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This is my Hk Monaro. I have had it since 1997. Time for a rebuild. The rear quarters are a bit worse for wear and need a bit of panel beating.
If anybody knows of a good panel beater in Christchurch that does not want my arm or make the bank own more of my house please enlighten me.



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This is where it lived for over 10 years.

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This pic was taken a couple of years ago when I got all keen and started scrapping off the old paint on the roof. It had 8 different topcoats, 4 blues, 2 oranges, 1 gold and 1 red.


Was a lot of paint


This is a 327 I brought for the monaro. It was in an old nuffield tractor that use to do tractor pulls at the AMP show.

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AFR heads and roller gear for 327

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Dan Drummond the panel beater has already started on the monaro.
We were both surprised at the condition of the left hand side after he removed about a bucket full of bog, (no rust).
It uncovered some more badly repaired panels but I just cannot understand why they had put so much bog in it.
Some previous owner must have had shares in a bog factory.
Anyway the old car already looks better with more natural lines back in it with all that bog removed, plus it must be a bit lighter.

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First of the new panels to be wielded in has started. Dan found some rust underneath the outer skin in the sill and had to make up an internal repair patch. Looking good so far, more work to follow next week.

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Here are some more pics of the progress on the monaro

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Left hand side is looking great and Dan has done a fantastic job with welding in some rare spares panels and manufacturing some of his own where he removed the rust from underneath the outer skin.

Right hand side is being worked on now, found some more work that is needed to done.
Never is just straight forward with these old cars,


You can see the patch i put in in 1998.

A pic of me in 1998 working on the monaro,

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The race is on to get the family monaros going for my sisters wedding (in March 2013), this is a pic of my fathers monaro. He has had it since late 2000. It was mine originally which I brought from invercargill in around 1999 but due to spending to much on a trip overseas (in France) I sold it to him so I could still could maintain my drinking habit that I had acquired while abroad.
It will be powered by a nicely warmed over 350 chev and a manual saginaw gearbox

This car has some sweet lines going on.

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A bit of a head start but I think I can get mine finished first. Well its taken him 12 years to get to this stage.


A lot of history with this car. It's a factory 307 manual that was converted to a drag car in the 1980's.
It use to have a tilt front with the engine recessed back into the cabin. It still has the rhs beams running thought the floor of the body to keep it from twisting. It sure is stiff as you can jack it from one corner and the opposite side will come up at he same height and the doors will shut fine.

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Some more pics of the progress that Dan has made,


He ended up replacing the rear beaver panel as the old rear end had a nasty previous repair plus the shape was all wrong.

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A pic of all the bad bits that have been cut out.

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So I have now decided to leave the factory 186 motor in the old girl but would like to run some of these carbs.
They are mikuni HRS series carb.