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#21 Posted : Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:44:44 AM(UTC)
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My personal opinion from experience but nothing in concrete to prove it is that V8 4 speed HK HT HG Commercials are the rarest in HKTG range
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#22 Posted : Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:58:34 AM(UTC)
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What about 6cyl 4spd?
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#23 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 8:36:04 AM(UTC)
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Again, no numbers to prove otherwise, but I'm sure HR 186S Opel 4-Sp Premiers would be a little on the rare side.

These have the 4-sp shifter protruding thru the centre console. How rare would a wagon version be ?

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#24 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 8:55:27 AM(UTC)
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I was thinking HK-HG 6cyl 4spd commercials. Surely they are rarer than V8 4spd commercials. I have only ever seen one, a white HK Van, 186, M22 and sports dash. I went to buy it at 7am one Saturday morning out of the local paper but a demo derby bloke beat me to it. Rust free too.
6cyl and M21 or M22 in HK-HG passenger would be extremely rare too. Probably doesn’t exist in HG but I have heard of one HK GTS with a heavy duty 4spd.

There was a HK Belmont sedan for sale in Albury area a year or so ago too, I think it was a 186, M20, bucket seats with HR style floor shift. It was blue with red trim too. This would be a very rare combination.
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#25 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:26:21 AM(UTC)
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Did they build any manual Statesman’s?
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#26 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:29:49 AM(UTC)
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Yeah, 4-sp manuals in early non-GTS cars seem be quite thin on the ground.

On the subject of 4-sp 6-cyl commercials, a friend of mine used to work for Sydney County Council & in their fleet they had quite a few HT 186 Saginaw 4-sp panel vans.

They were painted that plain green fleet colour. They had trouble selling them because of the colour, many not realising how good the drivetrain was.

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#27 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 11:00:49 AM(UTC)
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Did they build any manual Statesman’s?


Yes you could get HQ Statesman 308 4sp and 253 4sp manual and 202 auto and maybe 202 3sp manual.
I have knew a dude who had a 308 4sp HQ Statesman from 1973 to the 1980's this had the 1973 orange blinkers on it as well and mate said that when his uncle sold it that the salesman claimed than he had put the 4sp in, but no it came new that way.

I have seen a 253 auto HQ Statesman at a car show with the correct Statesman eng number.

And I know that the principle of my school had a HQ Statesman 202 on the tree.

I seen a sheet for government workers in QLD that had had an order list of all the Holden's on it, such people got special deals through the union with and I seen the 308 and 253 4sp Statesman's on it and the 202 auto, but can not remember if the 202 3sp manual was on it.

But no manual Statesman's from HJ on.
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#28 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 11:48:54 AM(UTC)
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202HC and M15 3spd manual was standard in a HQ 6cyl Statesman. 253HC and M15 3spd manual was standard in V8 HQ Statesman. In the 6cyl one you could option M40, M20 and possibly even M22. Not sure if you could option a heavy duty rear axle (Salisbury) in HQ Statesman, also if 202LC was optional. In V8 HQ Statesman you could option the other three optional V8 engines (253LC, 308 and 350). 308 would be standard with M21 and optional with M40, L30 (350) would be auto only.

I have total HQ to WB Statesman build numbers, 6cyl is pretty low in comparison, around 1500 from memory. I think there was one 308 M21 Statesman and not many 350 either but 1000’s of 350 Devilles plus lots of the Chevrolet badged XU7 export/consulate versions as well with 350. There used to be a white M21 plated Deville near me but it had to be a mistake as it didn’t have the telltale 4spd evidence on the body.

I have seen plenty of both 6cyl and 253 Statemans in wreckers but never bothered collecting tags off them. I only ever collected 350 Deville tag sets which I think I have at least two sets, maybe three. Dr Terry told me he saw an 11QS engine once, but I have not seen an 11QM or 11QS personally.

Plenty of HJ Devilles made in 3.3L 4spd too for export to Malaysia as SUP vehicles. This was the standard driveline for this car in that market. I don’t think any of the Statesman bodied cars were CKD either, only SUP so they would only ever have got GMH engines not local engines eg 250ci Chevy design in South Africa.

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#29 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 1:00:21 PM(UTC)
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One 308 Statesman with M21? That’s got to be about as rare as possible really.
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#30 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 1:38:33 PM(UTC)
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HQ Monaro with 350 auto is 1 only as well.

308 manual was always pretty rare in anything outside of GTS and later in Sandman. It is mainly only HQ onwards commercials you regularly see it, otherwise the bulk of times you see 308/5.0L it is an auto. So once you start getting down to models that are relatively low build numbers to start with you can understand why only the one (known) HQ L31 M21 Statesman was built. Also remember that outside of GTS and Sandman that the most likely place to find 308 was Brougham, Statesman Deville/Caprice and Premier/LS and apart from late HT to HQ Premier/LS auto was standard with 308. Plus whenever 308 was available in cab-chassis it was auto standard too.
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#31 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 6:58:30 PM(UTC)
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HQ Monaro with 350 auto is 1 only as well.

308 manual was always pretty rare in anything outside of GTS and later in Sandman. It is mainly only HQ onwards commercials you regularly see it, otherwise the bulk of times you see 308/5.0L it is an auto. So once you start getting down to models that are relatively low build numbers to start with you can understand why only the one (known) HQ L31 M21 Statesman was built. Also remember that outside of GTS and Sandman that the most likely place to find 308 was Brougham, Statesman Deville/Caprice and Premier/LS and apart from late HT to HQ Premier/LS auto was standard with 308. Plus whenever 308 was available in cab-chassis it was auto standard too.


I think I told you before about our neighbours HZ Kingswood station wagon, factory 5 litre, M21, sports dash and integrated factory air.
Unfortunately it’s been wrecked now and I couldn’t get the plates off it for you.
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#32 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 8:27:55 PM(UTC)
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Those would be fairly rare. I think there were 700 or so HZ L31 M21 in SL sedans, I used to own one in Madeira Red with chamois trim. Most L31 Kingswood or SL sedan or wagon would be auto though. I also had a HJ Kingswood wagon in L31 M41 (chamois/chamois) too, and have seen lots of tags of L31 HJ-HX Kingswood sedan/wagon too (from memory a few L31 M21). But I can’t say I can recall seeing many HQ-HZ Kingswood or Kingswood SL wagon in L31 M21.
I did cut up a HZ Premier wagon that was L31 M41 with air, steer, power windows, sports dash, disc rear etc. Cut it straight through the windscreen pillars and across the front floor simply for everything on the firewall and dash to put on a Tonner. Someone else used the mechanicals and doors (I didn’t want electric windows) but the rest got scrapped. But around 2002-3 such cars were still only worth $1000, this one had faded paint and some rust repairs in normal wagon spots, run out of rego. HJ-HZ Premier 5.0L were cheap back then, I used to buy them and Statesman as everyday drivers and wreck or sell them when rego ran out.

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#33 Posted : Wednesday, 31 July 2019 9:37:12 PM(UTC)
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A few rare or uncommon 2nd generation Commodores I can think of:

VN SL Fleet model -I've never seem one, not even pictures.
VP Calais V8 manual -M78 on the body plate. This one didn't even have cruise control, Holden never fitted cruise on these earlier manuals.
VN Berlina wagon with a column shift auto
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#34 Posted : Thursday, 1 August 2019 7:53:15 PM(UTC)
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One 308 Statesman with M21? That’s got to be about as rare as possible really.


That one that I know of was Amethyst metallic or Royal Umbra in colour.
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#35 Posted : Thursday, 1 August 2019 8:08:08 PM(UTC)
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Very opposite colours! One is pretty, the other best described as “turd”! I saw a HQ LS optioned with L30 once that was Royal Umber. Very unusual colour to be on that car but it was optional. It is an old colour too from the late 50’s or 60’s.
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#36 Posted : Thursday, 1 August 2019 11:39:23 PM(UTC)
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I know that they are really rare but they are in Tasmania . In that era at Burnie Motors PTY LTD we only ever had one L34 delivered to us . I did the predelivery on it . it was yellow and destined to a buyer in Smithon . Never saw the car again . like I said not rare over here but in Tas very rare and really there was not a hell of a lot of them made .
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#37 Posted : Friday, 2 August 2019 6:45:51 AM(UTC)
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Somewhere between 250 and 300.
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#38 Posted : Friday, 2 August 2019 7:52:09 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: HK1837 Go to Quoted Post
Very opposite colours! One is pretty, the other best described as “turd”! I saw a HQ LS optioned with L30 once that was Royal Umber. Very unusual colour to be on that car but it was optional. It is an old colour too from the late 50’s or 60’s.


Royal Umber was an EH colour. Didn't look too bad on an EH, but on an HQ, Yuk !

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Somewhere between 250 and 300.


I believe that 263 is the official build figure for L34.

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Somewhere between 250 and 300.


I believe that 263 is the official build figure for L34.

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That is how many were actually registered and warranty commenced (they are counted off the Service/Warranty report on microfiche). But if a car never had warranty activated it doesn't appear in that report. If the report had been run with the pivot/search as L34 (similar to the A9X report in Eric Blair's book) I bet there would be more, especially with a car like L34 where it was really only built to homologate bits for racing. There have been a few other cars turn up that don't appear in the service/warranty reports for a number of reasons, but normally it is because either the warranty hasn't yet commenced or it never did.
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