HQ Statesman

[Taily]

$60 per rim for blasting is way high. I pay $25 and i reckon im getting taken

those buggers talk it up. Ive watched them do it. They can strip one side of a wheel in a couple minutes

$25 each rim is about average. A local bloke to me is doing mine for $20/rim (stripped and into etch primer), but I am supplying 10 rims to be done (6x 14x6 and 4x 14x8) for that price.

Regards,

Dave.

[Rockape]

$25 each rim is about average. A local bloke to me is doing mine for $20/rim (stripped and into etch primer), but I am supplying 10 rims to be done (6x 14x6 and 4x 14x8) for that price.

Regards,

Dave.

Cheers guys. You guys obviously don't live in Mackay and incurr the mining tax........up here mate if you want something done industrially you're treated like a miner......my alleged God things are dear here.
I spoke to the guy i subby for today and he reckons the dude whom does all the work on his machines can do them for nothing so heres hoping.
Haven't been able to get back to the Stato, flat out, but will try and post the id tag details over the weekend. I really want to know what this thing is.
I'll post them when i get them.
Cheers guys.....

[Rockape]

Ok. Finally got back to the Stato today and took the GTS wheel off it, as well as, from the boot, a full collection of really sharp seat belts, about 6 bags of rare spares new rubber seals for doors and boot, the long sill trims and a few other bits. Removed the GTS wheels and replaced with jelly beans the old dude gave me.......NOW it looks like a Stato. Steering wheel had never been removed, nut had no marks on it and still had the lock nut on it.

Diff is NOT GU7 as i stated HK, but GV1 on the id tag, my mistake. What does this mean? The left hand drum would spin in the air with the right hand wheel on the ground but not vice versa?????

Stupidly i did not write down the skinny tag but i have the rest of the compliance details. They are as follows.....

LHS Tag
HQ Sedan Statesman
5/74
EHQ 205725 (this matches the chassis number)
Seating Capicity 5

RHS Tag
Model 81459QR
Body No 815150-S (note- 8 could read 3 was hard to read)
Trim 1879-38P
Paint 567-15821

Under about where the LHS wiper sits is engraved 20693S on the firewall.....what does this mean? I remember now the old fella told me he used to have a HX ute.....this could explain the books i guess.

Cant believe i forgot to record the skinny tag. As you have probably worked out i have no idea what any of this means, but i'm keen to learn and would love some info re what all this means.

I have 5 sets of GTS rims now and various GTS gear from the Stato i'm willing to trade for some window fill ins from a windowless van for my WB i'm re building. It is a 5.0 turbo 400 van with uncut GTS dash and now some funky HQ gear going into it. I picked it up cheap, it came with a WB Stato front (in the back, drove it all the way from Adelaide to Mackay WITH the WB Stato front AND a 1990 full size arcade game in the back) and it's nearly ready for paint. It will be Orchid, with blackouts and GTS rims. I hate windows, want them filled but cant find a donor up here.......

Anyone travelling through country NSW do yourself a favour and pop into Coonabarrabran Auto Spares on the North side of town and see Dixie and his sons. They are an awesome family with more HK Monaros than you can poke a stick at and almost EVERY Holden spare you could imagine. I called in to get a WB indicator stalk which had failed and turned my lights out whilst driving home, ended up spending the day there repairing my van, looking throught their yard and chatting to the boys. Ended up buying a GTS steerer of a Torana and nearly much more. I left my WB Stato guards there to get GTS flutes pressed into them ( the young fella ther desinged and built his own press) and they are on their way to me now.

I look forward to anyone telling me the history of this Stato. I dont know how to get photos on here but if anyone wants to trust me with their phone number i can message them and you can post them. Anyone with donor window infills please pm me if keen on a swap.

Cheers.

[HK1837]

It is a Pagewood built HQ Deville, so 308 trimatic. GV1 is 3.08:1 Salisbury. VIN will be 8S69TDH815150Q.

20639S is the Pagewood BODY number. This is how they tracked the car through the assembly plant. They used to use the chassis number on HK-G and earlier but when this moved to the chassis rails on HQ they had to use a firewall body number as the rails didn't go on until really late at Pagewood.

[Rockape]

Thanks heaps HK. Question.......How the F..K do you guys know all this? Fascinating. Is the trim plackard or something like that? It really is too good to pull apart but i thinks that's what i'll do, then sell the shell and front. I just don't have the time...........
Thanks man....

[mr.jones]

http://gallery.oldholden.com/Mr_Jone...rine1.jpg.html Aquamarine with http://gallery.oldholden.com/Mr_Jones/HQ-Z+Interior+Codes/HQ/38/Statesman Doeski/HQ+Statesman+38P+front.jpg.html Doeskin/Black Devereaux Cloth, nice combo

[Rockape]

Cheers Mr Jones. Mine looks the same in side to the one pictured but with electic windows and aerial switch on the dash. Hass 200kph speedo. At least NOW i know wtf it is. I've been offered 6k for it sat, bearing in mind it's basically rust free and IS straight as you'll ever find. 've taken off the GTS rims, steerer. So, what's a fair price? Mate of mine wants it, says he'll paint my van for it. He is a professionall not a tool so i think i might go that way.
Also came with a fully rebuilt/recoed tail shaft done by Hardy Spicers.......308 to trimatic.....

[Rockape]

Back again. I meant trimatic to Salisbury of course re the recoed tailshaft.

The skinny tag is as follows.....8S69TDH815150Q. If someone could decipher that for me i'd be appreciative, or point me in the right direction and i'll do it myself.

Also, van is nearing on painting time. Lowered it and put the WB Deville front on on weekend, probably about 3 weeks off. Can some one please tell me the paint code for Orchid.
Or agian, where to look. Cheers all
Rockape

[HK1837]

That VIN just tells you it is a Pagewood assembled HQ Deville. Orchid paint combination is 1868. Dulon code is 567-15335.