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[FLY_AGAIN_XU-1]

These are the 3 colours Harry reconds existed to. Australian Muscle Car magazine, issue 9, page 58. He also says that when the XU-2 program was cancelled, the HDT LC XU-2 prototype and GMH,s orange engineering car were reverted to original six cylinder XU-1 trim and sold.
I know, I know, dont always believe what you read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[REDA9X]

God, where did you find that crap?

[meanmachine72]

was it in strike me pink?????

[REDA9X]

XU1L34A9X, is that an A9X you have in your avatar? Is it yours?

[FLY_AGAIN_XU-1]

yea Bruce, brackets look original to me, fair enough curiosity. I guess anything is possible. Do you know if other xu1's had 2 brackets?

Long time no see !
I was talking to a chap in SA recently and his car is also an early built August Adelaide car that has duel exhaust bracketary as well. So I went and had a close look at mine today and it appears mine has been painted in the same paint as the underbody which appears to be the original paint ! ( Still all a mystery to me )
Holden did cancel the V8 LJ on Friday the 30th of June 1972 just 2 weeks before production was to begin. So its quite possible that they used these shells that were destined to be the V8 LJ.s in normal XU-1 production ! Currently im trying to determine weather mine is a so called Bathurst special or not which is proving to be difficult in it self ! Im waiting on letters from cams and Joe Felice that im hoping can shine a little light on this subject ! Until then your guess is as good as mine !

Catch up soon !

[REDA9X]

I remember reading a story about 20 years ago, i can't remember where I read it now. The story was written by a guy who worked in the Holden factory (can't remeber which one), but upstairs in the offices not on the floor. He was young and keen and had an interest in everything going on down the production line. One day he went down and there was a whole line of XU1 V8's in various satges of completion on the line, some close to 90% complete. The next day the story came out about the Supercar scare and he went down to se what was going on. The production line was completely empty, all the XU1 V8's were gone and no work was going on at all. He asked a few questions but didn't get answers. Maybe some of these car were removed from the line and later refitted with 6 cylinders, but I seem to remember him saying the general feel was the cars were destroyed.

[Kockum]

I remember reading a story about 20 years ago, i can't remember where I read it now.

See Leo Pruneau's letter to Street Machine Magazine June 1990 Pages 12 & 13.


XW-7 Project. Torana LJ V8. See SMM September 1990. Part of Leo's letter gets a re-run. Article starts on Page 37.

See The History of Torana magazine (Performance Street Car Publishing). See the Article titled "Brockspeak" Pages 15, 16 & 17.

D.

[robj]

I wonder what the extra filler necks required to fit for the proposed production run. Would they have done some extra pressing in the 1/4 panels when they were made, or maybe just drilled a hole through and fitted them. I would think they would have been hard to remove from the shells that where started and then returned back to sixes.

Your strike me pink one dosen't have any holes filled up in the 1/4 panels where the extra filler necks would have been?

[FLY_AGAIN_XU-1]

Joe Felice,s prototype V8 (The Lockwood Special) at Bathurst in October 1973.......... (Note the filler)............