Some may remember my post a while back featuring screen captures of some of the vehicles in “Sleeping Dogs” well, same again but from the NZ film, Smash Palace this time around. Though Smash Palace was made in 1981, the predominant cars are obviously from the 70′s and earlier in the movie. The filming took place at Horopito Motors, NZ’s most well known wrecker for the most part due to the part played in the film. Enough blather, onto the cars.
You’ll like these tidy and entirely slammed Volkwagens; Check them out on fenstudios.com;
They’re also up on his flickr.com account which is linked to in the above fenstudios link, so check them out as well as the rest of the guy’s photography. It’s not too shabby!
Apologies for the lack of posts from my end lately – been quite busy with other things, though I have been hammering out a few articles in the back of my mind for eventual submission to the blog, and today’s mini-update somewhat relates to one of them.
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here we have a tidy little “Series 2″ (or Mk4) Escort RS turbo, nice car ‘n all, but upon closer inspection the price is enough to give anyone a heart attack. And that’s pretty much it; I’ve never really understood what makes ’80s “European” Fords any more desirable than their Aussie or Japanese counterparts, but I can tell you now if I tried selling my TX3 for a similar amount I’d probably get laughed off the face of the earth.
Silliness and bullshit aside, stay tuned for a new ’80s turbo talk article in the coming week(s). By now you’ve most likely guessed what it’ll be about!
Should probably give a clue that it was only a prototype. I can think of at least one person who may well know.
Thanks to the wonderful (and well known to RC and it’s reader’s) Jarred a.k.a FLAWLES, we’ve been graced with a hundred and one third-ish (they’re Ford’s, so are measured in an Imperial nature) of the Ford Muscle Car Club’s Trackday. Which other than a few ghastly and boring moderns, looks to have been a hell of a time out. I’ve provided a few samples which caught my eye when browsing the album, you can check them all out on the gallery link at the end of the entry, so without any further delay;
70's vs. 80's
MkI Escort Lifting a wheel
