Wood on a car should be real wood, not vinyl.

Drift car wasn’t the only way to go with an S14 Silvia, although a near $150,000 pricetag for this version built as a fully street legal car designed to be eligible for Australian GT-P racing (a class full of Ferraris and Porsches) meant not many were built.

You forgot the R100.

Just to be a pedant, although the Barra name has become synonymous with the inline 6, the 3V SOHC Modular Ford V8 used in the BA and BF Falcons was also officially called a Barra by Ford Australia too.

You just have to be careful pushing a lot of boost into the early versions, since the rods were a bit undersized. Later versions had beefier rods, and take a lot more boost safely. There is a least one road registered Falcon down here with a Barra producing over 2000hp at the wheels, and plenty of cars over the 1000hp…

Barra in a Miata has been done too!

A Barra in a Lincoln has been done:

I’m probably nerdy and weird and called Morgan too, although I’m fairly sure I wasn’t named after the car make. But it does mean I can have a nice monogram for my tool cabinet, thanks to a Morgan boot badge:

I’ve got a 1962 Valiant - built in the US as a compact, shipped to Australia as a CKD kit, and sold here as a full size family car.

Holden Hurricane:

Not sure when white reversing lights became mandatory in Australia, but most of my fleet (the ‘66 and earlier stuff) doesn’t have them. My first car (1970 MKII Cortina) had a white reverse light that appeared to be factory or dealer fitment (I saw them on other Cortinas but have never seen pictures of them on British…

This was my wedge:

Bad paint? Dodgy aftermarket bodykit needs work?

From the back the 4500GT looks like the result of a Corvette raping a Renault Megane hatch.

Fiat 850 Sport Coupe with a Leyland P76 alloy 4.4 litre V8 and VW transaxle in place of the original 903cc four and 4 speed. I measured this up when I had the engine out of my old Sport Coupe, and it would actually fit. Plus I have an old dodgy drawthrough carby turbo kit that fits the V8 if a rear-engined V8 Fiat…

Holden HK GTS. No, not a Monaro, that name only applied to more ‘basic’ versions, as my father-in-law often reminds me. He bought one after coming back to Australia from living for 6 months in Pennsylvania, where he got a taste for V8 power. Although he spoiled things by ordering it ‘stripe delete’, so it had no…

I ran over a wombat once in a Datsun 510, and actually got airborne .....and then the wombat got back up and ran off!

But hanging all the mass outside the wheelbase makes for fantastic wheelies with enough power. A Fiat workshop in Sydney once built a Fiat 850 drag car with a turbocharged Fiat 124 1.8 litre engine with nitrous, running through a VW gearbox (which is apparently an easy transplant into an 850 using axles made from a…

Yes, there are a lot of these in Australia.