Two Door Commodores Adayer Sportif

[Magnum]

hi all, just thought ill post a little bit about this rare car

The 11 original (plus 1 prototype) Adayer sportif cars started life as VH SL/E 4.2 litre V8 commodores.
Then Dominion and International Automobiles(DIA) tore them apart ,cut and shut, threw away the four doors and quarter panels and rewelded and altered the body shells to accept panels from the two door German GM Opel Rekords.

Additions to this car: Deep pile carpet, front recaro seats, choice of leather or fabric, matched material to door trims and side panels,polished woodgrain to trims side panels and lower dash, grey felt to line roof and windsreen pillars,momo steering wheel with dia centre, black cars with gold pin stripe,front spoiler, steel reinforced fibreglass front and rear bars,colour keyed slatted grills, rear deck spoiler, louver, roh wheels 6 by 14, goodyear cr70h14 tyres, Adayer embossed panel between tail lights, dual halogen head lights, power steer, duel exhaust, Pioneer sterio, four wheel disc brakes, tinted glass, air con. Price was $27300 manual and $28200 automatic.

Cheers Magnum

[V-Car]

When these were new, i remember thinking at the time why would anyone in their right mind want to buy one of these. :spew:
What had started out as a very nice SL/E, ended up looking like a Beirut taxi.
Very down market, and probably one of the ugliest cars around at the time.
How Adayer sold one, let alone eleven amazes me. :rolleyes:
It might have been 95% better if they had left the SL/E front and rear alone, and kept the 15" wheels instead of going to 14".
Still, no accounting for some peoples tastes i guess.

http://www.geocities.com/carlyp_17/2door.jpg

[C4B]

It looks like something they'd build in "Junkyard Wars"

That think makes an AU Falcon look like an oil painting! :spew: :spew: :spew:

[adayer08]

I have one of these rare adayer coupes. Mine was the 2nd one built and someone has changed the front on it so it accepts all the original sheet metal. It now has VH SLE grill/bumpers/lights etc. The original recaros will be retrimmed and the 308/t350 combo rebuilt, hope to have it finished by summernats 2007. If anyone has any sales brochures/pictures/magazine articles etc, I would love to hear from you on (pement@hotmail.com)
cheers Pete

[Pickles]

No argument that this is a rare car, but there's no way I'd want to own one. No input from Holden, and a very unpopular, ugly car. That's probably why they never sold. If you're going to spend your hard earned cash on a restoration, surely there are better cars than this.
Cheers, Pickles.

[JC074]

Hey was that pic taken quite a few years back at an auto auction @ UWA?

If so i rmemebr seeing a rotary powered Kingswood there on the same day!!

How much these commo' hybrids worth these days?

Anyone got interior pics?

[supaputty]

Hey was that pic taken quite a few years back at an auto auction @ UWA?

If so i rmemebr seeing a rotary powered Kingswood there on the same day!!

How much these commo' hybrids worth these days?

Anyone got interior pics?

That pic is mine. It's my ex girlfriends car taken at the Blackfriars open day September 2002. It's got a full Recaro interior (seats, trim and wood finish on the doors) runs a (now dead) 253 w/trimatic. Headlights and grille have been changed to VH.

[chops]

I knew a bloke that had one of these in Adelaide.
No-one would believe him that it wasn't something someone just cobbled up at a crash shop.

[andrewslr]

The Adayer only goes to confirm that the 80's was an automotive non-event in Australia, only saved by Mr Brock and HDT.

If some people didn't have bad taste, they'd have no taste at all!

[muzza]

Yep - I too reckon they were unusual, different but Ugly.

For all the trouble they went to you'd reckon Adeyer would have made it better looking!

The best of those 80's commodores for looks and rarity value would have to be the HDT Monza - the Opel coupe Brocky bought in and slipped a worked 5.0 into - had the Opel IRS rear end too (which has become our dear friend! through the VN-VZ series).

Muzza

[IIV8II]

Yep - I too reckon they were unusual, different but Ugly.

For all the trouble they went to you'd reckon Adeyer would have made it better looking!

The best of those 80's commodores for looks and rarity value would have to be the HDT Monza - the Opel coupe Brocky bought in and slipped a worked 5.0 into - had the Opel IRS rear end too (which has become our dear friend! through the VN-VZ series).

Muzza

I'm lucky enough to have driven the Brock Monza 'prototype' and it would have been a sensational package in the mid-80s, just like the Monaro is/was today. But the costings - waaay too expensive. Brocky stuck in a Group Three donk, and a T5 gearbox years before they became available in Holdens. He also fitted 'Corvette' front brakes - later to appear on the VL Turbo. But its IRS was totally different to the current series - it's more like a Datto 1600 or VW SuperBeetle. There are a few Rekord two-door sedans and Monza coupes on the roads in Europe so maybe someone could import one and 'Australianise' it...

[scrapvn]

That pic is mine. It's my ex girlfriends car taken at the Blackfriars open day September 2002. It's got a full Recaro interior (seats, trim and wood finish on the doors) runs a (now dead) 253 w/trimatic. Headlights and grille have been changed to VH.

The 253 is not dead... its just resting. :sleep: Oil leak from timing cover. :shiner: