MAJOR TOM

[petrolhead]

Did anybody ever find out what ever happened to "MAJOR TOM"?

[SkippyThBushKangeroo]

i believe he is still out there, n floating in a most  peculiar way...     

[Bedfordcrazy]

is'nt he married again to a bimbo, ooppps that was david bowie. lol 

george.

[Moonbus]

Major Tom came to Ballarat Vic from Adelaide in about 1980. It had been in a car yard there for some time.  It had a 6 cyl holden motor in it with an auto.  A large moonroof, a sunroof, swivel seats in the front (at least one anyhow), a lift up door on the side hinged at the top that had chrome metal posts placed under it to hold it up, bubble windows, flared guards etc.  I knew the guy who bought it and have had a few rides in it.  We took it to the beaches near Geelong late 1981 and attracted a lot of attention.  It sat for some years in a shed and the paint deteriorated.  It was sold locally and I believe I saw it just a few weeks ago going the opposite way on a road I was travelling on.  It is now painted a dull red.

[obsession]

[vanner065]

Hey Moonbus, that was probably Locomotion you saw down that way, it often is down the coast.
When i bought my XC Van in 1989 from a car yard in Wagga, i saw Major Tom on my way out of town, should of stopped to get some pics but was in a hurry to get my van home to Victoria

[Moonbus]

Hello, good to see the photos.  I could have sworn it had a lift up door on the passenger side that chrome poles used to hold up but I cannot seem to see it in the photos.  The spoiler on the rear of the roof was flat bar steel and very solid and heavy.  I see that it only had a bubble rear window.  I think the red van I saw the other day had bubble windows in the side and that made me think, if it was the Major, it must have had them.  I haven't seen it for 30 years!  Not even a photo until today.  I remember going to a van show in Port Fairy (I think - maybe Warrnambool) about 1980 and talking with people who had a yellow Holden van named Vanrat (I think it had a 454 in it) who knew some history on it. Regards, Anthony

[vanner065]

Van Rat is still around but no longer has the 454 in it, now has just a prem front on it too and different mags, missing the green bubble window  in the back and none of the chrome and gold under carriage, was photographed in QLD last year sometime

[ripmajortom]

this was major tom a few years later, to those poor people that think they've seen major tom in the last 15 years...
it was run into the ground, chromework was stripped off it over the course of a year, the stereophonic stacks was pinched, and then somehow all the engine mounts were dropped, the cost to repair it become too much, and it was sold for $500 "for the mural"
so yeah, it died horribly, there's probably clones out.
the last owners would appreciate photos of the car if possible too please. i'll just retrieve them off here.
thanks, (ps, it was NOT destroyed by the last owners, but rather family of the owners treating it like shit, and stripping it.)
so know it's out.