Cars you don't see many of anymore - Page 5

**FTE217** · 11-11-2020, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by au2000

Endura ... Too soon??

A real shame actually for its a good looking SUV imo barring wrong engine.

Count in the Everest - I hardly see one round my areas, once a blue oval moon.

xkxlxm · 11-11-2020, 05:13 PM

Today I saw a Toyota Seca hatch, early nineties. Looked up a little bit about them and found this (first paragraph) in a 'Unique Cars' article:

"There was an event in October 1989 that couldn't occur in 2012. Wheels magazine compared the locally-built Toyota Corolla SX with a Volkswagen Golf GTI and overwhelmingly handed the verdict to the Toyota."

It's not that uncommon to see this model Seca today.

xkxlxm · 11-11-2020, 05:17 PM

https://www.tradeuniquecars.com.au/b...k-buyers-guide

chinamonty · 11-11-2020, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by au2000

Endura ... Too soon??

They have canned the Endura now. Not terribly Enduring.

ford71V8 · 11-11-2020, 11:20 AM

Datsun 1600s

wodahs · 11-11-2020, 11:50 AM

havent seen a dato 260z in a ehie either come to think of it

Bossxr8 · 11-11-2020, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by au2000

Endura ... Too soon??

You didn't see many of them at any stage. So i don't think that counts.

.:4:. · 11-11-2020, 05:39 PM

They used to be everywhere, but yeah, havent seen one since my brothers ex mrs had a jap import 1990 sprinter a few years back. That this was slow, but fun. It revved to 8500rpm (redline was 7500rpm), but the 1.6L could take it.

**kcodezd** · 11-11-2020, 05:52 PM

Watched a red Zd fairlane drive the opposite way this arvo. I know I have one but it’s a couple of years easy since I last saw one on the road.

Tonz · 11-11-2020, 07:16 PM

if I had my choice of any small car on the market it would be a BMC Mini Cooper S miss seeing those on the road. In my younger years I owned 5 all at one time.
Mini traveller van
Mini ute
Mini Cooper S (genuine) rally car specs
Mini Cooper S dressed up to the balls, best mod was a 2nd battery in the boot, and if some numbnut got in my way a flick of a switch would unleash 4 spotlights and triple tone air horns together
Mini Cooper run around.

Sprintey · 11-11-2020, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonz

if I had my choice of any small car on the market it would be a BMC Mini Cooper S miss seeing those on the road. In my younger years I owned 5 all at one time.
Mini traveller van
Mini ute
Mini Cooper S (genuine) rally car specs
Mini Cooper S dressed up to the balls, best mod was a 2nd battery in the boot, and if some numbnut got in my way a flick of a switch would unleash 4 spotlights and triple tone air horns together
Mini Cooper run around.

My girlfriend and I used to play "punch buggy" and "pinch mini". A mini was a pinch, a mini panelvan was a 'doublepinchmini' and a moke got a grope. A beetle was a 'punchbuggy', a type 3 wagon was a 'doublepunchbuggy' and the fastback Karman Ghia or type 3 fastback was a 'triplepunchbuggy' from memory.
I managed to take a ute on an unfortunate adventure playing this game. We don't see many of any of them today, and if we do, my wife and I look at each other and say "Don't you even f*cken think about it." Twas a stupid game.

roddy1960 · 11-11-2020, 09:30 PM

Can't resist ... Today I had to use the bottom car park at work . I also had the XR6 . In that car park there were about a dozen other vehicles . Guess what ?

My Falcon was the only sedan . Not kidding . One VY Holden ute and the other 11-12 vehicles were SUV's or supercab FWD's...

In this case Cars are continually getting rarer .. When this happened today I instantly thought of this thread .

marty351 · 11-11-2020, 07:50 PM

Honda Prelude and Toyota Celica. All models. Used to be everywhere and I was reminded yesterday when one (last Prelude) was parked out front.

**DJR-351** · 15-02-2021, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by marty351

.......Toyota Celica.

Saw a Silver/Grey '77 Celica GT "Mustang" Liftback at Brisbane Airport, it was gone before i could get a picture but it looked fantastic and sounded far from stock.

Not the one but you get the idea...

mick taylor · 15-02-2021, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DJR-351

Saw a Silver/Grey '77 Celica GT "Mustang" Liftback at Brisbane Airport, it was gone before i could get a picture but it looked fantastic and sounded far from stock.

Not the one but you get the idea...

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I have always liked that type of Liftback ones, my brothers mate had one back in the 70's.

Put something like a Leyland 4.4L V8 in such would make for a good little runabout about car.

bathurst77 · 15-02-2021, 08:06 PM

mechanic a few doors down from my work must specialise in classics. theres always a few 60s/70s stangs, even the odd shelby (or tribute), early holdens and falcons, and a few oddities...

Gives me a smile as i drive slowly past every morning and arvo.
"hmmm lets see, what car am i adding to my dream garage today"

**Mechan1k** · 17-02-2021, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DJR-351

Saw a Silver/Grey '77 Celica GT "Mustang" Liftback at Brisbane Airport, it was gone before i could get a picture but it looked fantastic and sounded far from stock.

Not the one but you get the idea...

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The RA23/RA25 is a timeless design .... and went really well (and sounded great) with a 1G-GTE in them as well

DRU842 · 11-11-2020, 09:49 PM

Any Seat

Bossxr8 · 13-11-2020, 12:41 PM

Spotted an early Magna yesterday. And is customary, it was blowing oil smoke out the exhaust. Every time.

roddy1960 · 14-11-2020, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Spotted an early Magna yesterday. And is customary, it was blowing oil smoke out the exhaust. Every time.

So true ...I had a 1989 magna wagon for a few years as a work bus and to cart the muttleys ..She certainly did use some oil and smoke a bit and had about 220K on her when I took her off the road in 2017 ..Drove really nice though and main reason I finished with it was rust all over the place . It was a coastal owned car for most of it's life. That and costly brake issue that I couldn't justify spending much on . A good mate of mine trained as a mechanic at Mitsubishi and he told me that most Mitsy's used a bit of oil even from new but it usually didn't cause too much trouble over a lifetime of the vehicle ..

.:4:. · 13-11-2020, 01:06 PM

My ex wifes dad has a 76 kingswood wagon. He bought it new. Its immaculate. Hasnt seen outside of the garage for years. Its the very base model. So 202, 3 speed column shift manual, bench seat, no power steering, no aircon, the tailgate window is manual wind down. In the 19 years ive known my ex mrs, ive never seen the thing drive, yet its still on normal rego. Its not worth more then scrap value.

Tassie f100 · 13-11-2020, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by .:4:.

My ex wifes dad has a 76 kingswood wagon. He bought it new. Its immaculate. Hasnt seen outside of the garage for years. Its the very base model. So 202, 3 speed column shift manual, bench seat, no power steering, no aircon, the tailgate window is manual wind down. In the 19 years ive known my ex mrs, ive never seen the thing drive, yet its still on normal rego. Its not worth more then scrap value.

You would be wrong with your valuation.On the market it would a lot more than $100.Probably worth a lot more than your “precious” Falcon.

hayseed · 13-11-2020, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by .:4:.

My ex wifes dad has a 76 kingswood wagon. He bought it new. Its immaculate. Hasnt seen outside of the garage for years. Its the very base model. So 202, 3 speed column shift manual, bench seat, no power steering, no aircon, the tailgate window is manual wind down. In the 19 years ive known my ex mrs, ive never seen the thing drive, yet its still on normal rego. Its not worth more then scrap value.

You might be telling the Old Boy That.. BUT.

If It's as described? I reckon It'd pull Mid to High $20'K every day of the Week..

Personal opinion only..

.:4:. · 13-11-2020, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hayseed

You might be telling the Old Boy That.. BUT.

If It's as described? I reckon It'd pull Mid to High $20'K every day of the Week..

Personal opinion only..

Maybe if it had any options on it at all. Theres not a scratch on it but the first thing any person to buy it would do is swap the motor and trans.
A few years back a bloke a few doors down from the inlaws was selling his hq belmont ute for 5k. It had genuine gts wheels on it. He got multiple offers for what he was asking, but that was just for the wheels not the car. So the old bloke took the car off the market as any interested parties would scrap the car and keep the wheels.

**kcodezd** · 13-11-2020, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by .:4:.

My ex wifes dad has a 76 kingswood wagon. He bought it new. Its immaculate. Hasnt seen outside of the garage for years. Its the very base model. So 202, 3 speed column shift manual, bench seat, no power steering, no aircon, the tailgate window is manual wind down. In the 19 years ive known my ex mrs, ive never seen the thing drive, yet its still on normal rego. Its not worth more then scrap value.

If it looks as good as you are describing, which I’m sure it does. And even if it needs a massive overhaul on bushes, brakes and fluids, I’m sure it would be able to get half of what this https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...SSE-AD-6874622 is worth.

And how about this base as, HQ worth a 1000% more than it Rrp in 1971.
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...SSE-AD-6637278

roKWiz · 14-11-2020, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by .:4:.

My ex wifes dad has a 76 kingswood wagon. He bought it new. Its immaculate. Hasnt seen outside of the garage for years. Its the very base model. So 202, 3 speed column shift manual, bench seat, no power steering, no aircon, the tailgate window is manual wind down. In the 19 years ive known my ex mrs, ive never seen the thing drive, yet its still on normal rego. Its not worth more then scrap value.

Geeze, where have you been living.

xkxlxm · 16-11-2020, 07:13 AM

I haven't seen a Fiesta Econetic for a while.

(I was forgetting what it was called and then I found a road test newspaper cutting from Dec 2009.)

Franco Cozzo · 16-11-2020, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by xkxlxm

I haven't seen a Fiesta Econetic for a while.

(I was forgetting what it was called and then I found a road test newspaper cutting from Dec 2009.)

There's probably only 5 on the road, they're a povvo spec 5 door WS Fiesta with a circa $30K price tag

It doesn't make sense compared to the WZ Fiesta Sport with its 1L 3 cyl Ecoboost that makes nearly 30KW more power and only 30nm less torque (at an earlier 1400 RPM and maintaining to 4500 RPM) without the diesel issues.

Diesel hatches suck these days, they had this short period of being a good buy when the option was a naturally aspirated 4 cylinder engine or turbo diesel, but now there's turbo unleaded engines on offer, pass on the diesel engine.

smoo · 16-11-2020, 10:27 AM

The old VN.
Only ones I see is when deros are trying to offload their cut spring welded diff **** box on FB market place.
Back when Holdens were assembled in NZ, Holden did a type of sticker pack to get rid of remaining stock before the VP came out.
They came up with the unfortunate name GTS. 500 or so made.
This was before the proper HSV GTS which first came out in the VP.
The kiwi assembled one were V6 executives with colour matched bumpers, SS seats, alloys and fe2 suspension. Nothing special.
These days the bogans who have them think they’re sitting on a gold mine.

Tassie f100 · 13-11-2020, 05:25 PM

A bog stock unmolested HX Holden wag vs a $6000 BF ghia.I know which I would rather have as an appreciating asset sitting the the shed and it isn’t a Ford.As soon as you start messing with the Holden its value will drop.It is at its most valuable just as it is now.The LAST thing one would do would be to change the motor and trans