There are afew on here for around $4000.00! I never thought i would see the day where people thought they were worth that much. Not even when they were new. Crikey!
wizid,
Oct 21, 1:54pm
the 69 hunter was the bestmodel.
modie61,
Oct 21, 1:56pm
Why wizid !
bigjerry,
Oct 21, 1:57pm
1725 cast iron head
tigra,
Oct 21, 2:05pm
Quite a good way to get a "classic" for fun runs without paying ludicrous prices.
bellky,
Oct 21, 2:07pm
they look alright i reckin (sort of). mum had one!
pettal,
Oct 21, 2:12pm
you could say the same about Escorts , minis andmorrie minorsaye .
bevharris1938,
Oct 21, 2:58pm
I owned 1 Hillman hunter in my time , it lasted 1 week , it seized going up ohope hill.
countrypete,
Oct 21, 3:01pm
What's classic about a Hillman Hunter.It's just an old car.
toyboy3,
Oct 21, 3:02pm
cast iron head was in the station wagons and commer vans
msigg,
Oct 21, 3:15pm
toyboy3 I had a 69 hunter with the cast iron head.
franc123,
Oct 21, 4:17pm
Asking prices are only that, are people actually paying that for them!From what I see the same vehicles being peddled by the same dreamers stay listed on here for months and months and then they disappear and sometimes reappear again.Mind you some of this stuff that everybody instantly considered was crap at the dawn of the Jap Import Era does have some appeal these days, they are DIY orientated unlike nearly all cars made in the last 20 years and at least it doesn't cost $20K to sort out the fuel system if you get a bit of water in your late model CR diesel for instance.Nor do they need whizzbang electronic keys that get destroyed or lost, annoying SRS/ABS warning lights to fail your WOF, weird/smelly/expensive oils and additives that only the dealer stocks for the trans or diff or steering at a huge cost, and four tonnes of plastic and junk to carry around that kills all the fuel economy gains that modern cars are supposed to have!And of course they are cheaper to licence and insure once they are old enough.
mugenb20b,
Oct 21, 4:25pm
Off topic, but I always wonder why car manufacturers do that (yes I know.fuel economy, safety, Passat, Punto, blah, blah.)! In this day and age, can they not build a good honest, no nonsense car!
franc123,
Oct 21, 4:30pm
I'm sure that a simple low cost car that is stripped to the bone with a low tech engine and drivetrain that yet appeals to millions in VW Beetle/Minor/Mini/2CV style that could be profitably produced is the fantasy of many a car company exec and accountant, the problem is that Govts and burgeoning safety and emissions regs won't let them any more
hunters are crap, it they were an old mans car in their day
richardmayes,
Oct 21, 4:57pm
I've toyed with this idea in my mind a bit.
The way would be to acquire the tooling for some reasonably-recent,discontinued 2-litre Jap sedan body, (Say the Toyota Corona/Caldina tub of the 1990s) and some slightly tastier but still obsolete engine such as the Honda H23a SOHC non-VTEC engine out of the late 90s Prelude. You would use a MoTec ECU or some other standard aftermarket brain that people are using all over the world to tune unique engines.
You would need to make some all new sexy-looking new exterior panels for it, because no-one is going to buy a new car that looks like a 20 year old Corona. (These might be fibreglass since we have an established boatbuilding industry in this country!) All the lights/electrics would be designed around whatever could be most cheaply supplied by repco or through a local wholesaler.
The interior would need airbags and pretensioning seatbelts to pass the safety requirements now. But in every other way the spec would be as per an early 1970s Holden / Mercedes / Triumph. Window winders, fresh air/heater, Din-sized stereo, and that's it. Manual steering, manual gearbox, manual adjusting seats, no ABS, no traction control, no rain-sensing wipers or automatic headlights. Just a motor car.
I imagine that without all of the optional-extra machinery weighing it down, this no-frills saloon car would be a bit of a rocket.
[EDIT: But to make anyone want to touch it, the price would have to be VERY much less than a "proper" Japanese 2-litre car, and it would have to have heaps of fizz and a sporty ride so that the motoring writers give it favourable reviews!]
[Oh and you would utterly go to town with buy-kiwi-made nationalistic advertising. You would have Colin on TV telling people to get one. The badge on the boot lid would be a little chrome silver fern, etc etc. ]
phillip.weston,
Oct 21, 4:59pm
Why! It would never sell very well at all. 99% of consumers want something with all the modern features you would expect in even a $20-30,000 car. You wouldn't even be able to get away with making a brand new passenger car devoid of any safety features like ABS, air bags etc - look at the bad press Great Wall are getting.
mugenb20b,
Oct 21, 5:02pm
Yes, it would be, but I think that supercharged L67 Commodore engine with a factory pulley might be more suitable.
rob_man,
Oct 21, 5:04pm
I had a 69 Hunter SW with an 1800 Sirius motor and 5spd box out of a Galant which I put in myself over a few nights in my garage with a MIG welder and a bunch of kiwi inenuity. The two driveshafts slipped inside each other and I balanced the result by lying underneath and holding a piece of chalk against the tube at each end while it was spinning to show up the heavy side and putting blobs of weld opposite. Went heaps better than the 1725 and was super reliable.
mugenb20b,
Oct 21, 5:07pm
Great Wall have all the electronic crap too, but as a work horse type vehicle, I would much prefer something that's dead simple. If I could buy a brand new Renault 4 tomorrow, I'd do it.
franc123,
Oct 21, 5:14pm
Yes it would, if you could get a brand new car on the market for $10-12K with a decent warranty without a heap of expensive to fix features that a budget motorist simply doesn't need that all die down the track that delivers under 5L/100km at worst on petrol, or even is fully electric or hybrid you'd sell them alright.A bit of retro style chucked in would top it off nicely.
rob_man,
Oct 21, 5:20pm
Imagine if you could buy a brand new Datsun 1200 now, they'd sell millions of them.
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