Most V8 wagons are not all that common, especially 307,308 or Premier varieties. If the car is in good condition it will be a pretty sought after car. Even as a car to suit wrecking itwill have some desirable stuff on it. Whatit is worth will be dependant upon condition.

Hi, haven't heard how my dad went as yet, from memory it is in the pale green colour, that's all I can remember.cheers

You couldn't order an HK Kingswood in metallic colours, officially anyway.

Dr Terry

Terry, do you know when this changed? I know you could order some metallics on HG Kingswood and most of them on HQ Kingswood. Was it HK only?

I thought it might have been HG when the first Kingswoods with metallic became readily available.

Mayan Gold was a Monaro colour prior to GTS build. It appears that the colours listed for HK Monaro were changed close to when GTS production started. There were as much as several hundred Monaros built prior to bulk GTS production. The original colours for Monaro were:

Eden Blue
Ermine White
Mako Blue
Kingston Cream
Picardy Red
Mayan Gold

It is starting to look like Pagewood built an awful lot of early cars especially 337's. AFAIK there were the odd cars at other plants, like the pilot cars at Elizabeth but Pagewood appears to have a large amount of the early cars. So far i've found 80337-00249-H5, it was a Mako blue 307 auto and is nearly 500 chassis numbers and nearly 1500 PSN's earlier than my 81837-00002-H5 and there will be another approx 248 of them earlier than it! My mate has 80737-00020-H5, it is 42 chassis numbers higher than mine but 174 PSN's earlier than mine so although its body was built after mine it was completed on the assembly line earlier than mine. The Mako blue car had a V8 Pagewood engine number a few hundred earlier than the 2 x GTS's. Also recently found an Eden Blue 337: 80337KR-00255-H5, its chassis number is 54 higher than the Mako car, and PSN is 98 higher, so there is probably at least another 10 or so 337's before they got to the first Pagewood GTS327, I don't think there are any known Pagewood GTS's lower than my mate's #20 so we'll have to speculate on when the first was built, but obviously heaps of 337's before it at Pagewood anyway. I know it isn't much to go on but the original steering box was in the Mako Blue car when I found it, date coded 28C8, unfortunately it was a power steered car so it had a 16.7:1 box, and obviously demand for these was low prior to GTS and Brougham so the date code may be out a bit. My #2 GTS327 has its original too, which is 1G8. So we know the 337-00249 car was assembled sometime in April, May or June 1968 as it will almost certainly be between the 2 x steering box dates!

It is a shame Warren you never got to check that #1 car out and record its numbers! It is also a quirk of fate that bugger all single digit HK GTS327's from Pagewood are known about today, yet most of the single digit HT GTS350's are known of.

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It is a shame Warren you never got to check that #1 car out and record its numbers! It is also a quirk of fate that bugger all single digit HK GTS327's from Pagewood are known about today, yet most of the single digit HT GTS350's are known of.

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....there is a good chance these earliest Pagewood GTS 327's were allocated to the race teams...as they were a new breed of Holden, it makes sense to ''trial'' them with the people who might not complain too much about warranty !!.....cheers fellas

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Originally posted by HK1837
It is a shame Warren you never got to check that #1 car out and record its numbers! It is also a quirk of fate that bugger all single digit HK GTS327's from Pagewood are known about today, yet most of the single digit HT GTS350's are known of.

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....there is a good chance these earliest Pagewood GTS 327's were allocated to the race teams...as they were a new breed of Holden, it makes sense to ''trial'' them with the people who might not complain too much about warranty !!.....cheers fellas

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Mine wasn't, it was a Press/Dealer release car. As far as i'm aware the red #1 Pagewood GTS327 Warren saw many years ago was a normal road car too. As far as i'm aware Bruce McPhee's wasn't an earlier car. Many of the race cars were from Dandenong too. GMH were building these cars (as in coupes) from as far back as May getting as many as possible into plant stock ready for release in late July so there should have been at least one hundred GTS327's made prior to going on sale in August. Race teams could have got any of these cars, so it is just as likely they got #30 from Pagewood as #5 if the car was NSW sourced. I'm not sure of how many of the HK race cars were from NSW, I think the 3 x factory cars were Dandenong, Dave Bennett's would have been as well. McPhee's and West's cars were most likely Pagewood. I think Tony Robert's car was a Dandenong car. Norm Beechey's HK was a Dandenong build. No idea about the Jones/Millis, Petrelli/Slattery or Haynes/Stahl cars or othrs like the Dalton/Lindsay car from Sandown.

....i suppose it's a fairly straightforward thing to be able to lump the press/dealer/race cars into a bunch that were not meant for ''general consumption''....

...the same happened in 1948, when there were strict rules as to what dealer got what car...let alone colour or trim...and can see no reason for these brutish 327's being much different in regards to these kinds of allocations....

...we all know that after the press, dealer or corporate duties has been finished with, their ''new release'' Holden generally goes on to second line duties....such as sold to staff etc. ....cheers

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