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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:00 pm 
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these are some of the fairmonts from around here,the potential is there,once you get past the plain body(sleeper).
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:46 pm 
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Awesome read. Good to see something different. Like USA!

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:57 pm 
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who the hell drinks Budweiser? it's an american beer. i'll enjoy myself a nice Victoria Bitter. lol. it's nice to see you can actually handwash your cars in the US. we can't due to water restriction because of the drought.


i believe he is drinking Bud Light, not Budweiser... i think they are 2 different beers?

nice build thread by the way 8-)

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:37 pm 
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alfy wrote:
WILDEB wrote:
who the hell drinks Budweiser? it's an american beer. i'll enjoy myself a nice Victoria Bitter. lol. it's nice to see you can actually handwash your cars in the US. we can't due to water restriction because of the drought.


i believe he is drinking Bud Light, not Budweiser... i think they are 2 different beers?

nice build thread by the way 8-)
oh are they? my bad. i don't think it law that we have to convert a US car to RHD. not sure.

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:39 pm 
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WILDEB wrote:
alfy wrote:
WILDEB wrote:
who the hell drinks Budweiser? it's an american beer. i'll enjoy myself a nice Victoria Bitter. lol. it's nice to see you can actually handwash your cars in the US. we can't due to water restriction because of the drought.


i believe he is drinking Bud Light, not Budweiser... i think they are 2 different beers?

nice build thread by the way 8-)
oh are they? my bad. i don't think it law that we have to convert a US car to RHD. not sure.


i think you can get cars club registered in SA to be left hand drive. maybe normal too, not 100% sure. at least we dont have to put those dumb stickers on the back of the car anymore saying "CAUTION - LEFT HAND DRIVE" :lol: lol

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:59 pm 
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alfy wrote:
WILDEB wrote:
alfy wrote:
WILDEB wrote:
who the hell drinks Budweiser? it's an american beer. i'll enjoy myself a nice Victoria Bitter. lol. it's nice to see you can actually handwash your cars in the US. we can't due to water restriction because of the drought.


i believe he is drinking Bud Light, not Budweiser... i think they are 2 different beers?

nice build thread by the way 8-)
oh are they? my bad. i don't think it law that we have to convert a US car to RHD. not sure.


i think you can get cars club registered in SA to be left hand drive. maybe normal too, not 100% sure. at least we dont have to put those dumb stickers on the back of the car anymore saying "CAUTION - LEFT HAND DRIVE" :lol: lol
i think we do here in Vic. why's it need a caution?

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:37 pm 
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to be honest im not entirely sure.

you would think itd be better getting out the left hand side of a car parked on the left hand side of the road lol

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:42 pm 
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The car in the two top photos (the one with the red pinstriping), is that what they call a Gran Torino?
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:40 pm 
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alfy wrote:
to be honest im not entirely sure.

you would think itd be better getting out the left hand side of a car parked on the left hand side of the road lol


yeh true. but it makes it hard to overtake people because you can't see passed the car.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:07 am 
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you can really see the dna in the a and c pillars between this car and its aussie brother the XD.

how much does she weigh mate, or is she one of them girls that dont like to say :P

it weighs 2650#(title weight).now it is about 2800#,3000# with me sitting in it.


a little over a metric ton, thats not bad at all!! with a 5.0 stroked out, will be making awesome hp/ton.

cant wait to see it in action (if only in pics lol) thank you for sharing this with us from the other side of the world!

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:49 am 
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good to see a car thats been done in "pimp" purple.
all jokes aside looks great ! what are the future plans ? what sort of power is it making? any 1/4 mile action yet?
look forward to see how things go.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:39 am 
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just over a tonne? holy crap thats light

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:19 am 
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with the RHD thing, over here any car less than 30 years old has to be converted.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:38 pm 
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fordman351 wrote:
The car in the two top photos (the one with the red pinstriping), is that what they call a Gran Torino?


not gran torino,it was the fairmont FUTURA model.it was the more advanced looking futuristic model(at the time).

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:41 pm 
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steveurban wrote:
good to see a car thats been done in "pimp" purple.
all jokes aside looks great ! what are the future plans ? what sort of power is it making? any 1/4 mile action yet?
look forward to see how things go.

the car is actually called wedgewood blue.looks purple with th overcast sky.
future plans are to try some N2O(nitrous),then maybe a blowthru turbo/carb setup.
no dragstrip action yet,hoping to come soon.

 

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