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    I thought the Commodore was a Vauxhall.

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    How Holden is a symbol of a precarious economy.

    Holden is now a symbol of an increasingly precarious economy for workers | Royce Kurmelovs | Opinion | The Guardian

    My Holden memory is of 'the green machine' that a mate in Coogee owned. We drove down from Surrey Hills to Melbourne to sell it, stopping off overnight at a mate's place in Mollymook. Well, he drove. He'd been previously unaware that adult males who couldn't drive existed.

    The respray job that had been done on it was shit, which didn't bother the buyer in a deal that was settled in about 40 seconds.

    Good trip, that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Oh sweet baby jesus... that makes me want to scrub my eyes with bleach!
    Bit more history there than an Oz Holden....

    Opel - Wikipedia

    Howzabout the '38-70 Kapitan;








    Or the little 68-73 GT;


    They made some handsome cars back in the day, just, as Vauxhall, and i'm sure Holden did.

    Vauxhall straight 6 Cresta PA;



    a later PC;

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille
    The respray job that had been done on it was shit, which didn't bother the buyer in a deal that was settled in about 40 seconds.
    Couple of us purchased a pale blue HK Holden years ago as a summer cruiser. Similar to this one:



    The first 'mods' we did to it were to cut the springs and bump-stops to lower it and then painted it matte-black with spray cans. Also for reasons that escape me right now I installed a siren in it -- not a car alarm, just a siren.

    From a distance of about 10ft it looked cool as fuck. Good times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post

    Or the little 68-73 GT;

    That GT looks a tasty little number!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    HK GTS Monaro:
    In Sydney you'd have to have been Greek or Italian to own one . . . preferably in green or orang - - with the obligatory furry dice hanging dow the rear vision mirror . . . Eh, George/Mario

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    In Sydney you'd have to have been Greek or Italian to own one . . .
    ...and have a spare couple hundred thousand dollars lying around from your successful fruit store or restaurant.

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    Couple of Thai examples that randomly popped up:


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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    And last but not least, the car plenty of my generation grew up in the venerable HQ:



    Our family car was that same exact color (but the station wagon variant)
    My first car was a 1972 HQ Monaro and it was the 1st of 3 HQs that I owned in the late 1980s/early 90s.

    Besides the Monaro I owned a `71 sedan and a `74 Premiere station wagon. All good cars - the Monaro would be worth a small fortune now.

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    L34 spec SLR 5000. Even as a Ford man, I have to tip my hat at these masterpieces.

    General Motors is retreating from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand-20200218_130836-jpg
    Edit to add, ^ she's for sale at AUD $650k.
    Last edited by Headworx; 18-02-2020 at 01:17 PM.

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    Sex on wheels that! Personally prefer the A9X variant though

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Couple of Thai examples that randomly popped up:
    Same soi, same cars, just photoshopped the colour?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Same soi, same cars, just photoshopped the colour?
    I don't think so (registration plates are different) but could be the same owner

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    ...and have a spare couple hundred thousand dollars lying around from your successful fruit store or restaurant.
    All legit business, maite!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    Opel is a big fooking joke here in Europe,
    A point I agree with you.

    My first Opel was just great. So I bought a second one. It never really worked and I pestered them for 2 years about it. Then an Opel mechanic told me it will never work, it can't. At least not with Opel parts. I should go to a component shop and make my own spark cable from spare parts. Then it will work. Only problem it would not comply with radio interference rules. I made my cables and it did work. But that's not acceptable.
    A long time later I bought one again and it was worse, much worse. So much worse that when I was asked in an Opel opinion poll, I said I hope Opel will go bust.
    "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post

    Opel is a big fooking joke here in Europe,
    Thats why GM arseholed them to Peugot a few years ago, along with Vauxhall.

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    I have an Opel parked outside. She has done 335000; asked for a new generator a couple of years ago, and thats it.

    As a good german girl, she follows orders, and takes me from A to B.

    Had 2 Citroins and 2 Renaults.

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    Well, it's only fair to point out that GM Holden was no bastion of reliability. There were good, and not so good models, some stinkers. This punter never got misty eyed about the damn things- the Jap cars have basically been more reliable for years, and more fuel efficient.
    The reason GM exited is really quite simple- they were consistently losing market share, to the point it became an also ran in the aussie market. Inevitably there are some moaners here (600 aussie jobs at risk!)- and to them I can only say, so why didn't you buy them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Well, it's only fair to point out that GM Holden was no bastion of reliability. There were good, and not so good models, some stinkers. This punter never got misty eyed about the damn things- the Jap cars have basically been more reliable for years, and more fuel efficient.
    The reason GM exited is really quite simple- they were consistently losing market share, to the point it became an also ran in the aussie market. Inevitably there are some moaners here (600 aussie jobs at risk!)- and to them I can only say, so why didn't you buy them?
    Be nice if it was only 600 jobs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    L34 spec SLR 5000. Even as a Ford man, I have to tip my hat at these masterpieces.

    General Motors is retreating from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand-20200218_130836-jpg
    Edit to add, ^ she's for sale at AUD $650k.
    I remember when they were king of the mountain at Bathurst.

    This V8 smaller car was brought out in the mid-late 70's - the same time that America was producing V8 cars 3 times the size - even the muscle cars in America were much bigger. The little Torana looked like a Japanese car, but went like a rocket.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles
    The little Torana looked like a Japanese car, but went like a rocket.
    Imagine if they'd gone ahead with the XU2 project: the same engine in an even smaller car!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Imagine if they'd gone ahead with the XU2 project: the same engine in an even smaller car!
    Driven a few V8 LJ torana's.... they dont drive all that nice.

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    ^^ people dropped V8s in them themselves as they fitted after the engine mounts were changed.










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    ^^I'd imagine that was part of the decision not to, even the sixes weren't the world's best handling cars, although maybe it could've been overcome with some more development and engineering.

    All moot anyways because they didn't obviously but I love the idea and all the 'what ifs...' and oddities in the car world.

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