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I'd love to see more Holdens. Been watching Mcleods Daughters, and noticed the Holden Jodi drove looked sort of like a 57 chevy! Started this thread recently please add some more aussie hot rods to it!
http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40024

yeah apparently bathurst in aussie is quite competitive really competitive on an international scale, everyone down here is either ford or holden thats pretty much it because aussie produce their own cars so they make it hard to import others. the whole place pretty much stops when bathursts on. for me the magics changed though and its lost the appeal, back in the day they were working class muscle cars and exactly the same as sold on the showroom floor except they were allowed to blueprint the engines and when youve got 351 cleveland falcons against what were going to be 186 six cylinder engines in the monaros (before holden cheated and took the 327 from the states at the last minute) that was real grass roots racing! what one manufacturer had against the other! not like $300,000 cars they have today with the same suspensions, diffs, brakes, roll cages etc the only differences being the driver and engine and body shell haha. the cars nowadays use american chev ls1 and ford boss engines but i dont really care about post emissions stuff so dont quote me on that haha. holden also put what you guys would call a compact which was the torana about the same size as the average jappa with a tripple 2 barrel carb 6 cyl engine against the falcons with 351 clevelands!!!!!!!!!!!!1 hahahahahaha......they won but only because the weather on the day at bathurst was wet and they were more nimble

hey also if you guys are into 351 clevelands the aussie ones are the ones to get, they kept casting them after the usa stopped but beefed them all up in all the right places for strength and also released a 302 cleveland with smaller combustion chambers than the 351s for higher comp ratios and in 2 and 4v versions and theyre the bees knees to get down here, they strokin them out to around 400 cubes with an easy streetable 500hp. THAT is a stout smallblock in anyones language

Originally Posted by stovens

I'd love to see more Holdens. Been watching Mcleods Daughters, and noticed the Holden Jodi drove looked sort of like a 57 chevy! Started this thread recently please add some more aussie hot rods to it!
http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40024

hey i posted more about holdens on your other forum. check out wikipaedia for more holden info and holden heaven at www.holden.itgo.com which has more performance ones and youtube them and also youtube falcon coupes haha you wont regret it