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I now have some shed space, I have turned the old Monaro in to a Museum piece and is now at the Shepparton motor museum for 3 months. At least they will keep it clean!!!!
I now have space to build my son's skiff engine as it has now been machined , so we will get it back in the water this season.
Some other projects may all so benefit as well.
Ross

Didn't know you are a Monaro man Ross. What have you got?
Bob W

BOB, its a Hk Monaro , Base model with factory 307 and auto, white / black int. matching no's car unrestored, 190,000 miles
Has been in the family [ uncle] since 1973 and my procession for 7 yrs
only thing I have done is I fitted Hk 6" rims
ROSS

How 'bout that. I have a HK 327 that I've had for 37 years. Even had a full head of hair when I bought it. It's Picardy Red with Black trim. Went mad in the late eighties and chromed a lot of things. Now having the chrome taken off and going back to zinc.
Bob W

Well check out you lucky bragging pair eh???!!! Lucky buggers....

Bob if you are going all original on the car, you should do yourself a favour and pop into a Spotlight store and retro-fit some hair on your head. Great range of mullets on offer, they possibly flopped a mullet mold off the 1973 version of you????? Jon.

The Monaro tow car at Lake Leake.

Hey Hooks,
Thanks for the tip ….. went to Spotlite but they were all out of mullets, said some bloke in Victoria has been buying them all up.

And here's my Monaro tow car. Would have been around '78 I think. Pic was probably taken on a Kodak Instamatic, which was all the rage back then.

Very nice Bob.
What was that REKLAW hull & motor?

ARRRRR the good ol days !!!That was a shocking road into lake leake.
Thanks for the pic Dave !!

Hi Dave,
The skiff was an Everingham, ply planks, about 15" from memory. Very similar to the Flea, but in skiff format. It ran a 144 CI Falcon motor with Hilborn injection, ran on methanol etc. If you're familiar with Renegade, it was much the same except Renegade is a Lewis. They raced against each other on many occasion, but that was before I owned it.

Ross, apologies for hijacking your Shed Thread.

Bob W