Hello everyone , I was awoken this morning by at 3 am with a really vivid picture in my mind
It was a picture of one of Australia’s iconic muscle cars
It was a canary yellow colour and it was of course,
The 1968 Holden Bathurst GTS Monaro
One super tuff vehicle tried and tested on the road and also a winner on that famous race track.
Bathurst.
When it comes to
muscle cars im not particularly fussed Holden or Ford as long as they had a V8 i was hooked.
Well you see I had an affinity with that particular car because when i was a motor panel beater and i did one up for a mate at mum and dads back shed finishing all repairs , prime and then lovingly rub her down by block and my hand ready to paint.
In the meantime a few local lads one night helped themselves to a few spare parts including the music from the open back shed.
This nearly caused a riot in town but that’s another story .
A lot of water has traveled under the bridge now and all of that stuff is forgiven now .
Back to the story
My mate Wes brought the Monaro from local hoon Smithy , and he had brought it as a second hand drag car ,
it had the awesome number plates of GM1968
Adorning it ,
The first day Wes owned it I took it for a spin ,
It had a four speed munchie gearbox shortened shifter and a hot as hell 327 Chevie motor under her hood and being Canary Yellow she was really fast out of the blocks ,
The first thing I noticed was with that car was the lower than normal diff ratio .
As I could accidentally take off in third thinking on the tight shifter pattern that it was in fact first gear , so you can imagine the noise when I went for third gear , from top .
Oops
She was out of both revs and Hp really fast in the blink of an eye depending how fast you could slam the gears , and oviously it was designed for a very short strip .
Eventually it was painted in original acrylic paint back in the day as it still had some guts to it and some lead in its formulation, and two pack painting was just emerging
It was lovingly painted by a local spray painting legend Piz .
So a few new badges were eventually sourced and a fresh cut and polish and assembly and we are racing.
Eventually Wes for some reason maybe madness sold the Monaro to a manager at Wonthaggi Woolworths .
So she was now gone .
The next thing I knew there was another one in my life a slightly different colour but a darker more sunburst yellow it featured , mini tubs , drop fuel tank 350 hot Chev and a total drag car.
Minus a chute .
It was owned by my mate BIll over the road and what a weaponit was ,
it had a great 1/8th if a mile track time and it also unbelievably had full road reg , but it cornered like shit because its diff was built for traveling in just a straight line .
I never drove it or rode in it but it sounded like a jet plane when thumped in the guts down the road on Av gas .
Bill eventually got a ridiculous offer for the car as a rolling body and he also sold it, minus the plane engine.
So ,
We in Australia were that cleaver once that we built these sort after weapons of vehicles and also heaps of Falcons and Commodores on our home soil.
One day our government decided to collude with China on a future investment concept that we import all or most of our vehicles in the future from them .
Our vehicle manufacture’s were slowly reduced by means of firstly badge sharing and then common manufactures sharing vehicle models together as a co operative.
Soon enough due to unforeseen obstacles placed in them we now slowly lose every single car manufacturer in Australia
Blamed on manufacturing costs and high wages.
Now we are the dumb country .
We have been hoodwinked into a crap world deal under the guise of a new concept of a world free trade agreement ,
It’s the death knoll for us.
I have a dream to resurrect our car manufacturing industry
Its a combined effort
Called
HolFord
And we together resurrect our car making industry and accidentally resurrect our country
It sounds pretty sweet to me .
How about you ?
Vote 1 for the Australian
Revolution
For a different future.
Cheers xxx