Rods '70 HG Brougham

[Calaber]

Turbo pattern 308's didn't appear until the HJ, after the 350's were dropped from the model line-up. According to my records, the HJ Statesman ran the 308 with TH400. Some time down the track, the TH400 was replaced with the lighter TH350.

 

[Pub247]

Ouch that roof dont look good thats going to be a pain to get it smooth afterwards

 

[Calaber]

Looking at the rust, it seems very serious in the roof and below the rear window. Broughams had a vinyl roof as standard but it was called an "island" vinyl roof because it didn't go right to the front and side edges of the roof, and was finished off with moulding clipped all the way around. It was a "delete option", but very few owners chose to delete them. I can't see any sign of the studs that the clips fitted over, but that rust tells me it was fitted with the vinyl roof. Was that the case?

 

[MR.HG]

No, the first 308's came with the Powerglide in the HT. The HT was introduced in May 1969, the Brougham in June 1969 and the HG came out in July 1970. Those really late HT's I was talking about, would have been amongst the last ones made, probably around June/July 1970.

The 307 in the HT ran out sometime during the second half of 1969. Even though the 308 was available from June 1969 with the Brougham, you couldn't option it in other models until the 307 ran out. I had a 307 HT Premier which was a late 1969 model, but it had the Powerglide.

well what were the trimatics behind in the HTs? what was the first ever 308/trimatic combination?

 

[MR.HG]

Looking at the rust, it seems very serious in the roof and below the rear window. Broughams had a vinyl roof as standard but it was called an "island" vinyl roof because it didn't go right to the front and side edges of the roof, and was finished off with moulding clipped all the way around. It was a "delete option", but very few owners chose to delete them. I can't see any sign of the studs that the clips fitted over, but that rust tells me it was fitted with the vinyl roof. Was that the case?

correct, the studs were ground off when i took the roof to bare metal 10 yrs ago, was never going to replace the vinyl and decided the strip would look ugly on its own

 

[ari666]

so many Q's!!!

have you already started on it? the rear window looks like a repair? looks good. floors look MINT! is it an illusion? is there any chrome left, other than the bars? steering wheel looks sweet you going bench seats? what colour interior

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[Calaber]

I have no idea what the first Trimatic HT's were - they could have been sixes or eights, because they all ran the same bolt pattern, tail-shaft, cross-member, etc as the Powerglide so they were a very easy swap over. It's a very long time since I saw that car with the odd badge - in fact, I suspect it was on an LC Torana, which was introduced in October 1969 and that was when the Trimatic was first introduced to the market. If you bought the LC with a six, you got three auto speeds but you had to wait another seven months or so to get it on the larger cars.

 

[MR.HG]

come chat box lol

 

[MR.HG]

I have no idea what the first Trimatic HT's were - they could have been sixes or eights, because they all ran the same bolt pattern, tail-shaft, cross-member, etc as the Powerglide so they were a very easy swap over. It's a very long time since I saw that car with the odd badge - in fact, I suspect it was on an LC Torana, which was introduced in October 1969 and that was when the Trimatic was first introduced to the market. If you bought the LC with a six, you got three auto speeds but you had to wait another seven months or so to get it on the larger cars.

if they were 8s it would have been 308 as the 307 is a dif pattern

 

[ari666]

thats off a HG:
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