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Picked the wife up from the pub this evening (long story), came out after 20 minutes to find a gaggle of pub regulars clustered around my Monaro cooing and generally drooling. And it's filthy at the moment too!
Dropped a friend off on the way home and went to get petrol (a frequent event these days). Bloke on next pump along - "oi mate, is that a Monaro?" followed by long conversation about how fast does it go, how much was it, doesn't it look fabulous (even though it's filthy at the moment), etc etc.
When I bought the car back in May none of my friends had heard of it, the local main dealers thought it was a van, and for the last 7 months nobody has taken a blind bit of notice of it parked outside the house or in the street or anywhere really. Now in one evening I've had 2 occasions of people gawping at it like it's a naked supermodel!
Could this be at least partially attributed to the Top Gear effect? It was mentioned yet again on the programme on Sunday (I make that at least 3 times this series) and won their award for Surprise Of The Year (I quote the BBC website: "The winner was the Monaro, for being utterly great, which was a huge surprise"). Hah, no surprise to people on this forum!
Dropped a friend off on the way home and went to get petrol (a frequent event these days). Bloke on next pump along - "oi mate, is that a Monaro?" followed by long conversation about how fast does it go, how much was it, doesn't it look fabulous (even though it's filthy at the moment), etc etc.
When I bought the car back in May none of my friends had heard of it, the local main dealers thought it was a van, and for the last 7 months nobody has taken a blind bit of notice of it parked outside the house or in the street or anywhere really. Now in one evening I've had 2 occasions of people gawping at it like it's a naked supermodel!
Could this be at least partially attributed to the Top Gear effect? It was mentioned yet again on the programme on Sunday (I make that at least 3 times this series) and won their award for Surprise Of The Year (I quote the BBC website: "The winner was the Monaro, for being utterly great, which was a huge surprise"). Hah, no surprise to people on this forum!
I've has my HSV for 2 years and just about every time I take it out I get quizzed over, what is it?, whats the engine?, how fast does it go?, how many are there of them?, etc., etc.
I normally say it an Australian Omega as they don't understand the concept of GM/Vauxhall/Holden & Holden Special Vehicles
I've got two smarts which still get lots of attention too.
When I bought my first smart 4 yrs ago I was one of two that could be seen in Hants, when I bought the HSV I thought I was again alone in Hants, now both marques are everywhere, still not too many VXR's?HSV's.
Me a snob - you bet!
I normally say it an Australian Omega as they don't understand the concept of GM/Vauxhall/Holden & Holden Special Vehicles
I've got two smarts which still get lots of attention too.
When I bought my first smart 4 yrs ago I was one of two that could be seen in Hants, when I bought the HSV I thought I was again alone in Hants, now both marques are everywhere, still not too many VXR's?HSV's.
Me a snob - you bet!
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