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as the title says :ermm: post up pics of your daily driver car(s) (if you have one!)

don't question why i modded it either! im waiting on my skyline to arrive from jap-land and i couldn't resist the urge to mod something LOL. Wouldn't mind dropping it a bit lower and getting some spacers on it to give it a tough euro look :(

mines a 1984 BMW e30 318i

Mods:

m-tech series 1 front lip

R1 Impuls 16x7 and 16x8 with some stretched tyres :)

king springs

monroe shocks

some audio gear

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mmm stretch

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Apollo Altitude XC - comes standard with dimpled rotors, fully sick gear box, leather seats, damper adjustable shocks etc etc and was recently modified with halogen headlights, little gizmo thing similar to an Apexi RSM, nice chunky piece of a security system and water cooling system.

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heres mine

1990 J30 Maxima

VG30

auto

LPG

kenwood deck

2 R33 rims on the front (back ones will need spacers)

My sister's Maxima made a whopping 72.6fwkw when my car was off the road just before a dyno day and needed a replacement :verymad:

My sister's Maxima made a whopping 72.6fwkw when my car was off the road just before a dyno day and needed a replacement :verymad:

yep they arent they arent too powerful hehe, mine is a bit slow now with over 300,000ks on the clock :) what needed replacing on your sisters car?

Was a KE55 Corolla

Lowering Blocks

Cut fronts

Killa dish wheels mate

Cd player

Also had the optional defect sticker on it after a while, Now resides at U Pull It Noarlunga if anyone wants to check it out

When Dan posts his daily, will be mine in a month or 2, so just add the mods i had at the top again to this!!! :laughing-smiley-014:

As daz said will be his soon but heres my pimp mobile....79 rolla, all metal, includes speed holes, beer bottles and god knows what else

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or the other daily the "practicle" car

99 wrx forged internals.....

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my new weekend warrior is getting picked up 2moro...watch this space....

my daily

vr s pack ute

v6 auto

240000 on the clock

now sports HEAPS of stickers (including the obiligatory SAU stickers)

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(will update the pics with some more soon, as theres been a few lil changes)

Edited by Matty 31

In light of the amount of cars being stolen, can I suggest blanking No. plates and being careful about talking about home suburbs.

Where you have a daily you probably have a loved one (skyline,etc).

By the way, love the wagon.

Sorry to sound a bit anal, but had some INTERESTING pm in regards to the car I have for sale.

yeah i agree blank those plates guys. i dont wanna post my pics cause the thing sticks out too much and gets parked out the front all the time.

i call it oldzilla ammunst many other stupid names as its an oldschool dato with a inline6 2.6L just needs another cam and twin turbo and she'll be sweet :wave:

many a time people question why i still drive it as its pretty f'd but the thing never dies (despite 5 years of thrasing, it was my first car) and i can leave it anywhere a not have to worry about a thing. also good for getting airbourne over train tracks and driving over curbs n kids and freaking people out with the electrics (dont think many people realize upper model cars had it back in the 70s)

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my daily owns all your dailys!

Bought several years ago for 300 bucks, already had t bone damage and left hand rear 1/4 damage... during the time ive had it the bonnet latch failed while gf was driving it and bonnet flew up on the freeway... timing belt snapped as it still had the ORIGINAL belt and has 350k+ kms new belt was 7 bucks and took me several hours to do... When i bought the car off the girl who crashed it several times.. it hadnt been serviced in 5 years lol... so i changed the plugs, oil and filter, that was it... now every time i do a service on the 32 i use the oil from that and chuck it into the rolla :D

best part is.... as shitty as it looks... the Air con, the heater, P/S, brakes and everything are bloody awesome, starts first crank every time and cost me 15 bucks a week in fuel to get around hahahaha

front guards may or maynot have been damaged by drunken fly kicks from me and mates

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