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joe2548

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wht510 Experienced

wht510

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You want a rally car... Buy a old dato or escort (if you can find one that isn't over priced) mod it...

Rally car.

Buy a cheap dato + Mod it for rally (+$$$) = expensive old car...

Easier to buy something already modded and save yourself the coin.

OR buy a jap import and race that.

Base price for a dato 1600 in reasonable condition is around $6k! and then mod costs on top of that? You can buy a rally spec Magna for that! :yes:

AshR34GTT Enthusiast

AshR34GTT

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+999999999999999

extremely ugly cars

I LOVED VL's when I was like 10. I thought they were the sh*t! Lol

You gotta put it in to perspective tho, the VL was '87

Compared to fords XD (correct me If I'm wrong) which DID look like crap.

So at the time they were considered by many as a awesome looking car, group A body kits

Along with the walkinshaw body kit made it a highly sort after car... Not to mention the RB30.

Some also came turbo'd.

But yeah, first year of high school I couldn't stop starring at boobies..... Oh and the year 12's VL commodores! Lol.

Now I look at them and think... To old, look at there owners and think 'why?'...there a dinosaur.

I understand what you mean.

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