Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT New home and 3 car garage in Melbourne, Australia

[Coolabah]

@Geoff289 ain't that the truth on all counts.

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I think like you I'll mainly invest in corded tools to get the most longevity out of them.

Ha don't get me started on power tools ... I've always in the past bought corded but many years ago bought a couple of 18v dewalt drills at a great price ( each complete with batteries- the old kind with the vertical post- and chargers) as I like to have two drills and the extra charger was not unused. Anyway , ended up over the years with lots of other dewalt skins ( reciprocating saw , 1/2" impact driver etc etc .. then they changed the battery format which annoyed me, but they are not alone in doing that of course. So , never too shy to splurge my kids inheritance some years later I ended up buying an 18v Makita package with more tools than I knew what to do with .... but, for example eventually realised the new to me in concept SDS drill was something I didn't know I needed -but now cannot do without.
I am now a true cordless , ( my friends would add witless) convert as I am often too lazy to plug in a tool. I regret buying a corded Makita multitool last year for what I thought would be limited use when I could have spent a few dollars more for a cordless one, I use it more, and also more often outside of my workshop than I ever considered.
But, yes indeed , battery tools have an inbuilt obsolescence with battery degradation and also manufacturers changing battery format .... or even voltage look at all the 40v stuff coming out !! Anyway , still using my Dewalt and also Makita tools , like them all but anytime I need a new tool of course locked into the Makita platform now.

 

[Geoff289]

Ha don't get me started on power tools ... I've always in the past bought corded but many years ago bought a couple of 18v dewalt drills at a great price ( each complete with batteries- the old kind with the vertical post- and chargers) as I like to have two drills and the extra charger was not unused. Anyway , ended up over the years with lots of other dewalt skins ( reciprocating saw , 1/2" impact driver etc etc .. then they changed the battery format which annoyed me, but they are not alone in doing that of course. So , never too shy to splurge my kids inheritance some years later I ended up buying an 18v Makita package with more tools than I knew what to do with .... but, for example eventually realised the new to me in concept SDS drill was something I didn't know I needed -but now cannot do without.
I am now a true cordless , ( my friends would add witless) convert as I am often too lazy to plug in a tool. I regret buying a corded Makita multitool last year for what I thought would be limited use when I could have spent a few dollars more for a cordless one, I use it more, and also more often outside of my workshop than I ever considered.
But, yes indeed , battery tools have an inbuilt obsolescence with battery degradation and also manufacturers changing battery format .... or even voltage look at all the 40v stuff coming out !! Anyway , still using my Dewalt and also Makita tools , like them all but anytime I need a new tool of course locked into the Makita platform now.

Hope you bought all that gear on sale.

 

[Coolabah]

Hope you bought all that gear on sale.

Geoff, you have always been a smarter man than me.
I wish I could say "yes". But my philosophy is perhaps a little different- the tools paid for themselves pretty quickly- obviously more quickly were they on sale but , oh well !!
The battery powered circular saw has been invaluable, forget running 40 m of extension cable to a job...gone through a few blades .

 

[Geoff289]

Geoff, you have always been a smarter man than me.
I wish I could say "yes". But my philosophy is perhaps a little different- the tools paid for themselves pretty quickly- obviously more quickly were they on sale but , oh well !!
The battery powered circular saw has been invaluable, forget running 40 m of extension cable to a job...gone through a few blades .

I dunno about smarter, but certainly more of a cheapskate, a badge I wear with pride.

When the Milwaukee cordless circular saw I got for nothing (see) dies I will replace it with a De Walt version as the other corded (Makita) saw I have is too big for most jobs.

 

[hewey]

I ended up going down the Makita cordless path, mainly because they seemed to have the best balance of garage/house tools like drills, impact drivers etc, as well as 'garden' tools like hedge trimmers, whipper snippers etc. I also just on the right side of the 12V to 18V shift which was nice, as usually timing isn't my area of luck. They're fit for purpose for the work that I do with them, and have mostly bought them with gift vouchers or on sale. I've know got 4 batteries, which means I always have two charged up and ready to go and two in use (whipper snipper takes 2 batteries).

Hope the party goes well!

 

[Geoff289]

I ended up going down the Makita cordless path, mainly because they seemed to have the best balance of garage/house tools like drills, impact drivers etc, as well as 'garden' tools like hedge trimmers, whipper snippers etc. I also just on the right side of the 12V to 18V shift which was nice, as usually timing isn't my area of luck. They're fit for purpose for the work that I do with them, and have mostly bought them with gift vouchers or on sale. I've know got 4 batteries, which means I always have two charged up and ready to go and two in use (whipper snipper takes 2 batteries).

Hope the party goes well!

Your mentioning garden tools made me realise I hadn't mentioned something in this category. You may recall previous posts about repairing my old Masport mower a few times. While it continued to work OK, the last time I welded a stub axle and wheel back on it ended up in serious need of a wheel alignment and was kind of wonky. I decided a while back that if I had any further issues with it, I'd bite the bullet and get an electric mower. I also had an old Ryobi corded line trimmer and using that was certainly a situation where the cord was just a nuisance.

So anyway, a few months ago I was in Total Tools and they had a deal going for a Greenworks 60 volt mower and trimmer for what seemed like a pretty good price, plus an extra battery on a redemption deal. I got it. As it happens they have the same deal on at the moment.

https://www.totaltools.com.au/brand...ol-with-line-trimmer-attachment-kit-1305907au

I'm pretty pleased with this gear. I particularly like that the mower has a steel deck as so many electric mowers are plastic. The trimmer comes with both line the line trimmer head and a brush cutter blade. Both of them work very well. It's also a multi tool sort of thing and other attachments can be had for it. The head gardener thinks that the hedge trimmer and pole saw items might be in our future.

I got this gear in March I think, and I guess I've mown and trimmed about every three weeks on average (including a bit of the bush reserve outside our back gate that the council seem to think only needs mowing about every six months) and today was the first time I've had to recharge the larger 4 Ah battery which has been in the mower. I did the lawn today ahead of the party on Saturday and the mower stopped half way through but I just took the other 2 Ah battery from the trimmer to finish the job. Charging is very fast, and the charger has a cooling fan which suggests some serious wattage is being pumped in to the battery.

 

[Geoff289]

Well, the birthday party went very well and the birthday boy, i.e. me, had a great time. At the risk of a cliche, family and good friends are the important things in life.

We had an attendance of upwards of 50 people, and with some movement between the upper and lower levels of the house, and a bit of hanging out in the garage near the beer fridge by some of us, it wasn't overly crowded or congested. it was great to see a few friends I haven't seen in person for quite a while, 25 years in one case, and that people made the trek from as far as South Australia and Queensland to be there.

We haven't had this many warm bodies in the house at once before, and an interesting phenomenon became apparent. As those who've been along for the ride will recall, we put a lot of thought and effort into the energy efficiency of our home. Being the middle of Winter here, on the night it was real cold outside by Australian standards, about 2 degrees Celsius. Inside the heating was set to 20 as usual. By the middle of the evening people were starting to complain it was a bit hot and ask for the heating to be turned down. Well, it wasn't the heating, it had long since paused as the inside temperature rose to 23. Turns out the place is well enough insulated and sealed up that the body heat of all those people was being contained. There was some suggestion that we turn the cooling on but that seemed stupid to me, so we just cracked the door out to the deck to alleviate the situation. I've had gatherings of this size in previous houses and not had this issue.

I had created a musical play list from my pretty extensive collection and just for the hell of it I'll share it here, any comments welcome. This was on random order play, so these are in no particular order.

Suffragette City - David Bowie
Rock and Roll Music - Beatles
Calling Elvis - Dire Straits
Memphis Tennessee - Faces
All Right Now - Free
Rock and Roll - Led Zep
Little Queenie - The Stones (live version from Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, greatest live album in the history of music)
Baby's Gone - Axiom, local Australian band from the '60's, lead singer Glenn Shorrock who was later in the Little River Band which had a bit of international success
Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
I Fought The Law - Richard Clapton, local Australian talent, covering the song Gene Pitney did originally
Stay With Me - Faces
I Can't Explain - The Who
Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
Homework - Mick Fleetwood Blues Band
Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl, local Australian band from the '80's
Load Out - Jackson Browne
I'm Going Home - Ten Years After
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Poison Ivy - Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, local Australian band from the '60's, covering and cranking up the old Coasters song
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Too Rolling Stones - Robin Trower
Seven Days - Ronnie Wood
Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Small Faces
I'm Gonna Love You - La De Da's, local Australian band from the '70's
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed, live version from Live in Berlin
Ain't To Proud to Beg - The Stones covering the Temptations
Turn Up Your Radio - Master's Apprentices, local Australian band from the '60's
James Dean, Eagles
Crossroads, Cream, covering and cranking up Robert Johnson
We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Animals
Love Her Madly - Doors
Maybelline - Chuck Berry
Bombora - Atlantics, legendary Australian surf band from the '60's, lead by my now octogenarian mate Jim whose guitar skills I would love to be able to emulate
La Grange - ZZ Top
Cold Hard ***** - Jet, Australian band from the early 2000's
Paying the Cost to be the Boss - BB King and the Stones
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Stones
I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield
Needles and Pins - Searchers
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Confidence Man - Jeff Healey
Slow Turning - John Hiatt, live version from Live at the Budokan
Doo Wah Diddy - Manfred Mann
Shape I'm In - The Band
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Tumbling Dice - Linda Ronstadt, covering the Stones
Youngblood - Bad Company covering the Coasters
I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
Taking Care of Business - BTO
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Them
Rock Me Baby - BB King
Little Ray of Sunshine - Axiom, see earlier
Route 66 - Stones covering Bobby Troup
Call Me The Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd covering JJ Cale on the live One More From The Road (before the plane crash)
Hard Driving Man - J Geils Band, live version from Full House, well up there on the list of best ever live albums
I Saw Her Again Last Night - Mamas and Papas
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Texas Flood - SRV
When Love Comes to Town - BB King and U2
Come Tomorrow - Manfred Mann
King of The Blues - Gary Moore
Used to Love Her - Stones
When I Was Young - Animals
Who'll Stop the Rain - CCR
Let's Spend the Night Together - Stones
Hippy Hippy Shake - Georgia Satellites
Girls On The Avenue - Richard Clapton, see earlier
Dust My Broom - Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
Tush - ZZ Top
Lola - Kinks
Tokyo Joe - Roxy Music
Police Police - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Ramblin' Man - Allman Brothers Band
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
The Doctor - Jackson Browne
Substitute - The Who
Cut Across Shorty - Rod Stewart
I Feel The Earth Move - Carol King
100 years Ago - Stones
Wishing Well - Free
Can't Turn You Loose - Max Merritt and the Meteors, legendary Australian/New Zealand soul band from the '60's, covering Otis Redding

At the end of the night a few of us repaired to the lower level living room for an impromptu jam session which was a lot of fun. This included a good mate I was in a couple of pretty ordinary garage bands with a very long time ago and we relived a lot of old memories. You know how it goes, the older we get the better we were.

Anyway, as I said on the night, I won't be turning 70 again, so I'm glad I made the most of it.

 

[zanyad]

Happy belated. Sounds like a great party. I'll have to check out that playlist, I'm not familiar with some of the songs you listed.

 

[jon72vega]

Sounds like a great time was had by all.
I like your playlist.

 

[hewey]

Happy birthday mate, great to hear you had a good time. That's a solid playlist too!

Also interesting to hear your house is so well insulated it started to get hot with all those people inside. You might have seen, there's a trend every winter where people from overseas (typically Europe) complain about how shocked they are that our homes are so cold in winter. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article...o-cold-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/mm2mecuff

 

[Geoff289]

Happy birthday mate, great to hear you had a good time. That's a solid playlist too!

Also interesting to hear your house is so well insulated it started to get hot with all those people inside. You might have seen, there's a trend every winter where people from overseas (typically Europe) complain about how shocked they are that our homes are so cold in winter. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article...o-cold-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/mm2mecuff

Yeah, I think in general we are light years behind the Northern hemisphere when it comes to insulating and sealing up our homes. Ours is by no means passive house standard but this experience is quite gratifying that it holds the warmth in so well.

I well remember my first house, about 2 k's away from where we are now, a weatherboard, tile roof job without any insulation whatsoever. It was often colder inside than out. I insulated the ceiling but doing the walls wasn't really practical.

 

[Geoff289]

Further to post 957, I've added to the De Walt cordless fleet.

https://www.totaltools.com.au/18605...26785824&utm_content=High Stockist - ROAS >=4





I've had a pneumatic version of this sort of thing for ages and find it quite useful, but of course hooking up an air line and then wrangling the tool with the line attached can be a pain. As with so many other pneumatic tools, a battery version is a lot more convenient.

 

[Geoff289]

I'm outa control

 

[Geoff289]

Continuing the theme of my last couple of posts here, a further battery powered device for the garage was purchased today. Not another De Walt product this time.

https://www.renault.com.au/vehicles...p.ds&msclkid=51954fa1072d1767e82a27fe9730bd79

This replaces the Head Gardener's Golf. We got what I think is a good deal on a demo car, The end of the financial year still seems to sharpen the pencils of car salespeople. This time the trade in offer was surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting to be offered anything acceptable enough to steer me away from selling the Golf privately. However, when I factored in the four tyres it would undoubtedly need for a RWC, the cost of the RWC inspection itself, the close to expiry rego, which would mean we'd have to renew it for at least three months, insuring two cars for however long the overlap period turned out to be, advertising costs, and the unquantifiable cost of the tedium of a private sale, what they offered was acceptable.

We'll take delivery some time next week. When it arrives we'll have all the bases covered, I think - a full EV, a plug in hybrid, and a fuel guzzling dinosaur.

My brownie points balance is now pretty healthy and should cover me for inevitable future debits for quite a while.

 

[hewey]

That's a really nice looking little hatch. But why are so many EV wheels a bit weird and a bit ugly? We've got a couple of full EV Renault Kangoos (small delivery vans) and we're really happy with them, and the cost savings from running them is great.

 

[Geoff289]

That's a really nice looking little hatch. But why are so many EV wheels a bit weird and a bit ugly? We've got a couple of full EV Renault Kangoos (small delivery vans) and we're really happy with them, and the cost savings from running them is great.

They're not the most attractive wheels but I don't think this phenomenon is unique to EV's. I do expect them to be easier to clean than her last two VW's, the Golf and the Eos she had before that, both of which had annoyingly numerous and close together "spokes". The regenerative braking should also limit the brake pad dust that gets on the wheels.

Those wheels on the little Renault are 20 inch jobs which seems a bit unnecessary but give it a certain presence. I think the idea is to give it a bit of an SUV feel without the overall bulk of an SUV. She was adamant she didn't want anything larger than the Golf.

We considered and test drove a couple of other EV's but this just confirmed what extensive reading and youtubing had lead us to, that the Renault was the best overall fit for her needs.

Picking it up tomorrow.

 

[Bob Heine]

I'm outa control

Geoff, first of all a very belated happy 70th birthday. Keep up the good work.

Secondly, I too have a battery power tool infection that's red instead of yellow. Every once in awhile I forget the old days and assume these are the ultimate solution to jobs around the house. Last week I started a long-requested front door refinishing project. It's a plain steel door with stamped raised panels. My first thought was to get out the power tools, including an electric DA sander with 80-grit vented disks, a Milwaukee M12 belt file with 80-grit belt and the two die grinders (with 1- and 2-inch Roloc disks) to get into the nooks and crannies.

An hour of sweating and going deaf from the vacuum and sander I had some of the door down to the original primer and some of it to bare steel (not my goal). The still alive little worm in my brain reminded me of a trick some auto painters use to remove multiple coats of paint on their cars. They use a single edge razor blade and I just happen to have a 100-pack of stainless ones and a couple of holders in the tool chest. Went back outside and in about 10 minutes had a section of the door quietly and easily stripped down to the original primer. No steel exposed and even the little crevices peeled off like magic. Sometimes my tool addiction overrides my little worm friend.

 

[Geoff289]

Geoff, first of all a very belated happy 70th birthday. Keep up the good work.

Secondly, I too have a battery power tool infection that's red instead of yellow. Every once in awhile I forget the old days and assume these are the ultimate solution to jobs around the house. Last week I started a long-requested front door refinishing project. It's a plain steel door with stamped raised panels. My first thought was to get out the power tools, including an electric DA sander with 80-grit vented disks, a Milwaukee M12 belt file with 80-grit belt and the two die grinders (with 1- and 2-inch Roloc disks) to get into the nooks and crannies.

An hour of sweating and going deaf from the vacuum and sander I had some of the door down to the original primer and some of it to bare steel (not my goal). The still alive little worm in my brain reminded me of a trick some auto painters use to remove multiple coats of paint on their cars. They use a single edge razor blade and I just happen to have a 100-pack of stainless ones and a couple of holders in the tool chest. Went back outside and in about 10 minutes had a section of the door quietly and easily stripped down to the original primer. No steel exposed and even the little crevices peeled off like magic. Sometimes my tool addiction overrides my little worm friend.

Thanks for the birthday wishes Bob. So far, I can report that there is life after 70, but I guess you knew that.

Yes, old school still often rules, doesn't it? Very nice job on that door.

Leaving tools aside, both the new cars in my garage have a bewildering array of technology, much of it quite forcefully "helpful". The lady in the BMW who I can talk to and ask her to adjust various functions is so pleasant and polite I feel like I'm being quite rude if I ignore or decline her unsolicited helpful suggestions from time to time.

Today my laptop computer has declined to boot up, instead advising that it was "preparing automatic repair", presenting this message for 10 minutes or so, then shutting down before attempting to restart and repeating the same cycle endlessly. Dr. Google is full of guaranteed solutions, all of which would send their authors broke if those guarantees were actually redeemed. I have resorted to a human being in the form of my brother-in-law, who is recently retired from a career as Head of IT for one of our two major political parties here (the one currently in power) and knows a thing or two about misbehaving computers. He is due tomorrow morning to work his magic.

 

[hewey]

Sydney All Ford Day pics for your enjoyment

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[jon72vega]

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It's very interesting for me to see so many different Ford vehicles that were never available in the USA.
Thanks for sharing the link to the pictures!

 

[Geoff289]

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Many thanks, mate. I see the venue was Sydney Dragway. Looks like Jon enjoyed the pics too.

 

[Geoff289]

I knew it had been a while since I posted on my own thread but didn't realise just how slack I've been, this being my first post since July. I have contributed to. or hijacked, many other threads on here, though, and remain an avid reader.

With one major exception that I'll come to, there really hasn't been a lot going on with the house or garage that has justified an update on here but mostly it's just been the time pressure of other of other aspects of life that have got in the way of a meaningful post. I've been doing a bit of consultancy work, somewhat reluctantly, but I was prevailed upon by a former colleague to help out with something that was giving her organisation problems. It doesn't hurt to exercise the brain cells, and we were able to resolve the issue and it's all done and dusted now, so that's good.

We've also just had a couple of weeks holiday up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with a daughter, son in law and the youngest grandchild. We flew up this time, and I realised its the first time I've been on a plane since Covid. With a two year old in tow we didn't get up to much, just hit the beach, cafes etc., took him to Australia Zoo

https://australiazoo.com.au/

where the highlight for the young bloke was witnessing a rhino having a slash (if you're reading this outside Australia I'm sure Dr. Google will be able to enlighten you as the meaning of this bit of down under vernacular). The young bloke is still talking about this event, being most impressed with the volume and pressure.

Other than, not much to report .................. except................

I don't know if anyone noticed that my avatar to the left changed a few weeks ago from the familiar black '66 Mustang coupe



to this



The new one is another '66 but as you can see a Fastback. In terms of desirability and rarity, I've upgraded from a C code coupe with standard interior that was about 50% original to an A code Fastback with luxury interior that's about 90% original. Totally accurate figures are not available for pre '67 Mustangs and you can't get a Marti report, but it's generally accepted that over 420,000 of the former were made and about 8,000 of the latter. The vintage burgundy colour is also not that common.

The new one is fully rebuilt and matching numbers for all the important bits. I didn't want another major project like the black one was a decade or so ago, but I have some plans for it that will provide some QST over time.

The black one sold pretty quickly and we delivered it to its new home as part of the deal. It was a bit sad to see it go as I put so much work into it and fulfilled a long held ambition to build a car, but the new one is just so nice I can cope with the loss.



While some serious money changed hands, interestingly enough, it cost me considerably less to significantly upgrade my Mustang than it did to change over the old Merc daily driver for the BMW a year or so ago.

Here's a few more pics of the new girl






In case slackness sets in again, I'll close now by wishing all members a merry christmas and an enjoyable and safe holiday period.

 

[mmsheb]

Geoff,
Your black notchback was always a favorite of mine, especially with all that you put into it. Lots of work was your reward!
Now the fastback with appropriate license plate is a suitable replacement. Great color, stripes and some other goodies make this look good already. Not sure you need to do anything to it, but surely you will find something!
Mike in WI

 

[Geoff289]

Geoff,
Your black notchback was always a favorite of mine, especially with all that you put into it. Lots of work was your reward!
Now the fastback with appropriate license plate is a suitable replacement. Great color, stripes and some other goodies make this look good already. Not sure you need to do anything to it, but surely you will find something!
Mike in WI

Thanks Mike, and great to hear from you.

All the pics of the new car were taken at its former home in Perth, Western Australia, way over on the other side of the country to me. The plate therefore didn't come with the car as it's no use to me in another state.

 

[hewey]

I don't proclaim to be a Mustang man, but that fastback is gorgeous. Congrats on the new purchase. I can see you don't even need to change your username!

 

[kitdoctor]

I don't know if anyone noticed that my avatar to the left changed a few weeks ago from the familiar black '66 Mustang coupe

@Geoff289 I noticed that and it had me wondering but we've been so busy, I don't even have the time to get off my own thread. Haven't even been to @D.F.B 's for a while.

So, what's it running in the engine bay?

 

[Geoff289]

I'd guess way older than that. 40 years only gets you back to 1985 now!

I started working in joinery shops in 1990 and no-one had anything like that for their tools even back then. Not even the older guys.

Rota was acquired by Stanley in 1990, but other than that it's hard to find good info on the ages or date ranges of their particular models.

Love the Ansett sticker on it!

I don't proclaim to be a Mustang man, but that fastback is gorgeous. Congrats on the new purchase. I can see you don't even need to change your username!

Thanks Hewey, looks even better in the flesh so to speak. While the black one continued to bring a smile to my face every time I took it out, this is a serious step up.

@Geoff289 I noticed that and it had me wondering but we've been so busy, I don't even have the time to get off my own thread. Haven't even been to @D.F.B 's for a while.

So, what's it run in the engine bay?

It's the original matching numbers 289 block fully rebuilt and stroked to 347.

 

[D.F.B]

In case slackness sets in again, I'll close now by wishing all members a merry christmas and an enjoyable and safe holiday period.

That colour is amazing!

 

[Geoff289]

That colour is amazing!

As I said to Hewey above, it looks even better in real life. Ford called it Vintage Burgundy in 1966. There are a couple of what I would call minor imperfections (but you might not) in the paint but overall it's pretty damn good. I'll probably get it detailed and paint corrected in due course - pity you're not closer - but for now I just want to drive it. If I can't do that because its raining like it is now, I'll just look at it.

 

[jon72vega]

Beautiful!

 

[Bob Heine]

Geoff, to an old guy like me, that's one of the best looking Mustangs Ford ever built. It isn't the smallest Mustang made (Mustang II?) but it has the proportions of a sporty car.

 

[Geoff289]

Geoff, to an old guy like me, that's one of the best looking Mustangs Ford ever built. It isn't the smallest Mustang made (Mustang II?) but it has the proportions of a sporty car.

I also identify as an old guy, Bob, and certainly agree with you. These first series, '64-66, are my very strong preference not only for the way they look but because they started a whole automotive genre. I would have considered a nice '69 or '70 Mach 1 but I'm very happy I found this one. I did have to get it shipped from Perth but that's a bit closer than Arizona where I found the black one. Mustang !!'s remain largely unloved universally.

Hope you and Liane have a great Christmas and New Year.

 

[ajohno]

Absolutely stunning car mate.

 

[Geoff289]

Absolutely stunning car mate.

Thank you.

 

[sawduststeve]

Beautiful!

I’ll agree with that, it’s stunning.
I had a ‘69 302 Boss fastback for a while thirty odd years ago and the only model I’d buy now
is the ‘66.

Number plate doesn’t stay with it? We have a personal plate on the T6 and I’ll change it back to its original when I sell but it could stay on and would be good country wide.

Great work with the new purchase

Steve

 

[Geoff289]

I’ll agree with that, it’s stunning.
I had a ‘69 302 Boss fastback for a while thirty odd years ago and the only model I’d buy now
is the ‘66.

Number plate doesn’t stay with it? We have a personal plate on the T6 and I’ll change it back to its original when I sell but it could stay on and would be good country wide.

Great work with the new purchase

Steve

Thanks Steve.

Vehicle registration here is a matter for State governments rather than a national issue. I bought the car in the state of Western Australia so a plate issued over there is not something I can use in my state of Victoria. There is a healthy trade in personalised plates like that and the guy I bought it from will make some money selling them - the rights to use them rather than the physical plates. I put him on to the WA chapter of the club to offer them as I'm sure they'll be snapped up.

As it happens, I have the rights to these which I'll get around to selling.



I originally had them on the car I've just sold but then I put the car on the Club Permit Scheme

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registrations/permits/club-permit

This scheme is a bit of a no brainer as its about 20% of the price of full registration. I kept the rights to the plates above, and the physical plates have been on the garage wall, in the hope that the registration authority would eventually allow the use of personalised plates on club permit vehicles, as is the case with similar schemes in other states, but that never happened. No longer having a black 66, there's no point in hanging on to them now.

The fastback is now on a club permit.

 

[sawduststeve]

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registrations/permits/club-permit

This scheme is a bit of a no brainer as its about 20% of the price of full registration. I kept the rights to the plates above, and the physical plates have been on the garage wall, in the hope that the registration authority would eventually allow the use of personalised plates on club permit vehicles, as is the case with similar schemes in other states, but that never happened. No longer having a black 66, there's no point in hanging on to them now.

The fastback is now on a club permit.

What a great idea , would suit me just right.
The VW hibernates for six months and I’m sure I don’t drive more the 45 days worth

 

[st4ngster]

congratulations to the fastback , beautiful color and amazing condition .
you can really see there was a lot of time and effort invested in this car.
Around here, you rarely get around a car in such great condition even the ones being sold for big money.
Awesome find

 

[Geoff289]

congratulations to the fastback , beautiful color and amazing condition .
you can really see there was a lot of time and effort invested in this car.
Around here, you rarely get around a car in such great condition even the ones being sold for big money.
Awesome find

Thank you for that. Compliments from Lichenstein was not something I was expecting/

Are there may classic Mustangs in your part of the world? I know that there were quite a few brought into Germany by US military members stationed there in the '60's. I guess some stayed there. I did see a few in France some years ago.

Thanks again for taking an interest in my car.

Mit besten Grüßen

 

[st4ngster]

Thank you for that. Compliments from Lichenstein was not something I was expecting/

Are there may classic Mustangs in your part of the world? I know that there were quite a few brought into Germany by US military members stationed there in the '60's. I guess some stayed there. I did see a few in France some years ago.

Thanks again for taking an interest in my car.

Mit besten Grüßen

We have a couple of classic Mustangs around here in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. They are among of the more popular classic American cars in our area (next to Corvettes and Camaros). Most of them are coupes and convertibles, fastbacks are rare.

I wish you a lot of fun enjoying the nice summer months on your side of the big blue ball
For us, it's hibernation for a few more months.

cheers, mate