The big issue is inherent risk this represents to both racers and spectator. Let’s face it the participants aren’t going to be safety minded. Does the city take this liability on?

Finding a location for a new race track is going to be rough.

Even a short dirt track can be heard for miles.  The NIMBYs will make sure it won’t happen.

They’re called racetracks.

“...questions of enforcement, funding, and safety precautions will have to be answered.”

It is like a Ford ancestor to the AWD One Tonner / AWD Crewman / Adventra. It’s interesting that later Falcons never got the same treatment - the closest thing was that high-riding RTV derivative of the BA around in the early noughties. It’s not like it should have been an impossible thing to develop either, because…

Apparently Ford Australia actually built their own version in-house as a possible vehicle for the ADF. They didn’t end up winning the contract and sold them to the public (I wasn’t even aware that they existed to be honest):

This Trucel 4wd should have been a factory production option.

The same guy did this Datsun

The antipodean equivalent (inspiration?) for the El Camino, the Holden Ute, spawned a limited run of pseudo-trars (Holden Overlanderwback in the late ‘70s. It didn’t ride on an actual truck frame, but the vehicle was pretty close to a truck anyway:

You’re not, but the police DGAF. Used car lots, repair shops all over Gowanus do this, and it sucks.

Crown

My Hilux is slowly succumbing to body rust thanks to all its thin panels. I’ve always said if the rust gets beyond my control and eats a pillar, I’m putting an old car body on it. I’ve seen a few trars in my time. They were all 350-powered tho. Boring. Just wait til you see a lifted pony car struggling to move with…

Minis from this period can be hard to identify because Leyland was constantly shifting production and tooling around. It’s almost certainly an Aussie Mini (built in New Zealand) because the UK Clubman was, afaik, never built with external hinges and window vent wings.

The Metro-on-a-Samurai mod is a time honored tradition.

That’s a real early Clubman too, the external hinges and sliding windows place it as a 68-69 which were the first of that shape; the colour is Applejack Green, I had a 1275GT the same colour.

Thats either a Clubman or a 1275 GT. It’s a later model, yes, but it didn’t outright replace the earlier design, it was sold alongside the original one, which actually outlasted it. The models that used this grille were available from 1969 to 1980 and the original design stayed in production until 2000

Take my tsar!

The trars used to rule Rurria, prior to the communirts.

And now we call them crossovers, but they sit a little lower.

It’s almost as if the entire system was design to benefit the banks. Hmmmm... Who got their money first in all this bailout frenzy?