Top Dollar

[Tony Nitrous]

Reasonable insurance (being old and not getting caught) and no annual safety certs (MOT's) made multiple bikes financially do able when we had heavily discounted rego ( road tax) due to single seat discounts. Most of my bikes have been single seat rego for ages.

Bringing single seat rego cost up a lot closer to dual seat hurt me. Now I only register 4 of mine.  If I get a trailer and ever take the drags more seriously then I might drop the rego on the blue Busa and register one of the others.  Registering 1 or 2 more wouldn't be financial ruin for me, but it's just pointless if it impacts me doing other stuff and when bikes like the B-King probably only see daylight once a month.

[Tony Nitrous]

It's not just bikes.

I'll stick to playing with bikes I think.

[MickyJB]

Crazy money for a couple of Farm Utes :-)

[KiwiCol]

You a Ford bloke Micky?

[MickyJB]

You a Ford bloke Micky?

I'm an Old Bloke who likes old classics not particularly fussed on the make, I have favourites in all of them. I did build up a nice XE Falcon, last of the 351's .. did such a good job on it I was always worried when I parked it ..

[KiwiCol]

You a Ford bloke Micky?

I'm an Old Bloke who likes old classics not particularly fussed on the make, I have favourites in all of them. I did build up a nice XE Falcon, last of the 351's .. did such a good job on it I was always worried when I parked it ..

Feel free to post a couple of pics of said XE, there's enough folk here who appreciate the work involved in a resto.

[MickyJB]

A few, the body was stripped and every panel including the roof skin was replaced with new except for the top section of the rear quarters, all new glass lights etc all new door panels from a Fairmont and stratos seats and rear reupholstered... motor and gearbox were rebuilt and suspension etc etc etc

Lots of $$$ .. of course I regret selling it.

[grog]

Great job Micky.More really, brilliant work.I can relate, not sure why i did, stripped 4 yr old XA GT to change white to red.Car was perfect but white wasnt cool. Paint cost $1200 on a $150 wage. I hated that car after taking a year to do. Was nowhere as good as my XY GT b4. Sold it, It did look good.He wrapped it around a pole, end of that car.  Think i got around $4g, today way over 100.

[Hooli]

Yeah that looks great Micky.

To my UK eyes it seems related to a Ford Cortina mk4/5, no idea if they are or not though.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Bit bigger than the Cortina, Google says the Granada was used for some styling cues, but these Falcons were true Aussie muscle cars.

[Hooli]

Ahh, yeah I can see Granada in it too. Another car I've always liked so that's not a bad thing.