I'd grow a mullet for this

"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi) 06/03/2020 at 17:30 • Filed to: torana, straya

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Not sure I’d pay half a million dollars and grow a mullet, but I’d definitely do the party out the back and ‘tache thing. Just look at all dat bolt-on fibreglass! Great color scheme, too.

One of 100 homologation special Holden Torana A9X Coupe. These are the ultimate derivative of a platform that started life as a humble Vauxhall Viva and ended it as a ripsnorting Bathurst-winning Au ssie V8 muscle car.

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Edit : and here’s Peter Brock winning the 1979 Bathurst 1000 in one of these. In typical Brock style, even though he was six laps up and had the race in the bag, he set a lap record on the final lap. Guy was by all accounts an A-hole IRL, but he didn’t know any other way than full send on the track.

CB > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 17:39

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Price: not hot.

Car: super hot.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > CB 06/03/2020 at 17:43

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Unfortunately fat and successful A ustralian boomers are as obsessed with   Aussie muscle cars as fat and successful American boomers  are with ‘Murican ones . Prices for the unicorns are getting just silly.

PowderHound > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 17:45

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Ugh. And I just cut my mullet off last night. That price is certainly going to be a barrier as well

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 18:02

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This is like if liftback Novas were cool. 

lone_liberal > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/03/2020 at 18:26

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It’s like if a Nova and a Vega had a strangely attractive child. 

Chariotoflove > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 18:26

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The only thing I don’t like about this is the studs on the fenders. Everything else about this car is fabulous.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 18:59

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The hilarious thing is though...you could build the same car with a better driveline, suspension and chassis engineering for a fifth of the price...and even that’s being generous.

It just wouldn’t be a numbers matching A9X or SL/R5000...

The local body shop is doing a  sedan now and they have at least two hatchback bodies on chassis sitting in their storage yard...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 19:04

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That looks like a Chevrolet Vega.

Looks like lots of engine for as much car as it is.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/03/2020 at 19:06

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Looks like lots of engine for as much car as it is.

You say that like it’s a bad thing...

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 06/03/2020 at 19:09

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Yup, $100k would buy you God’s own restomod on a vanilla Torana. And you wouldn’t need to be afraid to actually use it.

I must admit I’ve never understood the numbers-matching thing. I can understand spending silly money to own a one-off piece of history, like a winning racecar, but if it’s “ one of N” and I can make that N+1 just by building my own, why not?

Nauraushaun > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 19:11

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hell yeah

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 19:18

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Exactly...on both counts.

Jim Spanfeller > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/03/2020 at 19:57

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The world’s sexiest Vega. I love these things.

shop-teacher > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 20:17

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That is magnificent.

i86hotdogs > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 21:42

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Fun fact: you don’t need this car to grow a mullet. The vehicle doesn’t make the mullet, the mullet makes the vehicle.

Example:

Guy in a van-likely either a tradesman or father of kids

Guy with a mullet in a van-blasts classic rock while ripping cigs on his way to another RallyCross event.

It’s me; I’m the guy with a mull et in a van.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > i86hotdogs 06/03/2020 at 22:10

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You don’t need this car to grow a mullet, but you need to grow a mullet to properly do justice to this car.

Example:

Me right now driving an A9X Torana - fat boomer with too much money

Me with a mullet driving an A9X Torana - the very picture of Bogan success

(This is in contrast to, for example, a Ferrari 308, where you don’t need to go to the effort of growing a mustache to drive one - the universe will simply edit a full Tom Selleck soupstrainer across your upper lip in the eyes of all bystanders.)

Given that you already have the mullet, the classic rock, and the cigs, you’re 90% of the way there without even trying . I think it’s incumbent on you to take one for the team and buy this thing for all of us.

i86hotdogs > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/03/2020 at 22:24

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I like your point. Although I would argue once you drive a 308, a mustache forms and cannot be shaved like Tim Allen’s beard in Santa Clause.

As for the acquisition of the vehicle, give me a moment to sell some organs I don’t think I need. 

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > i86hotdogs 06/03/2020 at 22:40

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God gave us redundant kidneys for a reason.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/04/2020 at 06:00

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How can that be a bad thing?

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/04/2020 at 07:10

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GIB!