Gold Coast VJMC ride to Garage 25

There was also a ride down to the Coomera Marine precinct to Garage 25 today ( Saturday).
I met up with my mate Peter on his CBX at Gasoline Alley who was having breakfast with Bob ( on his new to him 75 Gl1000). Unfortunately Bob couldn’t make the ride down the coast with us as he had a better offer. :smilie_happy:
The Brisbane VJMC members were meeting at the BP Yatala for the ride down the coast but Peter and I just headed straight down the coast which worked out well as we beat the rush.

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Good to hear your ride reports coming, Tony. Time for me to wake my CBX again. Thanks for the tickler!

Quite the car collection there. I especially like the 1 mile 750/4 in this video. I wanted one so bad when I was a kid.

Looks like the weather was nice.

Good grief! I completely missed the significance of the destination - Garage 25. Some place.

Definitely be doing a couple of more trips down there in the future. :yes:

I love the old Holden Monaros. Ever since Mad Max when we were squinting and trying to figure out just what the heck they were. So familiar looking and yet unidentifiable.

I hope you weren’t referring to Max’s Police Interceptor as that was a Ford GT Coupe. :hihihi:

Oops. Damn Aussie muscle. Yeah, I was thinking Monaro. (Hey, what can I say, I'm a Chevy guy).

In my defense, we see essentially zero Australian muscle cars in the states. From what I can see, you guys have the best of both worlds!

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Oops. Damn Aussie muscle. Yeah, I was thinking Monaro. (Hey, what can I say, I'm a Chevy guy).

In my defense, we see essentially zero Australian muscle cars in the states. From what I can see, you guys have the best of both worlds!

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How can you be a Chevy and a VW guy? :smilie_happy: Normally us VW guys gravitate towards Mopar, Subaru and other not so populist models like my Ford RTVs. :whistling:

I do have a soft spot for the horizontally opposed engines. But, that appreciation came a bit later in life.

When I was young, it was V8 or nothing. Ran quite a few Fords, but got tired of spending more money to beat the Chevy guys than they were. And my Ford small blocks had a heckuva time with those Mopar 340s. Had quite a few Mopar buddies: Darts and Dusters with healthy 340s (or 383/440s) were tough to beat. So, I became one (Chevy guy).

Nowadays, I appreciate pretty much any older machine that does the job it was designed to do. And that looks good doing it. Doesn’t really have to be the fastest. It just has to be.

Many years ago I had a 302 Ford Maverick which didn’t like the Arizona desert heat too much. My current Falcon utes I love because they run Aussie 4lt 6cyl in-line engines going by the code name Barras. They do a turbo version that can be built to crazy horsepower levels.
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