Nostalgia - Used cars

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Originally Posted by Chops

The add picture indicates they are the AP5’s with the horizontal tail lights. The AP6 had the vertical tail lights.
I had both but unfortunately neither had the V8, but by gees, those slant sixes had some power. I bought the AP5 to replace the blown motor in my AP6. It came with cheese cutters, pulled out of Tanti Avenue in Mornington, snatched second on the column shift and chiseled a blackie all the way up the hill 🤣🤣🤣.
Ahh those were the days.

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The VC had the vertical tail lights.

The AP's were great point to point highway cars. Their soft long travel suspension made them good handlers, comfortable, brakes no better or worse than most other brands of the time. I bought an AP5 ex taxi at Debiens Auctions in Sydney once and punted it up to Brisbane in 10 1/2 hours [bigsmile] avoiding the peak hour traffic each end. Putty Rd. and New England Highway. This was my second best time moving used cars interstate. Best was a 327 Camaro in 8 3/4 hours. Four speed and bloody drum brakes on a car that would top out around 140 and cruised comfortably at an indicated 120.

Good cars, Valiants.

My AP6 had horizontal tail lights. The main distinguishing feature was the grill, where the 5 had full length bars and the 6 had a >< in the centre.

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Originally Posted by Saitch

My AP6 had horizontal tail lights. The main distinguishing feature was the grill, where the 5 had full length bars and the 6 had a >< in the centre.

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Edselesque.

My brother set off in his 273 AP6 in '68 IIRC heading for the Cape, getting as far as Cooktown. It came home without the rear exhaust section.

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Originally Posted by Chops

The add picture indicates they are the AP5’s with the horizontal tail lights. The AP6 had the vertical tail lights.

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Both the AP5 and Ap6 had horizonal tail lights - the Vc had vertical tailights.

I see,, someone had cocked up on my rego papers with the VC/AP bit then. That’s how it was sold to me, as a VC-AP6. Learn something new every day 👍😁

AP 6.

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The Valiant suspension a corrugated dirt road was so smooth. Had a job when we traveled with a discrete escort of a marked police car that followed a little behind us. The police were in Falcons so we used to slowly push the speed up until the escort was flashing lights and sounding sirens as they were shaking their teeth out at the same speed.

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Originally Posted by Chops

The add picture indicates they are the AP5’s with the horizontal tail lights. The AP6 had the vertical tail lights.
I had both but unfortunately neither had the V8, but by gees, those slant sixes had some power. I bought the AP5 to replace the blown motor in my AP6. It came with cheese cutters, pulled out of Tanti Avenue in Mornington, snatched second on the column shift and chiseled a blackie all the way up the hill 🤣🤣🤣.
Ahh those were the days.

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Have done fish surveys in Tanti Ck.

DL