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All Cars Were Once New

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Driving through outback Australia you see husks of cars everywhere you go. Every time I come across one, something fascinates me about the lives they must have gone through to end up where they lie. Cars undergo an interesting transformation from new, valuable, and prized possessions into something so worthless it’s better off left in the bush. Whether it’s rotting in a field, on the back of a scrappers truck, or posted as a project on marketplace, try and picture it the day it rolled off the line - because that day did happen. It’s strange to imagine the sensible ‘90s Japanese businessman buying and daily driving a nice 2-door, cloth-seat Nissan . Only to see that car screaming around a track just 30 years on. Or the fresh-off-the-boat ‘60s poms and their brightly coloured, not-letting-go-of-the-homeland Austin convertible. Only for it to become a pile of rust in an overgrown paddock. There is something special about a brand new car.    I had a coworker once who was infectio...
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Street Sighting ~ Chrysler Valiant (wagon)

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Preface: Got too drunk after finding more drinks and never finished this.     Guzzo lean. I can confidently say that my fuel for writing about the cars I see is beginning to run low. But not empty. Tonight I can't imagine anything worse than sitting at my computer and writing about some family guzzler catching rays on the side of the road, but here I am. (Spoiled of me, but I was feelin blue about the ex missus) Here because, I think back to pulling over for some respite, having a stroll and for a moment being happy. If it makes me smile, who knows someone else might get a kick. So I raise this shitty cider I pinched from my brother to the big green wagon on your screen. Keep on clockin it lad. I took these pics right in the middle of the fuel crisis with petrol hitting a bit over 2-dollar-fitty a litre. It really did have me grinning to see the Oz owned fuel rep sticker. It was also a reminder that people should support local radio stations by slapping on a sticker and givi...
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INTERNET GHETTO

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After some years of ig admiration, I met up with @internetghetto to set scenes n' chase aesthetics. In 25’ I wrote about the Silvia sitch in Oz floating it to Luke - @internetghetto , for his ten cents. The car in that write-up was first owned in Oz by a Christies beach police officer. So for a shoot staring Luke's machine it made sense to head down the road, past the cop-shop and make some magic in the projects. Luke grew up on the mid coast and has watched its rapid gentrification. "yeah it was definitely a lot more hectic here in like 2006." "You gotta watch that @BOBSTA video where he does a walkaround." Overall the mid coasts reputation for being a gronk stomping ground is shifting, (but still present) . In a housing crisis the chance to live closer to the coast is hot product. Scenes like this housing trust will eventually change - the same way you won't see headz sliding Jap beer cans around the Hackham indusso . "What happened to the ...
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