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Hi From Downunder

BARRY JACKPOT

BARRY JACKPOT

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G'day all, just bought myself a 69 Roadrunner and thought this would be a good place to get to know all about it. Look forward to chatting and sharing the B body love. Jeez they're a good looking car.:grin:
 
There ya go. It's a matching numbers second owner car, the gentleman I bought it from had the outside paint touched up but under the hood and inside are original. There's a few things I need to change to get it back to how it would have left the assembly line such as the tiny 80's style steering wheel and modern stereo. It also has classic auto air hooked up to the original switches but that will be staying as it's pretty hot where we live.

It's been a california car it's whole life and is dry like a desert underneath and never been touched the diff still has the factory crayon marks on it.

I want to put black steel wheels and redlines on it but aside from that I don't think i'll be changing much. Maybe the black hood stripes, it wasn't optioned with em but I like them and if I had of bought it new it would have had them.

Thanks for your interest gents and I look forward to being part of the B Body community.
 
Nice find!!Must be alot of cruzin around down there:yes:"B" bodies rule:grin:
 
There's hardly any cruising down here as the police are complete nazis and view car enthusiests as a criminal element. I've just returned home after my first trip to the states and let me tell ya, you guys don't know how good you've got it from a car point of view. Imagine wheel tubs being illegal and don't even think of having anything poking through the bonnet, welcome to Oz.

Thank you all for your warm welcome.
 
Been there, seen it. Went to Oz twice. Once in 01 for 3 weeks, again in 02 for 6 weeks and had me Harley shipped with me. I really thought things in Oz would be a bit faster and looser, not so. You really are regulated much more than here. Some american states allow speed cameras, mine doesnt. Our constitution allows you to face your accuser. Since most speed cameras here are operated by independent contractors, and leased to the municipalities, we have made a good argument that justice can be tainted by profit. When I toured Oz, I was on the east coast, and made it to the land of the two-heads, where are you?
 
welcome nice car . wondering if people in australia hit roos like we hit deer? those animals get pretty big .
 
That grille on the rig from The road warrior wasnt a joke. They ALL have them, its called a Roo Bar, or Bull Bar. down there ther are allowed to haul "road trains". remeber speed racer? They haul 3-5 trailers on one rig across the outback. trust me, you dont want to even tap the brakes for a roo when you are doing that! And roos ARE thicker than deer!
 
I'm on the east coast and yeah speed cameras have nothing whatsoever to do with cutting the road toll they're are geared 100% towards revenue making buch of crooks they are. And yeah we hit roos the same as you guys hit deer, problem with em is they jump and if you tag em mid hop they end up going through the windscreen and wind up either in your lap or sitting next to you half dead thrashing around, not a good look. The other animal you get problems with is wombats, not so much where I live but further south these suckers grow to about 3/4's teh size of a beer keg and probably would weigh about the same. While they don't jump if you hit one in you car they do all sorts of ungodly damage.
 
We were warned about those! Rules of the aussie road ... in front of a horse, behind a cow, and over a dog! We went from Brisbane to Tazzie, probably passed through your town!
 
Roadtrains, yeah those big girls don't stop for anything. I drive around in a prime mover at work that is roadtrain rated. It'll pull a hundred tons no joke. We're allowed to have 22 tons per trailer 5 trailers you do the math. Don't get me wrong it's an awesome country but pretty backward with respect to some of the laws governing it. Pretty much all car guys are seen as a menace to society. Sad but true.
 
You would have definately gone through our town Scott we're on the gold coast. When I say Gold Coast we're in the backwoods out in the hills.
 
i believe we didnt take the coast road the whole way down to Melbourne, too touristy. we preferred the inland highway whenever possible. stopped at towns like Yes and Hay. the birthplace of Slim Dusty, Tamworth, Dog on a Tuggerbox! Met the greatest folks there too!
 
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