Thread: Nostalgia - Used cars

Originally Posted by scarry

Sort of on topic,have a look at this.

A mate of mine many years ago had one of these,his was a ute,and it had buttons on the dash for the auto.MAy have been an older model though.

The model in the ad is an AP 5 or 6. The AP5 was released in 1964 and was the last to offer push button auto. That narrows your mates car down to AP5, as it was the first ute (Wayfairer).

The cars in that ad sheet are all AP6s. Far superior to the Holden and Falcon offerings at the time - better build and much better engines - and you could get a V8 in the AP6 where neither Ford or Holden were offering V8s.

Yes we had a new AP6 in late 1965.

Garry

I had an AP6 225 slant 6 in early '70s with an Impala, straight floor shift. Thought I was the bees knees.

I reckon the one in the ad is an AP5. There was a bloke dining at my local last year and he had an AP5 sedan with the 273 V8 and a vinyl roof. Looked sooo good.

Originally Posted by Saitch

I had an AP6 225 slant 6 in early '70s with an Impala, straight floor shift. Thought I was the bees knees.

I reckon the one in the ad is an AP5. There was a bloke dining at my local last year and he had an AP5 sedan with the 273 V8 and a vinyl roof. Looked sooo good.

I did not think the AP5 had the V8 as it was released with the AP6 - the top vehicle is a base model so has a 225 (the trim on the front mudguard where it swings back towards the front doors indicates it is a AP6 - the AP5 didn't have it) , the station wagon is a V8 Regal Station wagon, and the bottom is a Regal so can have either the 225 or V8.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Nothing like truth in advertising, the P38 was a show stopper even back in 1995.

DL

Unfortunately it certainly had its fair share of issues.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

I did not think the AP5 had the V8 as it was released with the AP6 - the top vehicle is a base model so has a 225 (the trim on the front mudguard where it swings back towards the front doors indicates it is a AP6 - the AP5 didn't have it) , the station wagon is a V8 Regal Station wagon, and the bottom is a Regal so can have either the 225 or V8.

I reckon you're right. I'm thinking the V8 first appeared with the AP6. Also agree on how far ahead of the Holden and Falcon they were.

Originally Posted by jerryd

Me and a mate had a drunken disillusioned idea about putting the old evap cooler pads into the rear window of the 110 after replacing the ones in the house evap
Obviously a bad idea as the Coleman one’s didn’t take off

Originally Posted by pop058

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I walked into the LR dealer up here to buy one, got snuffed at and handed over to some spare parts guy. I walked out and came back a couple of days later and said, “all good, I bought a Land Cruiser instead”. Was good to shove it in his face,, he was ****ed about losing the sale.