The first year was a 1979 Fiat 131 Mirafiori. $610 on eBay.

Why don’t all you Yanks who want to visit Aus club together and form your own team? I’m sure an Aussie can be cajoled into finding you something suitably crap-worthy.

He is totally right. $500 won’t buy you a car that moves under it’s own power in Australia. You can get something that vaguely works for $1000. But it will most likely be the above listed snoozemobiles. Falcon, Camry, Magna, Commodore. The same crap BORING people take on the Shitbox Rally every year.

I’ve done four Shitbox Rallies. They are not a race, more of a survival test - Can you keep a $1000 clunker runnng for 4000km of the most unforgiving roads the organisers can find. I know quite a few “Shitboxers” are signed up to do the Aussie LeMons.

Safe grownup? LOL :D

Have you ever seen the Peking to Paris 2005 series?

I’m an admin on a Facebook group. We recently had someone list a 1930-something Holden-bodied Vauxhall for sale. Before Holden made complete cars they used to import chassis from England and American GM lines to Australia and make the bodies locally. It was a way of getting around import taxes or local content laws.…

Reminds me of when somebody went and painted $ symbols inside the lanes on freeways around Western Melbourne to mark the position of fixed speed cameras. The state cleaned them all off pretty quick.

My next door neighbour has an X6 and I hate the bloody thing. He bought it off his idiot son to bail him out of car payments he could not afford. So I guess there is a decent reason for it. Plus the W108 Mercedes and Holden Monaro he also owns makes up for it. (BTW: Said idiot son then went and leased a Range Rover…

I already have glasses and I was wearing them!!

Amen to that. Fortunately it seems to be slowly dissolving. I used to suffer from it myself. But when I wanted a bug as a daily I thought to myself “If only I could buy one with room for my daughter’s pram.” Then it hit me that VW already provided that - the Super!

I don’t give a toss what the Samba says. I have been driving my own 74 Super daily for five years and it does not shimmy at any speed. They did not shimmy when new either. So who do you think I should I believe? The internet or my own experiences?

Reasons why a Super Beetle is superior to the standard:

Easily resolved by replacing any worn bits in the front end and careful on-car wheel balancing.

This is true: “All super beetles were IRS.” 68-on Standard Beetles could be swing axle or IRS depending where they were made. For example the 68-70 Autostick Beetles sold in Australia were made in Germany so they had the IRS rear. The manual Beetles were made in Melbourne and had the swing axle rear.

Or wipe your ass with it!

I know you can’t buy them in the USA, but I’d nominate the Land Rover Defender. Could be driven by a farmer or a CEO! Once again, timeless and retro.

A $50K DeLorean today will always be cool and will be $80-100K in ten years. The Golf R will be just another hatchback with a faulty transmission for $400 on Craigslist.

Yo have an unhealthy obsession with a lot of odd things. Patrols are very cheap in Australia and Japan. There are plenty old enough to import to the US.

In Australia we have been able to buy a Wrangler with a dealer fit lift kit new for YEARS! My local dealer has a lifted Unlimited in the showroom right now!