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[xu2308]

No Worries, wonder if the one from here is still around these days

[hungus76]

I find it interesting, considering the size and population of Tasmania just how many L34's and A9X's are down here.

Not to mention all the other hi-performance cars of the era down here too.

People would be amazed at the collection of desirable factory muscle cars that are in my street alone!

[xu2308]

In 1977, Motors Hobart Sold 6-A9X's in Tassy, plus the L34 Torana's before that and all the LJ GTR's and LJ XU-1's ,
and all the, dare we say it, the GT's and GTHO's, in Georgetown Tasmania there were around 3 or 4 XY GTHO's
in the town, when new.
Georgetown in the 1970's, had Comalco and Tempco and the Hydro Thermal Power Station be built, and there was a
Wood Chip Mill there as well, so lots of well payed workers buying Beasty Cars and on the West Coast of Tassy, u had lots of
Muscle Cars, as there are mines all over the West Coast of Tasmania, in Rosberry there a mine, that still going to this day, and Renison Mine that just out of Zeehan, that still going to this day, shut a couple of times in recent tmes but re-opened back up
and going, and there is Queenstown World Famous Copper Mine, Mount Lyell, thats be going for over 120 plus years, in the early 1900's when the whole world was broke, Queenstown was the worlds richest town, where two mining companys were waisting huge amounts of dollars competing against each other, and the rest of the world was in the great depression .
Tasmania in the 1970's bought more muscle cars than any other state in Australia, going off our population size to cars bought ratio
So u would think there still would be lots of 1970's muscle cars in the state, unless all been crashed all gone to mainland over the years.
Danny Clarke from Georgetown the World Famous Bike rider has a Green XY GTHO Falcon still, he had from new i think. i bet
Western Australia with all the Mines there has has lots of muscle cars as well.

[hungus76]

This is a breakdown of Factory Muscle Cars in my street:

I have the L34 and a HQ Coupe, my next door neighbour has an XW Phase II, my neighbour on the other side of me has an A9X sedan, HR X2 wagon, a supercharged 360ci Charger, XY ute running a 460 and a fastback Mustang. He did also have a 327 HK GTS Monaro which he sold. Then there is the guy that lives directly across from me who has an XA GT sedan.

There was also an LJ GTR just around the road and I know of a brown LJ XU-1 thats only 2 minutes away from me too.

I live in Muscle Car paradise!

[xu2308]

There a few Torana's my way, and some Monaros as well, the GT's have all left here over the years, last one was a Red XA GT 4-Door thats been sold a couple of years back, was a very Nice Supermint Green 4-Door A9X that my mate owned, he sold it and it went to Qld, no more A9X's this way now, used to be a very hot Black 4-Door A9X that a guy in Roseberry used to own, thats now in Hobart these days.

[041SLR5000]

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here is a couple of other toranas fron tas.

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This L34 was sold to Bob Forbes in 1976 and was painted in Andronicas Coffee colours and used as a spare race car..

[xu2308]

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Where is it now, the Black A9X Hatch that was in Hobart for years, owned by a Camera-Man that worked for TVT6 a local Hobart TV Station, now owned by WinTV.
Last i heard it was in Queensland, any one got any pics of the Black Tassy A9X

[xu2308]

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A9X 4-Door in the Burgandy Colour from Tassy
it came to my area in the late 1980's, a Cop owned it for a fair while, he had it re-sprayed in the ultra blue A9X Colour

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one more pic of the Burgandy A9X 4-Door

[Torananut]

A few years ago I bought some hotwires off a bloke in Tasmania and when I told him that they were for my L34 he told me about a guy not from him that apparently had an ex Allan Grice L34. It was said to be a bit rough and still had some of the Contessa Gold on the guards and bonnet. The bloke mentioned that the car car was famous in the area for running up the back of a divvy van on top of the Derwent bridge years ago. When they took the car to a panel beater they found that all of the front panels were aluminium. Does anybody know anything about this car?

[Torananut]

Was the car an actual ex Grice race L34? He wrecked most of the L34s and A9Xs that he drove.

[xu2308]

What ever happened to the Gene Cook Black Group C L34, it was originaly Green the colour of the L34, and Gene had it painted Black.
Last i heard it was around the sommerset area, near Burnie in Tassy, back in the 1980's
Now i heard of the Black Car that i thought was a 4-Door A9X that hit a bridge and was wrote off, was it the Brock 1975 L34 Torana, and was that spec to
A9X spec's at the time it hit the bridge, i heard it was near devonport area i think..

[Torananut]

Spoke with Gene in about 2004 at his workshop in Melbourne and he told me that his car was originally Barbados Green which he hated so he sprayed the car in the colours he liked. He said that someone not long before had said they thought they had his car but he did not see it to confirm. When I spoke to him he wasn't too keen to talk much about the car, not sure if I got him on a bad day or if he is always like that all of the time although his wife was nice.

In an old magazine his car was advertised for sale after he had just served a three month suspension for using illegally modified heads, so he was going back to race sports sedans.

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[xu2308]

Might be in Tassy still the Gene Cook L34 ????????, Last i heard of it, it was in Somerset near Burnie, but that was in the 1980's, Gene is very guarded when it comes to talking about his old cars, had that problem with him, about the SMP LJ XU-1 V8 he owned many moons ago

Edited by xu2308, 02 August 2012 - 09:42 AM.

[xu2308]

this car belonged to a bloke in newstead and he sold it to a bloke in WA along with a camaro

Which Car, the Gene Cook L34 or the Black Torana that hit the Brdge ?????????

[CI 0308]

Wow I just checked back on this post I started a few years ago, great reading.

[xu2308]

Yes I remember that black A9x. I lived at Midway point/Sorell and I remember it passing through town. My old SS hatch in Mandarin red (CI 0308) also had the white trim. You could have bought a lot back then they were all around the 10 - 15 grand mark. my next door neighbour sold a "big tank" e38 for $7000 in original condition, if we only knew. great memorys. cheers Brett

Hi Brett

I Bought a 1977 LX SS Hatch,308 V8, M21 4Speed Mandarin Red with White interior from a Cop that lived at the Rokeby Police Academy, Chris Chivers I think his name was, the year I bought it was 1983 I think, I wonder if its the one you owned.

 

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[xu2308]

The Black A9X Hatch with the White interior from Hobart, Tas rego number ZZ5000, owned by Cameraman that worked at Tas TV station, was all ways parked out the front on Tas TV,  He sold it, last time I seen it, was in Dave Powell Super Wheels Car Yard for sale for $26,000 in 1985, have not seen the car since, any one got any Photos of the Black A9X Hatch from Hobart, I heard its over the mainland, maybe in Qld.

 

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