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[RallyRed]

funny that Stato front on the waggon?....maybe they were testing the idea?

[wot179]

A good mate of mine bought a one owner HZ wagon that was fully loaded from the factory with all Statesman trim and sheetmetal.

 

308, TH400, LSD.

 

Electric everything...fully loaded.

 

Dunno what the story was with it. Maybe for a GM employee, but it was unusual.

 

He broke it up to tart up a one tonner at the time.

 

A shame now, but it was bought for very little in the late 80s in great condition when it meant nothing.

 

And fancy one tonners were very popular.

[yel327]

Almost always the Statesman fronts on them were dealer fitted and people thought they were assembly plant fitted. Sometimes Engineering or Styling did it, but the exception are motor show specials.

 

Are you sure this is Adelaide 1972? Any more photos?

 

Notice the front off the HQ sedan up on the stand?

 

Looks like a Basketball stadium, by the score board up high above MOVE word.

[yel327]

It might be the Adelaide Hot Rod Show in 1972?

[VIXL34s]

Premier models were fitted with dual headlights ( like stato) from factory

[yel327]

Premier models were fitted with dual headlights ( like stato) from factory

 

No they weren't unless they were export "Statesman" ie Chevrolet 350 or caprice which used a Premier nose panel. 

[RallyRed]

maybe a translation error there?

 

No they weren't unless they were export "Statesman" ie Chevrolet 350 or caprice which used a Premier nose panel. 

 

.....I would have though tthe comment regarding twin headlights on Premiers was correct?...just that they had the HQ type grille, and not the Stato 2 separate 1/2 type grille.

[RallyRed]

p.s.  & off topic

.....from a random FB page today.....  

 

 Which Suttons is this? Arncliffe? I am chasing photos of the Arncliffe NSW yard in 1971 and also chasing images of the HG GTS panel vans that were exclusive to them

 

 

Assume that they were dealer tricked panos, and not genuine factory?...just like some for dealers sold  ""GT Utes"" etc..

.i.e the tags were NOT GTS or GT, as appropriate.?

[yel327]

maybe a translation error there?

 

 

.....I would have though tthe comment regarding twin headlights on Premiers was correct?...just that they had the HQ type grille, and not the Stato 2 separate 1/2 type grille.

 

True, but I didn't think this was the intent of Jeff's statement, I thought he meant the front as shown on that wagon was correct which it isn't. If it was, Jeff you are correct.
 

[yel327]

Here's one for you yel327

 

 

Whoa, where are you finding these photos??

 

This may well be one3 of the September 1967 HK coupe bodies built prior to the Monaro name....

[yel327]

Bugger, will have to leave it to others to go looking. Facebook is not for me.

[xu2308]

It is the Pink Panther Rally LJ XU1

[yel327]

p.s.  & off topic

.....from a random FB page today.....  

 

 Which Suttons is this? Arncliffe? I am chasing photos of the Arncliffe NSW yard in 1971 and also chasing images of the HG GTS panel vans that were exclusive to them

 

 

Assume that they were dealer tricked panos, and not genuine factory?...just like some for dealers sold  ""GT Utes"" etc..

.i.e the tags were NOT GTS or GT, as appropriate.?

 

I have seen ads from papers in the early 70's where Suttons used to modify vans and utes, They weren't GTS vans, just Belmont vans with GTS bits added by Suttons. They would have been ordered as 4spd's and if they were HG they'd be V8 4spd as 6cyl 4spd weren't readily available anymore in HG, only HT. This practice of dealers selling new modified vans was still happening in the later 70's, a friend of mine bought one from a Newcastle dealer as a modified new Sandman which he still has today. He bought the least modified which just had mags I think, a Windsor Blue 5.0L 4spd HZ. I can't remember the dealer's name, but he is the one that always has the stretched Holdens converted into utes and tonners and now sells caravans out at Bennetts Green. Used to be near the ISC and Skateline at Broadmeadow many years ago when he was selling these vans.  
 

[yel327]

Not Bill Lucky, just can't remember the guy's name. He had yards in different places over time. One of the early utes he had was a HQ coupe welded to a ute back, and over the years has had a few odd ones. I remember a Tiger Mica one and a black one. Not sure if the New One Tonner Company at Boolaroo built these utes or not, you'd assume they did.

[yel327]

He's the dude that has the Go-Karts now? And his son races in the Dunlop Series and just promoted to V8's?

 

I think this was before Wayne, but I think it was called Performance Car Sales.

 

Edit - just did an ASIC search of Australian Motor Homes and found it, Ron Warden.

Edited by yel327, 29 January 2016 - 08:49 AM.

[RallyRed]

Ron Warden?

[RallyRed]

doh...to late...and here's me thinking it was good I could remember!!  ha ha 

 

I think Wayne R. also used to work at Green & Jackson Performance cars, were at Gateshead where Pacific Holden is/were.

 

Wayne was good guy...when you wanted an insurance valuation done by a LMD, he was the man to go to....he also used to commentate the early days of Group N / Appendix J on S , when it was only running XU1s, Lotus Cortinas, and Minis and a few oddballs like those lightwieght Falcon Sprints etc.