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[S pack]

 ​Dave its not normal Chalk mate, it be more like welders type chalk marking stuff i assume, and it is a LJ Rat Trap.

And a Person who owns a Special Monaro that GMH owned and Experimental Engineering worked on has the same Pink markings on parts on his Monaro and a Ex Experimental Engineer told him they used Pink Colour to Mark the parts, that is how i found out about it.

I have used engineers chalk (pretty sure I still have some in my toolbox) and it will wash and wear off quite easily so I find it very hard to believe it will still be there on those components after 40+ years.

As I said it is not an LJ rat trap on your GTR. It is off a HT/HG 6cyl.

 

Yes

Talk to Ben

HHS know which 3-GTR's they are,  HDT Took the Pink V8 Prototype to Calder for a Comparison Test on the 31/5/1972, Brocky drove the Pink V8 Prototype and Bondy drove the 6Cyl HDT LJ XU1, No doubt in the month of May is when Ian Tate had it to Drive and Ian said the Pink V8 Prototype only had 6 Cyl rego,

Al, which one of the GTR Prototypes was Harry Firth testing in mid April 1972?

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[Rockoz]

Ian without any other proof my opinion is just as relevant.

All it is is hearsay without any actual proof of the conversation.

As far as evidence goes it is worthless.

Did Police communicate to GMH their desire for the cars?

Did the journalist keep his notes on the topic?

It may well be true but there is no proof it is true.

I have also stated that I believe individual cops would definitely want one.

But there is nothing official to back up the statement.

[xu2308]

You seem to be getting slightly delusional.

My whole point is that journalists are well known for stretching the truth and embellishing stories to make them read better.

Journalists lie. Journalists misquote. Journalists will voice their own opinions as a twist of something someone has said.

There is no way of knowing the origins of the supposed quote.

SImple as that.

You are putting them all in the same Boat ?? so it seems, in your eyes they all do then.  Like Good Cop Bad Cop, no doubt there are some good Journo's as ones that stretch the truth and there are some that report it how it is as well.

[xu2308]

Al, which one of the GTR Prototypes was Harry Firth testing in mid April 1972?

April 3 1972 Easter Bathurst Yellow LC V8 HDT Torana (KSN116)

 

Apri 9 1972 Adelaide International Raceway The Yellow LC HDT V8 (KSN116)

 

May 14 1972 Calder, the Yellow V8 LC Torana (KSN116), the yellow V8 LC last outing as in Track Racing.

 all the above were Races and Larry Perkins drove the Car to them Tracks as part of the open speed testing he did while driving them to the above three tracks.

 

The above dates are the Dates that the LC Torana that was in a Yellow Colour that Had KSN116 number plates on it, that car ended up been One of the White 1971 HDT LC XU1's they used in the 1971 Season, a Sales reciept for that Car has been found in recent times, so sorts out now what LC HDT Car it was (Where there was Confusion which LC it was in the Past), GMH sold it to Mollison Motors and it had KSN116 number plates on it, Harry tried to find that LC Car, Harry knew what GMH Dealership ended up with it. Talk to Ben about which Car that had the KSN116 number plate on it that went to  Mollison Motors                                                                                                                                                                                                          

On the 31/5/1972 they took the Pink V8 LJ Prototype to Calder and did a Comparrison Test against the HDT LJ XU1 6Cyl Torana, its in the Brockspeak interview about that test at Calder in the History of Torana Magazine and Harry has it in his Diary the Date on the Comparison Test with Brock and Bond on the 31/5/1972, Brocky drove the Pink LJ V8 Prototype and Bondy drove the 6 Cyl HDT LJ XU1 race car and Harry talks about it in them last stories he did with AMC,  The Brock and I magazine and then the other last one he did with AMC, he says about it in there.

So which GTR are you talking about Dave ?????????? for Mid April 1972. As you keep asking me.

[S pack]

So which GTR are you talking about Dave ?????????? for Mid April 1972. As you keep asking me.

Thanks Al, I was asking cause I wasn't sure which V8 Prototype it was that Harry was talking about in his letter to Joe Felice.

 

I didn't think to go back and look in the articles in Brock and I or History of Torana magazine.

 

Cheers

Dave.

[StephenSLR]

 

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[Shiney005]

A couple more pics of Toranas, along with a few other models from the 70's.

 

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[StephenSLR]

A couple more pics of Toranas, along with a few other models from the 70's.

 

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Great pic, where did you find that?

 

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[S pack]

Must have been chasing a drug dealer in a Lambo.

[Indy Orange]

I have an old 80s magazine somewhere with Spartacus Blue LCGTR EX pursuit ,wonder if it's the same one ,I'll hunt for it and post some pics.

[Shiney005]

Great pic, where did you find that?

I spent a couple of hours yesterday using obscure words in google trying to find a pic of an LH with lights and sirens and that one popped up. I was looking for photos taken at disaster areas and other spots where a police car might be parked in the background, but had no luck at all.

[StephenSLR]

I spent a couple of hours yesterday using obscure words in google trying to find a pic of an LH with lights and sirens and that one popped up.

 

Do you have the site, any other info on it? It's taken in Sydney and I was wondering what the story is.

 

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[Shiney005]

No sorry Stephen I don't. There is another photo that has been around in the past of an LJ police car that crashed into the Sydney harbour bridge while chasing a GT Falcon. Anyone got that?

[v6 torana]

Broadway, Sydney Feb 1973

 

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[Indy Orange]

Photo credits and story Ashen Hurst.

Apologies if some is a bit hard to read.

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[Indy Orange]

Also found this,may have been seen before.

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[xu2308]

STP GTR driven by Officer Chris Ortin from NSW Police

No Granny Visor on this STP Pursuit car or front Guard Aerial.

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[xu2308]

STP GTR 

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[StephenSLR]

or front Guard Aerial.

 

Is that an aerial in the centre of the roof?

 

I recall that was a bit of a thing during the CB radio fad.

 

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[xu2308]

Is that an aerial in the centre of the roof?

 

I recall that was a bit of a thing during the CB radio fad.

 

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Steve

its on the roof or in the bush there lol, I believe that's all they used in that Era was CB Radios 

[xu2308]

STP GTR 

No front guard Aerial as well 

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Looks like a bracket on the front valance with a wire running through it, but wait RM125n will say its a crease in the photo again lol.

[RallyRed]

great old pics Al....

 

Thanks for posting, interesting

[Rockoz]

AL

 

Are you saying that the cops used CB Radios for communications?

Or am I getting it wrong?