Holden Monaro Test Car At Pickles?

[Birds]

I love the old GTS-R...that's a car that has sustained its value beyond what it probably should have given people either like it or hate it. Looking at the yellow now though, it's such a faded yellow compared to Devil Yellow. The awesome part of these cars were the engines, all balanced/blueprinted and decked out with some serious competition gear...very undertuned from factory, lots of potential if you ever wanted good power out of one. What's wrong with the wheels Ash? Tri-spoke FTW!

[Game]

Anyone end up going to the auctions yesterday?

[NXTIME]

Erm, the auction for these cars is in 5 weeks...

[Game]

Erm, the auction for these cars is in 5 weeks...

Whoops

[sneakey pete]

yes $1.7million is practically double $900 000, but 1 000 000 euro is only about $1.4million AUD, that is very far from double of $900 000. I think you converted wrong.

No, i just converted in echange rates from a few years back. (when the holden itself was sold) The euro has gone to shit in the last few years. sorry for the misunderstanding.

[R31Nismoid]

I love the old GTS-R...that's a car that has sustained its value beyond what it probably should have given people either like it or hate it. Looking at the yellow now though, it's such a faded yellow compared to Devil Yellow. The awesome part of these cars were the engines, all balanced/blueprinted and decked out with some serious competition gear...very undertuned from factory, lots of potential if you ever wanted good power out of one. What's wrong with the wheels Ash? Tri-spoke FTW!

Just needed to be an extra inch bigger is all, otherwise nothing wrong

[Kujotk]

No, i just converted in echange rates from a few years back. (when the holden itself was sold) The euro has gone to shit in the last few years. sorry for the misunderstanding.

HAHAHA gotchya

[Kujotk]

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2010/05/2...local-news.html

[PM-R33]

It is not known whether Peter Brock’s 05 Nation’s Cup Poolrite 427 Monaro, also owned by Mr Ryan, has been sold. It is not included in the auction but he reportedly paid $750,000 for the car and once turned down an offer of $3 million.

FARK!

[hylian]

Imagine the insurance on something like that. Actually, I don't even think anyone would touch it.

[Kujotk]

yeah they would, and it would be cheaper to insure than an r33 gtst insured to a p plater lol

[JoelyMoley]

yeah they would, and it would be cheaper to insure than an r33 gtst insured to a p plater lol

lol agreed, i mean how many 427 Monaro's do you think crash a year... wait a minute... none id actually be interested to get a figure on it

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Shame as soon as they were released the Vic premier announced all cabs to be yellow aswel haha

could have been worse.... kennett's idea was actually to have them pink, but he never got that through and opted for yellow

[On Edge]

Its a kind of impractical taxi with only 2 doors and very poor fuel economy. The ultimate example of why there is no point putting lipstick on a p1g.

to be fair, you could say that about any performace car....

[CRoNic...]

Shame as soon as they were released the Vic premier announced all cabs to be yellow aswel haha

Off topic but lol at your sig:

VTII Berlina (stock); Maybe 150kw at the spark plugs?!?!

[Kujotk]

could have been worse.... kennett's idea was actually to have them pink, but he never got that through and opted for yellow

Thailand has pink cabs, as well as blue, yellow/green... and they look awesome (even though they are carolas), and they also have funny stickers on their windows....

[Kujotk]

Hahahah birds yeah I get it now, I didn't notice it was some sort of special monaro and if it is one of a kind I guess it is worth heaps. But there is no way it will hit 900k at the auctions whenever it comes up, 900k was way too steep for any modern holden car, no matter if its one of a kind or just a rare car. I could justifly that money on a one of a kind original monaro, but not a modern one (well not for the next 30 years untill it reaches classic classification). One off's are meant to go up in value, I fear it has already been bought at the higher end of the spectrum (unless another couple of seriously cashed up collector find it and battle for it).

lol its nowhere near twice as much.

More of their customers are cashed up like crazy, they have a world wide audience where as Holden is only Australia and New Zealand. If your someone that belives in statistics or trends to guesstimate prices, the odds say that 900k is way too much for what it is. Especially since it is a recent car. Recent cars even if they are one off's should never go for that much. I would have thought this cars value wouldn't have been much more than $300k, but then over time it would reach $900k. There are one off holdens from the 60's and 70's that are fetching half a million dollars today, but thats after 40 or so years of appreciation.

Frk I love being right all the time, the car got $295K and didn't meet reserve. Guess I was right and the rest of SAU was wrong once again

[PM-R33]

Wow is that all it got up to. God that sucks for Chooka. Definetely a bad time to be trying to sell cars of that kind of value.

[Kujotk]

Wow is that all it got up to. God that sucks for Chooka. Definetely a bad time to be trying to sell cars of that kind of value.

doesn't affect chook anymore, its the finance companies problem now. Chook probably hopes they get a low price just so they loose money for taking his cars away.

i'd be cheering if i was him, but i guess now he knows he paid way too much for a holden in the first place

[PM-R33]

Yeah I suppose. Still would hurt seeing your pride and joy being sold to some one for a quarter of the price you paid for it.