THE SEVENTIES Options

[wonkipop]

out for my saturday morning long distance grocery walk.

........lo and behold.



1973 ford falcon XA.
pepper red. GT. 351 cleveland.
(aussie ford that is).
however ......styled in detroit. last of the aussie fords styled in the USA.
put me in a good mood all day.
owner was standing nearby and i had a quick chat.
freshly restored by him.
cracked a joke about it having its nose up like a 914.
......he knew what a 914 was and asked me why i said that.
told him i had one that was one shade of orange off his pepper red.
or was that pepper orange?
ie phoenix red. or is that phoenix orange. he knew what phoenix red was.

car blokes. top blokes.



70s. top era. go fast stripes. wild colors. emotionally crippled cars suffering from epa strangulation pillow suffocation.
sure beats the 21st century. what shade of grey is that again. oh yeah. mirage grey.
ah i thought it was saharan grey. nice polar silver SUV there mate. its not silver. its uber unsaturated black. tops. beaudiful touch screen you got there where the gear lever used to be. yeah. gear levers are for pensioners. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[wonkipop]

@bkrantz

dug these out of my photo files for you.
went to an italian day in carlton (melbourne) a couple of years ago as the infamous melbourne covid curfew came to an end.

a couple of aus delivery (proper rhd) X1/9s.
an early one and a late one i believe.
the few that are left that i see are in superb condition retained by enthusiasts.




and given your fiat 124 spyder first car.
a couple of aussie spyders.
these would be ex USA and likely came in during the late 80s/early90s.
converted to r h d here.
superbly i might add. look and drive completely like they are factory.
aussies used to be very good at doing professional conversions.



there are one or rwo original rhd fiat dino spyders here in aus.
now thats a car.
don't think there are any fiat dino coupe versions of the same thing.
but there are a number of fiat 130 coupes here.
my mate has one.
slightly different car but very stylish.
known locally as mafia staff cars.
see if i can dig up a photo of my mates.

[bkrantz]

@bkrantz

dug these out of my photo files for you.
went to an italian day in carlton (melbourne) a couple of years ago as the infamous melbourne covid curfew came to an end.

a couple of aus delivery (proper rhd) X1/9s.
an early one and a late one i believe.
the few that are left that i see are in superb condition retained by enthusiasts.


and given your fiat 124 spyder first car.
a couple of aussie spyders.
these would be ex USA and likely came in during the late 80s/early90s.
converted to r h d here.
superbly i might add. look and drive completely like they are factory.
aussies used to be very good at doing professional conversions.


there are one or rwo original rhd fiat dino spyders here in aus.
now thats a car.
don't think there are any fiat dino coupe versions of the same thing.
but there are a number of fiat 130 coupes here.
my mate has one.
slightly different car but very stylish.
known locally as mafia staff cars.
see if i can dig up a photo of my mates.

Very cool--thanks. Those cars look great. The Spyder was fun to drive, especially as a high school student. I would drive to school, and hard to park further from the building than my family house on the back side of the school property. But then we could sneak out for lunch and drive to McDonalds. And almost always at least one girl wanted to go in my car.