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Old 25-03-2011, 07:11 PM   #1
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I was on my way to the Grand Plaza this arvo about 4pm when the wife spotted a really nice old car in the car park opposite a wheel alighnment place so we propped for a look , she insisted
1957 489 BB th 700 9"
very clean tidy and sounded tuff enough , only took him 10 years
will be shown at Munchies in a few weeks


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Old 25-03-2011, 07:42 PM   #2
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That is a pharken nice car
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Old 25-03-2011, 08:40 PM   #3
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That is a pharken nice car
That is an understatement , in a couple of weeks he will be visiting Munchies , he said his first drive will be around 7 to 8 pm this evening out to Beaudesert area and back , on close inspection bearing in mind it needed final buff and brush touch was near ferpect

the sound is somthing else

you can't beat a big one
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Prolly got a big one looking at it -
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Old 25-03-2011, 08:50 PM   #5
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To this day my most desirable car is a 57' Chev, i love em........sorry....
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Old 25-03-2011, 09:17 PM   #6
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To this day my most desirable car is a 57' Chev, i love em........sorry....
No one could hate you for that.
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Old 25-03-2011, 09:32 PM   #7
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Prolly got a big one looking at it -
Nah , remember I started driving in the 60's , I owned a 56 and thrashed it , along with a 54 blue flame plus ford v8's from 38 39 48 52 and 54 63 64 etc , plus a lot of cars which people today fuss over , best was a chopped channeld 1937 plymouth coupe that cost me less than a grand to build complete with 352 v8 , my daily at the time was either the mini cooper or or the 38 ford ute , the stuff you guys drive if it lasts will have the same effect in a generation
and that chev is primo , no idea what it owes him but mine I paid a couple of hundred dollars for with it's little 289 and thrashed it
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the stuff you guys drive if it lasts will have the same effect in a generation
I'm not so sure. I don't think anyone will ever fawn over an EL Falcon or a BA XT, no matter how much time passes. There's something about those old tanks..the fins, the lashings of chrome.. If I had the coin I would love to have either a '57 Chev or a Customline.
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Old 25-03-2011, 09:16 PM   #9
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That's one nice looking car.
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I sold a 1948 Nash for $10
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Old 26-03-2011, 09:21 AM   #11
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I sold a 1948 Nash for $10
I bought a Buick straight 8 for $20.00 back in 1968 with a busted axle
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Old 26-03-2011, 09:14 AM   #12
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The stuff we threw away or sold cheap
Gee its not just u older gen that now cry
Was only 15 or so years ago
People couldnt give away ruff looking first generation monaros
10 years ago a bloke paid 20K for an LT1 factory HT/HG Monaro
(I thought he had rocks in his head,whos larfin now)

1957 Chev
Ill find space in the shed real fast
And a
1967 Mussy coupe for the minister

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The old stuff was cheap in the day,cause noone wanted it
XDs,VK commos,ect (early 80s stuff)is still cheap and theyre all
Elligable for historic rego
Old doesnt mean expensive
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