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the magical uc register
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Posted 30 November 2011 - 08:27 PM
Here's a pic of my Sun Budgies.
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Tiffany (R.I.P.) is on the left and Sparky is on the right.
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10 downloadsTiffany (R.I.P.) is on the left and Sparky is on the right.
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Posted 02 December 2011 - 05:26 PM
I thought you got rid of everything in the garage sale?
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 05:52 PM
I have a photocopy of your blue one. Its called Bluey.
- cos its always sad....
- cos its always sad....
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 06:43 PM
They were both blue. Now one is blue and the other is a pile of ashes. it sort of got cremated. I threw it into the wood heater we had up at Yarra Glen.
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 08:37 AM
Looking foward to doing a few Km's in the UC over the Christmas break ,
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 11:16 AM
I'm looking forward to owning another UC over the Christmas break.
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 08:14 PM
Fanta is now legally registered as a V8 in NT 
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 10:02 PM
68GTO, Are you permantly in the NT and if so what part? If in Darwin area I will keep an eye out for Fanta. I also have a street registered UC 308 (at the moment it is getting an LX treatment to the tail lights!)
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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:41 AM
Burty,
Yep posted up here, living in Larrakeyah, I am waiting to see your hatch (we had 3 Torries at Friday night cruise last week)
GTO is off the road until motor gets rebuilt, some genius at the transport complany didn't noice the air cleaner was loose and it dropped a nut down the carby....expensive :-(
Yep posted up here, living in Larrakeyah, I am waiting to see your hatch (we had 3 Torries at Friday night cruise last week)
GTO is off the road until motor gets rebuilt, some genius at the transport complany didn't noice the air cleaner was loose and it dropped a nut down the carby....expensive :-(
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Posted 12 January 2012 - 02:16 PM
Hopefully my hatch will be back at the cruise by march or april after work is completed on it. Good to hear some torries were out, Darwin is a small town but there is still some hidden treasure around the place. The owners bring them out mainly once the dry season hits.
Bad news about the GTO, same thing happened to a mates 66 mustang!
Bad news about the GTO, same thing happened to a mates 66 mustang!
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 01:29 PM
My UC Sunbird - now with 173 Red motor in it. Still working on it to get it rego'd. Will do a V8 transplant down the track.
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 07:49 PM
heres my new uc its an opel 4 (which is for sale as its coming out soon) plans are a respray and full rebuild and ill throw in a pic of my red uc
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Posted 11 February 2012 - 09:08 PM
cheers all for the contributions to the magical uc register i gotta get my pics mines a 2/1979 6 seater bench seat column auto with a 202 behind it , and beige in colour you would of seen it in the pics from toranafest nft 998 nomber plates
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Posted 03 March 2012 - 09:43 PM
Hi all
My first car was a UC and after a few years upgrades to a VS (or downgraded). Eventually bought another in almost perfect condition for a couple of grand. Had it for 3 years now trying to work out what I wanted to do with it. I was going down the path of stroking a 173. I have recently seen a UC in Street Machine which had an LS2 in it. is there anyone here with experience in putting in an LS series into a UC. I was thinking CHamois might be one person.
My first car was a UC and after a few years upgrades to a VS (or downgraded). Eventually bought another in almost perfect condition for a couple of grand. Had it for 3 years now trying to work out what I wanted to do with it. I was going down the path of stroking a 173. I have recently seen a UC in Street Machine which had an LS2 in it. is there anyone here with experience in putting in an LS series into a UC. I was thinking CHamois might be one person.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 07:08 AM
My UC Hatchback has been sitting in a friend's barn for the 4 years since I moved to Canada in Feb 2008.
I ordered it from Zupps Aspley in October 1978 (traded in my LC 2600 4 door), but it didn't come off the GMH production line until February 1979, and a hold up at Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing in Melbourne delayed delivery until July 1979 (on the 10th anniversary of the moon landing).
Order Details:
UC Hatchback in Flamenco Red optioned with M20 gearbox, GU4 (3.08) differential ratio, 4 wheel disc brakes, heavy duty radiator, left hand exterior mirror, SL/R style GMH sports steering wheel, and rust-proofing - cost $7800
Pre-delivery NGM SL/T option - $2000
Here it is back in 1979 on the driveway of my parent's house before the LH mirror had been fitted (the LH mirror option was dealer fitted, and it took them a while to get the trim strip for the longer hatchback door):
Engine bay (as delivered - except for horn location and aftermarket water injection system):
And here it is in 2008, about a week before I deregistered it, put it in storage, and moved to Canada:
Yep ... That's a real SL/T ... more information in the link in my signature.
I ordered it from Zupps Aspley in October 1978 (traded in my LC 2600 4 door), but it didn't come off the GMH production line until February 1979, and a hold up at Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing in Melbourne delayed delivery until July 1979 (on the 10th anniversary of the moon landing).
Order Details:
UC Hatchback in Flamenco Red optioned with M20 gearbox, GU4 (3.08) differential ratio, 4 wheel disc brakes, heavy duty radiator, left hand exterior mirror, SL/R style GMH sports steering wheel, and rust-proofing - cost $7800
Pre-delivery NGM SL/T option - $2000
Here it is back in 1979 on the driveway of my parent's house before the LH mirror had been fitted (the LH mirror option was dealer fitted, and it took them a while to get the trim strip for the longer hatchback door):
Engine bay (as delivered - except for horn location and aftermarket water injection system):
And here it is in 2008, about a week before I deregistered it, put it in storage, and moved to Canada:
Yep ... That's a real SL/T ... more information in the link in my signature.
Edited by JamesB, 11 March 2012 - 07:09 AM.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 09:17 AM
Thanks for posting , what a great car , but I want more pictures .
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 09:38 AM
thats awesome!
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 05:43 PM
7 Pages of UC Torana's, still a few around then, the last of the Torana's
As Ted Bulpitt said
Only Nuns Drive UC Torana's
Just Joking UC Torana Fans
As Ted Bulpitt said
Only Nuns Drive UC Torana's
Just Joking UC Torana Fans
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Yes, there certainly aren't many about. I'm trying to get a production figure, but it's really like finding a needle in a haystack. I know they were built in batches of 5, and my SL/T was in the first batch of the Mk 2 version. Photographs I was shown at a car show in Rockhampton showed my car being built at NGM and the prototype Mk 2 air cleaner and cast alloy ducting being test fitted.
I have zero authentcating data on the genuineness of the car (absolutely nothing came with the car), and except for a very faded photocopy of a letter from David Inall from 1978 that I received after making enquiries when I first saw the original October 1978 Modern Motor article, I received nothing else from NGM. I've just sent an email off to Honeywell Australia (they absorbed Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing on the late 90s), to see if they can offer any information. To be honest, I'm not expecting anything from them, but it's worth a try.
Practically every article on the net on the SL/T model either uses text or pictures "borrowed" from the information that I sent to DunsenZ at the Oatley Torana Club back in May 2002 or from the web page that I constructed at about the same time. That web page has been out there for almost 10 years ... initially on my iprimus web space, then it moved to my internode web space, and finally it shifted to my own domain in about 2004 (where it's been ever since). Every time I go looking for details, I end up looking at my own text or pictures on someone else's site ... often with a copyright notice ostensibly claiming ownership of the text and pictures.
I have very few pictures of the SL/T ... a few black and whites that I took back in August 1979, and amongst the thousands of 35mm slides that reside in about half a dozen crates (that still haven't seen the light of day since I packed them up in 2008 and shipped them off to Canada), I have a few more. I think I have one showing the speedometer somewhere north of 200 km/hr, but I can't be sure, and the picture would have been taken over 3 decades ago, and I haven't seen photographs from that set for almost that long, so my mind may be playing tricks on me.
There are a couple of digital pictures on a face book album that I took to document some repairs to the turbo installation that I was doing back in 2006. The engine bay looks pretty grotty in those pictures. A few months later, my digital camera was left in Canada with my wife when I came home to prepare my house for sale and pack things up, so there were no more pictures except for the one my sister took a few days before I was due to immigrate to Canada. When I was buying used parts back in 2007 or 2007 for a planned restoration, and arrived to pick them up in the SL/T, the ex-Torana owner went crazy and probably took 30-40 shots of my car. I never saw a single of those images, and I don't think I could find him again to see if I can get copies.
The car was still being used as a daily driver up until I deregistered it. My plan was to eventually return to Australia and do a full restoration on the SL/T, but I don't think that's going to happen (my project car over here is a 1989 Jaguar XJ-S V12), so I guess I'll probably be putting the Torana up for sale in the near future.
The body work is straight (never been in a collision) although it does have the odd parking lot ding and scrape (including a small ding in the leading edge of the bonnet caused by a falling sofa ... don't ask). The paint is original, but it does have a couple of bits of minor surface rust. The bonnet will need repainting, as the area over the turbo is a mass of crazed paint from the heat. My biggest regret is having an "over the roof" AutoSun sliding glass sunroof fitted in the early 80s, but after talking to a few car collectors/restorers, the fact that it's a period correct modification shouldn't be too much of a issue. Internally, it'll need new carpets and the seats will need to be recovered, and just before I put the car in storge, the heater core started leaking, so it's been bypassed.
It currently sits on a set of extremely rare 13x6 Globe RallyMasters (like the globe SprintMasters they fitted to the LJ XU-1s, but with 1/2 inch more offset and a rough cast finish on the spokes) that have been painted black with high temp enamel (so it'll come off relatively easily), and there's a set of 4 of the 13x6 Torana factory alloys and things like spare tail lights etc, packed with the car.
During the rebuild of the engine back in 1988 the block (it's still the original block) and the head (aftermarlet Yella Terra LX3300 head that I had reworked with better springs and a set of studded roller rockers) were painted gloss black, so I planned to haul it out and paint it "rocket red" again, and have hardened valve seats fitted so it would run on premium unleaded without needing a shot of upper cylinder lube at every fill-up. The gearbox was rebuilt with a new layshaft gear set and first gear at the same time as the engine rebuild and the differential is still the original "small" Salsbury. I'm willing to bet that the clutch is stuck to the flywheel. The special PBR clutch set that took me years to find doesn't like high humidity, and after just a month or so of not being driven, I'd always have to spend the first day or two driving it clutchless until the plate unstuck.
I have zero authentcating data on the genuineness of the car (absolutely nothing came with the car), and except for a very faded photocopy of a letter from David Inall from 1978 that I received after making enquiries when I first saw the original October 1978 Modern Motor article, I received nothing else from NGM. I've just sent an email off to Honeywell Australia (they absorbed Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing on the late 90s), to see if they can offer any information. To be honest, I'm not expecting anything from them, but it's worth a try.
Practically every article on the net on the SL/T model either uses text or pictures "borrowed" from the information that I sent to DunsenZ at the Oatley Torana Club back in May 2002 or from the web page that I constructed at about the same time. That web page has been out there for almost 10 years ... initially on my iprimus web space, then it moved to my internode web space, and finally it shifted to my own domain in about 2004 (where it's been ever since). Every time I go looking for details, I end up looking at my own text or pictures on someone else's site ... often with a copyright notice ostensibly claiming ownership of the text and pictures.
I have very few pictures of the SL/T ... a few black and whites that I took back in August 1979, and amongst the thousands of 35mm slides that reside in about half a dozen crates (that still haven't seen the light of day since I packed them up in 2008 and shipped them off to Canada), I have a few more. I think I have one showing the speedometer somewhere north of 200 km/hr, but I can't be sure, and the picture would have been taken over 3 decades ago, and I haven't seen photographs from that set for almost that long, so my mind may be playing tricks on me.
There are a couple of digital pictures on a face book album that I took to document some repairs to the turbo installation that I was doing back in 2006. The engine bay looks pretty grotty in those pictures. A few months later, my digital camera was left in Canada with my wife when I came home to prepare my house for sale and pack things up, so there were no more pictures except for the one my sister took a few days before I was due to immigrate to Canada. When I was buying used parts back in 2007 or 2007 for a planned restoration, and arrived to pick them up in the SL/T, the ex-Torana owner went crazy and probably took 30-40 shots of my car. I never saw a single of those images, and I don't think I could find him again to see if I can get copies.
The car was still being used as a daily driver up until I deregistered it. My plan was to eventually return to Australia and do a full restoration on the SL/T, but I don't think that's going to happen (my project car over here is a 1989 Jaguar XJ-S V12), so I guess I'll probably be putting the Torana up for sale in the near future.
The body work is straight (never been in a collision) although it does have the odd parking lot ding and scrape (including a small ding in the leading edge of the bonnet caused by a falling sofa ... don't ask). The paint is original, but it does have a couple of bits of minor surface rust. The bonnet will need repainting, as the area over the turbo is a mass of crazed paint from the heat. My biggest regret is having an "over the roof" AutoSun sliding glass sunroof fitted in the early 80s, but after talking to a few car collectors/restorers, the fact that it's a period correct modification shouldn't be too much of a issue. Internally, it'll need new carpets and the seats will need to be recovered, and just before I put the car in storge, the heater core started leaking, so it's been bypassed.
It currently sits on a set of extremely rare 13x6 Globe RallyMasters (like the globe SprintMasters they fitted to the LJ XU-1s, but with 1/2 inch more offset and a rough cast finish on the spokes) that have been painted black with high temp enamel (so it'll come off relatively easily), and there's a set of 4 of the 13x6 Torana factory alloys and things like spare tail lights etc, packed with the car.
During the rebuild of the engine back in 1988 the block (it's still the original block) and the head (aftermarlet Yella Terra LX3300 head that I had reworked with better springs and a set of studded roller rockers) were painted gloss black, so I planned to haul it out and paint it "rocket red" again, and have hardened valve seats fitted so it would run on premium unleaded without needing a shot of upper cylinder lube at every fill-up. The gearbox was rebuilt with a new layshaft gear set and first gear at the same time as the engine rebuild and the differential is still the original "small" Salsbury. I'm willing to bet that the clutch is stuck to the flywheel. The special PBR clutch set that took me years to find doesn't like high humidity, and after just a month or so of not being driven, I'd always have to spend the first day or two driving it clutchless until the plate unstuck.
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Posted 12 March 2012 - 10:07 AM
Yeah I recognised the black and white images. Everytime I've looked Into the sl/t these have came up. Be good to see a few more pics if you can get them. Cheers for sharing
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Posted 12 March 2012 - 11:56 AM
I managed to find the email of the guy that took the photos of the Torana in 2007, so I've sent off an enquiry about the images.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:02 PM
I have one to! A 1978 Hatchback in antelope. Bought it off ebay sight unseen, 5 litre trimatic. Have since lowered her and put a Supra 5 speed in. She is currently undergoing surgery at the panel beaters should be looking fresh and back on the road in a couple of weeks time!
Edited by ellsie28, 29 March 2012 - 05:14 PM.
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