The Warranty Disc will only Show your LJ with its 6 Cyl one would think, and not show the QT Engine. My guess Reeves must of been asked by a Customer for a V8 LJ and that is how the ball got rolling on these Dealer Built V8 LJ's at Reeves Garage.If Reeves were doing the warranty on these V8 then there would be no record on the 'Service Warranty Reporting'
on the 'Vehicle Master Listing'. I was about to begin my search here and if what you are saying, it would be futile.
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Posted 14 November 2015 - 05:03 PM
Yes Dave, It is a HQ badge and 1 more S was added. I was just interested as to how they arrived on this combination and not XU2.
Hi Grant,
My thoughts, the new HQ SS was anounced by GMH in August 72 & released in Sept 72. This was the first Holden to have the SS name. Reeves Garage built your orange V8 in Oct/Nov 72 & I reckon they must have got the idea of calling it an SS from the newly released HQ SS.
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Posted 14 November 2015 - 05:07 PM
I would say u would be spot on Pete with that.
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Posted 15 November 2015 - 10:27 AM
Yeah i would agree with that also
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Posted 15 November 2015 - 10:49 AM
I'd believe more that the SS simply came from GM. SS was always the sports GM Camaro, Nova, Impala, El Camino etc. GMH simply copied this, and if Marketing hadn't stuck their nose in it there would be no Monaro GTS sedan to sully the proper Monaro (a coupe) or even Sandman - they'd have both been Belmont or Kingswood SS sedan, ute or van. There probably would have been no LX SS either, if SS had stayed on HQ, HJ etc.
Reeves probably saw the SS logo on a Camaro or whatever and copied that although could have copied the HQ idea too.
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