I saw your grey rocket Wayne.  It was just after the pink vibrator scene and just before the introduction of the sealed section.

Some good old cars and clever blending of new and old footage.  Good on you for participating.

Did you take her for a spin in the FE??

Great old pics.  Thanks.  Just need to find a pic of an FE or FC towing an old grey powered wooden speed boat

These photos were taken from the autosports.com forum.  I was born in 1969 Alex, so I wasn't too handy with a camera at that stage.  They are great pictures.  I saw the others you posted on 'Illusion' too Alex.  Great information.

The number plate on the FE is a German temporary plate.  The owner of the car must have got one and decided he would make his car look a bit more exotic.  Wouldn't have been legal on the road in Australia, but then again, I doubt those rear tyres saw much highway use.

No offence taken Craig.  I agree some of those blokes like Ray have an incredible wealth of knowledge and amazing library of photographs and records.  We are lucky that they share some of it with us.

 

I'm in the (very slow) process of writing a book, and I've gone to extensive efforts of recordkeeping when it comes to photographs.  If I find a useful one on the internet, I try to track down the owner.  If I can't, I can manage to get a 'From the Collection of ...' note at the least.  My efforts aren't as extensive when it comes to re-posting pics on forums though.

Point taken Craig, but to me this is a very grey area when pics have been posted to other forums from various sources by people with a 'username' on the forum rather than a real name.

Also, some of these would have been previously published in books and newspapers over the years.

All pics in this thread to date have been 'taken' by me from the forums at Autosport.com in good faith and for the purposes of research among club members and car restorers, not for any other reason.  They are freely available on the internet for all to browse anyway, so if it all gets too hard, I won't bother posting any here.  I've always acknowledged ownership of photographs when known.  I don't consider acknowledgement necessary in this case for the reasons already explained.  To the casual observer (me) on autosport.com forums, I don't want to have to search to find the 'owner' of these pics, when the people who posted them didn't acknowledge ownership (even if it was their own) in many cases.  It's all part of the great knowledge base called the internet.

October, 1961 Mallala

More Oran Park early 1970s

Oran Park Sports Sedans 1971


Notice where the steering wheel is in this one?  Probably not sporting a grey motor 

Oran Park 1969...

Don Elliot Repco Holden

Thought a separate thread wouldn't go astray for some random shots...

Nowra Hill Climb 1961.  Ron Imiside's FE.

Apologies to the moderators if there is already a thread for these...

Castlereagh Drag meeting circa 1969...





And I've already gone 'Off topic' in the first post, but can't resist this chopped J.

More early '60s pit vehicles.

Might not make it to the starting grid next weekend...

1963 Lakeside Raceway...

Update to last post - the website is working today- it's a marketing campaign...

I don't know who paid for the advertisement, but my money is on it being an April Fools Day Joke.  The organisation (and the link to the website) doesn't exist.

It is aimed at people who have personalised plates.  Looks like they caught a couple of people with the gag.

 

Presumably you are in Victoria?  Unless the number plates are tranferrable, they aren't worth anything except about $10 each to number plate collectors (as opposed to someone who wants to register them on a vehicle).

Don't get too excited about the $3000 to $4000 asking prices.  I can ask $100 000 for my FE and $3million for my house, but I'll never get it...   Lots of blokes list number plates at stupid prices on ebay and other websites.  The only ones making any money out of this is Ebay- they get the listing fees.

I think you would be better off selling the car registered, with a RWC and that way, the original plates can stay with the car.  After all, not a great number of fifty plus year old cars still driving around with the original rego plates still attached.