Barn Find (?) 93 RRC

As an RRC owner and daily user, I would ask to drive it for a couple of hours, and if all sounds good, and if your inspection holds up (eg leaks, head, oils, tyres, seats etc) then offer him $3k ... and be prepared to become emotionally & financially involved with an RRC - perhaps one of the most comfortable drives to be had for under $10k. Just keep things in proportion ... yes it probably has 'issues' and yes it is a classic.

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Originally Posted by Grumbles

That is sacrilege. The EAS is an essential part of what makes these cars. Once sorted if it needs sorting then it is very reliable. From what I can see replacement maintenance only crops up every 10 or so years which is cheap motoring for such a comfortable and capable suspension system.

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Regardless of how cheap fixing the EAS (you think) is, there are potentially legal issues pending in Vic/NSW and maybe elsewhere.
AFAIK, this refers to the fact that coil springs was not a standard variant of your particular model, therefore not 'Kosher' in the eyes of some obscure public servant. - the remedy is to re-fit the full, working EAS or de-license it. - Would love to be rong on this one !
Naturally, this will only surface on re-licensing in the rest of Oz, and every year for you unfortunates in the East for your warrant of fitness or whatever the rip-off is called.:twisted:

There is the already mentioned danger of becoming emotionally & Financially involved with the Classic... :angel:

DAMHIK

James

'95 Vogue SE, 2WD Classic with working EAS & cruise control.

I was told by Graeme Cooper who used to convert RRCs to coils often , that type approval was not necessary for RRCs, because varients were sold somewhere in the world without air suspension.This is in NSW .

Coil spring RRCs were made to the very end and and AFAIK one of if not THE last car off line was a 2 door "commercial" for the French market with coils.

He went on to say that they couldn't legally change 38As to coils as they were never offered with them, and noone in Oz was willing to do type approval due to the costs and low volume involved.

Regards Philip A

I bought a 1990 that had been sat around for years only getting moved around the workshop where it had ben left.

Pretty soon after purchase I had to replace the rad and water pump, when the summer came a new air con compressor was required and the autobox filter needed doing when the box started buzzing(pump cavitation).

In all the car was in very good condition and very solid, I had looked at a few that were being driven and they were in shocking states.

I reckon that you could easily be changing expensive parts on cars that are daily drives anyway and that one with little use just has a few obvious ones that might need doing. There are no guarantees either way.