Old classified ad

davship · 11-01-2020, 06:41 PM

An old ad from 1979.

Wonder what they traded it in for!!

guzzis3 · 11-01-2020, 06:59 PM

I don't know how old you are but back then all those cars were cheap as chips. When my year at high school got our licences at 3pm there would be clouds of smoke out front of school from XU1s GT falcons, one mate had a cobra hardtop, another had a capri I think it was a V6, monaros. Their first cars.

davship · 11-01-2020, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by guzzis3

I don't know how old you are but back then all those cars were cheap as chips. When my year at high school got our licences at 3pm there would be clouds of smoke out front of school from XU1s GT falcons, one mate had a cobra hardtop, another had a capri I think it was a V6, monaros. Their first cars.

Only 44yrs young, i remember one of my old mans mate had a cobra, and yes i do realize these cars weren't always 6 figures.

Tassie f100 · 11-01-2020, 07:17 PM

Sold my XW GT auto for $3000 in 1980. Probably be classed as in fair to good cond.Very good mechs reasonable body,good interior, round 200,000 miles.At same time could have bought pretty good HO3 for about $5500

ebv8 · 13-01-2020, 08:28 AM

my old man sold his phase 2 in 1980 for $5500, he said first caller of the morning (thursday) asked what the tacho went to, he ran out had a look and said 8k.
guy came and bought within an hour
he only sold it because my mum didn't want to drive it so they got a ex highway patrol HZ SL.

**Charliewool** · 13-01-2020, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by davship

An old ad from 1979.

Wonder what they traded it in for!!

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I spose it’s a little relative to the era?
I sold my genuine XRGT (tunnel rammed 289) in 1979 for $2700.. and thought it a fair price back then...
2 years previous I sold my Egli framed, HRD Black Shadow Vincent for $1800!
(“Relative” as I said, but still my 2 greatest fails as a young buck)

Fed · 13-01-2020, 12:04 PM

By memory they only cost a little over $5K brand new.

Tassie f100 · 13-01-2020, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fed

By memory they only cost a little over $5K brand new.

No doubt someone will set me straight,but I thought about $5k for the XW auto and just under $6k for the XY H.O

**73 4V XB** · 13-01-2020, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by davship

An old ad from 1979.

Wonder what they traded it in for!!

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My 11/73 XB GT sedan was ordered new by Dr George Olesnicky on the 1/10/1973 from Hogarth Motors in Ardrossan SA. Don’t understand why he bought a povo pack being a doctor but it is a manual 4V. For what ever reason he traded it in on a new one 2 years later, silly bugger went backwards

The price was $5200 + optional extras of $200.10 for option 52 wheels, PB radio and flat black bonnet.

davship · 13-01-2020, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ebv8

my old man sold his phase 2 in 1980 for $5500, he said first caller of the morning (thursday) asked what the tacho went to, he ran out had a look and said 8k.
guy came and bought within an hour
he only sold it because my mum didn't want to drive it so they got a ex highway patrol HZ SL.

Parents daily drive back in the day was a green XY Fairmont 302 up until mum wanted something smaller, so they bought a Toyota Corona.

davship · 13-01-2020, 07:30 PM

''2 years previous I sold my Egli framed, HRD Black Shadow Vincent for $1800!''

Wow just wow!! But, back then that was the market value of that bike.

IanC · 13-01-2020, 11:11 PM

In March 1980 I bought an 18 month old HZ SL sedan 6cyl manual with 40,000 on the clock for $2900 at the govt auctions. It was the petrol crisis and girls were fighting over Geminis but when the Kingswoods came up they were almost all passed in with no bids. I got 25 years out of that car and it is still going with a collector now. I only sold it because I wanted aircon, power steering and an automatic. So I bought a BA wagon which I am still running.

hayseed · 14-01-2020, 12:36 AM

In Late march '79 dad ordered a(then) Newly released XD Station Wagon, We Got It in November (that's how the Wait was back then). 250 Xflow 3 on the Tree. Mum Put her foot Down & got Aircon & Cloth faced Seats. (No more Burnt backs of the Legs on Hot vinyl) & a Towbar & wiring. From Memory it was not quite $9,000 out the gate..

**Charliewool** · 14-01-2020, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by davship

''2 years previous I sold my Egli framed, HRD Black Shadow Vincent for $1800!''

Wow just wow!! But, back then that was the market value of that bike.

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roKWiz · 14-01-2020, 07:24 AM

1979, I wanted to trade my first car , a HZ Holden Kingswood wagon for a LE Monaro I saw up at the Ford dealer in Gordon but ended up buying a 308 HZ Premier with all the bells and whistles.
I couldn't get insurance for a 2 door (P plates) as appose to the sedan.
The LE was $7 000 ($11 500 new) and the Premier was $6 000 ($9 500 new)
In 1993 I sold a modified HX Sandman for $3 300, I think I was asking $10 000 at the time.

Tassie f100 · 14-01-2020, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by hayseed

In Late march '79 dad ordered a(then) Newly released XD Station Wagon, We Got It in November (that's how the Wait was back then). 250 Xflow 3 on the Tree. Mum Put her foot Down & got Aircon & Cloth faced Seats. (No more Burnt backs of the Legs on Hot vinyl) & a Towbar & wiring. From Memory it was not quite $9,000 out the gate..

Ford had an advertising program where they were spruiking XD prices starting at $6666.

roKWiz · 14-01-2020, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Ford had an advertising program where they were spruiking XD prices starting at $6666.

I think that's how my old man ended up buying a XD Ghia and sold me his HZ wagon, he swore he would never buy a small (in his words) Commodore. (His first Ford after a long history with Holden.)
He wanted some luxuries and a wagon but Ford didn't make a Ghia wagon.

roKWiz · 14-01-2020, 08:00 AM

Stolen freshly off the interwebs.

**Giant Cranium** · 14-01-2020, 08:12 AM

what were you blokes earning back in late 70's early 80's, just so i can compare it to say a $30000 fg gt these days

Citroënbender · 14-01-2020, 08:19 AM

I’ve been intermittently tracking my old XP hardtop as it gets traded, it’s curious to see the apparent lack of interest in its provenance - being either the other reliability HT or an immediate (identical in all specs and dates) production line sibling. There’ll probably be a few facepalms in times to come...

If one looks at car spend circa XBGT era, my father traded his bought new Escort 1100 for a credit of $800 against a second-hand Euro with $3500 on the ticket. Ironically he earlier eschewed trading up to an Escort Twin Cam because he saw no point in it.

Tassie f100 · 14-01-2020, 08:29 AM

If my memory is any good the figure of around $50 week.Around 1969 I did a few weeks at Barry Beach cutting up scrap steel and we were getting a bit over $100,but it was only a few weeks work.

**Charliewool** · 14-01-2020, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

what were you blokes earning back in late 70's early 80's, just so i can compare it to say a $30000 fg gt these days

1972 as a 1st yr apprentice I was on $26.75 per week... $25.00 clear after $1.75tax (I still have my 1st pay envelope back home somewhere)
I think by my 5th yr (1977) it was $96 or $98 per week, and a tradesman was $115.00 odd

**Giant Cranium** · 14-01-2020, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Charliewool

1972 as a 1st yr apprentice I was on $26.75 per week... $25.00 clear after $1.75tax (I still have my 1st pay envelope back home somewhere)
I think by my 5th yr (1977) it was $96 or $98 per week, and a tradesman was $115.00 odd

wow, so these days it would be like buying a 10 year old c63, not really super affordable for the average income

Tassie f100 · 14-01-2020, 11:38 AM

Yeah but put in perspective.Pretty good sort of a house less than $50k so maybe 10-50 yrs pay,not really much different to now

**Giant Cranium** · 14-01-2020, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Yeah but put in perspective.Pretty good sort of a house less than $50k so maybe 10-50 yrs pay,not really much different to now

50 years pay is about right in sydney these days

hayseed · 14-01-2020, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by roKWiz

Stolen freshly off the interwebs.

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Thanks for That, By the Time you add the extras & the fact he bought it off a Country Dealer in a one horse Town. $9,000 is very doable..

roKWiz · 14-01-2020, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

what were you blokes earning back in late 70's early 80's, just so i can compare it to say a $30000 fg gt these days

Start 1980 Ist year apprentice $62 pw. on the second year I think it went to $85 pw.
Funny I was offered a weekend job (in my 2nd year) contract by the same team @ $100 per day Saturday and Sunday.
For the month or so the job lasted at that money I thought I was king s**t.

**Charliewool** · 14-01-2020, 12:58 PM

True that... Perspective!..
They were way way different times!!
I had a heap of car nut mates around Maribyrnong, Footscray, Ascot Vale area back then..
XW/XY GT’s galore as well as the odd HO. Some real hot quickies too!
Late 70s, 3 grand would easy get you a mates XY GT when he was “battling”.
Holdens also... I bought a black HK monaro (307, 2 speed glide) for $500, off a mate that was going bad, spent 100 bucks getting the “canary” off and sold it at the Anglers pub for a gorilla ($1000) 2 weeks later.
There were stuff all “mock-ups” back then... These are genuine GT’s I’m talking about!
Mind you... most of us were either lowly apprentices or similar poorly paid plebs, so 2 or 3 grand was a bloody LOT of splash... most of us lived payday to payday to buy new TA radials or go fast bits...
I remember, I had a 56 Cusso with a 429/C6, 9”... Grinding noise outta rear brakes..
Shoes were metal to drum and no moola (except for fuel and beer) ... I pulled the shoes out, plugged the rear lines and I swear drove it like that for months!
Nowadays, they’d shoot you for similar!

Were bloody great times though, and fantastic memories!

roKWiz · 14-01-2020, 01:14 PM

I remember a new rich kid on the block that had a VW. We all had Sandman's, GTS's 1 tonners, a couple had GT Falcon coupes.
This little British racing green Beetle had a Porsche transplant with the proper forged Porsche wheels fitted being the only outward sign it had been modded.
Geeze he would rub everyone up the wrong way with this thing including the cops but it was street legal unlike most of our stuff.

Yeah 3 grand bought you a lot of go fast.

**Charliewool** · 14-01-2020, 01:53 PM

We had a mate among our crew that his mum & dad bought him a brand spankin Corolla when he got his licence.... (I remember we got 102mph flatout of it one night, which was boogying for a little 4 banger)
Anyhow, after the ridicule he continually copped about “jap sh it”, 12 months later he sold it and bought an immaculate Vermillion Fire XYGT AND got change back from the 2 deals!!
Mum & dad were no talkies to young Peter for months and months!