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Drewdog

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Ode to your daily drive....
« on: October 09, 2012, 01:13:23 AM »
Summers coming and after a whole weekend of driving my Cortina in the sun I got in my rather plain Daihatsu (daihatspew) applause this morning ready for a day back at the grindstone. A few km's into our everyday trip, one we've been doing for 4 years now, she made a bad rattle, then a knock, then a clunk... at 320000kms on the clock it was all over in a blink of an eye and in the middle lane of the freeway, spew!!! 
Anyone else drive a bunky to work? Park the Cortina in the garage while the newbie sits outside? Is the missus' car better than what you drive everyday?......
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Re: Ode to your daily drive....
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 12:48:36 PM »
my daily is a v8 xd fairmont wagon with my td wagon as a weekend
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Re: Ode to your daily drive....
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 11:54:21 PM »
I drive a ticford au fairmont as my daily while I'm building my te but don't worry there was a time when everything I owned and drove was a bunky.
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Re: Ode to your daily drive....
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 01:52:39 PM »
i know the story too well. i was changing bunkies like my jocks. i was always running out of fuel(i was 27ish when i got my first ever working fuel guage), breaking down, sweating my box off cos it didnt have a/c or they be getting stolen off my front lawn. only good thing about all that is i never had finance. one day after a semi-decent bunkie got knicked and stripped about 500metres from my house i thought fuck it, got a loan and bought a car that is too hard for the locals to pinch. that was several years ago and now i drive a bf xr8 uterus as my work daily, have numerous cortinas on the go and a 1955 f100 for my other weekender. never looked back.
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Re: Ode to your daily drive....
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2013, 11:53:12 AM »
Checked to see if the daihaspew was worth anything in parts, turns out no, picked up a whole one for $100 and swapped the engine. In the mean time I started looking for something decent, ended up with a BA wagon on gas, you're right Norm, heaps better than the bunky approach.... Better still I have a whole set of Fords now, big to small, Falcon, Cortina and Escort, stoked ;D:
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