Pop's Garaged 1990 VN Commodore Causing As Much Family Inheritance Drama As His 5-Bedroom Inner-City Home

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

As Australia's wills and estates lawyers report a generational boom in business, the nation's post-war nest eggs are also causing tensiosn for the sons, daughters and grandchildren who are hoping to get a taste.

While the once humble family workers cottages and inner-city bungalows are now worth millions, nobody could've imagined pop and nanna's musty old home would become such a beacon for family drama.

But it's not just the free-standing 5-bedders that are causing the descendants to step up and stake their claims.

Right around the nation, hundreds of thousands of senior citizens are sitting on the hardest fucken V8 engines that were ever lowered into an Australian made vehicle.

Betoota-based grandfather of 18, Henry Fang (88, retired railway worker) is completely unaware that every one of his grandsons is salivating about inheriting his 35-year old sedan.

Pop bought his atlas grey 5-speed manual VN Commodore SS in 1991 for a little over four grand.

Like most Holden owners at the time, he only ever envisioned this to be his 'A-to-B' car - despite the extreme kick in that engine.

He never imagined that this beast would ever be categorised as 'Australian Muscle' - he also never saw a world where this country stopped making cars like this.

Having kept it garaged and regularly serviced for the best part of forty years, Pop has no idea how much this thing would be worth nowadays. Let alone how sick it would be for his grandsons to pick up their girlfriend and fang this through the city.

"What do you want with that old thing?" he chuckles, after one of his grandkids finally worked up the the nerve to ask about it.

"I thought you were all driving those softcock EVs?"

Pop makes a good point.