The Roaring Season

Here's a couple of pics of Bill's first HT 350, (prior to the Daytona Bronze example) pictured at Levin, 1970? or 71?. Myself and brother Ian on the right. (Photo at top is a projected slide I photographed with my phone hence the rippled stripe) Hi Alan Nice pictures of the HT. Do you have any ...

Thanks John
I see what you mean sounds like a big job
will leave it for a while i am at the other end of the country.
The long term plan is to repaint the Monaro Daytona Bronze and display it with pictures of it racing.
Will have to save up some money first.

Thanks John
Are the Peter Hannahs collection and Bruce McLaren Trust images on this site or somewhere else.

Thanks
Lindsay

Here are some pictures of what Bill Mintys HT 350 GTS Monaro looks like now. Colour has changed from Daytona Bronze to Red. Bill Mintys name is the second on the Ownership Papers. Original Number plate is DM 1713. the plate is with the car but not regestered on it. W small 1.jpg small 2.jpg small 3 ...

I was lucky buying mine when the market was very low, about 3 years then it will be paid off. Great if you can find some hustler wheels. They would have to be 7 inch wide to fit inside the rear guards. Unless I take off the tramp rods then I could go wider,

That's amazing same owner for 40 years. Still paying off the Monaro, still working some weekends. I am having a hard time trying to find a set of Hustler wheels , Seems like everybody is after them.

Hi John.
Did you see on Trade Me today a HG 350 Bathurst Monaro sold for $150,300.
Good to see there is a solid following for these muscle Cars

009.JPG 008.JPG I have a monaro that was raced in the Castrol GTX series 1972. I have had a few members look for some pictures of the Monaro racing. This Thread could be the right one hopefully some members have some photo's of the Monaro. Its a 1969 HT Monaro GTS 350, Raced by Bill Minty. Denis ...

Thanks Mark, I have already replaced the U-Bolts with 8.8 Grade Nuts & Bolts.
I will have to check the welds and see how they are. The Monaro has only covered 135K Miles so hopefully its ok.
But Bill Minty did a bit of racing in the Monaro so I better be careful.

I am working the next 2 weekends. Not a bad investment if I can get The Monaro to double in value every 2 years. Looks like I will have to fit a Muncie as the Saginaw is making bad noises in First gear.

Hi John, A quick question for you. I have reset the rear leaf springs and put in new bushes on my HT Monaro. The leaf springs are held on with long U bolts , when I check the manual short nuts and bolts are used instead. I am guessing a previous owner had lowered the car so used the U bolts, there ...

Hi John, That's a good price for your hK steering wheel, I see rare spares have them for over $700, Is the HT Steering wheel the same as the HK, With my wheel it has been fixed as the plastic is cracked and has been filled in, Look bad, Cheers

Does anyone out there know where I can a set of Hustler wheels. Would need to be Holden HT stud patten, 14X7 inch any wider and they will rub on the guards. I could remove the Tramp rods then I could fit a wider wheel but I think it would be very hard to find a hustler wheel with the right offset. I ...

Hey Daryn, I know the feeling. There is a lot of information on this site and helpful people. I discovered my 350 Monaro had been raced in the Castrol GTX Production Car Series, I knew it has some racing history when I bought it, But found a lot more information on this site and confirmed it was a ...

The door locks on the Monaro don't always work, So I have bought new ones, With the GMH import history that John got for me it gave me the Key Lock numbers and the same number is stamped on some of the locking parts.
I am amazed at how many things you can check to confirm a original Monaro.

I would have thought with the work put into the Monaro Bill would have raced it for longer. Did you find any information on Denis Hamill who bought the Monaro from Bill Minty?.
Trade me is a good place to buy Monaro parts. I have bought a few Monaro parts here including a mint condition Bonnet.

Your Monaro is taking shape now, I am guessing you have a donor Car to get a lot of part off?

Hi there
I have searched this site and Denis Hamill's name does appear on this site a few times, He did own this Monaro after Bill Minty sold it,
Looks like Denis raced Saloon Cars.
Does anyone know if Denis raced the Monaro in the or just drove it in the 9 months he owned it.

Hi John, Thanks for the information, I may have the answer, On the ownership papers it appears Bill Minty has sold the Monaro. The change of ownership date is 12 March 1972. The new owner was Denis Hamill from Paratoetoe, He owned the monaro for 6 months Would be good to know if this guy raced the ...

John- hopefully you can find some more race history. Check out my Monaro fuel tank it has a big patch cut out of it. I am guessing something was fitted there to speed up the rufueling when racing. It takes ages to full that tank at the petrol station and also cost a lot of money. [ATTACH]21025 ...