Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Pulled out the old AFX track that my wife had from years back and made an interesting find.

The Mobil 05 car that is included is actually....

post-41152-1249182701_thumb.jpg

.... an R32 GT-R!!

post-41152-1249182724_thumb.jpg

post-41152-1249182737_thumb.jpg

I can imagine the die hard V8 fans who bought this seeing the large picture on the front of Brocky's VP, and then their outrage after finding the 05 car is a Skyline..."WHAT THE!!....." :happy:

So I decided to correct the error, and got out my paints....

post-41152-1249182759_thumb.jpg

post-41152-1249182774_thumb.jpg

post-41152-1249182789_thumb.jpg

post-41152-1249182812_thumb.jpg

We've actually got 2 sets and therefore 2 GT-Rs, so we painted the other one silver and raced it around Suzuka.

post-41152-1249182835_thumb.jpg

Edited by bigslick
Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281567-got-the-old-afx-track-going/
Share on other sites

I can see the Hobby Shops now, getting an upturn in business due this OP !!! :P

FACT:- 1991, Peter Brock was having lunch at Blaxland Maccas. So I introduced my 11year old son and Peter asked,

"And what car do you like best?"

Mark replied, "GT-R" to which Peter replied, "Well they're a really great car!"

I'm wondering if he really meant it... so that the GT-R could wipe the floor over those Walkinshaws > VNs etc hehe :happy:

Yeah I used to rock my scalextric when I was a wee lad. The GTR was my fave although I had no idea what it was I think I used to call it a corvette :)

hahaha i pulled my scalextric outlast week and set it up

all 1.3 km of track

my back verandah is now 1 massive track

Some one had a f*king awesome childhood :)

Edited by Silvia GTR

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Hang on. Let me get this straight. The desire is to have coilovers, BC in particular, to be MORE comfortable on Sydney roads than stock suspension? Well, that's obviously not right. BCs have crude damping design at the very best, and typically hard spring rates. BC stands for Billy Cart. And then, the desire is to put in some shitty old worn out stockers, to get it blue slipped and then put the BCs back in? And then.....what? Not worry about getting pulled up by the Plod? Because you seem to have raised a worry about paying for engineering (which actually does solve all your legality problems) and still getting pulled up.... but the only problem there is that if/when that happens you have to show your paperwork at the inspection station. Whereas, if you just swap in borrowed shitty old stockers to get it slipped now, and then you get defected in the future, you have to go find more shitty old stockers then too. You course of action looks like this set of options: Buy brand new stock type dampers, and springs. probably cost a bit more than $1k all up, but will last for the remaining life of the car. Put them in, pass inspection, drive on them forever more. Hell, they could even be really nice Bilsteins and Kings or other lower&stiffer springs if you wanted. Get the car engineered as is. ~$1k. Buy new Shockworks coilvers (or MCA) and also pay for engineering. You're spending a lot more here. But these will be the best things that you could drive around on.
    • Might be worthwhile hitting up Facebook's groups, I know most of them contain terrible people and scammers - however you might be able to find someone that's in Sydney with factory suspension you could purchase and/or hire. Just do not send any form of money anywhere, in person cash only.
    • Thanks @Duncan Ride height is fine. I think it's almost stock tbh. Happy to share a pic. I don't actually have a regular mechanic as haven't lived in Sydney too long. Could you or anyone recommend any shops in Sydney?
    • You just need a different blue slip shop (preferably one you regularly use as a mechanic), and make sure the coil overs are as close as possible to standard height
    • yeah the sugar refining companies were pushing for the same in Oz originally, all fuels were going to have 10% ethanol to make them "cheaper" (noting, that the loss in l/100 might be greater than the decrease in price). I guess they won that fight in Canadia
×
×
  • Create New...