Unusual Wagon's

[HK1837]

I have plenty of spare time now,and was thinking of car's that I have come across over the year's. I recall a couple of holden wagons that friend's had. The first was in 1977, a guy I went to tafe with bought a late HQ Premier Wagon, don't know where from. It was fully loaded....308..Full Instrumentation..Air Con..Power Steer..Power Window's..LSD..4 Speed Manual..it also had mag's. It was a special order vehicle with all the documentation to prove it's pedigree.

The second was a HZ Wagon that a guy I worked with in the 90's bought off the original owner. It was also fully loaded..Air..Steer..Pwr Window's..LSD..308..It was an auto though and also had a Stateman Front fitted. It was also a special order with documentation.

I have not come across factory vehicles like these examples before or since, and I probably won't again as I attend very few car meeting's now. Were the original owner's of these vehicle's in the know, to be able to order such unusual combination's?

They are around still, not just wagons, but special builds. Such cars seem to survive at a higher rate than others as people must have looked after them. You could get a lot of stuff on a special build, but there was some stuff you couldn't unless you were really in the know (like worked at GMH and you got the car built in say the Pagewood service garage). Really special bits like GTS guards, Statesman noses etc would all have been done by dealers unless the car was a GMH test vehicle used for internal purposes (there is a Papaya HX van around like this). That second car Robbo may have been a Premier wagon, if it was a Kingswood the dealer would have done the nose.

[buck]

My First car was a Hz kingswood sl wagon, 308, 3 speed on the column and a 3:55 lsd with aircon, pwr str, elec tailgate. bought in 94 with 180klm on the clock, sold in 2001 with 570klm and its still going up in beechworth towing horse floats with close to 800klm on the clock. its the one on the avatar.