Aussie Mucle Cars

[lsttype]

Do yall have a street racing scene in Austraila? Its pretty crazy over here, but the consequences are getting severe. Not sure about here in Kasnas City but on the coasts, they will confiscate your car and crush it certain cases. I can remember shutting down traffic on the highway having cars backed up a 1/2 mile honking because we had a race lined up. Fun times. For you Aussie guys that are into GMs, look up Buick Grand Nationals on youtube, thats what ive been racing for 17 years.

[NuffTorque]

Yes we do unfortunately... the small minority stuff it for the rest of us... hence the ridiculous car mod laws here.

The have just changed the law so you loose your car for a couple of months the first time and it is crushed on second offence. (they call it hooning laws)

[the armourer]

The street racing scene isn't like it used to be, especially since the emergence of the ricer boys. Those import guys seem to have no respect for anything. They'll race in residential areas and busy city streets. In my time, the late 1980's-early 1990's, we made great attempts to run somewhere far away from population and the Lawmen of that time knew it. We weren't the guys sitting in the burger joint parking lot or hanging out at the mall. Those guys had already gone home for the evening when we were just heading out. Most of our cars were just barely streetable much less street-legal. The car show guys would brag that their cars had never seen rain where as ours had rarely seen day light. If you weren't trailering to the race, you drove like a senior citizen, using turn signals and obeying every traffic law. Every light worked, even the tag light. Mostly, the Law knew who we were and what was going on and left us alone. We didn't do stupid stuff or endanger the general public by showing off. Low profile all the way. The tuner crowd ruined that. It's funny to run into one of those crusader-type cops from back then who was always trying to catch you and have him say that he wishes your generation was still out there instead of today's fast and furious-types. I miss those days.

[toecutter]

Even in the 80's jap cars were on the scene. RX3's and RX4's were popular. Dropping a 454 into a Monaro was popular. worked 351's also very common. I think back now on some of the cars i saw on the street - and what they are worth today!

i used to work at a tow truck company in the late 80's early 90's and saw some pretty horrific things. You and your car are not indestructable. A lot of cars that were street racing were borderline suicide cases. The most dangerous i saw was a toyota crown with a 350 chev in it. To make the engine and trans fit the driver had just hacked out the trans tunnel. You could see the back of the engine from the front seat.

When i saw that Metal Skin film a few years ago, that crazy experimental induction on the hemi 6 didnt seem so crazy to me. I saw all sorts of oddball things tried on street racers.

Hello to any old Cooper St regulars!