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22-04-2020, 10:27 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Just flicking through an old Autotrader magazine from 2000 that I found while cleaning out the shed. Only 20 years ago prices were still bloody cheap for the classics!!!
    
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22-04-2020, 10:46 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Perth
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Yeah, things went stupid for houses and cars about 20 years ago.
Damn, I could have bought that zc fairlane for about the same as I paid for my EA back in 1998. I think I paid $3600 for the EA just to get to Sydney and back reliably for a fun drive. My life would have been 90% better if I just went for the fairlane back then (one of my fav fords of all time). I had too much money wrapped up in to many other projects back then, like my 1990s bought mazda rx3 (bought $1400, worth 60k now if I still had it), my rx4 (bought $1300, worth 25k now if I still had it). But of course as a 25 y/o I didn't have a garage, a workshop, a driveway or a house yet so the cars and everything of value had to go in the end anyway |
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22-04-2020, 11:04 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canberra Region
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Can confirm that was a normal price for a ZC 302.
Still regret to this day not buying a very straight green one for that exact price around that time. Bought an EA instead.
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2016 FGX XR8 Sprint, 6speed manual, Kinetic Blue #170 2004 BA wagon RTV project. 1998 EL XR8, Auto, Hot Chilli Red 1993 ED XR6, 5speed, Polynesian Green. 1 of 329. Retired 1968 XT Falcon 500 wagon, 3 on the tree, 3.6L. Patina project. |
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22-04-2020, 11:45 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Perth
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Wow, another member of "could have bought a cheap ZC but decided on a dumb EA instead" club. Besides not buying a house for $130k, or getting rid of my rx spazdas during a fire sale when I lost everything, the lack of ZC is my biggest regret.
Yeah I know there was better cars for not much more back then that would be worth stupid money right now. But I only regret things I was genuinely thinking back then but didn't do - not what I should have done back then if I had a time machine or knew more than what I actually wanted at the time. Last edited by oldel; 22-04-2020 at 11:50 PM. |
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15-06-2020, 10:08 AM
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I am Groot
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Burnett Heads, Qld
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15-06-2020, 10:51 AM
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I am Groot
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Personally road tested and endorsed by 'MURRAY CARTER'.......
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15-06-2020, 11:05 AM
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HUGH JARSE
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Yap-Hoon
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In January 1972 I purchased a new XY Falcon 500 6, white with saddle trim, ER70 tyres, 3 on the tree and bench seat for $3150.00
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15-06-2020, 12:22 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2012
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20 years after that I bought an XY Falcon 500 6, black with black trim, Cheviot rims, 4sp auto and buckets for $2450.00
That car is now the Jesus Racing XY you see racing in the Touring Car Masters (the front half is at least) |
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