More Ford & Holden Coins?

[interest]

The V8 Super cars under lights at Eastern Creek last weekend was a spectacular event.

43.000 people turned up to watch on a very cold winters night in Sydney's outer western suburbs.

Not that there's much difference these days between Ford & Holden, few decals.
Motor racing has always been popular in Australia, with Bathurst being the pinnacle.

[seedyrom]

Nice Pics., there is a bit of rubber at the rear in the Drag photo.

You've got a good eye.

They are a set of VT SS mag wheels which I had cut and widened to 9".

No one in Sydney wanted to have a bar of cutting a single piece alloy mag, and re-welding it. You know ... wheels failing at 140mph aren't desirable. I eventually found a guy in QLD which was happy to take my money. They were a work of art, which then had some Mickey Thompson drag radials in a 17" diameter slapped on them.

The car was always about being a "sleeper", and I didn't want to look like a yahoo with steelies on the rear. I wanted to drive to the track, and run it in that configuration.



Never did run the time I was chasing. I built the thing to do 10's, but 4 engines and 4 gearboxes later, I just decided to run it as a quick street car. The car modification game can be a cruel mistress.

[Unicorn]

Lovely machine Seedy! :good: (I like a good sleeper). 

Lovely also to see that the Ford sets have sold out. (2nd place, but still a place on the podium :laugh2:)

[kchan1111]

I am deeply impressed that your number plate is SEEDY

[seedyrom]

Shout out to my Two Double-O Twos

[JeffH]

The RAM should really rethink their marketing strategy. 10,000 sets (less dealer supplies*) and three sets maximum per order. Doesn't leave many for regular customers.
Only took me two minutes to find eBay listings for these that were lodged prior to the Mint Issue email being sent.§

One has to ask "why the hell do they feed the secondary market profiteers at the expense of their regular customers?"

Their principal function is to produce circulating coin for Australia. A secondary, but rather important, function is to produce collector coins as a profit making centre. So why are they feeding the profits to third parties who are able to game the system?

The alphabet series $1 coins managed to piss off a lot of their regular buyers and now they have found an alternative way to further piss off the customers who didn't leave them then; the original Holden/Ford sets issue was reasonably effective discouragement to the remaining loyal customers and this week's effort has "fine tuned" that even more.

*I presume dealers are bound to sell them at the same price as the RAM shop.

§Interesting that most already sold listings have postage time promises that mean they should be sent to the buyers before the RAM actually starts shipping them. :tease:

[runway]

They seem Sold Out ... small allocation to dealers but of course most dealers also list on thieveBay which is where you will most likely see the rest of the 5000 allocation
Also there is more stashed away by RAM for other events + GMH and FORD have allocations for officially licenced product

[frenc11]

i wouldn't touch them . stick to predecimals

[Basil]

i wouldn't touch them . stick to predecimals

My thoughts exactly.
Big culture shock for me was when Ebay started in Australia,1999/2000?,RAM sets/coins were selling for less than i paid for them. In the case of silver/gold even thou. the price had risen the Coins were also selling for less than i paid. Haven't purchased much Perth/RAM  issues since.Just my personal view,all my enthusiasm since has reverted to my School Kid fascination/hobby with Pre-Dec.

[kchan1111]

The RAM should really rethink their marketing strategy. 10,000 sets (less dealer supplies*) and three sets maximum per order. Doesn't leave many for regular customers.
Only took me two minutes to find eBay listings for these that were lodged prior to the Mint Issue email being sent.§

One has to ask "why the hell do they feed the secondary market profiteers at the expense of their regular customers?"
 

I can understand why they do it though. If the demand for a NCLT coin is 10,000, it makes sense to mint less than that, say 8000. Otherwise there will be no demand on the secondary market and resale value would fall sharply. It would piss collectors off.

[runway]

These are great coins collect them if you like them

[Basil]

These are great coins collect them if you like them

Of course,but they are just novelty Coin with little value other than personal enjoyment.
Its just a shame the Mints are strangling the Golden Goose with year after year of this marketing crap just so those at the top of the tree can meet targets to get their bonuses.

[runway]

These are great coins collect them if you like them

Of course,but they are just novelty Coin with little value other than personal enjoyment.
Its just a shame the Mints are strangling the Golden Goose with year after year of this marketing crap just so those at the top of the tree can meet targets to get their bonuses.

Basil I think greed and eBay is responsible for RAM product nowadays  :@

[frenc11]

[quote="Basil" pid='116311' dateline='1533685057']

i wouldn't touch them . stick to predecimals

My thoughts exactly.
Big culture shock for me was when Ebay started in Australia,1999/2000?,RAM sets/coins were selling for less than i paid for them. In the case of silver/gold even thou. the price had risen the Coins were also selling for less than i paid. Haven't purchased much Perth/RAM  issues since.Just my personal view,all my enthusiasm since has reverted to my School Kid fascination/hobby with Pre-Dec.
[/quote]

even common slabbed decimals are worthless now days unless they are the top population coins or a rare date