OT. Mechanics caught joyriding
Bob Hobden
he had a Roadhawk black box fitted a few months before, this is what he
found when he got the car back....... (Turn sound up) :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ
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Bob Hobden
just W. of London
Alex
wrote:
>Guy takes his Vauxhall Monaro in for a service but doesn't tell the garage
>he had a Roadhawk black box fitted a few months before, this is what he
>found when he got the car back....... (Turn sound up) :-)
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ
Only 125mph in a Monaro? Wusses.....
Alex
William Black
The incredible thing is that the gadget used only costs two hundred quid...
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/roadhawk-rh1-drive-camera.htm
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"William Black" <willia...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Alex wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:20 -0000, "Bob Hobden" <bo...@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Guy takes his Vauxhall Monaro in for a service but doesn't tell the
>>> garage he had a Roadhawk black box fitted a few months before, this is
>>> what he found when he got the car back....... (Turn sound up) :-)
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ
>>
>> Only 125mph in a Monaro? Wusses.....
>
> The incredible thing is that the gadget used only costs two hundred
> quid...
>
> http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/roadhawk-rh1-drive-camera.htm
>
>
Ah yes... aussie technology (ok, abetted by yankee 6l iron - or should that
be alloy?) should be capable of > 125mph... They can do that here
(Australia), and easily (google Holden Monaro) :)
... enough cubic inches beats high tech stuff every time. Game over.
I agree... wusses. Not trying hard enough!
Alex
wrote:
>
>>>> Guy takes his Vauxhall Monaro in for a service but doesn't tell the
>>>> garage he had a Roadhawk black box fitted a few months before, this is
>>>> what he found when he got the car back....... (Turn sound up) :-)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ
>>>
>>> Only 125mph in a Monaro? Wusses.....
>>
>
>Ah yes... aussie technology (ok, abetted by yankee 6l iron - or should that
>be alloy?) should be capable of > 125mph... They can do that here
>(Australia), and easily (google Holden Monaro) :)
>
>... enough cubic inches beats high tech stuff every time. Game over.
>
>I agree... wusses. Not trying hard enough!
It's always amused me that the Vauxhall Carlton/Opel Omega/Holden
Commodore were essentially the same car, with differing trim/panels.
Yet the Vauxhall's biggest available engine was the 3.0 six, the
Opel's biggest available engine was the 3.6 six, whilst the Aussies
got a 6.3 V8.....
Oh and to add insult to injury the HSV Monaro could be imported into
the UK for less than the cost of the Top-spec Omega MV6 (3.2 V6)
Alex
EMB
>
> It's always amused me that the Vauxhall Carlton/Opel Omega/Holden
> Commodore were essentially the same car, with differing trim/panels.
> Yet the Vauxhall's biggest available engine was the 3.0 six, the
> Opel's biggest available engine was the 3.6 six, whilst the Aussies
> got a 6.3 V8.....
I think you'll find that the Holden Commode had about 2" of extra body
width over the Vauxhall and Opel offerings.
>
> Oh and to add insult to injury the HSV Monaro could be imported into
> the UK for less than the cost of the Top-spec Omega MV6 (3.2 V6)
Looking at pricing I think you could land a Holden Commodore SS into the
UK for about 2/3 the cost of a Vauxhall VXR8. I have no idea about UK
used values, but I've just bought a 4 year old ex-lease HSV Clubsport
with 80,000km on the clock in NZ for �7000.
Ian Rawlings
> Looking at pricing I think you could land a Holden Commodore SS into the
> UK for about 2/3 the cost of a Vauxhall VXR8. I have no idea about UK
> used values, but I've just bought a 4 year old ex-lease HSV Clubsport
> with 80,000km on the clock in NZ for £7000.
I bought a Lotus Elise recently, having been fed up with massive
depreciation on normal cars (it replaced an Audi bought for £5,500 and
sold 6 years later for £625) and wanting something a bit more fun to
drive. I was surprised to find how hard they are to get, due to the
number of people in France, Italy and Germany who snap them up and
export them from the UK. Most of them don't even get advertised as
the dealers get daily phone calls from the continent and ship them out
less than a week after getting the cars in. Even private sellers are
selling them overseas with the buyers flying to the UK, visiting 4 or
5 cars and buggering off in the one they want. Apparently it's
cheaper to get a UK car and convert it to left-hand drive than it is
to buy one within their own markets.
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Austin Shackles
enlightened us thusly:
The VXR8 is Monaro though, I think. I'd have one, if I had the money, as
it's a great Q-car, a bit like the Lotus Carlton used to be.
and to be fair, they were only doing 125 on the dual carriageway, so not
quite as dangerous as it's made out to be. Still naughty doing it in a
punter's car though.
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EMB
>
> The VXR8 is Monaro though, I think. I'd have one, if I had the money, as
> it's a great Q-car, a bit like the Lotus Carlton used to be.
Monaro is the 2 door coupe which is no longer in production - VXR8 is a
(4 door) HSV Clubsport with a Vauxhall badge. And strangely enough, sat
here in the land of 8 cylinder Holdens and Fords I always rather fancied
a Carlton.
Bob Hobden
"EMB" wrote ...
Missus has a relative in Adelaide that has an original Holden Monaro in
concours condition sitting in his garage (it's got a trick gearbox with two
levers?) It's the Redbacks that hang about in the same garage I don't like.