Cars you don't see many of anymore

[anobserver]

Panel vans are essentially collectible now. Its weird being old enough to remember when they were mere work cars.

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by anobserver

Panel vans are essentially collectible now. Its weird being old enough to remember when they were mere work cars.

I had a HX Sandman P van green 308 4sp.

Also a XC Falcon 5.8L 4sp GS wheels bonnet and grill extractors and dual exhaust stock engine gutless. some drugged up dude owned it before me.

I used them for work and play, wish I still had the HX van.

I still have the XC but it's under the ground now as a mate drove his dozer over it for me righting off his XY GT-HO into a power pole. he was the one who said into it back in 1982 and it just went side ways instantly and into a pole and a fence. he bought a HZ van all decked out not a work car at all but a 308 hotted up to much for a road car fuel, it just about wheel stand taking off, but cost him to much in engine repairs and killing T400 autos.
His van handled real well, but the XY they do not handle, I think I saved his life for sure getting rid of that XY.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

I had a HX Sandman P van green 308 4sp.

I used them for work and play, wish I still had the HX van.

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So do I Mick, so do I.

[ford71V8]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

I had a HX Sandman P van green 308 4sp.

Also a XC Falcon 5.8L 4sp GS wheels bonnet and grill extractors and dual exhaust stock engine gutless. some drugged up dude owned it before me.

I used them for work and play, wish I still had the HX van.

I still have the XC but it's under the ground now as a mate drove his dozer over it for me righting off his XY GT-HO into a power pole. he was the one who said into it back in 1982 and it just went side ways instantly and into a pole and a fence. he bought a HZ van all decked out not a work car at all but a 308 hotted up to much for a road car fuel, it just about wheel stand taking off, but cost him to much in engine repairs and killing T400 autos.
His van handled real well, but the XY they do not handle, I think I saved his life for sure getting rid of that XY.

Please try and avoid saving my life
Thanks

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by ford71V8

Please try and avoid saving my life
Thanks

It's the rear springs that are the problem, I would invest in getting them sorted best you can, they are a shocker, the ute and P van spring setup is so much better and I am sure something can be done to make the sedan rear much better.
Look at how good the AU utes handled with leaf springs.
My stock from new XG Longreach was fine you could drive it with complete control at all times.
XC van was fine as well.
A mate crashed in his XY 302 Fairmont real bad in 1979, if he only knew better how to set such a car up.

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

It's the rear springs that are the problem, I would invest in getting them sorted best you can, they are a shocker, the ute and P van spring setup is so much better and I am sure something can be done to make the sedan rear much better.
Look at how good the AU utes handled with leaf springs.
My stock from new XG Longreach was fine you could drive it with complete control at all times.
XC van was fine as well.
A mate crashed in his XY 302 Fairmont real bad in 1979, if he only knew better how to set such a car up.

Yeah... Bathurst lap times woulda been much improved if they’d of raced superior handling utes or panel vans instead of Phase 111s with their crap rear suspension!
(And I thought I’d heard it all?.... what tripe!)

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

It's the rear springs that are the problem, I would invest in getting them sorted best you can, they are a shocker, the ute and P van spring setup is so much better and I am sure something can be done to make the sedan rear much better.
Look at how good the AU utes handled with leaf springs.
My stock from new XG Longreach was fine you could drive it with complete control at all times.
XC van was fine as well.
A mate crashed in his XY 302 Fairmont real bad in 1979, if he only knew better how to set such a car up.

Well there must be something wrong with my eyesight.Pretty sure that every pre XE sed I ever looked under had the same leaf spring rear suspension as the utes and panel vans,but according to Mick I got it all wrong.

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Well there must be something wrong with my eyesight.Pretty sure that every pre XE sed I ever looked under had the same leaf spring rear suspension as the utes and panel vans,but according to Mick I got it all wrong.

Looks the same to you does it, have a good look they are not at all the same in fact.

Even the GT HO rear spring is different to the normal sedan rear spring not to mention shocks valving.