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[Shiv]

I've had the pleasure of car hunting (for/with a friend) in......*drumroll please*......AUBURN!

There were a few cars there that had all the tell-tale signs of being rebirthed. Some were obvious such as the front not quite aligning with the back of the car and entire portions of the car appearing a different colour to the rest of it. And some were not so obvious such as the cross member appearing slightly lighter in colour on one end, and upon closer inspection, you can see the weld marks where it joins.

And these weren't necessarily on old cars. Some of these cars might've been only 5-years old.

Even the auction house there (I forget the name of it) had a few suspect cars but generally appeared OKAY.

[skillionaire]

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That's Chris' car. One of the old school 'Rydaz now turned OzFozzer. He's had a few nice cars. Good bloke too, I've bought a few things from him over the years, mainly when I had the JDM, it's sort of his scene!

[skillionaire]

4 completely original - maybe... but there's more than 4 SG STi's in Australia. But whatever, I'm just jealous.

[Morgan]

Because its a way of making a quick buck I'm afraid.

Good morning.

Basically, there's many backyard panel beaters around the place, and without sounding racist, they can be attributed to a handful of ethnic backgrounds.

When looking for cars now, I avoid particular suburbs where cars are advertised being from.

A good friend of mine and I conducted a little "social experiment" not long ago when we were looking or a ~$5K hatchback runabout for him.

We decided to go and see these cars.

We saw general trends.

advertised:
cars are usually around the 113k km mark
cars are usually non accident
cars usually are in "excellent condition"

on closer inspection:
cars have had their speedos wounds back to 113k km (like an unspoken code of winding back speedos....it was uncanny!)
cars are repairable write offs that have been to 'nam and back
cars are usually still smelling like the solvents they've been painted with. Literally, the paint hadn't even dried yet.

When challenged, the sellers, who most times have others cars on their property with either damage on them or covered in tarps, get awfully defensive, and lie through their
teeth about these cars and their condition.

A couple of times, after showing the guy that his car had a replacement gearbox with wrecker's pink texta markings on it, despite denying so, and that there was overspray and strong
solvent smells despite the car being never been resprayed, I've been kicked off properties.

Fun

You speak troofs.

Especially of cars around the $5k mark.

Undoubtedly bought by them for nothing. Unaware buyer comes along, pays $5k for a 'bargain'.

My sister is particularly interested in a mid 90s Celica.

There was this red one that we went and saw.
Honestly, from a distance it looked fantastic.
Like someone had really looked after the car.
On closer inspection. There were different colour panels all over the thing, oil covering every surface you can imagine, the tyres had bubbles all over them and felt like they had just come off a Barbie-mobile (plastic), we tapped around for bog and it was clearly there. Brakes were shocking and all round it was a shocker.
The killer, it was in Frenchs Forest.
The funny thing, there was a Dihastsu Terrios also for sale in the back yard, AND a Bimmer X5 under a tarp with extensive front end damage. SO OBVIOUS WHAT WAS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!

After searching around all day, we finally ended up in Punchbowl (i know!!) in front of this car, $500 deposit in hand and receipt written up. Was the best car we drove by far all day. Just before shaking hands, dad asked me to do a quick Revs check on my phone (life-saving technology). Turns out it was a repairable write off and had just been re-registered.
Dad immediately tore up the receipt.
Mind you, it may have been a perfectly good car. But by the way the 'owner' had nothing to say after we found out his secret, it saved us alot of headaches me-thinks!

I've had the pleasure of car hunting (for/with a friend) in......*drumroll please*......AUBURN!

There were a few cars there that had all the tell-tale signs of being rebirthed. Some were obvious such as the front not quite aligning with the back of the car and entire portions of the car appearing a different colour to the rest of it. And some were not so obvious such as the cross member appearing slightly lighter in colour on one end, and upon closer inspection, you can see the weld marks where it joins.

And these weren't necessarily on old cars. Some of these cars might've been only 5-years old.

Even the auction house there (I forget the name of it) had a few suspect cars but generally appeared OKAY.

Haha i had the pleasure of driving a few Libs in Auburn when i was looking for my car. Looked good from the ad and once again, from 50m back. Odo said 130k; the rear seats alone looked like they'd done 250k!!

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After searching around all day, we finally ended up in Punchbowl (i know!!) in front of this car, $500 deposit in hand and receipt written up. Was the best car we drove by far all day. Just before shaking hands, dad asked me to do a quick Revs check on my phone (life-saving trechnology). Turns out it was a repairable write off and had just been re-registered.
Dad immediately tore up the receipt.
Mind you, it may have been a perfectly good car. But by the way the 'owner' had nothing to say after we found out his secret, it saved us alot of headaches me-thinks!

Was the blokes name Trent and had a mate called Kev?

[skillionaire]

I'll have you know T&K Panelworks are the finest backyard rebirthing firm this side of a Canadian dollar.

[Morgan]

Haha nah it was John. And he was so out of it/high.




Moday Lamebook lols

[RX25SE]

Morgan, Pity the GF626 was dodgey. Had one before the Lib. They are a great car. Boring to drive but bulletproof reliability. If it were me, I'd get one of those. Go the series II withn the antenna on the rear quarter.

[skillionaire]

You live on lamebook, Lukey?

[Morgan]

Morgan,
Pity the GF626 was dodgey.
Had one before the Lib.
They are a great car.
Boring to drive but bulletproof reliability.
If it were me, I'd get one of those. Go the series II withn the antenna on the rear quarter.

Yea it was a really nice car. Climate control, alloy wheels, power everything, low kms, woodgrain inserts (not important but for class factor!!), neat interior for a $5.5k car, nice colour and enough grunt to keep it interesting. Pity the history of the car let us down. We'll find something nice for her though

You live on lamebook, Lukey?

Haha its part of my daily things to check! I mean, what else have i got to do at work!?

[Alex]

Im having evil thoughts.

Those on facebook.

I'm thinking about joining this group.

Meet the Duggars

and posting the following images...







kewl?

someone should buy those fuckers a TV.

[Morgan]

Hahahahahaaaaaahhhahhaahhahahha Dooo iiit

[skillionaire]

At least you know she puts out.

[Alex]

Puts out? What exactly? Financial ruin? A massive carbon footprint (yeah, nah, i'm not greenie...) I'd also imagine she has beef curtains like three pterodactyls, and it'd be like throwing a tictac into an aircraft hanger.

[Morgan]

I'd also imagine she has beef curtains like three pterodactyls, and it'd be like throwing a tictac into an aircraft hanger.

[Alex]

HOLY SHIT.

EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

I'd also imagine that like that, her vagina would through evolution have grown fangs, and injects its prey with a venom to at least sedate its male victim to make them think they're doing it with Scarlett Johansson, where really, they're making love to an electric beef mincer set on "high".

[Morgan]

electric beef mincer

i quivered

[Alex]

i quivered

wait until you send those 18 children through private schooling.

and pay dental and medical fees

and clothes

and


and


and!

[Morgan]

wait until you send those 18 children through private schooling.

and pay dental and medical fees

and clothes

and


and


and!

I decided to stop listening and go back a few steps...

[B4TT]

^^ Her vadge would in no way look like Predator I wonder what Predators vag would look like