As a mate who owns a HSV said to me today. QUOTE: Your import is yours cos No Jappa wanted it,Lets sell it to a white fool in NZ. Also it is like this:,Jap used import == Marry a women thats been married twice before and has 10 kids. Well he is sort of right,All Imports have about 80,000 on the clock,Funny isinit?<they all drive the same Km's each year?(I dont really think so)
I think the joke is on him as HSV I reckon stands for: Holdens slow vechile 'Malcolm ""Each to their own"" "Williams, Ritchie (Vertex Hamilton)" wrote: > I did send through the cars I have owned all expept one have been > imports(Escort Van). The down side initially was getting parts for models not > originally in NZ but that soon changed when wreckers & service yards there was > a buck to be made from importing wrecks for parts. > > In some ways it was the best thing to happen to our car market as we are > supposedly one of the cheapest places to buy cars & you can get all sorts of > performance cars that were never available perviously. I had never thought I > could buy 323 4WD turbo or Legacy RS. The down side to that is new cars take a > hiding on resale value. > > The dealers were initially making a real killing importing them but quite a few > have gone to the wall over the last few years. > > The dodgy thing was the km's on most of the earlier imports & quite a few > people got caught out by cars needing expensive repairs which had supposedly > only done 80000-100000km. > > -- > Ritchie > > Terry Rudd wrote: > > > Morning Nat, > > > > I guess we don't get all the nice imports like NZ as the local Oz car > > industry no matter what we think of the product is that it puts a lot of > > meals on tables for Oz families. There's been mumblings around the corridors > > in Canberra about squashing the grey imports again lately too, although > > there are strong argument in favour of leaving things pretty much as is as > > greys actually compliment the local industry. > > > > regards > > Terry > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nat P. > > Sent: Friday, 1 February 2002 11:14 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: What cars have you owned ?? Mr Williams!! > > > > Morning Ritchie!! > > You guys get all the cool cars in New Zealand!!! > > Its not fair!!!! > > There must be a catch what is it? > > Cheers nAT > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! > > http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
