Classic old surf cars

North Narrabeen 1963....

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Macaha said..
Some great pics there Al

Thanks Mac,did you notice what the difference is with the American XK Falcon sedan^?...

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Al G said..

Macaha said..
Some great pics there Al

Thanks Mac,did you notice what the difference is with the American XK Falcon sedan^?...

Back window?

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Al G said..

geez think of what that would be worth now - nice falco

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thePup said..

Al G said..

geez think of what that would be worth now - nice falco

A pristine one would probably be about 25 to 30K Pupmiester but they are LHD though,I love the Aussie 2 door coupe which is now worth about 30 to 40K for a pristine one.The one in this pic would be upwards of 40K I reckon,getting hard to find now especially in the XK,XL,XM,a few XPs around.My mate here has one!...

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Al G said..

Macaha said..
Al have a look at this page on insta mate. bj_pro_eh

I will get the Mrs phone and check it out,I'm not on Facebook or InstaThanks mate

Just checked a bit of it out Mac,geez he's got a beautiful EH wagon,looks like he puts it in the Motorex shows big $$$ cars in that!.....
Here's my mates FJ from here who does the same show circuits,he didn't get much change out of half a Mill to build this one....

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Macaha said..

Samoan bus,seen lots of them when I was there a few years ago

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Al G said..

hahahahaha classic hahahaha go hard boys yehaaaa

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thePup said..

Macaha said..

geez still looks like an old Toyota flatbed rigid truck

That's all most of them are mate!...

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Macaha said..

Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, William Katt, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Lee Purcell in Big Wednesday - 1978
This movie made such an impact on a lot of surfers that I knew on the Northern Beaches, just after I left school. I was more interested in the cars and the women than the surfing, being a petrol head at the time.....

Interestingly, the actors didn't really go anywhere with any really big films, apart from Gary Busey who did some other top grossing pictures like Lethal Weapon. All the others are still working in films or TV, but not many people would recognise them from this particularly iconic movie.
From IMDB - some interesting trivia - Australian champion surfers Peter Townsend and Ian Cairns doubled for William Katt and Gary Busey in the surfing sequences. Bill Hamilton father of surfer Laird Hamilton doubled for Jan-Michael Vincent's character, as well as the scene in which lifeguards abandon their small boat in the pit of a gigantic oncoming wave. Afterward, Hamilton began shaping under the Bear label depicted in the movie. The success was fleeting as director Milius sued for patent rights, leaving Hamilton back where he started

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obct said..

Ahhhh the venerable electric Kombi ..... sometime around 2219 it will be a classic resto