Schtoo
Member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2020
- Messages
- 41
- Reaction score
- 44
- Points
- 18
- Age
- 49
- Location
- Melbourne
- Members Ride
- 2000 VS Ute
Metallic blue, nice colour and the best paint/panel was the tray. Every panel has a ding of some kind, clear coat issues on the roof and front guard. Trim going to pot, so good from afar but far from good. She always scrubbed up alright though.
I think what most served Old Blue best was that I believe it was a country car to start with, doing low effort farming chores. Cleaned a heap of long grass out of the rear quarters and a few other places and it just said "farm". Lady owner from new as well. Probably under cover, but not in a garage. Serviced regularly by a mechanic but not driven by someone especially car savvy. Actually found a receipt for it's battery that was for someone working at ANU, which tells you how much hard work it did, which is basically none. That and 214,000km over 22 years, it's had a pretty easy life and the new owner was glad of that as was I.
Heck, even the LSD was working nice, as was everything else. I kept on top of it pretty well and I'd made efforts to ensure it would pass a RWC on a moment's notice, which I expect it will since it was semi-booked for one tomorrow but the new owner will be doing that now and I hope it won't let him down.
I'm still sad, but also very happy she's gone to a new loving home. Best result I could have asked for.
And on to the next project, which is the ute I still have. This one is a 2011, and spent a couple years in the NT as evidenced by the red dust that comes out on occasion and the epic stone chips it's picked up. It's been relatively well looked after and someone saw fit to lavish some love on it once the warranty expired. I'm at least the 3rd owner, and while the previous owner was a lovely fellow, I'm also pretty sure he had no idea what he actually had, decided to buy it because of what it is and found out soon after it wasn't 'all that' for him, so I have it now and and going through it bringing it all up to scratch again because somewhere along the line, it's had "whatever fits" installed which is something that should never have happened, but inevitably does a lot of the time.
While I'm here, this is also the very first car I've ever actually sold. Every other car I have owned was either sold for me by someone else, handed off to someone else or scrapped or I still have it. It's also the first Holden in the family that hasn't been destroyed before being offloaded. First was a VH SL/X that got rear ended, a HQ Prem that got stolen and a TX Gem that got smashed up. Holdens were cursed, and getting Old Blue was worrying, but she turned out to be a good egg.
Still have to get a V8 some day before they're all gone. If Blue had one of them, I would have kept her. Not because fast, but because noise.
(The 2011 is an FG XR6T ute, and if I want any more power it needs more turbo. Stupid grin inducer as it is...)
Stu.
I think what most served Old Blue best was that I believe it was a country car to start with, doing low effort farming chores. Cleaned a heap of long grass out of the rear quarters and a few other places and it just said "farm". Lady owner from new as well. Probably under cover, but not in a garage. Serviced regularly by a mechanic but not driven by someone especially car savvy. Actually found a receipt for it's battery that was for someone working at ANU, which tells you how much hard work it did, which is basically none. That and 214,000km over 22 years, it's had a pretty easy life and the new owner was glad of that as was I.
Heck, even the LSD was working nice, as was everything else. I kept on top of it pretty well and I'd made efforts to ensure it would pass a RWC on a moment's notice, which I expect it will since it was semi-booked for one tomorrow but the new owner will be doing that now and I hope it won't let him down.
I'm still sad, but also very happy she's gone to a new loving home. Best result I could have asked for.
And on to the next project, which is the ute I still have. This one is a 2011, and spent a couple years in the NT as evidenced by the red dust that comes out on occasion and the epic stone chips it's picked up. It's been relatively well looked after and someone saw fit to lavish some love on it once the warranty expired. I'm at least the 3rd owner, and while the previous owner was a lovely fellow, I'm also pretty sure he had no idea what he actually had, decided to buy it because of what it is and found out soon after it wasn't 'all that' for him, so I have it now and and going through it bringing it all up to scratch again because somewhere along the line, it's had "whatever fits" installed which is something that should never have happened, but inevitably does a lot of the time.
While I'm here, this is also the very first car I've ever actually sold. Every other car I have owned was either sold for me by someone else, handed off to someone else or scrapped or I still have it. It's also the first Holden in the family that hasn't been destroyed before being offloaded. First was a VH SL/X that got rear ended, a HQ Prem that got stolen and a TX Gem that got smashed up. Holdens were cursed, and getting Old Blue was worrying, but she turned out to be a good egg.
Still have to get a V8 some day before they're all gone. If Blue had one of them, I would have kept her. Not because fast, but because noise.
(The 2011 is an FG XR6T ute, and if I want any more power it needs more turbo. Stupid grin inducer as it is...)
Stu.