Dan wrote:A guy at a place we do IT for bought an old Manaro, very early rounder shape in a canary yellow, completly original was in a photo shoot with the new Monaro in yellow also, with a bloke in the boot to drop the arse end down abit.
Dunno what he paid for it, but I believe well over $20, took him 5 years of coaxing the original owner to sell it.. It's got the original plates and the owner just recently gave him a set of plates he's had for years but never put on.. HK 1968 or something like that I think it looks just like this from the pics he showed me..
feck Dan
only $20............large??
FYI
an incomplete and damaged version of one of these
went for auction (at Shannons late last year) ...for hmmphhh cough
...... $55,000
and it was thought it would need at least $25 - $30,000 spent
on it
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Oh and the 4.0l six in the older Cherokees (like my brothers) are an evolution of the old Rambler / AMC sixpot engine. Bloody decent thing too, for years they had more power and were faster than any other 4WD in their class. The thing hammers, it's more like driving a car than a Fourbie, you can get it sideways on the bitumen easy as, pulls good burnouts and shit. Pity the tyres cost so much.....
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VJ 245Hemi 6cyl, check the petrol and top up the oil. Bloody valve stem seals. Anyway it was a bucket of shit when I bought it for the princely sum of $300 in 1988 in Burnie tas after writting off my LS munro. I couldnt kill that thing, it was one tough grunty motor and had a speco "3 speed bash ya hand on the dash floor shift" , it went so well I drove it to Whyalla SA to start work at BHP in the Blast furnace and was used daily as a work hack. I flogged that thing it just wouldnt die. I sold it to a local for $500. profit hehe.
Had a really early (not S next shape model) V? as a smash up car that made a few appearances at Nyora speedway. Died a sad death with the old slant block being cracked in half from impact..
it was a 1987 Suzuki Alto, Canary Yellow, 3 cylinder 1100 CC, SOHC....
It lasted approximately 3 years before the doors fell off and it wouldnt pass a warrant of fitness any more... During that time I put 40,000 on the clock...
When the wrecking yard came to pick it up, they gave me $80 for it.... Which means I made a loss of $220
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, it went so well I drove it to Whyalla SA to start work at BHP in the Blast furnace and was used daily as a work hack. I flogged that thing it just wouldnt die. I sold it to a local for $500. profit hehe.
