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Bigcol

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Actually saw that transporter at Morgan Park when a group of us went to watch the Muscle Car Shoot Out.
Chris and Dan use to transport their cars around.
Chris use it to take the US Falcon Sprint that he has up there.
The F 350 hasn't had anything to do to it yet, but they are planning on a full resto for it.
Those guys lead a fairly busy life looking after the cars with Clive Noonan and sometimes Kevin Bartlett and Lloyd Bax as well as the Bowdens Own Car Care range available at Autobarn(sorry Mitch had to give the guys a plug knowing that nearly everything that comes in from the car care products goes back into maintaining the collection)
 
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Henry

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Great stories Col! How are they going with the Bartlett Camaro? I pop over to their site for a sticky from time to time, and last I heard they had some fettling to do... projects in the pipeline were a dressup on the Moffat XD... #2 XC... Moff's Inter transporter (which would be a weapon!)... would love to see a few more of these things around the place!
 
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Bigcol

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Haven't got a clue on how Number 6 sorry 9 is going.
The International transporter is in the original unrestored class. It's still got all the Coca Cola writing over it and looks a treat.They use the old girl a fair bit mainly because it fits the Falcons in so well seeing it was designed for them.
Henry it's hard keeping up with what they're doing at times.They have so many things on the go. The collection is bloody impressive last time i was up there i nearly creamed my pants.
 
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Henry

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She a petrol beastie or run a Cummins? I Loved the old Inters and Accos as a kid...

Yeah, so many cars, it'd be a full-time job for three blokes detailing them!
 
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Bigcol

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She's a state of art transporter from the early 70's.
What you can get in her is amazing.
2 cars one one top of the other.
A couple of engines down the middle, room for wheels and enough spares for the meet.
The old Inter is an oil burner.

Moffat was the most proffesional and ahead of his time with that old girl
 
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Beejay

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quote:Originally posted by Henry

She a petrol beastie or run a Cummins? I Loved the old Inters and Accos as a kid...
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There in lies the heart of a sad chapter in Moff's career. The original 1975 Inter was a petrol version, which sprung a leak in the fuel system which caused the Adelaide Hills fire in 1976. The replacement version that the Bowdens own was built as a diesel to prevent a recurrence.

Moff borrowed Goss' XB, gave it a bit of a tickle-up and won the Adelaide round and finished second at Lakeside. I reckon it'd be a nice collector's item now...
 
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Henry

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Ahhh Inters.... I drove some weird stuff out west on the cotton harvest for a season, and one of our stable was a 3070 twin-steer Acco with a 903 Cummins and a cat hydra-shift (semi-auto) 18 speed box (clunk clunk clunk as quick as you could ratchet the leve) with a tipper body and a series of belts and brushes for collecting loose cotton in the ginyard.... some bright spark had run the return fuel line from the engine back to tank over a chassis rail... the first load we put in the back of it sat the tipper body down hard and pinched the line... and the runaway diesel saga began... because the excess fuel can't go to tank, it got pumped in, and all of a sudden the old 903 (which was a lumpy and mean screamer of a V8) started peaking... was a bit nervous standing next to it trying to cut the fuel to the pump, I can tell you!!

Anyway.... Is that (the Goss XB) the car which got fenced and rebuilt as a road car, as per the letters page in one of the issues of AMC?
 
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Racin Jason

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Does anyone know if the Green Pase 4 has surfaced for a photo shoot yet, or if it will in the future. We shouldn't all be deprived of seeing a wonderful piece of Oz motoring history. Imagine the circulation numbers if AMC could do a story on it!
 
Donut King

Donut King

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When I was at Street Fords Mag we had someone who was adamant that they knew where it was and that they could get us in contact with the owner but it wouldn't do us any good. In the end I am not sure what happened, but considering all the staff that were on the magazine at that time have now moved on, I don't imagine there is much chance of it still being pursued. Its always hard to actually figure out of someone means what they are claiming or if they are just after some attention, but we had no doubt if we could pull it off you wouldn't have been able to print the mags quickly enough to keep them on the shelves.

As it is I doubt it will ever happen, there have no doubt been attempts by all the major players, and most of the minor ones to get a deal done, and the fact that they haven't yet been able to do it doesn't make me think they are any closer to success than they have ever been at any point in the past.
 
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Bigcol

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The Calypso Green XA GTHO hasn't surfaced since it was bought by a dentist from Lahood motors.
Shame really because it could arguably be the most significant car in Australias muscle car history


There was a bit of a rumour doing the rounds a few years back that Harry firth helped to fuel the Supercar scare.
It goes something along the line of when they bolted the 308 in the LC Torana's body it turned a sweet handling car into an absolute dog.
Basically the body wasn't strong enough for the torque of the V8 and when they drove it from Melbourne to a Bathurst meet it had cracked the windscreen and by the time they were finished with it over the weekend that the body was showing signs of fatigue.
So to strengthen the body in time for the next season a major retool of it was needed to make it stronger. Which wasn't going to happen. Now Firth already knew that the only chance a 6 Cylinder torana had against a HO at Bathurst was if the Falcons broke or it rained.
So basically Firth and Holden weren't ready to take on the XA GTHO which would have been way faster once again then the XYGTHO.
So throw a bit of petrol on the fire and then wait until the V8 LH Torana comes along
 
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Rob 18

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With Holdens grubby history Col, none of that suprises me. Even so, the XA GT was a reasonably successful racecar with 2 wins at Bathurst, just imagine how much better the Ford teams would have been with the Ph 4...

What a shame!!
 
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