How many Holden myths are out there & how can we stop them being perpetuated ?

We all know the myths, Canadian Grey motor, Red motors in EJs, how the HD was a bad car, you know the ones.

I thought that I would list them to stimulate some debate.

1. The 'Canadian' block
2. The special & rare HP Red motor
3. Red motors fitted to late EJs in production.
4. The HD was Holden's worst model series.
5. The Holden S4 with multiple carries & a floor shift.
6. HG GTS350 had a Muncie 4-sp.
7. The A9X had a race motor from the factory.
8. AHJ & BHJ etc. were 'year' models.

I could list more, but 8 is a good start.

Any comments.

Dr Terry

All Sandmans were panelvans. There were no Kingswood Sandmans.

Yeah the "GTS" or SL/E options is silly. They are not "options" on a GTS or SL/E, they are standard!

My favourite has already been mentioned - VL "series 2" - even had a mythbusting article I wrote on that very topic published in a popular magazine.
(There was a series 200 VL though).

Actually, series 2 on any Holden Commodore prior to VP (or VQ if you include all V-series).
The VC was marketed as "Commodore II" when released, but it was never called a series 2.

Another ripper is the VH SL/E wagon. You know the super-rare one that you could order if your mate's uncle's next door neighbour worked nightshift at the plant...

VH SL/E "series 2" wheels - strangely available from day 1 as an option on more basic SL/Es, and were even on the cover of the owner's manual & service manual supplement - printed a month before VH release. They were actually called "Family II" wheels, but that's the only true mention of the number 2. (JB Camira SL/E had a similar wheel)

All Calais had power windows. If it has wind-ups then it must be a faker (1984 VK Calais still had fast glass as an option).

"Factory Sunroof" (in numerous models that never had the option, but more particularly the VL Calais).

FE2 suspension is 2 inches lower. FE1 is 1 inch lower, and the marketing term FE1.5 is - you guessed it - 1.5 inches lower.
(the clown sprouting this on a forum couldn't get his head around the fact that Pontiac offered an FE7 suspension in the late 1990s - was that 7 inches lower?)

All BT1 Commodores are interceptors/chasers/pursuit cars.

Manually shifting into 2 in a trimatic (when going slow enough) will damage the trans.

There was a BT1 VL Calais Turbo - specially built for the Police commissioner.

One I heard the other day - on an ex-police VC converted to LPG. Cops put gas on it so it was cheaper to run!

And to round it out - the best of all of them - the "COP CHIP" with the magical (pick a number, any number) X amount of additional "Killer wasps" over standard.
There's always the story about the one where they "forgot" to take out the "chip" before selling the car.
Oh, and those special chips gave flat 12 second quarter mile times too - from a V6 :-)

Don't forget the 10 or so sleeper HT monaros that slipped out of the factory with 454 chev engines fitted.....

Made that up but let's see how much traction it gets......

Some claiming that the LS1 had the 350 chev pistons in them and that's why the using oil problems, even when I pointed out that them pistons will in fact not fit into the bore of a LS1 because they have a smaller bore, the LS1 is not a 350cid it's 346cid.

No HZ GTS was built after 1978.

Hi All.

This one is somewhat obscure but relevant in Aussie GM-H based Coupe' manufacturing history.

"Z" series HSV Signature Coupe number 70 of 70 is the very last Coupe manufactured by GM-H.

Cheers.
Nick.

No difference to the 1973 update for HQ.

One could challenge that Epica, Apollo, Barina, Viva, Nova, RB Gemini etc were Holdens.

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