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18/08/2026

Get some of this* on your stick!

*Insurance

07/08/2026

Wellllll f**k. This I was not expecting on the side of busy ol' Main South Road this arvo.

This is a 1967 Ferrari 330GTC, one of just 598 built and quite possibly one of around 22 built in RHD, although it's conceivable it's been converted.

What's not in dispute is that, in the best tradition of Italian cars, it's broken down. And yes, it's an electrical issue.

The owner was kind enough to let me ogle and take a couple of pictures. The video is from when I initially saw it and s**t myself a little bit. The rest are from after me circling the block to inform the owner that while I'm mechanically inept, I can at least show appreciation for his beautiful $900k paperweight.

He'd just had a heap of work done, including having the triple carb, Columbo 4.0 V12 out, so he was rightfully annoyed, although not with me, at least, despite my excited puppy do***ng.

Staggeringly, he was en route to the Mid North Coast of NSW; a drive of about 1800kms or 1120 miles; a big effort, but probably better he break down here than on the Hay Plain.

Thank you, mysterious owner, and I hope the car pulls itself together for the rest of your journey, and I appreciate your patience with a fellow enthusiast even if the timing was poor.

Then I got in my similarly rare, 1-of-1 in Australia, but highly undesirable 1976 Opel by Isuzu, which started fine, and left him to his devices.

26/07/2026

Check out this neat HG Holden Kingswood wagon I spied at the Drivin’ With Dixon Woodside meet a couple of months ago.⁠
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Those big Commodore stockies should give the game away, if the '304' plates haven't already.⁠
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08/07/2026

I tripped over this TVR 390SE the other day, copping a glance as it disappeared out of the corner of my eye.

As an undiagnosed, but anecdotally autistic enthusiast of weird automotive s**t, I turned to my young stepson and said, "Holy f**k, I think that was a wedge TVR!"

Naturally, I never thought I'd see it again, but the next morning, he'd ridden his push bike to the shops to buy axolotl food when I received a message.

"TVR at servo."

I was around there in a shot and poor owner Nathan was probably like, "F**k mate, take it easy," but on the outside he took my schoolboy excitement with good humour.

Nathan Morgan owns one of about 93-odd made. More official is the number 103, but of them about 10 were fitted with 4.2 litre engines to become the 420SE leaving the remainder as 390SEs.

Fun fact: the 3.9 litre 390SE wasn't even a homologated model on UK roads. Instead it was a TVR 350i with extra steps.

Nathan bought it from NSW very, very recently and drove it back, learning much about TVR's budget kit car electrics along the way.

Buuuuuuut how f**king cool is it?

Bonus points if you know where the tail lights are from!!!

28/06/2026

MMM - Many Morris Minors... A haiku.

Morris Minors crawl
Up Flagstaff Hill Road slowly
Bellett flies past all

#いすゞベレット
#ペレット

13/06/2026

1957 Toyota LandCruiser FJ25L is more or less the genesis of the LandCruiser as we know it.

Not long after this example was built, a contractor for the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, Sir Leslie Thiess, was having trouble sourcing enough British-made Land Rovers to get the job done.

So he looked to Japan, and imported a trial batch of 13 Toyota LandCruisers to help on site. The story of what went down is in the audio, and suffice to say, the LandCruiser pretty much owns both the Outback now, while the Land Rover does not.

Thiess (Sales) Pty Ltd was appointed as the sole Australian importer of Toyota products in February 1961. Toyota Australia purchased a 40% stake in Thiess Toyota in 1968 and settled the rest in 1980.

At the トヨタ博物館 / TOYOTA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM

06/06/2026

Isuzu Plaza!

Volume up because the song slaps.

Naah naah nahnahnaaah, Isuzu nahnahnaaah

#いすゞジェミニ

01/06/2026

Japan has been the most wonderful nation, with an amazing culture and beautiful people, but that didn't stop me utterly losing my mind last night when I saw this HSV Maloo in our hotel car park in Narita.

Forgive the excited narration. I love a stranger in a strange land, and this one is exactly that.

Timely too, because I just taught my friend that it's pronounced 'yoot' not 'oo-teh' a word which, to be fair, he'd only see written and not heard spoken!

Conversely, our friend Mr Okane handed me his business card and I foolishly pronounced it O'Cain like he was some kind of Irishman, so these things happen both ways.

Language is weird.

But V8s are cool in any language!

29/05/2026

1942 KdF-wagen, the precursor to the familiar VW sedan that you either love or love to hate.

On display at the Toyota Museum.

24/05/2026

Perhaps one of the greatest car shows I've ever been to, filled with amazing car and amazing people.

As predicted, we Google Translated, we waved our arms around and we pointed at a lot of things, and we made friends with tonnes of people who are completely different to us, while being simultaneously exactly the same as us.

I would welcome each and every one of these guys to my country and my home if they were ever in the area, just to get a bit of that Google Translate, arm-waving, pointing-at-things camaraderie again, even just for a minute.

My brain is too fried to tag the right people on the right cars, sorry. And on that note, I'll let the cars speak for themselves.

これまで参加したカーショーの中でも、おそらく最高のひとつだったでしょう。素晴らしい車と素晴らしい人々で溢れていました。

予想通り、私たちはGoogle翻訳を使い、身振り手振りを交えながら、あちこちを指さしてコミュニケーションを取りました。そして、私たちとは全く違うけれど、同時に私たちと全く同じ人たちと、たくさんの友達になりました。

残念ながら、頭が疲れすぎて、どの車にどの人がタグ付けされているのか分かりません。申し訳ありません。ということで、あとは車たちがすべてを物語ってくれるでしょう。

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