Amazing Holden VC Commodore Survivor - Overview
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2024
- Can't wipe the smile off my face. What a great experience.
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My VB did 240k and the odometer broke!! Kept it for another 5 or 6 years after that, so no idea how far it went, and only sold it to trade up. So many memories. Had heavy duty springs and handled like a beast. Upgrading the head - like this owner has done - is definitely a good move. The bottom of the motor was very reliable.
Get a vh mate....last of the chrome bumpered commodore's and best looking 😉🤘
Yep vh had better lines
The red 202 in the VB sounded far better, and many think it's a better motor. To get a VC that sounded halfway decent, you needed the 253 under the bonnet.
Still........... she's certainly a headturner these days.
That car is option pack 119. Wiper dwell, seat height adjuster, rear retractable seat belts & passenger side mirror. Great car.
I had a red VH sedan worked 3.3 4 speed 3.36 diff fun car in the eighties
I had the VH version of this and loved it. The colour was called ‘Chamois’ as I recall.
@@philnorbury9032 handle well?
My old man bought an Atlantis blue stock VB, 202 with wiper dwell of the lot when they first come out in 1978. He told me that us kids used to madly wave at people waving at this new style of car...you don't get that anymore. Great car although I sold it as a 19 year old to buy an FC. Finally got a grandma car 1979 VB bog stock with many battle scars and definitely nothing as good as this but has a family history from almost new! Exact same colour combination although not my favorite beggers can't be choosers.
Achilles heel of that engine was the fibreglass cam gear.
A much better performing engine than the HX-VB red 202s...
It's much better with it ! Add a metal one and all that crank vibration goes up into your valve train . It's there on most engines for a reason
FIRST 😉. I’ve had two VCs one belonged to my late friend and did WELL over 500.000 klm the second was purchased off the side of the road for 500 bucks and it was mint. That did another 500.000 plus klm. Basic to work on comfortable and compared to a hideous outdated XD FAR superior in handling. I still remember the day my brother in law rolled up in a brand new VB 308 factory order manual with LSD wagon. What a car that was. That new smell is still burned in my brain. I’ve had the toranas the VLs the caprice’s had m all and never let down. My current weekender is a maranello red 308 VK calais. When you get in these cars you realize they have something new cars don’t have, a SOUL.
Yeah nah.......I replaced my VB with an XE Falcon. There was just nothing in it it. XE far superior in every way bar maybe driving position and ride. Quality and reliability was better, as was drivetrain operation. Even my HG Kingswood was a better car than the VB.......but it's red six sounded great!
@@noelgibson5956 Door handles M8, I had an XF, awesome Car terrible door handles.
@@nowhere529
Yeah but if one failed, you could enter via another, less used door handle until a replacement was fitted.
If door handles are a car's weakest part, it's not a bad car.
I had one exactly the same as in your video, except white, an no front sunvisor. An had rubber over riders on the front an rear bumper bars .
It was my 1st car an ut got a lot of attention as you said.
It really is an amazing survivor of a car, the fact it's still in this good condition in 2024.. Meanwhile, our VL executive sedan was written off in sometime in late 2001, 2002.
Everyone had one or knew someone who did, I had 1 and loved it but it got eaten alive by rust as I live near the beach, still remember how beautiful it handled and I loved the size being that little bit smaller than the Falcon competitors. OH and how many of them got thrashed by boy racers lol.
Beautiful 👌🏼
Any cracks on the drivers floor where the seat bolts down?
That’s a beautiful vehicle. Question… do you guys have salt applied to your roads? I wouldn’t have thought so. Did these just rust because of poor frame prep?
@@EvzenKovar-i5p exactly mate, design flaws really. Some near oceans but salted roads very rare
Could get a yella terra peformance head
The blue 202 engine in the VC Commodore was not indestructible. I bought a VC in the mid 90's for spare parts for my VB and it lasted five minutes. Motor was rubbish!
even has a tan indicater stalk not a black one does the a/cond work??
Holdens biggest mistake was not putting Opels Cam in head engine, would have prolonged the life of the Inline 6 in Holden's instead we got the unrefined unbalanced heap of crap from Buick.
Clearly remember, the VC blue 202 motor was absolute garbage. Same with that Starfire 4 cylinder "boat anchor" that was an option in the day