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#1 Bigfella237

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Posted 25 December 2015 - 08:55 PM

Would've been nice to find this under the tree this morning...

 

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Lot 33
A 1974 Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana SLR 5000 Chassis: ALH000378M

This important Australian racing car was driven by both Colin Bond and the legendary Peter Brock. Restored to original specifications and in exceptional condition, this piece of Australian automotive history has tremendous provenance.

TESTIMONY OF THIS VEHICLE BY JOE FELICE,
MANAGER HOLDEN MOTOR SPORT (1970-1980)

"The Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Torana SLR 5000 was for the Holden Brand a transitional race car designed to take Teams campaigning Holden Torana from racing 6 cylinder XU1's, albeit with great success, to racing V8 equipped cars. Competing against the much more powerful Ford V8 GTHO's at the time, Holden felt that the XU1 had reached the end of its development and started planning to bring in the V8 Torana L34, which was a car designed with Touring Car Racing in mind. Whilst the L34 option was being developed it was decided to race the Torana SLR 5000 for an interim period.

A Torana SLR 5000 was prepared by M-HDT and raced for a time by both Peter Brock & Colin Bond in National Touring Car Events with success, posting some wins and pole positions in its short racing career. It was the first Torana V8 raced by the Holden Dealer Team.

Upon the introduction of the Torana L34 the SLR5000 became superfluous to the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team's requirements and bowing to pressure from the Western Australian Holden Dealer Group and the Marlboro Company, who complained about lack of representation & exposure in Western Australia, I instructed HDT to transfer the SLR 5000 together with spares to Wayne Negus in Perth to campaign the car in a Production Touring Car series being run in Perth WA. Wayne Negus was a M-HDT driver & mechanic in Melbourne for some years but had returned to live in his home town of Perth. Wayne Negus campaigned the car with a lot of success in WA for some time, before the vehicle was retired.

The Torana SLR 5000 played a major part in enhancing Holden Torana's unparalleled racing reputation and was another successful and important car in the history of The Marlboro Holden Dealer Team," testimony of Joe Felice, Manager- Holden Motor Sport (1970-1980) of this vehicle.

 

MHDT Race History SLR5000
May 8th 1974
- testing at Calder [ Motoring News International May 17th]
May 12th 1974
- Production Touring Car Races - Calder
- back to front HDT sticker on front of car
[ Auto Action No 86]
May 19th 1974
- Surfers [Auto Action No 86]
June 9th 1974
-Adelaide
[Chequered Flag - page 26]
[Motoring News June 14th]
June 23rd 1974
-Oran Park - Colin Bond
[Auto Action No88, page 9]
July 7th 1974
-Sandown - Peter Brock
-Toby Lee series
-Sports Sedan
[Auto Action No89]
July 21st 1974
-Amaroo - Colin Bond
-won Chesterfield Sun Series round
[Auto Action No 90, page 7]
August 4th 1974
-Lakeside
-4IP Production 500
-crashed SLR5000
[Racing Holdens Mag, Auto Action No 91, page 9]

 

SLR5000 Owner/Driver History
1974 MHDT - Drivers: Peter Brock & Colin Bond
1974 to 1976 - Repaired & restored : John Dixon
1976 to 1980 - Wayne Negus
1980 to 1983 - John Morris
1983 to 1985 - Glenn Baker
1985 to 1988 - David Taylor
1988 to 2007 - Peter Gillison
2007 to present - Current owner

Estimate $ 295,000-365,000

Unsold

 



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Posted 25 December 2015 - 11:44 PM

First Torana V8 raced by HDT

 

Was April 1972 Easter Bathurst

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Edited by xu2308, 25 December 2015 - 11:47 PM.


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Posted 26 December 2015 - 06:25 AM

You beat me to it Al!

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Posted 26 December 2015 - 07:03 AM

Or...........  Could it be this one..  seems KSA- 302 may have been stage 1 of the evolution ???    :wedgie:

 

 

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Posted 26 December 2015 - 07:22 AM

Why the frOck did I even bother...

 

To all the smart-arses, I didn't just make that title up, read the quote from the website:

 

A Torana SLR 5000 was prepared by M-HDT and raced for a time by both Peter Brock & Colin Bond in National Touring Car Events with success, posting some wins and pole positions in its short racing career. It was the first Torana V8 raced by the Holden Dealer Team.

 

TESTIMONY OF THIS VEHICLE BY JOE FELICE,
MANAGER HOLDEN MOTOR SPORT (1970-1980)

 

Of course you'd all know better than THE MANAGER OF HOLDEN MOTOR SPORT !!!

 



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Posted 26 December 2015 - 04:32 PM

Holy shit Andrew,  have you got sand in your vagina or something ???  This is a forum, if you put stuff up that is miss quoted or wrong, someone will let you know, not just us smart-arses..  

 

Who know's, .... maybe he meant "Original V8 Torana" ??, ...........  But as you can plainly see in the pictures supplied by Al and the other smart-arse (me I guess) they are both V8 powered Toran's...  and as you can plainly see, they have Holden Dealer Team written all over them, and they are in a race...  so you tell me ..  74 is early on in the piece, but I'm still pretty sure an LC came before LH.....  but your right...  I'm not manager of Holden motorsport ....   Merry Christmas  :clap:



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Posted 26 December 2015 - 06:56 PM

Your a sarky Cunning Stunt Ian lol

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Posted 26 December 2015 - 07:39 PM

Maybe they should of said 1st V8 Torana raced by the Holden Dealer Team to go into production or words to that effect.



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Posted 26 December 2015 - 08:03 PM

The car sold after the auction. Great car and belonged to a forum member.



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Posted 26 December 2015 - 08:04 PM

The LH SLR5000 was not the earliest V8 car raced at Bathurst..Not even the first series production V8 car.

Even the HK 327 from 1969 had a big sign down the side Holden Dealer Team. It was driven by Des West and one Peter Brock with Des being the lead driver.

And it was a Series Production Car as well.

So the person from GMH didnt do their homework before writing the article on the SLR


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Posted 26 December 2015 - 08:15 PM

Your a sarky Daisy Chain Ian lol

I am ?? ......  lol   :innocent:    



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Posted 26 December 2015 - 08:25 PM

Its just wrong wording in the ad. Should simply be marketed as HDT's first LH Torana.

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Posted 26 December 2015 - 10:35 PM

The LH SLR5000 was not the earliest V8 car raced at Bathurst..Not even the first series production V8 car.
Even the HK 327 from 1969 had a big sign down the side Holden Dealer Team. It was driven by Des West and one Peter Brock with Des being the lead driver.
And it was a Series Production Car as well.
So the person from GMH didnt do their homework before writing the article on the SLR


The original ad didn't say first V8, it said first TORANA V8 to be raced. It wasn't the first V8 factory built Torana to hit the track as was mentioned above.
Not sure, but did Grice get his Craven Mild LH SLR 5000 out before the HDT?

Des West and Brock drove a HT 350 Monaro not the HK 327. The HT 350 was the start of the HDT with Harry Firth heading it up.
The 327 wasn't a HDT car, the team name is slightly different, that was the Holden Dealer Racing Team.

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Posted 27 December 2015 - 07:57 AM

Surfers Paradise was the first race for the HDT SLR/5000 .......    and yes they were forced to race the SLR (at that time it was still slower than their XU-1), as Grice already had an SLR/5000 on the race track..  And the Dealer Team had to follow suit..   I read that they built the HDT SLR/5000 in 3 weeks in an effort to get one on the track for Surfers Paradise ...     



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Posted 27 December 2015 - 05:03 PM

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No one been a smart ass, its just the Fact that HDT in April 1972 ran the V8 LC (KSN116) at the Easter Bathurst, don't take it to heart, good story on the first HDT LH SLR5000.



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Posted 27 December 2015 - 05:08 PM

Would've been nice to find this under the tree this morning...

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 02:55 PM

Nice car!

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 06:08 PM

I watched it get folded around a Red Gum. There will be some photos tucked away in a shoe box somewhere.

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 09:42 AM

I watched it get folded around a Red Gum. There will be some photos tucked away in a shoe box somewhere.


I've got photos too of when we picked it up all bent

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 06:50 PM

I've got photos too of when we picked it up all bent

tim 

i don,t think it matter,s what it looked like then

as now it looks absolutely brilliant

every iconic car has a history

you know and race with a great freind of mine shaun t

 who

loved the ride in that particular car

cheers

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 03:12 PM

Cheers Dave, it's certainly come up fantastic!
Oh cool, Shaun is a top bloke!

And yes you are right, Tons of race cars have had massive hits. Blues Union for one.




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