Thread: Holdon 202 - What else fits

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Wot a dud movie!

Wot a dud place!

Still isn't any better, a couple of years ago they kicked a 13 year out out because she was paralytic drunk and left her lying in the car park half naked. We got her into the POW Emergency Department some hours later, hypo-thermic and unconscious.

BTW: Puberty Blues was a 1979 Book and 1981 Movie, the Torana GTR XU-1 was a decade before that! If you wish to know my age I was an RN when the book was published and a DC RN when the movie came out.

Sounds like you are a young spunkie.

First Torana GTR 82911LC-R with Option XU1 was September 1970. They came in s***ty colours of purple, lime green, pink, etc.

I was a "tin shed" member of the Seals. In the old squash courts. Best pick-up joint in the Eastern Subs. Do people still stand on the footpath outside the Royal at Randwick to drink? Used to be my local. Sunday morning sick parade at the Coogee Surf Life Savers Club for a bbq breakfast with a couple of schooners. Sunday arvo at the Coogee Sports Club, South Sydney Leagues club, or the Randwick Ra Ra's.

Spent four weeks in the POW 1971. Not a good thing. Took 18 months to recover fully. Was told I nearly bundied off the second night. Food was bloody awful. Care was good.

I grew up in Coogee so was living there in 1971 and my mum was working in the labs at POW. My older brother was a member of the Rugger Club but possibly not until '72. The Royal is still pretty crowded and is the main pub of the Hospital's staff even today but not so crowded as it used to be in the 1960s & 70s. Don't have a recollection of the tin shed at the Seals.

I do remember both Colin Bond and that newcomer Peter Brock driving the XU-1s at Bathurst. (Armstrong 500)

What is it 6 degrees of separation?

Diana

Probably lesser.

I lived in Arden St., Carr St. briefly, Coogee Bay Road, Wolseley Road, Higgs St. during my time there. Owned (partly, the ANZ Bank owned most) the houses in Wolseley Road and Higgs St. I am told the house in Wolseley Road purchased for $14,000 in April 1970 and sold for $19,000 in November 1971 is now worth around $4,000,000.

Sigh!

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

You have an Irving head? Or know where one is?

Came across this a few years ago as a hold(on) 186 six in a L C Torana took the sox off my Turbo charged 202 in a hill climb. I have it in VHS Vid.

Originally Posted by Chilly

Hi,

I have a series 3 with a Holdon 202 engine.

ummm, A Leyland?

Originally Posted by Rangier Rover

Came across this a few years ago as a hold(on) 186 six in a L C Torana took the sox off my Turbo charged 202 in a hill climb. I have it in VHS Vid.

Was it Matt Phillip? He had one in a Torana. Matt was apprenticed to Harry Firth and worked for Harry and the Holden Dealer Team for a long time. Phil Irving designed the head. Foundries had a lot of trouble making sound castings. Voids and porosity were the main faults. High reject rate. Dyno Dave Bennett (Yella Terra, Perfectune) took it over and I don't think he did much with it. Foundry technology has improved out of sight in the last thirty years so the jigger may be a possibility today but probably there would be insufficient demand. I don't know how many were made or where they went but I have not seen or heard of one in as long time.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Was it Matt Phillip? He had one in a Torana. Matt was apprenticed to Harry Firth and worked for Harry and the Holden Dealer Team for a long time. Phil Irving designed the head. Foundries had a lot of trouble making sound castings. Voids and porosity were the main faults. High reject rate. Dyno Dave Bennett (Yella Terra, Perfectune) took it over and I don't think he did much with it. Foundry technology has improved out of sight in the last thirty years so the jigger may be a possibility today but probably there would be insufficient demand. I don't know how many were made or where they went but I have not seen or heard of one in as long time.

I'll try to find the tape and get an image off it. Sorry for tread hijack

Back on topic, there are a few Series Land Rovers with Holden v6s. You would need all the electronics but there should be billions of the Buick based engines and bits sitting in wreckers about the world.

I think Marks 4wd Adaptors used to do an adaptor for Series LR, not sure if it was with the Nissan gearbox and the LR transfer box, or a Series box.

Jeff