Thread: Name That Car

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Anyhow back on topic,

some eye candy I saw in Ullapool waiting for the ferry to Stornaway

Yep a 1926 cannot cut and paste but all details are bottom of this linky

www.VintageBentleys.org :: [1926 Bentley] Registration No. YP 2999 / YF 15 :: Chassis No. DE1207 :: Engine No. DE1206

I think that one is a 1923 model. Though I might be mistaken, since there was a group of them travelling together.
I saw them again on the Isle of Lewis

nice to see those old cars battle scarred, patinated and in use, as opposed to mollycoddled, over restored and californiarised.

Originally Posted by taxexile

nice to see those old cars battle scarred, patinated and in use, as opposed to mollycoddled, over restored and californiarised.

yes, and I found this group quite affable and funny. Note the stuffed doggy on the trunk!

^ that border collie is not stuffed, it's a live hound.

heres a little beauty, its a concept car that never made production, but what is it ???

(if you want to cheat, the name is in the file name of the downloaded photo.)

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

and I found this group quite affable and funny.

They probably need a pretty good sense of humour to drive a hard-starting open roofed car around Ullapool.

Originally Posted by wasabi

that border collie is not stuffed

It might not have been stuffed when Earl arrived....

^^ Corvette prototype?

^
afraid not.

^ VH Valiant Pacer & Valiant Charger E49

*Ding* and *ding*.

Thought an Aussie would get it.

I had a VG Pacer and a 2 VH Chargers in the good old days.

Ignore the stretch

XE Ford Falcon.

ea falcon

^ yes, I'll change my answer to agree with you.

and bobo makes 3.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

I had a VG Pacer and a 2 VH Chargers in the good old days.

Know how much those are worth these days?

A lot!

^ yeah, I know, and they're getting hard to find too.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

yeah, I know, and they're getting hard to find too.

Had a convo about exactly that over Xmas with a bunch of mates. We all used to tool around in old Holdens, Fords and Valiants. Used and abused them and some of them would be worth a small fortune today. A couple even a large fortune.

The conclusion we arrived at is that it's a nice thought but we were all too young and dumb to have the foresight to keep them and even if we did too broke to be able to put them in storage and hang on to them while they appreciated.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Apparently a genuine GTHO will go for between $100,000 and $250,000 nowadays.

I think you're missing some zeros there mate, I've seen them advertised for 1mil+

There's an E49 R/T Charger in NZ that is one of one from the factory in a specific color (Arctic white I think??) and apparently the dude who owns it has turned down offers of up to 1.5 mil.

Nah ass has fallen outta em.. 500k will pick up a mint condition original GTHO.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Apparently a genuine GTHO will go for between $100,000 and $250,000 nowadays.

I think you're missing some zeros there mate, I've seen them advertised for 1mil+

There's an E49 R/T Charger in NZ that is one of one from the factory in a specific color (Arctic white I think??) and apparently the dude who owns it has turned down offers of up to 1.5 mil.

You know what really irks me.

In 1971 my dad decided to buy a new car. I tried to talk him into a Phase 3 GTHO but he wouldn't listen to me. He bought a Volvo 142S for about the same money ($4315) There would only have been about $300 difference between the two of them. What could have been.