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Thanks bloke for the eye opener.

After watching DVD's on the Gas Monkey Garage tv show.....I wouldn't buy anything he's rebuilt.....rather dodgey work really.

I haven't a clue how it all works over there.....but here, you can do an Apprenticeship, usually goes for 4 years, and you do training at a TAFE College while getting paid to fix cars. In some cases, some of the apprentices are just crap....because they are lazy & stuffed around a lot (didn't...

G'day people......Merry Christmas to you's all from down-under. Just thought I'd share a couple of pics from the other day.....well....the day after the actual event.....of what it looks like at midday with your shadow, and a small shed's shadow. I live on the Tropic of Capricorn....so, at...

Lately, it's been around 36*C and 80% + humidity with storms in the late afternoon, then the humidity just goes up then.....very, very sticky atm.

Here's some from down under.......... That water in the shots....there's a car park under it....we were having a flood at the time.

Ugly....???....this is ugly...............

This was in my shed today......47*C.....or 117*F And in the house was 39*C, or 102*F ... the house had all the windows open, and the fans on.

Well.....while you guys are gettin the cold, we is gettin the heat. This was the temp in my shed today....thats 47*C...or roughly 117*F.

How does he sit on that seat with nuts, the size needed, to do that on a pushie ????... :p My motorbike doesn't quite get to that speed....tops out at 315 kmh.....rev limiter comes in.

You said you didn't get a Severance package ?????....how does that work ??? I got made " Redundant " about 3 months ago from my job of 6 & 1/2 years, and I got a severance package.....thank god.....I'd be stuffed without it. Hope you find a job bloke.

We also got Valiant panel vans of the same era as the Falcon, that were called Drifter's. http://assets.shannons.com.au/N070FL513B80BIO/S3C0AVK1A662ADV1/4lfletipcahd2qsh/jpg/372x253x1/vehicle/1977-valiant-drifter-panelvan.jpg...

You did the right thing bloke.

In Oz, we had a Ford Falcon panel van ( a shaggin wagon ) called a Sundowner that had basically the same colour scheme. http://s199.photobucket.com/user/dntpitts/media/sundowna.jpg.html#/user/dntpitts/media/sundowna.jpg.html?&_suid=14151563950650165134486662195 They were also available in...

Hahahahaaaa.....the front door looked like jelly in the slow-mo shot.

The first car I drove was a green 1966 Holden HR Ute....had a 161 ci 6 cyl, and 3 in the tree manual, with a crash 1st gear, and I could shift it down into 1st while moving at about 10 mph without grating the gears....I was 13 at the time. I used to drive it on the highway too.....you could get...

That happened to a mate of mine....steel fuel tank....the oxygen thieves just punched a hole in the tank with a screw driver.....he didn't drive the car much, but when he went to move it, he saw it was on empty, when it should've had 3/4 tank. Then he noticed the dead grass at the back of the...

It doesn't snow here at all, but rust does happen, and overnight too on bare steel....it is really humid here in the summer....when it's raining, it can hit 100% humidity, and when it's not raining, it can still be like 80% and 100*F.

98 RON here is AUD $1.70 a litre...or AUD $6.29 a US Gal.

Well.....I'm sort of livin the dream....I got made redundant from my last job 2 months ago.....I was working for Hastings Deering (HDAL)...a Caterpillar dealer...as a Fitter ( 6.5 years), rebuilding front and rear wheel ends/final drives/brakes for mining dump trucks. So, I've been catching up...

They use the CT 110's here for Postie bikes.....biggest market Honda has in Oz is the Postie bike.

I reckon she's a show-off..............LOL

People are losing their jobs here hand over fist......just yesterday, 472 people lost their jobs at a Coalmine Contractors. If things don't pick up at my work, we could be lookin at losing some blokes too. Congrats on ya job.

Nice lookin gat that one......all I can afford is my 1918 Lee Enfield .303, all original wood, matching numbers.....worth nearly as much as a new rifle these days....got for 90 bucks a bit over 20 years ago.

Wonder how long the bodies will last on crappy roads ????.....aluminium fatigues badly with that punishment.

LOL.......Plumbers only know 2 things....**** runs down hill, and Friday is Pay-day.

I've had a very similar experience here too......I know exactly, where ya comin from.

Ford is shutting down in Australia in 2016. They've been making cars here since 1925. So is Holden and Toyota...shutting down.....Mitsubishi went a few years ago.

The oldest car I ever worked on was a 1928 Chev. The brakes were not working too well. It had mechanical linkages, and the pivots were half seized, or seized altogether. This car was on full rego too.....that was about 10 years ago. Oddest car was a 1987 Maserati 425 BiTurbo.....it went like a...

This is what we had in 1981/2. It is a Ford Falcon XD Ute....came in 200ci & 250ci 6 cylinders, or 302C or 351C V8's. http://www.justmusclecars.com.au/images/ProductImages/large/3007_3.jpg The name Ranchero was never used here. A little later, they looked like this from 1984 to 1992. This...