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Blinking ridiculous. Ex cop cars are supposed to be cheap. What's the world come to?
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Now up to $45,750.
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We plainly have a lot of people with more money than sense.
I notice Commodores heave fallen out of favour and anything with an Intech or Barra is seen as gold now.
I remember when Falcons were given the wide berth by young people, now they're all you f####n see driving them and they're all dickheads.
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It sold for $94500.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/light-em- ... ord-94500/

More money than sense!!!!
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I sure hope a secondhand Falcon at that price isn't eligible for luxury car tax!
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scott wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:49 am It sold for $94500.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/light-em- ... ord-94500/

More money than sense!!!!
No wonder the imbecile who paid that much was anonymous.
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Don't see many of the badge engineered Minis around Oz. This Riley Elf was in our local shopping centre recently. On full rego, too.
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That boot is handy. You can see it's a Mini body shell with the boot added as an afterthought. It now looks like a sedan instead of a hatch.
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The Mini wasn't a true hatch back. Just a sedan with no boot (to speak of). Admittedly, the "cave" at the back was reasonably spacious.

In the flesh, that Riley just doesn't look right.
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I wonder if it has the strange four speeder automatic?
The best looking mini to me was the Moke followed by the Leyland mini.
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This appears to be an early version, as it has the sliding windows; later releases had wind-up glass.

Riley was marketed as the "sporty" version of the range, I doubt they would cripple it with a slush box.
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Oh right, it looks like they're trying to make a Jaguar mini with that grill, so I presumed it was luxury orientated like that Morris 1100 with the RR like grill.

I wonder if this Riley has the 998 or the 1098 engine. The 998 is considered the best version of the mini engine, even over the more powerful 1275. 1098 is good also.
I was told though that you're lucky to get much more than 100K km out of one before they show signs of wear.
Maybe that's in certain circumstances like higher performance engines.
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The Mini came in Morris, Austin, Cooper, Wolseley and Riley variants.

The 1100/1300 had MG and VDP Princess versions as well, but not Cooper.
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All under BMC before the BLMC takeover I guess.
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Last night there was a dark brown XC Falcon 4.1 sedan in the Ringwood Square carpark opposite First Choice. Don't know if it was a base model or a 500, but it wasn't a quad-headlight model or a Fairmont. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me. Edit: It had recent 1-series plates.
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Great find. Do you remember if it was a first year build with the Ford lettering on the bonnet and grey grill, or the version with the black grill with the blue Ford badge in the middle?
There was a white one in the later guise like my current avatar in an ABC series set in the 80s called The Newsreader last night. You only saw it for a few seconds though.
They were using a burgundy XF Fairmont Ghia in quite a few scenes though. Man they still look incredible now.
There was also an XE visible as well as a Holden Torana.
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I don't remember, it was dark and around 7PM and I was on the other side of the road going to Maccas. I know the second lot of XCs had the blue oval and suspension upgrade to stick it to Holden with their HZ "great handler spoiled by the car" Kingswood (saw that witches hats thing in your avatar years ago on YouTube - long before my time unfortunately).

I once found a damaged grille from an XC (complete with headlights) in the hard rubbish when I as a kid, I think it ended up back in the hard rubbish in the late 90s (I kept the Falcon grille badge though).
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Saw a white Toyota Lexcen T3 or T4 wagon (VR or VS shape, no idea what model as to me they look identical) at Ringwood Bunnings carpark today. Coincidentally, further down the road I saw a black VS Commodore sedan (with cringeworthy 19" or 20" wheels on an otherwise stock-looking car).
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I happened upon a light metallic blue T4 Lexcen sedan at the Shell Woy Woy a few nights ago. Looked in tidy condition and the driver took off vigorously but not stupidly.
Man it made me miss the one I used to have.
You can tell a T3 from a T4 by the engine note. The T3 has a much crisper exhaust note.
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Saw a CL Chrysler Valiant drifter ute today at Woy Woy, yellow with orange and black stripes with shiny kidney like mags. It looked in concourse condition.
Later I spot a silver CL Regal V8 inv someone's open garage. I've seen that one before.
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Regarding the brown XC I saw a few months ago, I spotted it again outside the same Coles/First Choice carpark yesterday. It's a late-era (blue oval) Falcon 500 4.1 with 5-spoke Globe mags. The last half of the number plate was 6GG. Annoyingly, I didn't have the camera on me as I was only going to Coles (I don't have or want a mobile phone).
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Thanks for the update. I suggest you carry a camera with you. My phone camera has been invaluable.
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As I said. In a Woy Woy car park last week.
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Swift wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:00 pm Thanks for the update. I suggest you carry a camera with you. My phone camera has been invaluable.
I've got a Sony "pocket size" camera which I always carry with me. Sits inconspicuously in a small holster on my belt. Way better than my older phone camera- Good optical zoom, around 24mp.
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boronia wrote: Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:51 pm
Swift wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:00 pm Thanks for the update. I suggest you carry a camera with you. My phone camera has been invaluable.
I've got a Sony "pocket size" camera which I always carry with me. Sits inconspicuously in a small holster on my belt. Way better than my older phone camera- Good optical zoom, around 24mp.
Problem I've had with digital cameras is infrequent use ruining the battery. Perhaps a side holster that's not intrusive is the only answer. I would rather a dedicated camera with a zoom lens as the default wide angle makes everything look distorted and digital zoom kills quality.
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