gday from australia!
25-02-2007, 04:00 AM
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gday from australia!
hi everyone! thought i would introduce myself.i live in perth western australia and have stumbled across your website so i thought i would make myself known. i drive a 2003 ford xr6 turbo falcon and i have been buying the uk fast ford magazine for the last few months (2 months late mind you!) and am surprised how different the ford car scene is in the uk compared to oz. in oz, small fords rarely get a mention in the magazines compared to the big 6s and v8 falcons.dont take this the wrong way but even mondeos are not popular over here (last sold new here in 1998 i think).the last new escort was sold in the early 80s i think. we then had to endure ford lasers (mazda 323 with different front and butt)for nearly 15 years before focus came along. focuses are fairly popular with the xr5 (your ST) launched a few months back.i love the little fiestas (xr4 coming in a few months hopefully) but none of these cars have much of a aftermarket scene that i am aware of. 
25-02-2007, 04:15 AM
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hey mate...welcome to passion ford...i lived in the uk and moved over here last year...i drive a saph cosworth and my old mans got a rs500...there should be a article comming up in street ford or performance ford on small ford sunday which was held in victoria
25-02-2007, 06:17 AM
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Hi Welcome to PF 
One of the guys on my team here in Melbourne has one of the Boss 260 Utes and they pull like a train!
Also originally from the UK and now living in Melbourne. A few ex pats are on here
One of the guys on my team here in Melbourne has one of the Boss 260 Utes and they pull like a train!
Also originally from the UK and now living in Melbourne. A few ex pats are on here
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25-02-2007, 07:32 AM
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thanks guys! its good to see some smaller fords that people have pride in instead of treating them like a2b appliances.
to paddy... i live south of perth in rockingham
to paddy... i live south of perth in rockingham
25-02-2007, 07:41 AM
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thanks guys! its good to see some smaller fords that people have pride in instead of treating them like a2b appliances.
to paddy... i live south of perth in rockingham
to paddy... i live south of perth in rockingham
Wished I'd stayed where you are, absolutely loved it Had an epiphany [and sex with a dirty fat bird] on Rottnest 
Get some pics up of your car mate
25-02-2007, 07:57 AM
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paddy.... yeah its beautiful here. bit hot at the moment though (36 degrees celcius).rockingham is about a 20min drive from fremantle i have lived in perth (heaps of fat chicks here)all my life.my family were actually living in kent in uk and migrated here in the late 60s. i am the only one out of my whole family (cousins, aunts, uncles) that was born in australia. i would love to go to england were its nice and cold.
25-02-2007, 08:03 AM
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i would love to go to england were its nice and cold.
So your parents are Ten Pound Poms!? I've got family in Brisbane that did the same
25-02-2007, 08:57 AM
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You don't want to move here! It's cold, wet and we use too much grit which hammers cars, I'd take the Oz climate anyday for the motor!!
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welcome mate... i've got a mate in perth who moved over from the uk about 10yrs ago. never been to WA but been to bathurst and phillip island and fell in love with the country and people, so i'll be over fulltime in 2 yrs.
25-02-2007, 09:34 AM
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yeah. my mum always complains about australia (hot, ugly, government) and i say GO BACK!! but she doesnt!
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