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Good to hear about your wife.
Ahh good Aussie Muscle.
The Accord looks very different to the ones we get in Australia.
They look like New Guinea Impatents(sp?)i'm about 60% sure thats what ya got there. The small flowers are whats throwing me......take a clipping to your local nursery they will give you a positive ID on the plant!
Wegelia is my guess. Impatiens are a small shade loving plant. Direct sun is not good for them at all.
Link: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2839071340067785427FgbNNx
Bob
US Version of the G8
Aussie Holden Clubsport R8
See the similarities!
Wegelia is my guess.
Impatiens are small shade loving plants. Direct sun does not agree with them at all.
Link: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2839071340067785427FgbNNx
Bob
Not to worry Jeffrey, just remember. Sometimes stupidity is just God's way of thinning the herd......kinda like the idiot kid that wiped out a Honda Civic on our street last fall....after barely missing my mailbox, he plastered my neighbors, went across the street taking out another mailbox, a pine tree, the cable junction box, another small tree then proceded to roll 10 times before coming to a stop over 800 feet from the 1st skid mark. (Almost a football field!) After crawling out of the car, he called 911 himself from his cell phone, and admitted to the 911 dispatcher and the State Trooper that arrived that he was doing 110 mph when he lost it. (I do live on a slight curve). All in a 35 mph residential zone!!! 1 month later a young girl did almost the same wreck, just didn't roll as far. Further attempts to get the county Sheriff's Dept or the State Police to set up radar have been to no avail........
Off to bed for now.......had the grandboys here all day,,,cookout and all, then the local VFD's carnival afterward........now I'm broke and tired...but the kids had a blast!
OMG! Please don't refer to a Goat as "just a tempest". You are right in the very basic design but it stopped there. God, I wish I still had my '66 GTO. She would burn rubber going from 3d to 4th at 70mph+, hug corners like an Indy racer, and eat Chevelles and Cudas alive. I sold it in Bangkok in 1971 for more than I paid for it, but I've always missed my first new car...and what a car it was. Knowing the Thais, she is probably still on the road.
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blownoutcylinder
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Good evenin'
Got some mowing done and did pick up some prescriptions for wife then went to FLHS to pick up some more track and rolling stock---
Chris Good thing wife is doing better Here is keg of beer---
Jeff That car looks good--one of my co workers has one of those. Performs quite nicely----
Got some mowing done and did pick up some prescriptions for wife
then went to FLHS to pick up some more track and rolling stock---Chris Good thing wife is doing better
Here is keg of beer---Jeff That car looks good--one of my co workers has one of those. Performs quite nicely----
Hey guys, wifes doing better!Myself between taking care of her I managed to get two yards mowed before the rain came in! $60 richer
o'well!
Good to hear about your wife.
Jeff, 28k for a tic tac box is still a little highfor that much I could score a Pontiac GTO or G8 with a 6.0 or nice roomy Tahoe or Truck
Ahh good Aussie Muscle.
The Accord looks very different to the ones we get in Australia.
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
They look like New Guinea Impatents(sp?)i'm about 60% sure thats what ya got there. The small flowers are whats throwing me......take a clipping to your local nursery they will give you a positive ID on the plant!
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vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
stationmaster
Crusty Old Geezer
Wegelia is my guess. Impatiens are a small shade loving plant. Direct sun is not good for them at all.
Link: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2839071340067785427FgbNNx
Bob
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Thats Aussie muscle power
US Version of the G8
Aussie Holden Clubsport R8
See the similarities!
stationmaster
Crusty Old Geezer
Wegelia is my guess.
Impatiens are small shade loving plants. Direct sun does not agree with them at all.
Link: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2839071340067785427FgbNNx
Bob
tycofrieght1969
Member
James,
Good Ausie muscle with a good old fashioned, Detroit designed, fuel gulping push-rod small-block V8. Its a shame that the late model GTO's didnt sell well considering they represent the original muscle car phylosophy (sp). Its all about power and performance. The styling is secondary. Lets not forget that the ORIGINAL american muscle car, the GTO, was just a pontiac tempest (grosery getter) with the biggest engine John DeLorian thought he could "shoe-horn" in it. That said, lets hear a round of applause for Holden for keeping the concept alive with the Monarro. With out that design, there may not have been the last, and I mean LAST generation of the GTO.
Keith
Good Ausie muscle with a good old fashioned, Detroit designed, fuel gulping push-rod small-block V8. Its a shame that the late model GTO's didnt sell well considering they represent the original muscle car phylosophy (sp). Its all about power and performance. The styling is secondary. Lets not forget that the ORIGINAL american muscle car, the GTO, was just a pontiac tempest (grosery getter) with the biggest engine John DeLorian thought he could "shoe-horn" in it. That said, lets hear a round of applause for Holden for keeping the concept alive with the Monarro. With out that design, there may not have been the last, and I mean LAST generation of the GTO.
Keith
tycofrieght1969
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Oh yeah! One more thing....... May God bless George Miller for the first two "Mad Max" movies! "Mad Max II", ("The Road Warrior") never gets old and in my oppinion, cant be beat. Great action flik!
stationmaster
Crusty Old Geezer
What about the "cheezy" Death Race 2000? David Carradine as "Frankenstein"....
Or Cannonball Run?
Bob
Or Cannonball Run?
Bob
tycofrieght1969
Member
Bob,
"Death Race 2000", "Cannonball Run"? Cheesey says it all. If you want to see a GOOD and funny movie about a cross-country race, see "The Gumball Rally". A MUCH better "ride".
Keith
"Death Race 2000", "Cannonball Run"? Cheesey says it all. If you want to see a GOOD and funny movie about a cross-country race, see "The Gumball Rally". A MUCH better "ride".
Keith
...Poison Ivy?...
Evenin' folks, wow miss a day around here and all kinds of stuff goes on
Well got the daughter graduated today. I now have a genius living in my house. I have never been to a college graduation before today, it was a very nice ceremony, but I am glad it is over.
Chris; Glad to hear things are going well with your wife. Marching orders already huh? Sounds like she is doing very well indeed.
Jeffery; Keep us updated on your dad. I don't blame him for not wanting to be there. I hate doctors and hospitals. I know sometimes we all need them, but I just don't care for either. I have to be almost dead before I will even think of the doctor.
Well I am pretty whooped from all the action today, think I will be hitting the sack earky tonight.
Next on the agenda is the daughters wedding in June
Talk to you guys tomorrow...
Well got the daughter graduated today. I now have a genius living in my house. I have never been to a college graduation before today, it was a very nice ceremony, but I am glad it is over.
Chris; Glad to hear things are going well with your wife. Marching orders already huh? Sounds like she is doing very well indeed.
Jeffery; Keep us updated on your dad. I don't blame him for not wanting to be there. I hate doctors and hospitals. I know sometimes we all need them, but I just don't care for either. I have to be almost dead before I will even think of the doctor.
Well I am pretty whooped from all the action today, think I will be hitting the sack earky tonight.
Next on the agenda is the daughters wedding in June
Talk to you guys tomorrow...
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Some ditz brain went speeding through Leesville today and wrapped his old model Trans-Am around a pole in front of Wal-Mart. He claimed he didn't know what the speed limit was. HELLO! There are speed limit signs every 500 to 1000 feet!.
kbkchooch
Verified Human
Not to worry Jeffrey, just remember. Sometimes stupidity is just God's way of thinning the herd......kinda like the idiot kid that wiped out a Honda Civic on our street last fall....after barely missing my mailbox, he plastered my neighbors, went across the street taking out another mailbox, a pine tree, the cable junction box, another small tree then proceded to roll 10 times before coming to a stop over 800 feet from the 1st skid mark. (Almost a football field!) After crawling out of the car, he called 911 himself from his cell phone, and admitted to the 911 dispatcher and the State Trooper that arrived that he was doing 110 mph when he lost it. (I do live on a slight curve). All in a 35 mph residential zone!!! 1 month later a young girl did almost the same wreck, just didn't roll as far. Further attempts to get the county Sheriff's Dept or the State Police to set up radar have been to no avail........
Off to bed for now.......had the grandboys here all day,,,cookout and all, then the local VFD's carnival afterward........now I'm broke and tired...but the kids had a blast!
OMG! Please don't refer to a Goat as "just a tempest". You are right in the very basic design but it stopped there. God, I wish I still had my '66 GTO. She would burn rubber going from 3d to 4th at 70mph+, hug corners like an Indy racer, and eat Chevelles and Cudas alive. I sold it in Bangkok in 1971 for more than I paid for it, but I've always missed my first new car...and what a car it was. Knowing the Thais, she is probably still on the road.Tycofreight: All this talk of GM and Holden is making me feel bad ( I'm a ford lover.)
anyway The GTO was the last generation Monaro too. Currently they have the W427 as their biggest ridicolous Holden 427kw, all they did was drop the same V8 the latest gen Chevy's have into it, 22" wheels, quad exhaust extremely big brakes and a price tag of $150,000 AUD.
Ford has possibly the sweetest car and ute/pickup in the Aussie market, although not an 8, belts any aussie 8 and most euros everywhere on a track.
It's called the F6 Typhoon and F6 Tornado, 310kw of turbocharged 6 cyl grunt! and they are scarily quick. Something like 0-60mph in 4.9 seconds.
and the pickup, which because it's so light in the rear is the scariest thing to drive!
http://www.fpv.com.au/fpv-range/f6-ute/gallery.aspx
The QLD police have approximately 30 of the last model F6 in their Highway Patrol outfit, marked and unmarked, something you don't want to try run from!
Scary huh!
anyway The GTO was the last generation Monaro too. Currently they have the W427 as their biggest ridicolous Holden 427kw, all they did was drop the same V8 the latest gen Chevy's have into it, 22" wheels, quad exhaust extremely big brakes and a price tag of $150,000 AUD.
Ford has possibly the sweetest car and ute/pickup in the Aussie market, although not an 8, belts any aussie 8 and most euros everywhere on a track.
It's called the F6 Typhoon and F6 Tornado, 310kw of turbocharged 6 cyl grunt! and they are scarily quick. Something like 0-60mph in 4.9 seconds.
and the pickup, which because it's so light in the rear is the scariest thing to drive!
http://www.fpv.com.au/fpv-range/f6-ute/gallery.aspx
The QLD police have approximately 30 of the last model F6 in their Highway Patrol outfit, marked and unmarked, something you don't want to try run from!
Scary huh!
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