2011, 11:51 AM   #3163
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as sumone else mentioned. the metal car might of hit the jockey wheel first.. dunno tho. i wasnt there to see it happen
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Old 18-02-2011, 12:08 PM   #3164
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Old 18-02-2011, 12:10 PM   #3165
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Not Jockey wheel, probably post with a winch on it. Make ya cry if ya owned it.
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why the **** dont people strap cars down??? do they want to die?
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why the **** dont people strap cars down??? do they want to die?
It's easy enough to forget....having done it once when picking up an xr6 turbo from the auctions. All you need is to get distracted at the wrong moment. Luckily we did not have anything bad happen, but it could very easily have.
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This P.O.S was parked outside my work today so i managed to get a couple of snaps before the owner came back (note the front is just a stockie monaro front).

For some reason they also took the CV8 badge off the boot and stuck on a badge that says "285i" ?? WHY??



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Old 18-02-2011, 07:41 PM   #3170
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WTF is with that Monaro??, looks so stupid!!, and haha and the guy with the trailer lol!
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Old 19-02-2011, 12:23 AM   #3171
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Personal favorite so far? The picture of the VL with the door stickers taking the **** out of the guys who have those "lists" on thier doors of what their car (allegedly) has fitted...

Oh, and those car adverts with BMW, Subaru, etc, one-upping each other? I've seen them before, but they've always been a set of four images...You obviously haven't seen the last one that usually accompanies the series...



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Old 19-02-2011, 12:28 AM   #3172
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Spotted this bloke and his EpicFailMobile(tm) the other night!

There was an unusual sobriety about him.



You know, I saw a little old Mazda wagon like that a while ago...brown, wide steel wheels with chrome rings and original hubcaps, lowered a little, but looked like any old grandpas car...except for the turbocharged bridgeport 13B under the bonnet...

As for the pic of an R34 Skyline with a Chev badge...you do know there's a thriving industry fitting alloy LS1's into those things...

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Old 19-02-2011, 01:07 AM   #3173
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I must be getting old, the Aurion is starting to look nice to me.
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It's easy enough to forget....having done it once when picking up an xr6 turbo from the auctions. All you need is to get distracted at the wrong moment. Luckily we did not have anything bad happen, but it could very easily have.
How does one get distracted securing a load just plain stupidity to forget something like that
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spoke to my brother that is a tow truck driver and one of the guys was doing a "tow to safety" of a jaguar xjs and he didn't strap it on and it fell off the back of the truck and he no longer has a job
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I must be getting old, the Aurion is starting to look nice to me.
buddy, you need a quick wake up call!
go book yourself in for a run at Calder in one of then V8 supercars

that'll shake it out of you... (We hope)
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How does one get distracted securing a load just plain stupidity to forget something like that
You are under time stress. The car did not fit well. There was heaps of other activity around. I was answering phone calls, being asked questions by other people, there was a hurry to get it out of the way, .....they are called distractions. It happens to some people, but obviously some are immune to being human and making mistakes. I wish I were perfect. Maybe you could run some classes for the frail minded like the rest of us
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