Another good reason to own a UC is the money you save on unecessary things like alarms and immobilisers. The tail lights are enough of a deterrant : )
Advantages of owning a UC Torana
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Posted 29 August 2010 - 04:54 PM
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Posted 29 August 2010 - 05:26 PM
Another good reason to own a UC is the money you save on unecessary things like alarms and immobilisers. The tail lights are enough of a deterrant : )
and insurance and petrol money as everyone doesn't want to be seen in em
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 01:22 PM
even better if your car is orange hey Tony, you can earn some extra cash as a yellow taxi
hey Kev,
has the old age hurt your brain that much??
orange car.... earning extra as a yellow taxi??
or are you colourblind
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 04:36 PM
On a hot summers day you can leave the windows down and keys in the ignition and know your car will still be there when you come back 
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Posted 14 August 2011 - 08:20 PM
The UC front is the WB Statesman front of the Torana line up, the last and most refined, yet nothing like the previous models.
Can't say I'm a big fan of the tail lights though.....
Unlike WB Statesmans, earlier model owners aren't falling over themselves to fit UC fronts to their cars.
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Posted 14 August 2011 - 09:07 PM
no one stops you to ask "would you like to sell that?"
Not so! I took my UC hatch to get petrol after finally getting it on-road. The guy behind me in the que asked if I wanted to sell it! This with my crappy home spray job, filthy dirty and the roof in primer. He must have thought it would make a cheap project car. It is - but it's my project car.
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 07:11 AM
for those that are into go rather than show and can see further than the tail lights, the UC fixed about 3000 things that were wrong/missing with the LX.
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 07:41 AM
this needs to be moved to off topic thats the thread for non torana discussion 
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 08:42 AM
this needs to be moved to off topic thats the thread for non torana discussion
Or perhaps to a ' special ' forum for all UC thingy owners and AU falcon owners called ' The Fuglies ' pmsl
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 09:20 AM
yeah or a tv show like kingy country but ted has a uc and its called the forribles .
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 12:18 PM
I have it on good authority that back in the day, Holden were concerned that the mainstream UC Torana buyer would be from an older generation, with poor eyesight, so they designed a much bigger dash pad in the UC that would produce much bigger cracks for these owners to cover with loop pile dash mats
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 01:52 PM
for those that are into go rather than show and can see further than the tail lights, the UC fixed about 3000 things that were wrong/missing with the LX.
Na you got that wrong, holden made 2999 mistakes when changing from LX to UC. Only good thing they did was change the handbrake and suppy LH LX owners with a cheap supply of boots and doors.
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 05:11 PM
Not so! I took my UC hatch to get petrol after finally getting it on-road. The guy behind me in the que asked if I wanted to sell it! This with my crappy home spray job, filthy dirty and the roof in primer. He must have thought it would make a cheap project car. It is - but it's my project car.
UC with an empty tank... Street value of about $20
UC with a full tank of fuel... Still worth only $20
Fill your own tank with fuel... About $80-100
With the price of fuel these days, the guy probably thought that it would be more economical to offer to buy the UC from you with a full tank of gas than it would be to fill up his own car!
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 10:30 PM
It's funny how the insecure need to bag someone else to feel good about themselves.
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 10:56 PM
well i own a uc so no insecurity here but cmon where is your sense of humour .lighten up.who is bagging who .its aussie humour ??????
ill send you some pics of my uc now this is funny it is olive green down one half and the other half is beige and spew spew the interior is mirrored in the same now if anyone has anything to be ridiculed about its me.when i put it on the trailer i had to hide everytime there was a red light lol.i bought it i didnt do it.
cmon as long as there are no personal attacks i really cant see the problem and im sure everyone else that has a joke at the expense of the poor old uc feels the same.its just for a laugh nothing serious
ill send you some pics of my uc now this is funny it is olive green down one half and the other half is beige and spew spew the interior is mirrored in the same now if anyone has anything to be ridiculed about its me.when i put it on the trailer i had to hide everytime there was a red light lol.i bought it i didnt do it.
cmon as long as there are no personal attacks i really cant see the problem and im sure everyone else that has a joke at the expense of the poor old uc feels the same.its just for a laugh nothing serious
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Posted 18 August 2011 - 11:36 PM
well i own a uc so no insecurity here but cmon where is your sense of humour .lighten up.who is bagging who .its aussie humour ??????
ill send you some pics of my uc now this is funny it is olive green down one half and the other half is beige and spew spew the interior is mirrored in the same now if anyone has anything to be ridiculed about its me.when i put it on the trailer i had to hide everytime there was a red light lol.i bought it i didnt do it.
cmon as long as there are no personal attacks i really cant see the problem and im sure everyone else that has a joke at the expense of the poor old uc feels the same.its just for a laugh nothing serious
sounds like someone has tried to camouflage the awesomeness
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 12:25 AM
^ impossible, the awesomeness of the UC cannot be camouflaged (the tail lights sort of cant be hidden) 
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 01:25 AM
I could not say 1 nice thing about an AU Falcon.
The thermofans work well
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 02:17 PM
I could not say 1 nice thing about an AU Falcon.
The thermofans work well
UC stands for the ULTIMATE CAR enough said from me , hey rob do yah still need a cruise buddy at toranafest lol and you to neil your all welcome to exsperience the awesome ness of the magical uc lol
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 04:09 PM
there are uc tailights on the f350 transporter i use could create a fad they cant be hidden.now ill have to make sure no one steals them at tfest.
Edited by rob350hatch, 19 August 2011 - 04:10 PM.
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 05:13 PM
I'd rather push a UC than drive a F@RD! 
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 05:58 PM
I'd rather push a UC than drive a F@RD!
Good Point.
It would be easier to drive it though.
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Posted 21 August 2011 - 09:46 AM
You guys and girls should think yourselves lucky that holden decided to build the ultimate car.
So you could use them for parts and bring ya inferiour modles up to the ultimate car standard
Go the mighty Uc
So you could use them for parts and bring ya inferiour modles up to the ultimate car standard
Go the mighty Uc
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