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Holden museum echuca pics

Started by linalj , Dec 22 2013 04:59 PM

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#1 linalj

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 04:59 PM

Hey visted today and it was fkin awsome!!!! Heres a few pics

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#2 linalj

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 05:18 PM

Ht gts 350

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 05:35 PM

Wow Matt,

Very lucky to see the GTR-X. Dave I

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#4 RallyRed

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 08:00 PM

nice pics...that red A9X has been there a while, it was there when my LC was in there which was a few years ago now...

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 09:09 PM

Hey Matt, I was there on Monday. Left the family at the motel so I could take my sweet time.

Must have taken a pic of almost every car in there.

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#6 _GTR XU1 28911_

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Posted 22 December 2013 - 09:24 PM

Great line up even a few modern day muscle cars there too

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#7 _nowaynicko_

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 09:50 AM

Nice one! Thx for the photos mate.

Love that GTR-X...if only *sigh*

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#8 _oz772_

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 09:56 AM

Any idea how long the GTR-X is on loan for? I have to go to Bendigo in the next couple of months and would be worth the trip to Echuca if it is still there. I haven't seen it since the Sydney motor show in 1970.....

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 12:32 PM

Any idea how long the GTR-X is on loan for? I have to go to Bendigo in the next couple of months and would be worth the trip to Echuca if it is still there. I haven't seen it since the Sydney motor show in 1970.....

No but you could contact the Museum and ask them. I presume it will be going back to the Birdwood Museum.

Welcome to the National Holden Motor Museum - Echuca Victoria ...

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Welcome to the National Holden Museum Echuca If you are a TRUE BLUE AUSSIE visiting Echuca you shouldn't go passed visiting the NATIONAL HOLDEN ...Write a review

7/11 Warren St, Echuca VIC 3564
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Posted 23 December 2013 - 12:54 PM

Looks like a good place to shove my car with a for sale sign on it?

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 12:58 PM

Echuca the Town had the Lone o Ranger LJ GTR V8 Prototype living there for 5 years, shame the museum never knew, they could of displayed it

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#12 _oz772_

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 05:18 PM

No but you could contact the Museum and ask them. I presume it will be going back to the Birdwood Museum.

Welcome to the National Holden Motor Museum - Echuca Victoria ...
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Thanks for the details. I will do! I thought the GTR-X and the Hurricane normally lived in Fishermans Bend these days. Good to see this one out and about at least.

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 05:27 PM

Thanks for the details. I will do! I thought the GTR-X and the Hurricane normally lived in Fishermans Bend these days. Good to see this one out and about at least.

The lady at the Echuca Museum said the GTR-X came from the Birdwood Museum. So........ :dontknow:

Apparently they had the Hurricane at the Echuca Museum for a while but gone by the time I was there. Would love to have seen it in the flesh.

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#14 _oz772_

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 06:56 PM

The lady at the Echuca Museum said the GTR-X came from the Birdwood Museum. So........

Apparently they had the Hurricane at the Echuca Museum for a while but gone by the time I was there. Would love to have seen it in the flesh.

I think the GTR-X spent some time at Birdwood earlier this year. I guess they are sending it on the rounds

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 08:16 PM

The lady at the Echuca Museum said the GTR-X came from the Birdwood Museum. So........

Apparently they had the Hurricane at the Echuca Museum for a while but gone by the time I was there. Would love to have seen it in the flesh.

I was there a few months ago and was told the Hurricane had just left and the GTR-X just arrived. Was great to finally see it in the flesh.

That Barbados LH is identical to how my LH left the factory. Got lots of pics of that one.

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Posted 24 December 2013 - 01:44 PM

Thanks for the details. I will do! I thought the GTR-X and the Hurricane normally lived in Fishermans Bend these days. Good to see this one out and about at least.

I saw the Gtr-x at fisherman's bend earlier this year on a trip down there for work so can confirm Oz that you are correct, after seeing these pics it made me think that there was more than one.

Wasn't there a thread on here with some pics of one of the shells ? Couldn't find it with the search function

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Posted 24 December 2013 - 01:55 PM

I saw the Gtr-x at fisherman's bend earlier this year on a trip down there for work so can confirm Oz that you are correct, after seeing these pics it made me think that there was more than one.

Wasn't there a thread on here with some pics of one of the shells ? Couldn't find it with the search function

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Wish they did a fibreglass kit like the Cobras but of the GTR-X.

Bomber would love to sling a big block 6 into it, whilst an L98 or similiar would float my boat.

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Posted 25 December 2013 - 04:12 PM

Finally found my pics of the GTR-X in the Birdwood Museum circa 1991.

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Posted 24 March 2024 - 03:46 PM

And now some cars!

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Somehow time has made this cool

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Posted 24 March 2024 - 05:16 PM

The text in that first image is rubbish. GMH used many cars in marketing with one car representing others. The first HK GTS (2-A) was used at Lang Lang for marketing images and then resprayed yellow and dressed as a yellow GTS327 for other marketing. The blue car in the attached link brochure also sits too high to be a GTS327, and look at its arse end on the back page - no Quad pipes. I wouldn't be surprised if the GTS327 badges are added to that photo either. There was only 3 cars built when these photos were taken from memory.

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