Barn Finds Are Still Out There.... - Page 13

LOCO XP · 14-09-2011, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Rodp

Seems to have gone from barn finds to paddock corpses. :(

it'll buff out?

Ben73 · 14-09-2011, 12:51 AM

I had A barn find today in Gulgong. It was a early 2000s Holden Astra. It was sitting in a front yard with grass growing around it, bits hanging off it and just a general terrible condition.

Also found a old truck, bus, datsun and something else. The astra was just not expected.

ZDTank · 14-09-2011, 05:36 PM

Great thread.

**Burnout** · 14-09-2011, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben73

I had A barn find today in Gulgong.

Gulgong is the home of barn finds, just go take a look at the museum...... I've seen more stuff on Farms than just about anywhere else.
I even buried an XY sedan with a D8 one afternoon on the insistence of the owner, it had the drive train out of it and had only done 43,ooo genuine miles. He didn't like the bit of cancer in the in the near side A & C pillars.

gcg2503 · 14-09-2011, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Burnout

Gulgong is the home of barn finds

Not when the barn find is a 10 year old Holden Astra.......

JG23TG450 · 15-09-2011, 05:53 PM

great thread

TC200six · 15-09-2011, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben73

I had A barn find today in Gulgong. It was a early 2000s Holden Astra. It was sitting in a front yard with grass growing around it, bits hanging off it and just a general terrible condition.

I wonder why a car that modern was abandoned? Being familiar with those Opel Holdens myself, it's no mystery why the owners gave up on it.

JG23TG450 · 16-09-2011, 08:41 AM

Found yhis XD Sundowner Panelvan in a local towing yard in amoungst all the wrecks I spotted the wheel and wanted them for my XC but after a bit of research I found that only 94 of these were made in the XD range and only a few of that 94 were plated as V8 as this one is so now it sits in my garage making my XC look great while waiting for time and funds to allow a rebuild.

How it looked in the yard;

How it should look;

And MY XC;

JG23TG450 · 16-09-2011, 09:11 AM

Two more pic's, and forgot to mention that in the back I found the original rear spoiler and cargo racks .....GOLD.....

Notice the 7 ic sideways ?????

**Polyal** · 16-09-2011, 09:16 AM

One of those would make a cool holidaying/roadtrip car, if it was just two of you.

cowboy · 16-09-2011, 09:30 AM

Awesome find, I'd love one of these.

**TUF_302** · 16-09-2011, 11:22 AM

Sweet find mate!

Falcon_Crazy · 16-09-2011, 11:26 AM

what a rippa find! look fwd to following the restoration

XESP351 · 16-09-2011, 02:03 PM

Good find mate, factory 302. Geez she needs a fair bit of work though.

**Tucool** · 17-09-2011, 10:28 AM

I think this might qualify for a find, I was talking to an aquaintance of mine the other day when I noticed a ute down the back, when I asked about it she told me it is a XK ute that was imported from the USA and she had owned it since she was 17 years old,I didn't want to ask her age

but shes no spring chicken. anyway it is still licenced and runs but rarely gets driven other than to throw some hay out to the horses,so if anybody is interested send me a Pm and i'll see what I can do.

ms33 · 19-09-2011, 02:29 PM

Not my photos taken from another forum,

Some playground equipment in South Africa

2011G6E · 19-09-2011, 02:48 PM

Holy crap, a Sundowner!!! That'll look good repainted and striped up as per original ones...you just don't see them anymore!

FERG_51 · 19-09-2011, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ms33

Not my photos taken from another forum,

Some playground equipment in South Africa

Are the playground i always dreamed of

, badged as a V8 too.

Rodp · 19-09-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FERG_51

Are the playground i always dreamed of

, badged as a V8 too.

Damn, I priced that chrome strip on the rear window from Rare Spares about 15 years ago, they wanted $2000 back then!

xe351 · 20-09-2011, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JG23TG450

Found yhis XD Sundowner Panelvan in a local towing yard in amoungst all the wrecks I spotted the wheel and wanted them for my XC but after a bit of research I found that only 94 of these were made in the XD range and only a few of that 94 were plated as V8 as this one is so now it sits in my garage making my XC look great while waiting for time and funds to allow a rebuild.

And MY XC;

good pickup on the sundowner! your xc didnt come from a Rapley on the mid north coast did it? looks familiar

au2000 · 21-09-2011, 08:10 AM

my neighbour has recently garaged his 68 xt, he brought it new, it's done the clock a few times & is in really good nick considering it was his daily driver up to 12 months ago, i've been on him for years about buying it if he ever sells but no good, he asked me what id do to it & i told him my plans for a ground up resto & leaving it original, apparently im the first one to say that as most wanted to boot the 6 for an 8 etc .. & he hated that.. he's hoping his son would take it but he has no room, time or money for it so mow it's in the back yard covered in a tarp... the old bloke just won't part with it & i can see that one day it will just rust away there never to be saved... i guess the strog sentimental value is just too great, i keep reminding him though that im interested...maybe one day i'll be lucky.

**nuthin' fancy** · 21-09-2011, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by au2000

my neighbour has recently garaged his 68 xt, he brought it new, it's done the clock a few times & is in really good nick considering it was his daily driver up to 12 months ago, i've been on him for years about buying it if he ever sells but no good, he asked me what id do to it & i told him my plans for a ground up resto & leaving it original, apparently im the first one to say that as most wanted to boot the 6 for an 8 etc .. & he hated that.. he's hoping his son would take it but he has no room, time or money for it so mow it's in the back yard covered in a tarp... the old bloke just won't part with it & i can see that one day it will just rust away there never to be saved... i guess the strog sentimental value is just too great, i keep reminding him though that im interested...maybe one day i'll be lucky.

Get someone you know wth a stock XT to comea round and show him what your intentions are, remind him how god they can look and how much you want to preserve it. Sometimes persistence can pay off.

gcg2503 · 21-09-2011, 09:26 PM

^^^^^
Persistence does pay off

Look out in this thread next week.....

XYLINC · 21-09-2011, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by gcg2503

^^^^^
Persistence does pay off

Look out in this thread next week.....

What are you up to George?

gcg2503 · 21-09-2011, 09:44 PM

Nothing........nothing........

DrDamage · 21-09-2011, 09:54 PM

NICE Sundowner!!!!!!!!

bingoTE50 · 21-09-2011, 11:29 PM

Had exactly the same HX Deluxe in the background,same colour combo. 4.2 litre Trimatic , probably the best car Ive owned .

au2000 · 22-09-2011, 08:10 AM

oh don't worry about that, im not giving up until i see someone else drive away with it lol, i've been at him for about 3 years now, so maybe one day i'll be right, & i don't need to wheel a clean one to his place to show him, his is in pretty good nick as it is actually, still has the original purchase reciept too....
anyway he saw how i kept my old xt which was pretty clean & mostly stock then so he knows i'd keep it clean & original, his prob is that he jast finds it hard to let the old girl go...
but ill keep trying..
oh & im supposed to be picking up a 1 owner xd soon, 250, 4 speed so that could be good too although i have not seen it yet...

big_landau · 22-09-2011, 10:57 AM

another BARN find i found and bought a few weeks ago

**TUF_302** · 22-09-2011, 11:12 AM

What's the story with the valiant?