Truck of some sort
MGB
Holden Torana
Datsun 120Y(?) wagon
Mitsubishi Magna.
Truck of some sort
MGB
Holden Torana
Datsun 120Y(?) wagon
Mitsubishi Magna.
Life's too short to drive bad cars.
Never own more cars than you can keep charged batteries in...
Took the CSL to a car show on Saturday and was in good BMW company as you can see.
There was much to drool over... but these two Alfas did it for me: 8C 2900A and 8C2300 Monza. Stunning.
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Never own more cars than you can keep charged batteries in...
Some cool metal. What show was it?
Just as well someone else answered that - I could have told you it was a Chevrolet (because I saw the badge...) but that would have been about all.
This Mitsubishi Magna is rather a rare example - it is a limited edition from 1990 (I know this because I knew someone who had one) called the Grand Tourer. Apparently they only made 1,000 of them: 250 blue, 250 burgundy and 500 white. Given that there aren't many of the earlier Magnas left on the road, there's probably not many like this around now.
Never own more cars than you can keep charged batteries in...
SVT Focus and a Mitsu Evo. Both black.
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Thank you.
Old US pickups used to be so shapely.
Now they're all just boring cardboard boxes.
Just take a look at the Ford F-150 and the Chevy Silverado. Exchange the badges and remove the grills and you wouldn't know which company made which truck.
Very cool auto show!
Hmm, I screwed up in my identification.
Thanks for identifying them for me.
I enjoy looking for old rides in my walks around my neighborhood too.
Were USDM Chevy trucks being in the Australian market a rare occurrence? I mean, GM does have a division there. Although I'm not sure when 'utes became popular.
Agreed; '52 Fords were amazing-looking trucks. CSL, I agree, a good Alfa is almost always a show stopper. Partial to the 1600 Giulias myself
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An it harm none, do as ye will
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USDM cars in general are pretty rare here, I think Ford sell the F-#50s here but they're not a strong seller. Too damn big for our roads, we can get one-tonners that are much smaller and'll do the needed quite nicely. The main overlap for GM would be sharing cars from the Korean division, for Ford it's the Fiesta and Focus.
Life's too short to drive bad cars.
Thanks for the input. I'm not sure why Ford doesn't sell anything smaller than the F-150. It's freaking huge!
They do sell the Ford Ranger, but the Ranger will be discontinued very soon. There's nothing wrong with it, it does its job well and is relatively fuel efficient too.
Probably the reason why is that the profit on the F-150 is far higher than any Ranger would net. Cutting it out would force people to buy a higher spec truck.
The same has happened with Toyota's trucks too. The Tacoma used to be this tiny thing. Now it's relatively massive.
I saw a Tundra here once. It was ridiculous.
Life's too short to drive bad cars.
NSX, we also have a range of utes based off the much smaller Falcon and Commodore sedan platforms to choose from - something the US doesn't get from either Ford or GM from what I have seen.
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I saw an F430 yesterday, blasting buy us down the highway at what must have been twice the speed limit. The exhaust note is to die for.
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Only saw two cars of interest this weekend, but they were a bit unusual. One was a late 1920s (I think) Chrysler Tourer (beige with black mudguards) and the other was a dark green Austin Healey (the small one with front lights that look like frog eyes)
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