Queanbeyan Swap Meet 2014 - General Motors and Holden's

The Queanbeyan Swap Meet is held in conjunction with two car shows - the Ford, GM, Chrysler Day and the American Car Day. This post is mainly about the Holden's that were on display on the Saturday. I will post about GM cars that appeared on the Sunday, in the near future. The focus of this post is mainly on Aussie GM cars.

Very nice two door convertible 48-215 conversion

 

 This Pontiac sounded great, rumbling around the oval

 Classic 56 Buick

Queanbeyan Swap Meet 2014 - Fords

 Only Falcon XABC Coupe on the day - but it was a ripper

The Queanbeyan Swap Meet is held in conjunction with two car shows - the Ford, GM, Chrysler Day and the American Car Day. This post is about the Ford's that were on display on the Saturday. I will post about Ford cars that appeared on the Sunday, in the near future. The focus of this post is Aussie and English fords (OK, a few US cars as well).

Interesting profiles. Only the front panels and floorpan are interchangeable between the sedan and coupe. Even the windscreen glass is different. 

Queanbeyan Swap Meet 2014 - the crap people sell and that some people buy!

The Queanbeyan Swap Meet is a Canberra car show fixture, and now it has been moved so it doesn't clash with the AFL Grand Final, it is increasing in size - more vendors and more buyers. They hold it in conjunction with two car shows - on the Saturday a Ford, GM and Chrysler show and on the Sunday an American Car Show. This post is all about the crap that people cart to the Swap Meet to sell, with only a few car photos. They are coming in separate posts.

Queanbeyan 2011 - Swap meet, All Ford and All Holden day

A few weeks ago I went over to Queanbeyan for its annual two day Swapmeet and car show. Now normally its the All Ford Day on the Saturday and the American Car show on the Sunday. This year the promoter had the All Ford Day AND All GM Day on the Saturday.... 

Parked the P76 and headed onto the oval, rows and rows of nice old cars. This red Mustang caught my eye - it has diplomatic plates and lambo style doors. 

Nice black Mustang

Only a few T-Birds this year, such a nice shape. 

Nice blue paint, car sounded impressive.

Not sure if this is a genuine Sprint or not, the Sprint was a proto-Mustang with a 289 V8 under the hood. 

I really like this car. reverse hood scoop, air dam, V8 prob a 390. This would be a great highway cruiser. 

This car on the other hand... Thats a mighty impressive blower setup. only makes 759.8 horsepower though...

Sole XA-B-C Coupe. Very straight XC

I dont know if this is a factory or custom sports version of the Ford van. Im curious t know what mods have been performed to the engine and running gear. 

Is this woody sweet or what! 49 Ford two door wagon. One of my favourite cars on the day. 

Always a nice selection of the luxo-barge Fords. 

One of a handful of English Fords. Its sad that this par of our motoring history isn't valued as much as the American side. Plenty of US Fords are imported - very few UK Fords are imported or restored. 

Australia only Ford Mainline ute. 

GTS Monaro

Black steel bumper 'vette

The Corvair is an interesting vehicle. The US response to the Volkswagen. 

Theres a flat six packed in there. A little more complex than a Volksie engine. 

Nice HD with a much later 80's era EFI system grafted to the red motor. 

Black Firebird - still bearing the garish hood Eagle

I always have a  soft spot for cars with flames. Nice old EK Holden

AMC Rambler Rebel. Very clean and original. 

I always enjoy the swap meet side, plenty of old sheds are emptied out and parts migrate from one to another. If you needed a rusty generator - this is the place to look. 

Thats how to camp. Want to be careful getting up at 4 AM for a pee though, that first step is a doozie. 

Plenty of interesting cars scattered among the swap meet vendors. This EH Panelvan caught my eye.

Louvres masterfully punched into this EK Ute bonnet.

$5500 bucks and this old FX is yours. It looked to be all there, but very rough. 

Ive seen this old Sunbeam motorbike at a few local swapmeets recently. The owner wants $3500 for it. 

See Also:

Queanbeyan Swapmeet and American Car Show 2011 (coming soon)

2011 Canberra Electric Vehicle Festival