I thought the Commodore was a Vauxhall.
I thought the Commodore was a Vauxhall.
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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.
Bit more history there than an Oz Holden....
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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;
Couple of us purchased a pale blue HK Holden years ago as a summer cruiser. Similar to this one:Originally Posted by cyrille
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.
Couple of Thai examples that randomly popped up:
Sex on wheels that! Personally prefer the A9X variant though
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"
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.
MERDE
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?
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.
Imagine if they'd gone ahead with the XU2 project: the same engine in an even smaller car!Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles
^^ people dropped V8s in them themselves as they fitted after the engine mounts were changed.
^^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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