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[REDA9X]

Anyone remember the green hatch THUNDER? Does anyone know uch about the car at all, was it originally an SS? A mate of a mate just bought the car and I went and had a look at it for him, it's gone downhill a fair bit and has no tags and either the chassis number is buried under layers of paint and bog or it's gone. I took a few pics but I have to find my adapter to load them.

[LXCHEV]

Ditto - I remember it from the magazine. Was a stunner of a car.

[Litre8]

Yes that was a top unit back around the mid 90's when it was featured in a Torana mag.

[TerrA LX]

Only remember it from the mags etc. was a nice unit as above.

[MRLXSS]

I had a feeling that was the one you were talking about red! That was a very hot car!!! Would be good to see it now... (If i recall, did it pop up for sale a year or so ago as well? i seem to remember something like it and a bit of a discussion about it?)

[REDA9X]

Really Yella? Gunna tell me? This thing has a destroyed block apparently, it's in pieces at the moment.

[REDA9X]

Someone here must know the guy who built it up, it says it was built by "THOR" on the make up tags. I have a feeling it may have been an SS originally, but there is no identification on the car at all. I remember it being at the All Holden Day years ago, and I remember the magazines too, I might have to have a look through them

[76lxhatch]

Back in the olden days when the 'net first became available to those lucky enough to have a 14.4kps modem the "Thunder" website was one of the few that popped up on Alta Vista (long before Google was a search engine) when a search was done on "Torana". Thats about all I remember though...... Naturally the website was saved as a favourite on Navigator (or was Mosiac back then?).

I wonder if it is cached anywhere now?

Wow that takes me back, have you tried archive.org? (http://www.archive.org/index.php) The search doesn't appear to be working at present, do you remember the domain name?

[Litre8]

^ that and Torana Heaven would have been among the first Torana sites on the web.

[gtrboyy]

Yep i remember that car,it was what inspired my cousin to paint his vh charger ascot green back in the 90's.

As for the car from what I know of it was that since the 90's it has changed hands several times with most of the owners not looking after that well,I was told it's had atleast 2-3 engines put into it,next time I see my cousin in law I'll try to remember to ask him what history of the car that he remembers of it,he knew one of the owners.

[adrianh08]

^{I was a massive fan of that car. I hope you do get hold of it and restore it mate. Id love to see current photos of it too.}