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A bit of a roadside find I spotted today.
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Poor farmers......
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Sydney
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The big Bronze car is a parisienne. a 65 or a 66. I've got a 65 pillarless that i will restore one day. same colour too. i'll be rodding mine though.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Adelaide
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the mrs visited some old family friends in country SA on the weekend and took some snaps of these cars littered all over the property.....they use them as wind breaks
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Do you know if the old international is for sale? A mate of mine loves these and would probably be keen on saving it.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: GORMANDALE. VIC
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Their still out there. Heard from a workmate about 2 falcons sitting in a paddock near Trafalgar for $50 each, it was a sweet deal so i picked them up. The first is the xa, what a machine. Sat for 23 years but i said i will take both, i almost felt sick winching the thing onto the trailer but it almost ran haha. Might be able to get a couple of parts off it. I will show the other car i got in my next post.
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78 XC COUPE 351, 4SPD, 9" PROJECT 74 XB SEDAN, SOON TO BE 429CJ, C6 PROJECT 00 AU FAIRMONT GHIA, V8, FAMILY 70 XY FAIRMONT, 6,AUTO. SOON TO BE V8. 05 BA FUTURA, 6 AUTO. 74 F100, 302. 95 CR 500 DIRTBIKE. 96 CR 500 DIRTBIKE. 78 PE 250 DIRTBIKE. 78 XL 250 DIRTBIKE. |
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G'day again, here's the 2nd of the two barn finds i brought. It's a 1970 XY Fairmont, it has it's original engine, a 250 (HC), rust wise it isn't too bad at all, it starts and drives, not very well though, but, it's good enough to move around the place, it's been sitting for 8 years next to the Xa, it was used on a horse track. It's going to be a project for me and my 13 year old son, as it's for him. I'm wrapped! What a find!
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78 XC COUPE 351, 4SPD, 9" PROJECT 74 XB SEDAN, SOON TO BE 429CJ, C6 PROJECT 00 AU FAIRMONT GHIA, V8, FAMILY 70 XY FAIRMONT, 6,AUTO. SOON TO BE V8. 05 BA FUTURA, 6 AUTO. 74 F100, 302. 95 CR 500 DIRTBIKE. 96 CR 500 DIRTBIKE. 78 PE 250 DIRTBIKE. 78 XL 250 DIRTBIKE. |
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building the xe...
Join Date: Aug 2005
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not so much a barn find, more a country property find haha country nsw is all i will say... im going to work up there soon so i might find some more...
but theres an xm ute, which looks to have been quite a hotrod back in the day, has a four speed manual, yes 4, i checked them myself by hand lol also has a 6, unsure of size but it was only a log manifold etc with extractors and different model seats, although im not sure what model exactly, possible fairlane or something... they looked too plush to be ute seats, and this would have had a bench originally? no interior pics though as yet i discovered the doors were unlocked after i put the phone back in my pocket and forgot... located at my wifes grandparents place, theres also an xa sedan thats had a tree fall on it, a kingswood wagon, beetle, a corolla coupe and some other random cars... now once i have property i will be taking it, if he lets me haha and restoing it slowly... story is 7 years ago, only 6 months before i came into the family and visited the place, a wrecker came in over a week or so with two tilttrays and took about 20 cars, so if this is what they left i dont want to know what was there before :( theres also a desoto ute, never seen one before in my life, id also like to resto this but wouldnt now where to start... these things were there when they bought the property in 92, so i dont know how long they were there before that... if the trees could talk lol being country nsw, they arent TOO BAD rust wise, certainly need repairing but overall repairable... ![]() ![]() ![]()
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building the xe...
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mind you i dont know how the massive wombat will like me buying his car haha the hole for this guy i could crawl down, and im not a small bloke :O
the roos might have dibs on it too lol
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How many people would bother fixing an old car, that at the time a complete driving example could be had for say $50 Its really no different to say people with VN,XFs, corollas nowadays that arent worth much My ol neighbour in the late 60s bought from the local wrecker a regoed,drive away FC holden with half a tank of juice for under a hundred Rego,juice from a wrecker,hate to know what the wrecker paid for it, to sell for the hundred and make money on the deal Id say its due to the urban sprawl how all these semi remote places are being found There were plenty of farms in the inner brissie CBD area that were full of the old stuff,that now is just housing estates For all the interest around re all the old stuff lying around, theres still plenty getting crushed daily |
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That old Celica would be worth a grand or two alone, not to mention the '59 Chev I could see there or the FB/FC ute. Hold an auction and the bloke could retire... |
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Years ago - XPO88 in Brisbane, 1 old guy had hundreds of cars (mostly suitable for restoration) stored in a warehouse at the now Southbank. When he was told to relocate, he sold some & stored as many as he could at friends & relies places in suburban Brisbane, the rest to the scrappers. He lived at Park Road & had the best of his stuff there. Nothing was for sale (cars or parts) - I tried many times as my brother lived next door to him & were both doing up EH's & drove my first Mk1 Cortina. Now all this stuff gone - suburban eyesores removed or cleaned up.
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08 Strike G6E T. 10 Ergo G6E Sept 75 XB Falcon in mushroom beige, 3 on the tree 200cid for sale, offers in the teens Last edited by MercurySilver; 03-10-2011 at 11:36 AM. |
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Isn't it obvious?
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http://www.barnfinds.com/82-year-old...model-a-fordor
http://www.barnfinds.com/mustang-mother-load 49 stangs sold for 23 grand american http://www.barnfinds.com/1960-merced...er-garage-find wow!
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08 Strike G6E T. 10 Ergo G6E Sept 75 XB Falcon in mushroom beige, 3 on the tree 200cid for sale, offers in the teens Last edited by MercurySilver; 03-10-2011 at 12:47 PM. |
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building the xe...
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Carnarvon
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Here's on I found.
Xw with 302 clevo, c4 and 9 inch. No rust and all the parts with it. Repainting it now. Last edited by lowfly; 03-12-2012 at 12:51 PM. |
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awesome
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Cheers nb 351
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