Well after half a dozen Fords, and nearly the same amount of Mopars I just bought my first Holden.
An unregistered but fairly tidy and nice running WB ute with 253 and Supra five speed.
My daily ride is a new FPV GT-E with the supercharged 5.0, thus the ute will not be about going fast etc. Waste your seeing the light and buying a Holden comments on someone with a similar low IQ to yours if that was the first thing that popped in your head.
Anyways, I am sure there are plenty of smart people on here to offer advice and perhaps even fill me in a little about this car, all my knowledge is Mopar based, have had show winning Chargers, including an E49 that Biante bought off me to make models from and has been in American magazines and Australian hard cover books. Back in the West I also have a VG Pacer, was nice with 340 stroked to 408 and steel case Supra box etc. but the running gear was stolen, thus that is curently left back there with all new suspension, including Konis all round, custom made torsion bars, strengthened chassis, Brembos off Viper etc. But I have been in VIC for five years now and after recently offloading my 1959 Dodge ute/truck felt a hankering for something different and old again, and this popped up on Facebook for sale.
I brought the new machine home today. Runs sweet as. Found out putting fuel in a WB ute is an exercise in frustration. The tyres are old, have good tread, but must be hard as nails as there was some sliding going on during the trip home (wet).
Can someone tell me if that diff must have been transplanted from something else, as the large wings with holes near the main housing are a little confusing to me, as they serve no purpose in this application. I will get further under the car to try and work out later what model Supra five speed is in it. I presume those leaf springs with the extra supports must make this a one tonner?
Pulled the air cleaner off, look like a Quadrajet carby to me. Can't tell the brand of headers but they are lovely looking design, really long runners and stay twin for a long way down the car on each side before going in to the twin system.
It truly sound great, honestly one of the nicest sounding Holdens I reckon I have ever heard, so many of the older Holdens have a huge system that just sounds crap, this really has a beautiful timbre to it.
Reconditioned engine (HM GEM) only 15,000km ago, but that was also more than six years ago! Really does run remarkably smoothly, hardly makes a tick let alone a rattle. Always been an inland car so is fairly rust free. Picked it up for 3k, probably cost me 1k to get proper roadworthy and up and running on historic rego.
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