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Old 31-12-2023, 11:47 PM   #1981
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1st gen 626.
And perhaps this one should be 'cars you don't yet see', but also saw a new Tundra today.
Haven't seen any 1st gens in years - the last time I saw one was probably in 2017. I saw 2 of them, actually, in the same suburb (Caulfield), a couple of weeks apart. At first I thought it must be the same car, but the plates are different. Amazingly, the top one (AQS095) is *still* registered!




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RB Gemini, still with the original plates. Not sure why someone would want to continue driving such a relic:

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Not sure why someone would want to continue driving such a relic:
Cheap commuter transport maybe.
Nothing wrong with it, no ones going to steal it down at the railway station carpark.

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Driving to Batlow yesterday, and I was thinking of the last time I went there probably 10 years ago I was driving my EL XR8.
Anyway further up the road I see a red sedan, get closer and realise its an EL, get a bit closer and notice its got a wing and twin pipes. Yep, It looked like an original EL XR8 185kw with a rear window louvre.
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Coming through Cooma yesterday and Google sent me around the industrial estate as a shortcut. A fine collection of AP6s in a yard. Haven't seen one on the road for a while.
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Cheap commuter transport maybe.
Nothing wrong with it, no ones going to steal it down at the railway station carpark.

nice catch btw.
FB marketplace is full of cheap cars that are all 100 times better than a RB Gemini. The base model SL/X didn't even come with power steering, and air cond. may not have been equipped either. Again, I don't know why you'd choose a RB over the alteratives.
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FB marketplace is full of cheap cars that are all 100 times better than a RB Gemini. The base model SL/X didn't even come with power steering, and air cond. may not have been equipped either. Again, I don't know why you'd choose a RB over the alteratives.
All with crapped out electronics hence the price usually. Gem Gem won't have any. Might have inherited it from Granny, who knows. We all have our choices.
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Very clean XF windowless pano, on heritage plates. Seen turning off the Calder Freeway onto Kings Rd at Taylors Lakes.

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All with crapped out electronics hence the price usually. Gem Gem won't have any. Might have inherited it from Granny, who knows. We all have our choices.
Original plates tells me that it was almost certainly inherited from Granny, or it may be Granny herself driving! In 2011 when I was in first year uni, there was a 65 or so year old lady working at the uni in admin who drove a 1980 Escort GL purchased new. Always admired that thing.
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Haven't seen any 1st gens in years - the last time I saw one was probably in 2017. I saw 2 of them, actually, in the same suburb (Caulfield), a couple of weeks apart. At first I thought it must be the same car, but the plates are different. Amazingly, the top one (AQS095) is *still* registered!

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I'm surprised the plates are still intact too - there was a drama with the green and white garden state issue plates back in the day where they went all ****ty and you couldn't read them.

I've got reproductions of the green and white garden state plates on my Caprice, technically its the wrong era for the year of the car (1994 was the last year of garden state plates) but most people don't know that
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This isn't a car, but you rarely see Victoria "On the move" plates on cars anymore. Most cars that old have newer plates attached to them.
Happen to have a set of those in the garage I took off one of the cars that went to scrap - here's a photo with some poor editing



Maybe they also all deteriorated? See how the paint is coming off the plates.

Car was registered in 1999 with this plate as a new car, then at some point they changed to 'the place to be' slogan (early 2000s? Got two 'place to be' plates sitting in garage - one from my Caprice and one from another car bought new in 2003).

Thats it original number plate frame too, it did well sitting out in the sun from 1999 to 2023 and not breaking
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All with crapped out electronics hence the price usually. Gem Gem won't have any. Might have inherited it from Granny, who knows. We all have our choices.
Maybe. As for better options, this 2005 Commodore is a bargain at just $1k and would be better than that Gemini in every conceivable way. Even great on fuel as it's LPG. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...type=top_picks
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Is that Fremantle/near Fremantle by any chance? Looks familiar.

Seems to be a lot of the WA modified car community always hanging around Fremantle when I was there earlier this year.
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I was driving behind a x type jag today. It was a pez front wheel drive 2.1L v6 one, but it was the same colour as my dads one. His was an awd that he bought new in 2002 and kept till he passed in 2019. The leather was nice in his car, the rest of it was.... well, a 2002 x type. I dont think many of those rubbish jags survive.
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I was driving behind a x type jag today. It was a pez front wheel drive 2.1L v6 one, but it was the same colour as my dads one. His was an awd that he bought new in 2002 and kept till he passed in 2019. The leather was nice in his car, the rest of it was.... well, a 2002 x type. I dont think many of those rubbish jags survive.
Also known as a Ford Mondeo

That was the horrible Ford era of Jaguar, ever since Tata Motors took over them they've gone from stride to stride.
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I was driving behind a x type jag today. It was a pez front wheel drive 2.1L v6 one, but it was the same colour as my dads one. His was an awd that he bought new in 2002 and kept till he passed in 2019. The leather was nice in his car, the rest of it was.... well, a 2002 x type. I dont think many of those rubbish jags survive.
How could you tell it was the 2.1L V6 just by looking at it?
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Yep. No exhaust cutouts on the rear bumper and different wheels. Also the pez 2.1L was an 05 or 06. The 2.1 front wheel drives weren't available in 02. And it had the leaping cat bonnet ornament. They were only put back on from the 05 x type. The earlier ones had a flat badge, something about pedestrian saftey.

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Maybe. As for better options, this 2005 Commodore is a bargain at just $1k and would be better than that Gemini in every conceivable way. Even great on fuel as it's LPG. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...type=top_picks
Unregistered Vic Dunnydore, start at another thou in RW to get it back on the road. Its OK, let it go.
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Is that Fremantle/near Fremantle by any chance? Looks familiar.

Seems to be a lot of the WA modified car community always hanging around Fremantle when I was there earlier this year.
Nah, far from Freo, around 30km N/E of the CBD

Freo cafe strip has always been a hot spot for cars, along with Scarborough Beach and Tuart Hill macca's
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Haven't seen any 1st gens in years - the last time I saw one was probably in 2017. I saw 2 of them, actually, in the same suburb (Caulfield), a couple of weeks apart. At first I thought it must be the same car, but the plates are different. Amazingly, the top one (AQS095) is *still* registered!

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My bro had one for his first car, had the best shifting gearbox I've ever used...


There is one for sale in Perth on FB, white with ~53,000km. $29,500!!!!!!!!
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Not to mention a notoriously unreliable motor with designed in timing chain issues. Grab a Falcon instead
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There is one for sale in Perth on FB, white with ~53,000km. $29,500!!!!!!!!
Problem is they only have a 5 digit speedo.
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But make sure it's a van eh, best $1100 spent.
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Yep. No exhaust cutouts on the rear bumper and different wheels. Also the pez 2.1L was an 05 or 06. The 2.1 front wheel drives weren't available in 02. And it had the leaping cat bonnet ornament. They were only put back on from the 05 x type. The earlier ones had a flat badge, something about pedestrian saftey.
Ok but could it not have been a diesel?
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