Investing in a cars, machinery.

[Wishfull]

And what happens when not if but when the power grid fails and it takes weeks to get it back up again. The country stops. No electric trucks to resupply towns.
I wonder ehen we will get electric planes. I did see the Chinese have built a people carrying drone, but the props were unprotected so very unwise to get out of it when it's still running.
Being an ex mechanic I go by Murphies law..If something can go wrong it will go wrong.

If I had have had the forthought I would have bought a GTHO or Monaro or XU1 Torrana but having said that, to have had it shedded and kept it in good condition up until now would have been a pain.

 

[Ded Driver]

the big alternative that the media & too many of our pollies are turning a blind eye to, is Hydrogen
The CSIRO has made some great advances in this area of production & utilisation in vehicles (using ammonia as a carriage medium), & it may soon become a very real alternative fuel that can run traditional piston engines with mostly water vapour exhausted, although some Nitrous Oxides are present, there is also technology available to deal with this.
https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/EF/Areas/Low-emissions-technologies/Hydrogen-membrane
https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/CSIRO-tech-accelerates-hydrogen-vehicle-future

 

[Wishfull]

Nitros Oxides. That's funny stuff right there :lol:

 

[tuner]

and it wont change the temperature one thousand of a percent

 

[Ded Driver]

ahhhh yeah not necessarily the funny type N2O but the nasty NOx types

 

[Moneybox]

I spent nearly twenty years making bits and pieces to change these from LHD to RHD. At some point I woke up and within a week or two closed the workshop.

This was an unfinished project left behind. One day, after I'd retired I got a phone call that changed things a bit. I got an offer for the Hummer H1 Alpha that I couldn't refuse so out it went. We bought a couple of houses with the funds but nothing beat the relief of driving it out of the workshop for the last time

[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_oI4NJUYg[/video]

 

[Greenhornet_au]

I have had the interesting opportunity to drive one of those in SA many years ago when they where the rage.

Test drive and really didnt turn me on.

But it was for a planned fund raiser, if it could be pulled off as a nationwide raffle.

Became too complicated way too fast, so I pulled the pin.

Loved the sparrow bar on front - LMAO

 

[Reg Wilson]

There are many of these monsters in Cambodia where they are owned by political cadres of Hun Sen the ex Khmer Rouge puppet dictator, installed by Vietnam to run the country according to their satisfaction. Cambodia is a typical corrupt third world country run by thugs and gangsters, and these sort of vehicles are a status symbol. I knew a guy here in Australia who had one. I would class him as a cashed up bogun.

 

[Jaros]

He might just be a bloke who worked hard and saved for something he wanted.....No need for that characterisation. :N:

 

[Jaros]

How bad was the economy and was it good off road?

 

[Reg Wilson]

Jaros, you didn't know the bloke. I did. 'A fool and his money' etc. He came by his money through inheritance, and quickly lost it. Who in their right mind would buy such a gas guzzling monstrosity?
Moneybox made the right decision.

 

[Moneybox]

How bad was the economy and was it good off road?

Off road is where they really shine. On road they are nothing special unless you like to have your photo taken by strangers every few minutes I was the technical trainer and driver trainer for Australasia. On one occasion I was in Brisbane and at night a friend asked me for a demo. I told him we need somewhere where his landrover couldn't go. We went to a vacant block that had been filled by tip-truck. It was just pile after pile of peaked mounds where the trucks backed up and dropped their load. We started at one corner of the block and took a straight line across the top. Half of the time the Hummer had one wheel in the air with the belly scraping but it never faulted.

On another occasion I was buying a new Subaru and the dealer asked to see what it would do. I parked it with one wheel about a meter up a gumtree on their front lawn. Another time we were out with a 4WD club in WA's southwest. When we stopped for lunch in a clearing I parked one front wheel on a tree stump about a metre high and a metre wide. It is a magnificent vehicle off road.

This particular vehicle is the only Hummer H1 Alpha in Australia. This model with the 6.6L Isuzu engine was only built one year. It was the only year of production by GM before the GFC where they dumped the Hummer production forever.

 

[Jaros]

A man of many talents. Would have been a great time.

 

[Goldchaser1]

Having been a car nut all my life I have enjoyed some very nice cars that i collected and kept. Only have a couple left now and they are for sale as health determines that other things are now more important. Havve sold in last couple years an EH holden with genuine 37000 miles on clock, no rust, was in new car condition, HR sedan with 67000 miles all original in as new condition also never touched in any way,, HK monaro GTS in good condition, repo 1932 ford 2 window coupe with 671 chev power, LH SLR 5000 in imaculate condition. Cannot store cars now as have shifted into small 2 bed house. Currently selling my 1927 T hotrod coupe with V12 mercedes motor. Picture added. Will have last to HR premier sedans, one a gen X2 for sale shortly, one in fair condition but rust free, the other minor rust but needing work.
Any body interested just PM me. Asking $55k neg for hotrod.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/5200/1557449429_20190407_170256.jpg

Hey TG any pics of the Hr x2?
dam youve had some nice cars....

 

[travelergold]

This is not HR, but is some of pure gold recently sold

Tough 304 fuel injected 5 speed lh torana,

HJ holden with origonal 202 6 cyl and 4 speed all factory.

Updated power plant, this came out of another a coupe that i was building as a show car with grunt to match. The car burnt to ground in our shed fire but salvaged motor. Is 350, 671, fitech twin fuel injection. (Do not use fitech, does not work and no backup service)

Also recently sold, an escort ghia in all original condition.
Bern having trouble uploading pictures as do not know how ro reduce them. Was going to put up hr's and hk monaro but cant get them to load.
Has been hard to offload but health has been the driver for this.

 

[Smoky bandit]

That Torana is Awesome...Brings back some Great teenage memories :Y: :beer:

 

[HippyProspecting]

That lh is awesome

 

[Reg Wilson]

Wow, as an old petrolhead there was some great stuff there. My history included 37 Ford sedan, Single Spinner sedan, 54 Customline, 65 Mustang 2+2, 68 2+2, 67 Mercury Cougar, 68 Camaro, 70 Cougar, 70 Mercury Cyclone Comet. Then I discovered Porsches. 70 911T, 71 911T, 74 Carrera, and 76 911 Carrera.
My remaining toy is 81 BMW 635 csi. Motorbikes??? Too many to remember. I had 2 motorbike shops, one of which was a Harley Davidson agency. Current bike....M109R.

 

[CreviceSucker]

Tough 304 fuel injected 5 speed lh torana.

25 years ago a workmate had an LH like yours , he wanted $22,000 for it then , of course I told him he was dreaming...

 

[Outback]

Wow, as an old petrolhead there was some great stuff there. My history included 37 Ford sedan, Single Spinner sedan, 54 Customline, 65 Mustang 2+2, 68 2+2, 67 Mercury Cougar, 68 Camaro, 70 Cougar, 70 Mercury Cyclone Comet. Then I discovered Porsches. 70 911T, 71 911T, 74 Carrera, and 76 911 Carrera.
My remaining toy is 81 BMW 635 csi. Motorbikes??? Too many to remember. I had 2 motorbike shops, one of which was a Harley Davidson agency. Current bike....M109R.

Reg you were a plaster until being a gold master , well done mate .
Loved the cars you had .

Cheers
Jack .