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- December 2 2008 : 12:48p
| | Thanks guys. Hoping to start cranking out some installs on it soon for Motorz. We found a lot of neat stuff at SEMA. | |
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- December 3 2008 : 4:26a
| Congrats on the sweet ride Jason.
We see very very few stangs for sale downunder, heck I did a internet search for the whole nation and couldn't turn up 100 in all the models back to the early 70's.
Thats because we are RH drive nation like England, so only a few converted stangs find their way here and as a result they are a collectable and very highly priced.
To give you an idea - theres one in the Ford yard about 200 yards down the road from me - a 2000 model in RH drive configuration with about 50,000 miles on the clock...and they want all of $50K for it!
No idea what you pay for them stateside.....but I've had a bit of a hankering for this one down the street...been keeping an eye on it hoping the price will come down some maybe.
I even managed to squeeze myself into it for a "test fit" since the sales guy is too tight to offer me a test drive!
Anyway - at the best part of 280 pounds - I needed a damn shoe horn and axel grease to get me into the thing, and when I did eventually get in, my shoulders were so scrunched up by the tight fitting leather seat wings, that I couldn't get enough upper body movement to turn the damn steering wheel.
The RH drive conversion is pretty sweet - but they did forget to put the hood release on the right, it remains on the left so - only the passenger can pop the hood! 
I'm guessing unless I lose 100 pounds there's no way this stang and I can have a meqaningfull relationship - looks a lot like I'll have to stick with the F 250.
Doesn't stop me wishin I was driving the stang!
At least one of is us - maybe I can live vicariously thru yours - be sure and post up a few stories about how she goes and handles!
Might be as close as I ever get to driving one again, my last spin in one was bout 30 years ago - when a workmate had a 428 shelby cobrajet mustang of about 1973 vintage i think... that thing was awesome!
Cheers & congrats again!
(P.s. love to knwo what it cost - to compare to the costs we get down here - maybe by PM if it's not too personal!). | |
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- December 3 2008 : 5:42a
| Managed to get a couple snaps of the said mustang downunder for you.
If you look - you'll see the steering wheel on the wrong side!
The sales slip shows it is a 2001 model with 109,000 kilometers (65,000 miles).
at Aus $54,000 - thats about $34500 US today roughly.
Hows that equate with Mustang prices stateside at the moment?
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- December 3 2008 : 9:47a
| | Jeez! That car would go for around $10k here private party! | |
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- December 3 2008 : 10:47a
| | But I'd imagine a left-hand converted, federalized Aussie Ford Falcon would run about $50k here. | |
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- December 3 2008 : 7:46p
| Possibly so Tom.
I know General Motors are exporting our Aussie built "Holden Monaro" to the USA in LH drive configuration.
I don't know what they are marketed as stateside (Camaro?) but the price would likely be a good indication what a Aussie Ford falcon would cost stateside in LH drive conversion.
Hard to believe the 2001 used stang is only worth about 10K stateside - maybe I should import 2, convert them to RH drive and sell one to cover my costs and keep the other!
It really burns me to see hwo relatively cheap cars are in the USA.....compared to here! The same Ford lot with the mustang have a used 2005 F 250 on the lot for $99,990!
I could sneak a pic of the truck and sales sticker if you like! 
Can you imagine that - $100K for a used F 250? 
Theres something wrong with all this proce disparity - we are s'posed to have a free trade agreement with the USA - how on earth can your auto makers hope to export their product and make aprofit when there are these kinds of markups and I'm guessing some kinda import tarrifs etc are to blame maybe?
With jobs being crucial for the auto industry and citys like Detroits survival - thru this recesssonor depression or whatever it is going to be - you'd think that if they could fix the problem with price disparity - our 20 million population would represent a 10% potential export market increase for the US automakers - THAT would save a lot of automakers jobs and help prosperity in the USA for a speedier recovery!
Maybe someone in your govt needs to be talking to someone in our govt about fixing the problem maybe...
It seems kinda crazy to be sending our MOnara to USA when the price disparity is the other way round and you gusy shpuld be sending your auto's here instead!
You know - we are only a small population - why the heck couldn;t we jsut change our roads to LH drive like the USA - and then you could export all your autos here for a bigger market share forever more with non of this crazy convert left hand drive to right hand drive rigormorole.
I thought thats what our trade delegates and ambassadores / embassy staffs etc were supposed to do with their time.
Maybe if we all spoke to each other a bit more - a LOT of the problens and hurdles could be overcome. I know our country has in the past used import taxes etc as a trade tarrif barrrier, but the free trade agreement was supposed to fix all that.
Heck - we all speak english and we are allies - why the heck can't we sort out seemingly easey stuff like trading auto's?
Maybe we should start a few more student swaps / with host families in our respective countries, so that we do beome closer allies?
I know back in WW2 when my mom was a child she had a "pen friend" in the USA who she wrote too all her life, that was a program instituted back then to foster closer ties between the nations. My mom went to the USA to visit her pen friend Betty, and Betty & her Hubby came downunder to visit with us etc, as a result of such a simple program started all those years earlier.
Maybe 10 years back - I met a great bunch a kids (young grownups) from your nation - who were studying anthropology at a university in Georgia and they came downunder on a study trip to Australia, what a great bunch a people and wonderfull ambassadores for your nation.
I don't know - maybe there isn't enough mutual co-operation between our 2 nations - we will always be allies and go to war together and fight alongside each other - but maybe we need to do more - and if we did maybe there wouldn't be the simple porblems like we se in auto industry disparty in this thread.
I wonder who's responsibility it is to fix that?
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