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    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
    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    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.
    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    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.

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    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    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.

    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    that's an absolute classic

    Quote Originally Posted by Bearded Shark View Post
    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.
    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    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.
    Last edited by Bearded Shark; 03-08-2007 at 03:41 PM.
    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    Hey bearded shark.. nice pics.... unfortunately for me, i just have plain film shots of the sigma... and i am pretty sure the wife has placed them in a "safe spot" What you may not know is that the running gear from that sigma (the brown one was actually from a genuine sigma turbo) which had the rego plates 4U2NO. I sold the sigma to a mechanic who loved it. Dont know whatever happened to it.... My other weapon of recent years i will get some pics together and post them up. A very fast forester GT, but was blown away by a black one which looked exactly like mine until it blew everyone away at a dyno challenge a few years ago... now, its just a stock ute mate... Yep, thats the torana, and there was a white one at the drag strip that day as well....

    moral of the story, dont judge a sigma by its a appearance.. but like u said, i kept blowing up 3rd gear in the gearbox. Until a supra 5 speed went in then the diff kept going...

    too old these days.. ahem... until i spend soome quality time with the dark lord himself.. nothing too wild though... YET. have to get my riding legs and get over the expense of the new ski which is hurting!!! oh yes.. then there is the expense of the child Bearded..... hang on to your toys while u can.. because like quite a few of us.... there can only be one in the shed.. if u r allowed to have them.. i have had to wait for 8 years now to start my toy collection up again... Jetski being the weapon of choice...

    good luck with the rebuild... i'll catch up with you this season sometime no doubt!!! sorry to hear what happened.. i better get one of those retractable oars... i think slippery make one dont they???

    cheers
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    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 .
    Sold: ZXi 900- Coffman piped, Nitro injected, Shaved head, Ported, Oversized jets, Uni-filters, UMI ride plate, Worx scoop grate, Renthal bars, Skat Trak prop, Oversized nozzle, Sponsons
    Now Owned: '98 SPX full race equipped with stock driveline & a proven winner (3rd for 2008/9 season, 3rd at stated round, plus many more podium finishes)

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    Hi Bearded Shark

    SITCOM - Single Income Three Children Oppressive Mortgage...... thats me ...(and she is pregnant again!!)

    OK some past toys..I did have a orange couloured 2 door LC torana GTR with a 192 Cu In stage 1 c/w Holley 350...used to chirp rear wheels while in 3rd gear on dry roads...but one stupid car in the wet..

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    XA GT (brother was 2nd owner from Mount Magnet farmer... had papers from Ford saying all RPO83 options fitted....sold it...hate think what it would be worth now)
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    euro cars...(notice the Yammy gp1200 in the background)

    cheers

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