Xu2308 you keep posting this 300 new car contract that Holden won in July 1972
1) this contract would have been debated in the NSW Parliament first for the terms of contract and the amount of money to allocate for the said contract
2) Then go to the legal department to be drawn up and all other Goverment departments to approval and sign off for next stage
3) Then their is a three month period for interested parties to lodge there Tender to the NSW Goverment and three months of advertisements which started very early April 1972
4) after closing date the NSW Goverment had to go through all Tenders
5) Then announced Holden won this contract on a Wednesday in July 1972 an estimated 300 SIX-CYLINDER GTR Torana's for the NSW Police
6) xu2308 THIS contract predates your built date of your car ?/4/72
7) which means your car was built during the super car scare Started 3/4/72 ended 30/6/72
8) what insane state Goverment back then would have a LJ Torana 308 in there stable from the 3/4/72 . The press would have had a field day with them I do remember one comment 160miles per hour coffins
9) where does your car fit in with contract
The V8 LJ Program got instant approval when Fred James reported back to GMH after Harry Firth took Fred for a drive on Xmas Day 25/12/1971 in the Yellow LC HDT XU1 (KSN116). The V8 Styling LJ XU1 Torana was Built on the 19/1/1972 (Barneys Shirt XU1) After Harry had run and tested the Yellow HDT LC XU1 V8 from Xmas Day 1971 to April 1972 he handed it to GMH, so they could use it as a guide for when they put the 308's into the 3-LJ GTR's. Yes the 3-LJ GTR V8 Prototypes are April Built 1972 Cars.
So when GMH would of been in talks about these 300-Police LJ GTR Torana's in April if it was April as you say. I am sure they would of told the Police that there is a V8 LJ version coming ????? The Super Car Scare had not happened at that stage remember. Fred James was more than impressed about Harry's Yellow LC HDT V8 Torana on Xmas day and what he reported back to the GMH Chiefs, the Program got instant approval. The Road going V8 LJ's were only 2 weeks off production when the Newspaper Article came out in the SMH on the 25/6/1972 160MPH Super Cars Soon, GMH didn't stop the Program until 13/7/1972.
When that happened the 3-LJ GTR V8's were hidden out at Lang Lang, hence there Vanishing act from Holden Engineering that was reported, John Spencer told me that my Pink GTR V8 was used for marketing rides after the Super Car Scare, so we are talking July 1972. My belief in late 1972 to early 1973 in NSW, the Police needed a super fast Car. As I stated on here before about the Lambo's and Ferraris, what you need to do is talk to some of these Police officers that were in 21st Division and ask them did they have any V8 LJ GTR Torana's there for trial from GMH. They had Two LH SLR5000's there in 1974 for trial, I posted a Photo of the Saffron one, ummmm and it look standard as, as what you don't get about 21st Division on the North Shore of Sydney is they were there own entity in the Force, read up about the 21st Division, they were the Division that dealt with the big drug lords and they had under cover cops trying and even normal looking cars as well, they used to try and infiltrate the drug lords of NSW. So they have to LH SLR5000's on Loan in 1974, what was on loan to them in 1973 ??????????. Look believe what you like, You don't have to believe me.
Edited by xu2308, 17 August 2016 - 06:12 PM.
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