Aussie cars in Thailand

[Olmate]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:34 AM, Tropposurfer said:

 

The later SS HSV, Maloo utes, and other V6 and V8 Commodore Holdens could cost up to 80K. The HSV GTS-R cost $110K AUD when production was still going along (last performance V8 made by Holden).

Holden or GM Australia does not make cars now certainly not V8's (2017 saw the plan and beginnings of closing completely Australian manufactured cars). The production of cars by them is fast winding down to zero. While a tough and usually reliable car once, with parts easy and cheap to get by comparison to European cars they were always lacking in every respect.

The high end Holdens models (mentioned above) were in later, recent years reasonably decent cars (partly because they were designed and incorporated many elements and part-designing modelled on European makes incorporating key components from these cars).

These later cars handled quite well. The rest of the smaller Holden cars, and models of all engine sizes made up until the last few years of production were very-arguably rubbish compared to European made cars.

Australian cars followed a lot of the standards and expectations of car manufacturing modelled on the US and that meant cheaper cars but fit and finish and depth of R&D and engineering quality was as US cars - bad.  Badly designed and ratioed gearboxes, gas guzzling, shocking finish, terrible handling. There may be Aussies and Yanks that read this and disagree. Up to you but the proof of Aussie and American car-quality building is plain to see when driving European cars, The Australian car manufacturing industry is dead. Ford the same. 

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Yawn! ????

[moose7117]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:05 AM, Natai Beach said:

 

They are rising because of simple supply and demand. There is no new supply, but plenty of demand for rear wheeled v8s. But there are still thousands available cheaply for under $10,000.
 

And how good is that mate!
I wish I could buy rear wheeled V8s in Thailand for under 250,000 baht. 

If I was living in Oz I would buy seven of them, one for everyday of the week.

 

Kind regards 

Average Aussie Bogan

From Billionaire Beach, Thailand 

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Uhmmm....... i just searched car sales Australia and there are 68 sedans, coupes and utes available below $10 000

 

far from thousands.

[dodgybros]

  On 3/1/2021 at 4:43 AM, moose7117 said:

Uhmmm....... i just searched car sales Australia and there are 68 sedans, coupes and utes available below $10 000

 

far from thousands.

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.....and 4778 on Gumtree!

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 5:19 AM, dodgybros said:

.....and 4778 on Gumtree!

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I bought and sold over 20 cars in Australia. Never used the Internet to do it. Best deals are from mates, or mates of mates, my mechanic or word of mouth from my experience.
But in Thailand I have bought from KaiDee. 
 

Anybody for an Aussie made V85Litre Limo for cruising around Thailand in style?

[NanLaew]

The Ford Cortina was superseded by the Ford Telstar and the hatchback variant the TX5. I bought a TX5 from Ford Chonburi back around 1984 because it was about 100,000 baht cheaper than the Mazda 626 that it shared virtually all the underpinnings with. To get it serviced, I had to go to Ford in Bangkok.

 

 

 

https://www.truck2hand.com/listing/zBNbEEARPO/

 

https://www.truck2hand.com/listing/W2L9mnAkLZ/

 

 

[Olmate]

  On 3/1/2021 at 6:24 AM, NanLaew said:

The Ford Cortina was superseded by the Ford Telstar and the hatchback variant the TX5. I bought a TX5 from Ford Chonburi back around 1984 because it was about 100,000 baht cheaper than the Mazda 626 that it shared virtually all the underpinnings with. To get it serviced, I had to go to Ford in Bangkok.

 

 

 

https://www.truck2hand.com/listing/zBNbEEARPO/

 

https://www.truck2hand.com/listing/W2L9mnAkLZ/

 

 

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May as well lose those water bottles!! 

[Natai Beach]

  On 2/28/2021 at 11:20 AM, ThaiFelix said:

No I had the 1976 HJ GTS Monaro 4 door.  I'm not 100% sure but think the model before, ie the HQ, only came out in 2 door.

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Advertising for the ‘Upgrade “Holden Monaro LS”‘ in Thailand

 

And the Holden Belmont

 

[Lacessit]

  On 2/28/2021 at 1:44 PM, Natai Beach said:

The early model Ford Lasers were exported from Oz.

 

 

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Gutless. As Peter Wherrett used to say, they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Bought one, had to use the gear stick to row it along.

[Lacessit]

  On 2/28/2021 at 3:29 PM, Airalee said:

Who could forget the glorious Leyland P76.  Such graceful lines.
 

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Farmers liked them because it was possible to fit a 44 gallon drum in the boot. Most buyers found they had British reliability. The Brits did better when they only had four cylinders to think about.

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:09 PM, Lacessit said:

Gutless. As Peter Wherrett used to say, they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Bought one, had to use the gear stick to row it along.

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Peter Wherret, aka Pip Wilson, famous Aussie car critic and ladyboy.

Pictured on the left. 
Laser was a ladies car, except for the turbo 4WD version that I shared a drive from Melbourne to Bunderberg in. We sat o 200 km most of the way, up to 220km at times and it still had some left in it.
 

When my mate bought it he copped a bit of flak until we saw what it could do.
From memory it was Jap built, not Aussie. 

 

[Lacessit]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:34 AM, Tropposurfer said:

 

 

Australian cars followed a lot of the standards and expectations of car manufacturing modelled on the US and that meant cheaper cars but fit and finish and depth of R&D and engineering quality was as US cars - bad.  Badly designed and ratioed gearboxes, gas guzzling, shocking finish, terrible handling. There may be Aussies and Yanks that read this and disagree. Up to you but the proof of Aussie and American car-quality building is plain to see when driving European cars, The Australian car manufacturing industry is dead. Ford the same. 

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Perhaps you have not caught up with the fact Japanese and Korean brands are now superior to all but the most expensive European brands. The technical specs of a Kia Stinger are way better than its counterpart Mercedes 200 SLK.

Having said that, I have heard one of the requirements of purchasing a Toyota Avalon in Australia was the buyer had to show the dealership a wardrobe full of cardigans and woolly slippers.

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:15 PM, Lacessit said:

Most buyers found they had British reliability. 

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Shhhhhh. Don’t talk about that on this forum or we will have @faraday bragging about the Chinese owned MGs built in Thailand factories by Cambodian migrant labor. 
 

 

[Airalee]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:15 PM, Lacessit said:

The Brits did better when they only had four cylinders to think about.

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I always had appreciation for British roadsters (reliability aside)...Morgan, Austin Healey, MG, Lotus, TVR, Jaguar E-types (although I wouldn’t touch a 12 cylinder Jag.  Of course...muscle sedan aficionados will call them “Sheila cars”.

[WayWokeWhiteGuy]

  On 2/28/2021 at 1:06 PM, elliss said:

 

 

      Hoover , the American owned washing  machine company .

    Also went down the pan in Oz.

     Some thing about work culture and hangovers ..

     Jeez, now i know why Oz , dont have washing machine  factories any more ..

   

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Hoover is vacuum cleaners. Perhaps you meant Whirlpool? 

[DavisH]

  On 3/1/2021 at 2:36 AM, UncleMhee said:

Single dual throat down draft 38mm Weber in standard trim There were triple 40mm Weber options available from speed shops, but not from the factory AFAIK.

 

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Thanks, I saw one at  a motor show years ago it had triple webers. 

[DavisH]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:09 PM, Lacessit said:

Gutless. As Peter Wherrett used to say, they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Bought one, had to use the gear stick to row it along.

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I recall Dick Johnson having that saying too..:)

[faraday]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:35 PM, Natai Beach said:

Shhhhhh. Don’t talk about that on this forum or we will have @faraday bragging about the Chinese owned MGs built in Thailand factories by Cambodian migrant labor. 
 

 

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 Help me out Trans.....????

 

@transam

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 12:41 PM, Airalee said:

I always had appreciation for British roadsters (reliability aside)...Morgan, Austin Healey, MG, Lotus, TVR, Jaguar E-types (although I wouldn’t touch a 12 cylinder Jag.  Of course...muscle sedan aficionados will call them “Sheila cars”.

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Muscle sedan aficionados? I prefer the term Bogan, or more specifically “Hoon” when talking about muscle sedans. 
 

Some Aussie cars just bring it out from us. Even if you are Thai as the following video demonstrates. A bogan Thai Hoon enjoying his Aussie built Holden Statesman. He can’t help himself.

 

 

in Australia we have Holden Special Vehicles, a company that makes Holdens even better. In Thailand the equivalent company is known as Holden Hoon Special Vehicles. 
 

The legendary Holden Hoon V8 Turbo Thai Special. Top speed 286kmh.

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:18 PM, faraday said:

 Help me out Trans.....????

 

@transam

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Oh no.

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:17 PM, DavisH said:

I recall Dick Johnson having that saying too..:)

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Well, Peter did like Dick.

[NanLaew]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:05 PM, WayWokeWhiteGuy said:

Hoover is vacuum cleaners. Perhaps you meant Whirlpool? 

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No.

 

 

My mum had one of these back in Scotland.

[Airalee]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:34 PM, Natai Beach said:

Muscle sedan aficionados? I prefer the term Bogan, or more specifically “Hoon” when talking about muscle sedans. 
 

Some Aussie cars just bring it out from us. Even if you are Thai as the following video demonstrates. A bogan Thai Hoon enjoying his Aussie built Holden Statesman. He can’t help himself.

 

 

in Australia we have Holden Special Vehicles, a company that makes Holdens even better. In Thailand the equivalent company is known as Holden Hoon Special Vehicles. 
 

The legendary Holden Hoon V8 Turbo Thai Special. Top speed 286kmh.

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I did actually like this Aussie car.

 

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 2:20 PM, Airalee said:

I did actually like this Aussie car.

 

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Falcon XB coupe. 
 

I have been searching for one in Thailand for 12 years. As I said in an earlier post, my heavy drinking mate with poor eyesight claims to have seen one. But I have searched and searched and found no evidence of any in Thailand. 
Plenty of 4 door Falcon XBs, but not the two door. I actually started this thread with it in mind, hoping somebody would come up with one. 
 

Four door XA, XB, XC Falcons in Thailand....159,000 บาท new.

 

[faraday]

Looks like a Ford Cortina Mk 3, much better most likely, having been built in Britain.

 

@Natai Beach

 

 

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/1/2021 at 9:32 PM, faraday said:

Looks like a Ford Cortina Mk 3, much better most likely, having been built in Britain.

 

@Natai Beach

 

 

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I think you are right looking at the plates and the wet road. Probably a big thumping 1.6 liter. A nice example of a British muscle car.

The Aussie cortinas, built in Victoria had a 4.1 liter. 
 

I can’t believe you used that example when you could have used a car favored by Thai Royalty and Thai taxi drivers.
 

 

 

 

[Ralf001]

  On 3/2/2021 at 12:20 AM, Natai Beach said:

 

I think you are right looking at the plates and the wet road. Probably a big thumping 1.6 liter. A nice example of a British muscle car.

The Aussie cortinas, built in Victoria had a 4.1 liter. 
 

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Look to be UK numberplates as well.

 

The 6cyl Aussie Mk3 (TC) Cortina has a bonnet bulge.

 

Here's a British guy reviewing an Aussie 6cyl TC.

 

[Lacessit]

  On 3/1/2021 at 2:46 PM, Natai Beach said:

 
Falcon XB coupe. 
 

I have been searching for one in Thailand for 12 years. As I said in an earlier post, my heavy drinking mate with poor eyesight claims to have seen one. But I have searched and searched and found no evidence of any in Thailand. 
Plenty of 4 door Falcon XBs, but not the two door. I actually started this thread with it in mind, hoping somebody would come up with one. 
 

Four door XA, XB, XC Falcons in Thailand....159,000 บาท new.

 

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I used to own an XB Fairmont, it's now somewhere in the middle of NSW on a sheep station. Ended its days as a hunting vehicle.

One of the many design faults was the drain scuttle below the windscreen wipers. Instead of having a drain from the scuttle itself on both sides, there was only one. Water collected on the other side.

The first any owner knew of this was when the undrained side rusted through, and the floor carpets got saturated with water.

Another design attribute was an underdesigned or poor quality radiator, from memory I got through three of them while I owned the beast.

Who can forget the Wild Violet duco, that left owners of that color choice with cars that looked like they had developed leprosy after a couple of years?

But I think the acronym Fix Or Repair Daily started well before that.

[NumbNut]

  On 3/1/2021 at 1:34 PM, Natai Beach said:

Muscle sedan aficionados? I prefer the term Bogan, or more specifically “Hoon” when talking about muscle sedans. 
 

Some Aussie cars just bring it out from us. Even if you are Thai as the following video demonstrates. A bogan Thai Hoon enjoying his Aussie built Holden Statesman. He can’t help himself.

 

 

in Australia we have Holden Special Vehicles, a company that makes Holdens even better. In Thailand the equivalent company is known as Holden Hoon Special Vehicles. 
 

The legendary Holden Hoon V8 Turbo Thai Special. Top speed 286kmh.

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Great stuff! 

 

Extra points to for the Hoon Statesman vid, sterling work! Don't think I've ever seen those two words in the same sentence before

[NumbNut]

  On 3/2/2021 at 12:26 AM, Ralf001 said:

 

Look to be UK numberplates as well.

 

The 6cyl Aussie Mk3 (TC) Cortina has a bonnet bulge.

 

Here's a British guy reviewing an Aussie 6cyl TC.

 

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I stopped watching when the reviewer said this is 'another Australian car with far too much engine under the bonnet'

 

What the?

[Natai Beach]

  On 3/2/2021 at 1:20 AM, NumbNut said:

I stopped watching when the reviewer said this is 'another Australian car with far too much engine under the bonnet'

 

What the?

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it definitely is a different mentality. The 4.1 cortina was more of a family car for mum and the kids, but he talks about it as if it is some sort of race car. 
 

Any self respecting bogan hoon would give it a tweek to give it a bit of street cred like in the example below.