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Post by Gavin Conroy on Nov 11, 2007 17:49:38 GMT 12
Here is a photo of my GT Falcon and my wifes new Holden Viva. Nice little car, goes well and there is a bit of scrapping in the garage at night since we got the Viva a few days ago but its all good.   |
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Post by turboNZ on Nov 11, 2007 20:50:35 GMT 12
Nice pic. Funny though, whenever I think of Viva I get this pic in my head...  ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Nov 12, 2007 6:09:05 GMT 12
Same here, a friend of mine has a real Viva so we will get a photo of both of them some time. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 12, 2007 10:19:25 GMT 12
Viva La Ford!!
Actually I prefer real cars to Holdens and Fords... Aston Martins and the like. Not that I drive...
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 12, 2007 10:56:22 GMT 12
My family had a Vauxhall Viva that looked like this (except white with a black vinyl roof; whoever thought of vinyl for a roof covering needs to be shot) when I was a little one. It shook itself to pieces one year when we went to the Coromandel for a holiday, the roads were gravel back then. The first thing to fall off was the rear view mirror, followed by the driver's window. ;D  When I arrived in the world the wagon was a Morris 1000 like this. Sheer luxury, it even had a crank handle!  Me, I'm a Holden man. I've owned a Ford, and to be honest it was always letting me down. My Holden got nicked. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 12, 2007 12:24:32 GMT 12
Mum and Dad owned three consequtive Holden Kingswoods over the years, and no-one in the family has had a Ford, so I guess at a push I'm a Holden man.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 12, 2007 21:13:35 GMT 12
The one-and-only Holden I ever (briefly) owned was a Torana GTR XU-1. Suspension so harsh it would shake your teeth out. Huge fuel tank in the boot - in the days of petrol at 30 cents a litre I could easily blow a hundred bucks in filling it up!  |
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Post by lumpy on Nov 12, 2007 22:35:09 GMT 12
Have had a personal tour of the Ford manafacturing plant in Geelong ( courtsey of Bro who has has worked there for 20 years ) . VERY eye opening ( some of the LARGE presses that stamp out panels are over 50 yrs old , just with new dies ( they could still stamp you out a mk 1 or 2 of most models - IF you could afford the re -tooling . Still a bit of new tech when needed . Put a vote for Ford in for me ( sorry , never had any pictures of my mk 2 cortina ) . :-)
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Post by yak2 on Nov 12, 2007 23:04:12 GMT 12
As a young bloke working for a GM dealership in 1969, I bought a near new mint condition 327 GTS Monaro for $2600. Like the XU-1, it was a Bathurst racing model, and had a 26 gallon fuel tank. Fuel was a little cheaper then, but it still kept me poor. Should have kept it, as a restored 350 GTS went for $230,000 at auction in Sydney last week. Why did I sell it? To purchase my first plane, a 1957 Piper Tri Pacer. That cost $3700, proved rather more costly to run, but was a lot more fun.
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