Suggestions for 'cruisers'?

[WattsyLX]

Use your imagination..... you can turn any car into a cruiser, from a big old yank tank, a classic Holden.... or even a Volvo!!

Just go nuts and do what you think is cool.......
the cruiser we are thinking of doing for my mum when we find the right project starter car is an EH wagon, painted a bright pink colour with white - pink pearl roof, lotsa chrome and slammed on its guts with white walls and stock hubcaps. Then we have an old mal we were going to paint the same colour as the car and bolt it to a set of custom chrome roof racks......

not everyones cup of tea but i reckon it would be a pretty 'head - turning' cruiser!!

[BALISTC]

Definitely has to be an EH...they are a dime a dozen, and even the really good ones arent too expensive!!!

Slammed on stock hubcaps, they look the goods :D

[Nitephyre]

i reckon old jags, mercs, peugot, citroens, volvos etc make out of the ordinary cruisers..

though when i have the money... my XC will be a nice cruiser, but with enough poke too :D

[jampac]

Lexus celsior 1989 model can be got for as low as $8500. Its basically a lexus ls400 that was sold in australia for over 100g's, but the cheap ones are 15 year old imports, starting jan 1 next year. Put some chrome rims on it and lower it, you got one pimp mobile. Its not 4k like you asked, but it has lots of class and plenty of style to boot. There was a black one of these in the 1st season of the sopranos. The young mob guy called Christopher Moltisanti in the show was pimping around in a black one with 19 or 20" chromes, and fully decked. I'm not a big fan of this type of stuff, but this thing got the me saying things like, fully sic moite and sic habib.

[BAN01T]

Mate I sold my 1968 Pontiac Parrisienne for $4,000 last year, she was huge (19.5 feet actually), 400 cube motor and ran on LPG, so good cheap US cars are out there, in fact try searching for Oldsmobiles, buicks and galaxies in the trading post site, you'll be surprised what you find!

[Turbo4WD]

http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/revie...ry.asp?ID=4426

Have a read of that ZD/ZC Fairlanes look tough, can be had with factory 351 clevo & 9inch LSD and are easier on parts ect than American models.

[80DGY]

Originally posted by BAN01T
Mate I sold my 1968 Pontiac Parrisienne for $4,000 last year, she was huge (19.5 feet actually), 400 cube motor and ran on LPG, so good cheap US cars are out there, in fact try searching for Oldsmobiles, buicks and galaxies in the trading post site, you'll be surprised what you find!

Actually a mate of mine sold 3 Parisiennes for 5k. One running and two as parts cars last year

[Sonicman]

Originally posted by BAN01T
Mate I sold my 1968 Pontiac Parrisienne for $4,000 last year, she was huge (19.5 feet actually), 400 cube motor and ran on LPG, so good cheap US cars are out there, in fact try searching for Oldsmobiles, buicks and galaxies in the trading post site, you'll be surprised what you find!

them things are bloody huge! my friends subaru leone was about as long as the engine bay

[BAN01T]

I'm thinking of getting another one for a beater....they are so cool and as for the room to put a serious sound system......wow!

[Captiva Fan]

If you haven't seen it already, what about the cream car in this thread, the Mazda 1800(S)? You get Italian styling with Japanese build quality & virtually rotary levels of street-cred. Plus it surely wouldn't be that hard to rotarise at a later date, if that grabs your bag.

http://board.performanceforums.com/f...957#post556957

[edo]

I know of a '67 Merc coupe that could suit what you are after

[oldenholden64]

i'd go a 1964 eh holden..i didnt read everyone elses replies so someone might have already mentioned it but ahh well..

i own one myself and they are sweet you can use any holden part in them, they turn heads, chix love em and well join the eh club and theres cruises on all the time, you see nice cars and meet great people...cant go anywhere without dudes wantin to talk about the old girl.

and well with as little mods as extractors and tripple su's and cam you got some fairly decent power and there fun to drive... and well i picked mine up for $3000 with some nice dragway indies.. now its time to put in the rb30ett :D with some big garret turbos in the beast ....one day a rb25 head when im a millionare :p

[oldenholden64]

heres a club members car..cant find any pics of mine..just shows you how nice they look...and they ofcourse look sweet without having to spend as much as this bloke did.

[Cruisin']

Heya oldenholden. I 've seen a few of your posts on the EH chat board on yahoo.


Nice pic of Jays EH. One of the nicest EH's in OZ imho.

[oldenholden64]

whats your name on the eh chat?