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Some accessories are priced to high at the dealers even now and people will buy elsewhere The Holden dealers wanted over a $1000. to put a 2100kg towbar on my WM ,yet towbar specialist want around $600. some genuine accessories can be brought cheaper through Motor Traders as well.
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HD-R clock is long gone, but I stripped it out of a HD back in the 80's. Reason I called it a factory one is that the "typeface" of numbers & the rest of the markings were identical to the speedom etc.
Don't remember seeing any markings on it though, still worked although the setting knob had been broken off. Just had to power it up at the right time of day!
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I had a low mile white HR 186s Premier auto about 10yrs ago that was a showroom display car for a Holden dealership when new. Had most Nasco accesories but one I have never seen before or since. It had a radio fader that sat below the dash. It had it's own mock wood facia that matched the rest of the car. This was an original unmessed with car and was not an after market fitment. Anyone seen this option before. |
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I got 2 HQ Sandman steering wheel centres, with the Sandman logo on them. HQ's were the only Sandman that had them afaik. One is the original one of my ute, and the other is in better condition that I found at a swap meet years ago.
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Not Holden but my Australian assembled 66 Pontiac Parisienne had a broken quarter panel badge which measures 38 cm long ,It took me about 7 years to track 2 badges down in Australia got them one year at the Bendigo swap.
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I know its not that exciting, but ive got the original off tool samples of the 327 clutch lines, and the same for HT 350, longer ones, plus other brake lines from same, plus the original tooling that made the clutch lines for all holdens and ford GT,s etc as i used to work at Tubemakers/ Bundy tubing toolrooms,i saved these from the scrap when major cleanouts were happening, also 6 pack charger cast iron exhaust flanges on top of extractors,missed out on the XU1 extractors and L34 ones that were also made there.
Remember raiding the sample room as it was being cleaned out, they all could,nt understand why i wanted the old crud !
Also remember taking about 60 off tool steering columns starting from XW ford with were all made by tubemakers automotive,plus many other rare parts for holden and ford,but thats another story.
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Originally posted by we wreck 81837s only
my father in law bought a HKGTS new warwick yellow 327 but rare auto coz he too short to reach the pedals drove it home and forgot about it,didnt like it coz he couldnt put the wooden grape boxes in the back seat easy enough, gave it to his daughter, i married her,she got fat we couldnt get in and out of the car, parked it, car is still same. then he went out and bought a GTHO, got a lift home in it and thought he was in a cab, didnt like it so parked that, forgot about it and tended to his tomato's for the next 35yrs. gave that to me.
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Thats huge ! quote:
Originally posted by we wreck 81837s only
my father in law bought a HKGTS new warwick yellow 327 but rare auto coz he too short to reach the pedals drove it home and forgot about it,didnt like it coz he couldnt put the wooden grape boxes in the back seat easy enough, gave it to his daughter, i married her,she got fat we couldnt get in and out of the car, parked it, car is still same. then he went out and bought a GTHO, got a lift home in it and thought he was in a cab, didnt like it so parked that, forgot about it and tended to his tomato's for the next 35yrs. gave that to me.
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i've got a chrome kangaroo bonnet emblem from the 60's dont know what car it came off but looks sweet |
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i've got a chrome kangaroo bonnet emblem from the 60's dont know what car it came off but looks sweet
If its the flat roo I saw one at a swap last sunday it had been mounted on a bonnet spear for EJ .
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Rare item?? maybe. I have a grey engine block that has been "sectioned" eg.outside sections machined from block exposing the internals of the block. It was made for the 50th anniversary of the 48-215 at GMH but never put on display. For sale if anyone interested. AL.
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Any idea exactly which passengers valiant mirror that is? I have an original remote drivers and this passengers one looks closer to the original type mount than any other valiant mirrors I can find......
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Any idea exactly which passengers valiant mirror that is? I have an original remote drivers and this passengers one looks closer to the original type mount than any other valiant mirrors I can find......
If you are talking about Bruvpig's HK-HT-HG passenger mirror on page 1 then that is a CH, VJ/CJ, VK/CK, CL or CM mirror and they may have been fitted to VH's also. His still has the Valiant base by the look of it. |
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Thanks, I did a bit of searching of valiant mirrors and essentially their base points the opposite way (ie the glass points away from the point of the mount on the holden one whereas the glass points towards the pointy end of the mount on valiant etc). The one in the picture on page 1 seems to have some base pointing towards the front which I can't seem to find anywhere - it obviously will not match the holden mount on the drivers side but it seems like it may be closer than what i have found so far.........
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this will be hard to beat, .. I have a few Gemini petrol flaps |
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...great thread .. when I was 19 years old I spent a lot of my pay every Saturday morning heading down to Preston Motors Essendon and buying every bracket, bit, nut, bolt, screw washer or split pin to convert my TH400 HQ GTS350 to factory manual...even down to the last hurst shifter and bulged console in captivity....
...i never got to carry out the job...hence all this wonderful stuff is still in its packaging and boxes from all those years ago in 1979....
...NOW THAT'S RARE!
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