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Posted 30 January 2012 - 10:52 AM

Why would you need a different block? Trimatic are the same as 4speed. If they used a TH400 they'd just replace the block with a block and piston kit.

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 12:24 PM

for quiet some time i've told about a factory ordered L34 which was built for john harvey as a auto and plated as such by a very reilable source who tells in time i will see it..Looking forward to be proven wrong and perhaps totally surprised..

I or Laz or Rory or Kev will ask John and see what he says. How does that sound?

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 12:33 PM

In Tassy
i have come across two L34's, one was in yellow and the other was Barbados Green, im sure they both had the track pack option on them, the yellow one was in Queenstown for along time, and owned by Lee Wallace, and the Green one was owned by a Chef who worked at the HEC Camp Kitchen in Tullah on the West Coast, but he was from Hobart

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 12:36 PM

And there was the Gene Cook L34 Torana, that Gene Raced for a few years, it was painted in Black when it raced, but i believe its original colour was Green, was in somerset in Tassy for along time years ago, not sure if its around these days.

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 01:32 PM

Why would you need a different block? Trimatic are the same as 4speed. If they used a TH400 they'd just replace the block with a block and piston kit.


Because it has a T400 in it

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 05:20 PM

I or Laz or Rory or Kev will ask John and see what he says. How does that sound?

Grant..


Already asked him and as I expected it sounds to be another myth.

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 05:28 PM

I or Laz or Rory or Kev will ask John and see what he says. How does that sound?

Grant..

sounds good to me..always good to dispell myths or porkys

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 06:29 PM

Because it has a T400 in it


If it was dealer done they'd have simply replaced the block or used a complete HX-Z engine along with the TH400.

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Posted 30 January 2012 - 06:52 PM

Already asked him and as I expected it sounds to be another myth.

That's what I expected. JH is one who shoots from the hip.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 08:11 PM

Here are some L34's in varying colours....

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Thanks Festa for the pics.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 08:48 PM

L34 the best of all the Toranas!

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 08:53 PM

but where is the burgundy one ???

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 09:00 PM

but where is the burgundy one ???

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patience grasshopper....you should see it in 3-4 months time and i'll gladly share some pics...

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 09:14 PM

On the front cover of an old Street machine magazine :)

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 09:27 PM

;)

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 12:18 AM

L34 the best of all the Toranas!


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Posted 12 June 2013 - 05:27 PM


patience grasshopper....you should see it in 3-4 months time and i'll gladly share some pics...


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 01:08 AM


If it was dealer done they'd have simply replaced the block or used a complete HX-Z engine along with the TH400.

Mike Prowse was a guest speaker at A9X meeting about 15 yrs ago when he lived in Adelaide. Of many things he talked about was the Wayne Negus hatch. Apparently Wayne saved Holdens day at a particular race with a brilliant drive and Holdens gave him a GMPA A9X spare shell and so one evening Mike, Wayne and crew run it down the production line. Negus supplied his own hot engine and trans. Another thing peculiar to that car was they welded 2 tank cuts together in factory to make about a 90 litre tank. Mike said Wayne wanted him to help him drive it back to WA but Mike declined so Wayne gave it a run in hard drive back to Perth. Some things he was hazy on as he was involved in so many special builds. Another thing he was clear on was a lot of  A9X,s left factory with fiberglass front spoilers. Plastic ones can be made quicker as suppliers could not keep up with fiberglassing that's why a lot of L34,s had plastic flares ,some cars had a mixture .


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:29 AM

This ones is a HO. Not sure what colour that is?

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Looks like Salamanca Red to me! :D


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:42 AM

The Negus car has a QT engine number and is definitely Turbo bolt pattern. No HT prefixed Torana engine block started life as Turbo bolt pattern, only Aussie 4 speed / Trimatic. The owner of the car has a letter of provenance supplied by Wayne Negus detailing how the car came to be built. Wayne Negus has a very clear recollection of the car being built and the drive home across the Nullabor !! Outercontrols comments are essentially correct. The owner has compared this car with his Janson / Perkins 1979 Group C car and the shells are identical in all aspects including seam welding, seat belt mountings etc etc. All in all a very unique car with a direct link to MHDT.

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 01:03 PM

Has anybody got photos of an L34 in Burgundy / Maroon / Claret??? How about Monteray Green?  I know there is another thread more related to the subject but this one has more photos of different colours.
 
This one used to be Barbados Green. Now it's white.
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Posted 20 June 2014 - 08:55 PM

I've got a burgundy one here I've restored just waiting for me to fit it up i'll get some pictures posted up


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Posted 04 July 2014 - 06:39 PM

263 cars made. Dont think anyone knows colour breakdown. From what I have seen barbados was the most common (and the best!). Others inlcude: black, azure (blue), chrome yellow, red (of some sort), sebring (orange), saffron (orange) monteray (dark green), white and nodoubt the list goes on.

Its hard enough coming across other LH 5000s in Black, a 74 L34 in Tuxedo Black would have to just about be a one off?


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Posted 13 July 2014 - 11:52 PM

Its hard enough coming across other LH 5000s in Black, a 74 L34 in Tuxedo Black would have to just about be a one off?

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Posted 13 July 2014 - 11:58 PM

Did any of the Harry Firth HDT L34's have QT engines in them or on there log books ????????

 

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