Phil-540i

Bump.

I disagree on it being totally chalk & cheese, as here too even on CKD vehicles, there was also local content suppliers that went a$$ up after the plants all shut down.......... Agree on it wasn't the same scale, but its also a part of NZ long-term culture that is no longer around these-days, & personally, I don't think NZ is 'better off' for it having happened, much like Aussie won't be either IMO..........

Lols^^^^ When you're looking for those magnets, make sure you're getting ones for the appropriate gender wanted............

I've got a brand new set of rings here if ya want them - think they cost just over 50 slides, I'd happily exchange them for a 18 pack of Woodies........

I'd heard your ^^^^^ neighbours are sick of that Justin Bieber stuff you're playing...................

Good $hit............hopefully you too will have them sitting inside on carpet beside the leather lounge suite before fitment............ Should look primo - hows the revin looking - donski yet...........??

Opps, my bad I'd heard yours was manual over there in Dannivagas..........or is there more than 1 amongst all the Hilux's, Fowlcans, & Commydores there...... Edit - still needs washed though.................. Damn but you Aucklanders live in a cocooned little bubble while the rest of us keep ya's going................ Not me, silly enuff in normal state probably, high odds theres a hot date with a box of Woodies this Friday night though.............

You must be a rough ba$tard on auto's....................

Cracking up at the 'you sounded skinnier on the phone' bit...................... Your wife from Mainland then.............???

Its rush hour there in Dannivirke - the next vehicle to park there is probably a parallel parked stock truck............... We ain't all in Queen Street ae.............

Yea I know. I think even at end of April I'll probably end up very seldom seeing it or using it though, so bugger it, it can go............

Yea, too be fair though NZMC closing was'nt necessarily a bad thing though, as it kept us being 'blessed' with more unreliable oil bleeding Pommy pieces of $hit from that stable...............

So wanting 'contract', or car for her then..............

I like this bit --------> 'All lights were green during a three-car collision at a Hastings intersection yesterday , say the three female drivers involved' from this story........http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11199823 Edit, And damn but that MANUAL 540 needs a bloody good bath..............!!!!! Poor thing is in farm hack mode, haha!!

On a serious note, lets also remember that us poor kiwi's have already been down this road with our own motor industry................Aussies probably weren't exactly crying into their XXXX cans when Ford & Holden stopped manufacturing here..............

Hmmm....dunno, its 1 of 3 vehicles that are going........you ^^^^^^ have a PM or 2 Andy......... I could make it work somehow this weekend probably, & hey, if any-one wants the 540 on std rims only sorta thing, $3.5k. Ownership to be changed into new owners name before uplifting, cos I've had brain-damage from that in the past........

Deciding to sell has already been decided................

Yea, I know. Trouble is my teeth are gritted on some other stuff, so I'm well into 'F#ck it, its just a car' in a clinical way at the mo on it, rather than spending time out in the shed in lazy-boy 'just admiring it'...... I'm told I do 'dumb $hit' sometimes, so yea, high odds selling this will get added to that list....even from my perspective....

Ahhh, that's the Arab drift spec ones then ae.....................

Makes sense now then..............cheers.

Theres probably very little of the Toyota line-up that we get here that's made in Aussie though..................and Toyota tend to stick their prices up 'just because they can' IMO...... Mind you, they're having to work a bit harder at it thesedays - Hilux only just beat Ranger as No.1 ute last year, & theres a wild rumour its only because Toyota pre-registered a heap to themselves..........

Damn but that's rather nice though............bigtime!!! Edit. Whys it got a tri-spoke steering wheel do ya reckon, rather than the 4 spoke one the later E34's have......??? Spec level thing........???

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/9705890/Toyota-to-exit-Aussie-manufacturing

Yea, ya might well be dead right there Matt............I know exactly what ya are meaning.............

Lols, Might wanna have your garage sale quick then, as I've only now just realised I'm basically on the road away the last 2 weeks of this month................. I'll be down your way at Easter - just not in the 540 though.......