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[v6 torana]

Might explain why they were so expensive to insure...........

 

 

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[xu2308]

Wonder how many have survived that have been stolen

[WhaleOilBeefHooked]

Probably more than should have, due to incorrect tags & re-birthing/shelling practices......

[gtrboyy]

Knew a few older blokes that had several toranas,monaro or old holdens in the 80's to 90's....most got their cars back short time later either thrashed to hell or stripped of the good bits on side of the road.

Previous owner of my lc gtr had it taken twice I think out front of his gf,luckily it'd be rolled down the street or nearby somewhere.

 

Surprisingly most of the blokes they knew that had a GT rarely got anything back at all.Similar with mini cooper things.,

 

 

These days we wouldn't be so lucky to get our cars back...they'd be targeted & hidden on purpose by relentless thieves.

Edited by gtrboyy, 25 March 2014 - 11:00 PM.

[71xu1]

I remember reading an article some time ago about XU1s what to look far when buying/ condition etc. One sentence made me chuckle "if it hasnt been stolen at least once it's probably not a genuine XU1"

[Bazza]

Hi all

 

I mentioned one day to my optometrist that I owned an XU-1. His first remark was "how many times has it been stolen?" As it turned out, he had one back in the day and it was stolen 3 times - he never saw it again after the third theft. Most of his mates who owned one had theirs stolen at least once also.

 

Cheers

 

Bazza

[gtrboyy]

Got told a story of a bathurst xu1 that got stolen twice in same day.

Found it in carpark first time,took it home & locked in backyard then got taken again that night to be found with car theif known for xu1 theft...he took it home,they found it there with another stolen xu1.

 

Owner swore car was a jinx it had that many attempted break-ins or been taken several times he had to sell it.

[SP5000]

In the early 80's myself and a lot of my mates had SLR 5000's, lL34's, VH SS Commodores, XY GT's, XBGT's etc, and most of them were stolen and never seen again, or stolen and trashed so they were a write off, these ones usually ended up out at the sand hills at Kurnell (Sydney) that was always the first place to go and look if you lived in the Sutherland Shire, my old mans HZ Premier wagon ended up out there, dumped in the salt water and burnt out

[v6 torana]

This one was cut up ............

 

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[gazzas]

Had a LC GTR years ago that cost about $2000.Insurance was $1200 a year which i had for a while but didnt renew.

Of course that was when it was stolen.Got it back the first time but the second time all we found was the stripped and burnt shell.

[bryanw]

My experience in Victoria in the 80,s, were wreckers selling mostly complete cars, stolen and recovered, from Sydney auctions. I think because they were making a quick buck, and it was just a matter of rwc and rego in Vic. even though it was written off in NSW.

So you see why there are still so many around considering they were stolen so often. only smashed ones getting reshelled

[yel327]

My LX hatchback which was and is still a nothing car (6cyl auto SL) got stolen 3 x times. I got sick of it in the end and parked it and never drove it again.

[v6 torana]

This might be funny if it wasnt true (June 1975)...............the dopes knocked off a station wagon at Kiama (NSW) because a Torana they had previously stolen was too small to sleep in !!!!!

 

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[frash da bucket]

I remember when i had my gtr,it was always parked at my mothers house,on the nature strip in front of a telegraph pole with a street light.I always disconnected the battery and had streering locks fitted,was always broken into,but they couldn't take it,i always found it un locked in the mornings for about 2 years or so,and it never happened again for the remaining 7 years that i owned till i sold it and bought something better.

 

Regards John.