I've always liked older (VG-VS) Commodore utes so started looking at them - there are a lot around, prices are low, parts are easy to find and cheap... and its a ute! Light, fast, 2 seats... the Australian sportscar. I'd just sold a motorbike and another project so had a bit of cash and space to spare.
I ended up finding a few options that for one reason or another just didn't work out, but then stumbled upon this fairly clean 1998 VS ute:
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I read through the ad and a few things caught my eye. One was that it was fairly close, a mere 9 hours away in Melbourne. Seeing as Sydney is 12ish, yeah, that's close for me out here in the outback. The other was it had a 5 speed manual transmission and this under the hood:
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Yep, that's right friends... that's a supercharged V6, the mighty L67. I got talking to the seller and lined up a price and a day.
More to come - boingk
I ended up finding a few options that for one reason or another just didn't work out, but then stumbled upon this fairly clean 1998 VS ute:
I read through the ad and a few things caught my eye. One was that it was fairly close, a mere 9 hours away in Melbourne. Seeing as Sydney is 12ish, yeah, that's close for me out here in the outback. The other was it had a 5 speed manual transmission and this under the hood:
Yep, that's right friends... that's a supercharged V6, the mighty L67. I got talking to the seller and lined up a price and a day.
More to come - boingk