Hi Steve. No I haven't had any joy contacting Leo D as yet. I would be very grateful if you could put me in touch.
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Hi Steve. No I haven't had any joy contacting Leo D as yet. I would be very grateful if you could put me in touch.
Email me at: theroaringseason@gmail.com I will send you his email address
John Harvey kindly sent me this photo recently, as he knew how much I love HQ Monaro's. In fact, this is the car that got me hooked on this model! This is John, hustling Bob Jane's HQ Monaro at Oran Park. The Monaro is pictured still in its 1972 Improved Production guise. A very cool car!
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Great photo Steve! One of my all time favorite racing Holdens, particularly in its orignal Improved Production form - just awesome! I got to see it race in this guise as a seven year old at Warwick Farm - and have loved it ever since!
James, do you prefer these Monaro's with or without the 3-piece rear spoiler, as this car ran in its Sports Sedan guise?
Steve, This car always looked brilliant - apart form when it was yellow. But I do prefer the Jane HQ without the 3-piece rear spoiler. I looks so clean and so tough in it's original form.
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*So how about a thread dedicated to 1st and 2nd gen Holden Monaros, from HK - HZ in 2 and 4 door form. There were several raced in speedway in Australia and New Zealand, plus in production car racing including Bathurst. From there they competed in Improved Production in Aus, and Sports Sedans on both sides of the Tasman *
This is Steve Holmes opening line on this thread, and we now have another racing 1st generation Monaro.
I have been in contact with the owner and he has asked if I could post this and see what peoples memory is, add photos and fill in more details
Hi John I am wondering with your vast knowledge of these monaros if you might be able to shed some light I have a 81837 HT verdoro green manual monaro I was told it was a racecar for many years I belive it was owned by a chap called Richard Tulloch (not related to Inky I have asked him) Thanks for doing a great job great to see someone sharing their information.
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Hi John
I have found a little more info my HT Monaro came from Arrowtown and was raced down there somewhere (south island) apparently there was a log book when it was sold but was missing when I got it it had lap times at various tracks and engine mods information The car was purchased from Arrowtown about 16 years ago by Rare Spares I don't know how to put on the forum for general discussion but I think someone might remember it from rare spares it sounds like there were a few people that helped maintain it.
Thanks John.
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Hi, If you want I can post all relevent details on a Monaro/ ex race car thread to get talk going?
regards,
John.
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Hi John
That would be great if you would. The guy,s at Rare spares CHCH remember it had the engine out and boxes of bits everywhere I am not sure of the colour it was when raced as I found parts that were (tomato soup red colour) and part of the colour (boot was yellow) and original colour is vedoro green any info would be fantastic Thanks John
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Sounds interesting John. Got any more info? I assume it was a production race car?
I do have one more of the mighty HQ at Oran Park.
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I believe the first image I posted is around the back of the old Surfers Paradise circuit, which would be the debut of the car. It's clearly John Harvey driving, but the autograph is Bob Jane.
Thanks James, that is cool!
Just stumbled on this photo in Shell book, Tasman Series, NZ Motor Racing 1971. Norm Beechy working on the carburetors, so what happened to the webers?
Brilliant photo. But what car is that? Surely not Beecheys HT, as he ran quad-Webers on that, unless he switched to this set-up later in the cars career? Maybe its his HK?
The caption for that pic reads "Carburettor adjustments occupied Norm Beechey and helper before the Monaro's Pukekohe win" I don't know what Monaro he had at Puke in 1971? but I have only seen the one in Bowden collection (HT) with the Weber setup so I was surprised by this pic
Ahh, OK, thanks for that. Beechey ran his 1970 ATCC winning HT (the one in the Bowden collection) at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Puekkohe in January 1971, as a special guest. This must have been the set-up he ran on the car in 1971 (and maybe 1972 as well). The Bowdens restored the car to its 1970 ATCC winning guise, hence the quad-Webers.
The dual quad crossram set up is straight out of Chevies parts bin and this was run on the Camaros 1967,68,69 but not for 1970 where a single 4 barrel was only allowed.
350 setup when in Tassie
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Ellis- is this pics the wrong way round- the cut out for the bonnet hold down finger is always on the passenger side. Also the fluid cylinders are not on the right hand side. Could this negative have been reversed?
This could be the special missing one of one factory made "Left hand Drive" Monaro John!!
Yep, Dale, could have been off to Greece with the other LHD European models.
This is the Weber set up as it is on the Beechey HT now - after the Bowden restoration. I've never seen an image of anything other than with the Webers - so that dual carb set-up is pretty cool and new to me. I'm told the 58mm Webers and the Moon cross-over manifold were fitted to the HK, and retained when the HK was sold. They were then fitted to the 350 in the HT for 1970.
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The 350 pumped out some pretty handy power as well - I'm assuming that is tyre smoke?
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Probably
I scanned it from a slide and it could have been rsup..
This even looks better to my Ford trained eye
Thanks John
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I have 2 good articles on Norms HT Monaro one shows that the team grafted Lucas mechanical injection onto the moon manifold in place of the webers and in one it mentions the fuel tank divided into a left and right section for weight placement and even converting from right to left hand drive to suit certain circuits. I will post the page scans but if anyone wants a pdf copy just message me your email address. MarkAttachment 24226Attachment 24227Attachment 24228Attachment 24229
Mark, I would love to read those articles. Could you please email the PDF files to me at jmeale@graf-x.com.au?
Mark- would also love to read these to compare the build of the two Monaros.- j.mckechnie@slingshot.co.nz
Me to Mark- grimmie64@xtra.co.nz
Thanks
Mark- got mine, great reading. This really is a story of the Lone Aussie Battler against the best American machinery.Absolutely recommend to get a true feel of that period. Thanks for your generosity.
Would love to know were this car went. . . In the early to mid 70s (i was 10 in 1975) my neighbour owned this car.I would stare at it over the fence and when i heard it start would rush outside to watch.He became a member of the Wanganui Car Club and would do hill climbs in the Monaro,sometimes on gravel.He would take me and my brother with him a few times towing the Monaro in his J Bedford truck.He would race againts Minis,Escorts,Cortinas and Zephrys,one time we went to a gravel hillclimb and there was a brand new orange HQ Monaro there i remember him saying he would like to own it.One day a HK Holden Sedan arrived on a trailer and he made a speedway saloon car using the 350 out of the Monaro he raced this for about a season at Wanganui Ocean Veiw Speedway before having a big crash there.The car was repaired and he raced a couple more times before returning the engine back to the Monaro.One day he left and when he returned he had a Rover 3500,and i never saw the car again. . . this photo was taken by my brother at the Okoia hillclimb just out of Wanganui it was a cold showery day and also Brent Bullivant was there in his Capri the only time i saw this car and as a kid i remember the noise awesume.A blue bigblock T-Bucket was there to and ended the day with a crash half way up the hill. .. . . would love to know where and what happened to this car.Attachment 24266
Its an HG Bathurst Monaro. Only this model had the stickers, not the badges. Not many came here, and I dont have import records from GH Trentham on this model.
It was a metallic green as you can see which must be rare colour for the Monaro as i have only seen a couple the same in magazines.The neighbour also flared the rear guards himself.
A possibility- when there was the Taihu murder at Turangi all those years ago , his Monaro was there with the engine out , and it was an HG. The 350 motor apparently is in a Jag The Monaro got stolen and was found stripped. If any one can find a pic of this car at the workshop and see its plate we, may, have identified it. HG 350 Monaros were rare.
Just a possibility.
Thank you for the PDF articles on the Beechey Monaro Mark, really good reading. Here is Beechey in the HK at a non championship meeting at Calder in mid 1969. The combo defeated the Moffat Trans-Am on the day. Attachment 24396
Its not a race car, just something I'm nearly finished after more than 20 years But when I bought it the guy I bought it off also had a rolling shell he had bought.It was HK-HG ,full on racing body with the flared guards like the OSCAs ,glass doors and was yellow on top and orange on the bottom.I had never seen it race so maybe it had been a speedway car but it looked to me like a circuit car.Unfortunately he wound up cutting the whole thing up.Attachment 24451
Thats interesting Lindsay. You'd think if it was a speedway car it wouldn't have had the flares, as most speedway saloons have the wheel openings radiused out further for the bigger wheels. But thats not always the case.
I wonder if it could have been the Ron Sylvester Monaro? That seemed to have appeared, then disappeared again just as quickly.
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