Street Racing Cars For Sale

Check out the over the top quality and eye-candy of the Aussie pro-street and pro-touring machines at http://streetmachinemag.typepad.com/street_machine/

 the seller wants 25 thou for this 1973 Ford XB Falcon

This '68 Mangusta is a 42000 mile original the ebay listing states, but has been stored a real long time. Makes me think it wasn't a good car, because someone wasted a lot of money and then never got their money's worth. I smell a rolled back odometer.
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1940 American LaFrance 100' Ladder Model JOX600 Series

It was originally bound for the Singapore Fire Brigade when Pearl Harbour was bombed on 7 Dec 1941. The ship put in at Fremantle Harbour and fearing Singapore may fall to the enemy, was off-loaded and commandeered by the War Dept.

Totally restored to near new condition by the members of the Western Australia Fire Brigades Historical Museum. It still has its original compliment of ground ladders and equipment and is surprisingly quick on the road.

It can be viewed at the Old No 1 City Fire Station Museum im Murray St Perth

1933 Datsun originally based in Kawasaki, a suburb of Tokyo, where it stayed in service until 1960.

In 1962 it was purchased by a sailor who was based in Yokohama, during 1962 it was handed to Nihon Kikai Limited (fire engine manufacturers) where it was restored.

In 1964 it was shipped to California, when the sailor was stationed in San Francisco. In 1967 it was moved to New York, where it stayed until his retirement in 1976.

By 1987 it was moved to Pennsylvania, but it was now in need of major restoration. In 2002 this finally happened. Sold in 2005 to a private collector

Thunderguts our 1948 Leyland Merryweather TTL

Dodge came up with the Super Bee logo / emblem in 1967 (on the '68 model). Soon after, the Australian Ford division stole the logo, and fashioned a local style from it. Copy cats.
Super Roo was first used by Ford to distinguish its 1970 XW GT Model from the rest. These Aussie cars are form the most part, all 4 door. It wasn't until72 or 73 that the 2 dr was an option. When I was in Australia in 98, I did not see any two door muscle cars, onoy 4 drs. Strange. The other weird Aussie auto culture thing is the predominance of Ranchero El Camino type autos. They have really big brush guard type push bars, and need them, becuase they frequently run into kangaroos. Overly used to humans, stupid, and more suicidal than skunks, rabbits, racoons, and possums combined; the kangaroo is such a vehicle collsion threat the Aussies I talked to are as ambivalent to hitting a roo as we are to hitting a bug... so the cars there all seemed to be equipped with the heavy duty brush guard / push bars.

For a great variety of Aussie cars at a hot rod show http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueyes/sets/72157594310834327/