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20-09-2013, 09:59 AM | #1 | ||
vbvbvb088
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Datsun 120Y
Fairlane...2 vertical headlights VB Commodore Honda Scamp (name?) Datsun 240Z / 280 XF Datsun Bluebird LX HR special |
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20-09-2013, 10:16 AM | #2 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Not sure what your getting at exactly mate but the Fairlane with vertical headlights was probably a ZC or ZD perhaps?
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20-09-2013, 11:01 AM | #3 | ||
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I think he's asking you to list your parent's cars over the years.
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20-09-2013, 12:33 PM | #4 | ||
Barra Turbo > V8
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Dad- VT crummydore
Mum- Toyota Rukus.
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20-09-2013, 12:48 PM | #5 | ||
Parts bin special
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Location: Narre Warren, Vic
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Back before I was born:
Dad - XA GT hardtop, XC ute, Valiant Mum - FC Holden, Mazda 626 After they got married: XF S-pack wagon (factory 4 speed) Daihatsu Scat ute EBII GLi wagon (factory 5 speed) 1989 Holden Rodeo diesel (non-turbo, gutless as all hell but super reliable, owned from new, went to the wreckers a few months ago) BFII Fairmont Ghia (current car) 2005 Ford Courier turbo diesel (current ute)
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Weekender 1964 US Falcon Futura convertible - Rangoon Red 260 Windsor V8, 4 speed manual, LHD, Electronic ignition, Mustang wheels https://fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11470868 Daily 2014 SZII Territory diesel - basic runabout Previous Cars 1990 EAII Fairmont Ghia - Tickford engine, 5 speed, SVO wheels, bodykit, much more 2000 AUII Fairmont - XR wheels, Ghia interior 2010 FG XR50T ute - XR8 bonnet, Streetfighter intake |
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20-09-2013, 01:39 PM | #6 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Easy- my parents have never owned a car!!
I know mum had a lesson once in a bloody Pontiac Parisienne of all things and never drove again!!! I have never seem either of them drive..... so my childhood was spent in big blue Mercedes in Sydney..... |
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20-09-2013, 01:59 PM | #7 | ||
Former BTIKD
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I don't have that many parents .
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20-09-2013, 02:06 PM | #8 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I'm not going back to list from my dads first car (Austin A40) because I couldn't name all the actual models in order.
but from when I was born they had XL Deluxe Falcon sedan XP Ute TC Cortina (mums Car) XC Falcon 500 (Dads Car) not long after he got this my sisters got in to Horses ZG Fairlane P6 LTD TF Cotina (mum got a new car) VH SLE (the P6 was kept for tow duties) Range Rover Sport (Dont ask ok just don't) Then something went odd Mum got a Mitsubishi Chalanger and dad got a 244 Volvo off a customer Mums still got the challanger, but dad ended up selling the Volvo to anotehr customer, and he got a Dihatsu Cherade, then a VB (he went through a stage of not giving a toss) Then out of the blue he rang me and said could you give me a lift over to Liverpool Ive just bought a AU Fairmont series III dont tell your mother (this was a big deal for a number of reasons, A he never did any thing with out consulting mum and B it was a new car (I had just taken delivery of my series 1 BA fairmont company car and this was an ex demo run out with less than 10,000 on the clock he kept that up until he died in 2010 before I came along there was a mixed bag aside from the Austin A40's there were Zephers, (Mk I' II & III and even a Mk III Car he raced) Fiats, FJ's
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20-09-2013, 03:49 PM | #10 | ||
Lyminge, Shepway, Kent
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FC Holden
Morris 1100 Leyland P76 Sigma GL 2.0 What an uninspiring lot, eh? |
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20-09-2013, 04:26 PM | #11 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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1936 chev. got my license in it.
FE Holden. Now shoveling coal with NICK! |
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20-09-2013, 04:34 PM | #12 | ||
EL XR6
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My dad has a blueprint ba xr8 ute and mum has lw mk2 trend focus. Ford family through and through!
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20-09-2013, 05:13 PM | #13 | ||
Missing a sock...
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This is what I can remember from about 5yr old (1972). My parents would by a car (single car family) and drive it, Dad would fix it until there was nothing left worth doing to keep them going and give them up for scrap. They never had much coin, so a late model used car wasn't an option. I'm much the same, but have better taste in cars.
Austin A40 - I think 1956 Hillman 1966 Hillman XL Falcon wagon (cheers Dad!) 1973 Hillman - lasted for years! 1992 Corolla - bought brand new. Buggered if I know why the Hillman's. My Grandad swore by them, maybe that's why. I'm not a fan! Cheers!
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20-09-2013, 08:33 PM | #14 | ||
Whoa, this is heavy!
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Location: Eastern Melbourne
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We were always a 1 car family...
Dads first car (after coming over in '75) was a KE20 corolla. Fondest memory I have of it is all of us piling in and heading to lakes entrance along the old highway, about a 5 hour trip from memory, only to have a blue with a family member and drive all the way back that night Traded it in a couple months after that road trip on this, an 81 Bluebird wagon Dad loved that one, only traded it because rust was starting to develop, on this, an 89 Magna Elite wagon This one became hated because it was (in thick polish accent) 'Make for lazy people! Too many electric!'
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Liquid Silver 2002 AU III Fairmont wagon Le Mans Red 1990 SA Capri Turbo
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20-09-2013, 08:46 PM | #15 | ||
Luxojet
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Dad had Fairlanes up until 2008. AU was the last model, and with the BA hardly changing he moved onto Holden Caprice. ATM he has a WM Holden Caprice with all the gear. Bloody nice car, on LPG, great cruiser. Looking to sell up soon though..
Mum had a Ford Probe back in the early '00s but now gets to use my G6ET now and then.
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20-09-2013, 09:34 PM | #16 | ||
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From the time I was born:
HT Wagon - Red, 253 XC Falcon Wagon - White 6 cyl Valiant Safari Wagon - Brown 6cyl XB Fairmont Sedan - Dk Blue 302 ZH Fairlane - White / Grey roof 302 XD Fairmont Ghia - Silver 6 cyl ( I bought this for my 2nd car, wish it was the ZH) TR Magna Sedan - Light pinkish 3lt V6 NL Fairlane Ghia - Green V8 Toyota Aurion - Dk Red V6 Don't know the model code.. They still have the Aurion, don't know why they traded the Fairlane in... |
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20-09-2013, 10:34 PM | #17 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Cortina & Torana,
Corolla KE70 & EA Falcon Gli Corolla AE112R & Fairmont BA with the siblings rounding it out with my BA Falcon XT and sis Suzuki swift 12' |
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21-09-2013, 06:20 AM | #18 | ||
If it ain't broke........
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Dads cars.........Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford and Ford.
Mums cars........Ford, Ford, Ford and Ford.
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21-09-2013, 09:23 AM | #19 | ||
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My parents have had a couple of cars over the years..
Dad's cars, 1979 hilux (hit by a drunk driver and rolled), 1982 hilux, 1983 dual cab hilux, 2002 dual cab hilux 4x4 Mums cars, 1985 laser, XF sedan, ED Sedan, 2002 Toyota prado, AU Futura, 2004 Toyota prado, 2005 Camry sportivo, VT berlina, 2002 Toyota prado, 2006 Mitsubishi pajero, 2002 toyota prado, 2004 100 series landcruiser...
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Current-2013 SR5 Hilux TJM bullbar and bashplates, 2" lift, spotties and awesome fuel economy Previous- 93 ED XR6 5 speed, dumped and exhaust 97 EL Ghia auto luxury, on it's guts 94 ED Futura 5 speed tucking with exhaust 97 XH ute, 5 speed with P-Plate spec exhaust 98 AU1 forte AU gheyness |
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21-09-2013, 09:57 AM | #20 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Ford Prefect
EH Holden Sedan HG Ute VW Kombi - got my licence in this one :-) Nissan Urvan Datsun 200B |
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21-09-2013, 06:42 PM | #21 | ||
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Dads cars.
(Bought Dec 1966, Holmes Garage Edgecliffe)1964 Consul Cortina 1200cc 4spd Column shift After the Cortinas & anglias was -mazda 626 (1980 something) -'88 EA Falcon -'97 EL Falcon -'93 ED Falcon -'98 Laser -'04 Focus LR -'06 Focus LS Last edited by GasoLane; 21-09-2013 at 08:12 PM. Reason: Lets not get carried away in the history dept. |
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21-09-2013, 08:09 PM | #22 | ||
LIFELONG DJR SUPPORTER
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As far back as I know.
Dad had a Mk1 Corty, and mum tipped it over into a tomato farm when I was a baby. Neither her nor I were hurt. I was a baby, and this happened in '73 Dad purchased an XP. I remember dad and I looking at cars in '76. I begged him to buy a new hotrod at the Ford dealer, an XB GS in green. I don't recall him doing the deal, or even bringing the car home, but we soon had a brown XY Fairy in the drive, alongside the XP. The XP went and we became a single car family. In 82 we purchased an 18month old 200B and the old XY went. in 85 the 200B went for a G60 Patrol, which was my first car. It went in 88 for a LX Torry, then a 89 Pintara in 91. In 2000 they purchased a 1998 Maxima. It was a great car, and at the time I had a 1998 Camry. The Maxy was way better. It spat an alternator about 2 weeks out of wtty, in a little town called Gin Gin. Cost 10 days and 2K to get mobile. Worked out it cost about $300 a week to own, so bizarrly expensive. If I am honest, they paid way too much for it. Traded it on a 5th month 2002 BA, 16 months old, for 15k. Great car, put some AU1 XR6 wheels on it, and a wing. Congo green. They did about 150k on it in 2 1/2 years before mum pranged it for the second time, this time terminally. Brought a BA II Futura in 04 which was a way better car. They did the same abnormally high number of k's in it before giving it to dads inlaws. Purchased a demo Turbo Diesel Terri last year.1200 klms, Top of the range, to pull the new Van. Dad has never owned a new anything, pushbike, rollerskates, car, nothing. Till the van. I am nagging him to make his next car a newy, as it will likely be his last chance (66yo now). He gets all tight about spending his kids inheretance.
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21-09-2013, 09:43 PM | #23 | ||
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From when I was born...
HT 308 wagon HX 253 wagon then we became a 2 car family when Dad got company cars with a new job in 1981 every 2 years, they sold the HX in 1981 and Mum got a 78 Corona. TE Cortina VB Commodore wagon XE GL wagon XF GL wagon XF S-Pac wagon EA S-Pac wagon and then he lost his job, so he went and bought VK 308 Berlina EF Futura AU V8 Fairmont wagon BA LTD V8 Mum has a 2000 Holden Astra.
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22-09-2013, 03:09 AM | #24 | ||
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No matter what car it is... go over 1800rpm and you're banned from driving it.
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22-09-2013, 12:17 PM | #25 | ||
"Flooded it mate?"
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Dad started off with a Ford Cortina which only lasted a few months until the engine conked out.
Then he bought a Mazda 121 Coupe, brown, like this: Which he also subsequently drove into the ground... Mum had to push it for him to get it started, and it died at the Ford dealership he was going to look at cars at. So, he drove home in his first Falcon, a white EAII Falcon GL wagon, white, 3.9L 4sp auto. They loved that car, and mum learnt to drive in it, with me in her belly 2003 it was time to freshen up, and Skip, the AUII Futura Wagon was bought. We've all loved Skip, and still do. Always has looked good, been the most reliable, comfortable and useful car we've owned! Now mine, it is the only car to have survived being owned by Dad! And 2007 the EAII had been driven into the ground and was replaced by Dad's BAII XT Sedan. And Feb this year, Skip was replaced as the family wagon/tow car by the 2004 R50 Pathfinder that stumbled across us with 24,000kms owned by a 92 year old. |
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22-09-2013, 03:38 PM | #26 | ||
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FJ 40 bought new still in the shed
Dodge truck XY Ute XA panel van XY sedan XF wagon 100 series cruiser to tow the van . still got it Magna Verada TR or TS 99 Fairlane still got it traded the magna on a Kia cerato for the old lady last month |
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From the time they were toghether:-
XP Falcon Deluxe XB Falcon 500 XD Falcon GL Leyland Mini (second Car) Leyland Moke (second Car) Saab 900i Leyland Mini LS 1275 (second Car) EB Fairmont Escort RS 2000 (second Car) KH Laser TX3 4x4 (second Car) AU Falcon Forte Wagon XF Ute (second Car) 1965 Mustang (Current Toy) BA Ute (second Car) BA Fairmont (current) FG XR6 Ute (second Car, current)
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