Am currently spending some days down at Mothers place. We have been slowly working our way through some of Darryls drawers, and came across some fantastic old photos. Several of the photos are over 50 years old.
There are a few photos of various cars Darryl owned, including this one, of his 1960s GMH Monaro. Sorry it's a really crap photo. I took it just now with my tablet thing, while the original (already blurry) photo sat on the coffee table.
I had forgotten it was actually a genuine GTS vehicle. It would have been a few years old when he first got it, so wasn't so desirable as would be now. A brief search has shown a couple of these in well restored condition have sold for up to a quarter million dollars. Seriously!!??!?!. Wonder if its still on the road, or scrapped years ago. As an ironic addition, in one drawer I have found some (5 or 6) old speeding tickets, with two from the period when my Brother owned the Monaro. I guess $20 was a lot of money then! Typically,the fines were hidden in the bottom of a wooden cigar box, which was in turn at the bottom of a drawer. Never seen these fines before. Mother hadn't either. Guess he and I had some of the same habits then.
Here's another good photo. Darryl (left of view) with his friend Paul, standing in front of Darryls GMH HQ Premier. The 308 c.i engine had heaps of things done to it, and it sounded great. Not a great photo of the car, unfortunately.
