1978 HZ

[tonyh]

Hi All,

On the subject of oldies being harassed because of their cars, my Mums (86 years young) car bought in 1980, she is the second owner of a never damaged 1978 HZ Kingswood sedan - it was a GMH company car with 253 V8, trimatic and LSD, metallic Blue with white roof and 78,000km on the clock now - always garaged. Just about every time she drives anywhere someone asks her to sell it - her standard answer is get in line after my son.
Mum's are great - aren't they !! ;D
I'll put a photo on when I can.
Cheers TonyH

[atouchofglass]

tonyh
Nuthin wrong with a HZ
I'm driving a renovated HX one tonner, bright orange two pack, black interior, no air, no radio....just as I like it. ;D ;D
The amount of looks I get is quite pleasing.
Bought it to tow an Olympic back from Newcastle.
On the way down all the way I was getting waves (all be it subtle ones) from appreciative redneck cowboys. I took the inland route.
All the caravaner's ignored me or looked the other way.

On the way back it was the opposite. Cowboys ignored and the vanners just looked at the Olympic. ;D ;D

Had one guy at a service station come up and talk to me for a few minutes about the van. "Haven't seen one of these in years" you could taste the envy and memories in the air.

atoughofglass

[hooligan]

Gday Tony,
What happened to the photer of the HZ??

Speakin of which, I need to upload some pics from the Van show at Port McDonnell (SA).......

Cheers,

Gristy

[atouchofglass]

Greetings Tonyh
We've seen some of the progress on your Olympic but how is the ute?
Or have you decided on another vehicle for the next few decades....

Atog

[tonyh]

Hey you guys are mean - a guy takes some time to work on the shed, take the misses for a drive, mow the lawn so I can find the dog and do some work on the house so I don't get thrown out and I get jumped on for not workin'on the van and ute!!!! Actually I have been workin' on the ute got the door interiors all assembled with a looot of swearin' cause no one told me nothing of the new parts fits - you have to trim and make it fit I have had the windows tinted and was VVVery carefull when installing the glass in the door - only to hear a horrible scratching sound as the glass came through the new strip on the bottom of the window - dud clip not fitted correctly and $55 later for new tint after I had replaced the dud clip. Anyway made the new Tonneau cover hood bow out of stainless and the inside strips for the back window after the platers lost 4 yes 4 (plus various other parts) and I only needed 2 so I made them out of stainless as well. The strips for the rear floor in the ute bed will also be out of stainless. Done some other small interior stuff and hope to get it nearly finished over the long weekends. ;D I have been waiting for my Mum to wash the HZ so I can take some photos but she has been a bit slack - somethin' about being tired - I dunno these 87 year olds aren't what they used to be!!!

See Ya,TonyH

[hooligan]

Hey Tony,
All in jest mate ;D

I have been asleep from the forum myself (too busy drivin half way across the state buying vintage vans and then trying to find out the history of it). Not to mention buying a 70s Viscount to do up, then doing a backflip, cleaning it up for sale again......

Anyway, one thing, the longer it takes to get time to put up the photers of your HZ the further advanced it will be

Cheers,
Gristy

[tonyh]

Hi All, Photos - finally ;D

[Deleted]

Good one Tony a neat looking unit even if it is a Holden (he he!!)

Had one of those myself in another life, and bought it off my cousin who worked for the dodgey brothers. Had a lot of fun in it, but the call of the mighty Mopar Muscle car was just to much.

Only saying to the bride yesterday that it is 12 months near to the day in completing the mechanical resto for the Val. Can't hurry these things in the country.

Just need to concentrate now on the outside.....that's another day. ;D

Keep the photies coming

Cheers & beers

vkgreenie