The Car or Thing that gets you Inspired Thread

**Mr Messy** · 26-02-2012, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by joshyd-mk2gti

awesome shot! yours? I wouldn't mind checking out the rest of your flickr - got a link?

Thanks mate. The Flickr is private (just use it to access and back up pics, while sharing the odd shot on forums etc), but here are some other shots from the weekend:

Anyway, the black R8 won, ahead from the silver SLS and red/fluro Ferrari below. The local Lowndes/Luff/Eddy Audi crashed out with car owner Mark Eddy at the wheel.

**bigfoot** · 28-02-2012, 10:58 AM

ROYAL Dutch Shell has approved its world-first Prelude floating LNG project off Western Australia at an estimated capital cost of up to $US12.6 billion ($11.8bn), in a move that will allow it to access major gas deposits stranded hundreds of kilometres from the WA coast.

The Anglo-Dutch giant said in Perth yesterday that it had given final invesment approval for the revolutionary project, which will mark the first time a floating LNG vessel has been deployed to produce gas and liquefy it on board by cooling.

More than $200bn worth of LNG projects are on the drawing board in Australia, which is expected to become the world's second-biggest global exporter of the cleaner burning fuel by 2020.

Approval for the Prelude project comes as the LNG sector faces an investment boom.

US energy giant Chevron, Japan's Inpex and Perth-based Woodside Petroleum are all close to signing off on multi-billion-dollar developments in Australia.

**GOLFBALLS** · 28-02-2012, 01:04 PM

I've been getting an unhealthy lust for old Aussie classics lately, especially the '70s Statesman. Would look soooo sick on air-ride!!!

Done something like this....

**Ben J** · 28-02-2012, 01:19 PM

One day I'd love to have one of these as a project. Would even consider not completely slamming it

**Jarred** · 28-02-2012, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by bigfoot

holy crapola that is massive. :eek

**gareth_oau** · 28-02-2012, 06:29 PM

be fun to live on in the middel of a cyclone swell!

My company owns North Rankin Platform further south, and one cyclone we measured waves 23m high

**Buller_Scott** · 01-03-2012, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by GOLFBALLS

I've been getting an unhealthy lust for old Aussie classics lately, especially the '70s Statesman. Would look soooo sick on air-ride!!!

apart from all the bogans who'd constantly be either trying to race you, or otherwise catch your attention as if they want to go on a date... cruising around in something like this would be pretty cool - bagged, with all perfect panels and bars, plush interior and period coloured exterior, some nice fat tyres on OEM wheels... i'd rock it.

yes i've bagged out falcodores, but i do like big ole land boats - first car i ever truly considered buying was a '79 deville sedan, when i was living in the states:

**ryana89** · 01-03-2012, 11:26 AM

^I find its generally older gentleman that drive the likes of old Kingswoods, Statesmans, LTD's ect.
Its always a treat when they come to our work after misc bits in pieces.

**bigfoot** · 01-03-2012, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by GOLFBALLS

Done something like this....

Very cool

F12 Berlinetta

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Construction of the 634m Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest self-supporting communications tower, finished yesterday, two months late because of the quake and tsunami that struck Japan last March.