The car thread!!!

[Uncle_Rev]

Originally Posted by presspirate

Well, here's mine. Not a show car by any means, but mechanically sound, and I love it!

Are you kidding, between the sweet blue and the portholes, that ride is killer!

[Will0W783]

Nice-looking car, Greg! I like the color.

[presspirate]

Originally Posted by Will0W783

Nice-looking car, Greg! I like the color.

Thanks Kim. It does suck the gas though. I have a picture somewhere with my 3 kids in the trunk......let's see here... Ah here it is!

[Freebody]

OK! heres my baby, top of the cab measures 93" inch. and OMG $3 a litre? not a gallon? thats crazy! i thought we had it bad here.

[kenchenzo]

funny how we all like the classics.
will try and get some pics up mate.

[Lankyrob]

Definitely $3 a LITRE!!! And fantastic truck you got there! Would love something like that!

[Will0W783]

Oooh, I'm jealous Freebody...that is a sexy truck! I am digging that chrome-y clean engine. I would love a jacked up old truck some day. I almost bought a '68 Jeep pickup, but the guy couldn't get it started. It was a cool truck and I wish I could have had it.

[Freebody]

ouch 3 a litre, i would be in such good shape because at that price i would never drive. and thanks for the compliments every nut and bolt and part is brand new, just before i did that the guy before me did the frame off restoration. my baby for life, being how i cant sell it and get 1/4 what i put into it in parts alone lol, oh sounds like you almost got yourself a jeep willies by the sounds of the year, did it have a 350 sb in it? I love thos jeeps!! I want to get my hands on a 5.9l diesel truck and take the whole drive train out and swap it in my truck, and sell that engine you see, or keep it for show and pick up a suzuki samuria << best 4x4 ever!! they go anywhere you want to take it other than the big mud holes and wont bankrupt me trying to get it to a 4x4 place lol

[Will0W783]

Yeah it was a 350. I wanted that truck sooo much, but it was in rough shape with rust all over. The guy had also rewired it and it looked iffy. Someday I'll find one in better shape.

[Freebody]

i hope you do, they are sweet!

[percey39]

Love the caddy Kim, you really do have good taste! Freebody that truck has me very jealous as im still looking for one myself. I am going to go look at a 84 chev silverado soon. It has just been restored inside so both bench seats are like new, also has a new black paint job with a worked 454 big block. I love the look of the old trucks.
We pay $1.45 a litre on a bad day for 98 octane pump fuel.

[percey39]

There was talk about this in a previous thread but i never seen it eventuate ( sorry if this has been done already ), so i figure lets start one as there are plenty of enthusiast here.

Well i have owned a few cars in my time and lost money on all of them haha ( the joy of it all ). I have owned a 2006 Ford BA XR6 turbo sedan ( 4.2 litre 6 cylinder ), 2002 Holden VT commodore ( 6 cylinder 3.6 litre ), 1994 Holden VR commodore ( 6 cylinder 3.6 litre ), 1992 Daewoo predator ( 4 cylinder 1.6 litre, good little get around rig ) and a 2011 Holden VE SS wagon ( 8 cylinder 6.0 litre ).

I still currently own a 1995 R33 GTR V-SPEC ( twin turbo 6 cylider ) which is the love of my life! I have spent countless hours and money on this car and could never bare to part with it, even if petrol went to $4 a litre lol. The GTR has G-REX ALCON 6 pot brake calipers, 265mm AP racing rotors ( 255mm rears ), HKS 3.5" straight through exhaust, JUN cams, gears, pistons, HKS oil cooler, HKS radiator, PWR intercooler, WORK meister SP3 18" rims, all HKS gauges other than the NISMO 320kmh dash, ZEIL coilovers, Garrett T04Z twin turbo upgrade running 24psi, too many to upgrades to list.

I have also just bought myself a 1998 GMC Sierra SLE 1500 pick up ( originally wanted a Dodge Ram 1500 laramie ). The GMC has a 502 ram jet big block, airbag suspension, 22"x10.5" rims, House of Kolour paint job, fully customised interior, 6 speed manual gear box, 3" stainless straight through exhaust, a massive grind cam, detroit locker diff, Westcoast custom sound system ( 3500 watts ), 12" Alpine dvd/tv and many many more extras. Looking at possibly setting this motor up for a top mount blower running 10-14psi, which would be lovely to say the least lol. Already has enough power to pop the clutch at 110kmh or 60mph and start smoking the tyres so the blower would be lethal and would push me over 1000hp.

I would love a original Dodge RT charger, 68 pontiac transam firebird, 67 camaro ss, dodge viper srt10, 67 mustang, bugatti veyron, ferrari fxx and a lamborghini diablo. Its a long list that i can never ever possibly own lol even if i won the lottery.

Im interested to hear what you guy's have both owned and dream/plan to own in the future.

Cheers in advance Aaron.

[Lankyrob]

Wish i could rival that list!!!

I had a 950cc Ford Fiesta (blew up), 1300cc Fiesta (blew up), 1300cc Opel Kadett with racing carbs - nice car, good run around and enough "poke" to scare a few Hot Hatches, F1 Audi Coupe (best car ever) -2200cc 5-cylinder beast that scared a couple of Porsches of the lights! Crashed that one! VW Golf 1300cc, total wreck, no brakes and leaked every fluid known to man everywhere it went. Honda CRX 1500cc - another great car, very good economy but variable valve timing so when you floored it the speedo went up almost as fast as the rev counter! Ford Orion 1500cc diesel (my first "sensible family car". 1800cc Ford Sierra Sapphire. Renault Scenic 1600cc and then my current car Renault Scenic 1600cc vvti auto (first ever auto but cant drive manual anymore as my left leg goes dead when i sit)

From 17 to 24 i was also doing over 90k miles in company vehicles and wrote off seven cars in the first 5 years of my driving career, couple my fault but most were down to others stupidity. Scariest one was 90mph in thrid lane of motorway and drivers side front tire blew out - had wife to be in the car with me and that was what made it scary, all my other crashes had just been me. Luckily i was pretty strong back then and managed to keep the car out of the barriers and/or other cars by pure determination not to let the bloody thing spin.

[BlindOne]

Some cool stuff I've owned,

68 Camaro
83 Shelby Charger
95 Z28
99 TransAm

Current - 03 Nissan Maxima and 03 Infiniti G35



No plans to get anything else but I'd lean towards either a Infiniti FX or G37S

[infernalis]

because we have a general banter thread and people forget to use it