never mind. googled it mmm hot.
never mind. googled it mmm hot.
Geez Byron, that Battleship movie must've left quite an impression on you
Holy moly HK, this thread is going to really take off now.!!!!!!
Well it is still kinda on topic - what sort of options would you like included "in" your Sandman!Originally Posted by davegmh
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Actually I said something along those lines to Flamingo yesterday.
I love Battleship, not for Brooklyn but for another girl - the mighty Mo, to me the equal most awesome piece of human engineering. And for the ACDC and Creedence music.Geez Byron, that Battleship movie must've left quite an impression on you
The first time I saw Brooklyn outside of a Sports Illustrated calendar was in the Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston movie called Just Go With it. Andy Roddick is one lucky dude.
If I could choose Brooklyn Decker as an option i'd want a Sandman van!
Back ontopic, just imagine that Sandman continued into WB, and that WB was updated into WD or WE or WF or whatever. By mid 1988 only just over 3 years after the end of WB we would have seen an injected 5 litre and 4L60 in a proper Holden. Probably a BW diff and rear discs too. Ford did it with the XG and XH so Holden could have done it too. Only downside would have been enduring that awful 3.0L Nissan engine and dodgy auto for a few years, plus a carbied ULP V8.
Indeed. He's an "ideas man" that Flammers, well before his time....Actually I said something along those lines to Flamingo yesterday.
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The VL V8 carby had to happen as they weren't far enough along with the 304 EFI to release it even though the A9L was one very sweet engine for the time. If Holden had have rushed it they'd have ballsed it up even worse than they did with the Buick V6 introduction in the VN. The RB30/Jatco was a smoother, more refined, quieter and better put together from the factory (the bearing/ring/piston weight tolerances were that uniform you could almost refer to them as blueprinted) than the Buick clunker that used to bleed fluids profusely from every concievable gasket, seal and plug fitted to it, which makes you wonder why as the engine has its origins as far back as 1962! Coupled with the rattling balance/timing chains, coil packs and sensors that were notoriously unreliable when they were introduced, the Nissan donk was streets ahead. OK, they had their fair share of issues with heads cracking down the cam tunnel if not bled properly and noisy distributors if the cam belt was loose but from a mechanics point of view the Nissan engines were a high standard to achieve that the Buick engine had no chance of ever reaching.
Later incarnations of the Buick engine were much better but they never got away from that harsh cabin noise from the engine/exhaust. They never released the turbocharged version here (though the supercharged version we had was beefed-up internally) but from what I understand they were a more reliable engine than the N/A version! It would have been a hoot of a follow up from the VL turbo. Though I doubt that the VN suspension design tweeks from the VL would have kept them on the road very well without FE2 being fitted as standard.
Production and design philosophy (heading towards unitary designs) meant that the full chassis designs of the 70's were never going to continue into the late 80's, but yeah it would have been nice to see just how far the development of the W platform actually could have gone!
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Maybe it was a culture thing that stopped the WB Sandy from going into production. Even though it was aimed at surfies....very few surfies could afford a haircut let alone a new car/van.
Meh Brooklyn....too much of a girl next door type. Wouldn't 'rock' a van too much in my opinion. Prob similar to a tranquilized mattress
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