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Re: SIMPLY, BECAUSE OLD CARS ARE VERY COOL.
« Reply #451 on: July 22, 2017, 03:20:30 AM »
Back in 1994, I  got $11,000 for my 1970 Datsun 1200 sedan. (it was slightly modified)  :angel:
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« Reply #452 on: July 23, 2017, 04:41:05 PM »
Extreme Collectors Season 1 Ep. 8 Toronto.

Just finished watching this on Ch. One Melb.
Cadillac's all over the joint, some very rare one-off's.
Even one reputed to belong to Johnny Cash.
All in almost pristine condition.

good to see someone saving all this from the scrap merchants.
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« Reply #453 on: July 23, 2017, 07:42:27 PM »
A few of the cars that have been in the driveway in the past

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« Reply #454 on: July 24, 2017, 03:53:37 AM »
Lots of stuff (100 in total) went to Auction on Saturday.... A9X Torana, @ $250,000, was the highest price one of the fleet.
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« Reply #455 on: July 24, 2017, 09:24:31 AM »
Where can I buy shares in Shannons Insurance?  8)
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« Reply #456 on: July 24, 2017, 08:11:55 PM »
A few of the cars that have been in the driveway in the past

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You put a big block into an Escort??.....very impressive indeed GG.... :cup: :cup:
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« Reply #457 on: July 27, 2017, 10:22:13 AM »
https://www.facebook.com/BurnsAndCoMildura/posts/1556316614443390

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD SEEN IT ALL...
The Max Jones collection, Orange NSW will be going under the hammer 16, 17 and 18 March 2018 by Burns & Co MILDURA.

3 generations of collecting and one of the countries most prized private collections.

Max, now 80 (and his father before him) has travelled the country attending clearing sales since his early 20's and now it's time for his own.

Three action packed days including motor vehicles, trucks, horse drawn, farming, tractors, Industrial, petrol and Oil, blacksmith and so much more.

Book the date for a once in a lifetime experience and REMEMBER WHEN PRICE MATTERS THINK BURNS & Co.

Definitely nothing for sale prior. Further details will follow


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Re: SIMPLY, BECAUSE OLD CARS ARE VERY COOL.
« Reply #458 on: July 28, 2017, 09:43:36 AM »
If you cant buy it build it
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« Reply #459 on: July 28, 2017, 10:03:43 AM »
If you cant buy it build it
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« Reply #460 on: July 28, 2017, 11:53:34 AM »
Even though its a survivor build from those days, I reckon I'd be putting it back to std front end panels pretty quick if I had it .
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« Reply #461 on: July 28, 2017, 12:21:24 PM »
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I reckon I'd be putting it back to std front end panels pretty quick if I had it .
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« Reply #462 on: July 29, 2017, 09:46:05 AM »
Some of Australia's most famous Bathurst race cars will go up for auction on Saturday as private collector John Harris sells his personal motor collection in Brisbane.

Brisbane car enthusiast Mr Harris and his son, Craig, have put together one of Brisbane's best collections of Ford race cars at a shed in Eagle Farm over the past 17 years


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/motorsport/bathursts-famous-fords-to-go-under-the-hammer-in-brisbane-20170728-gxkof5.html

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« Reply #463 on: July 29, 2017, 01:23:20 PM »
Cars pulled over $1.6 million..     $430.000 For a Falcon two door group C car,  XD / E Group C  cars $200 + K .. Interestingly though the couple of Group C Ford Capri's in the photos weren't in the auction . might have been on loan to the museum .
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« Reply #464 on: July 29, 2017, 03:15:49 PM »
Cars pulled over $1.6 million..     $430.000 For a Falcon two door group C car,  XD / E Group C  cars $200 + K .. Interestingly though the couple of Group C Ford Capri's in the photos weren't in the auction . might have been on loan to the museum .
https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?aid=6424&pgn=1&pgs=100&smode=0&gv=True&utm_campaign=cc-race-car-29july&utm_medium=lloydsauctions&utm_source=rotator

how much?

https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=6424&lid=1117100&pgn=1&pgs=100&gv=True
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« Reply #465 on: July 29, 2017, 05:36:58 PM »
https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?aid=6424&pgn=1&pgs=100&smode=0&gv=True&utm_campaign=cc-race-car-29july&utm_medium=lloydsauctions&utm_source=rotator

how much?

https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=6424&lid=1117100&pgn=1&pgs=100&gv=True
A few years after the Greens Tuff Bathurst stack. Sims Metal got the wrecked body shell from Dick and scrapped it.  Most of the metal chunks from the shredding were turned into paper weights.

A mates got one. Might be worth a pretty penny now?

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« Reply #466 on: July 29, 2017, 05:47:43 PM »
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A few years after the Greens Tuff Bathurst stack. Sims Metal got the wrecked body shell from Dick and scrapped it
if the door got 25k, the whole shell would have got 100k +..
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« Reply #467 on: July 29, 2017, 06:29:45 PM »
if the door got 25k, the whole shell would have got 100k +..
a mate used to live across the road from Dick when that incident occurred, reckons the postman was delivering envelopes of cash donations for 2 years afterwards...so Dick probably got more then that himself...lol
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« Reply #468 on: July 30, 2017, 03:03:16 AM »
A few years after the Greens Tuff Bathurst stack. Sims Metal got the wrecked body shell from Dick and scrapped it.  Most of the metal chunks from the shredding were turned into paper weights.

A mates got one. Might be worth a pretty penny now?

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Yeah, I've still got one of those paper weights myself. I  wonder if it is worth maybe $100 these days?

A mate and myself attended the Nambour swap meet yesterday. Its been about 25 years since I've been to one too and I reckon some of the sellers are the same folks from way back when.

This was a bit odd huh..... lots, and I do mean lots, of stall holders had magazines for sale.
I had no interest and didn't look at any....until, about 30 minutes before we left, I noticed a guy had about 10 or so mags in a pile with an old 83 issue of Custom Rodder on the top.

I bent down, flicked through maybe 6 or 7 magazines and went, there she is and pulled out a mag from the pile.
Noel looked at me a bit puzzled when I said, that's my car.

I bought the mag for $5.00 and as we walked off, Noel asked which car was like mine.
I held the book up and said, this one is mine and showed him the custom Mk 2 Zypher on the cover.  ;D 

The feature was there in all its glory on page 39 and another shot of it in a car show a more pages in.  8)

Possibly one of  the ugliest customs to ever grace a magazine i'm afraid, living proof, you should never change the style mid  stream.
Christ, that's another story for another day.
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« Reply #469 on: July 30, 2017, 07:19:24 AM »
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« Reply #471 on: July 30, 2017, 08:45:07 AM »
Yeah, I've still got one of those paper weights myself. I  wonder if it is worth maybe $100 these days?

I bid on one on eBay 10 years back. Stopped at about $30 and it sold for just over $40.



I was at the track (Skyline) the day that door was bent.
Walked down the hill and watched them pull the car out of the scrub..... :'(

Still love watching that shootout lap. The sweet sound of that clevo and the steam roller rear wheels.

https://youtu.be/WpNqdpVebMY





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« Reply #472 on: July 30, 2017, 10:20:24 AM »
No matter how many times Ive watched that bit of footage, I still cringe and get goose bump chills as Dicky clips that wall and goes off into the trees .
Nothing like the sound of a  big Carbed old Skool V8  full throated growling roar at high revs echoing across the country side . Injected donks just dont sound the same .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_garPb6DM Still sounds good 25 years on . Twenty five year old tyres are a bit dodgy though.  8)
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« Reply #473 on: July 30, 2017, 10:54:16 AM »
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Nothing like the sound of a  big Carbed old Skool V8  full throated growling roar at high revs echoing across the country side . Injected donks just dont sound the same .
agree.. Shits on taxi's....

still remember this one too...
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« Reply #474 on: July 30, 2017, 11:00:42 AM »
Surfers Raceway with a metalic green #17 Dicky J Falcon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6It1gqlyEc
And for some bike action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ENWO_1PdM  I was in the crowd somewhere there on this day . Wish they would invent a bloody time machine sometime soon ..
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