Me
Well anyway, my name is.... who cares. to those who don't know me I'm a large, tall, dutchish type guy in my late twenties. Some would say I'm larger than largish, but  probably not to my face. Yes, I'm half Dutch. Both my parents were born in Holland. I lived in Holland for a few years and was lucky to have some late primary schooling there. This means I can speak, read & write Dutch like a 12 year old. I'm not what you expected? What did you expect? I shouldn't really ask that question, it tends to disappoint me.

Wife
Absolutely none of this could be possible without the support of my wonderful wife Kirsty. We've been together for a long time now and Kirsty has had to put up with cars and the stress that goes with building them - love you hun. Kirsty's loves Torry's too, mind you Kirsty's car is a '96 maxima (so I guess she doesn't love Torry's that much)

Work
I am a professional in a software development house. Don't ask me to explain any more.

Speed (kph)
I've always loved Torana's. All of them, but particularly the hatchbacks. I guess that comes from seeing Brocky win Bathurst in a hatchback as a 7 year old in '78. 'Course my first car wasn't a Torana, no - I spent all my money and couldn't buy anything decent. Following my first car I had a brief affair with a few V8 SLX and SLE commodores before moving on to my first Torana - a genuine 253 SS. It had a strong stroker 253 (to 279cu). I spent a lot of time and some dollars, cleaning it up, changed the suspension, added some colour coded B45 Simmons, resprayed it windscreen forward, including the engine bay. I joined the Torana Street Machine Club of Victoria and I eventually become the club prez a few year later. anyway, the SS called 'Gruesome' was quite popular and ended up getting a couple page spread in one of the Torana mags. so, now I wanted to move onto something else. there were quite a top quality LC/LJ's in the club, including Leon O'Brien's top 10 LJ xu1, and so seeing these, I wanted get into something like that. I sold gruesome and moved onto a LC 4-door with a hot little 186, triple SU's etc. I had so much fun in this, taking it to Phillip Island and Heathcote multiple times. my wife gave it the nickname 'Rascal' for reasons best not detailed here. since then I've owned another 2 LCs, nothing special though. following owning 4 Torana's I had a fling with an immaculate '65 pillar less 4 door impala. then in '95I thought I'd get back into it all and bought 'Agent Orange' after a few months it was time to rebuild so I got out the tools and paint stripper and began. unfortunately illness and money struck me down and the project had to be put off until January last year. It's now taken far too long but I know it'll be worth it. I've always wanted to build from scratch a tough SS Torana that's a little different from most of the Torana's out there. not everyone's choice but mine anyway. here are some pics of gruesome and rascal. they all link to the same page

Speed (mhz)
As far as computers go, I love to go fast. I'm currently running an Athlon Thunderbird 1330 @ 1600mhz, 256mb PC-150, Iwill KK266 mobo, quantum atlas10k U160 SCSI HDD (10,000rpm), 1 x IBM DDRS 4.5gb SCSI UW SCSI HDD (7,200rpm), 20g Quantum fireball as plus ATA100 IDE HDD (7200rpm),  13.6gb western digital caviar plus ata100 IDE HDD (5400), Tekram 390u3w u160 SCSI adaptor, Creative GeForce 2 GTS [o'clocked to 212/366], Plextor 40x ultra SCSI CDROM, Plextor 8x20 CD-Writer, Hercules Game Theatre XP, Intel 10/100 NIC. Not too shabby methinks. Six years ago I bought a 486sx20 as my first beast when I didn't have a clue about computers, I mean no clue at all. Strange though how some folks can pick up some things quick - within 6 months I was designing web pages (way back in html2 days!) under the registered business name "Chillicom Digital Studios". I then started upgrading systems and in another 6 months I was providing software & hardware services under the name of "Chillicom Digital Services". Just a year after buying that shitty 486,I built a dual Pentium Pro 233 (o'clocked of course) with all SCSI, CR-R and 196mb ram. 4 years ago that was a wild system. I still see it now and again and it still rocks in NT! Also about 4 years ago, the need for web speed led me start up an ISP called "Tangent Internet Services". Woohoo, ISDN was fun and fast. Tangent operated successfully as a mid size ISP for a few years. Now of course I'm connected via cable, the only way for speed freaks!