$30,000 FC

[Martin]

Well, Brett, you've whetted our curiosity (yes, that's correct spelling)  Show us some pics.  There's a Member's cars gallery waiting for you.

Martin

[customFC]

Hey Martin.
You must have missed it. To see Brett's ute, check out this post.
http://www.fefcholden.org.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=otherimg;action=display;num=1093854605
BTW, very nice car Brett.
Regards
Alex

[Martin]

Thanks, Alex.  I did miss it.

Mean machine, Brett.  Makes me want to buy shares in tyre manufacturers!

Martin

[keithu]

hey think ill push my one owner hd standard  sedaN UP TO ABOUT 15,000 WELl AND SIT AND SEE IF I CAN SELL it  FOR THAT, WOW WISH ME LUCK GUYS  :P

[fccool59]

my theory is the older the car, the more it is worth modyfying, and the newer it is the better it is to keep it standard.
if I had a dollar for everytime someone told me my car would be worth a mint if it was all original I would be a millionare.
next time you are looking at cars for sale compare modified versions to standard.
A 2003 corolla or pulsar with a fully sick exhuast, subwoofers, lowered, mags, pod air filter etc. will be lucky to get any more than a grand less than your nannas stocker, on the other end of the scale if you take a look at cars around 70 years old, unless they are some rare limited production exotic, they seem to fetch four to five times the amount of stockers in the same model, I agree that if you are going to do so much work to a car that it's only worth doing it if your keeping it till the end.
I once had a friend with a FC sedan that he hotted up when he was young and then spent a fortune restoring it when he got older, having original vinyl recoloured by a place in victoria several times till he was sure it was the same as day one, rechroming all the badges, grill and bars, taxi rail, air cheif, nasco everything, start adding up the sums now, the colours were then matched to factory on everything and the body painted. the end result was a car that looked like the next stocker in line at car shows but with different colours.
Dont forget, a good running efi 5 litre V8, or a rebuilt hot red costs around the same as rebuilding a standard grey. and you can now get a CD/mp3/DVD player for about the same money as a air cheif radio, a four speed for less than the price of a crasher, and it is cheeper to weld up the badge and trim holes than fetch good trim and rechrome the badges. I bet there are resto jobs out there that cost the same or more that would pull less money than this modified.

[normd]

Geesh ? ? ?
     Then that must make mine worth a FORTUNE , cos the only thing on mine that is FC is the body & diff , everything else is modified , even down to the modified FE grill
 Mmmmm   Open to offers with plenty of " 000000's"
     ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
   (just kidding)

   Norm  :)

[Shayne]

Mmmmm   Open to offers with plenty of " 000000's"
            
   (just kidding)

I'll give you $1000. 0000000000000000 then Norm. ;)
(and I'm not kidding) :D
It's good to see you are back on deck!

[GREGD]

Must have been a real good car SOLD b4 i had a chance to look

[normd]

Hey Shayne
  the 00000 are the "wrong side of the > . <  Maaate  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

  (thanks mate , great to be back & gettin' better every day)

    Norm

[earlyholdenfan]

Hey Norm, did you mean $0000000001000.00??????
Matt  ;D

[normd]

Mmmm , Errrr ,  Uuummm ,  Matt ,  
       00000     are gettin in the right area , just the "1" is in the wrong place ,   hahaha

   Norm  :)

(Geesh , I better keep my mouth shut , or fingers off the K/Board  ;D  :o )

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

It's baa  aack!
The original link at the start of the thread said that the car sold.
Here it is again -
http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/DesktopDefault.aspx?UsedCarID=580816&TabID=200372&Alias=carpointau

You'd think if you are selling a car for 30,000 "smacks on the bum" you'd give out a few more details.

[Ed]

This car is featured in the latest article of Australian Street Rodding.

plenty of details in there.

no price comment from me, I think this car is TUFF!