Going Solar

[JohnKelly]

At about 4:30PM yesterday, HWP members stopped the driver of this "solar-powered" Holden utility due to its lack of number plates.

The 40-year-old driver was found to be unlicenced and the car was unregistered.

The man was arrested on an unrelated bench warrant and his vehicle was later impounded for 30 days at a cost of $1,006.

He will be invited along to the Magistrates Court at a future date to explain his actions.

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[Aidokea]

Is it an HSV Maloo, or just a regular Holden ute?

[JohnKelly]

Is it an HSV Maloo, or just a regular Holden ute?

To me it just looks like a regular Holden Ute.

[Aidokea]

My wife would love to have a second generation (2007 or later) HSV Maloo, but we can't legally import vehicles into the U.S. for road use that are less than 25 years old, so we're gonna have to wait at least another 10 years before we would be able to get one.

We might fly to Australia to buy one, and put it in storage there until it's old enough to import. We'll see...

[Aidokea]

[JohnKelly]

Aidokea, I can see you are a bit of a petrol head, whereas I just regard a vehicle as a set of wheels, here is my form of transport/workhorse, it's a 2004 Holden Rodeo with only 150,000 kilometres on the clock.

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[Aidokea]

Aidokea, I can see you are a bit of a petrol head...

I guess you could say that.

My wife's daily driver is a BMW Track Pack car that I let her custom order new- we flew to Munich Germany for her to take delivery at the BMW factory in Munich Germany during Oktoberfest. We drove it all over Germany, through Liechtenstein, Austria, and over the Swiss Alps into Northern Italy, to include taking turns driving it around the Nurburgring Nordschleife at triple-digit speeds during Touristenfahrten. My daily work commuter car was a Porsche convertible that I custom-ordered new after touring the Porsche factory in Stuttgart Germany. I purchased a new hand-built MV Agusta after touring the MV Agusta factory, located on the shores of Lake Varese in Northern Italy. We have toured Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani, Ducati, MV Agusta, BMW, and Porsche, while doing month-long Europe trips. We spent two weeks on the Isle of Man for the TT races, where we rode the Snaefel Mountain Course two-up on a big-bore Ducati at triple-digit speeds. A few months ago I pre-ran the Baja 1000 in Mexico, in a Ford Truck that I bought new and then built up as a prerunner- the $4,000 custom-ordered King shocks took over a year to get. Our motorhome is an enormous $250K Oshkosh MTVR 6x6 that was originally an armored gun truck for the MARSOC Raiders, a U.S. Marine special forces unit- the tires are nearly five feet tall, and we look DOWN into 80,000-pound 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs on the interstate. Our next international motorsports adventure may be the 24 Hours of Le Mans. And I'm considering the twin-turbo Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio now that I'm retired.

...whereas I just regard a vehicle as a set of wheels, here is my form of transport/workhorse, it's a 2004 Holden Rodeo with only 150,000 kilometres on the clock.

I like your truck. The Holden Rodeo is a rebadged Japanese Isuzu D-Max. We don't ger them here in the states.

[tanksoldier]

No doubt he was just a free man traveling on the land, and you’re a bunch of road pirates.