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Ah it was a lot of fun, sadly I'm not. Family stuff happened and the second car needed to be an automatic. Coupled with it blowing out coil packs and modules when I was out to tea with the family in law.. well that was the end of it. I MISS IT SO MUCH! I'm getting ready to take the new race...

And I found a problem with my new Calais today, driving home late through the city, couple of punters thought I was their Uber. Suppose it’s pretty nice :p

Yeah it's a different kind of experience for sure. Me and my mates sometimes go full dork mode, we get small capacity memory cars. like 512meg, cover the LCD screens of our digital cameras with gaffa, then pretend we are in 1991 and take the ~30 or so pictures that fit on the tiny card. You...

Oooooh what a lottery! Ah it will be great if they survive, by the sounds of it you have a great chance.

providing they were kept dry-ish and the canister still has its felt in tact (i.e didn't get to hot) it probably survived ok. You are probably looking at roughly ~$30 these days to get c41 film developed (standard colour process of yesteryear) Go get it sorted, might find some nice surprises :)

Hang on to it juuuuuuuust a while longer. Pentax are just about to release a new film camera lol. They have been flirting with this for a decade but it looks like it's gonna happen. Pentax is weird, they do weird stuff. But that K1000 is such a good example of the non weird stuff that made...

Indeed! I'm doing alright but I'll miss the VY.

Sold it :( Nice young guy turned up, will be turned into a drifter. Plans for L67's etc, ah glad it's continuing it's motorsport adventures. Family is happy, I = "sniff"

Yeah those clips are great. Seeing them mess around doing dumb stuff is charming :) I love the "Old Top Gear" with Tiff et al, who can actually drive, driving things. I offer at times the "New Top Gear" went a little to wild with dumb stuff to keep my attention. There are too many episodes...

Whats rego in NSW worth these days? (vic rego includes CTP insurance)

Not gonna lie, its kinda great having a the silly stiff(er) VY for wet round-a-bouts in the wee hours and the Calais for everything else.. Reckon I'll be a little tardy putting the for sale add up.

Now that's clearly a battle for the shed I don't want to have to choose. Noice!

I’m interested in your photos of dead dingo creek. I discovered a Pentax k1000 when at uni and it quickly turned into a silly great hobby. Started collecting a whole bunch of film cameras, started exploring the east / west German things, ended up with early Soviet cameras and lenses and it...

Thread dig because of the cute little Diax range finder! You must have worked it out by now, and I hope you mad a nice little return on these collectible beauties! That's a German made '~1954 cute little ranger finder. It should have had interchangeable lenses with a 40.5mm thread on it...

HAHAHAH Just picked up the plates (owner wanted his euro's back as it's his Kids initials, cute!) Gotta rock the slim line state blue issued plates, if anything just to annoy the family in NSW come Christmas. Teller gives me; 1UA - 1EV Interesting Interesting. In the rear view mirror they...

Yep! :) She took it for a spin last night and offered of “oh this feels much nicer then the other one, and it doesn’t make noises, this is much nicer” win

Yeah that’s probably granted.

Just a 6. Simple simple.

Two commodores on the street, doing my bit to lower property prices in the neighbourhood. It’s a 2012 series 2 VE Calais, and it makes my VY feel 200yrs old. The VE beeped at me when it went past a speed camera, and the radio auto searches and stores radio frequencies. Dear God what will...

Yeah good idea… next weekend.

Ah found one at South Morrang. $740 Retail!!!!!!! They did trade price @ $480. (without coils) Daaaaaaaaam.

Mechanic reckons the DFI is dead yet again. Speaking with his rep from Bursons, he offered each they have sold in the last 6 months has been returned. Are there genuines ones still around? :S Left a msg with RALPH D'SILVA (appear to be local holden autho parts near me) Where have you...

You know I was only looking at SV6's as they seemed cheaper on the whole. Not the case as it turned out. Happy Happy.

Yeah.. its dumb. Gota be loom related, didn't notice last night but now cranking the fuel gauge sets itself correctly then drops to zero.. weird stuff. Anyway not interested in pulling it apart on the street in the rain, back to the mechanics.

Yes thanks for sorting mods, missed this place.

Oh forgot to add, chap who is selling me the VE, he’s restoring a Supercharged VY :D busy with his young family but getting there. What a champ. Good company these commodores do keep.

Well well well. I think I've found a nice looking thing, 2012 S2 VE, Calais, white, black leather, stock as a rock, 150k km's, service history, I've paid a deposit, hope to pick it up next weekend, $12.5k, done. Guy with the blue SV6 never got back to me, Calais is nicer, win for me? Time...

Might come to that Lex. VY is parked on the street, over cars today, tomorrow jobs to pull it apart, see whats going.

I'm with you Rambuctious. I'd also rather just buy another VY but that's a hard sell as it appears the engine loom wiring is just starting to dissolve around all the components I replace. Ah well, keep looking.

Well had a look at the grey sv6, little under whelming for 15k to be honest. It was very vy familiar, loads of plastic everywhere, rattle coming from the rear boot lid.. don’t know what I expected to be fair. She’s a commodore. Just over 150k, sale champ couldn’t tell me where its service...

Yeah we replaced coil packs with a DFI module 2x weeks ago. Just got the battery on charge, and the wires that run inside the clip around the coil packs have worn through the external tape.. no doubt when I pull it all out I'll find something nearly short around the place... It doesn't appear...

I agree with you all in regard to mods and tow bar abuse, but I'm assuming many of them came factory and haven't had a lot of use. I'll certainly inspect, I'll look as much. And yep I've been saved from a rear end by a tow bar. Christmas traffic on the Mooney Mooney Bridge, heading north...

Year Km $ Tow Rego Colour Notes Link 2013 201000 $ 11,000 N tbc Grey https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2013-holden-commodore-sv6-ve-series-ii-auto-my12-5/SSE-AD-15767608/?Cr=63 2012 197800 $ 13,500 Y Jan-24 Red...

Well the vy must have known I was talking about it, here I am stuck waiting for a tow truck after work once again. Mumble mumble mumble! Crank / dfi something going on once more. Booo!

That Calais does appears good value... Whats the go with these things having P's in the window. I thought that was all a no no in Victoria now for young drivers.

hmmm I've never bought anything recently modern before... googles PPSR report... oh I see! Yes will do. And re the commodore street/race car... well yes maybe... It has given me a taste you see, and I'm not ready to stop going to race tracks.. but the 2nd family car needs to driveable by...

Thanks for highlighting all that, puts me in the right direction. Cheers! Yeah 15k nearly gets me rough looking ls2’s .. but yeah unsure if I care that much and or want to deal with that kind of fuel consumption.. hmmm.

Ah sadly nothing that cool. One day. It's a little corolla with a 4age. So I just need to swap out the VY and life can continue with family harmony.

Well I hope so. Race car is 800kg, trailer is 300. They are rated out to ~2000kg I see. I’ve been towing with the vy, surely the ve will be much the same.

hmm ok ok. I think I can still sell that as sensible. This thing won't fit in the units car park at home so she wont have to battle with that. Ok, good to know.