Such a cool car ^^. I remember back in the 1980s in Palmerston North riding my BMX bike when I was about 14 years old and going around the back of a car wrecking yard owned by Darryl Lucas. There was a stack of cars piled up on top of which was an ex-speedway HQ Monaro coupe. It was painted a cream colour from memory, with #13 on the door.

When I first saw the black Monaro pictured above racing in the new streetstock division, I assumed for years it was the cream #13 I saw in the wreckers. It was many years later I finally discovered it was the ex-Richards etc car pictured above.

Makes me wonder what the history of the cream #13 was. I'm pretty sure Gary McKelvie raced an HQ Monaro coupe at Palmy in the saloon division in the '70s. Maybe it was that car.