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How long have you had your Torana

Started by _Mint_ , Jul 01 2012 07:38 PM

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#1 _Mint_

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 07:38 PM

Well it's coming up to 30 years for me(next month)..i remember looking for a v8 hatchback in Adelaide(250 kays from me) a couple of times with no success and then one was traded in my local town a few months later,a little rough but the price was right.
I traded in a Torana LX SL..in good nic.

anyway i though i'd throw this up maybe i'll have to give the old girl a birthday..how long have you had your Torrie?
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#2 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 08:13 PM

Ive owned TOY202 for 10 years now.

The HB i've had for less than a year lol.

On a funnyer note, realizing i've had the LJ for 10 years makes me realize i've been around here for 10 years, frOck me.....

Cheers.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 08:21 PM

I've had my lc for about 8 years now....gone quick too.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:34 PM

Just over 36 years.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:38 PM

That made me grin ^

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:43 PM

He'd be one of the few that got it off the showroom floor and still has it

My current hatch I've had for 7 I think... maybe 8
And the sedan for... 3?

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:46 PM

Hence my grin datto......And the fact that its willed to me....Or atleast should be :tease: :stirpot: :clappin: :deal: :spoton: :tease: :nada:

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:54 PM

14 months here... doh...

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 09:56 PM

Coming up to 16 years for me. Time flies alright.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:07 PM

28 years.
I was 18 with my first bank loan.
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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:25 PM

A bit over 32 years with the LJ for me.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:35 PM

27 n half years for my lx sedan and a bit less than a year for the uc hatch.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:49 PM

5 years for the hatch, 1 year for the XU1.
Just a newby really...

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 11:30 PM

5 yrs here, bought it for the boss for Valentines Day, got it roadworthyed and regoed drove it for 1mth pulled it apart to get some rust fixed (didn't happen, rust repair that is) parked it in the shed till March this year, sent it away to finally have it repaired.

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:12 AM

22 years this october , and everytime i drive it its like the first week i got it ;)

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:17 AM

6 Years for my lj gtr but i have owned my sandy for 25 years and lovin it
oh and howard i think you win :clap:

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:40 AM

Wouldn't be too many that could beat Litre8's effort.

I've had the Lh for 7 years, the Lc for about 2 and the HB for about 4.

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 07:22 AM

My hatch 7.5yrs.


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Posted 02 July 2012 - 08:45 AM

Bought it and brought it over in early 2000.

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 09:51 AM

28 years for my hatch, first car!

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 09:59 AM

Close to 6 years and have not driven it once, poxy projects :banghead: but id never sell it ( father owned 2 when i was a kid and it's in the blood )

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 10:08 AM

Bought my first one 29yrs ago.

I've had 'purple' for 10yrs.

#23 _gtrtorana_

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 11:54 AM

I have owned my Torana for 15 years in September and my old man owned it before me for 20 years so thats 35 years in our family.

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:05 PM

3 and a bit years for my current hatch but have had several other Torry's over the last 25 years. I have always sold them off over the years mainly to buy something bigger and better, like houses.

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:12 PM

Bought my XU-1 in Jan 1979. I was an apprentice at a Datsun dealership which was also an AMPOL service station. This XU-1 would come in for fuel. I could here it rumbling on in and would run out and ask how much petrol they wanted and ask if they needed the oil checked even if it didn't. This was in the day when a service station was really that.

Fast forward 12 months or and so lo and behold he traded it in on all things a Datsun 200B SX this was the sports pack model. He traded it for something that had four doors because he was starting a family.

I said to self "self" Your'e going to get that Torrie no matter what. Being an apprentice with not much money I used Hire purchase through work and traded my little Suzuki 4WD, the one with the 3cyl 2 stroke engine and did the deal.Hell I was happier than a pig in crap. Boy was I the envy of all my mates, and the cops loved me to.

And they say the rest is history.

PS I could write a book on all the adventures or misadventures Iv'e had in my Torrie, but the way I type it would take 20 years.

Cheers John.
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