1976 I was 10 years old the local blokes around Reservior Vic used to hang around my house on the account of my older sisters. One of them had a HQ station wagon lowered painted black. With the name on the back" Mr Midnight"I still remember it to this day.
My uncle bought a Mandarin Red Sandman Van. Decked out with an archway and maroon shag pile carpet, boxes over the wheel arches... He later sold it to me wooohooo
The XR GT Falcon. Then every GT and HO that followed.
"Proud To Be An Old Fart".
A9X hatchback wasnt a bad race car either
My Dads purple SL/R5000..
A Silver HQ GTS 350 that was on the way to my U10's footy training, it was lowered with really dark tint and had a smoked perspex bonnet bulge to cover the filter, it was the car that made me lust after HQ coupes and the reason i have one now.
68 Dodge Charger. Still on my wishlist
Hq ute of any description but first car I loved one of the older boys around town had a red hq ss with hx-z statesman front lowered on chromies and a 308 built by lynx in Sydney very tuff . Couldn't afford the resprayed hz ute a bloke had he felt sorry for me and gave me a hq panel van old six no windows so starred on it then got my first hq ute after I got sick of sanding those sides wish I'd had kept a few that I've stripped and wrecked now.
There was so many to begin with, green GTHO, Dads Regal 770 coupe, a HG 350 GTS Monaro that took off like a bullet,GTR-XU1 that needed a fuel truck for support and a XC Super Roo panel van. ......Adolescence
I used to sit by the front gate at Primary school with my mates every morning to watch a purple LC GTR XU-1 driven by an old lady (she probably wasn't that old, but I was 10 or 11, everyone looked old!). I lusted after an XU-1 for years and eventually got one, then 2,3,4,5.....
The Panel Van craze took hold of me before I was old enough to drive, and one of my coaches in my chosen sport had a green (Jamacian Lime?) HJ Sandman and used to drive me around everywhere. I loved that van and have loved them ever since. He was such a cool bloke, he let me borrow it when I got my licence to drive to a school dance. I think I had 8 mates in the back and was the king of the school when I turned up in a Sandman.
I shot up the popularity list after that!
I can't believe that was 37 years ago...........
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
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