IceNineBack to cool stuff @jackyan and @GruffHarding
Green is always a winner I say and again it keeps on winning
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/chevrolet/oldsmobile/listing/5760414342
Gruff HardingHow are you going to explain the purchase after hitting a fifth division win?
Anyhoo, a few beauts today, but first this - get it and you too can pick the car of your choice
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5761689924
Number two - is purple your lucky colour? Better hope so, because British reliability
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/austin/1100/listing/5761804800
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@GruffHarding @IceNine Ah, but was yours twin-carb with the 1300?
I'd hope so!
Thing I like about older cars, you lift the bonnet and can immediately recognise an engine!
A nice honest car, with honest description
I think @BobLefridge left it sitting out the front for a few years
On the beach
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/fiat/124-spider/listing/5765339931
@IceNine @GruffHarding @BobLefridge I think this shows how restrictive Trade Me is with descriptions. The seller probably wanted to write Fiat 124 Sport Spider but couldnʼt.
@jackyan @IceNine @BobLefridge https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/ford/cortina/listing/5762087452 when I win lotto tonight I an gonna buy this, then get it repainted in Sherwood Green. In honour of the one I bought from mystic Granddad
Bob LeFridge 
Tidy vehicle, but $16k for a Cortina?
@BobLefridge @jackyan @IceNine https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/corolla/listing/5766979559 what's worse is we used to buy these for 500 bucks in the the early 90s
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
That and 323s were just everywhere
Some times they'd pass a warrant, but oh the rust
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
I knew I should have waited - 1.7L sewing machine
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5776548241
@IceNine @BobLefridge @jackyan is the singer a sport version of the hunter, i'e more gauges same rubbish performance.
@IceNine @BobLefridge @jackyan I'm still here fellas 😁, I've just been a bit distracted with let's say admin, but all is well 😁
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
I found a cracker though 😆
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/hilux/listing/5788409900
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
More serious, I 100% picture Jack in this beast
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/austin/other/listing/5790751772
@IceNine @GruffHarding @BobLefridge The van would be great, though I would need an anthropomorphic dog to help me run the business.
@jackyan @GruffHarding @BobLefridge
Forget the Austin, we have a winner for you Jack!
And think, you can do a road trip via Ōtepoti and Ōtautahi to show it off!
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/renault/other/listing/5785593103
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/triumph/search?body_style=stationwagon&auto_category_jump=false I'll go you one better, look at the straight 6 under the hood
I've owned a pair of Triumph 2.5s cars and they were damn fine vehicles. The good one was a one-owner vehicle I bought from a cocky in Leeston for two grand (in 1992). It was pretty immaculate and even came with a factory-fitted metal sun visor.
The other was a battered soul but still drove beautifully. I made a $500 offer to Turners after it failed to sell at auction and they said yes.
While the TM wagon looks tidy, note that the seller has hidden the reg so it's hard to find the actual mileage. I'll bet it's a damn sight more than 11k.
I can't believe the prices being asked for Triumphs!
@BobLefridge @GruffHarding @IceNine Estates were imports, too, weren’t they? Added bonus. But that Lucas PI was a nightmare. Still remember Dad taking ours to bits—he fixed it though! So surprised a PI is still alive as I imagined most have had TC transplants by now …
@jackyan @BobLefridge @GruffHarding
This was my fave from that place, for all the wrong reasons! But only $15K
https://waimakclassiccars.co.nz/listings/austin-princess-hl-1981/
1981 Austin Princess HL - Waimak Classic Cars
This Nelson assembled wedge car has to be one of the BEST KEPT SECRETS in New Zealand. It was not owned – it was treasured. The Princess is a family car that was produced in the United Kingdom by British Leyland from 1975 until 1981. The car inherited a front wheel drive / transverse engine configuration from its predecessor, ... Read More
@IceNine @BobLefridge @GruffHarding I thought wedges were cool, even if the 1·8 engines were unreliable. Heard some horror stories from ex-NZMC staff. There was a Morris wedge in Wellington, and given the early number plate it could have been an NZMC evaluation car. Gone to the scrapyard in the sky now, I bet.
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Over $10 per cc and import flagged for damage
Sure it's okay now the yard got their mechanic to warrant it though
What could go wrong?
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/crown/listing/5773525579 Old School luxury 😁 after I win lotto tonight I'll road trip it back. Prepare for a vist 😁
@GruffHarding @IceNine @BobLefridge The Blue Whale Crown! Awesome. I have so many toy models of this. Till October 2025, I even had a sticker of it!
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/10/stuck-with-me-for-over-50-years/
Stuck with me for over 50 years
It’s hard not to get sentimental over these. These were the stickers on my cot, which I slept in in Hong Kong. For whatever reason, my parents decided to ship it over to New Zealand even though I had outgrown it. That reason would have likely been that in 1977, the potential of my
@jackyan @IceNine @BobLefridge all those stickers are awesome! One of my Uncle's had a Crown with the straight six as a tow car. Sold it and bought a later model Mazda 6. The Crown was the better car hands down.
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
I found a mint old 626 for Gruff, but after your comment Jack, thought I better stick with British brown
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5811404364
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Damn and if the backseat driver don't shut up, they be right back
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge I've found something fuel efficent, https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/mg/other/listing/5791666964
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Pretty sure I know exactly where this one is located, and has been for the last forever
And other side, a bit closer to the city is a similar vintage and condition Range Rover. In that case the property has fewer dead vehicles and more vegetation
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/austin/gipsy/listing/5828871876
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge Want! Perfect base for a mint and useful project. Maybe I should start a go fund me
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
But here is some minty goodness!
That said, the car's been drinking...
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/humber/other/listing/5842648263
The diff is distributing wine, just as Jesus intended. It's this car's point of differential.
@BobLefridge @GruffHarding @jackyan
Wherez the bredz and fish
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
Yeh I was thinking they're out of place - just didn't quite look right - probably back in the past the hubcapz were pinched and owner was like "theyll do"
@IceNine @GruffHarding @BobLefridge Theyʼre ROStyles, sometimes standard, but often after-market, which they probably were here. It was the way to make your waka look modern once the end of the 1960s came. You saw them on a lot of cars, Rootes, BL, Vauxhall, etc.
@GruffHarding @IceNine @BobLefridge Would have looked nice on a Mk III, some of the early ones had them. The most famous Cortina with them was the Mk II 1600E IMO.
Mark Harris
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Plenty of room for batteries eh - never run out
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge I'm getting full solar installed in a couple of months. Still a ways off from getting an ev at the moment. Gonna run the current vehicles into the ground, whic tbh could be a quite a few more years. Dam you regular maintenance 🤣
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Should have got a VW and then you'd be getting an EV quicker
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge the worst car I have ever had the displeasure of driving was a 64 beetle that Dad owned for a while. The Triumph Herald that wasn't to follow was an infinite upgrade
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
I've never really had bad cars, just dull ones
Earlier ones tended to suffer from dirty old rust though
Parents had vans - so cringe growing up. I still don't like them unless they are for work
And don't get me started on freedom shitters, erm campers. I think it'd be a toss up who loathed them more, Bob or I
@IceNine @jackyan @BobLefridge work vans for us, good old liteace for the win. We had a Commer Van for a few summers that was taken to with a chainsaw and turned into a truck. Us three boys on a couch in the back with blankets. Mum and Dad in the cab with the heater. Good times
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Say you grew up in the '80s without saying you grew up tlin the' 80s eh
I don't know how many times I heard that, but more than once eh
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Been off my game the last few says, so to apologise I have found each of you a beast
First for Mister Yan, a red car from France
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/peugeot/106/listing/5870452814
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
Second, in these days of high fuel prices, I have this interwar special for Bob, in blue and from the UK
Just needs a dust
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/morris/other/listing/5872266735
@GruffHarding @jackyan @BobLefridge
And finally for Gruff - I don't know what colour you like your csr, so you can choose with this local beast
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/holden/commodore/listing/5882606374
I owned two Series E Morries in my early life and my brother had a series Z and several of the earlier saloons. They're great little wagons, but I've never come across a Series D and it's not mentioned on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Eight#Morris_Eight_Series_E
Either it's extremely rare, or someone has buggered the registration at some point and transcribed the E as a D?
@IceNine @GruffHarding @BobLefridge The main issue with the 106 is my size 11 feet … tiny footwells, considering they were really an uprated Citroën AX.
@jackyan @GruffHarding @BobLefridge
Hmm, I'm not sure you want me to remedy that issue
Especially when you look at the other two solutions