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This one should fetch a decent price - appears to have undergone a full restoration in a non-original red, and overall looks very clean. This Red SSS coupe was advertised on Lloyds auctions in January 2023 - amazing the variety of cars that they get through Lloyds. See the original advertisement here. We've been working hard to retain the details of any SSS that comes up - so many of them have...

This Cortina GT 440 (MK2) was asking a big $60,000 when spotted on Facebook Marketplace in January 2023. The car looks in good order, but we hadn't realised prices were this high. The GT MK2s are one of my favourites as they are basically a miniature Falcon GT - and add those stripes as they did to the Australian models from the factory, and it's a great looking little sports sedan. The 440 was...

They keep popping up online - this poor old 180B wreck was advertised on FB marketplace in January 2023, asking $5,000. Unsurprisingly, it was snapped up very quickly! Looks to be a very original car, but would need at least $15,000 ploughed into it to get it looking the part and to deal with all that rust. It is certainly worth saving despite the rust - these 180Bs are ultra-rare Japanese coupes...

This 89 model Pao was advertised on Facebook marketplace in January 2023, and with just 134,000km on the clock it's surprisingly cheap asking just $9,500 AUD. There are very few of these that have been imported to Australia, and some others we've seen have been asking a lot more in the past. There were around 31,000 of these cars built in total, so globally they are relatively rare - presumably...

There was nothing quite like the 90s when it came to Japanese coupes. Mitsubishi's contribution was the "GTO" (in some markets, referred to as the 3000 GT. These haven't quite taken off at Skyline GT-R prices, but have followed more the prices of high-spec 300ZXs. We spotted this one on Facebook Marketplace n January 2023, at the time asking $18,000. It has around 230,000km on the clock, but...

Super-rare, but perhaps not one of the most desirable HSV variants, I felt it was nonetheless important to document this early VN sports wagon. It passed in unsold on Grays Auctions in December 2022. Unsure of the price at the time I do presume it was in excess of $10,000. Described as being in overall "fair" condition by the seller, it was offered unregistered and looks to have lived a fairly...

It's probably been mentioned before on this site: The AU Fairlane (and LTD) are the closest thing you can get to a Lincoln in Australia. Their styling was very unique, and I think it was a real success compared to its contemporary AU Falcon, whose design was very heavily criticized. It might just be a coincidence, but most of the LTDs I have seen up for sale are 1999 models (perhaps their...

This 85 VK Brock SS was advertised on Carsales.com.au and in several other spots in late 2022 - asking $145,000 AUD. One of the best looking of the 80s SS cars, and I particularly like this in silver (you just see so many in Blue!). The car looks in excellent condition - with a few comments from the seller in the original ad extracted and pasted below: The seller noted that the car was originally...

There's something to be said for Australian muscle cars, particularly by the time the 70s rolled around and local designers gained more control over the vehicle styling. There's nothing quite like the XA/XB/XC coupes - really unique in their scale and presence. The closest thing in the US would be an AMC AMX, but it's not quite on the same scale. This Fairmont GS was advertised on Grays auctions...

Advertised on Facebook as well as through ww.ironcitygarage.com, this is another great 'barn find' of the rare Hudson Hollywood Hardtop. This time, it's finished in a relatively vanilla white paint (with beige? side stripe). Certainly one of the less flashy Hollywoods around (although I do love the contrasting Blue trim). Being a 56, it likely had the Packard 320ci V8 engine. At the time, the car...

The grave of the unknown 180B. This one is sadly not repairable, so we'll add it for the sake of preserving its memory, and demonstrating how bad rust can get on these 180Bs.. Sad to see a complete car be parted out, but this example is likely headed that way, advertised on facebook Matketplace in December 2022 asking $3,000. We've got a lot of 180B SSS coupes on the register now - see the Datsun...

Vary rare - last saw one of these in 2019 down at the Ballarat Swap meet! Never been a fan of the name "Sundowner", buy we have to live with it. A very cool edition which was available across a couple of falcon generations, as well as with the Ford escort van in Australia. They were available in a number of colours, but Yellow would have to be the stand out choice. There are estimates that there...