Old car show pics (summernats, easternats etc)

Al510 wrote:

Here's where the Nova is these days!!!!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/63-Chev-Nova-RHD-4-door-Unfinished-Drag-Rod-/120766134900?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item1c1e38fa74

I used to work with a guy on the Gold Coast (Gary something) and he reckons he owned that Nova? He was right into the car scene in Vic a long time ago. He knew the Dalton family (Rotor heads) ??

A coincidence this turned up, It seems a fair bit of dough for what your getting.

Cheers, Al.

Coasty wrote:I used to work with a guy on the Gold Coast (Gary something) and he reckons he owned that Nova? He was right into the car scene in Vic a long time ago. He knew the Dalton family (Rotor heads) ??

Gary Bolton was his name. (yes really)

Just found a feature on it in the Jan/Feb 1991 issue of Street and Strip mag, it's owner/builders name at that point was Geoff Thuring if that helps????

Gary would of owned it before that. Thats when I knew him. Maybe he owned it and sold it in standard form. I remember Garry saying he never tubbed it? Whatever. It is a cool car.

Wonder how much your mate sold it for Coasty??? I think 18k is a bit steep for it as it is now. Be cooler if they had've left the paint on it.

i almost bought it what it was for sale late 80s early 90s for about $6500 from memory

bogan cruiser wrote:I had a mullet too back then. I've also got a few pics to scan but in the interests of
keeping it family freindly I wont post the ones of the "freindly ladies" that used to let you have
your photo taken with them.You know the toppless skimpy girls going around.

Topless is acceptable Phil!

The Zodiac wrote:

bogan cruiser wrote:I had a mullet too back then. I've also got a few pics to scan but in the interests of
keeping it family freindly I wont post the ones of the "freindly ladies" that used to let you have
your photo taken with them.You know the toppless skimpy girls going around.

Topless is acceptable Phil!

And usually mandatory

0488TINTER wrote:

The Zodiac wrote:My favourite Torana! MR GAS! at Wagga at Easter '88.

Small world, Rob and Donna are old friends of mine and live just down the road from we south coast nats
he's got an old LH with a 671 last i saw him 3 or 4 years ago

that induction on R GAS was one of only a few made for pre efi heads

actually from memory, he used to be a vanner, in the early 80s and had a sweet HT

WOW! What a small world we live in. I was just talking to Rob via a Vintage BMX forum I am on. He saw my Majestic Vanners banner on a post and messaged me.
He is currently building a HJ Sandman ute!

Coasty wrote:WOW! What a small world we live in. I was just talking to Rob via a Vintage BMX forum I am on. He saw my Majestic Vanners banner on a post and messaged me.
He is currently building a HJ Sandman ute!

Tell him "Marbles" said to give him a call
0488 846 837

Coasty wrote:WOW! What a small world we live in. I was just talking to Rob via a Vintage BMX forum I am on. He saw my Majestic Vanners banner on a post and messaged me.
He is currently building a HJ Sandman ute!

Get him on here mate! Could post up a thread on his ute in the your project thread and one on the Torana in the sweet rides section!!!!
Always wanted that MR GAS Torana..........

Cheers Rob

plus he was once a vanner so he has some pics of that as well

I've got a few photos of that 'mr gas' torana aswell somewhere.
What's the name of the vintage BMX forum. I've got a skyway streetbeat from my childhood i want to restore for my kids.

I will get him on here guys. I've sent him a message and he knows about this forum. I remember the car myself and have pics somewhere.
The forum for Vintage BMX in Aust is ozbmx.com.au Mostly older guys like myself that lived and breathed bmx in the 80's. There's a few US forums as well. Vintagebmx.com and Bmxmuseum.com

Pity he sold MR GAS, I got a heap of old BMX crap I would've traded him for it! Wonder where it ended up???

Cheers Rob

Rob told me today the Torrie ended up in Western Sydney somewhere and he still see's it around the show scene. He said it's still looking good. He currently has a few Toranas with V8s and his LH now has a 388 blown and NOS !! Called it Mr Bad.

Hi everyone,
My mate Coasty from OZBMX told me about this forum and here I am.

I'm the one that built MR GAS back in the 80's and just a couple of days ago dug up some December 88 Street Machine mags with the MR GAS feature, that I'd wrapped up and kept.

It's still kicking around out St Marys way and still owned by the guy I sold it to.

I was a vanner from P-plates (still am at heart) and am building a HJ Sandman ute (slowly) at the moment.

I have a Blown LH SLR called MR BAD that I built from an ebay farm purchase and have a couple of other tough LH/LX Toranas, as well as a totally original VG Valiant Safari wagon that I got from my Father in Law, and my Mum still has an LC Torana that she's had from new (and still looks new).

This is my first post so I'm going to have a look around the forum and see what you guys have got.

I'm looking forward to this......

Great to have you on here Rob, always loved that MR GAS Torana, (idolised it actually from the first time I seen it!) I've got a few copies of the December issue of Street Machine, had Blo bak on the cover. Even got a drawing here a chick I went to school with did of it for me! I'll have to dig it out.
I'll start a thread on the Torana if you want to add up some more pics of it.

Cheers Rob

Good to have you here Rob. This vintage thing is a trip aint it? LOL
I have that issue (and most of the others) of SM too. I'll dig it out and have a looksee.

Hi Rob and welcome mate,I didn't know it was living in St Marys I am in Kingswood just up the road I will have to keep an eye out for it.

Regards Tony.

It's on a farm on Mamre road (I think that's the name). The guy that bought it's Dad has a load of FJ's in sheds and garages all over the property. I haven't seen it, but my good mate OCTANE tells me he sees it from time to time and it still looks the same as when I sold it.
I'm looking for the injection that was on it. When I sold it I put a tunnel ram on it because it wasn't real user friendly if you didn't know what you were doing, and I sold the injection setup to a guy in Beverly Hills.

I've got a Torana that would just love that injection now, and living in the sticks it wouldn't foul plugs all the time like it did in city traffic. And we have very understanding cops too. I drive my blown Torana a lot and have no problems at all, even with wheelie bars and chute on it.

Coasty wrote:I will get him on here guys. I've sent him a message and he knows about this forum. I remember the car myself and have pics somewhere.
The forum for Vintage BMX in Aust is ozbmx.com.au Mostly older guys like myself that lived and breathed bmx in the 80's. There's a few US forums as well. Vintagebmx.com and Bmxmuseum.com

Thanks for the links, i'll check 'em out

big rob wrote:It's on a farm on Mamre road (I think that's the name). The guy that bought it's Dad has a load of FJ's in sheds and garages all over the property. I haven't seen it, but my good mate OCTANE tells me he sees it from time to time and it still looks the same as when I sold it.
I'm looking for the injection that was on it. When I sold it I put a tunnel ram on it because it wasn't real user friendly if you didn't know what you were doing, and I sold the injection setup to a guy in Beverly Hills.

I've got a Torana that would just love that injection now, and living in the sticks it wouldn't foul plugs all the time like it did in city traffic. And we have very understanding cops too. I drive my blown Torana a lot and have no problems at all, even with wheelie bars and chute on it.

Rob,I use Mamre road to go to my brother in laws so there is a chance I may pass it or see it.

Regards Tony.