The $500,000-valued Phase III GT-HO Falcon was passed in at auction

[HO 3]

Originally Posted by FairmontGS

Not at all. I'm saying its not a muscle car by global definitions - it's a sports sedan. Nothing limp about a P3.

I prefer Supercar....................the term it was referred to back in the day.


Cheers Mick

[snopony]

He he my boy has no choice. Lives in Bafurst n mum does the school run in the Xb.

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Stefan

HAHAHAHAHA Enlighten me....

Counting dog houses.

???What are you on???

Moved into my first house 1991, paid it off by 2000, as well as bought investment property, then build 50 square 5 bedroom home in Sydney with three car garage and workshop (I think you were living at home then), now building my next house on 3 acres near the beach slightly bigger than the last.

Nearly finished now last valuation a lot more than a Phase 3

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by snopony

He he my boy has no choice. Lives in Bafurst n mum does the school run in the Xb.

That's the way to go.

Funny thing is my daughter seems to have more interest in my XB's than my son, will see how he goes when he gets older, he is only 10, and his main interest is riding dirt bikes.

They may reverse their roles a bit later on.

[snopony]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

That's the way to go.

Funny thing is my daughter seems to have more interest in my XB's than my son, will see how he goes when he gets older, he is only 10, and his main interest is riding dirt bikes.

They may reverse their roles a bit later on.

He's only 11. But as I was saying before, it's a generational exposure thing- he's not absolutely a car nut, but does appreciate the sound of an old clevo, the feeling of getting thrown back in the seat at the change of a gear and knows the difference in the year models. Example, a schoolmate said gee your mums got a nice mustang - he corrected him. The kid kept arguing so I explained that he prob thought that as the nostrils are very similar and that's the difference of being brought up around them as opposed to seeing something similar in a magazine. So now he just smiles at his classmate if he keeps on at it. I wonder if the other kid tho grows up to buy a mustang from his schoolyard memories LOL

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

???What are you on???

Moved into my first house 1991, paid it off by 2000, as well as bought investment property, then build 50 square 5 bedroom home in Sydney with three car garage and workshop (I think you were living at home then), now building my next house on 3 acres near the beach slightly bigger than the last.

Nearly finished now last valuation a lot more than a Phase 3

I know I'm dumb but I count that you built one and now building the second not four, and now you own no complete habitable house. Not that it matters

But, what does this have to do with the thread? As I started earlier I know when you want to argue as you post irrelevant shi!t, going in circles and start exaggerating.

Also, did you buy another block of land near a beach? Well done, never knew that, after all that effort of building that big shed on the block of land you had that is half an hour drive from the beach? Wheres the new one?

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by lgpking22

nothing naive or arrogant about it its just my opinion most people 30 or under have no clue or care about these cars the bathurst heritage is long since dead even v8 super cars is dying in the ****. With the death of local made fords even those will start to fade as they will become just another car maker.

I agree, IDGAF about 1970s cars, especially X series Falcons and I'm Gen Y.

I'm a fanboy for some of the E series (EB GT/ED XR8 Sprint) , the AU (in particular T series) and FG (XR6T/F6), then the Euro Fords like the XR5T/RS and the Fiesta ST.

V8s don't really do it for me, yes I did list some V8 Falcons but thats about it, I'm more of a Euro/Jap fanboy, high tech, variable valve timing, high RPM or forced induction is my thing.

Lets say I won the $20M Tattslotto draw, I still wouldn't spend $500K on an XY Falcon, $500K buys you a nice Lamborghini/Ferrari, not some 4 door sedan whose claim to fame was being fastest around a mountain 45 years ago.

[GT0132]

Originally Posted by Stefan

You can't compare figures like you are.

In 1990 a decent HO would have been $50K+, a house in Sydney depending on suburb 100k, so 50K was a bucket load of cash. No Ho for 10K in 1990, no point pulling number out of your ar$e for an nonsensical argument.

Sorry Stef, wasn't meaning to downplay the 1990 values mate. I was simply using that $10k number to illustrate that values were much lower then compared to what they were in 07.

Then again I wasn't far off the mark at least 50 is closer to 10 than it is to 750 hey.

On your comment that people generally have no interest in what they can't afford . Not sure about that. I have a keen interest in commercial aircraft but theres no way in hell I could afford to shell out half a billion to buy an A380 ...lol. It's all about prioritising and where a P3 comes in the pecking order of things one desires or whether one is prepared to pay good coin to acquire one. I'd have a guess and say there's plenty on the forums who could raise enough cash to buy one or two, but it would mean having to sell other assets to raise the cash to do it . Most wouldn't want to do that.

Guy I work with has a red wine collection in his cellar worth as much as 3 P3's and couldn't care less for Aussie classic cars. I don't get that one either but each to his own.

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Stefan

I know I'm dumb but I count that you built one and now building the second not four, and now you own no complete habitable house. Not that it matters

But, what does this have to do with the thread? As I started earlier I know when you want to argue as you post irrelevant shi!t, going in circles and start exaggerating.

Also, did you buy another block of land near a beach? Well done, never knew that, after all that effort of building that big shed on the block of land you had that is half an hour drive from the beach? Wheres the new one?

Where did I say I build four?? I think your problem is lacking basic comprehension and just making stuff up in your head to fill in the gaps without actually understanding what is written.

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

I agree, IDGAF about 1970s cars, especially X series Falcons and I'm Gen Y.

I'm a fanboy for some of the E series (EB GT/ED XR8 Sprint) , the AU (in particular T series) and FG (XR6T/F6), then the Euro Fords like the XR5T/RS and the Fiesta ST.

V8s don't really do it for me, yes I did list some V8 Falcons but thats about it, I'm more of a Euro/Jap fanboy, high tech, variable valve timing, high RPM or forced induction is my thing.

Lets say I won the $20M Tattslotto draw, I still wouldn't spend $500K on an XY Falcon, $500K buys you a nice Lamborghini/Ferrari, not some 4 door sedan whose claim to fame was being fastest around a mountain 45 years ago.

100% spot on and probably covers 99.99% of the population.

I love my old V8's, but have no illusions of grander about them, I know for a fact that most people could not give a single HuHa about some old V8 Falcons.

If I won the 20million or even 50 million a phase three Falcon would not be on my shopping list either. There would be a list longer than the 50 million could ever buy in front of a Phase 3, but thats just me, others may feel different.

[LoudPipes]

Originally Posted by GT0132

I have a keen interest in commercial aircraft but theres no way in hell I could afford to shell out half a billion to buy an A380 ...lol.

Have you thought about trying to score a repairable write-off and restoring it yourself to save some money?

[xr6tjet]

Love the comments saying "they will die off and nobody will want them anymore"? Haha great, that means when 'nobody' (fantasy world) wants them they should be like $500 right? The law of supply and demand would suggest that. Great, means I will be able to buy a couple for next to nothing.

In all seriousness I have plenty of friends with classic cars with young kids and those kids already are fixated on the cars their father drives and calling dibs on it already. There will be plenty of demand for these cars to go around in time. Price only suggests that people aren't willing to spend that much in the current economic status.

[ute83]

If I won 20 mil I don't think I could hand over the cash quick enough.

[Roninrhj]

Bottom Line ......It ain't about the money. Its simply a desire , want , need whatever you want to call it. If you want some thing bad enough it becomes your oxygen. Some people like what they like...others don't. Personally I would take a Phase 2 over a 3 any day and twice on Sunday but thats me

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by lgpking22

The people who liked the gtho are dying off once there gone nobody will really want it anymore. Nobody my age or under would have even heard of it.

My kids are a good example.
Eldest boy loves my Charger, but if he had an open checkbook he'd buy an XA-XC of some sort...that's what he likes. Youngest son would buy a Kombi. Daughter would buy a brand new twin cab of some sort...she likes old cars, but just can't see the point of owning one. Her husband is doing up an XT ute though.
These are kids who have grown up in a car-nut household since they were born. Our family friends had things like an XYGT and Monaros so they were regularly exposed to old Australian stuff.

They like old cars...they just don't want an XYGT in particular. Simple as that. Most young people now are into imports, WRX's, Skylines, GT86's, etc. Forty year old Australian muscle cars just don't figure in most of their minds.

Times change.

I remember a Shannons auction guy saying about "when the Aussie supercar bubble burst" that he knew something had happened when they had an immaculate and original HO at an auction for a million bucks and it was passed in...the bidding stopped at something like $500,000 and wouldn't go any higher. The owner advertised it for $750,000 and still didn't get a bite.

Eventually the "real" value of everything settles down to where it's supposed to be.

[MrEL]

If i won lotto id be buying the best 150% concourse correct , rarest colour combo Phase 3 i could get my hands on.
Then stuffing it full of drop tank , roll cage , a set of simmons and the nastiest blower around.
Then i would be attempting to physically blow the tyres off it whipping down the street to grab a carton of milk.

[FERG_51]

What's the point in that?

[Phildo]

Originally Posted by xr6tjet

Love the comments saying "they will die off and nobody will want them anymore"? Haha great, that means when 'nobody' (fantasy world) wants them they should be like $500 right? The law of supply and demand would suggest that. Great, means I will be able to buy a couple for next to nothing.

Same here.

Any day now I'll score a Ferrari 250 GTO for a couple of grand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrar...Collectibility

[MrEL]

Originally Posted by FERG_51

What's the point in that?

Purely to **** off the tea and scones paint dawb brigade.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by MrEL

Purely to **** off the tea and scones paint dawb brigade.

yo bad mofo

skinny n fat weldies or centrelines is enough ;-)

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by MrEL

Purely to **** off the tea and scones paint dawb brigade.

Meh, surely one can find a better way to blow $500K, they'll just think "What a D11111k" or "probably another replica anyway"

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Meh, surely one can find a better way to blow $500K, they'll just think "What a D11111k" or "probably another replica anyway"

pantera, porch, fezz, lambo before another rusty coon

[MrEL]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Meh, surely one can find a better way to blow $500K, they'll just think "What a D11111k" or "probably another replica anyway"

Yep a small group of erectile dysfunctional , handbag carrying group will think that.
Another group of people who know how to enjoy life will go "finally someone driving one like they should be driven"

[MrEL]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

yo bad mofo

skinny n fat weldies or centrelines is enough ;-)

Putting unleaded in as its not factory correct is enough.....

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by MrEL

Yep a small group of erectile dysfunctional , handbag carrying group will think that.
Another group of people who know how to enjoy life will go "finally someone driving one like they should be driven"

Both groups will think its a replica, so just a bit pointless... whether their diiiiick works or not so still pointless, but hey we all different.

[MrEL]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Both groups will think its a replica, so just a bit pointless... whether their diiiiick works or not so still pointless, but hey we all different.

Nope the tea sippers will know its the real thing.
How else would i have bought the car? It would be got through a tea sippers club.
Id even send pictures in taken as i sat the can of Jack on the front guard as i punched the grinder into the bonnet.
Then id start building the genuine T3 limo.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by MrEL

Putting unleaded in as its not factory correct is enough.....

dont get wound up on that sh

one of 11

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Both groups will think its a replica, so just a bit pointless... whether their diiiiick works or not so still pointless, but hey we all different.

much this

f blowing $500k on a busted rs old coon

mad shed full of whatever /

[HO 3]

Originally Posted by MrEL

Purely to **** off the tea and scones paint dawb brigade.

The XYGTHO was also referred to as the Biggest Stick back in the day............however your waste of space comments make you sound like the Biggest Dipstick.

Cheers Mick

[HO 3]

Originally Posted by Silver Ghia

According to the Shannons website, the subject Phase III Falcon has now been sold.

No indication of price however.


Edit: O/B ute sorry, missed your edit.

If that is the case sound like someone in the room wanted the car after all, a good end result.

Cheers Mick