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Old 09-09-2010, 07:48 PM   #1141
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Managed to get the link working, and the first thing I thought was "BOBO THE CLOWN!"

Anyway, here's one I spotted yesterday:
It's a Holden Astra cabriolet, with the folding metal roof. Note the plethora of stick-on vents.

Ridiculous rear wing, pimpin' chrome rims, and stick-on vents on the doors. Nice colour-matching on the body kit, too.


Oh, it's a "Vauxhall". There's a VXR badge on the right side of the boot lid.


Sorry for the crappy pics. I was using my phone and was in a hurry in case the owner turned up.
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Old 09-09-2010, 08:53 PM   #1142
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Old 09-09-2010, 09:26 PM   #1143
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thats a win!^^
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Old 09-09-2010, 11:50 PM   #1144
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Prius modified for the salt flats. It went a terrifying 130.794 MPH. For the youngins, thats about 209 km/h. Scary.


Fooly siick lowrider CommoPrius


I have no words for this. Maybe some sort of superfail. I don't know.
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Old 10-09-2010, 12:00 AM   #1145
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Just found these little gems:

LamborPrius. Pointless beyond any other use of the word, ever.


And this. I call it Formula Fail.
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Old 10-09-2010, 10:47 AM   #1146
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What king of tree huggin hippie prius owner does this ???





Couple of others i'm sure you must have seen ...








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Old 10-09-2010, 10:54 AM   #1147
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I'll just have to repost this. Can't help it....

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Old 10-09-2010, 10:59 AM   #1148
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Just wonder how well it "Steers" ??

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Old 10-09-2010, 03:35 PM   #1149
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seen a vr/vs commodore with a vy/vz clubby front and it looked all bunky and ****
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I saw one of these kitted-up Hyundai Coupes being driven by a middle-aged woman the other day, must have been her son's car. They look terrible.



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Old 10-09-2010, 03:58 PM   #1151
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I will never understand why people will waste time and effort to try to customise an already ugly car eg: Prius...It can only get uglier ...

Unless I'm delusional and they actually do look good...?
Then again it has been brought to my attention that the AU is an attractive vehicle and me not liking it is only my opinion...
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Old 10-09-2010, 03:59 PM   #1152
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I'll just have to repost this. Can't help it....

Jesus built my hotrod
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Then again it has been brought to my attention that the AU is an attractive vehicle and me not liking it is only my opinion...
Not all are ugly, there are some nice ones around....
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I will never understand why people will waste time and effort to try to customise an already ugly car eg: Prius...It can only get uglier ...

Because, beleive it or not, people like to try different things, not follow the norm and play with cars that arn't commonly played with.

Hell, i even get comments "why did you spend so much/do up a falcon?"

If i had the finance to do so, i would love to build a Edsel custom
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Jesus built my hotrod
You mean Noah.

And I like the AU, but even it would look ugly with a wooden rear bar and bootlid.
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Old 11-09-2010, 05:27 PM   #1156
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Sorry guys but putting a FPV badge over the std Ford badge because its too small is a fail.
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Old 11-09-2010, 05:46 PM   #1157
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seen a vr/vs commodore with a vy/vz clubby front and it looked all bunky and ****
They're everywhere around here and they all look shocking
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Some limo fails:

Worlds longest limousine:


Worlds stupidest limousine:
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:57 PM   #1159
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Why use an AU Futura as a base for a limo? Lol!

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Same reason as you'd buy an AU Futura over a fairmont/fairlane in the first place.
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Old 13-09-2010, 05:28 AM   #1161
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That's one of the straightest looking limos I've seen in a long time
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I think this may have made the list before, and the owner does acknowledge that "at the moment it is ugly", so for all of you out there who want to be different, being totally unique only costs $1200!!......

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Old 13-09-2010, 01:01 PM   #1163
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Here's a pic I took Friday.



That's the Taxi driver on his phone at the back of the Taxi. The man in the suit changing the tyre is his passenger.
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haha gold, he should charge him for it ;)
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Here's another taxi one that I took a photo of one night a few years back.

This time the wheel change operation was not successful.

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XR6T fail, "built flawed tough"
Thought you falcon boys knew how to drop a skid, not drop a flywheel.

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Once this thread makes it to 100,000 views... or 1,500 posts.... can it be made sticky???
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hahha that limo is disgusting!!
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hahha that limo is disgusting!!
Yep, destroyed a perfectly good series 1 AU - but it is Aukland so the choices of a suitable base would be somewhat limited......
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Damn i can't believe someone managed to blow the flywheel in an XR6T, that is unless they decided to "lighten" it
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