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Holden memories

Post by sprintcyclist » Sun Feb 23, 2020 4:34 am

My first car in Aussie was an EH holden.

Great car, hydramatic auto, small 6 cylinder (186 I think), cost $600 I think.
Drove it from Victoria to Qld, then around there for a few years
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Re: Holden memories

Post by Texan » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:41 am

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Re: Holden memories

Post by The Mechanic » Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:11 pm

One of my first cars was a HQ Ute with 3 on the Tree... lol

186 motor....

Next one after that was a LX Torana Hatchback... 202 motor..
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Re: Holden memories

Post by Valkie » Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:34 pm

I was suckered into buying Holden for years.

Biggest load of crap on earth.

When I started travelling overseas and seeing what real cars were like

I couldn't go back to that rubbish.

A standard car in the UK or Europe are better than premium cars sold in Australia.

We get the shite, thanks to our useless grubberment.

The fuel we get is so bad, so poor in quality,

That the better cars will not sell here because they would perform badly because of the fuel.

Our rubbish politicians and public serve us have so much to answer for.
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Re: Holden memories

Post by Bobby » Sun Aug 09, 2020 3:49 pm

Back in the early 80s I blew up a Kingswood 202.
I passed a car on the open road and went a little fast with full pedal to the metal.
It had massive internal damage and I had to take it to a scrap dealer.
All I had left were the number plates. :lol:

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Re: Holden memories

Post by Redneck » Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:56 pm

My Holden experience was a 1973 GTS Monaro

Overall a pretty crumby car had numerous problems including engine, gearbox, exhaust burnt out and rust.

I have had numerous Fords,

Falcons, Fairmonts and a Fairmont Ghia atm and largely nothing major

Chalk and Cheese imo!

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Re: Holden memories

Post by Bobby » Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:28 pm

Redneck wrote:
Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:56 pm
My Holden experience was a 1973 GTS Monaro

Overall a pretty crumby car had numerous problems including engine, gearbox, exhaust burnt out and rust.

I have had numerous Fords,

Falcons, Fairmonts and a Fairmont Ghia atm and largely nothing major

Chalk and Cheese imo!

They rusted terribly.
The bodies of Fords and Holdens were never galvanised in a big tank at the factory.
Once the rust got in it was like a cancer -
rust kill and fiberglass patches would only last 2 years and
the whole repaired area would rust out again.
Also:
Apparently the steel they made them with had sulfur impurities which
made sulfuric acid in the steel when combined with water.
That caused amazingly fast rust to occur.
Overall - a bucket of shit.

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