Australian Cars In The UK

[martc]

Not a car, but it moves, it's Australian and it's over here -

The Australian Cruiser Mark I featured a complicated power plant comprising 3 Cadillac engines driving through a common transmission, and complex hull and turret castings. Sixty five were built. This one resides at the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset.

[MisterH]

50 minutes ago, martc said:

Not a car, but it moves, it's Australian and it's over here -

The Australian Cruiser Mark I featured a complicated power plant comprising 3 Cadillac engines driving through a common transmission, and complex hull and turret castings. Sixty five were built. This one resides at the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset.

Everyone says its gun was rubbish but as this was meant to be in the far east it would have been pretty damn good

[Austat]

Has this been mentioned yet? XA Fairmont that was sold on eBay a while back:

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ford-fairmont-estate-station-wagon-166041335

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[sierraman]

Hope the fairmont ended up in the right hands!

[Asimo]

In Coventry museum.  More or less a 4 litre Chrysler 180.

[mullett471]

Flickr again

[Austat]

[Austat]

UK market Holden Brougham!

[neil1971]

On 26/01/2020 at 14:24, MorrisItalSLX said:

Now this is a topic I will enjoy.

On the P76 front, there were 2 sent for evaluation, a saloon and a coupé, the latter never reaching production. There is also a Targa Florio in the UK too. All 3 of these cars survive to the best of my knowledge.

Not my photo but the orange P76 above was raced at Aldershot on Sunday.  Had a feeling I'd seen it on the eBay thread on here a while back.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

1 hour ago, neil1971 said:

Not my photo but the orange P76 above was raced at Aldershot on Sunday.  Had a feeling I'd seen it on the eBay thread on here a while back.

Absolutely disgraceful, some people have no conscience...

[sheffcortinacentre]

He'll be a legend in is own mind, 

[warch]

7 hours ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

Absolutely disgraceful, some people have no conscience...

Looking at that especially the view of inner arch I’d say that is too far gone to have ever passed another MoT so it probably isn’t a bad use of a car that would have been scrapped anyway.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I am not surprised it has gone this way, given it was a stripped shell with plenty of rust prior to this, so unlikely to have been restored.

Who knows how many unobtainium parts that only exist in minuscule quantities on the other side of the world would have been required to restore it.

https://www.aronline.co.uk/news/uk-spec-leyland-p76-unearthed/

[danthecapriman]

Banger racing itself doesn’t bother me really, but what does is the deliberate sourcing of rare cars to use. It’s supposed to be a motorsport to see off knackered old MOT failures before they get shredded anyway. Hunting down the rare and weird to destroy like that just seems a bit cuntish to me.  
I know most of them are beyond saving or have been used as parts cars to restore better ones but still.

Saying that of course, it’d probably be cheaper and definitely easier to import a P76 from Oz where at least it wouldn’t be hopelessly rotten.

I don’t honestly know how people can race cars like these tbh. I just couldn’t destroy something so cool even if they are rotten!

[comfortablynumb]

Slightly off topic, but I've seen a couple of YouTube videos recently, xacoupeguy and automotive karnage, dealing with outback abandoned cars, spotting, recovering and getting running again.

Anyone interested in Oz metal might find it interesting 

[quicksilver]

Mad Max replica displayed at Collectormania in Milton Keynes last month. No info with it and it doesn't look roadworthy so probably not UK registered.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Banger racing itself doesn’t bother me really, but what does is the deliberate sourcing of rare cars to use. It’s supposed to be a motorsport to see off knackered old MOT failures before they get shredded anyway. Hunting down the rare and weird to destroy like that just seems a bit cuntish to me.  
I know most of them are beyond saving or have been used as parts cars to restore better ones but still.

Saying that of course, it’d probably be cheaper and definitely easier to import a P76 from Oz where at least it wouldn’t be hopelessly rotten.

I don’t honestly know how people can race cars like these tbh. I just couldn’t destroy something so cool even if they are rotten!

It's a shame they can't just race boring, run of the mill stuff...

[danthecapriman]

45 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

It's a shame they can't just race boring, run of the mill stuff...

That’s what it started off as. A cheap amateur motorsport. You picked up an MOT failed Austin Cambridge or whatever (which were dirt cheap and plentiful at the time) then knocked the windows out and went racing. After it got too bent to use it got scrapped. 
Now though it seems to be some sort of strange ‘cool points’ if you find something rare or unusual and destroy it instead. 
There loads of old Mondeo’s, Focus’, Astra’s etc etc that can be had for bugger all that are just finished anyway. That’s what should be getting used.

Its such a shame now imho that cars that have lasted this long and are becoming very thin on the ground are still getting destroyed like that. 
Still, as long as they legally own the vehicle it’s up to them I suppose.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Because alot of these people haven't got the talent to restore something all they know is how to destroy stuff be it cars, homes, relationships,etc

[sierraman]

7 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I am not surprised it has gone this way, given it was a stripped shell with plenty of rust prior to this, so unlikely to have been restored.

Who knows how many unobtainium parts that only exist in minuscule quantities on the other side of the world would have been required to restore it.

https://www.aronline.co.uk/news/uk-spec-leyland-p76-unearthed/

Unless someone actually comes forward with actual money and a concrete plan to actually do something with it then inevitably it ends up going on the track. As sad as it is enthusiasts will have had the opportunity to buy it, all too often they fart about something chronic then a racer turns up with cash in his hand and takes it away. 

[danthecapriman]

7 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I am not surprised it has gone this way, given it was a stripped shell with plenty of rust prior to this, so unlikely to have been restored.

Who knows how many unobtainium parts that only exist in minuscule quantities on the other side of the world would have been required to restore it.

https://www.aronline.co.uk/news/uk-spec-leyland-p76-unearthed/

Weirdly, that orange P76 has clearly been heavily stripped of parts already but for what!? There’s not exactly many of them here to use the bits on. I can only think of one other UK P76 (that immaculate dark green one).

[MorrisItalSLX]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Weirdly, that orange P76 has clearly been heavily stripped of parts already but for what!? There’s not exactly many of them here to use the bits on. I can only think of one other UK P76 (that immaculate dark green one).

The article seems to suggest it was somebody’s half finished project and that there was a bunch of parts with it.

The article also says that the new owner had big plans for a restoration, so something must have happened to that plan.

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

The article also says that the new owner had big plans for a restoration, so something must have happened to that plan.

Or there was no plan, it was just to make sure they got hold of it without the seller refusing to sell?

[green200b]

[green200b]

Interestingly enough, P76s aren't worth anywhere near as much as other Australian cars of the same age. If you were in the UK and wanted one, I think you could comfortably have one landed and on the road for around £10,000.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

1 hour ago, green200b said:

Interestingly enough, P76s aren't worth anywhere near as much as other Australian cars of the same age. If you were in the UK and wanted one, I think you could comfortably have one landed and on the road for around £10,000.

If it was half that amount I might be slightly tempted. I was quoted £3800 a couple  of years ago to import a car from Australia, which is bad enough. Classic car prices in Australia have gone absurd now that they no longer have a car industry...

[MorrisItalSLX]

Good luck getting a decent example of any Australian built car made before 1990 for under $30,000. Even 1990s cars are getting up there.