RESURRECTED!

AFTER SOME INTENSIVE SHED THERAPY, THE COOMADORE IS UP AND RUNNING

- GLENN TORRENS

IT HAS BEEN a fair bit of hard work – and of course a whole lot of fun – but this tatty Holden VC Commodore sedan that no one else wanted has been given a new life!

I discovered it under a pine tree at Flynn’s Wrecking Yard in Cooma NSW and decided it was worth saving. Under that hoary paint, this car’s condition wasn’t as bad as it looked. Even though it was sill-deep in pine needles, a thorough inspection revealed only minimal rust; the spare tyre drop-down was the worst of it. Remarkably, the interior was very good and this then-worthless 3.3-litre six-cylinder/ auto sedan was driven into the yard, so there was a good chance the engine was ok.

What a great resurrection project!

Returning to Cooma in April 2022 with a car trailer, we easily managed to get the Commodore’s engine running and the car driving. By now christened ‘Coomadore’ after the town where I found it (and, as it turns out, where it was sold new and lived all its life) I intended to take it to our Unique Cars Rolling 30 event, hosted at Sydney Motorsport Park, in July… that gave me around two months to have the car road ready. As I’ve shared here in Unique Cars over the past year, I worked on that tatty old Commodore for a couple of days and several evenings each week, fixing everything that needed to be fixed and replacing everything that needed to be replaced.