How about an elegant Bearcat?

Not necessarily a cracked dash, I’ve always put dash mats in my vehicles, none of them have had a cracked dash before or after. When you live in a hot climate it protects the dash and eliminates reflections on the inside of the windscreen, they are definitely worth having.

These were sold in Australia and probably other markets as the Capella, with the rotary versions as RX2. The RX2 was a fairly potent machine 50 years ago, I had a friend who owned one back then.

Right now around Brisbane Australia, our petrol is around AUD$1.899/lt, which equates to AUD$7.60/US gallon. At today’s exchange rates that is around USD$5.42.

Signal works fine in iphones, there are at least six of my family members, including me, who use it quite a bit.

In the early 70's I had a Valiant Charger 6 Pack, in Australia. These came with the option of a 37 gallon tank, which mine had and needed. It had a filler on both both B pillars, so you could fill it from either side, or both at once if you were in a hurry. These cars were built specifically to compete at Bathurst…

You are showing your age with this one, probably a lot of others won’t get it, but well done.

Sounds like Japan fuel prices are similar to Australia’s, around the Brisbane area the price has just gone up to AU$1.839/Lt, which using today’s exchange rate is around US$5.13/US gallon.

In Australia we officially changed to metric in the early 70's, however there are still some thing measured in imperial units. Wheels and Tyres for example are still measured/described/sold in inches. Being an old fart I was driving when this all came in, we were introduced to the metric system gradually, it was…

Holden made utes from about 1948, so a little bit before the Finns.

Yes, the latest Mazda’s are basically re-badged Isuzu D-Max’s and are dearer than their Isuzu counterparts.

How deep is the water where it is moored, would it be feasible to fill below it with concrete or steel pylons and a cradle of some description to support it? Or even move it somewhere close where the water is shallow enough to allow this.

Being an Australian, I have had a few Holdens, doing a quick count as least 19 of them over the years. I still have one, a Holden Crewman which is basically a dual cab ute, will probably have it for a long time to come. My favourites were both utes - a HZ V8 Kingswood manual and a VR V6 Commodore manual.

In the late 80's in Australia I owned an 1985 Mitsubishi L300, which is the US Wagon and a 1985 Nissan Urvan, which was a work van, at the same time. The Urvan is a similar size and spec van to the Toyota Hiace. In my opinion there was no comparison in the build quality of the two with the Nissan being a far better…

Where I live in the state of Queensland, Australia they have made it an offence to leave an unlocked vehicle unattended. By unattended they mean being more than 3 metre (10 feet) from the vehicle. This law was introduced to counter car theft, hasn’t worked out great as the thieves just break into the house first and…

Max, your faith is very misguided. My father was a mechanic and one of his customers bought one of these new around 1963, the owner should have saved his money. That thing used to spend more time in the workshop than anywhere else, there was always something failing on it. I can remember it being there for up to six…

Subaru have been around longer than that in Australia. Had a coworker who bought one new around 1974.

In Australia the Colorado is rated at 3,500kgs which equates to 7,716lbs.

I learnt to drive on a 1950 Chev with three on the tree and no synchro on first. Great way to learn how to drive a manual properly, always had to double to change down to first. I taught myself rev matching so that I could go from first up to third and back without using the clutch at all.

8 horse power. Common with a lot of British vehicles in the 40's & 50's was to use the horse power to denote the model. Austin 7; Standard 10 etc.