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Old 07-10-2008, 06:05 PM   #421
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Hi Trent,

Thanks for the welcome yeah, maybe I should.... might look into that later.

Tony,

If you look at the rear shot you'll see the pipe just behind the rear wheel, the other is a mirror on the other side. There is no balance pipe between the sides either so it makes a different note... might get round to fitting a balance pipe one day.

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Old 07-10-2008, 06:08 PM   #422
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Hey Dave,

Let me be the first to welcome you to AFF. Nice ride BTW. They always say you should learn something every day and I just found out who the Aussie Stig is

Hope to see you around the forum, and who knows, maybe on the road.

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Well?? Who is? C'mon, I can keep a secret.
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Old 07-10-2008, 06:36 PM   #423
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Well?? Who is? C'mon, I can keep a secret.
Check out Dave's number plate
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Old 07-10-2008, 07:05 PM   #424
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Oh, right right right right. And all this time I thought it was Evan Green.
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Old 07-10-2008, 07:17 PM   #425
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Great stuff DaveD ..... Coupe looks great! Love the MM replicas, have a look at COB115's coupe in these pages somewhere and you may fix up the second coupe?

If you do decide to change your sig ...... go here and ask and it will be done! THe plates look great so might as well use them on the sig as well!
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Old 07-10-2008, 07:45 PM   #426
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Thanks for that Auslandau, I did try to make a new ID but the system is too smart & wouldn't let me use the same email address... I'll use that link now.

Yes, I've seen Pat's gaggle of coupes... problem is I want to make a targa car from the 2nd coupe... bugger looks like, I'll need a 3rd coupe now.. where will it ever end.... 9 me thinks

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Old 07-10-2008, 08:00 PM   #427
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........... I'll need a 3rd coupe now.. where will it ever end.... 9 me thinks

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Old 08-10-2008, 07:48 AM   #428
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Just thought I'd add my coupe to the pages here, she a 1975 XB GS, originally an South Australian girl..... pick her up a few years back with some help from Brad, was going to make her a Mad Max replica when I bought her but then just fell in love with the shape & didn't want the hassles from the bronze I knew I'd get from a MM car.6

Also have a 75 XB Falcon 500 that I pick up not long after the first coupe as a parts car, came with 2 x XB interiors & a complete Landau interior, all for $500.... of how times have changed!!

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Welcome to the forum, great to see more coupe owners come aboard. Your spare XB would make a great targa car or maybe a race replica.

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Old 08-10-2008, 08:26 PM   #429
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where will it ever end.... 9 me thinks

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You've hit the nail on the head there - 9 is a good number. I now have 9 x P6 LTD's and the need _2: for anymore is no longer there, well mostly not there :Up_to_som .
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Old 08-10-2008, 08:57 PM   #430
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Thanks for that Auslandau, I did try to make a new ID but the system is too smart & wouldn't let me use the same email address... I'll use that link now.

Yes, I've seen Pat's gaggle of coupes... problem is I want to make a targa car from the 2nd coupe... bugger looks like, I'll need a 3rd coupe now.. where will it ever end.... 9 me thinks

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Noooooooo Dave, Please no Targa top conversion. Chopping coupes is not funny any more.
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Old 08-10-2008, 09:20 PM   #431
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Targa top...eh... no that wasn't what I ment Trent..... I mean a road race car for Targa events, like Targa Tasminia or Targa West

but then a replica race car would be very very cool.... so that would be 4 & I'm still chasing a GT.... that'd be 5.....

bugger, Hi My names Dave & I a Coupeoholic.......

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Old 08-10-2008, 09:24 PM   #432
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Noooooooo Dave, Please no Targa top conversion. Chopping coupes is not funny any more.
I dunno, this looks ummm, different?

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Old 08-10-2008, 09:25 PM   #433
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Targa top...eh... no that wasn't what I ment Trent..... I mean a road race car for Targa events, like Targa Tasminia or Targa West

but then a replica race car would be very very cool.... so that would be 4 & I'm still chasing a GT.... that'd be 5.....

bugger, Hi My names Dave & I a Coupeoholic.......

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Ooops my bad I feel your pain. My name is Trent and I'm a fordwhore I've been sniffing around a few in SA also but they are getting V hard to find.
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Old 08-10-2008, 11:14 PM   #434
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I dunno, this looks ummm, different?


Geez i hope thats only a wannabe GT and not a real one.
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Old 09-10-2008, 12:26 AM   #435
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Geez i hope thats only a wannabe GT and not a real one.
it looks like a wannabe one - no chrome on the tops of the door, no wheel arch mould and sill moulds (not xb coupe ones)

it has still destroyed the best part of a coupe though - hopefully the roof was rusted and not realistically salvagable
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Old 09-10-2008, 08:52 AM   #436
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It doesn't look too bad but these usually look like a badly erected tent with the top up.
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Old 09-10-2008, 11:16 AM   #437
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It doesn't look too bad but these usually look like a badly erected tent with the top up.
it depends on the angle - in my opinion, they only look passable from the front as that pic, or the orange one in "worst things done to a coupe" post 134. at least from that angle, you can almost pretend the roof is not missing
from the sides or rear they just look so wrong to me

i would suggest most coupe lovers, including myself love them because of the roof line and quarter panels. they were made to go together and without one or the other - they just look wrong

the piece above the windscreen looks weird - it almost looks like they have fabricated a piece that makes it taller at the top of the screen
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Old 10-10-2008, 07:19 AM   #438
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got my wifes coupe out and fired up after a few years of hibernation,i was going to remove each plug and carfully put a bit of oil in each pot ,but i had a few scotchs n cokes ,so that idea went out the window ,any way fired up and ran like a champion
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Old 10-10-2008, 07:22 AM   #439
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wtf cob you have your own forklift?
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Old 10-10-2008, 07:24 AM   #440
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wtf cob you have your own forklift?
doesnt every one?
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doesnt every one?
you don't have 9 of them as well, do you pat?
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Old 11-10-2008, 01:15 PM   #442
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I have a large framed picture of your car hanging in my bar that i bought at a swap meet 12 months or so ago.
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Cool, any chance you could post or send me a pic of the poster?
Was it a home done job or was a poster or photography guy selling?

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Old 11-10-2008, 01:37 PM   #443
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you don't have 9 of them as well, do you pat?
Pat has a list of these puppies as long as your arm!!! Lucky B@stard. when I grow up I wanna be just like him
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Old 11-10-2008, 03:42 PM   #444
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got my wifes coupe out and fired up after a few years of hibernation,i was going to remove each plug and carfully put a bit of oil in each pot ,but i had a few scotchs n cokes ,so that idea went out the window ,any way fired up and ran like a champion
Thats a great filing system,what did you file the Landau under?
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Old 12-10-2008, 01:06 AM   #445
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i would suggest most coupe lovers, including myself love them because of the roof line and quarter panels.
Absolutely couldn't agree more. The 70/71 Torino had a hardtop, a fastback, and a convertible - the latter with very different but handsome flanks. You couldn't make a nice Torino convertible out of either of the coupe shapes - they'd end up pointy and quere like the Falcon coupe. However, the idea of a four-door convertible in anything smaller than a P6 is just wrong, so I guess when they were a dime-a-dozen the coupe would have to be the obvious choice for a hack?


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I have so many coupes, why don't you fellas come and help yourself to some?
I'd like to point out regarding the filling system for cars... if you notice the size of the actual filling cabinet to the right of shot, which is full of sales schedules and rego - you might just imagine the size of his underground lair... its Mad Max meets Batman, a forklift for every row.
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Old 12-10-2008, 06:28 PM   #446
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[QUOTE=Big Mike]Absolutely couldn't agree more. The 70/71 Torino had a hardtop, a fastback, and a convertible - the latter with very different but handsome flanks. You couldn't make a nice Torino convertible out of either of the coupe shapes - they'd end up pointy and quere like the Falcon coupe. However, the idea of a four-door convertible in anything smaller than a P6 is just wrong, so I guess when they were a dime-a-dozen the coupe would have to be the obvious choice for a hack?


The coupes look like crap without a roof & its just criminal to cut it off but yea all the ones done seem to have been done years ago. Personally I think there arent a lot of cars that do look good as a inconvertible.
I'll take the Falcon over the Torino any day or I would sell mine Falcon & by 2 Torino's LOL

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Old 15-10-2008, 09:43 PM   #447
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hi , ive decided to try locate my black xb coupe i sold back in 97 -thought this would be a good place to start-used to have MRCOUP number plates alloy tank ,black /grey interior roll cage-does this sound like a car some one knows?
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Old 15-10-2008, 10:03 PM   #448
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i agree..i'm not a fan of the convertible coupe's either... saw an xb and thought what a waste..it was a gt too..
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hi , ive decided to try locate my black xb coupe i sold back in 97 -thought this would be a good place to start-used to have MRCOUP number plates alloy tank ,black /grey interior roll cage-does this sound like a car some one knows?
Hey John, how are ya mate? I know your car very well but haven't seen it since the good old days of the coupe club unfortunately mate. Here's a couple of pictures to help with the search. Good luck!





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