Hiro Protagonist

When sites like Redbook and Carsales don't recognise the fact that there were KE55 SE sedans sold in 1981 (I owned one). They only seem to list KE70 SEs in 1981. So the seller obviously has a 1981 55 SE (like Billie), punched in 1981 Corolla, SE, and saw one that mostly matched. Remember that these sites use templates, so if your car isn't exactly the same as one on the list you just have to use the wrong information and correct it in the description text.

Footage? I thought you wanted boob-age? Besides, since my g/f actually is a member on here, that means you ain't getting squat :yes: Although, If you go look in our old KE55 members ride thread, you do see photo of chestage there

And one that pees Dexron II......

I rate it alongside the Scene Girls thread for groan-inducing ability...

There was a rather prominent fixed red-light camera near my place which sported "Bacon Box" graffiti for many a year. Another one had "Pig Cam" on it.

All cops in NSW...

Could have been a camera wagon, you know the ones they park beside the road and then leave for a couple of hours with an automatic camera setup.

A photo would probably help......or at a bare minimum, at least a chassis code.

They're not THAT rare, but obviously being a sports car you don't see them every day. Mate of mine at uni had one, lime green, with DOHC 4G63 turbo in it (they only has the SOHC ones standard). The widebody ones however are extremely rare in Australia...

JWL is just a Japanese standards authority. The wheels look like Mitsubishi Starion wheels to me. And if the springs are red, then most likely they are aftermarket (stock colour, if there was such a thing, would have faded long ago). And if they really are Supra stuts, then they'd have to be MA61 ones due to the 4-stud (could technically be MA45, but they're thin on the ground here). Doubt it though, most likely just RA60 Celica or the like.

And I have big hands too.....

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS Having a g/f with DDs does have its perks Currently slugging back 100 proof SoCo and vanilla coke, got to love duty free.....

Good ol' genuine Unbrako socket head cap screws (Allen bolts to the unwashed) are the bomb. Just about every single bolt on every single component of our FSAE cars for the last 5 years has been an Unbrako screw, and not one has broken/stripped/sheared off.

I'll most likely be going, haven't decided if I'll go via Sydney and the Toymods mob, or just make my own way out through Merriwa and Dunedoo (much faster for me that way)

Hmmm, will have to come up with a new nickname for Morrison then to replace Cock-head Van, maybe, as it's car appropriate. So that'll make it Van Morrison, Gerbil-face Pizatti and Mo-town Brown.

More sleep, less shakes, same number of toilet trips ;)

Because for us it's stuck behind a weedy (relatively speaking) asthmatic 1.3L pushrod 4, or if we're lucky a weedy asthmatic 1.6L non-crossflow SOHC 4. For the most part, autos are cruisy gearboxes for big cruisy cars, with torque, something a 4K lacks in droves.

It is. Which is why it's usually said by wankers, or people trying to sound cooler than they really are.

I've got mine in about half an hour.....mouth is watering already.

Pro Street was the first time I heard it, and heard it heaps more after that, so I put two and two together (not fully into the racing scene myself, drift track or drag) The problem is, all the wannabe drifters (probably half of the P-platers out there with a Commodore/R31 Skyline/KE70) use it, trying to sound cool, and since that includes a lot of the hektik crowd, you see it mentioned everywhere.

Got a stainless steel coffee much + stubby holder from Custom Fluidpower (one of our creditors), a bottle of Tempus Two SemiSavBlank (Semillion Sauvignon Blanc) from one of our other creditors (no idea who, he just rocked up with a case of wine and started handing them out), and a $100 Coles-Myer giftcard from work.... Cool.

What Grinds My Gears: Grip. Ever since NFS:Pro Street came out, all the sick-toons and hektik mob are calling normal track and road racing "grip" to try and differentiate it from "drift". Notice how there was never the need for this distinction before NFS:PS came along, even when drift came around. it was just normal "racing", or even just "driving". On a similar vein, why the f*ck does everything have to be shortened these days to make it "catchier". I'm referring mainly to TV shows here, which have a full-length title but are always shortened in the ads, like "All new eps of Dance" (So You Can Think You Can Dance), or "Supermodel" (Make Me A Supermodel), "Top Model" (America's Next Top Model), "Deal" (Deal Or No Deal). FFS, how had is it to say the full name of a show? If the producers wanted the show to have a short name, they would have GIVEN it a short name. But everything has to be "edgy" and "hip" these days (notice how most of the shows which suffer this problem are either primetime, reality or soapy dramas). You don't see "uncool" shows getting shortened though, like "All the latest eps of 7:30" (The 7:30 Report). And another thing, why the hell does "episodes" have to get shortened to "eps" as well? I wince everytime I hear that. Once again, the hip and the cool have taken the English language, bent it over a chair and given it the rogering from hell, without lube. Eps is one of those words you'd hear in a phrase down in South Central LA, like "Chillin' with da gang speckin' all new eps of da latest g-show", where g-show is a game show, speckin' is watching, and they have the combined culture of a small grain of rice. And sticking with the TV theme, Oprah. Sooooo many things about Oprah grind my gears, thank heavens I've finished uni and have a full-time job so I no longer need to entertain myself in the middle of the day by attempting to watching drivelling (as opposed to rivetting) day-time telly. In particular, the fact that she has to say at the start of every "ep", "Today....All Noo" (obviously All New, but the accent is important). OF COURSE IT'S NEW, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO AROUND REPLAYING BITS FROM OLD EPISODES AND TRYING TO PASS THEM OFF AS CURRENT, ARE YOU? Of course not, you're not Today Tonight. But still, I await the day when Oprah says "Today, some-of-it-new-and-some-of-it-old-repeated-crap", or "Today, repost". The term ALL NEW is stupid in TV, since it automatically devalues the singular term NEW, so when a TV station says "new episodes" you have to wonder "Hey, they didn't say ALL NEW, therefore despite the fact that they claim it's new, chances are there are going to be some repeats or whatever", and then immediately feel cheated. /incohesive, incoherent rant

Toyota Nationals are on again as usual at Dubbo over the Easter long weekend, if people are willing to stay for a night or two then it could make one hell of a mega-cruise

Looks almost identical to my mate's one, except that I think he's in Melbourne now. And definitely would have been making more noise than the one behind him, 351 Cleveland out of a ski-boat on gas, something in the vicinity of 500HP and little to no exhaust. You could hear him on the other side of uni every time he booted it (and the Newcastle campus is pretty damn big)

The pannos were imported though I think, and thus not necessarily needing to meet Australian content requirements.