hi mareospeed !!
Here in Panam

That is still relatively cheap for gasoline, Alex. A few days after the World Trade Center disaster of 9/11/01, there was a photo came to me inan email of a gas price sign. Regular was
$2.44, medium was an arm and premium was a leg. That was some jerk putting his prices up just because he was a greedy asshole. The world is full of them for sure.
I have a 1989 Chevrolet Silverado pick up truck with the LT1 350 engine, auto w/OD trans and a 38 gallon gas tank. I have driven it 832 miles now since I bought gas for it. I still have
enough gas left in it to go a couple of more days. Not bad for a 4,200 pound vehicle.
Thanks Sterlingmac for the info on George and his short history with the McLaren. I saw an article in AutoWeek magazine in the early 80s about him and a few other top musicians and there
exotic cars. George had said about his older Ferrari, "if it isn't driven, it is of no worth to me."

Mareo

We got 2 series of Escorts before the mark 2 escort, which we recieved in 1976 (Yay! the RS2000 - the only worth competitor to the datto). Mark 2 came in 1.6 and 2.0 models. Excellent rally
car and 4 cylinder hoon mobile.

Later we got Cortina's to replace Escorts, which were crap - except where Aussie Ford put 200 and 250 cube engines with manual 5 speeds in 'em (3.3 and 4.1 litre motors).

What we called the Mark one (1.3 or 1.6) was effectively here from about 1970 (when the Capri V6 (you might know it as the granada, or as the essex V6 engine)) hit. Prior to that we had a
different body, but same engines, excluding the lotus twin cam engines which were caklled Cortinas anyway (although they had escort sized bodies).

There was even a couple of bathurst special model cortinas, including the GT500 (one of the first bathurst specials). For those overseas who may not know, Bathurst is Australia's most famous
touring car race (around a 6 km mountain track) and had cars designed to meet it's homologation rules, which culminated in such niceties as the GTHO Phase III Ford Falcon 351 (5.8 L), A9X
Torana (Holden/General Motors), (Holden/General Motors) Monaro (327-350) (5.0 - 5.7 L) as well as for datsun fans the "bluebird" coupes (FJ20T's) and the R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R (twin turbo
RB 26 4wd).

Definately the best cars never to win Bathurst were the Chrysler E49 Charger and the Bluebird of George Fury (which held the lap record until the GT-R smashed it). Another e-mail for those
who care.

Petrol in Melbourne is around 87.9 per litre (A$3.20 or US$1.70 per gallon. Add 10% if out of metro area. In the centre of Aus, you'd be looking at
$US2.50 per gallon

The entire reason why continent sized 4WD Trucks are popular over ther is cos of your
petrol (gas) prices.

No one else can afford to run big block chev engines - wonder why.