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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

$20,000 ...sounds like a bargain

I didn't say it was $20, I don't recall how much he paid, but I know it was OVER $20...

Get that POS Holden outta our Chrysler thread!

Nice photo Dan !!!!! What a machine..........*drool*........

Yeah that is a nice Munro. For a Holden.

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.....

Ok........i'll put my hand up as well ......used to own a 1970 VG Valiant(245hemi) until i wrote it off .

I have to admit i have a soft spot for late 60's/early 70's MOPAR...big block chargers/cudas/challengers.

That new challenger looks pretty cool.........an attempt to match what ford are doing with the mustang.

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..

1968 VE Safari station wagon with the slant 6

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I thought you might appreciate this.

ZX9R King wrote:I want a P76......
but I should've kept that to myself

I would like to own a P51

I dont know if this counts as a mopar.....

I once traded a guitar for a car....

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

I once owned a 1986 Ford laser...

mods... cd player



is that a mopar?

Duane wrote:I once owned a 1986 Ford laser...

mods... cd player



is that a mopar?

Sure, why not... If my Alto was a Mopar so is your ford laser...

Love the Vid Uncle Sam!!!!! Man I would love to have something like that.

HemiDuty wrote:Love the Vid Uncle Sam!!!!! Man I would love to have something like that.

Yeah me too............