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#21 Posted : Sunday, 4 December 2016 1:45:32 PM(UTC)
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The Engineering Dept created a features manual for every series. Everything you need to know about a Series is in it.

There is also the Central American markets although they did assemble their own CKD's they may have got SUP's especially a build like this one.
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#22 Posted : Sunday, 4 December 2016 7:51:30 PM(UTC)
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The Engineering Dept created a features manual for every series. Everything you need to know about a Series is in it.

There is also the Central American markets although they did assemble their own CKD's they may have got SUP's especially a build like this one.


I've bought a lot of automobilia via eBay and market stalls during the past 15 years and have never encountered a Holden Engineering Dept features manual ... I gather they are not an easy-to-find piece of factory issue literature, but would love to set eyes on an example.

I'm not aware of a GM assembly plant that historically produced Holden cars in the Central or South Americas, and the market in 1974 for Right Hand Drive cars in Central America or South America would have been very small ... for instance, in South America there remains only the small nations of Guyana and Surinam (neighbouring countries north of Brazil) that maintain the rule of driving on the left side of the road.

Within the Central America mainland strip, Belize converted to the right side of the road in 1961, thereby leaving only some former British island nations to maintain driving on the left side, being Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, and the combined groups that make up the Virgin Islands ... did Holden ever export cars or commercial vehicles to any of these small island nations ?
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#23 Posted : Sunday, 4 December 2016 8:41:01 PM(UTC)
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GMH had an assembly plant in Trinidad. As far as I know they assembled cars for Trinidad & Tobago, and other RHD nations nearby. Google Trinidad and Holden and you'll some.
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#24 Posted : Sunday, 4 December 2016 11:44:57 PM(UTC)
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GMH had an assembly plant in Trinidad. As far as I know they assembled cars for Trinidad & Tobago, and other RHD nations nearby. Google Trinidad and Holden and you'll some.


Thanks HK ... I guess I'm being a tad lazy ...

I've just found information confirming Holden's CKD kits going to GM-affiliated assembly plants in New Zealand (1957-), Indonesia (1958-), South Africa (1960-), the Philippines (1963-), and they did indeed also go to Trinidad & Tobago (1966-), Pakistan (1967-), and Malaysia (1968-).

Further information (by way of a "Welcome to GMH in Victoria" brochure) suggests that in 1976 foreign assembly of Holden vehicles continued to operate in New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, and also in Japan (but I'd suggest it likely the Japanese reference actually denotes the Holden HJ Premier based Mazda Roadpacer sedan).

So, we've now come pretty much full circle back to Jim's original image post ... where in the world would a fully built-up air-conditioned 5.0 litre V8 HJ Belmont sedan be headed back in 1974-75 ???

Edited by user Monday, 5 December 2016 1:04:18 AM(UTC)  | Reason: discovery of further information
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#25 Posted : Monday, 5 December 2016 5:59:25 AM(UTC)
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It is called an SUP (I think Single Unit Pack) when they are a complete car exported. Japan got Statesman as an Isuzu and also cab-chassis to another manufacturer. The Roadpacer was built here IIRC and the driveline put in over there.
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#26 Posted : Monday, 5 December 2016 6:15:00 AM(UTC)
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I have just noticed that this car appears to have bucket seats. Not a passenger-carrying vehicle as such, you'd assume.
Look it could have been going anywhere, but I reckon it's got to be somewhere in the Pacific that also took other vehicles like the utes being loaded.
A 5.0-litre V8 could have also been ordered to drive the Harrison a/c compressor. Well, not exactly, but I get the feeling that by HX the emission controls were not doing engine outputs or cooling systems any favours. In Hong Kong, the Aus Commission had two HX Kingswood wagons, both 5.0-litre V8s. They were not used in any way that required extra performance, just the ability to haul six people and luggage up steep hills on Hong Kong island with the a/c blasting on a hot, humid day.
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#27 Posted : Monday, 5 December 2016 2:54:41 PM(UTC)
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Rare Spares sold a lot of parts to the West Indies with Jamaica and Barbados as the main areas. This may have been due to the British RH drive requirements there.
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