Listings

Great LS project popped up on Facebook Marketplace recently, located Melbourne, Australia. Asking a very reaosnable $10,000, the car is a projectr with the typical late model Leyland rust, but it's all there, and it appears to have its original engine still fitted. Awesome project for someone who is looking to restore something rare to original specs. Everything is there, just needs a lot of TLC...

Only the second one added to Classic Register - this one a little rougher than the first example: These are now quite rare cars (or always have been in Australia) , beinhg the top performance model in the Astra range, and a great performance hatch of the early 00s.. Astra had already gone the Turbo route whereas many other makes had stuck with the NA 2.0l engines, meaning these little rockets were...

What a colour, and on Bruno Sacco's finest car. This 500 SL from 1992 was advertised on Facebook Marketplace in January 2023 asking $41,990. The R129 never really dropped much below $25K, and Covid has seen the average asking price push over $40 K, so it's not bad value, especially for a low km example like this. The car looks immaculate with just 157,000 km in its 30+ years. No doubt it would...

These have become somewhat a forgotten performance hatch of the early 00s, but I think they deserve some attention. The Astras were one of the best looking hatches of their era - certainly the best proportioned hatch of the time, and combined with a decent body kit, lowered, and a performance turbo engine, there's a lot to like about these 20-year old hot hatches.. This one came up on Facebook...

Just clinging to life, this 998 LS was advertised on FB marketplace in January 2023 asking $3,000. The car is a wreck, with floors and roof rusted through very badly - common on the LS as it had a vinyl roof.. Due to poor record keeping toward the end of Leyland's time in Australia, it's not known how many 998 LS Minis there were built. Silver Blue was a popular colour and constituted most of them...

All the way over in Perth WA, this CL600 from 1997 would be one of perhaps just a handful of C140 V12s delivered new in Australia. The C140 is rare enough in standard V8 form (the lowest production S class coupe), but to see a V12 is exceptional - I think we've only seen one or two other V12 coupes in Australia up for sale in the last 5 or so years. This one looks immaculate with just 120,000km on...

Spotted this on a site called https://picturecarwarehouse.net/ - seems to be asking just $400 - but I'm not sure how authentic that asking price is. This was advertised as a Daytona Sports Sedan, but on closer inspection it appears to be a 2 door Commander (from what we can see of the trim). Unsure of what engine it has, or any description of its rust situation (other that what is revealed by the...

This beautiful example of a late model Turbo R was advertised through Classic Trader in January 2023. The car is a great example of the final production year of the Turbo Rs (excluding the "RT" variant), before the Arnage renewed range took over. I don't know much about these later model Turbo Rs, but would assume they are quite a different car to those of the 80s. At the time this Turbo R was...

Finally adding another to the register - this XR8 Spring ED Falcon was advertised on Lloyds auctions Australia in January 2022. I'd expect the car will sell at least in the early 20s. From the images, the car looks in great condition for its age, and someone's clearly looked after it knowing that it was going to be a modern classic. Relatively low Ks, and that classic 90s coloured trim. Love it...

This ultra-rare Australian delivered W140 600 SEL V12 was advertised on carsales in December 2023, asking just $26,500. While the car has reasonable Ks on the clock (315,000), we still think that something like this (and with this colour combo) would be higher - but there's some time to go before people catch onto the collectability of this all time greatest S-class. This is of course the SEL...

This derelict Silver Spirit was sold as part of an enormous estate auction in North-Western Sydney through Lloyds auctions. The auction which the car formed part of was the "Fairfield House", built in 1833. It's an imposing early Victorian era mansion that was originally built for the celebrated Blue Mountains explorer, William Cox. The mansion even hosted an international Cricket Match In 1882...