MY HOLDEN COMMODORE’S appearance is the result of 45 hot Aussie summers baking the original paint. Back in 1979 when this base-model but V8 optioned VB Commodore sedan was built in Holden’s Pagewood, Sydney assembly plant, car-paint technology was quite simple: primer and a ‘one stage’ air-dry acrylic finish, sprayed on by blokes in overalls. Back then, shiny paint didn’t have much hope of surviving more than a decade, so it’s little surprise this car’s paint looks as it does 45 years later.
Anyway, this amazing patina – the swirls and the cracks and crazes from this car’s decades of natural aging – is something that I find very appealing these days. Judging by all the amazing comments I’ve received about this car over the past four years, other people seem to like this patina too. At shows and cars ’n coffee events, I can park next to a Ferrari or a Brock or something and people will pretty-much form a queue to speak to me about this Commodore and its story.
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CHEVROLET C2 CORVETTE 1963-67
TWO YEARS after Jaguar made every other sports car obsolete with its E-Type, Chevrolet went a step further with its radical Corvette Sting Ray.
LOST & FOUND
THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS RARE 1969 AMC AMX WAS FOR DECADES A COMPLETE MYSTERY, UNTIL IT WAS PULLED IT OUT OF A SHED IN ADELAIDE
IN THE RED!
AS OUR ROADS EMULATE THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, GOVERNMENTS ARE DOING THEIR BIT TO SHIRK ALL RESPONSIBILITY
Ray Ikin - 2001 MUSTANG & 2003 CV8
RAY IS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A BIG DECISION WHEN HE STROLLS INTO HIS SHED DO I TAKE THE MUSTANG OR THE MONARO?
1986 PORSCHE 928 S
THE 928 SHAPE MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN ACQUIRED TASTE FOR PORSCHE AFICIONADOS, BUT IT’S DESIRABILITY HAS IMPROVED WITH AGE
MODERN CLASSICS ZX-12R
KAWASAKI'S KING NINJA AIMED TO BE A HAYABUSA-BEATER
FLY DMC
THE CULT OF DELOREAN - THE MAN. THE MACHINE. THE MOVIE(S)
1972 FORD FALCON HARDTOP GT REPLICA
THIS FACTORY V8 FALCON HARDTOP KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT BRIGHT AND DESIRABLE COLOUR COMBINATIONS
VALE MECUM AUCTION'S JOHN KRAMAN
A CORNERSTONE of Mecum Auctions and one of its most recognisable members, John Kraman, has died.
STOP IT!
PERHAPS THE CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY IN GENERAL SHOULD INCLUDE CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF HANDBRAKE TYPES
