Hey boys and girls,

Long time no post (im a cheap bas**rd i know) as some of you know i left the uk around 18 months ago, and have been on working holidays ever since.

2 weeks USA (LA, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Savannah Georgia) which was great (apart from all the stereotypical loud yanks)


4 weeks Fiji which was awesome, nothing but sitting in hammocks, snorkeling, and drinking copious amounts of beer.

12 months in OZ, spent 7 of which on and off working on cattle stations (180,000acres) riding dirt bikes and quad bikes mustering cattle for hours on end, great fun. 4 bike, 8 dogs and a plane in the sky. among other jobs.

now been in NZ ever since, heading to work in the southern alps for a few months.

The trusty foreign steeds:

The Surf, 2.4lt tdi, big as fcuk, great on the dirt, but got 100k from the garage and the headgasket went badly! lucky the garage we bought it from coughed up the cost, then the auto trans seal started leaking like teen at a bieber concert but still managed around 35,000k




Then a 1994 ford falcon xr6 4.0 weapon, honestly i want one at home, its not the prettiest i admit, especially with the weird high back tray, but my f**king god does it shift, unreal lol. (this was a loner car from a friend we lived with who was head mechanic at the local ford)




Then managed a straight swap for the dying surf, 1996 for falcon wagon, again 4.0 but auto, still pretty damn quick mind. 398,000 but had been owned by the local hospital for its whole life, everything felt brand new!

(the only car i haven't got a pic of to hand, but the same in a colour i can only describe as similar to that 306 pharaoh gold or what ever its called.



Now had this since arriving in NZ, 2.5lt auto Subaru legacy grand wagon Lancaster edition (a stupidly long name if you ask me)

Actually love it even though its an auto, 2 or 4 wheel drive, had it in the snow and its great, half leather seats, electric everything, twin sunroofs and a headunit that talks Japanese to you whenever you press a button (imports for you lol)






Soooo what's new here?

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Ex-Black 6 - Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you.

Alright Mat, good to have you back! NZ/Oz cars all look the same to me. Awful.

It's exactly the same here, nothing to see.

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Now you go back to those Kiwis and you let them know that the first two people to post both said their cars are terrible, and you insist they do something about it immediately.

Isn't tax and insurance weird in NZ, it's optional or something weird?

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Ah that's it. And if you so much as wipe a bogey on your seat it counts as a modification and you have to have the car re-tested or you get the s**t kicked out of you by big Maori men?

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Fuuudge that!

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Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
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Harness bars

Lol yeh Chris it has, i dont think i realized how much time this place sucks up from you



What the big scary maori men or the bungy

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Ex-Black 6 - Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you.

Happy as ever James its not all fun and games, everyone neglects to tell you how stressful it is with no secure income! but yeh, why else do you get the photo's? hope your well bud

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Ex-Black 6 - Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you.

None of said pictures, life can always be worse so no need to get all depressed

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Ex-Black 6 - Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you.