Tow Rig 2

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Tow Rig 1

 

So we gave Largs a miss and tried our luck at Brighton jetty this week. VL bloke never called to sell (unsurprising). 

Once setup I decided to pop into the local Vietnamese joint to grab some spring-rolls.

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On the way back that I would glance across the street to spot Tow Rig 2.
 
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By comparison the VL was completely shit. Sure it had a manual box behind a breathless Japanese six but the blue oval was just a million times cleaner.
 
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The Fairmont was a proper minter, stock as. The paint was schmick, headlights and bonnet protector near new, fourteens wrapped with BF goodies still ugly and stickers were legible.

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Not anymore they ain't.

 
Okay so the VL is a better looking 6cyl sedan, but the Fairmont was right at home out front the sports bar. Bit of a pattern about where to find these cars emerging.
 
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Either of the eighties U-plate cream machines - when packed with a bunch of mates, and the tinny off the back seems to be my version of the Australian dream.
 
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However, I remain starry-eyed that VL hero will give me a ring, and so I left Tow Rig 2 to go smash spring rolls with my mates and hopefully catch a proper dinner. 
 
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No action - until Sam snagged himself a squid.

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And then we went and had a slap to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

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The fellas got up forty bucks & ejected. I watched ten bucks disappear.

Good times.

Adelaide based. No real consistency just yarns, plain and simple.

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