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there was one other Hemi - my girlfriend's Mum, back in the early '80's, she had a big old green whale ' Chrysler by Chrysler' ? or some such crap, it was a CJ I think ? with a 360 auto , this thing used to smoke the bags in 1st sooooo easy, then light up hard into 2nd, and actually 'chirp' the tyres into 3rd - It was fully dead stock.......

SocialSecurity wrote:"to fly"

Correct, though in some dialects it apparently also meant 'small hill' or 'breast' ...

dave#3 wrote:

SocialSecurity wrote:"to fly"

Correct, though in some dialects it apparently also meant or 'breast' ...

So that means I have man toranas.....lol

dave#3 wrote:

YAPPA wrote:bit of trivia, Monaro is an aboriginal word, does anyone know what it translates to in english

Monaro translates to "a high plateau or high plain". Do you know what Torana translates to (including the alternate translations)

Well done, & yes it does also mean womans breast

YAPPA wrote:Well done, & yes it does also mean womans breast

Mate, you could hear it all over the Showgrounds at Wankernats this year.........." Show us ya T'RANA'S".....

Gosling1 wrote:

zbeast wrote:Would love to do similar mods to a HG Monaro one day....

*sniff* a HT Monaro was my very first car 308, Powerglide......*sniff* wish I still had it..........

zbeast - get one now mate, even a basket case - in 25 years time they will be a gazillion dollars......

Gos
you are crying ?

I sold my HT GTS bathurst 350 Monaro...manual of course
back in about 76-77
(to get an 'Bathurst LJ XU1)


and I am STILL kicking myself today.....
why?
good ones are going for more than $50..large


and
my current ride....
a modded 5.7 litre SS Commodore ain't no replacement

HemiDuty wrote:..snip...

Smitty: Are you sure you wouldn't rather have a Hemi in the Challenger? But yeah, those 6pac 440s sure are the next best thing. I really can never decide between Challengers and Cudas, but if forced at gun point would probably go the latter.

go watch...Vanishing Point

and tell me if you think i am wrong...

Smitty wrote:....Gos you are crying ?......

'scuse me Smitty, I gotta go 'out the back' again .......

That is a magnificent example of the *toughest* muscle car ever built in Oz........(Phase III owners can belt off all they like, but in the end, they still had 4 doors and looked like a taxi...... )

just ask Norm Beechey

Vanishing Point one of the greatest road movies ever.....

Kind of running OT, but since when did that matter?

One of my friends at high school, his mum was telling me about her (late) first husband, and his pride and joy - a Phase III. This is when they were still new-ish, so it was secondhand, but not 'old'. Anyhow, they loved that car. Quick as stink, all that.

Which made it doubly hard when they had to spend the night with an angle grinder chopping it up after they found out it was stolen

an update ...for the Mopar fans

who would like a NEW Challenger?

Well here is an obscure one that I qualify for. I own a 2003 KJ Cherokee sport CRD. Yep a Diesel MOPAR! Oh and it's a Turbo too!

the petrol cherokee motors are amusing... its like looking at an old holden 202 with efi gear bolted on!

SocialSecurity wrote:the petrol cherokee motors are amusing... its like looking at an old holden 202 with efi gear bolted on!

aaaaah
so thats where GMH sent their 6cyl engine plant

Didn't they just "unslant" the "Slant" n bolt EFI on?

*sighs* ah your a bunch of funny fucks I gotta say... hahaha


My bro used to have a Safari.. Dubbed the Maroubra Mercedes, I think he was going through abit of a retro phase, dunno what it went like but it was good for towing the boat to go fishing and diving


A guy at a place we do IT for bought an old Manaro, very early rounder shape in a canary yellow, completly original was in a photo shoot with the new Monaro in yellow also, with a bloke in the boot to drop the arse end down abit.

Dunno what he paid for it, but I believe well over $20, took him 5 years of coaxing the original owner to sell it.. It's got the original plates and the owner just recently gave him a set of plates he's had for years but never put on.. HK 1968 or something like that I think it looks just like this from the pics he showed me..