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VN V8
Old photo pics of my VN V8 outside "major video" in 1992 (probably not a video store brand that anyone remembers)
VN V8
Just a rando pic of my 1990 VN V8 taken in 1992. I had just had the whole car resprayed in a custom white and the body kit fitted about a week before these pics were taken
So im going to ask a favour to identify the actual name of these rims
So I've posted here quite a bit with my collection of holdens , and I have no issue's with naming any rim holden/hsv sold up until 2006. ROH used to make to make the majority of holden and HSV rims and I can pretty much name every holden rim made since about 1969. So anyway I have a friend in the US who has a VE/G8 pontiac and has bought some holden rims but needs centre caps (and the surrounds to centre caps) and i cant work out what the actual name of his rims are? They are actual holden rims (maybe VF SS or SSV) anyways if anyone could name them for me i can chase up the centre caps he's missing. I'll post a couple of pics
Cancellation of GC trump tower
I love how the media are now calling it a "toxic tower" and basically an awful idea when it's not going to happen, but when it was first proposed it was reported (by a lot of media outlets) as a wonderful tower that will create jobs and such prosperity for the gold coast (even though 95% of the comments section under each article was very negative on the idea). We desperately need some journalists and media outlets that have even an ounce of integrity, that aren't just bought and paid for by billionaires with a self serving agenda's or aligning themselves with a political party as a propaganda machine. This is how the US started sliding into what it is now.
Pontiac/Holden
So one for the obscure history buffs here. The holden/pontiac collaboration actually goes back to the late 1920's when pontiac sent knock down kits over to Australia to be assembled at the holden plant. Holden assembled various models of pontiac (along side home grown holdens) right up until 1969. During the 50's and 60's holden assembled the parisienne and the laurentian and due to the use of a mix of chevrolet, pontiac and also a few Australian made parts to meet AUS compliance they got the nickname "cheviacs" by the public. After the last pontiac rolled of the assembly line in 1969 holden focused on there own line of vehicles but during the 70' and 80's a company produced trans am fronts specifically to fit holdens which became a popular modification in the car scene.
Solar panel door knockers
Now this is a bit of a rant and i also know these people are just trying to make a buck but i had the unfortunate experience of copping these solar people twice in one day. I was at an elderly relatives house and one came to her door (she's a 5ft tall 70 y/o) and the bloke definitely crossed the line of what is acceptable. She made the mistake of walking out her front door to talk to this person and she basically got cornered by this tall young bloke who would not take no for an answer, I was listening from another room and I must of heard her say no to him at least 15 times and that she wasn't interested and for him to leave and he just bloody well wouldn't listen. After being asked to leave (many times) he then demanded her phone number so he could prove to his boss that he had been to this house and also that he'd booked her in for a follow up consultation (at which point I came to the front door and in no uncertain terms told him to leave immediately) and at the door i saw him in her personal space towering over her .This was plain and simple intimidation and pressure selling to a elderly person (an easy target) not to mention creepy. When I got back to my own house a different bloke from same company knocked on my door and I just said no thanks and shut the door so the guy just raises his voice and starts half yelling his sales pitch through the closed glass door at me? WTF is wrong with these people? They have clearly been told to be aggressive in their tactics.