Yeah, you Aussies have always been known to thumb your noses at the home office. 
Like the OHC 250 Ford 6 cylinder; why oh why did we never get that powerplant up here? Or even the crossflow version?
Yeah, you Aussies have always been known to thumb your noses at the home office. Like the OHC 250 Ford 6 cylinder; why oh why did we never get that powerplant up here? Or even the crossflow version?
ReverendDexter wrote:Conquest351 wrote: I'm talking about a RWD Sport Sedan with a real live manual transmission.Basically the Ford Interceptor concept with a stickshift?IMO that's what Lincoln should be selling right now. Not Fusions and Edges with pearlescent paint and turbos.
Mark 9?
I do agree.. if Caddys can go, stop, turn, and look really really aggressive doing it.. why can't we shake the blue hairs out of the Lincoln?
Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, you Aussies have always been known to thumb your noses at the home office.
Man...no kidding. Check out the power the Aussies get from the Ford 300 I6. It's nuts. The last one was DOHC, turbocharged, and made over 400 hp and 400 ft lbs torque.
I like that car.
poopshovel wrote:ThePhranc wrote: Never heard of a Holden Torana before the googles showed me this. I need this car.That is berkeleying disgustingly hot.
I can't decide if it looks more American or Japanese but I LIKE....and do you see how wide those wheels are? Pants...tightening...
Curmudgeon wrote: Look familiar?Vauxhall Viva, the British version. That's what the Jensen Healey got its front suspension and axles from.
How dear you crap all over this thread with a picture a of a Vauxhall Viva!
GameboyRMH wrote:poopshovel wrote:I can't decide if it looks more American or Japanese but I LIKE....and do you see how wide those wheels are? Pants...tightening...ThePhranc wrote: Never heard of a Holden Torana before the googles showed me this. I need this car.That is berkeleying disgustingly hot.
After seeing this:
I think I know where Holden got a bit of the front end styling from...
Do these have live axles or IRS? It looks like the theme could be duplicated with a mid-70s Nova. That would be HAWT!
GameboyRMH wrote:poopshovel wrote:I can't decide if it looks more American or Japanese but I LIKE....and do you see how wide those wheels are? Pants...tightening...ThePhranc wrote: Never heard of a Holden Torana before the googles showed me this. I need this car.That is berkeleying disgustingly hot.
Is it just me, or does this car look an awful lot like a Chevy Vega?
It does have a lot of Vega hatchback in its styling.
To me the nose has a lot of Opel Kadett influence.
It's a live rear axle, the Torana piece is a reasonably close replacement for a J-H and allows the use of limited slip stuff that's not readily available for the Viva axle. We don't see a bunch of Torana axles here in the Great Satan, unfortunately.
IIRC Mad Max's wagon in the first movie was also a Torana.
I had a 2 door "LB" (or maybe LC, I don't recall) back in the late 1980s. I thought they were Opel based, like the first Holden Commodores, but I think the Vauxhall connection is more correct. Anyway, it was a pile and I sold it for $700. Probably worth a grip now. I had a cousin with a Sunbird, which I think was derived from the Torana. Also an unreliable turd:
How long before Holden completes the crap trifecta and brings back the Gemini and Camira models?
Curmudgeon wrote: IIRC Mad Max's wagon in the first movie was also a Torana.
The panel van was based on the Holden Kingswood platform IIRC. Looks like an "HZ" Kingswood from the late 1970s, the last of the model before the Commodore came on line.
Holden also had the "Sandman" designation for the hotted up Bogan wagon:
Torana was the compact car, Kingswood was the family car. I had an HZ Kingswood station wagon for a couple of years of my undergrad - bench seats front and rear, room for a half dozen people, surfboards and a drumkit 
Popular with the 1/4 mile crowd as well. (An old girlfriend of mine sent me this picture, she is the one posing and thought I would like the car.)
Joe Gearin wrote:GameboyRMH wrote:Is it just me, or does this car look an awful lot like a Chevy Vega?poopshovel wrote:I can't decide if it looks more American or Japanese but I LIKE....and do you see how wide those wheels are? Pants...tightening...ThePhranc wrote: Never heard of a Holden Torana before the googles showed me this. I need this car.That is berkeleying disgustingly hot.
Yes, it does. Awesome mods too. Must be some sort of platform share.
Once again we get cheated out of the good stuff in the US. Just like the Holden HSR, we get the Chevette instead.
pinchvalve wrote: Popular with the 1/4 mile crowd as well. (An old girlfriend of mine sent me this picture, she is the one posing and thought I would like the car.)
Pic of you 2 together or it didn't happen
Gearheadotaku wrote: Yes, it does. Awesome mods too. Must be some sort of platform share. Once again we get cheated out of the good stuff in the US. Just like the Holden HSR, we get the Chevette instead.
That was the Vauxhall Chevette HSR
Aussies got the Gemini:
Which is the same as the Opel Kadette C, and the Opel-Isuzu...or something that was friggin rare.
But god dammit, why'd we have the get the UGLY one?
With the most anemic, POS engines they could find?!
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