Gudday

baldricks mate

baldricks mate

Regular Member
Australian Zeds
Joined
Aug 16, 2025
Points
13
Location
Riverina. NSW. Oz
Model of Z
1997 1.9L
Hi All
I'm from Australia. Where I live is a rural village of 800 people, the nearest major city is a nice 40 mins away, terrain is flat, with majority of the year being sunny days. If I have to drive the Z3 with the top up I probably shouldn't be driving it. Never owned a Euro car., so as of a week ago I have zero knowledge base. I remember when Z3 came out here and thought they were drop dead gorgeous but I'd never be able to afford one. This car is is good condition. Old guy owned it ,he couldn't get in and out of it anymore and the interior bits broke over time and were fixed by a gorilla and roofing screws so that 90's ABS plastics is what mostly needs fixing. Its to be a Sunday cruising car and do some local running around. Its a 1997, 1.9L manual
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Gidday back at ya... Welcome aboard
 
Hi from Mansfield UK. It sounds idyllic where you live, I could use some of that! Is it "Gudday or Gidday"? Asking for a friend 😁
 
Grumps said:
Hi from Mansfield UK. It sounds idyllic where you live, I could use some of that! Is it "Gudday or Gidday"? Asking for a friend 😁
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Hi Grumps. How you spell it depends on how much drawl one puts into it and how the first syllable is accented. There are no rules about it because it often too hot for rules in summer.
PS, I like that darker blue on that car in your pic.
 
Hi there. You downunders have a thing with big wheels don't you?
Shawn also has some "wuge" wheels on his Z.
 
The wheels came with the car. I'm not a fan of them. The roads where I am are mostly broken edges and 2nd class patched pothole pavement, so tight track suspension and fat wheels are a recipe to be bounced off the road on a dodgy corner. Supple is the smarter move...
 
Hi from Leeds; I like the chrome grills bee think about some of those, the wheels are "interesting"!
 
David62 said:
Hi from Leeds; I like the chrome grills bee think about some of those, the wheels are "interesting"!
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Well, the wheels a Damani/Armano Dunamis 18" and back in the day of "maxed" cars people were giving a kidney, their sister, their mothers if she was below 60 and even their father for a set.
They were called Damiani in Europe and Armano in Japan and Asia.
Even now in some circles these will sell for 250/300 each if they are in top condition.
My poser ex-brother in law had a Kandy Orange Lexus with these on and from what I recall, it was a bare metal respray right out if the dealership with white leather, four flat screens, twenty million watts stereo, a green ledstripe under it and a custom badge saying "Sexus 400".
God I am so lucky I got out of that family.
 
Zephyr said:
Well, the wheels a Damani/Armano Dunamis 18" and back in the day of "maxed" cars people were giving a kidney, their sister, their mothers if she was below 60 and even their father for a set.
They were called Damiani in Europe and Armano in Japan and Asia.
Even now in some circles these will sell for 250/300 each if they are in top condition.
My poser ex-brother in law had a Kandy Orange Lexus with these on and from what I recall, it was a bare metal respray right out if the dealership with white leather, four flat screens, twenty million watts stereo, a green ledstripe under it and a custom badge saying "Sexus 400".
God I am so lucky I got out of that family.
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Holy Fast and Furious Batman!
Sexus 400?
Out here its guys with SS Commodore's. I call them "road nazi's"
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Then there is the pumped up Landcruiser utes on 38" tyres, they are "Friggers Utes".
Its a Cocky's (farmers) son's thing. The higher up the birth order you are, the bigger the tyres your farm ute gets. They don't actually work on the farm very much, they just pretend (pose or "Frig" around) in the Cruiser with the huge tyres and obscenely loud twin V8 diesel exhausts. As the saying goes, you can't get that silly just tugging one gear stick...

Now my secret is out. I can drive a Z3 right underneath those Cruisers!
 
David62 said:
Hi from Leeds; I like the chrome grills bee think about some of those, the wheels are "interesting"!
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Hi to Leeds from an area (district?) called The Riverina in Oz
 
Zephyr said:
Hi there. You downunders have a thing with big wheels don't you?
Shawn also has some "wuge" wheels on his Z.
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Ha Ha Ha :whistle:. The roads up here in Cairns are not too bad, mostly... But since its a bit of a bumpy ride, sometimes... I told my wife my supercharger fell off, and I would have to buy a new one.... :whistle:. Reassuring her that I wasn't spending frivolously..
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Hi and :welcome: to the forum from me too in Stafford, England.
 
Mint said:
Hi and :welcome: to the forum from me too in Stafford, England.
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...and Hi back to you from the sunny Riverina in New South Wales. Is that car in your avatar a blue or the green?
 
Z Victor 1 said:
Hi and welcome from Derby,UK. :thumbsup: Love the forum name, but wasn't Baldrick's 'friend' a turnip? :oops::D
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I love Blackadder. I find the series that had the best humour to be Blackadder Goes Forth (the final one). I don't remember turnips in it but Baldrick preparing "Ratovan" (rat run over by a van) for dinner hilarious.
 
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