That is actually a very nicely modified Fiero. If he lost the Ferrari emblems it would look perfect.

Kinda like:

http://yellowfiero.com/index.php

Then there's idiots that slaughter poor Fieros for these:

God that Lambiero is revolting, why did you have to show me that? I feel ill.

This should pay you back.

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I've been saving this for just such an occasion.

Oh oh oh... I wish I had a pic my VW Rabbit based Unimog "clone"

Front half of a VW rabbit, chopped off at the B pillar on some sort of 4x4 tractor frame with paddle tires, and an air cooled beetle engine powering it all.

it was heinous...

Posted by bandi Oh oh oh... I wish I had a pic my VW Rabbit based Unimog "clone" Front half of a VW rabbit, chopped off at the B pillar on some sort of 4x4 tractor frame with paddle tires, and an air cooled beetle engine powering it all. it was heinous...

Was this something you built? or something you won in a poker game?
I wish you had photos too!

Random customer gave it to me when I worked at a Porsche shop. He built it for hunting.


I have pics... somewhere.

Posted by bandi Random customer gave it to me when I worked at a Porsche shop. He built it for hunting. I have pics... somewhere.

you had posted them on here at some point not that long ago.

Posted by Samurai The only other car I was seriously attached to was my 1991 Chevy Cavalier RS coupe. I saw this car on the lot at Christopher Chevrolet in Ticonderoga NY in September 1996 and fell in love with it. It was a tank. I drove that car 170,000 miles in about 4 years. It was rarely sitting still. Anywhere, anytime... that was the that car was. I'd get bored and go visit my friends in Maryland just for the hell of it. Take a trip to Maine... no problem. I drove the car to Tennessee when I moved there and unfortunately, at 201,000 miles, that was where she stayed. She just didn't have any more to give. A broken wiring harness did that Cavalier in. Every time I see one of these cars, and they are getting fewer and fewer here in the Northeast, i always wonder if someone rescued mine.

Yeah, my buddy had one of those. He loved it....said it was bombproof.
He drove it for about 6 months and then got lit one night and french kissed a maple tree with it. Yeah, he's kinda dumb. But anywho...nothing like a nice big GM
car for winter driving.

Lumina/Monte Carlo... accept no substitute in the snow.

Posted by Samurai Lumina/Monte Carlo... accept no substitute in the snow.

I have to agree...one of my coworkers just sold her 1991 Lumina for scrap after...400,000 miles on it.

3 best cars I've ever owned for snow-worthiness, not including trucks and SUVs I've had:

'74 Bug (Would go places snowmobiles wouldn't, was colder than a snowmobile)
'87 Corolla (Used it as an SUV)
'81 AMC Eagle (Better than most 4x4 trucks... stopped on a road once to see how deep the snow was, and my door wouldn't open since the snow was so deep)

'82 Toyota 4x4, wanted to drive across what was supposed to be a two foot deep pond covered with a sufficient thickness of ice to drive across. WRONG!!!

Ice was to thin, pond was 3' to 4' deep, we got out about 10' before we fell thru, spent the rest of the time slowly mud crawling to the other side, the inside of the cab had 4" of ice cold water in the foot wells. Sounded like we were driving in a freezer, bed was full of water, bow wave pushing of the hood.
Whata little submarine.

I put many thousands more miles, and many more tough situations on that truck, She never failed to get us home! Sold Her to some asshole that beat the shit outta her. Sorry baby!

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No photos remain,but she looked like this in blue.

Posted by cr400 '82 Toyota 4x4, wanted to drive across what was supposed to be a two foot deep pond covered with a sufficient thickness of ice to drive across. WRONG!!! Ice was to thin, pond was 3' to 4' deep, we got out about 10' before we fell thru, spent the rest of the time slowly mud crawling to the other side, the inside of the cab had 4" of ice cold water in the foot wells. Sounded like we were driving in a freezer, bed was full of water, bow wave pushing of the hood. Whata little submarine. I put many thousands more miles, and many more tough situations on that truck, She never failed to get us home! Sold Her to some asshole that beat the shit outta her. Sorry baby! click to view No photos remain,but she looked like this in blue.

best little trucks ever...i just bought a 93...v6 xtra-cab 4x4. mint condition, no frame rust or body rust. just spent a couple hours this afternoon putting brand new goodyears on. rides much better now. that thing is bullet proof. i need to get it aligned, and get some new spring packs to fix a saggy ass, but other than that i'm golden.

Lol, heres all of em...these have all been my daily drivers btw.

Bought this in 1998, 1972 Lj Torana, cost me $4000, plus $300 to buy the motor off its original owner after i discovered it was stolen


Hit a kerb doing burnouts, mangled the lower control arm, then got the shits n cannibalised it into this:


Which cost me $2000 n took 5 months to get roadworthy, including 4 tubs of body filler.
It also used parts from this:


Which came free cos the inbred redneck i bought them from wanted rid of it so he could install a hot tub in his front yard in which to have sex with his hawt cousin.

One going, it ran Triple Strombergs that occasionally caught fire until i wrapped the extractor pipes. I got fined $200 for being 14db over Australian exhaust noise limits (set squarely at 100db) and had to remove the un-engineered roll cage. In 2003 my gf crashed it n it ended up like this:


...before i removed the running gear and interior and gave the rolling shell to a wrecker i owed money too...
Once in Canada, i bought a boat:


Bought it for $2000 in Manitoba (where insurance is CHEEP, sold it in Ontario for $700 where insurance is EXPENSIF!)

Got back to Australia in 2006 n started on this, my last Torana.



Wanted to run fatties on the back, but wasnt willing to ruin the wheel arches by flaring them. So ran a nice clean street sleeper that growled like a wild cat.



Sold it for $8000 without rego or a roadworthy, which was nice.
Sales pic with the abandoned White Bay power station in the background:

I've only owned two vehicles, and my current one (2000 VW Golf GLS) is my favourite of them.

Never seen a Torana before, they're way cool lookin'. Kinda looks like a cross or mix of Opel and the old rotary Mazda's. They look to be the perfect size auto for drain driving, much better than the large boat.

Posted by cr400 Never seen a Torana before, they're way cool lookin'. Kinda looks like a cross or mix of Opel and the old rotary Mazda's. They look to be the perfect size auto for drain driving, much better than the large boat.

Basically an enlarged Opel Ascona fitted with a 202ci straight 6 (1971-74) or a 308 V8 (1974-1978).

N yeah great for drain driving.

Oddly enough, Torana's are often up against Mazda R100's/Rx3's at the drags in Australia... 20b bi-turbos vs 501ci blown big blocks.