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#1 wingnut

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:12 AM

Hi folks.

I trudged around the Bendigo show grounds for about 10 hours yesterday
looking for elusive MG parts. Huge display as usual and a lot of the same old
junk I have seen there over the last few years - same crap and same old vendors.
However I found enough stuff I needed to lure me back again next year.

GMH Colour chart - One bloke was selling a 1971 GMH paint colour chart - about A4
size which had the opaque silouette stencil of the contemporay holden products - It had
to be the 1971 chart because the colour chips included Linamint Blackwatch Green and
Taormina Aqua.
The chart was in very good but not mint condition. He wanted $ 50 for it - which I declined.
If any of you Bendigo fossickers are going today and want to check it out - the bloke
had a caravan & annex - selling sales brochures etc around site 4100 area.

Cheers JR.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:52 AM

Hi

Yep - me too. I get a bit tired of seeing the same old rusty tools and tractor seats and sundry non-automotive related junk. By 10 or 11 o'clock quite a number of stall holders and their hangers-on were drunk and swearing between themselves - oblivious to the fact that potential customers (some with little children) were giving their stalls a wide birth.

I think I will go to Ballarat next year and then not bother about any more swap meets. Most of the tools and equipment can be bought at SuperCheap for less.

I will source my requirements on eBay as that is where I have the most success.

There wasn't much Torana related stuff at Bendigo.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 11:01 AM

The Torana related stuff was pathetic. One store had two LC/LJ 4-door doors, there was a radiator repair panel which someone beat me to, a few nosecones and an LC/LJ rear left guard and bar that spans over the grill. Considering I went there only for LH-UC Panelwork, I wasn't exactly impressed.

Even the Holden six gear was pretty lousy. A few Holleys and twin Strommies on manifolds, two rusty, greasy 186 blocks half assembled

So bloody tiring as well lol, a little too hot and dusty for my liking. I came home with another set of LH Chromies, a retrimmed console armrest and two awesome advertising brochures which I will scan when I get the scanner working.

If I go again, I'll be out of there by midday.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 02:53 PM

There was a NOS HB doorskin that was 'ok' and apart from what Heath mentioned a few S model dashes for LC and a few SLR dashes for $200. They are cheaper on ebay most of the time! I found a few things but they weren't torana related... met a few forumers there and got really sunburnt! :)

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 04:39 PM

Wow i went there as well ballarat is the go for car stuff My old man goes 2 everyswap he is in Norton Triumph /bsa/ajs motor bike parts i picked up some old torana articles lc and lc gtr adds and a peter brock article on how he won bathurst in 79 lol and a framed picture of bob morris green A9X there was alot of shit around Ballarat is the go :)

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 06:21 PM

Yeah, not impressed...highlight was lunch at the pub on makka's recommendation!
Thanks makka, you were right! Beer was perfect temperatue!

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 09:01 PM

Video killed the radio star!
EBay killed the swap meet!
Sign of the times, cry!!!

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 09:19 PM

you blokes ovisously havent been having your eyes open out for the right things

didnt see the hk gts monaro tags sell for 1800 did yas
didnt see the new bloke in town whos speciallising in hktg monaro stuff ? also had a hg gts tags
didnt see the hk monaro there or the lj 2 door 4 cyl that was pretty mint

there was some torana stuff for example i came home with a alternator bracket some tri ys

you have to have eyes out for the stuff if i see anything holden at a stands il spend at least a minute scaning over stuff to see for anytihng i need

heath u werent getting around with stockings on your arms were you that have like tatts paintings on them??

i spent 13 hours there at sat i got there late (8 am) and today from 9-3

the first year i never got to see everything i was too busy with mates helping out at there sites

the reason no torana stuff?
to me it has became better than last year as there was alot more car stuff especailly the first gen monaro stuff

if bendigos serious about getting it booming theyd have another shed built up for the car show to show the cars in the shed!

p.s. you blokes shoulda posted up you were comming down my mates site was number 253!! where i was most of the time

i did see a number for torana parts lc lj headlight surrounds price ranging from 10-100 dollars each .. i didnt bother reading the rest (wtf mate theyre not a monaro just a torry)

heath btw your starting to sound like my mother!

that is nothing compared to one year when the temp was about 39 degrees all day and 40 the other

ps dont buy drinks there for 2 bucks just walk to the supermarket down the road and buy 2 litres of coke for 1.89 ! (thats what i did about 2 times on sat)

Edited by chevy_253_torana, 19 November 2006 - 09:24 PM.


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Posted 19 November 2006 - 09:30 PM

Yeah i went 2 Iga ftw $20 for a 10 pack of burbon i seen s few slr clusters white and yellow faced i didnt have time 2 look everywhere tho and wasnt looking for anything in particular

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:03 PM

who here came down for the friday night at the swap

who went to the friday night hotrod meetup

some nice cars

that falcon i reckon may have been on the throttle in the bottle with the sounds of the purge kit comming from it!

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:16 PM

I was there but had no idea about the hotrod show or whatever it was 2 busy setting up and stuff

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 09:07 AM

I went, I bought what i needed, I ran into a few forumers!
I reckon I saw everything, I have got how to navigate the swap down to a fine art! there was a stall with a fair amount of torana stuff, mainly LH/X. there were a few sets of tripples and there was quite a bit of stuff for holden V8's

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 09:28 AM

^ Think I may have missed that one.

And yeah Chevy we passed the LJ four banger on a trailer on the way back to Melb. Someone picked up a nice project!

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:11 PM

i gave bedigo a miss this year , a mate of mine went , rag me while there, the convo went like this( lots of walking not a lot on offer , sfa torrie/munro stuff that wernt ebay prices or worse ,f##k ebay,shooda stayed home cu ya soon ). :cry: oh well.cheers daz

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:40 PM

you just gotta be in the right place at the right time i was talking to a bloke who has 2 hatchback toranas and his son had a 253 lh that needs paint was seling it for 2 grand supposedly the motor was hot

i was very lucky to get the alternator bracket btw!

dad was talking to a bloke about vintage cars and i decided to walk off and look at a store and saw holden bits and thought hmm just junk

went back to dad for about 10 mins and got bored went back to the same site and as i was walking i noticed a bracket with torana written on it i litterally dived onto this and offered 60 bucks

i was going to get 2 new taillights as my ones have chrome with some missing for the lh but for 30 dollars each i think id rather pull mine off and fill the holes with fine filler!

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 02:30 PM

Hi All,
I was one of the stall holders at the swap. I did not realise it was so popular It was my first swap meet ever. Shame I had the stall I did not get to walk around till 11am sunday and by then everything was pretty much gone.
Think I might just camp out next year in our spot but sell nothing so I can get into the action early and see if I can find that elusive locking petrol cap bargain I have been searching for :)

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:51 PM

what sort of stuff were you selling mate?

its been the first year i havent been able to walk around the whole show!
i missed out on a fair amount i spent alot of time just chilling with some mates of mine at there site only shed i went in was the exhibition one and only went about 2 rows down the very back
wish i had of went back to that commodore wreckers last year i was about to buy vn heads with manifold and wiring loom to suit for 400 bucks back then i didnt know if it was cheap or a ripoff !!!

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 09:13 PM

There was a Sunbird Hatch shell in the car park outside Gate 3. The locals get in the act and drag their stuff out the front of their houses to sell to the passing trade without having to go inside.
Ballarat is the go.

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 09:34 PM

I went to Ballarat a few months ago (the one in the multi level carpark) and found it wasn't that fantastic... Is that the one you're talking about?

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 10:01 PM

I didn't know the Dana St Swapmeet was still going. The one I talkin about is the Super Southern Swapmeet 23rd-25th Feb 2007 at the Airport. Approx 16km to walk if you go up and down each isle

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 10:03 PM

ive heard its a dud that one the mothersday stall it was nicknamed i think

nah mate feb i think the real ones on at

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Posted 21 November 2006 - 10:35 AM

Im not sure what any of you are talking about, the recent one, that this topic was started for, was the Bendigo Swap Meet at the showgrounds, last weekend.

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Posted 21 November 2006 - 10:19 PM

hk gts tags 1000 .00
lc/monaro steering wheel same bloke poor condition 400.00
chev hk/ht/hg rams horn manifolds 150to 260 each
what a ripp off ,
still if you want it you pay for it
i bought a mirror and a short block asm for my new to(???????????????????/)

all in all not a bad day at all

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Posted 21 November 2006 - 10:22 PM

Dodgy guys tryin to sell tags. Pisses me off.

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 07:24 AM

Dana street still occurs and I got a reasonable amount of stuff from there this year (heath was with me) we need to hone his looking skills...!

Heath if you think bendigo was bad on your legs etc the other ballarat is similar if not worse. I take it you will be attending with Us four again.. :D

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