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July Xtreme Holdens Magazine

Started by Litre8 , Jul 13 2007 01:09 PM

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#1 Litre8

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 01:09 PM

The latest Xtreme Holdens mag, besides having L8 on the cover (plus an in-depth 10 page article with some very flattering studio pics and a liftout centre page), also has a good article Peter Childs's very trick looking Mr LX.

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#2 _Brewster_

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 01:24 PM

Bloody Darwin, always behind the rest of the country! They don't have it here yet! :cry:

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#3 MRLXSS

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 01:31 PM

Nice. Didn't see that in the newsagent when i was just in there on my lunch break. But i'll keep my eye out for it! Looks good!

MR LX ay... Must be my cars brother in law.... haha

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#4 _NRV051_

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 01:52 PM

Just picked it up this morning. Car looks the goods still Howard. Also Extreme street has a little page on Smokem another forum member. Must be the month for GMH-torana.

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#5 _evilsim_

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 03:18 PM

Will def pick this one up ... thanks for the heads up.

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#6 TerrA LX

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 03:33 PM

L8 looking as good as it ever did. :spoton:

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#7 dattoman

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:54 PM

Not bad for a family car

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 06:09 PM

Should Congratulate Broads as well. Because i am pretty sure he is the Editor of this awesome magazine!

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#9 Litre8

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 06:26 PM

Yes, Broads aka Shrek is now the Editor. His car was on display next to mine at the recent MotorEx show. There was a pic of Shrek on the 'Offtopic' MotorEx post.

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#10 _LXChev366_

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 06:53 PM

Hey Howard...something I only picked up recently... why the SS badge on the grill... your is the only sedan I have ever seen with one on?
Great Car by the way... I still remember seeing it at the summernats for the first time all those years ago... :spoton:

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#11 RIM-010

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 07:08 PM

^ I've always wondered that, too.

I've seen an SS badge on a UC sedan...

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#12 Litre8

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 08:35 PM

Hmmm, the old 'SS badge on the sedan' question....

Well, its like this. I was in the Rare Spares Brunswick(?) store back in about 1982 and I saw the badge in their display counter for $20. I thought, "gee that's close to mandarin red and it could mean Sports Sedan" so I bought it and its been on the car ever since...

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 09:34 PM

Bloody Darwin, always behind the rest of the country! They don't have it here yet!

Tell me about it!!! the one thing i hate about darwin (My hometown btw) is the fact we are ALWAYS behind with things like this.I mean i believe we didn't get TV til 15 odd years after everyone else!.

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#14 LXCHEV

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 10:49 PM

Ahhh HA! I always thought the SS stood for Silly Sausage. Thanks for setting me straight.

Looking forward to picking up a copy of the mag

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#15 _Brewster_

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Posted 13 July 2007 - 10:56 PM

Bloody Darwin, always behind the rest of the country! They don't have it here yet!
Tell me about it!!! the one thing i hate about darwin (My hometown btw) is the fact we are ALWAYS behind with things like this.I mean i believe we didn't get TV til 15 odd years after everyone else!.

You'd be the first Territorian ever to admit that! I can't stand this place! :gun:

I looked in some news agencies this afternoon, trying some bigger ones tomorrow, I want this magazine! I should really subscribe, that will solve the problem.

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#16 sadmannt

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 09:21 AM

Bloody Darwin, always behind the rest of the country! They don't have it here yet!
Tell me about it!!! the one thing i hate about darwin (My hometown btw) is the fact we are ALWAYS behind with things like this.I mean i believe we didn't get TV til 15 odd years after everyone else!.
You'd be the first Territorian ever to admit that! I can't stand this place!
I looked in some news agencies this afternoon, trying some bigger ones tomorrow, I want this magazine! I should really subscribe, that will solve the problem.

what i meant is i love darwin apart from the fact we always get things AFTER the rest of the country.

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#17 _JBird_

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 11:13 AM

^ ^ ^
If Australia was invaded it would be from Darwin first ..... :rolleyes:

This months Xtreme Holdens was okay... I think that tech article (big brakes on a commodore) was pretty tight arse and just a re-hash of stuff they do in Street Commodores, same with the seat tech article!

I guess the saving grace of this month was Howards Litre8. The 10 page write up was excellent...and finally a spec sheet that has all the specs. Usually people with such modded up cars try to keep info away from people and don't really fully list things in the spec sheet.

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#18 dattoman

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 11:27 AM

Bugger
Now I have to go buy it to read the brake article

Damn you

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#19 Litre8

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 04:49 PM

Surely you can claim it as a work related tax deduction

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#20 dattoman

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 08:13 PM

Work needs to make enough money to buy the magazine first

Don't you need new pads in that things yet ?

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#21 _keith1962_

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Posted 14 July 2007 - 08:56 PM

Dattoman you have to drive a car to use pads. LOL

cheers Keith

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#22 Litre8

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Posted 15 July 2007 - 10:48 AM

Yeah, PM me a quote for some Pagid's to replace the current HB114's. I will need these by October.

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#23 _Brewster_

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Posted 15 July 2007 - 02:13 PM

Went to the newsagent yesterday arvo, still no magazine! :furious:

I'll say it again....BLOODY DARWIN!!! But I did get to pick up the previous issue, Xtreme Holdens No. 4. I didn't know these magazines exsited.
Just a tiny question, is that yellow 76 LX SS hatch a forum member here, and if so, has he got his build project plan up? I was interested to see how he arranged his console, but the article just touched on it, and the picture is too small, for my blind dog eyes!

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#24 orangeLJ

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Posted 15 July 2007 - 10:10 PM

bought it yesterday, a few good plugs for GMH-torana in there howard!! nice. and the sticker on the back 1/4 window works too.

didnt realise when i saw this car a few years back that it was so dam good, (wasnt a big fan of late toranas) but after reading all this im amazed, so ahead of the time it was built (in all its forms) and technically perfect (or close)

the one thing i must ask is why no taxi bar in the back?

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#25 Litre8

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Posted 15 July 2007 - 10:18 PM

The harnesses connect back to the bar across the rear parcel shelf (welded between the rear arms of the cage). That seemed to be the norm back then and carrying rear seat passengers wasnt a priority (leg room limited with the cross bar between the centre hoop legs.)