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I'd just like to make an ode to my faithful old r31! which got me down to melb and back without skipping a beat.

:D

It's travelled over 4000km in the last 2 weeks, did about 30,000km last year and its got about 335,000km on the clock, and still going strong. Did two 1400km days in its stride no worries in 30+ degree days.

It may be a box on wheels, it may not have a whole heap of punch these days, but damn they're reliable thrash boxes!

Boy driving around the Police State (Victoria) is painful though!! Driving around there is like getting your scrotem shaved with tweezers! Every second you feel like you're about to get a speeding fine, everybody drives so slow. I think down there I saw in about 2 weeks down there more cops than I've seen in 2 months up here pulling people over. And yet my car still ****ing got broken into for the first time ever after being parked in the street for literally 1 hour!

For godsakes, if they ever try to bring in fixed cameras, stealth cameras and whatever else up here fight every tooth and nail, as it will destroy driving up here forever. It's like you may as well fall asleep at the wheel - driving for enjoyment is dead, and driving just becomes a painful chore. And yet Victorian's still manage to kill themselves very nicely (road toll was up down there about 20 on the year before). It doesn't at all do anything to save lives, so why inflict the pain?

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Nice rant Pred :D

Go the 31 though! Good effort... Glad you made it back safely... I've been pondering should I get an old 31 wagon as a basher lately...

It's been a long time since I've been to Victoria and I can't see any reason to go back any time soon by the sounds of it...

Where was the pic taken?

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geoff: yup, its good to be home!

Go the 31 though! Good effort... Glad you made it back safely... I've been pondering should I get an old 31 wagon as a basher lately...

Thats probably what i'm going to do in a few months to be able to carry my bike, car parts, etc properly, etc.. unfortunately R31 wagons are a bit harder to find.

Can't even remember where I took the photo! was somewhere between the middle of nowhere and the middle of nowhere else along the newell in country NSW. There was a neato looking plane there... let's play "spot the location" !! :D

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