Motoroche

The monaro is under cover and waiting to be worked on next. To be honest I can't wait to get back into it. Sometimes its good to have a bit of a break from a big project to gather up some more funds and ideas on what to do to it.

The latest project is a MK11 BDA escort rally that is owned by a guy that hires it out to international drivers. I have been busy on this lately as it will be running at the silver fern classic rally this year and I'm one of the guys that helps look after it. Can't wait to get it going and take it to the track to run the new engine in.

Long time no post. I have been up to many different things over the past year but unfortunately working on the monaro was not one of them. One of my resent projects which I have now sold was an Opel manta that needed a bit of TLC.

Bit of a spend up at Rare Spares

The monaro is all painted now and looking great. Still have a lot of work ahead putting it back together. At this stage I seem to be pulling it apart more than putting it together. Overhauling the brakes at the mo. BNT are my friends their. New master cylinder and caliper rebuild kit on the way.

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.

Well I have had a big think which was quite hard for me and have now have decided to paint the car close to original as I can plus also keep it powered by the factory capacity 186 holden engine though I am toying with the idea of fitting triple cabs to it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,