Fifty plus, bald, looking for a divorce

“There’s no replacement for cup-displacement”

The ‘no replacement...’ argument is technically flawed; any forced induction is just forcing the engine to displace more air/fuel over a set period of time. But it was common tongue in Aus back in the day too.

After reading this and getting all nostalgic about how we used to buy car magazines, I’ve been trying to find the source article for “Godzilla”. I believe it was in Motoring Australia on the R32 GT-R and ATCC.

This was pretty similar in Australia. The pretty boys had the candy-painted Supra/300ZX/HSV. The real hoons had a Skyline, some AWD thing or an older, more brutal Holden.

This is just the US. The rest of the world still got good cars.

That pin-striping has Radwood written all over it

Totally right about the headlights. My bad. The premier came with more chrome trim around the sides and back, but any resto-mod would remove this.

Give me this car and a dirt paddock and i’ll hoon my weekend away and still make a profit compared to what could be spent on booze in NYC.

Correct. HQ Kingswood.

A lot of the gold is real. No shit. The owner of the garage had many parts gold plated:

Yeah, nah.... the rotary engine’s small size makes it really easy to slip into a size 0 dress, making it great for drag....

Does anyone agree, or it is just me, that the silence of these cars is the least appealing part? Perhaps making them somewhat unappealing?

Thank you very much for this post. I and couldn’t agree more with your point of view.

Try again - this is the pole lap:

And having them properly capture the snake, rather than having it slither out of the engine bay and into your house....

I see a few comments of ‘snake ok, but fuck Aussie spiders’...

Have you seen this Might Mods episode:

Getting the first witty comment on the blog: X-games 2018 candidate

I see! So same logic as how Donald Trump got to be Prez? Because ‘America’?