[Sprintey]

I bought an unlicenced green VG coupe in '94 for $845 as a young fella, 245 column shifter, fixed it up then got the special permit to drive it about 150kms out to the farm where I could use it as a 'farm rocket'. It had been driven down from Darwin in a real 'fear and loathing' type run by 3 guys who had left the floors covered in bullet cartridges and beer bottles. I didn't care - it looked so cool!

The day approached and my girlfriend took a tow rope and her 253 WB ute to tow the old Val when it would inevitably die on the way out.

Then something amazing happened, the coupe with it's 245 left the V8 ute in the dust for the whole trip! I loved that drive, no licence plates, bomb of a car, every time a road train went past the windscreen wipers were blown right up to the top of the screen and I had to turn them on to bring them back down.

This is as close to the Road Warrior as I've ever done in my life. Only in the '90's... Awesome fun, bring on the Wasteland!