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J40 Landcruiser this morning, even had a canvas water bag strapped to the bullbar.
Anyone younger than 30 might have to Google it.
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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Hi guys,
I saw two Holden Sandman Panel vans one was yellow and other was White and they were parked out side a park. I cant remember the last time i was a Holden Sandman Panel Van apart from at a Car Show. They were both HZ Models they had full GTS instrumentation and V8s. I usually have my camera in the car but that day left it at home. |
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Panel vans are essentially collectible now. Its weird being old enough to remember when they were mere work cars.
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A passing parade past here over the last 24hrs or so of street/strip vehicles.
I'm guessing they had been to Morgan Park (Warwick) and maybe heading to Willowbank. All sorts, predominately Commo's but a couple of decent Chargers, some Camaro's, Holden 1 Tonners, quite a few tasty Fords, some Seppo classics, Torana's, Corty's, Capri's and many assorted others. All sounding v.tough, could hear them coming for some way off. Many with trailers (reckon we could smell the fuel on them) Very hot here today, so hope they had no issues.. would have got worse heatwise once you get down the Toowoomba range and heading east.. |
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Also a XC Falcon 5.8L 4sp GS wheels bonnet and grill extractors and dual exhaust stock engine gutless. some drugged up dude owned it before me. I used them for work and play, wish I still had the HX van. I still have the XC but it's under the ground now as a mate drove his dozer over it for me righting off his XY GT-HO into a power pole. he was the one who said into it back in 1982 and it just went side ways instantly and into a pole and a fence. he bought a HZ van all decked out not a work car at all but a 308 hotted up to much for a road car fuel, it just about wheel stand taking off, but cost him to much in engine repairs and killing T400 autos. His van handled real well, but the XY they do not handle, I think I saved his life for sure getting rid of that XY. |
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It's the rear springs that are the problem, I would invest in getting them sorted best you can, they are a shocker, the ute and P van spring setup is so much better and I am sure something can be done to make the sedan rear much better.
Look at how good the AU utes handled with leaf springs. My stock from new XG Longreach was fine you could drive it with complete control at all times. XC van was fine as well. A mate crashed in his XY 302 Fairmont real bad in 1979, if he only knew better how to set such a car up. |
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(And I thought I’d heard it all?.... what tripe!)
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Current vehicles.. Yamaha Rhino UTV, SWB 4L TJ Jeep, and boring Lhd RAV4 Bionic BF F6... UPDATE: Replaced by Shiro White 370z 7A Roadster. SOLD Workhack: FG Silhouette XR50 Turbo ute (11.63@127.44mph) SOLD 2 wheels.. 2015 103ci HD Wideglide.. SOLD SOLD THE LOT, Voted with our feet and relocated to COSTA RICA for some Pura Vida! (Ex Blood Orange #023 FPV Pursuit owner ![]() |
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well you do know Charlie n Tass
a good operator always blames his equipment ![]() isnt that how it goes ??? some thing musta been wrong with my XY as i never had this problem ![]() but it did go like stink when asked for what it was
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yes still (as money n time permit) doing the rebuilding the zh fairlane with a clevo 400m 4v heads injected whipple blown with aode 4 speed trans to a 9" ....... we'll get there eventually just remember don't be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark...Professionals built the Titanic! I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !! |
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What's a leaf spring
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dont be silly Franco
drum brakes ! isnt that what reverse is for ![]()
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yes still (as money n time permit) doing the rebuilding the zh fairlane with a clevo 400m 4v heads injected whipple blown with aode 4 speed trans to a 9" ....... we'll get there eventually just remember don't be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark...Professionals built the Titanic! I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !! |
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Even the GT HO rear spring is different to the normal sedan rear spring not to mention shocks valving. |
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Charllywool the Bathurst XY rear end was not the same as factory.
I was going to ask Dicky boy what they truly did to the rear end of them XD leaf springs. The XE race cars do not have the same rear end as well as factory they even modified that a hell of a lot. Drive a AU ute on, not a bad leaf sprung rear setup in the XR6-8 not to mention I think 4 different types are all good setups for what they are. they got the geometry sorted much better you know. but hey ignorance is bliss. So what I am pointing out is that not all leaf sprung cars are the same at all, like most claim such to be, it's like oh leaf springs are @%&! well that's not a fact. a good setup leaf can be way better than most think. I could modify a XY Falcons rear leaf springs setup and if you can truly drive you would be amazed at how much better it is than the stock rubbish. |
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Saw a Camira wagon today. Faded red.
Cant remember the last time ive seen a Camira, especially a wagon. "The Holden Camira is a mid-size car which was produced by Holden between 1982 and 1989. It was Holden's version of GM's J-body family of cars—GM's third "global" car platform. The name "Camira" comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "wind." After an initial good sales run, Camira sales dropped significantly and the model was discontinued in 1989. The Holden Apollo, a rebadged Toyota Camry was introduced as the Australian market replacement, with New Zealand instead offering the European-sourced Opel Vectra. In all 151,807 Camiras were built (85,725 JBs; 36,953 JDs; and 29,129 JEs)" |
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Chev Biscayne, 1965-66, 4 door sedan, right hand drive, personalised plates, lady driver who was possibly old enough to be the original owner. (There couldn't have been too many of these around back in the sixties.)
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A 1965-66 Biscayne would be a private import & very rare in Aust.. By 1965-66 the Biscayne was basically the 'Belmont' of the range. The only ones that I've seen in real life were military vehicles used for officer transport. They were painted Army green all over. Dr Terry |
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Correct me if I am wrong but XE was the first all coil sprung Falcon sedan and the leaf springs were only used on utes, panel vans and wagons, and the sedan I had certainly had them.
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You can't be serious? Falcon taxis are everywhere in Melbourne. I'd say somewhere between 15-20% of taxis would still be Falcons these days.
Cars you don't see many of - 1950s classics! Very few here in Australia, whereas if anyone has ever been to America, they're everywhere. Every other house in the US seems to have some classic car sitting in the driveway or garage. I'm not sure why this is - maybe the Americans are just more car obsessed. Or the fact that 1950s cars were plentiful in America back in the day, and there were so many good models. Here in Australia, cars were relatively scarce still in the 50s, and we had very few models worthy of collection. Last edited by MrZ; 11-12-2020 at 09:17 AM. |
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And XE to AU are very similar, other than the width of the lower arms changing where the bush is, and some variations in the top arms, the pickup points all seem to be in the same place? and are even there in the AU IRS cars, ford just left out the bolt sleeve for the top arm bolt in the IRS cars, wouldve saved them a few cents per car, but the chassis rails are the same. |
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![]() The old holdens and fords, so many just rusted away on farms, or got scrapped in cities. In the US, the 57 chevy for one was always popular in different forms of racing so although many got demolished by accident (and sometimes on purpose) , im not sure they were ever undesireable. Heck they now make the bodyshells new, you can build one from scratch having no original parts. Everywhere in this world has become somewhat of a throw away society, but I think there are/were more hoarders in the US, people who couldnt bring themselves to throw cars and parts away. Last edited by lumen8; 11-12-2020 at 10:00 AM. |
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I thought id replied earlier but I mustve lost the post
![]() He was a farmer who was collecting chevys and pontiac cars and trucks for decades, buying whatever he could on the cheap when nobody else wanted them. I went and saw his place once in the late 80s as a kid. By then people started knowing about it, it had been mentioned in magazines, and whatever he had in 55-57 was flying out the farm gate by then. Norm didnt care for the shoebox chevys and said so, he liked the big 67s and 68s and if I remember right had 2 or 3 of those in as new condition that were garaged. All of them were the Australian assembled ones, so no 2 doors or anything exotic. 4 door post cars mostly, if not all of them. Apparently when he passed, whatever was left there got scrapped. |
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It is my mission to get this on the road in 2021! I've just been very lazy.
I rescued this old duck before anyone else could buy it, it was too tidy to see it be run into the ground by a P plater. 64k on the clock. Once one of Ford Australia's best selling vehicles, put together by Australians in Sydney's Homebush plant. A cheap piece of Australian automotive history, slowly creeping up in price, but it isn't about money, its about showing what wind up windows were and no power steering. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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But it did amaze me how long these Australian examples kept running carby E5 engines when the E5F was available in japan with EFI. to put in perspective My jap import AE86 was the same year and had the 4AGE Toyota Australia was selling sprinters with the same chassis also with carby engines?
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We didn’t make it to White Cliffs, we were a couple of hours out and we got stuck in a flood way, bogged to the doors. Had to wait a few hours before a LandCruiser came through and pulled us out. The Laser took everything we could throw at it and then some (except the last floodway)! |
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