So... what car do you guys drive when not flying?

[tgh]

That was the real question, why do so many dreamers folks store these old clunkers ?
It seems an almost insurmountable challenge to restore most post wwii cars because the moulded plastic components are irreplaceable.
I browse collectable cars a bit and opine that the general market is heading down save for a tight core of "real" collectibles like Cossie's fleet.
The youngsters do not have the historic attachment or the practical skills to manage them.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Helping a friend store an unregistered Jag. His neighbours reported it to the Local council as it was stored on the road

I'm still trying to open the boot. The British have a weird way with some door latches
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bodies blocking the opening?

 

[Quickstatus]

bodies blocking the opening

This is a british car. The Mafia not interested in these cars

 

[TheRealTMA]

This is a british car. The Mafia not interested in these cars

LOL - Dinsdale Piranha! Piranha Brothers - Wikipedia

 

[Brissy1]

That was the real question, why do so many dreamers folks store these old clunkers ?
It seems an almost insurmountable challenge to restore most post wwii cars because the moulded plastic components are irreplaceable.
I browse collectable cars a bit and opine that the general market is heading down save for a tight core of "real" collectibles like Cossie's fleet.
The youngsters do not have the historic attachment or the practical skills to manage them.

I wish I stored my 1963 beetle (sold for $50), my 1939 Singer 9 (sold for $40), my 1973? Triumph tr6 (sold for $6k) my 1970? Mini,

 

[Cossie]

I wish I stored my 1963 beetle (sold for $50), my 1939 Singer 9 (sold for $40), my 1973? Triumph tr6 (sold for $6k) my 1970? Mini,

Yep, I think I know how you feel, a friend sold his GTHO Falcon for peanuts years ago, still has nightmares about it!

 

[TheRealTMA]

https://www.couriermail.com.au/motoring/on-the-road/stupid-american-trucks-aussies-erupt-as-hated-us-trend-takes-over/news-story/7d27bb85b33782ab28acfd18d29bda2d

The vehicles have become so ubiquitous they’ve even been given an Aussie nickname – the “emotional support vehicle”, or ESV – mockingly implying owners of these cars only buy them to compensate for their own shortcomings.

A variety of other creatively insulting nicknames have also been termed, including “Seppo” (short for septic tank, which rhymes with Yank), “Yank tanks” and “freedumb trucks”, as well as a string of others that are too crude to publish
The trucks have been mockingly dubbed 'emotional support vehicles' – among other crude nicknames.

 

[tgh]

That is a bit hurtful , I was quite proud of my Dodge Ram , passing Hyundai's on the freeway with a 26ft 5th wheel horse float behind and getting 10l/100km mostly…
Horses for courses…of course earmuffs were helpful standing beside it idling in the garage but you can't have everyhting...

 

[Buzzard]

Saw this beautiful Porsche in Tokyo this morning.

 

[Quickstatus]

The Tesla Y dual motor long range has come out. Previously it was only the RWD and Dual motor performance. Probably the Goldilocks of the Range.
No LCT if no additional enhancements are included

 

[Cossie]

Saw this beautiful Porsche in Tokyo this morning.
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Must be rich, apparently in Japan, once a car is 5 years old expensive taxes kick in. Was meant to be so that the Japanese auto industry kept plodding along. (afaik)

 

[Quickstatus]

Was meant to be so that the Japanese auto industry kept plodding along

And some of the older ones get grey imported into AUS

 

[Flashback]

That was the real question, why do so many dreamers folks store these old clunkers ?
It seems an almost insurmountable challenge to restore most post wwii cars because the moulded plastic components are irreplaceable.
I browse collectable cars a bit and opine that the general market is heading down save for a tight core of "real" collectibles like Cossie's fleet.
The youngsters do not have the historic attachment or the practical skills to manage them.

3D printers?

 

[Buzzard]

Must be rich, apparently in Japan, once a car is 5 years old expensive taxes kick in. Was meant to be so that the Japanese auto industry kept plodding along. (afaik)

I've been told similar.
Also saw an RX8 and I thought someone has some spare cash.
It was surprisingly quiet, I was hoping to hear a nice bridge or peripheral port.

 

[Happy Dude]

Must be rich, apparently in Japan, once a car is 5 years old expensive taxes kick in. Was meant to be so that the Japanese auto industry kept plodding along. (afaik)

There's a pretty stringent RWC requirement too every two years that escalates with age, called shaken. I think also you have to demonstrate you have a parking space. My girlfriend at the time I lived there, 25 years ago now, had a lovely Golf and was paying IIRC around $500 a month to park in an open parking lot.

There was an Aussie guy who kept an apartment in my complex, and he'd come over 4x a year to buy cars to send home to AUS. Said he did pretty well as the second hand market there was poor.

 

[Cossie]

And some of the older ones get grey imported into AUS

Also NZ, I was friends with a girl from NZ in the late eighties, she worked for a car dealer there, but it was cheaper to go on an organised trip to Tokyo and buy a second hand car there and get it shipped to her home. Airfares, accomodation included, nice little holiday she said.

 

[cambriamarsh]

And some of the older ones get grey imported into AUS

And lots end up in NZ ( beaten to it)

 

[Cossie]

Same stage as Mikko Hirvonen from above.

Paddon has driven this stage many times, so he should be able to drive it flatout, blind, meaning no pacenotes. Anyway, this car sits below the level of a top tier WRC car, that is, all wheel drive and turbocharged engine, enjoy.

 

[Buzzard]

There's a pretty stringent RWC requirement too every two years that escalates with age, called shaken. I think also you have to demonstrate you have a parking space. My girlfriend at the time I lived there, 25 years ago now, had a lovely Golf and was paying IIRC around $500 a month to park in an open parking lot.

There was an Aussie guy who kept an apartment in my complex, and he'd come over 4x a year to buy cars to send home to AUS. Said he did pretty well as the second hand market there was poor.

I remember years ago there were car yards on Parramatta Rd selling only grey imports.
A friend of mine had a business importing cars only a few years old to wreck for parts. He did better than those who bought damaged cars at auction as you could sell almost the whole vehicle.
His business venture made him quite wealthy.

 

[tgh]

I thought that age had made me immune to the "car want" disease..but this has me salivating

2024 RAM 1500 REV specs announced

Twin 250kW motors, huge 229kWh battery, long 800km range and 0-100km/h in about 4.5sec…

www.carsales.com.au

otoh this is probably what I am up to punting around Cossies rally track….