Hooligan of a tow car......

[hooligan]

Howdy.
Finally, I have got a real towcar......well it's not a blue oval, but at least it was made in the 70s....just.
Just yesterday this 7/1979 HZ Kingswood SL landed on my doorstep. Funny how things happen. Sunday night, thought I'd poke round on 'that auction site' to see what was about, by 10pm, lo and behold, I had executed the 'buy-it-now' on the HZ from a seller only 20km away, who was good enough to deliver to my work the next arvo!
Anyway, she is a fairly straight and rust free 202, 4 speed Kingy, extractors, dual fuel, proper alloy Dragway mags,....and importantly, a towbar!. Oh yeh, and a wooden sports twirler!....No power steerin or 'fred astair' here folks, and the sound system.....unfortunately it is not an 8 track, but it is radio/cassette.
First thing is to call local mechanic to check it over for a RWC then its all good! Anyway, here is the first pic, I will get some more on the weekend when I get it home from work again (and in daylight).


As I am (supposedly) a Ford man, have been cracking Ted Bullpit jokes for the last 2 days at work....not the Kingswood!

Cheers,
Gristy

[atouchofglass]

Nice looking rig Hooligan
They will know your coming with that colour!!
_{He says that had a bright orange ute and wants a bright yellow panelvan} ;D ;D ;D

Gotta love those HZ's

Atog

[hooligan]

he he Atog. Yeh when I worked in the car trade we used to call it Dog Di## Red.
ironically, I now have a blue Ford and a red holden. Cant get more appropriate than that! I've owned a couple of canary yellow cars in my time too - Both from the 70s.
Yeh HZs were holdens last real family car, before they replaced the torana with the commodore ;D
Cheers,
Gristy

[atouchofglass]

Hey Hooligan
Hadn't heard of that colour ;D ;D

But we had a few similar names
Such as
Monkey bum pink for a holden pink
and baby poo yellow for the old toyota mustard colour

Anyone else out there with favourite colour nick names??

Atog

[hooligan]

Atog, I worked in the trade, I got names for everything. Either slang, trade related or ryming slang.....
Nappy brown (as you put it baby poo)
90 day yellow (means it will be on the car lot for 90 days at least coz no one will want to buy it)
British racing white
There are some other general car terms surrounding accessories/options, see if you can guess:
'fred astair'
'hook'
'roof'
'nose pack'
'hitch'
'boots'
One of my faves, a type of car: a 'harold holt'

Anyway, another pic of my HZ:



Cheers bigears,

Gristy ;D

[atouchofglass]

HHHMMMMM
Too early in the morning to think but here goes nothin
Hook and hitch ...... tow bar
boots.... tyres
Fred Astair.... Air
Roof.... roof rack or vinyl roof cover
Nose pack..... bonnet scoop or air dam?
Harold Holt is slang for "bolt" as in leave quickly but I would guess the car would be a Colt?

How'd I do???

We had similar but nicknames for various workers
I'll give you one and you guess the rest

Nutgrass..... you never know where he would pop up next
Singlet
Blue healer
Marajuana
Aspro

One of the annoying apprentices' surname is F.W.
You can guess what we think the F.W. stands for.


Anyhow the HZ looks in top condition.. be proud and drive loud

Atog