KNK777 has quietly been for sale for some time. I know roughly the sellers expectation, so it will be interesting to see where it goes.

Unlike some of the other cars around, the provenance of that car is fairly solid. It is ex-HDT, but doesn't have the magic "Bathurst" word associated with it.
I won't hazard a guess but it should, in theory, easily eclipse the previous HT81837 sale prices.

I bought a tatts ticket today so maybe. Not to cause an argument but is that the correct placement for the radiator/alternator warning label? I've not seen one there before.

https://youtu.be/JNPSen1Zshk

promo clip, talking it up

Hi.

Worth mention is whether the two ( think it was two???) London to Sydney Monaros are around?

Nick.

On the topic of the HT for sale at Lloyds, how much is original based on the damage it sustained? Still the same shell, anyone know a more complete backstory of its rebuild, ie was it rebuilt immediately for racing or sold off as wreck after crash? I've never seen anything written on it before

Warren, I may be wrong on this point, but my understanding was that the HTs were all but ready when Harry joined GM-H after leaving Ford. So he didn't actually build this car at all.

I've had several conversations with Harry & others on this point, but I believe that the cars & the drivers (Spencer Martin & Kevin Bartlett) were already organised by GM-H themselves & then set up the HDT thing for Harry to operate at arms length. Prior to Harry arriving I believe that the GM-H service garage at Fishermans Bend is where they were prepared, This is where the London to Sydney Marathon Monaros were built also.

Most of Harry's work was post-Sandown to get the cars right, the engines sorted, the various mods required homologated & the new driver line-up organised.

I'm not sure how many HDT Monaros actually entered at the 1969 Sandown, but the Wikipedia page only lists one. :- https://en.wikipedia.org.../1969_Datsun_Three_Hour

Dr Terry

I also question a lot what is said about the car by Lloyds. What is said about the rings in the car may well be true but it sounds like the story about the production engines Repco rebuilt for GMH that got water damaged on the way over here. The engines used at Bathurst were the specially prepared L48 engines from the Flint engine plant sporting the Flint engine plant fuelie heads (186 cast), at least that was what the cars were first registered with.

Does that then mean the Sandown car ran a production engine?

At least one of the Bathurst cars had a Flint engine, otherwise what was the point of the parts catalogue update to include the Flint 186 fuelie heads? My guess is the Bond and West cars had Flint engines and the Woelders car had a Tonawanda engine built by Ian Tate. I do remember hearing that they had the 3 x Flint engines at their disposal plus from memory the 4 x production engines. GMH destroyed one Flint engine on the dyno, and Harry had at least one built which may have ben in the Woelders car at Bathurst. Will have to see what some sleuths here can come up with!