My new project. HQ GTS

[chillicatqld]

that looks nothing short of amazing... well done and enjoy!
If you ever want to sell - PM me... lol

[288vxgts300]

Had a great afternoon yesterday. Drove the HQ to Brendale for a safety certificate, no power steer or air con and listening to AM radio. Gave it a squirt in 3rd getting on to the highway, changed to 4th and gave it another squirt, pushed the cluth in and realised I had no gears left. Oh well. Car drove great and passed the safety. Rego in the next few days.

And a pic of the dash lights.

Man i love that dash,i never remember them being so pritty,makes me want to buy a HQ.

[RiggsSS]

Geez, These pics are bringing back all sorts of memories. I just loved my old coupé, that dash (even though you couldn't actually see it at night), the noise the low roof. You've done a fantastic job on the resto ziggy.... I'm almost inspired... will be a Camaro this time round however.

Dreadve - your car looks very familiar. I was working in WA about 20 years ago (yep getting old *sigh*) and the guy I was boarding with bought a candy apple, extensively worked Monaro with a polished firewall. Just wondering if this is the same vehicle? the thing was a fantastic car with no expense spared.

Cheers,
Ryno

[ziggycv8z]

that looks nothing short of amazing... well done and enjoy!
If you ever want to sell - PM me... lol

Thank's, will add you to the list. lol

Man i love that dash,i never remember them being so pritty,makes me want to buy a HQ.

Not too bad for a 39 year old dash.

Geez, These pics are bringing back all sorts of memories. I just loved my old coupé, that dash (even though you couldn't actually see it at night), the noise the low roof. You've done a fantastic job on the resto ziggy.... I'm almost inspired... will be a Camaro this time round however.

Dreadve - your car looks very familiar. I was working in WA about 20 years ago (yep getting old *sigh*) and the guy I was boarding with bought a candy apple, extensively worked Monaro with a polished firewall. Just wondering if this is the same vehicle? the thing was a fantastic car with no expense spared.

Cheers,
Ryno

Thank's.
Yep, still hard to see the dash at night.

[6_litre_man]

Well done, Ziggy, car looks amazing, youve done a really good job with it in a fairly short period of time. Its good though ive just showed a mate of mine this thread to hopefully get him to pull his finger and finish his HQ GTS Monaro Coupe. Been trying to get him to finish it for about 6 years now lol

Cheers
Matt

[ziggycv8z]

Yep, tell him to get his finger out and get it done, lol. Im sure he will love it.

Drove the car to work on Friday and the poor old muffler couldn't handle it. Have got a few loud rattles coming from the inside of it.
Have booked it in on Friday morning for a duel 2 1/2'' system. Will be interesting to see how different it will sound.

[6_litre_man]

Yep, tell him to get his finger out and get it done, lol. Im sure he will love it.

Drove the car to work on Friday and the poor old muffler couldn't handle it. Have got a few loud rattles coming from the inside of it.
Have booked it in on Friday morning for a duel 2 1/2'' system. Will be interesting to see how different it will sound.

Yeah im sure he will too seeing as hes halfway through a big block installation i just wanna go for a spin it it lol.

Should sound good with the 2 1/2 on it, cant wait to hear it

Cheers
Matt

[ziggycv8z]

Very happy with the job and the sound.

[6_litre_man]

Awesome, Sounds tough ziggy, gotta be happy with that

Bet you just wanna keep cruising in it lol

Cheers
Matt

[288vxgts300]

Cool Ziggy,

sounds a treat,get out amongst the shit boxes,and let them hear a real aussie built car.

[Pickles]

Top sound...as befitting a classic Monaro.
Cheers, Pickles.

[surfwagon]

Sounds great with the new pipes.
Considering in their day these things sounded pretty good with only twin 2" so must sound even bet in the flesh with twin 2 1/2".

[Phillshz]

Makes me miss the sound of my old HZ Premier, factory 308 TH400 (was a early one before they switched to TH350 trans.... feb `78 IIRC) Had very long tri-y extractors on it when i bought it, never did find out what brand they were and no old holden blokes could tell me either, but the secondary pipes ran side by side under the car until the trans crossmember then into a collector at the end of them. It had a dual 2 1/4 system with the chrome chevy drop pipes (turned down to face the ground).

Sounded really good and not overly loud or thong slappy, made the twin system my brother had on his 351 XD Ghia sound lame!
I might go dig up the DVD copy i made from a old cam corder tape, has some in car, drive by and rev up footage ( dash was out as a Woodgrain GTS dash was being repaired to go in)
Cheers Phill

[KrisR]

Hey mate, have you got any pics of how the tail pipes exit the car? Do they just dump behind the beaver or how are they setup, they look nice and tucked up/hidden from that vid, that's all.

[mummbles]

Hey mate, have you got any pics of how the tail pipes exit the car? Do they just dump behind the beaver or how are they setup, they look nice and tucked up/hidden from that vid, that's all.

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