Unique Cars Australia – September 2019

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THE^ CARS OUR SHED, OUR CARS, OUR STORIES


Ownedsince 1996
Miles55,085

Ownedsince 2010
Kms171,041

Ownedsince 2018
Kms167,083

Ownedsince 2018
Kmsunknown

Ownedsince 2005
Miles46,263

Ownedsince 2016
Kms108,408

Ownedsince 2016
Kms143,000

’63 633 THTTHTHHUNDUNDUNDUND RB

’’ 898989898 VVNVNVNVNVNCALCALCALCALCALCALAIAISAISAISS
O dd i 2016

7979 VBVBVBCOMCOMCOMCOMMODORORE

’79 799 TOTOTOTOYOTYOTYOTYOTYOTTA CCCCEELIELIELILICA
O dd i 2018

9 SKSKSKSKSKKYLIYLIYLIYLIYLIYLINNENENENENE R
O d i 2018

’66 66 SHSHSHSHELBELBELBELBY GT35 00
O d i 996

’03 033 XRXRXRXR6 T6 TURBOO

’76 BMW 633
Owned since 2014
Miles 134,251

THIS MONTH


WORDS& PHOTOSGL

WHO KNEW THAT GLENNT
GET OUT AND ABOUT WI

NO-ONE TOOK much notice
of the two blokes punching-
on under the tawdry blue
and pink neon lights outside
Porky’s strip club in Sydney’s
infamous red-light district of
Kings Cross. It seemed to be
just another typical after-
midnight footpath fight, like
thousands of other biffos over
the decades.
Sitting in my 1980 Volvo
262C coupe, I’d been watching
the scuff le but I wasn’t
showing any concern either...
“Cut!” said a distant voice and
the two actors immediately
separated. “That was great!”

continued the voice.
Next to where the ‘fight’
had been was an XF Falcon
with a TA XI sign on top, a
ripper Mitsubishi Sigma (a
Turbo!), a perfect Datsun
Bluebird, an example of
Toyota’s last rear-drive Celica,
a gorgeous VB Commodore
SL sedan and an XB Ford
Fairmont. My Volvo and these
other 1980s cars were ideal
era-correct props for an ABC
TV mini-series set in 1985.
It’s about a big red-headed
Queenslander, Les Norton,
the main character in a series
of books penned by Aussie

author, the late, great Robert
G Barrett. The popular books
about bouncer Les and his
nefarious mates are filled
with plain and simple larrikin
Aussie humour, spiced with a
hint of Sydney’s underworld
of the 1970s and 80s.
One week later, my brown
’79 VB Commodore wagon


  • now with temporary TA XI
    signs – was parked with
    several other cool cars at the
    Sydney Cricket Ground. With
    a few other props scattered
    around, the Les Norton
    producers had done quite a
    convincing job of creating an


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