Boys and their toys

[Jen]

Well we all know what astro toys you have :thumbsup: and seems IIS is over populated with males :lol:
What about cars, hot rods etc........
Do you own or working on one?
Or whats your dream car?
Or is astronomy breaking the bank already :lol: to have another very expensive hobby in cars

Im a bit of a rev head myself my mum has a dodge charger its gonna look awsome when its finished and she also has a 1940 ford hotrod that looks really cool and my dad has an old classic 1953 american ford :D

this is my dream car check out the chrome on that woohooo :cool::cool:
:D 1958 Corvette :P Not sure i would really go pink though maybe red or black :D

:driving::driving:

[Zaps]

Cars? I don't have time for cars! I'm way too busy with astronomy! ;)

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:
i thought i might get this answer quite a bit on this thread but ya never know some of you might have lovely wives :lol::lol:

[Omaroo]

It's a bit of a pity to see such a rare and classic car ruined by that oversized monster in the engine bay and an ugly roll cage fitted. I hope it's a fibreglass replica.....

[Jen]

Yeah the roll cage can go ;)
But the engine stays :D

[Peter Ward]

Very seriously thinking of finally getting me one of these.....while not the F355 still some serious wheels.

[TrevorW]

Pete it won't pick up the girls

Maserati for me

[astroron]

thought i might get this answer quite a bit on this thread but ya never know some of you might have lovely wives


:rofl::rofl::rofl:
Good one Jen:thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Ah...I think the one that must be obeyed said "you can't be serious"

[DavidU]

Go for it ! They are good buying at the moment, an '88 can be got for peanuts out of the UK.
I am lucky enough to be driving a 996 Carrera 911 4S convertable. Absolutley NO good for taking a scope to a dark site.:lol:

[Omaroo]

LOL! If we're going to get into this.... this will hopefully be my next car. I've been eyeing them off for a year now, and will make a "go/no go" decision shortly. I don't have a SWMBO any more, so stuff it! Mid-life crisis time. A bit quicker than the Land Rover I'm told...

Supercharged V8 time.

I must be mad.

[astronut]

Here's a short film of my car being tested before delivery.
http://www.bugatti.com/en/veyron-16.4.html

[DavidU]

No SWMBO ! That makes toys a LOT easier to get. Go for it Chris;)

[Omaroo]

Yes, it does. LOL! I'd much rather have the SWMBO, but that's history I'm afraid. :(

So... live for the moment I say.

Worry about tomorrow the day after. :doh:

[TrevorW]

John so it was you that won on Tuesday

Nha don't like it no place for a tow bar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFGgNmGIhM

[Omaroo]

I like the new Maserati GT Trevor. It's a good car by all counts so far - so much better than the simply horrible and disastrous previous model.

If we're in to video promos today - here's one I like for the Jag XF Coupe due shortly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJOQIGk5GA - a bit flashy, but quite well done too. I'm going for the 4-door saloon simply because it's half-sensible and can fit people comfortably. LOL!

Here's the next model up from the one I'm looking at - and it's seriously more dolla. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5HJd3Pwtys&feature=fvst

[Gallifreyboy]

"I like the new Maserati GT Trevor. It's a good car by all counts so far - so much better than the simply horrible and disastrous previous model."

Just wondering which models you were alluding to Chris ? the 80's and early 90's models. I've been lucky enough to have a track day at Barbagallo raceway with several maseratis and have driven the Gran Turismo, the Quattroporte and the 4200 very fast around the track and they are all a joy. I might also be lucky enough to have a 4200 Spyder in my garage which is a delight to drive.:) Their driver engagement is so much stronger than many other sports cars I've driven.

[mick pinner]

hi Jen, this is one of my cars that l finished restoring last year, 1970 HG Monaro. original purchase price $3800, insured agreed value now $110,000.
it certainly helps to be in the trade.

[renormalised]

John, I love the way you think:D:)

Now, all I need is $2.6 million and I'll have my dream car:D

In lieu of one of these, an Aston Martin DBS will do just nicely....at nearly $500K:D

[Omaroo]

Peter, I'm referring to the '02-'06 Coupe. Great engine, lousy gearbox and very unsure handling - so say most sources out there. I might have spoken too soon, but was not the Gran Tourismo a re-development of the Coupe?

[Nesti]

What a beauty!!!!

Well done - clearly you deserve the appreciated asset, and joy.

[Omaroo]

That looks like a fantastic project Mick. Well done indeed! :D

[mick pinner]

thanks guys 400 hours in the bodywork alone.

[Gallifreyboy]

I suspect porsche reviewer came to that conclusion;). The 3200 coupe(its the one with the boomerang tail lights) from 1999 was the new dawn with part ferrari ownership and shared engine technology a few reliability issues with them, then in 2002 the 4200 with all new 4.2l V8 available coupe or spyder, evolved to gransport with quattroporte developed around same time. Gran turismo all new model after Gransport ceased production. The 4200 is a super car, have had no problems with mine. I have driven quite a few high end cars and I've driven this at about 175km/h on a racetrack and enjoy the driver engagement of the maserati.:)

[Omaroo]

Thanks Peter. Good clarification. I think that I may have fallen into the "believe what I hear, rather than what I know" trap. Thanks! :)

PS: looverly in yellow :)

[Gallifreyboy]

:thumbsup: come to Perth when the weather's nice you can come for a drive (not at barbagallo raceway though)

[Omaroo]

That, sir, I would love to do. Thank you. If I get the XF I may just have to drive it over to run it in. :)

[Inmykombi]

Give me a Kombi anyday....:D

[taminga16]

After being knocked from my BMW motorcycle in December last year I thought it prudent to stop riding and upon recovery I purchased a little red Mazda MX5, a wonderful car that is not really fast but very quick, the only problem was that it left me feeling that I wanted to get closer to everything again so there is now another BMW motorcycle in the shed as well. With about 90hp at the rear wheel and more than 100Nm, 0 to 100 kph in 3sec is a snap and an all day cruising speed of 125kph is possible whilst returning about 19klm/litre.

You can't look at the stars in the daytime.

Greg.

[Gallifreyboy]

:eyepop:Ouch! After that I bet you saw stars day and night for a while

[Jen]

Hehehe :lol::lol:
Well if my hubby said lets buy some classic cars and some awsome astro gear i would say wooohooo lets do it :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop: wow very nice Mick do you have a finished pic looks beautiful :thumbsup::thumbsup: nice work the color is very nice too ;)
I used to have a 2 door HQ monaro back in the early 90's it had a 350 chev in it ran like a dream i only paid $1000 dollars for it :D it was in perfect condition too :thumbsup: dam it i wish i kept it now :doh:
I also had an old LX torana with a 253 in it i started my own little project of stripping it back to metal and getting ready to paint it brocky blue then some nasty person thought it was looking awsome and stole it :mad2: I was devasted that was my very first car :(
I would love to get a corvette shell and start from scratch it would be much more special :D:thumbsup::P

[Enchilada]

The only kind of car I'm interested in is one that featured in "The Jetsons".
You could go above the clouds and observe at any time! :thumbsup:

...and here is some suitable fashion to match Jen's 1958 Corvette dream !

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/21054.jpg
or
http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/21053.jpg

Comic Girl indeed!

[Enchilada]

This is the only TOY (http://conceptcity.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/longoria-gq-mexico3.jpg) I really want... :help:

Someone like this to open the dome-slit of my observatory every night! ;)

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[AstralTraveller]

That's a beautiful looking job.

[TrevorW]

I'm in Perth what Sundays good for you

:thumbsup:

[PCH]

Me too - always happy to help out. I can bring my hot rods too if anyone wants a drive. I have a Chrysler Grand Voyager that does 0 to 60 in about 24 minutes, and a Fiesta - that I can only just fit in. Happy to swap for a drive in a Masserati/Ferrari or anything similar. :D

[renormalised]

You only want one toy??!!!:P:P:D:D:eyepop::D

[Enchilada]

Yeah. I think that Mexican babe Eva Jacqueline Longoria (Parker) might just be enough to handle!! Big personality, small package. :scared2:

Could you imagine maintenance, let alone having the car to go with it!! (I.e. http://whitsports.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/eva-longoria.jpg :camera:)

Va Va Va Voom!! :love2: He! He!

Note: I am still getting over her Desperate Housewife appearance with Teri Hatcher and the infamous kisses. I.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU6os6My6OE :help2:

Hilarious !! :lol:

[GrahamL]

Nice cars guys but not a patch on the magna :)

notice even at a 1/10 000 sec exposure its still a blur
give me a slight downward hill a modest headstart and no corners
and its eat my dust :)

[Gallifreyboy]

This would just about take the magna and the voyager at the lights (if I didn't stall it). I took this photo at the Ferrari shop in Milan recently. The driver space is disturbingly small. I doubt I would have feelings in my legs after 5 minutes:)

[erick]

OK, back to reality :sadeyes: My wife and I reckon a diesel wagon will do us in the future. Just needs a towbar to pull the "astro trailer"! :thumbsup:

[marki]

Here's my baby. I first saw one back in March 1989 at the Perth bike show and remember standing in front of the display mesmerised by her beuty. I had to have one. By Oct that year after after a 6 month wait and parting with a fist full of lire she was mine :). I have had many bikes over the years but this one is a keeper and I will never sell her. The sound when those big throttle bodies and massive fuel injectors are wide open defies description and the torque :D. She turns 20 this year and is still to clock 30K. Her name is Madonna :lol:.

[GrahamL]

thinking back .. dream car ?

way back a friend had one of these
http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/car_info_ford_escort_twin_cam.htm

I have driven a few fast cars over the years.. I dont think I've been in anything that could scare the bejesus out of me than that old escort .
cam had poured so much money into it , gear ratios ,carby
( as if a couple of big assed webbers wern't dropping enough fuel down its throat anyway anyway).. every cent he got got poured into that car to make it go faster.. Didn't have a big top end speed .. 200 or thereabouts .. but it could throw you over the back seat all the way up to it .

[MrB]

I took these outside my workplace recently ;)
(last pic from Rome, Da Vinci Airport)

[Jone5y]

I've answered the question in this thread a thousand times in my head, even have categorised versions (dream car if I could only have 1, best under 50, 100, 500K etc, I even have a dream garage for all price ranges that would cover all occasions.

So to avoid boring you all with the details, here's a pic of my current baby. Plenty of room in the back for astro gear ;)

[beren]

Classic muscle cars are the go :D I'd be pretty content with a 67/68 GT500 Shelby Mustang

[IvanTheTerrible]

God. Were do I start. I have currently three projects. All to be modified. I have a 1938 Chev ute that will be Hot Rodded. I have a 1964 AP5 Valiant that we are converting to a V8 and will sport a supercharger and I am doing up a VH Commodore for a drag car that will sport a twin turbo 253CI V8.
You have to have something to do till twilight ends!

[Starkler]

If I had won the 90 mil lotto I would buy the sexiest and best looking car on the planet, the Aston Martin DB9

[Nesti]

I'd be happy with this...thing?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0109liIZGQ&feature=related

Then this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0109liIZGQ&feature=related

Then this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU&feature=related

I won't need a car; I'd be in hospital.

[Omaroo]

This, Geoff, is why I'm looking at the XF Jag. The rear 3/4 lines have similar DNA across the DB9 and XK/XF Jags. Simply beautiful.

[renormalised]

I've gotta get me one of these!!!!!:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop:: D:D:D

[Nightshift]

This is my baby, I cant fit the 12" dob in but then who cares....



Dennis

[Ric]

At the moment I'm seriously tempted by one of these baby's ;)

BMW K1300R

Cheers

[theodog]

In my irresposible youth I had an Austin/Healey 'spriget' with a 'sebring' front end. It was my toy.:D

I have been looking for an Austin 7 for quiet a few years now.:thumbsup:

Not into those spaceship, super-slick modern overpriced bits of stuff that you can only drive to the nearest speed-bump.:lol:

[Nesti]

Very nice car - choice of the astronaut.

Check out the Spyker I found in Bangkok (of all places); see any resemblance in the rear-end???

[Nightshift]

Well actually, that isnt entirely true.

Whilst in the USA last year I had a discussion with a guy who worked at NASA (now and during the 60s) and he told me a story that I have since confirmed as true. Coco beach had a Chevvy dealer that come up with a bright idea, he would lease a Corvette himself, loan it to a returned Apollo astronaut for 12 months on the premise that it was a reward for their bravery or something like that, what he then did was get the car back at 12 months and sell it to the public at a much higher price than retail as a preowned ex Apollo astronaut vehicle, people would line up for miles to buy that particular car. Very clever indeed. Those cars are now very collectible and worht a lot of money today, the known whereabouts of them is readily available through a variety of sources.

Mine however is a 79 model and Apollo was long gone by then, it is simply an ex-Californian car previously owned by a middle aged woman who couldnt afford to keep paying the ludicrous amount that California want annualy for their smog compliance.

Dennis.

[lacad01]

The only thing closely resembling a "toy" I've owned was a '69 Datsun 1600 with worked 180B motor & twin Webers when I was young and silly :P
Go the Dato ! :)

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Yep im with ya Dennis she has all the curves in all the right places dosnt she :D:D:D I took one of those for a drive once woah the front of them are soooo long ;)

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: lol Adam :thumbsup: i used to have one of those it had no brakes, no second gear and i had to change gears with a screwdriver :lol::lol:

[Stuart78]

Here is my 75 HJ GTS not a Ferrari but i love it, it's pretty much all original apart from it sitting a little closer to the ground than normal
i have a about 3 of everything on it, lots of new old stock parts sourced of the net over the last few years, the paint looks good in the pictures but it is going back to bare metal soon for it's full resto treatment..







Regards,
Stu>>>

[Rhino1980]

Building a 383 chev powered '69 Jag for my Mum. Its slammed on Simmons Wheels. Motor should pull around 430 horspeower.

The old man runs around in a 400 powered ;68 Impala.

Also have a HQ holden of my own with a 350 chev waiting to go in it, also on Simmons Wheels. Have to build another house first before I am allowed to proceed with that one though... Its just sleeping in the shed at the moment.

Ordered myself an FG XR6 Turbo last Monday, should be here in a couple of weeks. Weeeeeeeeee!!!

[AstralTraveller]

I similar thing happen here. When Bob Dylan played in the local venue he specified a certain type of lounge chair to sit in backstage. Before the gig he sat in barely long enough to warm the seat and didn't hang around after the gig at all. The furniture shop that loaned the chair to the venue then put it in the store window as 'The Chair Bob Dylan Sat In' and sold it for many times its true value.

Perhaps if I could get 'The Mouse Jen Clicks to Add Emoticons' I could make a killing flogging it on IIS. :thumbsup:

[erick]

Can you! Really!! :cool::love::party:

[AstralTraveller]

OK - here's the plan. We drop in for a visit, looking nonchalent. :gday: We engage in a but of small talk about her scope :astron: ("do you still pick it up to point at a different object?") and admire the outback skies. :stargaze: Then, while you distract her with chocolate I dash behind the computer, unplug the mouse and head for the get-away car. We then drive off into the night :driving: cackling madly :evil: and planning what size RCs we will buy with the proceeds. :2thumbs:

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop:
:scared::scared::scared:
nooooooooooo not the mouse i will do anything anything just not the mouse
Your getaway car dosnt have enough horsepower and i catch up with you two in my awsome corvette, take my mouse back then take all the astro toys you own :rofl::rofl: now whos cackling madly :evil::evil::evil::rofl:
:driving::driving::driving:

jen must remember to not take any chocolates from any astro geeks :lol:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Nice car Stuart :D