7shades

So... I was having a couple of beverages with this german backpacker the other day, and, long story short, she gave me her car. Its a 1980 Mazda 929. 2 litre, 5 speed, Aircon. Grotesquely overweight, and more akin to driving a lounge room than a car.... with period correct brownest of brown interior, resplendent in crushed velvety stuff (striped and pleated) and laminex woodgrain. Sexy. Now ordinarily I'd just take something like this out bush and see how well it was engineered, but unfortunately: a: It drives beautifully b: It is 100% completely rust free c: It is completely original, unmolested and DEAD straight... other than the front.... So I've decided to keep it and do something with it. Now the chickie did have a slight altercation with some wildlife and the bumper and front panels were a liiiitle munted... so the next day I fell arse backwards into another one with good panels... which I also got for free. Mr. Brown was very quickly liberated of anything useful and sent on his merry way. So kids.... what should I do with it? I was thinking maybe boso style?, or slammed with moonies and whitewalls or something... but I'm not sure. I'd appreciate some suggestions, however rediculous they may be. The interior will be pimp... no question about that. We're talking so much fur and velvet it will look like Bootsy Collins' bedroom baby. As for the drivetrain, I have this to play with This engine bay is HUUUUGE... i mean really frikkin big. More room in here than an old falcon or kingswood. The photo doesn't really convey its hugeness (and yes I am standing on the cowl panel) so I could fit pretty much anything in there. Trans tunnel is complimentarily huge as well. So, whaddyareckon? J

Just find some backpackers to drive them up for you... thats how most older cars end up in cairns... its an elephant graveyard. One million shitty vans and almost as many EB falcon and pintara wagons.... quite literally abandoned in the streets...

Move up here... :lolcry: its been raining for a week already and it wont stop for months now.

Oh man don't get me started on mexico... I love the place. Fresh Tortas, buck fitty. Tequila, everywhere. Dumbarse americans, in abundance. Luckily a lot of them are schoolgirls who have never seen alcohol before :lolcry: Corona, fitty cents. AND... cos they recycle the bottles, once you drink three 6 packs, you take the bottles back to the shop and they give you ANOTHER 6 pack for free....

Hot.... HOT?! In victoria? .... I'll give you bloody hot.... come up here for a week, you'll sweat gravy.

I see 5 lug hubs in a lot of the cars you guys build... what sort of suspension are you running?

It got lost trying to find the toilet in the middle of the night

Oh dear... This is surely a sign of the apocalypse... as Australians sloooowly develop good taste in beer, VB sales are dropping, and they are forced to resort to CREATIVE ADVERTISING Tooheys and Carlton should be getting scared...

The 'new' lancer reminds me of a 12 year old Galant/Legnum... Not exactly leaps and bounds ahead in the styling department.

ye be needin' a TIME MACHINE aaaaar

aaah pity its not an XT I have a set of headers here for a starfire I have noooo idea what to do with

Holy crap you guys are muy loco! I'm moving over, make some room in the garage

Nice package.

I've heard about these crazy Puerto Ricans.... about time they showed up :)

Close... almost... ok not really. Thailand.

Still makes me shudder in either regard

Please don't use the word 'fabbing' ever ever again

Take the memories, burn the car. Unless its a SSS vector in which case you should take the gearbox and factory Viscous LSD

Go polish something

You, sir, are as bad as me. Actually no, you're much much worse.

And how many cars have you bought and given up on in the last few weeks

Invent free energy?

Ok get this I have been getting quotes to ship a front beaver panel to David in Norway. Weighs less than 2kg, but is 140cm long. cheapest so far - $320

The, um, 'heavily tanned' brethren up here are quite fond of the ol' VB...