Great shot here showing some of the heavy hitters of Australian Sports Sedan racing in 1976. Bob leads Pete Geoghegans HQ Monaro, Allan Moffats Chevy Monza, and Ron Harrops amazing Repco V8 EH Holden. Bobs Monaro was yellow in this photo. For a brief time in 1976, he moved away from his traditional orange. The Geoghegan Monaro in behind started life as an HQ, but its development time was so long, when it hit the track in 1975, the HQ model had been superceded by the new HJ, so the team fitted an HJ front. But CAMS, being strict as they were, noted Geoghegans Monaro was fitted with a 350ci Chevy motor, which was available in the HQ model range, but not in the HJ. Sports Sedan rules said a 5 litre motor could be fitted to any car, regardless of what it left the factory with, but a 6 litre motor was only allowed if the car left the factory with a 6 litre motor!

Only the smaller Holden V8 308 was available in the HJ. Therefore, the team were told they had to fit an HQ nose on the car if they wanted to run a Chevy motor. They managed to stall CAMS for long enough to retain the HJ nose for 1975, then fitted the Monaro with an HQ nose for '76, along with the huge big ugly box flares they also added.

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