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If you're self-conscious enough to think everyone's looking at you, maybe deep down inside you really like or want the attention?
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lol, i just get the 'can you go round corners with the wheels tucked up like that, or, 'i think your back tyres flat'... gotta love stretched tyres.
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Atm it looks like poo with the paint 1/2 stripped and sanded but in it's heyday 8'6" wide and 18'6" long standing 5'4" high and almost two tons 4.1 litre twin cam with triple su cars , makes a fantastic cam whine when wound up (build March 1966) |
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Reading some of these reminded me of one last year. I pulled up at a set of lights in the EA, and an old bloke pulled up next to me in a Mini Moke. He would have been around 70, had the wife-beater and shorts on, he's looked over and given an appreciative nod. It was good to see the Moke out, and he seemed to like my car as well.
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love it when dads driving the XL and people ask him if his had it from new ( his 58)
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I sooo do that too.... lol The car is cool though, not me lol I also drop it back a gear and give it a bootfull whenever I go through an underpass. I love that glorious V8 sound amplifying 10 fold and reverberating at full noise - particularly when there's a ricer next to me ;-) |
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I love the attention my car gets, mostly from teenagers who don't have a clue what it is and older blokes who "used to have one of those".
Except I HATE when people a) touch my car - had one lady bang on the front guards because "old cars are tough" - as if that makes it OK to try and damage them and b) call my car a chev -case in point on Australia day last week going through maccas drivethrough bunch of 15-16yr olds were like "wow thats a nice car - yeah its an old chev!!" Anyway I still love all the looks and thumbs up. |
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doing a crawl along hindley one night in the XA.... drunken yob, cool wicked car... 308...?????
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I find it most rewarding when strangers walk past and say "Nice ute mate" or take photo's of her, it's like having that Blonde bombshell hanging of your arm
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Isn't the entire point of doing up cars to attract this kind of attention? You'd be lying if you said otherwise.
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Definately not. I do it for me. If other people like it, good. If not stiff sheet.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who disagrees with this statement. I love muscle cars, I love seeing them out and about and I love owning them. However, I am often uncomfortable with the attention they bring, but nothing will stop me owning or driving them!! I don't own them for the attention they bring!!! |
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i had many of the above problems when i had my honda z50a out in public once.....
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Xe's are certainly still bogan vehicles unfortunately, they need another five to ten years before it will change. I was at the servo in my xe, at the time primer on the guards and generally rough, and a little guy straight out of longbay jail holding a sports bag walks up exclaiming how effing great the car is, and saying a bunch of other stuff I had know idea what he was talking about. I'm sure he had a gun in the bag, my wife thought it was funny, she hates the xe.
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I was about 15 when the last of the XE V8s rolled off the production line and until a few years ago I HATED XEs (and XDs) with a passion for there plastic bumpers and dashboards, etc. However these days I appreciate their tough looks and clean lines and I'd be the first person to give a thumbs up to an neat XE!!! ![]() |
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Yeah, the D's and E's used to be a niche vehicle, but they're really coming into their own these days.
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It was late in the day and getting dark, when i confirmed the colour one of them had the other in the headlock as i drove away. |
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