Photos: The Perry Drury Collection

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We posted a photo of Pete Geoghegan's mighty HJ Monaro SportsSedan earlier in the week, in its original 1975 guise.

At the conclusion of that season, the car was rebuilt and fittedwith large box-style flares, which were all the rage in the mid-1970s. Theymade the big Monaro look HUGE!

Another notable change for 1976, was that the Monaro wasretrofitted with an HQ nose. When the Craven Mild machine first appeared in1975, the new HJ model had superseded the HQ in showrooms, so the team fitted HJ front sheet metal. CAMSargued the car had be represent an HQ, as this model was available with a Chevymotor, which the race car had, whereas the Chevy motor was dropped for the HJ.CAMS won.

Pat Crea lurking in the background again