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A friend bought a Lexcen because "The Toyota was better than a Holden." All good until he started looking at the parts.
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But, made in Australia...
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Were Telstar's made in the Homebush plant alongside the Laser?
The key thing with the Mazda involvement during those years was the injection of knowledge from Japan into the Australian Ford factories, improving efficiency and quality.
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I hate to think what our motor industry would have been turning out if the Japanese hadn’t got involved in the Aust market.Our local offerings were pretty ordinary in comparison as far as finish,reliability and basic “luxuries”as in heaters,radios and carpet were concerned.
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coming home from the shops today, an rx7 pulled out from the smash repairers and I was driving behind it. It was an early one, so fb or something, but looked very much like an 80's bathurst race replica. So big flares, big spoiler on the rear, painted white with blue stripes and had a drop tank in the back. Surprisingly it wasn't loud, made no turbo sounds so it might still have been a non turbo 12a rotary. Clearly someone has thrown a lot of money into it to get it to where its at. Still a cool car though.
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Telstars were made in Broadmeadows alongside the Falcon, it didn’t last long though (was it 7 or so years ?), and all of the investment including the 4 cylinder Engine plant (plant 5 Geelong), eventually went down the drain.
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Looks to be a GTV which I personally haven't spotted in a long while.
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Today I saw a nice Holden ute. On the way back I stopped for a better look. Red, base model, simple steel rims, very clean, four horizontal bars to the grille, what I thought would be a VN or VP ute ... but from Wiki I learnt that it's called a VG. Raised roof line - for the Akubra hats? It was in really nice condition; looked great. Full Vic reg, B/W plates.
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"The VG shared the frontal appearance of the VN Commodore but its 2-door cabin featured a raised roofline, marketed as able to accommodate the Akubra hat favoured by many "bushies". (Wikipedia)
Today: BMW 2002, full Vic reg B/W personalised plates |
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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Me too, kept trying at Bathurst, then won. Group A early, NASCAR, 1990, HSV etc..
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Yep did it all on a shoe string budget ,like Dick In the early days just a legend
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Couldn’t afford brakes….had to use Moffatt ! 🥰
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Something i saw a couple days back was a vp ss. Not a hsv vn ss, a holden vp ss. It was parked beside a vk hdt, however, its hard to tell if the vk was a fake blue meanie or real. Pretty sure the vp ss was real because why would you fake one?
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Was nice of Moffat to cancel his hotel room that time so Gricey could get his usual room !! .....lol
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off topic....Liked Gricey but my favourite to follow was Big Rev Kev in the old Camaro. Geeze he caused some accidents back in the day.
on topic... spotted a first gen Hyundai Excel. Tired, dirty and well worn but still running on full reg. Thought most ended up in the Excel racing class bringing us back to motor racing.
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Owner probably unaware his Excel ****box can be offloaded to the racing guys for big dollars.
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VW Up!
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Jag XJS in british racing green. Looked mint too. I think the number plate was XJS6.
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I saw a bright red one on Christmas Day. Figured they must have the AC sorted!
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For design, they have greatness and are visionary - think original XK engines, original Range Rover concept, E-Type, the Land Rover postwar, the P6, Sir Alec Issigonis' original mini; hell even the Spitfire, the Lusitania & Mauretania, the steam engine, the whole industrial revolution...
It's the implementation of their designs since about 1970 however...
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