Cars you don't see many of anymore - Page 20

mondeomatureguy · 13-01-2022, 03:08 PM

Hi Guy's
A few years ago my wife and i drove up to the Sutherland Shire to see the in law's . We stayed there for a few hour's and then left to go home.
We decided to go to a Chinese Restaurant in Sutherland so my wife wouldn't have to cook dinner when she got home.

As i was parking the car i saw XB GS Falcon 351 it was blue with a orange strip down the side of it and the owner was inside reading the news paper.
We had a chat and he told me " he couldn't afford to buy a GT or a GTHO so he brought this".

He had it for around 8 years and brought it from an old cpl because the old bloke couldn't drive any more. What a lovely car it was T-Bar Auto, 351 engine, dual exhausts etc.

I was so taken by this car and talking to the owner that i forgot my wife was waiting for me at the restaurant until my phone rang, " where are you she said its been over twenty minutes".

I got to the Restaurant and said to her " ive just seen the most beautiful XB Falcon with a GS Rally Pack ive seen in a long long time.

My wife's reply was "not another car you have fallen in love with" !

ford71V8 · 13-01-2022, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mondeomatureguy

Hi Guy's
A few years ago my wife and i drove up to the Sutherland Shire to see the in law's . We stayed there for a few hour's and then left to go home.
We decided to go to a Chinese Restaurant in Sutherland so my wife wouldn't have to cook dinner when she got home.

As i was parking the car i saw XB GS Falcon 351 it was blue with a orange strip down the side of it and the owner was inside reading the news paper.
We had a chat and he told me " he couldn't afford to buy a GT or a GTHO so he brought this".

He had it for around 8 years and brought it from an old cpl because the old bloke couldn't drive any more. What a lovely car it was T-Bar Auto, 351 engine, dual exhausts etc.

I was so taken by this car and talking to the owner that i forgot my wife was waiting for me at the restaurant until my phone rang, " where are you she said its been over twenty minutes".

I got to the Restaurant and said to her " ive just seen the most beautiful XB Falcon with a GS Rally Pack ive seen in a long long time.

My wife's reply was "not another car you have fallen in love with" !

She understands

XFISH98 · 13-01-2022, 06:00 PM

DATSUN 120Y. These were a dime a dozen in the late to early 90's in QLD. These were our 'learn to drive' cars.....problem is we kept running them off a road and into a tree. $500 later, we'd have another one.....

anobserver · 13-01-2022, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by XFISH98

DATSUN 120Y. These were a dime a dozen in the late to early 90's in QLD. These were our 'learn to drive' cars.....problem is we kept running them off a road and into a tree. $500 later, we'd have another one.....

Absolutely. I took lessons in a little datsun stanza, the four door sedan. And i cant remember the last time i saw one of those.

jgmdat · 13-01-2022, 07:58 PM

Saw a Toyota Stout ute today, can't remember the last time I saw one.

roKWiz · 14-01-2022, 08:16 AM

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DATSUN 120Y. These were a dime a dozen in the late to early 90's in QLD. .

They were a popular 70s car, maybe early to mid 80s would be more like it.

.:4:. · 14-01-2022, 10:54 AM

My next door neighbors good friend is a big morris guy. He buys morris minors from all over the place restores them and sells them. He has 3 that he wont sell. A concourse 850. A concourse 1000 and his 'hot rod'. Thats a 1950 minor that has a mint body and interior. The only interior modification is seatbelts. It has a 1275 out of a morris marina and a celica 5 speed. Thats the only one he properly drives as it can actually do 110kmh on the freeway. His other 2 do drive, but his words are they cannot keep up with traffic, so he trailers them to classic car shows. He has won a few awards. Last time i spoke to him he had 5 other minors in various states of restoration.

**DFB FGXR6** · 14-01-2022, 06:55 PM

Spotted a Maserati 4200 / Grandsport on the way home tonight. Not that they were especially common in the first place, but are pretty rare sightings in sleepy rural towns.

Sioso · 15-01-2022, 12:23 PM

I saw an immaculate XC station wagon the other day an can't recall the last time I have seen one on the road, it would have been many years ago.

LG17 · 15-01-2022, 01:35 PM

Haven't seen a VW 1500 sedan for donkey's years.
They were a really good car to do up back in the day and they would get up and boogie!

**Fordman1** · 15-01-2022, 02:21 PM

Mk II Escort

Especially any that was anything close to sport or RS badged

God I’d love to buy a nice RS1800, from the UK, but I’d get divorced

Franco Cozzo · 15-01-2022, 02:30 PM

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God I’d love to buy a nice RS1800, from the UK, but I’d get divorced

Hidden cost of car enthusiasm, the car is the cheap part

kevino · 15-01-2022, 03:54 PM

Just saw an immaculate XB wagon with god bothering signages rear and front being driven sedately by a middle aged woman.
Havent seen an XB for yonks.

ThaFlash · 15-01-2022, 08:59 PM

roKWiz · 16-01-2022, 01:27 PM

Haven't seen the wedged shaped Subaru Vortex for a while. Anyone here own one.

**mad2** · 16-01-2022, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by XFISH98

DATSUN 120Y. These were a dime a dozen in the late to early 90's in QLD. These were our 'learn to drive' cars.....problem is we kept running them off a road and into a tree. $500 later, we'd have another one.....

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Originally Posted by anobserver

Absolutely. I took lessons in a little datsun stanza, the four door sedan. And i cant remember the last time i saw one of those.

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Originally Posted by roKWiz

They were a popular 70s car, maybe early to mid 80s would be more like it.

mum had a datto 1600 manual

used to pickup my sister from her work [kmart belmont] but i would go via town

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Originally Posted by .:4:.

My next door neighbors good friend is a big morris guy. He buys morris minors from all over the place restores them and sells them. He has 3 that he wont sell. A concourse 850. A concourse 1000 and his 'hot rod'. Thats a 1950 minor that has a mint body and interior. The only interior modification is seatbelts. It has a 1275 out of a morris marina and a celica 5 speed. Thats the only one he properly drives as it can actually do 110kmh on the freeway. His other 2 do drive, but his words are they cannot keep up with traffic, so he trailers them to classic car shows. He has won a few awards. Last time i spoke to him he had 5 other minors in various states of restoration.

mum many many years ago had the ute version that grandpa bought her. see it in a lot of family pics, but i only remember it parked down the back behind the garage looking lost & forlorn

jaydee · 16-01-2022, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by roKWiz

Haven't seen the wedged shaped Subaru Vortex for a while. Anyone here own one.

Thank God. Imagine if one rear ended you, it would go all the way to the front wheels I reckon.

roKWiz · 16-01-2022, 03:02 PM

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mum had a datto 1600 manual

used to pickup my sister from her work [kmart belmont] but i would go via town

Like the 120Y my brother had a 180B which all had the same swept up rear door windows. I can remember the amount of Datsuns (and 70s Fords) with damaged rear quarters and bumpers from reverse parking accidents was amazing.

roKWiz · 16-01-2022, 03:03 PM

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Thank God. Imagine if one rear ended you, it would go all the way to the front wheels I reckon.

Elons Cybercar.

**DJR-351** · 16-01-2022, 07:32 PM

Don't see many of these around anymore, nor the Pies for that matter...

ford71V8 · 16-01-2022, 08:01 PM

Crossed paths with a Smokey and the Bandit TransAm yesterday. Don't see them often, but this one was in an electric type blue instead of the black wìth gold. It was coming towards me so couldn't quite confirm what colour the stickers were.

hayseed · 17-01-2022, 12:14 AM

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Don't see many of these around anymore,

Thank Christ for That..
They were the epitome of P.O.S. at least those ones are 6 cylinder.
I went to & from School in a V4 powered (For want of a better word) version for 7 Yrs except when It was broken down (which was more often than Not)

Underpowered, underbraked, Hot in Summer, freezing in Winter.....

Franco Cozzo · 17-01-2022, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by hayseed

Thank Christ for That..
They were the epitome of P.O.S. at least those ones are 6 cylinder.
I went to & from School in a V4 powered (For want of a better word) version for 7 Yrs except when It was broken down (which was more often than Not)

Underpowered, underbraked, Hot in Summer, freezing in Winter.....

Are they Ford Transit?

They've been ****boxes all the way through except for the current model, remember that early 00s one with the push button automated manual box - who was the moron who thought that was a good idea compared to a torque converter auto in a commercial vehicle

**DJR-351** · 17-01-2022, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Are they Ford Transit?

They've been ****boxes all the way through except for the current model, remember that early 00s one with the push button automated manual box - who was the moron who thought that was a good idea compared to a torque converter auto in a commercial vehicle

Definitely Ford Transit, my brother had one as a young self-employed courier driver.....when he wasn't driving it he was fixing it, kept him busy but he loved the sliding doors, a godsend to the courier driver he reckoned.....

Tonz · 17-01-2022, 09:25 AM

Trannies

4 cyl ones would die at traffic lights due to fuel bowl on top of exhaust manifold.. was all right in UK I guess. We rigged up a 10mm hose that went from passenger seat to fuel bowl, come to traffic lights, the passenger then started squeezing big water bottle and pushing water it worked well.

Sales manager of Stillwell Ford Trucks in Adelaide blew the engine guts apart. I had driven this gutless box from Melbourne to swap over to a 6 cyl. He...'geez havent driven one of those for years, wheres the keys mate" hops in, starts it up bamo bits all over the place.

We also had an old bakalite home phone would sit between front seats with a ring tone on a cassette player, up to traffic lights, phone would ring, answer it and conversation went...
'hello.....'
(look out the sliding door) 'yeah hes beside me, yeah hang on' ...
(lean out to driver beside you... 'phone for you says its important'.. hopefully by that time lights had changed.

Girls loved riding shotgun with the sliding doors open, wind blowing their dresses all over the place.

geez those were the days.

roKWiz · 17-01-2022, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DJR-351

Don't see many of these around anymore, nor the Pies for that matter...

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Yeah they were crap. First motorhome was a 1970 LWB duallie Transit. 250 six pack 4 speed went like the clappers (so did the fuel) , wasn't so keen on stopping going down mountains.
Had our neighbour who painted houses, brush paint it.
Gearstick would drop out of 4th if you let the foot off the go pedal. RIP, POS.