At that price I’d consider a “no rust at all” version. Unfortunately if you can see rust this bad then there is usually much worse.

Haha no need for apologies bud, today is our national holiday “Australia Day” where it’s customary to bbq, drink some beer and enjoy company of friends. So, fives!

Call out to the internet! Can someone please edit this to replace the bat/ stick with lightsabers. Bonus points for sounds effects.

You sir, may have a star.

It was just this in crayon:

All i could think of was this guy:

Wooooo fellow WA dweller! Happy hottest 100 day!

Slow day in the office huh?

About 13 years ago I managed to ride a Yamaha R6 to a ski resort. I rode very slowly and carefully but the semi slick tires and swathes of black ice made keeping both wheels in line a massive chore.

The upside being you can get a decent amount of power, with a manual box. Just ignore the falling apart interior. The Ford option can also be had with a turbo straight six.

It’s sad that in 25 years there probably won’t be any left. The build quality is scary bad on pretty much any Aussie built car with a Holden or a ford badge. A lot of Aussies end up junking half the car and replacing/ rebuilding them to be “better”.

For sure. My Dad has been daily driving one for 15 years. The only failure has been the adhesive for the mirror on the wind shield (summers regularly hit 40 degrees celcius here), and the rear suspension bushes have had a creak on compression since new. Also, if you disconnect the battery pay close attention to the…

Yes, the category rules of the time state a car must be fitted with a spare tire and have a passenger seat. The tire was often mounted out of the way and the passenger seat was more often than not a small piece of sheet metal bent at an angle, covered in foam and mounted to the floor next to the driver seat.

Agreed. I spend a lot of time in Germany and Austria. Never heard of Bavaria being anything but a German state.

In Australia you could buy this as either a Ford Laser or a Mazda 323. In the hatch body variant the top spec variant was turbo and AWD sold as a Ford Laser TX3 or a Mazda 323 Turbo (JDM Mazda Familia). This was the car responsible for showing a lot of young drivers the capabilities of affordable turbo AWD fun before…

Also, for those unfamiliar with Darwin. Aside from the shark eating crocodiles and snake eating spiders, this is a news article from the area taken from todays paper:

Darwin, the only place in the world where the sharks get eaten by corcodiles before they eat you.

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This looks like one of the modern chinese knock-offs to me. Super CP.

New feature! Now with fleshlight mounted directly to voice coil!!