1987 Holden Commodore Vacationer review from Australia and New Zealand

Two weeks after I got the car I crashed it into a pole just outside my house. It was wet and my car was running premium unleaded, I had 4 friends in the car with me. I took off from the lights and my car just limoed in first gear then came second, by this time we were doing about 55km/h and the car was on a 90 degree angle. It continued on for about 15 meters then it did a 180 degree turn and smashed into the pole.

After that it went into the panel shop for repairs. Full panel repairs and a 2Pak white paint job, the car was looking better than ever but I was out of pocket for about $4000.

Three days after it came out of the panel shop the car just died while I was driving and just managed to roll home. Later I found that it was the crank angle sensor (another $525).

Having spent the best part of $5000 on the car on top of the purchase price I decided to do it up a bit.

Next came the extractors and exhaust, then a uni filter, then a stage 3 head and cam all finely tuned by a Chiptorque performance chip.

To cut a long story short, $23500 later I had a V8 killer, that looks good and had a killer interior and stereo.

Best cars ever made!