[VF69HARDTOP]

Hi Guys

We've had this i30 for a few weeks now really and enjoying it. We bought it with 23k on the clock. Only thing we really hate about the car is the clock, its rarely reading the correct time and no real way to set it manually as I can't select the correct time zone. Besides this, we are very happy with the car to date. We bought it of the back of a 1998 excel that we had since new, it had done 220k and never missed a beat, even still has the factory front pads and discs still fitted with 4mm pad left! It was even driven daily through the peak hour city traffic into the adelaide hills for 10 yrs. Sold it to my dad to buzz to work and back, so still in the family.

Anyway, I got the windows tinted today at Tintacar, had to drive out to salisbury as they have a special for $350 on the Octane tint.

Thanks guys

Excuse the RED square, didn't realise I saved it like that until it was too late but you get the idea.

[Doggie 1]

Looks nice.   

[CraigB]

Very nice, tint looks good

[The Gonz]

Dark tint is naturally very effective visually on a white car. Nice!

[Phil №❶]

Can a GD owner sort out the clock issue. I can't find it in GDS. 

[CraigB]

Can a GD owner sort out the clock issue. I can't find it in GDS. 

On mine you just press the setup tab on the left of the radio an then touch "Time" and set to your time, I don't have any time zone ajustment

[Doggie 1]

I've never had a problem with my clock.   

[Doggie 1]

I've never had a problem with my clock.   

[Phil №❶]

I presume it has the GPS fitted as well, so takes zulu time then has various time zone settings.

[Doggie 1]

No GPS on mine.

[cruiserfied]

Nice GD, but I wanna see the 69 VF.

Do you have SatNav or not?

[Doggie 1]

I wouldn't mind seeing the VF either. 

[Dazzler]

The red square was a nice way of getting my attention!

Anyone who wants to see a VF only has to look at my signature picture ...

[Doggie 1]

 
We're talking about a real VF. 

[VF69HARDTOP]

Thanks guys, and yes, mine has GPS.

I agree, the only good VF is a Valiant VF. Never been a fan of Commondores at all, sorry.

I haven't had time to start work on her yet as getting married this weekend. Using my brothers VC as the wedding car seeing as I recently finished it for him, well, I did start the rebuild many many years ago.

I have copied and pasted my post from another forum regarding my VF. Bit of a read but some find it interesting.

"When I was 16 I bought my first car from my uncle being a VF 4 door for $1000 with a slant 6 and column manual. It sat in the driveway for a few months until I got my licence and then it was go time. When I was nearing 17, I came across a nice looking 69 VF Hardtop Regal with slant 6 and column auto sitting in the back of a car yard. It had just been traded in and needed detailing. Luckily I had my dad with me, who was also a keen Valiant lover having owned an ex police VH 4 door and then a CL. We looked it over and I was SOLD! They wanted $3000 for her and would give me a $1200 trade in for my 4dr, a couple days later I picked it up.

About a year later we moved off to the country and I started to tinker with the hardtop. I bought a VF Regal V8 wagon with 318 but fitted with a 4 spd manual and commenced to transplant the running gear into the hardtop. A year later I pulled out the engine and had my first shot a rebuilding the engine to stock specs and just a mild cam. A bit of time went by and while driving on the highway one of the remote oil filter hoses split and ended up spinning the bearings. My plan was to now rebuild the engine to some hotter specs and revert back to an auto. I replaced the trans tunnel to fix the modded one from fitting the 4spd and then she sat for a couple months. During this time I bought an AP6 fitted with a 265 and 4 spd for a daily driver.

I was now 20 and my parents then decided to move back to the city so the hardtop had to be moved out of the shed. I had just crashed the AP6 and it needed repairing and I had no where to put the hardtop rolling shell. Luckily a mate is a spray painter so we struck a deal, he would repair and paint the AP6 in exchange for the hardtop. He then on sold the hardtop to a guy for around $3000.

Being 39 now, nearly every day my biggest regret was to let go of the hardtop. I dabbled in a Jap import Nissan 180sx with a 2ltr turbo, bloody thing made 400rwhp with factory internals and a medium turbo and cam upgrade and was reliable as anything could be and driven daily for years in this set up. I still wanted my hardtop back so I decide to sell the 180sx after owning it for 9 years and look for a clean hardtop to fill the space of my old one.

Within a week of selling the 180sx, I wondered if the guy that bought my old hardtop still had it and would sell it. I tracked him down and gave him a call.
Much to my surprise he still had it and hadn't touch it since getting it 19 years ago!
I asked if he would sell it and he wasn't keen on the idea, I said think about it and I will ring back at the end of the week. So the friday came and I gave him a call, he had done some hard thinking and said he would sell it back to me if I wanted but would not sell it to any one else. He had been pestered over the years by many people trying to buy it and wouldn't part with it. So I jumped in the car saturday morning and went to have a look.
As soon as I saw her I almost had a tear in my eye, we worked out a price and I gave him a deposit and came back a couple days later and picked her up and took her home.

When I got home I had a good look over her and found the old rego papers in the glove box from last registration with my name from 1994. I also found my old watch and the old L plates that I used to teach my younger brother to drive (he went on and bought a nice VC regal) In the boot was a hubcap with bags of bolts from the engine that I had stripped and bagged up. It was like my own personal time capsule. To top it off, its still registered in my name, he never changed it!

So now after some 19 years, I have her back in the same condition (not one spec of rust has come out in all these years, though the paint is looking sad) I can pick up with the rebuild from where I left off"

The VF as she sits now, waiting some attention and love


How she was 20 yrs ago


My old AP6 with a hot 265 Hemi and 4spd I built


And my old Nissan 180x I built with a 2ltr turbo and 400hp at the rear wheels and only 1250kg! This thing was stupid fast.

My brothers VC I built for him.

[cruiserfied]

Ok SatNav uses GPS to obtain time and can be confused by two different timezones.
Cant remember the exact wording but if you go into SatNav menu and find Region you can turn off auto timezone and set it to your own timezone.

Now off to drool over a real VF............

[The Gonz]

Now off to drool over a real VF............

[Dazzler]

 

[Shambles]

Here is a link to some info on my VF. ...

Sadly, piccies aren't visible, there, to non-members

[The Gonz]

 

[VF69HARDTOP]

Fixed the post with pics.

Thanks

[CraigB]

Nice VF, my best mate when I was 17 bought a 2dr VG in 1987 and was then killed in a hit and run outside of his house 3 days later his father - brother and myself meticulously rebuilt and modified the VG over the next 5 years and it still sits in his fathers garage to this day.

It doesn't even get driven anymore which is a shame because we built up a beast of a 440 paired to a 727 box, Wayne ( his father ) custom hand made all the steering and suspension and it was so nice to drive in

[VF69HARDTOP]

Sorry to hear that story mate. A great way to build a memory of him though, well done.

[CraigB]

Yes it's a good memory of Allan, his younger brother Philip died from brain cancer several years after all this so the father is much to upset to even uncover the VG so it's just sitting there unused in pristine condition.

I'm hoping that Wayne will let me take the car of his hands one day as he's in his early 80's now and he'll never drive it, I feel the car should be enjoyed but it's always a sore point to raise with him so god knows what's going to happen to it in the end

[Just Rick]

Nice Pic,but looking at your forum name,would rather see the VF Hardtop 

Duhhh !!! if I had read further before replying I would have seen the photo's,used to like my Valiants in the day.

[cruiserfied]

Awesome group of Val's. You got me with that AP6.

[PiL]

Brilliant. Absolutely fantastic.

[Asterix]

Some nice looking cars there... 

[VF69HARDTOP]

Ok SatNav uses GPS to obtain time and can be confused by two different timezones.
Cant remember the exact wording but if you go into SatNav menu and find Region you can turn off auto timezone and set it to your own timezone.

Now off to drool over a real VF............

I had a look at changing this setting and still won't work as my time zone in SA is 8:30gmt and you can only choose whole hours, 8gmt or 9gmt. What a stupid set up this is!

[Phil №❶]

I thought that might be the case, yes, very annoying.