My Australian Experience(Dial up Death)

Berty

Thats me in the drivers seat









My brother in law is the foreman of the service centre for Barbagallo in Perth, Western Australia http://www.barbagallo.com.au/ where they have many service centres but his is the Aston, Jaguar, Ferrari and wait for it......................Fiat service centre.

His Workshop


Car being detailed before customer picking up new car




His Showroom


Here is me driving the car through the CBD Tunnel in Perth, dropping the gear. As the foreman he would not let me open it up completely.

Here is a drink driving checkpoint. Using this coach they analyse and process driving drivers in 20 minutes thereby removing their license. Their cars are all parked up and usually the next morning the start getting removed by friends/family one by one.



Here is the hire car I had for 8 nights. Ford Falcon SR6. Australians call it a hoon car which is basically a boy racer car. It was a very nice 4.0ltr engine automatic.

Xavi6

Ha, I see you found Hillary's Boat Harbour!

Did you get to have a drive around the Barbagallo track? They do karting out there with 100km/h karts, I did it at night and it's absolutely brilliant.

Can't believe you posted a Ford and not a Holden! Commodore ftw

Berty

Barbagallo is in Scarbrough so we drove up the coast from there to Hillarys and back along the Freeway to the City.

No track day. It was my last day so we just borrowed the demo car for a few hours. The track day was on recently but many of the rich folk never turned up.

Terrontress

I watched the Australian Top Gear programme. There is a lot about the Falcons in that.

I much preferred it to the UK version which, to me, has become more about light entertainment and scripted jokes than about cars.

Xavi6

Berty wrote: »

Barbagallo is in Scarbrough

Ah the garage on Scarborough Beach Road. I thought you meant Barbagallo Raceway where they host the V8 Supercars.

Terrontress

I watched the Australian Top Gear programme. There is a lot about the Falcons in that.

I much preferred it to the UK version which, to me, has become more about light entertainment and scripted jokes than about cars.

Great way to spend a sunny day!! The Vantage is a beauty, inside and out. The youtube video is private though so cannot watch it.

Berty

Sorry Privacy removed.

You can now hear the sound of the purr of the engine.

Berty

Berty wrote: »

You can now hear the sound of the purr of the engine.

It must have taken all your will power not to let rip up through the gears!

dcr22B

Xavi6 wrote: »

Ha, I see you found Hillary's Boat Harbour!

Did you get to have a drive around the Barbagallo track? They do karting out there with 100km/h karts, I did it at night and it's absolutely brilliant.

Can't believe you posted a Ford and not a Holden! Commodore ftw

Pfft, the Falcons are kicking the Commodore's ass in V8 Supercars this year.

Sat in an FPV Falcon FG at the Australian Motor Show when I was on honeymoon and the FPV employee who asked me if I needed any assistance was originally from Rathmines. Would love one of the new FG GTEs. Was told it would cost me €40,000 + VRT to ship it over.

My brother is living in North Beach at the moment and working for Europcar in Perth Airport. Says the Falcons are awful agricultural barges but can get taily quite easily if you want to (he's already had one written warning from the boss for fishtailing a Falcon out of the compound ).