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Miscellaneous => Discussions => Just For Fun => Topic started by: Dante on September 17, 2022, 07:29:55 PM
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It's not a car, it's a JEEP
;D
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It's not a car, it's a JEEP
;D
Aaaaahhhh 8)
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I call her Ruby
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Hey Dante, way back when you originally made the quip I think you had a small hatch back IIRC.
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Nice JEEP !!
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Hey Dante, way back when you originally made the quip I think you had a small hatch back IIRC.
I may have had my VW GTi, but I still have a Ford Fiesta (for long trips)....coulda been either one I guess :dunno:
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Nice JEEP !!
She's my baby
I would've never picked Red, but she was my Dad's and she only had 66k miles when I bought her. I didn't want him to sell her to anyone else, so I sold my Jeep to get her (my Jeep had 220k miles)
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Nice ride Dante,
Are we going to go off-roading?
(I just bought a Chevy Silverado 4x4 last week)
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Go Harley :whoohoo!: , not that off-roading is my thing, but I get it :thumb-up:
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Go Harley :whoohoo!: , not that off-roading is my thing, but I get it :thumb-up:
It's not mine either Richard, I've never done it before.
But I just stumbled across a deal for a 2005 Silverado for $1000 USD. Where are you going to find a pickup truck for that price?
Of course, it goes without saying that I need to do a bit of wrenching on it. New battery, new radiator and transmission cooling lines, Ignition tune up, and new tires that I know of right now, but hey, it has 4 wheel drive when I need it so why not give it a go?
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Hey Harley, great price and seems a good project. I had a Ute (utility? Holden HG) back in my early 20's (1979/80 ish), bought it for $75 AUD, very cheap. So here, (back then) we had 4 door sedans, Utes (2 door) and pannel vans (also 2 door but hard canopy over the back). They all had the same underlying chassis. So my ute had the rear seat floor pans covered over with a piece of plywood. It was a good hiding place for a couple of guitars. Great car for lugging gear (and moving house), had to throw a tarp over it in the wet. Holden has gone the way of the dinosaurs, the last version they made was (I think) the Maloo which Top Gear had fun burning the tires off. These days we seem to have US style pick ups like the Ford Ranger etc. Seem to be 4 door with a canopy over the rear tray and I think some of them are 4 wheel drive e.g. the Toyota Hi Lux. I liked that ute, you could pretty much pull it apart with a 1/2" and a 9/16" spanner. I even changed out the engine/gearbox by the side of the road one time.
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Hey Richard,
I'm very familiar with a Ute. There are a couple of guys in Oz who do stuff like that and they have a Youtube channel called Mighty Car Mods. Some very funny stuff they come up with. They are very similar to some of the guys here in the States who I'm a big fan of, that do just as crazy stuff with old clapped out junk cars.
I have a subscription to Motor Trend On Demand, and the shows on there feature these guys, but you can find them on YT as well. A couple of these channels are: Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, and Hot Rod Garage. There are a few others too, but the guys on the ones I just mention build cars that are totally bananas, and they do some insane stuff with them from time to time. I get a lot of my ideas for my own cars from guys like that.
And of course, since the truck I just got has been spanked by it's previous owners, it's a perfect roadkill candidate. In fact, I'm debating what I should call it. So far, the choices I've come up with are: Silver-rusto, or Rusty-rado, or even Rotting-rado. I considered Silver-rotten, but that makes it sound it's stinky, which it isn't.
It has a 5.3L Vortec V-8, with a 4L60E transmission and transfer case, and the motor sounds great even though it's throwing codes for a misfire. I'm already on that issue, so no worries. So it has potential.
Who knows? Maybe one day I'll run into a clapped out PT Cruiser, or something similar, and cut it up and make my own version of a Ute!
P.S. I do remember Holden. I saw a lot of them growing up in Greece. Didn't know they went belly-up though.
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Hey Harley, I'm a fan of those shows also, I get some of the episodes on a steaming channel, Turbo, which also includes a bunch of other car shows.
I like Rusty-rado of you name choices so far.
In the end Holden were owned by GM and we were subsidising them quite a few million a year to keep the plant (in Adelaide) going. Australia is such a small market and people get paid properly (well mostly) so it was difficult for them to be profitable. Anyway, the conservative gov got into power and pulled the plug, Adelaide is still recovering from the fallout.
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Richard,
Now that you mention it, I do vaguely recall something about GM owning Holden. They were kind of boxy, conservative looking cars for the most part. Sorry to hear they put the city of Adelaide into turmoil. GM like any of the big three as we call them are all about profit.
Maybe I'll get some pics of the truck and start a poll to see which name people like best. Or maybe even see if anyone suggests a better one. That ought to be good for a laugh.
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Hey Harley, good idea :thumb-up:
I think the last new model they were making was the Cruze which kind of flopped. I see a few around, I also heard stories of them being lemons. Also they were a bit slow to include all the mod cons which it seems Merdedes largely pioneered and then got added to other car lines. The Japanese and Korean cars were quicker to include the options and were predominantly cheaper here.
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Holden had a Cruze?
Chevy has had a model out by that name for the past 10-15 years. Geez I hope that isn't preview of things to come!
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The whole Holden Ford rivalry has been going on for years here, and Chrysler were in it for a while with Valiants in the early days and later a 2 door muscle coupe, Charger (which I think is like your Cudas?). Each one has their diehard fans, probably depended more on what you father drove. We still have the V8 supercars and the Bathurst 1000 (ks). Although petrol engines are definitely on the way out. Because the distances here are so vast, EV uptake has been a bit slow as range anxiety is a big issue. So currently more hybrids than EVs. The EV charging infrastructure is building slowly but it's a big part of why people are still buying petrol cars.
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Richard,
There is a lot of talk here about converting totally to EV vehicles, but like you are seeing there in Oz, the support infrastructure isn't there, especially where distance travel is concerned. Plus, there is no shortage of backyard gearheads like myself who still like working on our own machines and making them better somehow.
With my background in engineering, I'm used to turning wrenches, and have been doing it since I was a teenager. I would still own gas vehicles just because I know my way around them.
For my personal tastes in what I do to my vehicles, I always try to improve performance, but keep fuel economy at the best level with the lowest possible emissions. This means I do everything I can to get better ignition with a more thorough burn to increase maximum combustion, (which equals more horsepower and lower emissions), and unrestricted air flow. And by all means, clean fuels are a must, meaning fuel with no additives if possible. Also, it's very important to provide the best lubrication to keep everything from wearing down and causing poor performance.
For example, my daily driver is a 2006 Chevy Impala LT trim package. It has 209,000 miles on it. I use the best synthetic oil and filters on it, and it performs like a champ. I get 20,000 miles on my oil with a filter change at every 10,000 miles. Every time I change filters or oil, it is still golden in color. This means there is no blow-by, and the internals of my engine is clean. It's rated at 22 MPG, but I get closer to 30 MPG with it, so I think I'm on to something here. I'll be doing something similar with the truck after I've had a chance to evaluate the true condition of the engine in it.
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He Harley, 30mpg (~7.9 L/100km) is pretty good, is the donk a 3.6L 6?
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Hey Richard,
No sir, This is the 3.5L V6 and rated at 217HP/ 22MPG.
The 3.6L is rated @300HP/ 30MPG. This engine didn't appear until the 2012 model year.
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I have a subscription to Motor Trend On Demand, and the shows on there feature these guys, but you can find them on YT as well. A couple of these channels are: Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, and Hot Rod Garage. There are a few others too, but the guys on the ones I just mention build cars that are totally bananas, and they do some insane stuff with them from time to time. I get a lot of my ideas for my own cars from guys like that.
Love those shows! My disappointment however is that those guys always seem to find really nice stuff to work with for relatively cheap. You couldn't touch anything like those vintage cars they find around here that aren't already rusted too far beyond repair and then the owner wants a million dollars for the clapped out pos anyway. Half a million if there's no Title. lol
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I feel you Kim,
They do get some seriously good stuff, but some of it isn't all that cheap. Plus, they have financial support from Motor Trend, which if they had to pay out of pocket for all the stuff they do to some of these cars, then their offspring for the next four generations would be paying off their debts.
There are some classics out there that you and I could afford, you just have to look for them. There are also scammers out there with worthless, clapped out, disintegrated junk, and you need to go see what you're buying in person. The internet has made it easy for scammers to rip you off, so beware.
General Mayhem if you recall, was a trade for some cylinder heads, and it was just a roller with only one front fender. Most of the motor heads have that one as a favorite, but mine is the Crusher Impala.
I could find something like that around here, but the flip side of the coin is that where we live up here, we'd have a LOT of rust repair to deal with. Case in point: my Rust-a-rado!
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We get a few of these shows in Australia e.g. Kindig, Joe Martin etc. I love watching Ian Roussel do his thing, amazing stuff. None of it would be legal here :facepalm: , but I love it anyway. While it makes great TV, just the hours involved (which of course you don't see in the programs (sometimes it takes years)) and, as Harley says, what about the parts???, some of your compatriots must have really, really deep pockets (and be heavily subsidised by MT?)...