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Thanks for your support Scott, glad you enjoyed it, hoping to have more vids coming up in the future, I will try have a VN Clubsport Video done someday, (I haven’t forgot) just don’t have one in my collection to film

They were good times, loved seeing both on the road especially a V8

@@GTZ05 Yeah man. I'm 43 now so was in the 90's early 2000's. VL group A, VL turbos, at Kooragang island drags in Newcastle on a Friday night. Sick times..... We even bought an old VN and LH torana for Bush bashing. We burnt them out when they died. What they'd be worth now. Even the sunbird LH. 😅

@@Looking-great totally I can only imagine what we would do if we had a time Machine lol.. I would totally have bought a Vs GTSR when they were only worth mid 30ks in the early 2000s haha. I’d love an old Torana

@@GTZ05 I had an LJ XU1. Sold it 4k in 96. They were nothing then. Even my old datto 180B. My first car, sold it for $1500. Twin weber carbies. All that shit is rare now.

@@Looking-great you really can’t find them now, there’s some XU1’s but huge $$

Thanks, It did feel like a bit of a time warp looking back at some of the footage

Thanks mate, I also have a VN Calais 5.0, awesome car and you guys have pretty much had yours since new so that’s special 👌

@@GTZ05 yeah it's a 1990 Dad got it in 93 and I got it in 2014 and love it

@FlatBrokeAdventures what colour is yours, which month in 90 Apr May onwards they had climate control

@@GTZ05 Cant remember which month I think March and yes it has climate control. Mine is a 5.0 with leather seats, electric sunroof, FE2, LSD. It's white over silver. I have some videos on my channel with it if you want a look. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-91k_uaH_nJk.html

Thanks heaps, it does look great, like it came straight out of a magazine basically, glad you enjoyed the background story

Born and bred in Newcastle but been in Sydney most of our lives… we still come to Newcastle as we have family there. Glad you’re liking the vids so far 🙂. You based in Newy?

@@GTZ05 yeh based in maitland

Henry Lawson drive

Thanks so much glad you enjoyed it, you’re spot on that the area we were in 🙂

That’s right

Plan on stopping in myself

see you there

Sounds rare, I would love to see that.

Thanks mate, they are actually the standard SS seats most Series 1 had. NOV 90 series 2 onwards they had the bigger, bolstered Calais style seats standard.

@@GTZ05 after I wrote it I had a feeling..haha series 1 life.. my vq statesman was the same.. she was immaculate condition asteroid silver...

@@stevencuenca1980 no longer have the VQ?, I would love a VQ and VG ute to have all the body styles in the VN space lol

@@GTZ05 sadly no it was far too nice of an example for my younger self and crashed it badly😒 I'm just now starting to think about another iron lion limo.. I also realised I wasn't subbed so I've fixed that for ya mate👍

@@stevencuenca1980 main thing is you were all ok.. you should get another iron lion within the next 12 months, it’s a buyers market atm.. thanks for your sub, young channel here so everyone’s support counts

Hi Mate, Thanks for your feedback. Each to their own on the closed door re-spray, depends on personal taste I guess, it’s nice to do it to tidy up some cars. There is definitely a silver Factory V8 Badge for other models, plus the SS is not a luxury model and has the red V8 Badge. When I say they gave the car air conditioning, I was actually referring to the SV enhanced models, but when you are recording it can mash in all as one sentence and there can also be slip of the tongue. SS shared the same seats a VN ‘S‘ Commodore this is a true statement.. Series 2 has a different grain and it is definitely not as soft (moved to the VP style from approx May 1990) check out this video at 8.50M ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2UxS_TWaPuA.htmlsi=ZD1gh5YSoMY27WWg and that’s the difference between series 1, this dash came out of a 1990 Calais (also check out every VN SS group A they will all have the series 2 dash) we have also owned 89 VN’s and 90 models back in the early 90s and noted this running change.. toward the end of the 91 run for VN they also added the more course grain to the dash vents from dash to door trim and kept that going for VP. We never claimed the car is 100% original. The plastic parcel shelf vents actually came out late in the VN run, these have been added in by us due to the carpet lifting in that area which is typical VN and probably why Holden made the change, I’ve done this modification to a few of my VN’s I appreciate you watching and being very observant 🙂

The red vs silver badge thing started with the VL turbo badge - silver on Calais and red on everything else. The VN V8 badge was the same - silver on Calais, red on Exec, SS & Berlina. As a teenager and young driver when these were new, I paid attention to those details, and numerous friend’s parents had them from new (including 2 berlina wagons with red V8 badges in the tailgate). Nice upgrade on this one with the SV100 pack. Surprising how many VN SS have popped up with SV enhanced packs from back in the day. Power pack was optional on all later VN SS (once they had the loom update) not just the SV packs. There were so many changes during VN production that can be very confusing to those who have only owned 1 or 2 and think that’s what they were all like. Parts books and service manuals give a good timeline of changes. Quite a few changes were made even before the V8 came out in march 89. You’re right about the SS standing out compared to other VNs of the era. But that’s because basic ones looked so crap! Once colour coding became standard in base models, the SS blended in more. IMO the SS had the 2nd best VN body style rear spoiler. The VQ2 caprice 1 piece is nicer 😊

@@commodorenut so true, they changed so many things during the run, almost every month lol…. All SV enhanced SS’s had the power pack standard, I have a April 1989 SS print date brochure with the power pack listed as optional, so they all had the option. Yup, the colour coding back then made a difference and even though VPs onwards all had it, I guess the brand of the VN SS was deep in people minds and they never forgot. The VQ Caprice spoiler is also a favourite, along with the SV89 spoiler

@@GTZ05 I did lots of power pack upgrades back in the 90s and came across a couple of SSs that didn’t have the loom plugs for it (just like the exec had no plugs). Didn’t stop me doing them, just made it harder to make it look factory. You had to get the level 2 body harness to get the power-pack plugs (hence why you couldn’t get a power pack on an exec). I couldn’t remember when the L2 (same as berlina) harness was put into the SS, but thinking about it some more, the VN Clubby had the L2 body harness put into the base body, so that’s the most likely point when the change was made on the SS as well - so only a month or 2 of production probably. Anyway, the reason I mentioned the power pack was the way it sounded in the video was that the power pack was an SV thing, when really you could option it on a regular SS (once the body loom spec was updated to L2). VP opened up a plethora of changes to the way Holden did things - 2 and 4 power windows, standard central locking etc. The VN had so many options “rules” that applied in VL that makes it closer to a VL than a VP with what you could & couldn’t do as far as standard and optional equipment (and mandatory bits - like deleting cruise control on manuals). Speaking of VN power windows, I hate the rear door ones - thank goodness they updated the design for the later 2nd gen models. Much more reliable (and less prone to water ingress).

@@commodorenut totally get that the power pack part sounded that way in the video, from memory, thats why I ended up putting text saying something like, Non SV models had the option of power pack.. Sometimes when you are blabbing on recording things come out wrong and I just leave them, instead of re-rerecording, one of my videos I referred to the ls3 replacing the VT 5.0 litre, slip of the tongue but I can guarantee I know the difference Between the LS1 LS2 & LS3 having owned some LS based cars.. True that the VN formula with options was similar to the VL, so much more was included with VP, but one thing I don’t like is 2 front power windows (like the Berlina, vp clubby) feels more cheap than 4 wind ups lol… I haven’t had much trouble with the rear power windows and most of the VNs I’ve owned have had power pack, (I still own 5 VN atm) I’ve changed 3 rear ones and 3 drivers all together, prefer doing the rear ones for some reason haha Power window switches on the other hand, a lot more have been changed… I know for the VN Clubby they had to mould something in for the trip computer, it’s in one of the manuals Glad to have another Holden enthusiast in the mix

Settle down muppet, how is he talking smack? If facts are incorrect, you don’t jump down somebody’s throat… You can without the verbal abuse. Go have a bat.

Geez, who shat in your breakfast

@@bh.9456 Sorry to be so harsh, but when I hear things that are not true, I just have to correct it. I blame it on my OCD. Sorry if I came across harsh. I really am. Only the VN Calais had the silver 'V8' badge on the back. My 2 BT1 V8 Executives had the silver garnish with the Red 'V8' badge. I apologize once again. No hard feelings. I enjoyed your video with you 2 brothers cruising around in your Mint condition VN SS and hearing the backstory behind it. She's absolutely immaculate.💯%

The car was advertised in the 6K range and all negotiations were done prior to interstate travel.. So you would have offered 10K? Don’t think it was a 10K car, would have been cheaper to buy one already re-sprayed, than spend $$ here. There were no takers for the car in its location and the daughter wanted it gone. The car made it home under its own power so there was never discussion of a tow truck to get it back to NSW in the negotiations. On that note I have always paid below market value for most of my cars with sellers with no health issues, so there is no difference here. The market sets the price on what someone is willing to pay and let a car go for. Some owners also want to sell it to someone that will take care of it for years to come, that also has some value. You are totally entitled to you opinion, but to accuse my brother of taking advantage of an older man with health issues is unfounded.

I don't know how you gleaned all that from what was discussed by these guys. Sounds like the owner was in a declining state and his daughter who was looking after him wanted one less problem to deal with.