Sundowner

[jason.ruff]

Vin is V8144P---------. i dont know how to decipher ford tags but says V8 and someone on here said P is for police?

[HK1837]

Just buy a really good original one, $10k will find you a beauty. Then put a 308 in it. Easy!

[wbute]

Just buy a really good original one, $10k will find you a beauty. Then put a 308 in it. Easy!

You can't put L31 on the compliance plate though.

[HK1837]

You can't put L31 on the compliance plate though.

Won't make it more valuable than an L36 example in mint condition. Same condition yes.

[jason.ruff]

As i said at the start, i don't know fords. Thought someone like yourself might be interested.

[Andrew.D]

Yes, it's always interesting to find out new info.

[wbute]

Value? I don't care about the value. It's an old car. I like the idea of a 5 litre factory WB ute.
Sandmans actually have no value at all when you take the restoration cost into account. No old car does. Unless you find a good survivor in a shed that does not need any work. You might sell one for 35k but you spent 35k plus 90k of your own labour on it.
A cars only value is in your own desire to own it.

[Valencia]

Value? I don't care about the value. It's an old car. I like the idea of a 5 litre factory WB ute.
Sandmans actually have no value at all when you take the restoration cost into account. No old car does. Unless you find a good survivor in a shed that does not need any work. You might sell one for 35k but you spent 35k plus 90k of your own labour on it.
A cars only value is in your own desire to own it.

Some of the XU1 and GT falcon guys might disagree with your statement there was plenty of $$$ made by some people when the boom was on even when they spent 20 to 40k restoring them and then selling them for a very healthy profit
but i agree with you most people dont get there money back

[Flamenco_not_Flamingo]

Value? I don't care about the value. It's an old car. I like the idea of a 5 litre factory WB ute.
Sandmans actually have no value at all when you take the restoration cost into account. No old car does. Unless you find a good survivor in a shed that does not need any work. You might sell one for 35k but you spent 35k plus 90k of your own labour on it.
A cars only value is in your own desire to own it.

Well, that's what I have found with all cars I have restored and that's why you see all those cars for sale for months and months, people trying to get back the money they have invested in the restoration.

They were motivated by their emotions to rebuild and now try to sell with those same emotions.

[HK1837]

Value? I don't care about the value. It's an old car. I like the idea of a 5 litre factory WB ute.
Sandmans actually have no value at all when you take the restoration cost into account. No old car does. Unless you find a good survivor in a shed that does not need any work. You might sell one for 35k but you spent 35k plus 90k of your own labour on it.
A cars only value is in your own desire to own it.

I agree basically, but you'll see in most of my posts i'm always on about buying a car you can basically use, not to spend a fortune on to fix. Finding a 5L WB ute will be very hard, and finding a really good one in mint cond will be impossible. Someone will pay some idiot price for a 5L one no matter how rough it is because they think it is valuable, same that you see with 253 Sandmans. What I was getting at is buy a mint 6cyl or 4.2 WB Kingswood ute and change it to a 308. It'll be worth as much as an original 5L one as there won't be any around to compare it to.
I almost got one prior to getting my Prem, a red WB Kingswood ute. Original owner, 3.3, 4spd, air and steer with buckets. I offered $9k for it, he sold it for $10k. I had a blue WB Statesman L31 and trimatic lined up for it, already have a 2.78:1 LSD in the shed out of my old HJ Kingswood ute. I also have a NOS WB V8 radiator, all NOS trimatic fluid lines, V8 WB shroud, air and steer brackets and T-bar plus insert in the shed. The only non original bits on the car were the muffler and a roof screw through one of the moulds. I reckon if looked after it'd end up as a $15k car, maybe more.