Ht monaro

[Jonno]

love that color on the trans.. unless its red and ur camera decided to make it orange

 

[Calaber]

It looks like the correct Chev "engine orange". Holden used their own "engine red" but the Chev colour was a distinct orange.

 

[SP00KSTER]

Hey, a Saginaw! Haven't seen one of those since I sold my HT about a hundred years ago!

Shooter - the instrument panel was more of a satin black, not full gloss, if you are going for originality. Also, the panel had a chromed finish on the raised lip around each dial. I'm pretty sure you can get these things restored by firms that specialise in this sort of stuff, but again, it depends on how far to want to go to keep it original.

Yea mate the dash is a satin black, it looks alot less shiny in the photo it's just for some reason it decided to show up glossy, also the chrome on all the raised edges has not been painted on yet as all we had around the shed bas black and chevy orange paint. Thanks for the input and I'm glad you like the Saginaw, cant beat the old 4 speed.

 

[Calaber]

Yea mate the dash is a satin black, it looks alot less shiny in the photo it's just for some reason it decided to show up glossy, also the chrome on all the raised edges has not been painted on yet as all we had around the shed bas black and chevy orange paint. Thanks for the input and I'm glad you like the Saginaw, cant beat the old 4 speed.

Sag's were a clunky old bastard of a thing but they made all the right noises - whines and clunks. Make sure your selectors are in top order too. They can get sloppy and lead to difficult gear changes - as if they aren't difficult enough when they were in good nick! The problem is caused by the shift mechanism being bolted to the floor, not to the box, so the box moves around with revs and torque and the shifter remains fixed in place. This means worn shifter rods can do nasty things under hard revs. I had an HT GTS with a Saginaw and one night when I was giving it some, I went from 1st to 2nd, then back to 1st by accident, at about 90km/h. The bloody thing went back into first without a problem, but the ol' 253 up front didn't think much of the idea!

 

[SP00KSTER]

thanks mate i will keep that in mind when we are about to stick it back under the car, just to save time so we don't have to pull it back out if it does need anything replaced.

 

[SP00KSTER]

Updates

so weve started pulling parts of the shelves to start cleaning up and also started cleaning up the wiring

 

[HarmlessMuffinMan]

Good luck with that mate. Its going to be awesome

 

[SP00KSTER]

cheers mate yea should be a great cruiser and show car when its done

 

[Calaber]

Shooter

That wiring loom isn't standard - it looks like an aftermarket anti-theft set-up. Also see you scored an auto console top - you must have an interesting pile of spares to work through.

 

[SP00KSTER]

yea mate you are correct on that anti theft set up, the first owner stuck it on so were gonna have to pull out all the wiring for it to take the loom back to standard, as for spares there is no end of different parts for the car so luckily we have engough parts to build the car with spares left over incase something breaks on us.