Time for some nostalgia!

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Be careful of this. All assembly plants differ in some ways on many fine details, even major details like stripe placement on HK GTS and XU-1 transfer placement! Even down to how the dripcheck was applied, not only between plants but between shifts at the same plant. People assembling the cars were only human! Putting those stickers on was probably a mind numbing job for a young apprentice, so you can imagine how much he/she cared. Or alternatively some bored guy with a hangover, who was busy perving at the young girl apprentice, bending over installing stickers on the adjacent line when he was putting the stickers on!

Well said. Its amazing some of the differences I have seen with placements.

[Rodger Kelly]

Well said. Its amazing some of the differences I have seen with placements.

The build quality on the beastie was pretty poor. It had a couple of issues with the paint and pointed them out the day I took delivery. The dealer was non-plussed and just said to take it to their painters. The painter cringed and pointed out a whole lot more than I found! He spent a week rectifying the blemishes and also removed the stripes at the same time - I ordered the car without the stripes but it still came with them. The painter advised that a poor paint finish was common with the HZ. Other glitches included the Holden badge in the middle of the horn boss missing (they simply replaced the whole horn boss) and an incessant rattle that turned out to be a spare set of ignition keys being lodged under the right hand interior windsceen trim - I fixed that one myself after having it back to the dealers a couple of times and they could not find the problem. Have a good look at the pic of the engine and notice the overspray on the intake manifold!

Cheers.

Rodger Kelly