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May 10, 2017 at 12:26 pm #22782
GMH187Participant- NSW
- VR Exec, VR Calais, Ninja, Triton daily
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Posts: 6Thought I’d share my VR Calais.
Completely stock, just over 100k travelled since it’s 93 birth so it’s in pretty good condition. It has a few scuffs and dents. Climate control doesn’t work and the hood lining needs redoing but apart from that all is good.
I’ve tided it up as much as I can for now.Plans aren’t too big just want it to be a low and slow cruiser; body tidied up and resprayed, chrome refurbed, 20″ supers, sunroof, suspension, venetians, manual conversion. Could be looking at a 5.0 conversion later as I have some of the gear for it already.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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May 10, 2017 at 1:06 pm #22786Wow thats clean suprised the low k ones still turn up. How are you planning on refirbing the chrome?
May 10, 2017 at 1:18 pm #22787
GMH187Participant- NSW
- VR Exec, VR Calais, Ninja, Triton daily
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Posts: 6That’s a good question, I have no idea! Haha I work it out as I go.
I hit the chrome window moulds a couple of times with the buffer and some cutting compound and the areas that I’d touched came up pretty good. I’ll do some more playing/investigating and see what works the best.
Yeah I wasn’t really looking either but this popped up cheap and I couldn’t turn away from it. I think I was hoping to ease the pain of a low km one owner Platinum Gold VL Exec I had not long sold for 2k. Nek minute they’re going for a fortune and finding another one that cheap is near impossible.
May 11, 2017 at 9:49 am #22812
VRSenator065Participant- Adelaide SA
- VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)
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Posts: 5 777Very nice, amazing km’s. Be very nice lowered and with a V8 in it, cool cruiser.
May 12, 2017 at 5:12 pm #22814You’ve done well there mate, it’s a pretty tidy car even makes my ss look a bit rough and I thought it was pretty tidy lol, good to see another nice vr on here
May 14, 2017 at 2:49 pm #22837Tidy looking car mate. Great pick up!
May 15, 2017 at 6:38 am #22841
GMH187Participant- NSW
- VR Exec, VR Calais, Ninja, Triton daily
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Posts: 6May 15, 2017 at 11:11 am #22847
VRSenator065Participant- Adelaide SA
- VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)
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Posts: 5 777Thanks guys, VR/S commodores are so cheap right now. Every time I jump on gumtree I see another immaculate low km one.
Got on the train yesterday to go into the city. As I was siting waiting at the Gawler station across the road an old guy opened his old school lean too garage doors, drives out in the the most immaculate VR I reckon I have ever seen, was sooo tempted to walk across and ask if it was for sale. It was mint.
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