waste of money i reckon u buy a car and u drive it for every dying penny u put into it

Some people can afford to keep a collectable in the garage all while also owning another ride for daily commuting

A few days ago i got told about a genuine GTHO Phase 3 a mate of mine has just looked at. It was in a garage behind a garage behind a garage! Have to remove the side of the garage to get it out even! It's started every week but has been on blocks for over 10 years. Only about 10-15,000 miles on it and he tells me it's absolutely brand new condition with even the stamps from the factory still on it!! Hate to think what it would be worth but I asked him to pass on my offer of $50K

My mate's old man has also got an XY GT HO Phase 3 in the garage. The car hasn't been started in many many year's and as for leaving the garage, it's been a good decade, so these sort of car's definately do exist.

That walky for 75k has never been sold, origianally delivered to the dealership, never sold, as it say, still has the plastic on the seats with the lower lips in the plastic and not attatched.

Umm though sooo since it was same dealer owner ship for 16 years.....

The "new" Walkies that people are talking about here -- there has to be a couple of them. I picked up the "Street Commodores" magazine with the article people are referring to from a Salvos shop last week. I have the magazine at work and not here, so I can't be 100% accurate, but the magazine came out in 1998 (or maybe early 1999). There's a photo of the dash and the odometer shows between 400 and 500kms. The build number from memory was in the 400s. There was no plastic on the seats in the photos, and the dealer said in the article that he'd sell it for $50000. The article stated which dealer it was, but I can't remember now. I know it was a country dealer and not a metropolitan one.

Yep that's the one I was originally thinking of

Quote: Km: 335 Quote: Never driven, never registered, ha ha, dont cars come from the dealer/factory registered? its NEVER been driven yet has 335km's

Say an ad yesterday in a Unique Cars or similar. Parkside Autos at Arncliffe in Sydney had a brand new never registered Walky for sale. $40K approx from memory. The mag was about 12 months old I think. I expect the car may have been sold many times over already but just never registered. But then how do you know if it's ever been registered before? No way of knowing really. So lets face it the cars aren't really 'brand new' they are 15 years old but they can be never registered.

I rememeber seeing one with that many kilometre's for sale from Bathurst for $40k a while ago

This is regarding when was the LAST Walky ever sold. The answer IS from a small town about 40mins away from where i live called Walla Walla, with a population of lessthan 1000 people. The Walky was never sold, untill about a year and a half ago and it WAS the ONLY walky in australia that still didnt have names in the owners book (or service manual or whatever it is called) and from memory i think it only had about 500kms on it (driven once in a while to keep the thing in working order). The Town Walla Walla is about 40 mins north east of Albury/Wodonga. The Walky was sold to a collector in SA, not sure of the exact pprice but it was for aroud the $50k mark. He hired a truck drove the truck over and put the walky on the back and drove back to SA. This was the last walky to be sold, it had never had an owner beforehand, it had just been sitting in the dealership. Sorry about the long post. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

And yes its the one in the old Street commodores magazine

This WAS the LAST walky sold from a dealership. There were NO others left that haddent had at least one owner, all had been sold at this point (year or 2 ago)

They can still be had with virtually no km's on them, it's just that you gotta pay to play

yer i think a good place to find a decent example would be ringing around to car collecters to see if they really wana part with a beast

Unique car's has alway's got something in the way of shmick Walkinshaw's

my mate nos a bloke who actually bought a gt back in the days threw it in a garag and belt a brick casing all the way around the car so if u wana get to it u gota brake down a wall, now imagine finding a walky like that

My cousin's got one Been on stand's in his garage for YEAR'S. My first ride in a Walkinshaw was back in 1990 in this car, when he bought it virtually brand new. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

i also have heard of that person putting on a trailer - into a garage- all oil and wheels off etc and wrapped up since, another thing i have heard is that there is a genuine original walky with under 10 kilometers on the clock at some holden showroom dealership in clayton somewhere- not sure if thats true tho -