GOOGLE CARS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED & POST IN CORRECT COLOUR & SEQUENCE.

When I turned 18 - I had 3 cars on my list as my first car - a four door Alfetta 1800, a Mazda R100 or a Hillman Hunter Royal 660 (the Hustler was a bit down market for me [bigrolf]).

I started working at BHP Newcastle as was saving up but out of the blue my Mum rang me and said my Dad had bought me a car - with no consultation with me - it was a Morris 1300 auto - the biggest heap of crap and I sold it within a year. To rub salt into the would, a mate bought a Mazda R100 - what a great car - handled really bad but went like a scalded cat in a straight line.

Not mine but similar
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What I would have liked
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Garry

Good thread, It never occurred to me to collate the cars Ive owned,

http://goingbush.com/cars/1.jpg
My first car was a 1962 XL Falcon I bought for $300 (google photo)


http://goingbush.com/cars/2.jpg
Next, I traded the Falcon on a 120Y Coupe, against all advice bought for $4600 on HP, I have no idea why I bought this I learned my lesson and never again bought any car on finance (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/3.jpg
I bought a '64 Beetle for $100 and cut the guards / removed sills for the Baja Bug look, this was a lot of fun & would go almost anywhere, (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/4.jpg
Sold the Bug to my brother & bought myself a VC Valliant, terrific car (google photo) don't recall what happened to it .

http://goingbush.com/cars/m4.jpg
about the same time I bought a new DT250 from Clipstone Yamaha, (google photo) cant remember why but I sold it a few years later to a wrecker for $600

http://goingbush.com/cars/5.jpg
Someone pranged into my 120Y and insurance paid for it (phew) , I bought my first Landy, a 64 2A (pictured) , it was all white, I painted it green with water based plastic paint , with a brush. It was $1500 in a Moorabbin car yard about 1983.

http://goingbush.com/cars/6.jpg
I then bought this '62 Compact Fairlane for $800, you can see I still had the Landy ! The other 3 cars are Dads.

http://goingbush.com/cars/8.jpg
Sold the Fairlane & bought a '48 KB5 Inter, no idea why really, drove it home to Doncaster from Cann River and cant remember a thing about it except someone squeezed a gold diamond engine into it , Fixed it up & sold it on (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/10.jpg
Bought my first 109 , Early '80s can't remember exactly , It had a Hardtop and a P76 engine and Toyota axles, I put a RangeRover gearbox in it and drove it to The Gulf and back on an LROCV Burke&Wills trip.



http://goingbush.com/cars/7.jpg
Then bought my first Series 1 from the Trading Post , a 54" 86" , photo after I restored it. I think this was the most fun to drive Landy so far.


http://goingbush.com/cars/9.jpg
Bought an 80" wreck off a farm in Buxton, restored it and could not pass up the offer of $3000 from ULR , this was in the ULR Malvern showroom for a while , and years later I found out it was sold to Narau , so its most likely corroded away to nothing now .


http://goingbush.com/cars/m5.jpg http://goingbush.com/cars/m6.jpg
Bought a TT250 and a CB900 from the Trading Post , I kept these for about 10 years until I had to give up bikes due to vision issues. Also had a rare RD350 for a while, way too fast for me so got rid of it, worth a mint now.

http://goingbush.com/cars/11.jpg
Next truck was a Mark4 Acco from a Machinery dealer in Thomastown, It was a lot of fun but 4MPG was not, even took it on a few Landy Club trips, sold it on to a bloke in Montrose.

http://goingbush.com/cars/12.jpg
I bought another '64 SWB as a donor body for my Ninety project, I was inspired after seeing a Camel Trophy Ninety on display at a CCJC Event at Narbethong in '85 or '86. I got a RRC Chassis from Ritters and cut 10" from the centre and welded on the Series 2A outriggers. I think I made the worlds first 'Hybrid' as they are called nowadays.


http://goingbush.com/cars/13.jpg
Next was a MkIV Continental , I bought it as our wedding car for $7000 and later swapped for a block of Land which we sold 10 years ago for $120K , about the only car deal that I've made money on.


http://goingbush.com/cars/14.jpg
Went to the USA in '96 for a 3 month road trip and bought this Mk7 Continental for $1200, from a 'cheap Joes' car yard in Inglewood (where the riots were) drove 25,000 miles trouble free. Sold it for $300 in New York.


http://goingbush.com/cars/15.jpg
I bought this Ford Transit for $800 , had a Holden6 and traumatic, to transport my RC planes to the model flying club.


http://goingbush.com/cars/16.jpg
Then bought the NA Fairlane, bloody lovely car , cant even remember selling it but its not here so must have :(

http://goingbush.com/cars/17.jpg
2001 Another USA 3 month roadtrip, bought another Mk7 Continental, $900 from eBay, inspected it at a house in Pasadena, it had a dead flat battery , went to PepBoys , bought a $19.99 battery , came back and put it in the car, cranked it over and drove away. Another 25,000 Miles trouble free , Indicators stopped working on the last day , we gave the car away. Ugly cars but bloody reliable.


http://goingbush.com/cars/18.jpg
Bought the SB Combo in 2001, to replace the Transit, only Holden Ive ever had , had it for 10 years never had an ounce of trouble, would make a great EV conversion , plenty of Load capacity and space for batteries.

http://goingbush.com/cars/19.jpg
Saw this BJ40 on the side of the road in Eltham with the Engine in pieces in the back, Offered them $600 & it was mine, I bought another rusted out one for $400 with a good engine from Kinglake and drove it home as it was falling apart around me, made this beauty out of the two . It was slow but I loved driving it , had it about 5 years and sold it for $3500 just before the prices started skyrocketing. Kicking myself now.

http://goingbush.com/cars/20.jpg
The 40 series showed me how bloody reliable Toyotas were compared to LandRovers which needed constant fettling, I bought the 80series from eBay for $4500 and did two trips around Australia before it had a catastrophic failure near Broome. A wrecker paid $1000 for it.


http://goingbush.com/cars/21.jpg
Bought the 105 for $30K from Broome Toyota so we could tow the van home, After the 80 series what a disappointment. No more Toyotas for me.


http://goingbush.com/cars/22.jpg
2010 Got home and sold the 105 for $32k , then bought the Td5 for about the same money . Yep, LandRovers just as I remembered ,... back on the tools !!!


http://goingbush.com/cars/23.jpg
2013 Swapped the Defender for the Iveco, First 'New Car" ive ever bought . Worse than the Landrover in terms of issues. bloody awful, but wow the most capable 4x4 ive ever had , by a long shot.


http://goingbush.com/cars/24.jpg
Wanted a Lightweight ever since I saw one on a LandyClub trip in the 1980's , saw this advertised for sale as a non runner while we were away on a trip, looked close at the photos & saw it was in my own backyard, The bloke renting our house had it for sale, an omen so I bought it sight unseen, At least it didn't have to get delivered :)


http://goingbush.com/cars/25.jpg
Ive always liked the look of PT Cruisers and I wanted to buy a car to convert to Electric , This had a blown engine & I got it for $1500 from Mornington, towed it home & my Engineer advised me to convert something older so I didn't have to worry about the Crumple Zone ADR's, so I converted the Lightweight instead. I fixed the PT Cruiser engine, drove it for a few years & recently gave it to my daughter for her kids to Learn to drive a Manual, its getting lots of use . Great to drive , bags of power & tough as bricks. Never had a bad American car yet.



http://goingbush.com/cars/26.jpg

Latest acquisition is this '49 Dodge Ute, spent 6months restoring it , waiting on VASS & I can get rego. Not For Sale either. its a keeper.


Never realised I had so many cars, These are just the registered and going ones. I don't think I missed any but it was a good excersize for grey matter !!

I did my apprenticeship with a BMC dealer & all my working life as a mechanic I worked for BMC , Leyland , JRA.

101RRS, you are correct about the Morris1500 , they had head , timing chain , water pump problems but the biggest problem they had was gear box synchro's . When we did a gear box we crossed everything hoping it would work . The synchro rings would brake with in a week of doing the boxes & 1 out of 2 you had to do again before it even left the workshop. They went from a excellent little car in the M1100 to this horrible M1500.

My father had a 1500, which was excellent, except for inadequate ground clearance - he passed it onto a grand daughter, who knocked a hole in the sump - was still patched with silicone when she sold it years later.

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

101RRS, you are correct about the Morris1300 , they had head , timing chain , water pump problems but the bigest problem they had was gear box syncros . When we did a gear box we crossed everything hoping it would work . The syncro rings would brake with in a week of doing the boxes & 1 out of 2 you had to do again before it even left the workshop. They went from a excelent little car in the M1100 to this horrible M1300.

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I think you are thinking of the Morris 1500 - the 1300 was only a 4 speed auto where the same vehicle in a manual was the OHC 1500cc with manual O/D gearbox.

My main issues was that if it sniffed any rain or moisture in the air ignition would cease, no matter what I did to stop it.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

I think you are thinking of the Morris 1500 - the 1300 was only a 4 speed auto where the same vehicle in a manual was the OHC 1500cc with manual O/D gearbox.

My main issues was that if it sniffed any rain or moisture in the air ignition would cease, no matter what I did to stop it.

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Don't know what I was thinking , don't know why I wrote 1300 .
The 1300 was an OHV motor were the 1500 was OHC . The 1300's once they got old & the auto played up people would buy an an 1100 manual bob for them & throw the auto away. The 1300's had on park mechanism in the box , we fitted solenoids valves in the brake lines to lock the brakes on when parked . Just had to flick the switch on the dash & depress the brake then turn the switch off . then to release the brake you depressed the brake & it would release '

I had a Morris 1500 Nomad (I'll get to it). The previous owner (colleague) had the gearbox synchros repaired under warranty. Not long after, he couldn't select gears again. It sat outside his p;lace for a couple of years and then I bought it off him for $200. I found the nuts on the cable shift hadn't been tightened properly. I fixed that and drove if from Penrith to Broadway every day for a year or so. It had a pinhole leak in one Hydrolastic suspension hose so I had to pump it up every so often using a brake or clutch master cylinder to transfer fluid from the container into the system. I quite like the Nomad. (I still have the genuine workshop manual in the garage - must sell it one day. :) )

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Originally Posted by goingbush

Good thread, It never occurred to me to collate the cars Ive owned,

http://goingbush.com/cars/1.jpg
My first car was a 1962 XL Falcon I bought for $300 (google photo)


http://goingbush.com/cars/2.jpg
Next, I traded the Falcon on a 120Y Coupe, against all advice bought for $4600 on HP, I have no idea why I bought this I learned my lesson and never again bought any car on finance (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/3.jpg
I bought a '64 Beetle for $100 and cut the guards / removed sills for the Baja Bug look, this was a lot of fun & would go almost anywhere, (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/4.jpg
Sold the Bug to my brother & bought myself a VC Valliant, terrific car (google photo) don't recall what happened to it .

http://goingbush.com/cars/m4.jpg
about the same time I bought a new DT250 from Clipstone Yamaha, (google photo) cant remember why but I sold it a few years later to a wrecker for $600

http://goingbush.com/cars/5.jpg
Someone pranged into my 120Y and insurance paid for it (phew) , I bought my first Landy, a 64 2A (pictured) , it was all white, I painted it green with water based plastic paint , with a brush. It was $1500 in a Moorabbin car yard about 1983.

http://goingbush.com/cars/6.jpg
I then bought this '62 Compact Fairlane for $800, you can see I still had the Landy ! The other 3 cars are Dads.

http://goingbush.com/cars/8.jpg
Sold the Fairlane & bought a '48 KB5 Inter, no idea why really, drove it home to Doncaster from Cann River and cant remember a thing about it except someone squeezed a gold diamond engine into it , Fixed it up & sold it on (google photo)

http://goingbush.com/cars/10.jpg
Bought my first 109 , Early '80s can't remember exactly , It had a Hardtop and a P76 engine and Toyota axles, I put a RangeRover gearbox in it and drove it to The Gulf and back on an LROCV Burke&Wills trip.



http://goingbush.com/cars/7.jpg
Then bought my first Series 1 from the Trading Post , a 54" 86" , photo after I restored it. I think this was the most fun to drive Landy so far.


http://goingbush.com/cars/9.jpg
Bought an 80" wreck off a farm in Buxton, restored it and could not pass up the offer of $3000 from ULR , this was in the ULR Malvern showroom for a while , and years later I found out it was sold to Narau , so its most likely corroded away to nothing now .


http://goingbush.com/cars/m5.jpg http://goingbush.com/cars/m6.jpg
Bought a TT250 and a CB900 from the Trading Post , I kept these for about 10 years until I had to give up bikes due to vision issues. Also had a rare RD350 for a while, way too fast for me so got rid of it, worth a mint now.

http://goingbush.com/cars/11.jpg
Next truck was a Mark4 Acco from a Machinery dealer in Thomastown, It was a lot of fun but 4MPG was not, even took it on a few Landy Club trips, sold it on to a bloke in Montrose.

http://goingbush.com/cars/12.jpg
I bought another '64 SWB as a donor body for my Ninety project, I was inspired after seeing a Camel Trophy Ninety on display at a CCJC Event at Narbethong in '85 or '86. I got a RRC Chassis from Ritters and cut 10" from the centre and welded on the Series 2A outriggers. I think I made the worlds first 'Hybrid' as they are called nowadays.


http://goingbush.com/cars/13.jpg
Next was a MkIV Continental , I bought it as our wedding car for $7000 and later swapped for a block of Land which we sold 10 years ago for $120K , about the only car deal that I've made money on.


http://goingbush.com/cars/14.jpg
Went to the USA in '96 for a 3 month road trip and bought this Mk7 Continental for $1200, from a 'cheap Joes' car yard in Inglewood (where the riots were) drove 25,000 miles trouble free. Sold it for $300 in New York.


http://goingbush.com/cars/15.jpg
I bought this Ford Transit for $800 , had a Holden6 and traumatic, to transport my RC planes to the model flying club.


http://goingbush.com/cars/16.jpg
Then bought the NA Fairlane, bloody lovely car , cant even remember selling it but its not here so must have :(

http://goingbush.com/cars/17.jpg
2001 Another USA 3 month roadtrip, bought another Mk7 Continental, $900 from eBay, inspected it at a house in Pasadena, it had a dead flat battery , went to PepBoys , bought a $19.99 battery , came back and put it in the car, cranked it over and drove away. Another 25,000 Miles trouble free , Indicators stopped working on the last day , we gave the car away. Ugly cars but bloody reliable.


http://goingbush.com/cars/18.jpg
Bought the SB Combo in 2001, to replace the Transit, only Holden Ive ever had , had it for 10 years never had an ounce of trouble, would make a great EV conversion , plenty of Load capacity and space for batteries.

http://goingbush.com/cars/19.jpg
Saw this BJ40 on the side of the road in Eltham with the Engine in pieces in the back, Offered them $600 & it was mine, I bought another rusted out one for $400 with a good engine from Kinglake and drove it home as it was falling apart around me, made this beauty out of the two . It was slow but I loved driving it , had it about 5 years and sold it for $3500 just before the prices started skyrocketing. Kicking myself now.

http://goingbush.com/cars/20.jpg
The 40 series showed me how bloody reliable Toyotas were compared to LandRovers which needed constant fettling, I bought the 80series from eBay for $4500 and did two trips around Australia before it had a catastrophic failure near Broome. A wrecker paid $1000 for it.


http://goingbush.com/cars/21.jpg
Bought the 105 for $30K from Broome Toyota so we could tow the van home, After the 80 series what a disappointment. No more Toyotas for me.


http://goingbush.com/cars/22.jpg
2010 Got home and sold the 105 for $32k , then bought the Td5 for about the same money . Yep, LandRovers just as I remembered ,... back on the tools !!!


http://goingbush.com/cars/23.jpg
2013 Swapped the Defender for the Iveco, First 'New Car" ive ever bought . Worse than the Landrover in terms of issues. bloody awful, but wow the most capable 4x4 ive ever had , by a long shot.


http://goingbush.com/cars/24.jpg
Wanted a Lightweight ever since I saw one on a LandyClub trip in the 1980's , saw this advertised for sale as a non runner while we were away on a trip, looked close at the photos & saw it was in my own backyard, The bloke renting our house had it for sale, an omen so I bought it sight unseen, At least it didn't have to get delivered :)


http://goingbush.com/cars/25.jpg
Ive always liked the look of PT Cruisers and I wanted to buy a car to convert to Electric , This had a blown engine & I got it for $1500 from Mornington, towed it home & my Engineer advised me to convert something older so I didn't have to worry about the Crumple Zone ADR's, so I converted the Lightweight instead. I fixed the PT Cruiser engine, drove it for a few years & recently gave it to my daughter for her kids to Learn to drive a Manual, its getting lots of use . Great to drive , bags of power & tough as bricks. Never had a bad American car yet.



http://goingbush.com/cars/26.jpg

Latest acquisition is this '49 Dodge Ute, spent 6months restoring it , waiting on VASS & I can get rego. Not For Sale either. its a keeper.


Never realised I had so many cars, These are just the registered and going ones. I don't think I missed any but it was a good excersize for grey matter !!

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There are a few vehicles I wish I had kept but I am now trying to buy die cast models of all the vehicles I have owned in the correct colours . Don't think I will achieve 100% as some just weren't made. I have around 15 so far so about half way. The good thing about models they don't take up much room & apart from a dust down every now & then don't need much work.[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

I think you are thinking of the Morris 1500 - the 1300 was only a 4 speed auto where the same vehicle in a manual was the OHC 1500cc with manual O/D gearbox.

My main issues was that if it sniffed any rain or moisture in the air ignition would cease, no matter what I did to stop it.

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This is a Morris 1300 auto I built for the sailing club. Motor in the back and a second 1300 subframe at the front. Steering locked up on the back and a line locker type thing for the handbrake. Still going I think.
I bought two 1300's for the parts. Much the same as an 1100 but different in many respects. 1275 single carb motor. Interesting 4 speed auto.

Peter

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First up, Datsun 1200 ute, got booked doing 145 on P Plates, the cop got me going over the hill, was off the clock on the way down[bigwhistle]
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Next was a 302 XB GS that ended up with a 351 running 12.5 to one compression and 302 heads.

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Then a TF cortina ghia because I though it was time to be sensible (until I lowered it until it was about 3 inches off the ground) Mine had the criss cross 14"wheels though.

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About the same time I bought the XT ute I still have, it originally looked something like this one

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A few work vehicles saved me getting new vehicles until I changed jobs and got an ED Fairmont Ghia in Cobalt which I cannot find an example of anywhere.

Attachment 160955 And it had the flash Interior as well Attachment 160956, the interior picture is of a cobalt car

The ED got traded in on a Daihatsu Rocky which lunched its transfer case at Tiboburra where SWMBO was doing her prac teaching at the time

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Then started the run of Land Rovers

Disco 1

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Disco 2

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Disco 3

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I forgot the current daily driver, bought as a vehicle to cart stuff to the farm as we were getting sick of taking the Disco out with a trailer on all the time. I still drive it to and from work in Canberra long after the Disco 3 failed to proceed. 295,000 Km so far. I had to do the water pump and pulleys this week but it has been the most econonmical vehicle to run I've ever owned. Dedicated gas as well

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Defender 130

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The hardest one to find on Google by far was the two door Falcon, it seems that very few survive with the original white and gold stripes colour scheme, I reckon this post has wasted about 3 hours by the way......

Regards,
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