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&*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:30 pm
by EKfanPaul
This was my 1957 &*#@ Cusso I owned in 87 - 90 . A great, tough, reliable car.
Cheers
Paul K
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:38 pm
by Devilrod
My current non GMH ride...
I also had a ZD fairlane, couch on wheels awesome ride.
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:01 am
by (AUST)Mod
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:11 pm
by Harv
Had a Telstar once

that ate more oil than the FB

.
Some idiot pulling helis in the culdesac on an Anzac day afternoon sideswiped it and did a runner.

Probably karma for my choice of vehicles

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:22 pm
by Cal
Had a real nice XD Fairmont Ghia ESP. Factory 351 with 4 speed.
Sold it for peanuts

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:30 pm
by EKfanPaul
Lovely cars Guys. I'm not such a brand snob. As look as it looks cool & goes well, I'm happy although as an EK sedan was my first car I have a romantic attraction to them. I'd love a 50 Single Spnner - If I could find a good rust free one.
Cheers
Paul
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:27 pm
by Oldnblue
XP sedan, run off the road, smashed and now sitting sadly in the garage waiting for a chance to offer its parts to a future build.
I could care less about badges. Quite simply, I like design (cars and beyond) from early to late-mid century. Be like saying I only dig the colour purple if I restricted myself to one manufacturer...and that just ain't gonna happen.

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:34 pm
by wot179
I ran around in this for a couple of years...

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:38 pm
by bootlegger
Ive had a couple of Fords and hated them all. My first one was a XE Falcon S Pac wagon on straight gas. Its was always breaking down so I got rid of it.
Then I bought a Stock matching numbers 33 &*#@ sedan that had been sitting in a shed for 30 years at Annangrove. I paid $5000 for it and had it driving that afternoon. I did a full resto on it. It was fine as long as it wasnt a hot day or in traffic.
I got over it pretty quick and sold it.
A couple of years ago I bought an EL falcon wagon on duel fuel. In that time I have replaced two engines and gearboxes. Three radiators. 2 Alternators , steering rack and a powersteering pump.
Two weeks ago I drove to Nerranderra towing one of my boats when the front wheel bearing collapsed just before Golbourn.
Amazingly the spare wheel bearings I carry for the trailer fitted the front hub so I was only stuck on the side of the road for about an hour.
My three year old daughter has been indoctrinated to always add the word Junk after first saying &*#@.
Last week I sold my fathers XH Falcon Panel van. He too has a list a mile long of what went wrong with it.
Tommorrow someone is coming over hopefully to buy my wagon. Its actually a pretty good car now but Im totally over it.
I will never own a &*#@ again. &*#@ Junk &*#@ Junk &*#@ Junk

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:09 pm
by Mick
bootlegger wrote:Ive had a couple of Fords and hated them all. My first one was a XE Falcon S Pac wagon on straight gas. Its was always breaking down so I got rid of it.
Then I bought a Stock matching numbers 33 &*#@ sedan that had been sitting in a shed for 30 years at Annangrove. I paid $5000 for it and had it driving that afternoon. I did a full resto on it. It was fine as long as it wasnt a hot day or in traffic.
I got over it pretty quick and sold it.
A couple of years ago I bought an EL falcon wagon on duel fuel. In that time I have replaced two engines and gearboxes. Three radiators. 2 Alternators , steering rack and a powersteering pump.
Two weeks ago I drove to Nerranderra towing one of my boats when the front wheel bearing collapsed just before Golbourn.
Amazingly the spare wheel bearings I carry for the trailer fitted the front hub so I was only stuck on the side of the road for about an hour.
My three year old daughter has been indoctrinated to always add the word Junk after first saying &*#@.
Last week I sold my fathers XH Falcon Panel van. He too has a list a mile long of what went wrong with it.
Tommorrow someone is coming over hopefully to buy my wagon. Its actually a pretty good car now but Im totally over it.
I will never own a &*#@ again. &*#@ Junk &*#@ Junk &*#@ Junk

they're not even good for padock bashers

XP falcon less than an hour and we had to walk home

EK 3 days and it only died after we bogged it up to the sills punched a hole in the sump cut the radiator hoses and jammed a rock on the accelerator
i did have an A model it was ok but it had a chev in it
I BLEED RED THROUGH AND THROUGH

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:52 am
by Stygian
When I lived in North Carolina, I owned this 2001 &*#@ Mustang. It was a brilliant car and only a couple of minor things went wrong. The oxygen sensor needed replacing after a drive to Washington, D.C. The driver's door window needed fixing.
Sold it to a young kid from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who wanted a black manual Mustang as his first car. Part of me wishes that I brought it back to Australia, as I owned it long enough for me to bring it in as a personal belonging, not as importing a car. But I thought the AUD$24,000 to get it converted to RHD and ADR complied was too much. Still, it would have made for an awesome daily. I guess I just have to settle for the memories of cruising along Interstate 40 on my way to Wrightsville Beach, Metallica in the CD player, and on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachian Mountains on the North Carolina - Tennesse boarder (just beautiful there)...
Here's a shot of it as Kure Beach, North Carolina.

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:15 pm
by Sunny Rob
This is my current project. Whenever I get to doing it.
46 FQRD dosent look like this at the moment as the bodys off the chassis.
Hopefully be a sweet 40's style custom one day. Flatty powered with 4 speed auto.

Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:11 pm
by shmeagain
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:47 pm
by EKfanPaul
46 &*#@ Coupe - a lovely car. It looks great stock. Those flatheads sound great with a set of Glasspack exhausts!
Re: &*#@ cars You owned & admit to!
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:06 pm
by kiid61
I had this tank for a while not so long ago, was stracks of fun and in immacualte condition too! ended up trading it for something else.. Great car. Ugly as sin though
