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Originally posted by alchupanibre
nah they could have used something else instead then a monaro. i wasnt around in the 80s so i still dont get it, all seems crazy.
You still dont get it??????
Would you be so upset if this VR SS Commodore was chopped up like the Monaro? Its 16 yrs old now and there are plenty at the wreckers, its just an old SS that no one really wants or cares about and is the same age a HK Monaro would have been back in 84. In 25 yrs time your kids will be gob smacked that someone would chop up a classic VR SS....
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1...an_W0QQitemZ300325254317Would you be upset if someone bought this VT SS and then stripped it to put the dash, interior and running gear into their VR V6 ute? Nah, its just an 11 yr old Holden.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/V...an_W0QQitemZ160345609937In 84 a mate and I picked up a baby poo yellow HK GTS 327 for $1200 in average condition, crappy colour and had the poxy GTS dash with no tacho and no flutes in the bonnet. We drove it back from the sellers house to my parents shed and stripped it of the parts we wanted for his HK ute, the unwanted body and bits were dumped at the side of the shed. A bit later I found a great condition metallic blue HT GTS 350 for $1500, one owner and all books. This was stripped and the parts used in my HG p/van build up and its body went next to the HK at the side of the shed.
My mate wanted a GTS bonnet and HT,G GTS dash for his HK ute but the local wreckers wanted $200 for a dash and $250 for a good bonnet. We found a nice condition bronze HG GTS 350 for $1800 and cut the dash panel out of it to fit into the ute along with the bonnet, the engine, 4sp and diff were sold to a guy for $1500, the seats, console and GTS guards were sold to another mate for $500 for his HG Premier and we now had 3 wrecks at the side of the shed.
A few months later all 3 bodies were dragged down to a creek that ran through the middle of my parents 10 acre property and filled with rocks and junk to partly dam up the creek... as far as I know they are still there.
During the rest of the 80s the mate and I would buy every HQ,J,X GTS we could find for around $1000 (preferably 308 4 sp) and would make around $500 stripping them and selling off the parts. What was left was dumped at the local tip. Sandman vans were also very cheap as the van craze was over, HQ,J particularly as you would get an extra $200-$300 for the GTS guards, we also cut down a few and converted them to utes as we could make around 2 grand on them.
One of my cars I wish I had kept was a 76 model VK 770 Charger I bought off a girlfriends father in 83 for $1100, it was a mint condition 770 one owner car with all books and came with air, vinyl slide away sunroof, 318 Fireball V8, 727 auto and hotwire mags. I had a lot of fun in that car and it drove and handled far better than a Holden, I sold it in 85 to another girlfriends brother for $1800.
Ahh the 80s, back when picking through the rows of H series Holdens at Park Ridge or Kingston wreckers on a Saturday (
sneaking extra parts out in your pockets and toolbox) and christening your latest car at the drive in on a Friday or Saturday night was the norm......
