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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2011, 06:09:40 pm »
Michael, at the rate your going the shed will be full in no time  ;D
Those big ole 4 bangers are great fun to ride and are real mono material.

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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2011, 06:12:52 pm »
I know I want to buy a car next though I wasn't looking for the XT it came looking for me. ;)

I hope they are good for monos I can do them no worries on my mountain bike as long as I like but haven't mastered them on dirtbikes yet especially the pe400 I have nearly flipped it alot of times. ;)
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« Reply #17 on: August 19, 2011, 02:41:00 pm »
I know I want to buy a car next though I wasn't looking for the XT it came looking for me. ;)

Flick the XT mate, you will never bond with it. I had minter Charger years ago, 265 auto, not RT unfortunately, but even at the time fuel consumption was shocking. Bet the triple weber Hemi Special Six Pack can drink like a touring Maori Rugby team  ;D ;D

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« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2011, 02:51:18 pm »
I know I want to buy a car next though I wasn't looking for the XT it came looking for me. ;)

I hope they are good for monos I can do them no worries on my mountain bike as long as I like but haven't mastered them on dirtbikes yet especially the pe400 I have nearly flipped it alot of times. ;)

if you want to learn to mono, you need a fourstoke.

as a 13 year old in late 70's in a play riding area in melb' burbs'  i saw a bloke on a TT500 pulling mono's with his chick on the back, made a big impression on me.

even the 250's were good for mono's ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYiwhM23ycw
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« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2011, 04:06:41 pm »
I know I want to buy a car next though I wasn't looking for the XT it came looking for me. ;)

Flick the XT mate, you will never bond with it. I had minter Charger years ago, 265 auto, not RT unfortunately, but even at the time fuel consumption was shocking. Bet the triple weber Hemi Special Six Pack can drink like a touring Maori Rugby team  ;D ;D



I used to have a CJ Charger, 265 manual..  Loved it, really loved it.. 
Fuel consumption on the manual wasn't too bad around town, but it was great on the open road.

75 litre tank, and I could do Canberra to Melbourn on one tank, sitting on 130km/h and overtaking at will...

miss that car...   :'( :'( :'(

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« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2011, 04:08:22 pm »
oh, and keep the XT - ditch that red thing instead...   ::)

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« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2011, 04:26:59 pm »
bugger the charger Frosty, get your self a VJ ute 8)
fit a 265, slip on some extractors, charger steel rims and enjoy the world of Val utes, crap brakes, built in understeer, and fuel consumption that will make you the favourite customer of EVERY servo in the Geelong area.
maybe even get your PE 400 to a Vinduro or two ;D :D

cheers

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« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2011, 04:34:37 pm »
I'll just keep all my bikes for now until I figure out any that I want to get rid of if anything. ;)

My dads uncle had an e55 they would have been a weapon but I would buy one with any running gear the 318 was a good motor too.

I will get a charger just a matter of time there is one I can get for $5k but it has alot of rust and not the original motor which isn't great.
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« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2011, 04:44:18 pm »
When I think back to what Chargers I could have bought, sometimes I want to cry....

When I was living in Melbourne (late 80's, early 90's), I could have bought a very nice Magenta E38 for $7K, but couldn't raise the money...  (the recession was just starting to hit Vic)

And every day, on the way to work I'd go past a very, very nice Lime Green Charger (with vinyl roof).  One day I got out to have a look, and got talking to the owner.  He was going to give it to his son, but the boy didn't want it.  I had him convinced to sell it to me for $3500.  Had the money and was a week from picking it up from the bloke when his son changed his mind.  Bastard!  I was a week away from owning a totally original E55 for $3.5K....

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« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2011, 04:49:44 pm »
I will get a charger just a matter of time there is one I can get for $5k but it has alot of rust and not the original motor which isn't great.

Keep saving mate, get one with a good body and buggered motor rather than the other way round. Its a bit like building, non sense paying for a lot of bits you will replace or toss anyway.

The car I regret selling was SLR5000 .... it had buggered diff and at the time I got 8K and thought I had made out like a bandit. This was long ago when mint Charger was 5 grand.
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« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2011, 05:03:04 pm »
The car I regret selling was SLR5000 .... it had buggered diff and at the time I got 8K and thought I had made out like a bandit. This was long ago when mint Charger was 5 grand.

The one I regret selling was a CK Chrysler by Chrysler (the Statesman equivalent).
My Great Uncle had bought it from Chrysler Australia as an ex-company car (it was the Chrysler Australia General Managers car).  When my Great Uncle died, my Grandfather got it to tow his caravan.
Eventually he sold the caravan so I bought it off him..
Baby poo brown, with a beige vinyl roof and fully optioned - literally every option available, it had, including a set of 5 Charger R/T mags...
the 360 V8 got 12mpg no matter what you did with it - around town, open road, towing a fully loaded car trailer - all 12mpg..

I eventually sold it in Canberra to fund my move to Melbourne.  ('89?)

The guy that bought it turned up to look at it in a GTHO Falcon.

It was only years later that I discovered how rare it was.  I was talking to a Chrysler fanatic and told him about it.  He then informed me that the CK's only came with a 318.  Mine had the 360 option on the compliance plate (I had a rubbing of it to show him back then). 

Turns out that because it was the GM's company car, and he wanted a 360, it was the only factory fitted 360 CK to come off the production line...

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« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2011, 05:05:59 pm »
I own a charger shell.
Sitting in a wrecking yard out at St George.
Paid $100 and never went back. ::)
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« Reply #27 on: August 19, 2011, 06:10:20 pm »
I own a charger shell.
Sitting in a wrecking yard out at St George.
Paid $100 and never went back. ::)

Still think an Aussie built Charger is one up on the early Stangs, Vettes and other American sleds that are being imported by the ship full. But make mine a Mustard 318 with decent steering, oh and can I have a tacho where the needle doesn't flick about the dial in a demented fashion. ;D

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« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2011, 06:16:30 pm »
Found one in Barwon Heads a while ago hot mustard 265 4 speed and same thing was giving it to his son so couldn't get a hold of that one.

I love the coupes too.

I read this article I while ago I'd definetly swap him an xt anr xr for one charger. ;)

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/avocas-prince-valiant/story-e6frf7kx-1111116629463
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« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2011, 05:15:37 pm »




if you want to learn to mono, you need a fourstoke.

as a 13 year old in late 70's in a play riding area in melb' burbs'  i saw a bloke on a TT500 pulling mono's with his chick on the back, made a big impression on me.

even the 250's were good for mono's ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYiwhM23ycw


When I was 15 I bought a TT500, I saw a bloke in DirtBike magazine pulling a one handed mono on a Ossa Phantom.  I became the one handed wheelie king of my suburb.  The chicks loved me. Their boyfriends wanted to punch me in the head.

Where in the Melb burbs was that?