Cars you don't see many of anymore - Page 19

xkxlxm · 26-12-2021, 02:14 PM

Last time I saw a generation 1 Honda Insight was a year or two ago. I also used to see one parked out in front of a house on Manningham Rd, Bulleen, along with one or two JDM grey imports. The low fuel consumption would appeal to me. When new I think they were priced about the same as Holden Statesman/Caprice ($60,000.00 or so).

[Yesterday I saw a rare sight: a silver Caprice, possibly 2007 model, looked like it had never been washed. Grime all over the bonnet,roof, boot. Amazing.]

Tassie f100 · 26-12-2021, 02:17 PM

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The Vedette had a small flathead V8 (based on the Ford V8 60, I think). I saw one at a car show a few years ago and the owner had fitted a Lexus (?) supercharger to it. With a car like that he could be a member of a Chrysler club
(Simcas assembled here by Chrysler?), Simca club and a Ford club.

Yeah the Vedette even sort of looked like a smaller mid fifties customline

bb_zetec · 27-12-2021, 10:00 AM

One other thing to consider Is has the windscreen been replaced from the original ford unit?
My old fg ute used to wet the driver's side carpet.

This was due to the replacement windscreen not being sealed properly.

Do the Territory have a small cut out in the carpet near the driver's seat where t
he body vin is stamped?

Mine was wet inside that tab.

Oops...wrong thread...anyway another car I never see anymore is the Honda S2000, what happened to them all?

**anobserver** · 28-12-2021, 09:14 AM

Xd falcon wagon.

Parked in the next street, see it on walks. Very straight and original, but a piece of plastic taped over the vents at the base of the windscreen. Rusty firewall and a pillars....?

xkxlxm · 28-12-2021, 08:20 PM

Perhaps they want to prevent leaf material etc getting in there?

(Today I drove along Manningham Rd and there was a gen. 1 Honda Insight outside the house.)

**anobserver** · 31-12-2021, 01:06 PM

White Fairlane Sportsman. Ford always used to advertise them during the tennis.

mondeomatureguy · 31-12-2021, 01:15 PM

Hi folks,
I took my beloved Ford Mondeo for a drive yesterday 30/12/2021 to Wagga for a run just for the day.
The car i saw isnt that old but i havent seen a XT Ford Station Wagon for a long time and this one was really in good nick.

There wasnt a mark on the paint work and was really in good condition.

xkxlxm · 03-01-2022, 04:40 PM

Dark blue Porsche 968 Cabriolet at the petrol station today. Nice car and not looking dated. (Wiki tells me that the 968 was made from 1991 to 1995.)

Fast Eddie · 04-01-2022, 01:04 PM

Straight MkI Focus'sssssss.

**anobserver** · 04-01-2022, 07:49 PM

Vn commodores. Theres one in the next street, white, bog standard. And it runs.

Tassie f100 · 04-01-2022, 08:23 PM

There is a two tone blue Ap6 valiant wagon just down the road that the old bloke still drives most days,and a yellow KE20 corolla which I presume is still driven around Launceston every day

BA-XT · 05-01-2022, 10:31 AM

Saw a VS Calais at rhe shops. Was really clean and well kept. Appeared to be all original.

When i was younger, always actually wanted a green VS Equip model for some reason. Srill like them to this day!

xkxlxm · 09-01-2022, 07:34 PM

HX or HJ sedan, yellow, looking a bit untidy, sounding unhealthy and full Vic reg B/W plates. Two Chevelles being used as wedding cars, almost identical twins but one was blue and the other red. A Model pick-up hot rod.

xkxlxm · 10-01-2022, 10:03 AM

I forgot to post that a couple of days ago there was an ST170 outside the same Ford household I mentioned a while ago.

Franco Cozzo · 10-01-2022, 10:12 AM

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I forgot to post that a couple of days ago there was an ST170 outside the same Ford household I mentioned a while ago.

I remember when those things were new, how far we've come for the price, 127KW is laughable for something marketed as a 'hot hatch', but it was still circa 30KW up on normal commuter equivalents of the era.

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...12140371/?Cr=0

For the price you'd be well better off trying to get an XR5T Focus or Mondeo around similar spondoolies.

It hasn't aged real well but most Euros don't.

.:4:. · 10-01-2022, 10:17 AM

A bloke down my street drives a vz sv8. Not to many of those about. Theyre the poor mans ss.

Franco Cozzo · 10-01-2022, 10:19 AM

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A bloke down my street drives a vz sv8. Not to many of those about. Theyre the poor mans ss.

I had the option of buying one of those for the same price as the Lebonator, come into my workshop, was dressed up as a Clubby though which I thought was real lame.

Was in for some rough running and a headlight assembly, fixed those and took it for a good drive, wasn't sold on LS1 and its lack of low down torque, was 6sp manual, also they sound junk compared to ye olde 5L.

In hindsight, should have bought that and thrown the basics at it

.:4:. · 10-01-2022, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

I had the option of buying one of those for the same price as the Lebonator, come into my workshop, was dressed up as a Clubby though which I thought was real lame.

Was in for some rough running and a headlight assembly, fixed those and took it for a good drive, wasn't sold on LS1 and its lack of low down torque, was 6sp manual, also they sound junk compared to ye olde 5L.

In hindsight, should have bought that and thrown the basics at it

I kind of like it, same with v8 ba falcon xt's. Holden did kind of dress the sv8 up a little, but i reckon they should have just done the whole vn ececutive thing. Left it basic but with a v8. Its not a ss, it looks like a sv6, but its way cooler then an alloytec.

.:4:. · 10-01-2022, 10:39 AM

Another bloke nearby still has what used to be a super clean 5L vs calais. I say used to be super clean because when it was parked out the front of his house a person had an epileptic fit whilst driving and rear ended it hard. The bloke didnt go through insurance as not to write the car off, he is going to fix it, or so he claims.
Im typically not one for fakers. But this thing has a clubsport body kit and senator wheels and did look the part.

Bossxr8 · 10-01-2022, 12:58 PM

An Austin A80? I think that is what it was called. I think brock started his racing career in one with a red motor dropped into it.

**GasoLane** · 10-01-2022, 01:20 PM

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An Austin A80? I think that is what it was called. I think brock started his racing career in one with a red motor dropped into it.

I think was the baby A30

**FTE217** · 10-01-2022, 01:21 PM

This morn on the way to the office I was amazed seeing a EF and a BA sedan towing a boat with its butt dragging not surprised lol......

Tassie f100 · 10-01-2022, 01:32 PM

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I think was the baby A30

Yeah Brock started in an Austin A30, with a tricked up 186 Holden engine.Remember him flogging it around Calder race track

mick taylor · 10-01-2022, 03:48 PM

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Yeah Brock started in an Austin A30, with a tricked up 186 Holden engine.Remember him flogging it around Calder race track

I thought it was an Austin A40. just a heap, frame chassis,

We had a few A40 tray back utes and one sedan and one heap much like Brock had, ours was a Holden 149 high compression with specko shifter thrashing about the paddock as kids. they is all still all down their rusting away.

I do not think you can put the big 6 in the Austin with the body on, that's why only the heap has the Holden 6 cyl in it.

Oh the race car was a Austin A30, his bush basher was a Austin A40 as a kid I believe.

mick taylor · 10-01-2022, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

I had the option of buying one of those for the same price as the Lebonator, come into my workshop, was dressed up as a Clubby though which I thought was real lame.

Was in for some rough running and a headlight assembly, fixed those and took it for a good drive, wasn't sold on LS1 and its lack of low down torque, was 6sp manual, also they sound junk compared to ye olde 5L.

In hindsight, should have bought that and thrown the basics at it

I test drove all the new VU utes around Norwell track and the SS did not kick in until 4000rpm, so I kept my 179kw 5sp VS ute. but the VY SS went better under 4000rpm so I bought one then, I loved it. I liked the sound it made, stock. but I am old and did not want to hear nose.

Bossxr8 · 11-01-2022, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by GasoLane

I think was the baby A30

It was small. So that was probably it. Saw a white one with green on the sides. Rare sight. Don’t recall ever seeing one on the road before.

Franco Cozzo · 11-01-2022, 11:27 AM

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I test drove all the new VU utes around Norwell track and the SS did not kick in until 4000rpm, so I kept my 179kw 5sp VS ute. but the VY SS went better under 4000rpm so I bought one then, I loved it. I liked the sound it made, stock. but I am old and did not want to hear nose.

Thats what it felt like to me as well, not too much under 4000 RPM and then it took off,

5L seems like it has more torque at lower RPM compared to the LS1, feels like you don't need to give it as much throttle to get it moving along in suburbia, mind you mine completely rolls over at 4200 RPM then it wants another gear

sd1800 · 12-01-2022, 10:04 PM

Can't remember the last time I saw a EA Falcon on the road....

I desperately wanted a EA S Pack MPFI 5 speed as my first car as a red p plater in 2004. Ended up with the EB2 instead!

And where have all the Pulsar ET Turbo's gone?? Back in 2000/2001 it was the sikkkkkest hot hatch around.

roKWiz · 13-01-2022, 07:20 AM

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Can't remember the last time I saw a EA Falcon on the road....

Still see quite a few getting around down here in NE Victoria.
Faded rust free country cars usually.

roddy1960 · 13-01-2022, 08:50 AM

Collectively......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTSiL5Fdcw

Ford cars in general . At work and I'm not kidding at least 80 percent of the vehicles in the staff car park are not sedans or utes anymore . Apart from my AU or FG there might be five or six cars out of 45-50 . Of those either one of mine is usually the only Falcon .. Say that even ten years ago and they'd think you were nuts .

Otherwise ......panel vans . Used to be everywhere in the 1970's and 80's .. I can't recall the last time I spotted one . Even station wagons have thinned right out these days too ..SUV's rule now .