Yep, Dale, could have been off to Greece with the other LHD European models.
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.
The 350 pumped out some pretty handy power as well - I'm assuming that is tyre smoke?
ProbablyOriginally Posted by John McKechnie
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. Mark
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.
No worries John. Only too happy to share with any enthusiast. I hope the others got theirs ok
No worries John. Only too happy to share with any enthusiast. I hope the others got theirs ok
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.
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.
That Monaro was covered in detail in the Oct/Nov 2013 issue of NZ Classic Driver. The rego can't be seen but there is no mention of body mods of that type during its life. An interesting car, originally bought by a Kiwi working in the mines in WA.
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.
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.
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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