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Old 05-05-2024, 07:50 PM   #1
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I'd love one of those AWD TX3 Turbos, the sedan version though.

They're rare as rocking horse shit these days, especially a standard example.
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I'd love one of those AWD TX3 Turbos, the sedan version though.

They're rare as rocking horse shit these days, especially a standard example.
Id reckon if you took a survey here 90% would be with you.
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Id reckon if you took a survey here 90% would be with you.
had a TX3 as a company car, was a great ride.
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Went to the local industrial estate cafe for smoko around the corner from work to this morning,

As I'm about to get out the car, there's a mint condition EL Falcon in that burgandy colour reversing into the car park.

So I hang back and have a chat to the owner.

Rolling on custom made deep dish silver snowflakes with a chrome rim, aside from the wheels the car looked factory.

Looked under the rear - been converted to IRS.

Owner has 6 EL Falcons, all highly modified, was an 80 year old bloke who does caravan transport between Melbourne and Sydney so he's in Campbellfield regularly.

Him and his son built the cars.

Saw dead stock FG F6 sedan in mint condition in white on the way home

The stuff you see around Campbellfield is nuts, there's a whole heap of AUDM cars getting around, saw new Camaro too.
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This ute was in seriously unbelievable condition.

It looked like it was on its first drive out.

Zoom in.

I have a BA XR8 ute in same colour and I was so jealous of the paint. And headlights. And....etc.

Went up to take a pic, turns out its a Lowndesy model.



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Went to the local industrial estate cafe for smoko around the corner from work to this morning,

As I'm about to get out the car, there's a mint condition EL Falcon in that burgandy colour reversing into the car park.

So I hang back and have a chat to the owner.

Rolling on custom made deep dish silver snowflakes with a chrome rim, aside from the wheels the car looked factory.

Looked under the rear - been converted to IRS.

Owner has 6 EL Falcons, all highly modified, was an 80 year old bloke who does caravan transport between Melbourne and Sydney so he's in Campbellfield regularly.

Him and his son built the cars.

Saw dead stock FG F6 sedan in mint condition in white on the way home

The stuff you see around Campbellfield is nuts, there's a whole heap of AUDM cars getting around, saw new Camaro too.
Does this bloke want to adopt another son?
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had a TX3 as a company car, was a great ride.
Knew a bloke who traded + a bit of cash for a turned up tx3. Dunno who got the better deal to be honest. He traded his xf which was half caged, mini tubbed, 351 and a toplaoder for the tx3. To be fair his xf was a bit much for street duties as lumpy cam etc. The tx3, well it did the traction thing and made 90s turbo noises.
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Saw a Mazda Cosmo on the freeway on Monday morning took a while before the brain cells kicked in and remembered the name as even in its day it wasn't common.
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Reasonably straight original XG van today and that gorgeous XF van in the background.

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Reasonably straight original XG van today and that gorgeous XF van in the background.

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We saw a very neat one tonight parked up at a set of shops.
Even driving past at 60kmh with the sun gone you could tell it was a clean one.
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XG (I think) S-Pack ute in Bunnings Gladesville, this afternoon. Driver looked original to the car - probably in his nineties or close. 4.0 badge was above the repeater blinker, not beside it as in the Wiz’s photo. Had alloys I now think were correct to the car - originally thought they came with chaser style steelies.
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XG (I think) S-Pack ute in Bunnings Gladesville, this afternoon. Driver looked original to the car - probably in his nineties or close. 4.0 badge was above the repeater blinker, not beside it as in the Wiz’s photo. Had alloys I now think were correct to the car - originally thought they came with chaser style steelies.
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I had that same van for a company car back in the day, used to give it a right royal flogging handled that easy.

Cosmo is a damn rare sighting GT450.
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I saw a Honda Insight last Sunday that had the brain searching for its identity which came to me when I got home.
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That panelvan is prolly a concourse Monaro again now!
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Properly neglected VU SS 50 ute
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Properly neglected VU SS 50 ute
Funny, I still call them the SS 49 after a mate wrote his off back in the day
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Remember all the 90's imports of the day, dont see any of them anymore, like the Toyota Sera, I remember a yard that was importing heaps of these, Delica's Corollas and RX7's in Fremantle in the 90's

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Don't see these anymore, much less racing them.





(to new) but have never seen one of these in person.

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ZB Commodore. Can't remember when I saw one last.
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ZB Commodore. Can't remember when I saw one last.
saw one the other day amazingly, a wagon.
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saw one the other day amazingly, a wagon.
Other way around for me.
Always see the wagons, rarely spot a sedan.
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roK these are recent pics ? you at the track yesterday ?
Damn marvellous seeing them thats for sure, the coupes AU and XY ?

yer the yanky modern day vette, nothing like of the early era ones but not a bad modern day version.
Seen them heaps when over there, massive bang for buck compared to euros.
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roK these are recent pics ? you at the track yesterday ?
Damn marvellous seeing them thats for sure, the coupes AU and XY ?

yer the yanky modern day vette, nothing like of the early era ones but not a bad modern day version.
Seen them heaps when over there, massive bang for buck compared to euros.
Yep, Saturday round 1 Supertrucks the car racing is always a bonus.
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The owner of that AU previously raced an XB coupe in the same series. That XB won the chanpionship 4 yrs in row by memory.
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ole bushy shearer in town doing some fishing and this is his transport 430,000K 1 owner, running a bit rough and poor bugga cant work out why but its serviced every 5K by a country workshop.

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ole bushy shearer in town doing some fishing and this is his transport 430,000K 1 owner, running a bit rough and poor bugga cant work out why but its serviced every 5K by a country workshop.

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Look at that gorgeous body shape from the late 90's, err early 90's, err 80's err 70's.
At least there's a long time span of parts around.
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Look at that gorgeous body shape from the late 90's, err early 90's, err 80's err 70's.
At least there's a long time span of parts around.
Running rough? Serviced every 5k? My go would be fuel.

My X-Trail started to run a little rough, especially on cold starts. Even when filling with 98 at non BP (independent) stations. A tank full of BP 98 fixed it. Won't look back.
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Parked near a previously seen Alfasud this morning at the local shops. Owner showed up and we briefly chatted. Its still on original rego, owner said it was 44 years old and a one owner car, which looked about right if he'd bought it as a young man.

It looks like a well loved survivor car. Next time I'll grab a snap.

He did say getting parts was becoming a real problem.
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