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[mugginz]

Just wondering if anyone knows what this bracket welded to the trans tunnel is for. (74 LH Torana factory manual)




It doesn't look like the Rare Spares console bracket
 
 

 
 
It's located pretty much in line with the front seatbelt bolt holes
 
 

 
 

 
 
The car has no bracket in front of the shifter hole and as far as I know this car didn't come with a console so I'm a little puzzled by it.

[mugginz]

Just had a look through the LX Parts pdf file to see if the mounts for the half console were like that, but nope

[yel327]

HQ console and seat separator rear bracket. How early is the Torana? Is there a screw hole up near the plastic bung in the crossmember behind the shifter? or 2 x holes just forward of the shifter hole?

[mugginz]

HQ console and seat separator rear bracket. How early is the Torana?

 

t's a 74 LH.  The rear bracket for a seat separator looks like the one for the standard console, at least the Torana one does.  Maybe the HQ ones were different though.

 

 

Is there a screw hole up near the plastic bung in the crossmember behind the shifter? or 2 x holes just forward of the shifter hole?

 

There were holes everywhere left by the butcher, I mean last owner.  I'm not sure if any of them were factory though.

 

 

 

[yel327]

t's a 74 LH.  The rear bracket for a seat separator looks like the one for the standard console, at least the Torana one does.  Maybe the HQ ones were different though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HJ-WB use the same bracket as Torana but what you have is a HQ seat separator or console bracket. The reason I asked how early it was, was I was thinking maybe really early LH used a HQ console.

[mugginz]

HJ-WB use the same bracket as Torana but what you have is a HQ seat separator or console bracket. The reason I asked how early it was, was I was thinking maybe really early LH used a HQ console.

 

I can PM you the chassis number, looks like it's very early.

[S pack]

I read only recently that early production LH Torana had a different console and mounting brackets compared to the later production vehicles.

Apparently the early and later consoles are not interchangeable. The article went on to say the mounting brackets had to be replaced to fit the later console in an early production body.

Edited by S pack, 22 December 2015 - 09:32 PM.

[mugginz]

Might have to get my hands on a HQ console by the looks of things

[mugginz]

I can't remember ever seeing one of these consoles before.

 

The lid flips forward.  How odd 

 

 

 

 

[mugginz]

O.K., I think we have a winner.  Looking at the holes that were in the trans tunnel -->

 

 

 

They seem to match up with the full HQ console -->

 

 

So I need to get one of these -->

 

 

 

The only thing is I've read that Torana consoles have a different bottom profile to the big Holden ones so I wonder if the HQ tunnel is the same profile as Torana or if early LH Torana is the same profile as HQ.

[S pack]

I can't remember ever seeing one of these consoles before.

 

The lid flips forward.  How odd 

 

 

 

 

 

No the lid flips back. The ashtray in the end is for the rear seat passengers.

That will be the HQ seat separator console Byron was talking about.
 

[mugginz]

No the lid flips back. The ashtray in the end is for the rear seat passengers.

That will be the HQ seat separator console Byron was talking about.
 

 

 

Ah, I was looking at a pic of the mount points for the short console all wrong.  That seals it then, this car came with the HQ 4 speed console.  Now to find one at a reasonable price.

[yel327]

Whether it fits or not I don't know, would have to try. That one you put up there is a 1973-4 HQ console. The seat separator is an early one as it has the seat belt buckle holder (later HQ's had retractables).

 

Not sure if it is original to the car or not. Just ask a few early LH owners, like 4/74-ish. But it does look like what was in the car at some stage.

[arrimar]

There was discussion here years ago about the extremely early LH having that console for a short period. From memory username racyrabbit had a car that was like that.

[hanra]

http://www.gmh-toran...85-console-lid/