Thread: Previous toys

Found some photos of toys I used to own, thought some might like em. Retro racer the blue torry u beat is here. Toybreaker my old RM80 big wheel I raced yrs ago. There's my beach buggy I built from scratch with progress photo's to prove I built it, plus my last & most loved weapon, the VN Calais Pro Streeter. I don't have a scanner so they are digital photos of existing photos. I tried 2 enhance em but u may need to look at your screen from above it a bit to get full light etc.

Retro, remember this? You probably remember the front end view you had in your mirror hehehe.

This was my 1st torry, got a sticker 4 tyres, so I got my money's worth out of em b4 they went.

Daz, remember these?.......'82 air cooled big wheel

This is my claim to fame. I was dared to build this, so I did. It took 11mths, with no help......ground up. I sold it early this yr to someone I know. It has front mounted GMH 202 with elec ign, high vol fuel pump, XD ford twin throat webber with an alloy adaptor that I fabricated myself, high comp head, high lift cam, extractors, twin system with dumpers, boosted XU-1 brakes, M21 box with short shifter & cable sports clutch, 100L fuel tank that I fabricated, 3.55 locker diff, full harnesses, 6deg front camber, 12" sports st/wheel (not on at time of photo), 15x8" volvo mags with 31" mau terrains on rear (at time of sale)-pic shows 385wide drag slicks. I had to bolt an 'I' beam on the back to keep it down. I had a more recent pic of it in its current colour- kawasaki green, but I think someone pinched it. It also had rear guards, & sat 1" higher at front, & 2" higher at rear than in pic.



And this is the day I got it to rolling chassis stage 7 yrs ago


I sold it coz I used it 4 times in 6 yrs.

This was my weak spot....the 1 vehicle thad made me feel sick to the stomach when I sold it. But it had to go. 1 more time in court meant jail time if I didn't give the judge my word I'd sell it. I got the same judge every friggin time in a 6yr period in two seperate courthouses. Yes they are genuine simmons B45's. There isn't enuf time or space to say wot this had done to it but it ran 13.8 with only 210kw & 500nM torque, but it still liked to jump the dyno. In short it was a 5L 5spd manual.


No, the bonnet guage is not a tacho, it's fuel press, the most crusial guage for injection. Besides the stock tacho worked just as well as those 5" bloody things, & if ypu need a shift light on a car over 10secs then you can't drive.

Lastly this was my dog's HZ ute, but I was allowed 2 drive it, & pay 4 it, & work on it. It was a 6pot stocker when I got it then I dropped the wild 202 in it u see in pic, but if you heard it you could place money on it bein a bombed 308 but you woulda lost. I made big $$ on that motor. Then I dropped a 253 in it, got more pwr used less fuel. I detailed the engine bay b4 I sold it, wasn't much chop in this pic.

that's an absolute classic

Originally Posted by Bearded Shark

This is my claim to fame. I was dared to build this, so I did. It took 11mths, with no help......ground up. I sold it early this yr to someone I know. It has front mounted GMH 202 with elec ign, high vol fuel pump, XD ford twin throat webber with an alloy adaptor that I fabricated myself, high comp head, high lift cam, extractors, twin system with dumpers, boosted XU-1 brakes, M21 box with short shifter & cable sports clutch, 100L fuel tank that I fabricated, 3.55 locker diff, full harnesses, 6deg front camber, 12" sports st/wheel (not on at time of photo), 15x8" volvo mags with 31" mau terrains on rear (at time of sale)-pic shows 385wide drag slicks. I had to bolt an 'I' beam on the back to keep it down. I had a more recent pic of it in its current colour- kawasaki green, but I think someone pinched it. It also had rear guards, & sat 1" higher at front, & 2" higher at rear than in pic.




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These days its down to these 3 toys. There were about 15 other vehicles, cars bikes etc that I don't have photos of or were not really gd enuf 2 b called toys.

A non 4x4 fan wouldn't spod the mods on this


This 1 I'll never sell. It is half stock. Pro-x piston & rod, Carbon-tech reeds, Pro-circuit pipe, rebuilt everything


We all know this 1. Was stock, now project rebuild- not stock


Ok, braggin time over. If u got somethin similar, post it, I'd love 2 c it....4x4, MX bike, Ski, V8 & 6cyl streeter, NO rotories or turbo 4's (except brown sigmas ), they may be quick but they're weak.

Thanks Daz. The guy I made the bet with was in so much disbelief, he wouldn't pay up (2 cartons). I did eventually get it......2 yrs later. He'd had a crack at 1 a few yrs earlier with a mate & it was LAME, ugly & gutless. He now has a stock '92 failane 5L slug bucket, & his big mouth boss of a wife keeps braggin to my wife about V8 power, LIKE I DIDN'T HAVE A V8 THAT WOULDA EATEN THAT 4 LUNCH, & Megan used 2 drive it when I was without lic, so she just laughs at this girl. Been there, done that....will prob do it again later too. I mean, I like holdens but I won't knock a decent ford, but that aint 1.

Hey what? U referrin 2 yaself or me with the child costs? We got a son, & wife is 6mths preg with our 2nd (& last) child, a girl......so we're told. I got 3 toys but 1 is tax deduction. But she knows my rules.......
Rule 1: Toys r accumulated, not sold.
Rule 2: If a toy is sold, it is to buy another toy only
Rule 3: If a toy breaks, it becomes a priority to fix it
Rule 4: Toys must be maintained in good working order
Rule 5: Toys may only be upgraded, or equalled
Rule 6: Only I can decide when to bend the above rules, unless in times of major financial hardship

These were stipulated when we started goin out, 10yrs ago, so I wouldn't end up like every other dad. U gotta fight for it. I think my words were...."if u wanna try to take me away from my machines, walk away now". One of my mates' wives was sayin to my wife she'd never let him have a dirtbike, even tho he'd love 1, & then recommended that she make me sell mine. "Me....MAKE Joel sell his bike?" she said, "he'd sell ME b4 he sold his bike". That's my girl. Truth b told, I'd never put her or our kids 2nd to my toys .