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laidback wrote:

EDU wrote:My dad had a 67 fastback Mustang and sold it one year before I could drive... how's that for bad timing?

Pretty good timing I'd say...

Dad thought so too... lol

will always regret scrapping my first car - HT GTS Monaro. 5 litre, Powerglide.....what a great first car for an 18-yo Broke a rocker stud girdle ?? I think that was it - years ago, dragging my mate in his V6 Capri. Had NFI about car engines back then, so just scrapped the car. - I think I got maybe $500 back for parts ? It cost me $1500 in 1980, complete with a rear-main oil leak that was so bad, oil used to fling up onto the underside of the bonnet - then slowly work its way along the underside of the bonnet and drip down the grille when the car was parked !!

Bikes - not so bad. Still have my first *big* road bike - an RD350B - and of course the Pearl - but still wish I had kept my very first road bike from 1978 - a CB125T, 1968 vintage.

Funny to see a few punters mentioning the Purvis Eureka ! I always lusted after one of these during the 70's - the best ones are the last ones, and good ones have Subaru boxer motors fitted fuck the VW engines.

Beautiful car MadKaw! I can just see you, with long hair, leaning up against it, durrie hanging out of your mouth


I sold my two-door lime green 1972 V6 Capri and The Lad sold his two-door 1977 LX L32 SS Torana for backpacks and plane tickets. So painful to realise what it would cost to replace them these days. We both loved those cars so much

Cath wrote:Beautiful car MadKaw! I can just see you, with long hair, leaning up against it, durrie hanging out of your mouth
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True, except there was no smokin near the Torrie.!!!

Had a genuine XW Phase 2 HO ex FOMO car, green with saddle trim, paid $4700 back in 1970 sold it for 9500 three years later. Thought, what a fool paying 9.5 for a 4yo Falcon.
Now I try not to think about it.

Ashy.

That would have been a fair bit of coin in 74 though. My parents bought a nice brick house in Adamstown Heights in Newcastle around 1970 for $12k.

bonester wrote:That would have been a fair bit of coin in 74 though. My parents bought a nice brick house in Adamstown Heights in Newcastle around 1970 for $12k.

Yep. My old man sold his mothers house in Balmain for $12500 in 1972. Had a view of the Harbour Bridge too.

Mind you I think houses were a LOT cheaper years ago. My grandfather worked as a labourer in the BHP at Newcastle and I can't imagine he earned much doing that. He saved up and bought a block of land in New Lambton, then built a small brick house there, and NEVER had a mortgage!!!!!! Dunno how common that would have been then, but the mortgage is an EVIL that screws so many people these days.

This was late 50s early 60s BTW

Gosling1 wrote:.....................

Bikes - not so bad. Still have my first *big* road bike - an RD350B - and of course the Pearl - but still wish I had kept my very first road bike from 1978 - a CB125T, 1968 vintage.

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me too... as I still yearn after my ol'blue MACH III

Unfortunately the old Mach 3s and 4s cost a bomb now. GPZ900rs like I used to own are still affordable at least for now. Might be just about the only affordable classic around.

bonester wrote:.....That would have been a fair bit of coin in 74 though. My parents bought a nice brick house in Adamstown Heights in Newcastle around 1970 for $12k. .......

can you remember the address ? My mum grew up in Adamstown, the old man in Lambton, directly opposite the pool. His dad - my Pop - also worked at Big Harry's (BHP) - for many years, I think he kicked off at BHP in the late 20's and worked there until the early 70's......its a small world......

Yep 19 Lucas Crescent in Adamstown Heights and 2 Cross St New Lambton. When I was a kid we got a cab back to Cross St- the driver called it Kings Cross cos the intersecting road was Kings Road! Still love the place. Childhood memories....

did someone say Purvis Eureka?


even in this sad state, its worth around $5K, purely due to the rarity.

Body work still lines up pretty well.. especially given the conditions!