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Old 04-04-2009, 04:02 PM   #1
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Default Unique Cars ad from 1990

Sounds like a bargain...now.



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Old 04-04-2009, 04:08 PM   #2
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Stop it mate

This is torture.

No more posts like this please
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Old 04-04-2009, 04:13 PM   #3
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Alot of money back then and remember there was a ressesion back then, the one our prime minister said we have to have
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Old 04-04-2009, 04:14 PM   #4
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Oh a mate at work bought in a old UC mag..... I almsot cried over Lunch.. GTHO's, Cobras, Landou's, RPO83's, then on the flip side it was funny seeing a VT Clubsport for 60 Odd grand ahhaha

Doesnt it make ya jsut wanan go back in time, get a lona for a million bucks, and buy up all these Wonders! Copme back to the future, sell half of them, then youve still got 10 of the things laying around as well as a few million in the bank!
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Old 04-04-2009, 04:52 PM   #5
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Old 04-04-2009, 04:56 PM   #6
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About the same time my dad was trying to decide between an XF Spack and an XB GT.
He bought the XF...lone gone and long forgotten about.
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Old 04-04-2009, 06:10 PM   #7
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yeah my old man bought an xf round the same time long gone too
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Old 04-04-2009, 06:57 PM   #8
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Can't even get a replica for those prices!
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Old 04-04-2009, 07:15 PM   #9
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How nice is the red XW with black vinyl roof? That would've fetched 150k 2 years ago, about 85k today.
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Old 04-04-2009, 07:53 PM   #10
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XB was overpriced. I got my nice clean XB GT for $3000 in 2003!
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Old 06-04-2009, 11:50 AM   #11
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XB was overpriced. I got my nice clean XB GT for $3000 in 2003!
I doubt we'll ever see prices for GTs going as high as they did 2 years ago. Well not for a long time anyway.
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Old 06-04-2009, 12:27 PM   #12
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Crazy isn't it, they are all fine examples aswell.
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Old 06-04-2009, 12:40 PM   #13
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Oh my!!
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Old 06-04-2009, 01:02 PM   #14
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Old 06-04-2009, 01:53 PM   #15
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So if, in 1990 you bought a XY GTHO instead of a new EA lets see just how clever that would have been.

Do you drive it or stick it in the shed, after all you need a car to get about. If you drive it for only 200km a week then now it would have about 250,000km or more on it. You also have to register, maintain and insure it for 20 years.

If you did not drive it then it is a VERY expensive work of art that will keep you broke for many years and then if you ever want your money back you have to SELL it.

At $14000 you could buy about a quarter to a third of a house in 1990. I paid $61500 for a new house in 1989 in Hervey Bay. That made me a huge profit and saved me on rent.

Wages were a lot lower then than now and interest rates on car loans were over 20% and only available up to 4 or 5 years in 1990 so unless you were very rich you had no chance, i.e. a tradesman on full wages could not afford to pay off a $14,000 car in the same way most people cannot afford to pay off a W427 or Porsche.
Meanwhile you are paying rent or paying off a house, going to have kids in the future some time.

Looking at it today. How many of you can afford to buy a BA GT/T3/BA2 F6 that is in good nick for a mere $30/40k and just stick it in the shed and NEVER drive it at all so that 20 years from now it MIGHT be worth be worth some money?

Not many I suspect.......
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Old 06-04-2009, 02:05 PM   #16
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XB was overpriced. I got my nice clean XB GT for $3000 in 2003!

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Old 06-04-2009, 02:14 PM   #17
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1990? R U sure?

Man I can't believe it

I thought I got a bargain when in 1990 I bought a Z32 at auction 13 months old for 42k (new it was $82!)

Its worth about $7 now

And i liked the early Falcons

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Old 06-04-2009, 07:27 PM   #18
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To think I knocked back a 186s GTS Monaro In 1990 for 1000 dollars, all original but in need of a resto, can someone wind back daylight savings 19 years! lol
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Old 08-04-2009, 05:38 PM   #19
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To think I knocked back a 186s GTS Monaro In 1990 for 1000 dollars, all original but in need of a resto, can someone wind back daylight savings 19 years! lol
Same here..In the mid 80's I had an opportunity to buy a mint - except for a minor hit in the rear quarter - 186s of an old timer for $1250 but knocked it back.I still ram my head into a wall when I think back on it.
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Old 08-04-2009, 05:45 PM   #20
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i might give a couple of them a ring and ask if theyve still got it 4 sale ,
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Old 08-04-2009, 08:31 PM   #21
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To think I knocked back a 186s GTS Monaro In 1990 for 1000 dollars, all original but in need of a resto, can someone wind back daylight savings 19 years! lol

fiances mum picked up a HG GTS monaro with the 253 for $8k 12 years ago, stillhas only just got rego'd today
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Old 10-04-2009, 10:36 AM   #22
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I passed up a mako XA Superbird for $4000 in '98. :
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