Yeah the Monaro still goes for about that here too, it depreciates a bit more gracefully than Commodores do
Yeah, nah No either A bit better I -kinda- expected those prices to not go down. The 403 stuffs shoot up in value. One of my main goal was originaly to find a 403 with a good interior, I ended up buying a car where the carpet melted with the floor. Do I regret ? Not at all, totally worth it. If I was to sold my gruyere right know I'll get about 900€, the engine him self worth about 300€, I have 2 of them. And guess what, I've got the rarest piece of plastic in the history of cars. The thing around the steering colum, those can sell for about 4 time the price I've payed my car. But obviously what cost the more on this car is what I don't have. If I can't find any for a cheaper prices, I'll probably end up buying 304 or 204 Front seats, they're sell for about 30€ for one and mount in the car. Or even get modern seats. Why the heck not... As planned I'll start working on it in june, since I've got 3 month of vacances (Yeah, ikr French are lazy boys) I decided I won't speak much about it on this forum. Mainly because I don't have the English vocabulary to do so. I'll may only post pictures of it if you guys want. As I said a long time ago the goal for this season is too entirely strip down the car. It will probably take a lot of time to unscrew every rusted as hell screws, list every parts this step will probably go quicker since I've got my crappy laptop now, I won't have to print list and then copy the stuff onto my Desktop. I'll have to rent need one of this : It's called a goat in French, do not know the English term. Or I'll hang the engine to a beam (lel) of my roof with a pulley. I'll see. We also need to get a new welder, our is dead. R.I.P welder ???- 2016 After all of that done, I need to get those Don't how you called those either. We can't recreate those ourself, one side cost about 120€. I'll see for the floor, we might be able to recreate it. The rest can be easily copied, or isn't rusted. If for some obscure reasons you'd happen to have interior pieces, pm me !
@Ulrichou86 that's an engine hoist in English. With something as valuable and rare as your engine, you want to use one not just a beam on the ceiling. Goat seems an interesting term for one. Wonder where that came from, but then I wonder where many phrases come from.
I really don't trust those engine hoist's all that much, I've had two fall over and one bend it half with an engine on it. Admittedly, the two that fell over were on rough concrete, and the one that bent had a big block Chevy hanging off it, but still. If there is a solid rafter overhead that you could use, I'd recommend that.
Put a brand new engine harness in the 240 turbo the other day to get rid of the stock na ignition. (NA ignition uses a totally different computer so a different engine harness is required.) Then I found out that the turbo ICU I was sold is actually an ABS computer.. So the car is down until I can get my hands on one. After I get one though, I'll be able to turn up the boost without exploding it. I ran 12PSI on the N/A ignition, which was really bad, but it hauled ass. I also need to get my hands on a rear bumper in decent shape. The one on my other 240 started breaking apart when I tried to pull it off.
Good to know. Don't worry I won't. I don't trust this wood beam. We have really weird words for normal stuffs in French. You aren't saying "Pardon my French" for nothing, nah ? ^^ 100% Pretty sure your big block weighs way more than my little 1.5l i4 ^^ We were able to lift the spare engine with my father, so yeah. But here, there's the gearbox. I'm not even sure of how much hp it produce, normally earlier 8cv engines produced about 58hp, latest models had some upgrades, like "curved" (see picture) on the top of the pistons, last model could produce around 64hp. I'm not sure of the year of the spare engine, I just know it come from a 8cv Pick-up version (Not 403 pistons, but just for reference, if I'm not using the right word). Another handy thing Peugeot put into there engines, was exchangeable Pistons chambers : You can buy kits like that for about 300€, if yours are to damage. I hope the spare engine have nothing, maybe I'll just switch the block from the other engine and keep the rest from the stock engine, If the pistons are the same.. For whos who don't know, the actual block is cracked on the size, apparently the guy told me they had left water in it and... You know the rest of the story. It runs, but ... Yeah... I do'nt even know how much kms this car have, the thing that give you the numbers of kms you've done only have 5 numbers... Thanks Peugeot... Anyway those engines are known to be unkillable. Proof, mine runs with an hole in it ^^
Saw an actual Land Rover Defender today, I've been around Series II's and Series III's before, but I've never actually seen a Defender in person before. I had to go down to Collinsville for a work thing, and on the way I went past a Classic/Exotic car dealer, who had a bright red 2 door Defender out front. It's neat and all, but I just can't see spending $95,000 on what is essentially a Jeep with 80's British workmanship, especially when you can get a Series III Land Rover for 1/3 of the price.
I like how those cost like 15 000€ here, you can get a 2013 one for like 40 000€. I'm sure importing it would be cheaper.
Same reason anyone wants a Jeep or offroad vehicle? Yeah the prices in the US are just ridiculous, basically the same car as the earlier series 3 too
I'd actually love a Land Rover, they're tough, simple and no frills. The "Australian" alternative (even though its Japanese) are usually Toyota Land Cruisers or Nissan Patrols. Absolute tanks but are still very expensive even for the older models. This is a 70 series ute, Toyota still makes these to a similar spec as the old ones.
So then buy the less-expensive, more reliable Jeep or Land Cruiser instead of blowing almost 100 grand on an underpowered, unreliable, overpriced boat anchor. I ask again, why would anyone actually want one?
Thats the american market prices, they got blew way over the top because of rarity. The rest of your post is just lack of knowledge bullshit so I wont even bother.
I'd still prefer a 70 series Land Cruiser. Also they can be had WAY cheaper, Take this 1988 JDM BJ70 that is for sale right now on LandCruisers Direct, 3.4 Diesel, 5 Speed manual, Factory AC, and by far the most tolerable soft top I've ever seen, It's got 71,000 miles and they're asking $16,000 for it. $16 grand is still alot, but an awful lot less than $95K
From purely anecdotal evidence I have heard that they are not particularly well built or even reliable. However I can understand why people would want one. My parents used to own one (during my lifetime), it got sold to my uncle who owns several (some of which are parts vehicles), one of my friends got one as their first car during sixth form and many family friends own one. They are kinda neat. I am pretty sure I have posted this image on the forums before. So as you can see things tend to break and new ones are bolted on to replace them. One design choice that baffles me is why the fuel tank is mounted under the drivers seat (can be seen on photo), seems like the perfect place for it to get damaged or ruptured. For me I would take my granddad's and uncles kit car Westfield over a land rover any day. But that's just me.
