Latest offerings from Shannons auctions

[Mick_Marsh]

They send me emails. I like to have a look.
I know people who have bought at these auctions. Mmm.. Some I wish I could buy.


But......

Really?!
Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser Wagon (SWB) Auctions - Lot 42 - Shannons (http://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/lot/J26E21C1DFLDO2Z4/)
My '63 S2a was sooooo much cheaper.


Oh, and I'd hate to have to pay for new tyres for this:
Cadillac Eldorado Biarittz 'Converted' Coupe (LHD) Auctions - Lot 44 - Shannons (http://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/lot/S1DKF485W3UF68P3/)

[V8Ian]

Hmmm; what's more bogan; an HSV or multi axle Caddy?

[Mick_Marsh]

Hmmm; what's more bogan; an HSV or multi axle Caddy?
Oi! I'll report your post!
My Commodore is a HSV. It has a HSV build plate.




Mind you, the HSV car Club refused to let me join their club. Maybe I wasn't bogan enough.

[LandyAndy]

Mick,that tojo would be very rare.Most of its brothers and sisters died of cancer many years ago;);););)
Andrew

[JDNSW]

As Landyandy comments, this is in the same category as the 80" Landrover - but there would be a lot fewer of them about. There were probably never as many of these as there were 80" in Australia, and although they came ten years later, they are a lot less durable - most bodies will have almost completely rusted by now. Probably a few later FJ40s about as there were a lot more sold.

The column shift is quite rare in my experience, coming for only a short time(in Australia) between the four speed/no low range and the three speed floor shift with low range.

John

[sheerluck]

Mick,that tojo would be very rare.Most of its brothers and sisters died of cancer many years ago;);););)
Andrew

And I'd take it any day over that hideous Caddy!

[Cobber]

I wouldn't mind that Cruiser in the shed ... could be a bit of a bargain too because a lot of people will see it and wonder how on earth an old Landcruiser could be worth so much.

I'll leave the Caddy though a) because it horrible and b) I'd have to buy the place next door just so I had enough room to park it :eek:

[robbotd5]

I wouldn't mind that Cruiser in the shed ... could be a bit of a bargain too because a lot of people will see it and wonder how on earth an old Landcruiser could be worth so much.

I'll leave the Caddy though a) because it horrible and b) I'd have to buy the place next door just so I had enough room to park it :eek:

That old land crusher is worth that kind of money because that model pioneered the Snowy mountains hydro. It says so right there in Shannon's description of the car. Don't you blokes know anything????:angel:.
Regards
Robbo

[Mick_Marsh]

I'm looking at the Cruiser as an opposition to a S2a. If as John says, it it the Toyota version of a S1 80", then it is worth money.
The desirable Cruiser for me would be an es ADF one. Preferably SWB. I'm told there were SWB ones as used by the RAAF. Not seen one yet.
Do we know how many were used on the Snowy? I was told about six.

[V8Ian]

Do we know how many were used on the Snowy? I was told about six.

I've heard ten Mick. Maybe they needed ten to keep six on the road. :D

[Mick_Marsh]

I've heard ten Mick. Maybe they needed ten to keep six on the road. :D
Pales into insignificance when you hear the estimates of how many Landrovers were used on the project.

[cripesamighty]

I think the Thiess brothers imported around 13 in 1958 (?) for the project to essentially get the Toyota import licence. They just happened to be working on the Snowy Project at the time so used them there. Somewhere between 25-30 Land Cruisers were eventually used on the project by various companies/agencies. vs over 2000 Land Rovers used (1300 or so directly by the scheme). I'm a bit rubbery on the figures but some more learned members will no doubt be along soon to give more accurate numbers. I just seem to recall the Land Rover to Land Cruiser ratio used on the Scheme being around 100 to 1 in favour of the Land Rovers.....

[V8Ian]

Pales into insignificance when you hear the estimates of how many Landrovers were used on the project.

Not in the eyes of Toyoya's advertising agency.

[JDNSW]

..... If as John says, it it the Toyota version of a S1 80", then it is worth money.
......

It is, in Australian terms, the equivalent to the 80". That one would have been from the first few batches of Landcruisers imported for general sale in about 1962-3? Small numbers were imported prior to this mainly by Thiess for their own use. (The first Landcruiser I ever saw was in 1963, it was not new but was older than this one, four speed no low range)

For comparison the 80" was being sold commercially in substantial numbers in Australia by 1950, so I think it is reasonable to compare the two as being representative of the first type sold here in any numbers.

John

[Lotz-A-Landies]

As well as the ratio differences between the 80" plus later Series 1s and Land Cruisers on the Snowy Scheme, by the time the Land Cruiser arrived the access roads had been pushed through the wilderness and many had gravel surfaces instead of dirt. Nothing real spectacular about being able to traverse made roads, even if they sometimes had snow.