stirk
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The Germans used to do the opposite.... Take the badges off M5s so they did look like ordinary shopping trolleys, and then blow the doors off everything.
Holden out of Oz in 2017
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cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
Love the old RS6 wagons.
My favourites have been the 928 powered Golf, the 911 turbo powered Kombi etc etc. I was talking about locals.The Germans used to do the opposite.... Take the badges off M5s so they did look like ordinary shopping trolleys, and then blow the doors off everything.
Flow-Rider
Burner
The old v8 Dunnydoors were an easy target for car thieves and a lot of people used to order them with no badges or v6 badges.
Before turboing was badarse and was illegal unless factory fitted, people used to put them on stock looking cars like Datto utes, Escorts and Gemi's and go race V8s.
Before turboing was badarse and was illegal unless factory fitted, people used to put them on stock looking cars like Datto utes, Escorts and Gemi's and go race V8s.
safreek
*******
Some mongoose were pretty good, even had some weird headtube that allowed you to turn it around for some reason
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
AWD audi V8 biturbo mid mounted in a 1960s beetle was pretty cool too
Boom King
downloaded a pic of moorey's bruised arse
Don't PSA own Opel?
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Only as of super recently, Id guess most stock in Oz still bears the GM label.
Boom King
downloaded a pic of moorey's bruised arse
August 2017 I thought.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
that long ago? Huh, well they probably do have PSA on them.
Still doesn’t have Holden though!
Be interesting to actually see what is on the compliance plates.
Flow-Rider
Burner
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Huh. There you go, im surprised they put that on the compliance plate.
Got a shot of the build plate though?
Flow-Rider
Burner
Nah, it's a car that is for sale. If you look closely, it looks like they've stuck it over the original one.
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stirk
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beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Jumping back in the thread a bit, but I'm often surprised people cite the VE/VF Commodore as the pinnacle of "locally designed" Holdens.
Pretty much as soon as I saw them, I thought they'd be the death of the Commodore (and probably Holden given almost all of their small cars have typically been pretty shit).
I'm sure the VE/VF's were acceptably well engineered - but they're just so friggen huge. I get that the penis-extension brigade would like that, but for the everyday driver/fleet/taxi market, an upsized huge exterior body and (relatively) small interior spaces (for the size) just seemed to totally ignore the market changes with more and more people looking to down-size their cars (SUV's/4WD's are another story altogether). Would have been interesting if that modern Torana (mid-szie) concept had made it to production - that one would have had a lot more mass-market appeal IMO.
Pretty much as soon as I saw them, I thought they'd be the death of the Commodore (and probably Holden given almost all of their small cars have typically been pretty shit).
I'm sure the VE/VF's were acceptably well engineered - but they're just so friggen huge. I get that the penis-extension brigade would like that, but for the everyday driver/fleet/taxi market, an upsized huge exterior body and (relatively) small interior spaces (for the size) just seemed to totally ignore the market changes with more and more people looking to down-size their cars (SUV's/4WD's are another story altogether). Would have been interesting if that modern Torana (mid-szie) concept had made it to production - that one would have had a lot more mass-market appeal IMO.
FigBo0T
Puts verniers on his headtube
They built them to sell in the US, didn't they?
Flow-Rider
Burner
They've been doing it for a while, the vin number will be stamped on the body somewhere as well.