Factory A9X Hatch Rear Spoiler
#1 _macdou_
Posted 06 May 2019 - 07:47 PM
Thanks in advance.
#2
Posted 07 May 2019 - 08:58 AM
No pics of it off the car. I haven't got the engineering drawings either.
This one is correct.
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This one is not.
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#3
Posted 07 May 2019 - 11:50 AM
The photo of the green one looks familiar, haha.
#4
Posted 07 May 2019 - 12:36 PM
Then this one is definitely not...
#5 _macdou_
Posted 07 May 2019 - 12:58 PM
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#6 _macdou_
Posted 07 May 2019 - 01:04 PM
#7
Posted 07 May 2019 - 01:34 PM
SS doesn't have a rear spoiler.Is the SS hatch and A9X spoiler the same ? Parts book seems to indicate that. Not sure
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#8
Posted 07 May 2019 - 02:23 PM
I like that photo that you put up Andrew. It's a shame Holden didn't do it that way.
The photo of the green one looks familiar, haha.
I need to get a bit more inventive with my photography Craig. You seem to get nice and close and get all angles where I tend to step back and shoot the whole car.
#9 _macdou_
Posted 07 May 2019 - 03:25 PM
SS doesn't have a rear spoiler.
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#10
Posted 08 May 2019 - 10:08 AM
Yes that is correct. The only other cars to get them were if Joe Public ordered his new Torana with the dealer fitted option of the factory body kit. This included the A9X flares as well if they wanted them.
#11
Posted 08 May 2019 - 12:44 PM
Yes that is correct. The only other cars to get them were if Joe Public ordered his new Torana with the dealer fitted option of the factory body kit. This included the A9X flares as well if they wanted them.
And then the lowest skilled person in the workshop would grab a grinder and big hammer and absolutely desecrate the guards to their best ability and bolt on bits of fibreglass to cover the mess !!!
#12 _macdou_
Posted 09 May 2019 - 11:43 AM
#13
Posted 09 May 2019 - 10:32 PM
So did anyone have some pics of the underside of the rear 3 piece spoiler ???
Ill check mine tomorrow. Its been on the car over 30 years and has 8 internal bolts plus I can see metal brackets glassed into the main body but not not sure if its genuine. Ive always wanted to take it off and have a look underneath.
#14 _macdou_
Posted 10 May 2019 - 06:46 AM
Ill check mine tomorrow. Its been on the car over 30 years and has 8 internal bolts plus I can see metal brackets glassed into the main body but not not sure if its genuine. Ive always wanted to take it off and have a look underneath.
#15
Posted 10 May 2019 - 07:22 AM
There were only 100 road-going A9X hatchbacks plus a handful of GMP&A hatches produced for racing, meaning there was probably only 150-odd "real ones" ever made, and you'd have to assume that maybe a quarter of them have been destroyed over the last 40 years?
A large portion of the dealer-fitted rear spoilers (and indeed most flares and other bolt-ons) from back in the day actually came from G&S Motor Bodies in Sydney, their stuff was really good quality but they closed down many years ago now. It'd be a good bet that most of the molds now used by other companies were likely taken from G&S products rather than "real ones".
#16
Posted 10 May 2019 - 08:45 AM
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#17
Posted 10 May 2019 - 05:10 PM
Well I took off my rear spoiler today. Cant say if it is original GMH or not but it seems very well built. Was a good opportunity to clean some 30 year old dirt from underneath it.
There was a little bit of swearing when putting it back on trying to get my fat fingers in those little spots to get the nuts back on.
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#18 _macdou_
Posted 10 May 2019 - 06:42 PM
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