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Sl!m Grand Master

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my 1982 honda civic - need i say more?

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...p;#entry3242890

those cars are getting closer and closer to getting taken to the local wreckers........

haha was it hondamatic? I crashed a 83 version of that not too long ago :unsure:

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DRD-00F Grand Master

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i Had a '78 Honda Prelude with Hondamatic :unsure:

Was so full of rust, I would have easily ripped the doors off with my bare hands, I was shocked they never literally just fell off!

Endinge design has stayed pretty much the same though, even after 40 odd years... they either got it right once, or are still getting it wrong :P

oh, and + for f**king up your aerial instal...

eMsta Grand Master

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haha was it hondamatic? I crashed a 83 version of that not too long ago :unsure:

nah, its a 5spd manual - 3 door sports coupe

i was thinking maybe if Kev is kind enough for me to take it for a couple of spins around sandown next time for free, it would make a good story for all of sau.......

see how the huge 1.3ltr 4 cylinder (that produces 45kw) does on a hard track like sandown....... :P

ricsvtr Rising Star

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+1 The r33 ariel going all the way up whenever the stereo is on...

I mean why put in a swtich for hte user to decide if it was to go up.. im usually playing a cd an that dont need no aerial... pet pieve

I installed my own switch which lets me decide when the aerial is up and i also wired it to the acc power so it comes down automatically when i take the keys out of the ign (if i forget to flick the switch off). Oh and i have a series 1 r33 which didnt come with a switch from factory

G3TFKD Proficient

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Such a fine car except for the f*king dash and the STUPID H3C head light bulb, WTF H3C?

+1 for the H3C bulb.. and they are stupidly expensive. $28 for a bulb i think it was there abouts i paid for when my bulb decided to blow..

and for some reason i only have the H3C on one side of my car... the other side is H1

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Any car that gives you the ability to have plenty of legroom (for people over 6ft tall) and you have to tilt the seat quite far back so ur head aint on the roof yet the steering wheel aint telescopic. so i can either sit in a real comfy position and have to have my arms fully outstretched to reach the wheel or have my head an inch off the bloody roof.

another one. my old VR bommodore would automatically turn off the headlights when i turn the car off why cant my shiny new r34??? its not that hard surely.

and another +1 for flat seats and bad handling. read Ford Festiva (my mum's) as a prime example. makes you feel like your driving a f**kin xmas tree decoration or something, its just a big red ball and it feels like its gonna tip on its roof every time you turn the wheel.

dilmah Community Regular

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lol.

+1 for headlights that don't turn off when you switch the ignition off.

What's with that anyway? Safety feature? Bah. It's a conspiracy by battery manufacturers to sell more batteries!

MK2 Experienced

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A pillars in late model commo's, along with their rear visibility is just awful. Side visibility in late model falcons is just utter crap unless you're about 5'9 I reckon might be pushing the love there.

European cars, list is just kind of too long, essentially I like their (french) suspension setups, their (german) engines and their (italian) visual design. But you don't seem to quite get all 3 in the one car unless there's some kind of formidable amount of money I just don't have and they are the quintessential 'overpriced shit' of the car world.

Jap cars you sort of get the nice bits of all the euro cars they beg, borrow and steal and make it all work nicely... then they assemble it to look 9 x out of 10 like a f**king lego set and have 5 year olds do the colour schemes which could only really be described as 'nasty', I've often wondered if there was a higher percentage of colour blindness in Japan than anywhere else... it may explain a few things.

Yank cars.

Do to cars what they do to hamburgers with McDonalds.

Korea... people tell me they make them better these days. Thats nice, the biggest problem I have is the worry that fish may be poisoned using them as boat anchors.

adam-__- Grand Master

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I just realised this morning that the 32's handbrake position is shit. You can't have your car in reverse and push the handbrake button down easily. Just say you are on a hill and need to reverse out. The handbrake is a bit close to the gearstick.

VB- Veteran

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foot pedal parking brakes - how the f*ck u supposed to drift with that? no commonsense these engineers

right hand side of your seat handbrakes (ie HQ holdens etc)

foot activated wipers

column shift manuals

mazda toadracer

any drive a daewoo lanos? apart from the wrong side wipers/indicators, anyone else realise that the seat isnt quite central with the pedals/wheel? you sit more to one side and reach across for everything (well i did anyway)

tiptronic... lol just shift your auto like p platers in VN's... works for me just fine?

new wrx, although i wouldnt say its a design flaw, they just didnt design a rex, they designed a kia rio/mazda 3 mutant and put better badges on it

those stupid indicators on late-ish astras etc, how they dont stay up or down, its all electronic, and sometimes they cancel and sometimes they dont and you nearly smash just trying to get the f*cking things to go off, co-incidentally, so you dont cause an accident

gotta dissagree with post earlier, supra dashes are mad, cant see anything wrong with them, quite the opposite, i love supras :wub:

adam-__- Grand Master

adam-__-

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The skyline rear window washer is pointing up from below...shouldn't it be pointing down from above?

I think they just put it at the bottom to hide the washer. Having it at the top means having the wiper at the top too and that'll look gay in my opinion.

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i loved my 79 hoda civic (the n fell off the back of the car)

no rust, but both the door locks were gone, so the doors would fly open when you went around corners

great times!

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