1990s i drove past a house selling a SL Torana perfect condition 6 cyl with all the scoups mags etc he wanted $1800 he took $1500 cash what a bargin were selling for $3/4k in caryards his father had it stored for years a lucky find took a different route home that day whish i still had it .
OMFG, what a find! Gr8 project and it comes relatively clean and a runner. Will never forget my first ride in an L34, it had a full Bathurst motor and was almost a hot pink colour. We were tailing a Phase 3, similarly modified at 100kmh, and the owner dropped it back to third and punched it to overtake. That 100kmph soon became 120mph and that L34 screamed. On the retun trip another mate in an E49 Charger with a lot of mods did the same thing to us, that was the quickest car in town, until the owner built a HT/HG Monaro with a built 427 and tunnel ram that did 10s when that wad stupid fast. OMG I miss those all motor days before turbos.
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Wow what a find. I cut my teeth driving holdans. EKs, HT, HJ, HQ Statesman, LJ Torana. Still miss my HJ, Kingswood, 253 with 4 speed and bucket seats. Went as good as any 308. You have a real gem. Will come up great with a little work.
I never been a great fan of the classic clacking twin exhaust note but it is authentically of the era. Sadly I’m old enough to be slightly nostalgic over that note now.
Noooooo that Blaaaap blaaap blaaap sounds terrible especially with a trimatic sloshbox. I think mine sounds farkkkin great haha th-cam.com/video/2-DYI4sA18A/w-d-xo.html
Gotta love the 70's Green Machine, was the colours of the day. Yeah need to change the exhaust note to a deeper growl. She will come up a treat once the little things are taken care of, good pick up.
I had a 4 door sedan, red with black bonnet, drop tank, 305 turbo 400 9 inch with souped up internals and huge frigging mags when I was 18yrs old… was awesome… took it to eastern creek a couple of times… also had a pre pollution hatchback shell I was going to build… but by 20, life, girlfriend then marriage and mortgage got in the way… I do wish I have kept them in a shed somewhere.
@@bencostanzo2062 do a rego check it only expired in August last year. Nice find? Absolutely. Not sure it qualifies for a barn find in need of rescue though.
@@-fhuket- I am not the only one asking mate. As my original statements points out - it is a good buy and needs to be kept well. But is it a barn find as made out in the video? I highly doubt it.
The easiest way to pick an lsd is jack up the arse end and rotate one of the wheels, if they both turn in the same direction it’s an lsd and if one goes in the opposite direction to the one you are rotating it’s an open diff. Running on Empty was a great Australian movie that all the rev heads in town went to the old drive in to see. More hot Holdens, Falcons and Chryslers than you could poke a stick at. Back then we didn’t realise what we had, I sold my HK V8 Monaro for $6k and thought I did well. Hindsight 😂
And the same for the diff ratio, mark a back wheel, mark the drive shaft, turn the wheel a full revolution and count the revolutions on the drive shaft and you have your diff ratio.
Potential galore here mate, not sure why the hate on the pipes, they sound sweet…. Would’ve been tragic if you’d lifted the bonnet to reveal a dirty LS, they’re the true meaning of a wet fart noise.
Nice and it’s the right colour green I think that was built as quite a hot rod just like in the late 80s or early 90s era Just need some aunger caps for the hotwires to finish them off 👍👍
I had an original factory V8 LX SS, it must have been one of the first they ever made as it was a 1976 model, I had to sell it to put a deposit on my house & not a week goes past that I regret selling it, but I would never be able to afford a house now days & it did go to a good home, but still, also subscribed on the spot if that helps.
Great find! I noticed that right wheel bearing cap missing. Might want to change that wheel bearing grease after the wash or that wheel bearing my rust up inside.
2 seconds into this vid,and the grin says it all,this rainbow did lead to pot of green gold,well done…can’t even cam a ve on the godly,hopefully the next 27k I spend,she might start
Think you have found a pretty good car, should come up very well. Back in the day my brother had a 253 in a fairly standard looking one of those in brown, four speed manual We thought it was pretty quick through to one hundred miles an hour.
A5~D2 I've got a terrific Torana A5 ~A6 a green hand going''' wave bye-bye D5~E2~ I got C.B. shuffle and a dashboard muffle E2~A5 Pilot's twitch in my eye! eye! eyes
A mate had an A9X hatchback whilst I had an XB coupe (351) with all the goodies........................we were in our early 20's other mates had tuff rigs too.
@@micksmith-vt5yi I knew exactly what he was talking about. Guys in the 80's would have the crossover pipe removed because they thought it sounded cool. Personally I thought it made a decent engine sound like it was flogged out with it's compressions all over the place. The crossover pipe gave it a smoother note. In my opinion it made the engine sound stronger.
Everyone hates the thong slap , me included. Almost ashamed to admit how nostalgic I felt hearing it. Being a teen in the early eighties meant you still heard heaps of rigs running around with that sound then all of a sudden you weren't cool unless you had a 2.5 single thanks to Mr Brock.
Regardless if its a genuine A9X or simply a clone tney are still a bloody good looking staunch as car. 308/355 engine plus a manual over the auto slushbox is just a good solid reliable combo.
Hi. Which motor has it got in it?.. In the beginning of the video you said it was a 308 I thought.. Then said it was a 355. Great looking cat regardless.
Lovely presentation well done. Tell me, what is the pressure washer foam gun attachment and foam chemical concentrate you use? It puts out a really thick nice foam.
Going under the car and seeing that 10 bolt salisbury along with rear disk brakes, makes me think is this a L34 A9X or that its been added after market?
Why would u try starting something that has sat so long without pulling the plugs and giving it a shot of some kind of lube, ? Easiest way to destroy an engine
Yeah, my thoughts too. Only after he tried to light it up did he realise the transmission was dry but they edited that bit out. Yobbo attitude to receiving a classic Aussie muscle car, I'll go back to Vice Grip Garage.
I had an LX hatchback at his age, didn’t have any sense to look after it properly but you live and learn. I’ve got a sweet VF now and treat it like gold.
You are nowhere near as excited as you should be mate, what a find! Sounds great too, dont know why you dont like it...
that clip from running on empty brought back some memories
1990s i drove past a house selling a SL Torana perfect condition 6 cyl with all the scoups mags etc he wanted $1800 he took $1500 cash what a bargin were selling for $3/4k in caryards
his father had it stored for years a lucky find took a different route home that day whish i still had it .
OMFG, what a find! Gr8 project and it comes relatively clean and a runner. Will never forget my first ride in an L34, it had a full Bathurst motor and was almost a hot pink colour. We were tailing a Phase 3, similarly modified at 100kmh, and the owner dropped it back to third and punched it to overtake. That 100kmph soon became 120mph and that L34 screamed. On the retun trip another mate in an E49 Charger with a lot of mods did the same thing to us, that was the quickest car in town, until the owner built a HT/HG Monaro with a built 427 and tunnel ram that did 10s when that wad stupid fast. OMG I miss those all motor days before turbos.
my son loves your vids. this is his dream car and he said i need to watch this. pretty cool
Thanks, love that! Cheers for the support hope to bring you more
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Does a car that was parked a year ago still count as a barn find? Asking for a friend.
I'm going to drive to work in a minute after this vid, in my Driveway Find hilux
My car has been impounded longer , sooooo i,m going to put another $50k on it as now a classic
Fake news
Only in America….where they have barns. 😎
Was it lost?
Never seen one of those before, it looks like a ford escort MKll LOMBARD/RAC car without stickers!
FANTASTIC 👍👍👍
Wow what a find. I cut my teeth driving holdans. EKs, HT, HJ, HQ Statesman, LJ Torana. Still miss my HJ, Kingswood, 253 with 4 speed and bucket seats. Went as good as any 308.
You have a real gem. Will come up great with a little work.
Wow. What an awsome score. My ultimate dream car. And love the colour combo.
Barn find? Willwood booster free master cylinder and VN heads (motor?) says its more of a Colorbond shed find.
Yeah you’re Probly right. But you watched it didn’t you 😁
@@Evans_Racing lol ya. Good luck with the build.
@@Evans_Racingexactly I’m a Ford guy but as soon as I saw those VN rocker covers I knew it was a recent find.
Not washed.......erm this week😂
A barn in Australia?
The sound definitely suits the car
Situations like finding this rise only from Who you know, not What you know. What a beauty
Great find! Love the sound of that 355.
I love the 70's cars and the 70's colours.
Oooooooo this looks beautiful. Looking forward to following this along.
Just needs a quick check up and you're going.
I once had a yellow with black slr 5000 replica with that same sunroof brings back some great memories i miss it wish i kept it.
nice car and your too young to appreciate and great sounding car lol im sure your dad loves the sound
That's a silly comment, plenty of young blokes can appreciate old cars. I have a Torana myself and I'm 33.
I never been a great fan of the classic clacking twin exhaust note but it is authentically of the era. Sadly I’m old enough to be slightly nostalgic over that note now.
Noooooo that Blaaaap blaaap blaaap sounds terrible especially with a trimatic sloshbox.
I think mine sounds farkkkin great haha
th-cam.com/video/2-DYI4sA18A/w-d-xo.html
My second car at 19 was a LH 253 4 speed. Red with blackouts. And thankfully,no flares!
I much prefer them this way. Twas a great car.
Wow if I wanted that at 19 I would have. Had to win the lotto with he stupid prices
the roar and the purr of the big cat
Gotta love the 70's Green Machine, was the colours of the day. Yeah need to change the exhaust note to a deeper growl. She will come up a treat once the little things are taken care of, good pick up.
I had a 4 door sedan, red with black bonnet, drop tank, 305 turbo 400 9 inch with souped up internals and huge frigging mags when I was 18yrs old… was awesome… took it to eastern creek a couple of times… also had a pre pollution hatchback shell I was going to build… but by 20, life, girlfriend then marriage and mortgage got in the way… I do wish I have kept them in a shed somewhere.
Classic Aussie Muscle what a beauty.
Nice car mate
I love that sounds
What a find! my first car was an LH torana. I do miss it.
Nice find mate 👍🏽
Thanks 👍
Nice Torana. I remember the tach has a switch on the back for 4 6 or 8
Awesome shed find, it's looking quite good, hope you's got it first a good price.
Doubt it. looking at the parts on that car and the condition it’s in once the months worth of dust was cleaned off it.
@@bencostanzo2062 I've seen some here in Terra Australis get some ripper bargains before
@@bencostanzo2062 do a rego check it only expired in August last year. Nice find? Absolutely. Not sure it qualifies for a barn find in need of rescue though.
@benp8136 yes. He should have left it to be scrapped do you think. ? Not rough enough to have a rescue .
@@-fhuket- I am not the only one asking mate. As my original statements points out - it is a good buy and needs to be kept well. But is it a barn find as made out in the video? I highly doubt it.
Bloody Nice Find!
I wish I still had mine. Awesome find. I’m very jealous
There still out there!
Wow thats a great find there still out there and i rekon when u finished weaving yr magic on it it will look great good stuff
That's the plan!
That thing sounds beasty..I wouldn't do nothing too it except clean it up ..put a six speed automatic maybe re clear the paint ..it's nostalgic ..
The easiest way to pick an lsd is jack up the arse end and rotate one of the wheels, if they both turn in the same direction it’s an lsd and if one goes in the opposite direction to the one you are rotating it’s an open diff. Running on Empty was a great Australian movie that all the rev heads in town went to the old drive in to see. More hot Holdens, Falcons and Chryslers than you could poke a stick at. Back then we didn’t realise what we had, I sold my HK V8 Monaro for $6k and thought I did well. Hindsight 😂
And the same for the diff ratio, mark a back wheel, mark the drive shaft, turn the wheel a full revolution and count the revolutions on the drive shaft and you have your diff ratio.
@@wayneg8763 Most Holdens have the ratio stamped on the outer pinion flange. 👍👍
@@scroungasworkshop4663 most not all chap
Always a bonus if the heater works, if she starts overheating you can hotbox the cabin to dump more heat 😅
Imagine how great it will be to restore that wonderful V8 back to its former 82hp glory
Potential galore here mate, not sure why the hate on the pipes, they sound sweet…. Would’ve been tragic if you’d lifted the bonnet to reveal a dirty LS, they’re the true meaning of a wet fart noise.
Was thinking the same, like that old school growl of the exhaust
Nice and it’s the right colour green
I think that was built as quite a hot rod just like in the late 80s or early 90s era
Just need some aunger caps for the hotwires to finish them off 👍👍
Going to enjoy this one - appears to be all there, just needs some finessing. Exhaust note definitely needs to be dragged into 2023.
I had an original factory V8 LX SS, it must have been one of the first they ever made as it was a 1976 model, I had to sell it to put a deposit on my house & not a week goes past that I regret selling it, but I would never be able to afford a house now days & it did go to a good home, but still, also subscribed on the spot if that helps.
Definitely changed nowadays hasnt it, cheers for watching and thanks for the subscription mate
Great find! I noticed that right wheel bearing cap missing.
Might want to change that wheel bearing grease after the wash or that wheel bearing my rust up inside.
For sure mate we got a new one on it and re packed the bearings too with new grease
@@Evans_Racing Awesome! Loosing a wheel off a rare car at 100 km/h can spoil your day lol
Can't wait to see this project finished!
That's a pretty nice find
Thats bloody awesome
Loving all these vids mate. 🤙🏻
Thanks mate appreciate the support!
That’s a beautiful Australian car ❤
What a great score👌
Thays sick man
There’s so much money in that when it’s done.
2 seconds into this vid,and the grin says it all,this rainbow did lead to pot of green gold,well done…can’t even cam a ve on the godly,hopefully the next 27k I spend,she might start
Sounds great to me, perhaps some bigger chambered mufflers will quiet the bark but keep it sounding old skool and a broken up growl.
What a find you lucky bastard
One hell of a barn find! Looks like it just needs a wash and a glove box lid and she's away!
Not a barn find.
Think you have found a pretty good car, should come up very well. Back in the day my brother had a 253 in a fairly standard looking one of those in brown, four speed manual We thought it was pretty quick through to one hundred miles an hour.
A5~D2 I've got a terrific Torana A5 ~A6 a green hand going''' wave bye-bye D5~E2~ I got C.B. shuffle and a dashboard muffle E2~A5 Pilot's twitch in my eye! eye! eyes
Omg those pop up roves are horrendous but what a great find! In parts alone you have a gold mine find
A mate had an A9X hatchback whilst I had an XB coupe (351) with all the goodies........................we were in our early 20's other mates had tuff rigs too.
Not sure what you mean by 'HQ bark'. When these were new, they sounded like the HQ, or HX by that stage.
Yeah all Toranas and HQ sound similar unless go x pipe. so not sure what he is on about as having the awful HQ bark.
@@micksmith-vt5yi I knew exactly what he was talking about. Guys in the 80's would have the crossover pipe removed because they thought it sounded cool. Personally I thought it made a decent engine sound like it was flogged out with it's compressions all over the place. The crossover pipe gave it a smoother note. In my opinion it made the engine sound stronger.
Nice car how much did you have to pay for it
❤wish I had a find like that. Let me know if u come across another barnyard torrie u want sold
Good find,,,,,honestly you've probably made 20k just by detailing it 😊
Mate what an awesome find
Cool video mate, I love Torana’s!👍
Everyone hates the thong slap , me included. Almost ashamed to admit how nostalgic I felt hearing it. Being a teen in the early eighties meant you still heard heaps of rigs running around with that sound then all of a sudden you weren't cool unless you had a 2.5 single thanks to Mr Brock.
Excellent find ✌🤙
Awesome car mate all the needed upgrades have been done...enjoy
Perhaps the only car ever made with a 4 cyl, or a 6 cyl, or the 5 litre V8 (SLR 5000).
Regardless if its a genuine A9X or simply a clone tney are still a bloody good looking staunch as car. 308/355 engine plus a manual over the auto slushbox is just a good solid reliable combo.
i had and XU1 and an SLR in my early 20s and sold them both for peanuts also had a 351 falcon ute, if only i knew
Hi. Which motor has it got in it?.. In the beginning of the video you said it was a 308 I thought.. Then said it was a 355.
Great looking cat regardless.
Yeah it’s a 355, I stated at the start 308 to say it’s a holden but yes definitely 355. Cheers mate
@@Evans_Racing Sweet. Well it's an easy job to get looking mint since its so tidy already.
WOW!!!!
Awesome mate you now have a Kermit the 🐸 lol but seriously great find 👍
Lovely presentation well done. Tell me, what is the pressure washer foam gun attachment and foam chemical concentrate you use? It puts out a really thick nice foam.
You lucky man finding this car. Awesome score. The question to you is how much did you pay for it ?????
Very Nice.I had a Black & white SLR5000 & a 2 door A9X.Both gone but miss them so much.I would love to know how much you paid for it.
Going under the car and seeing that 10 bolt salisbury along with rear disk brakes, makes me think is this a L34 A9X or that its been added after market?
Clean the whole workshop here mate and fill it up with mopar
Awsome score it’s a beast
Barn find?.. will it run?.. 🤣 what a g up
Great find,the tail pipes look shit,sticking out the rear like water pipes.sort them and it will look great
thats mint
nothing wrong with that HQ stato exhaust note
That's fricken amazing well done ..... We're all wanting to know how much you got it for???
Ditch the tail pipes or atleast replace them with 3" pipe and long 4" tips, it will sound better!
I had a LH done up the same but had a worked 6 in it
Very good torana have you ever hear of a UC couple not a hatch or a sedan?
Sweet
It’s called a barn in the US A shed in Australia
Barn find makes it sounds extra special aye 😉😂 cool car by the way. Sadly these are so expensive and I can't have one. How much was this one
Give it a little TLC. Then it's simply ready to "Just Cruise!"
Not sure why someone would park that up for. Looks mint
Why would u try starting something that has sat so long without pulling the plugs and giving it a shot of some kind of lube, ? Easiest way to destroy an engine
Yeah, my thoughts too. Only after he tried to light it up did he realise the transmission was dry but they edited that bit out. Yobbo attitude to receiving a classic Aussie muscle car, I'll go back to Vice Grip Garage.
@@erichnienkeschaal6316 and I'm pretty sure that Tory came out with an alternator, not a generator,,lol
@@erichnienkeschaal6316or iron empire the Aussie vice grip garage
I had an LX hatchback at his age, didn’t have any sense to look after it properly but you live and learn. I’ve got a sweet VF now and treat it like gold.
Looks like it's only been parked up for a week.....
Sorry if anyone has said this . There is a 4 6 and 8 cylinder switch behind the tacho
Nic score
nice yarnfind,
Would it have been robinvale vic ?
Theres a switch on the back of the tacho to select 4, 6 or 8 cyl
The Big Block comment still has me baffled ....
Mad.
hope them hot wires are 14 teens if so SLR WHEELS AND i think same as A9X not sure tho