| Owner: | Adam S. |
| Car: | 1967 HR Holden sedan |
| Colour: | Blood Orange |
| Specs: | 202 holden six cylinder mildly worked, Celica 5 spd gearbox, Lowered suspension, Dragway mags |
The HR was my first car which I bought when I was 17 and a half for $1500. It was all original except for extractors and exhaust, all the way down to 4 ½ inch rims, drum brakes all round, three on the tree, 186, bench seat and baby blue paint. For a roadworthy all it needed was tyres so I got a set of 13 x 6 Torry wheels, colour coded them to the car, got some good rubber and away I went, the first modification of many! For economy I put it on LPG and had cheap cruising for a couple of years.
After a year or two, the old three speed was very tired from a P-plater thrashing it so I bought another HR for parts, from which I swapped over an Aussie four speed gearbox which was heaps better. It also had genuine HR front discs so I rebuilt the calipers and whacked them on as well as commodore bucket seats, X2 instrument cluster, and the 13 x 7 Dragways which I’m still running now. This all kept me going for another year or so until I blew the 4 speed up then a mate at work had a Celica 5 speed conversion for sale, so I picked that up and put it in with a one-tonner clutch. It made the car feel like a brand new car, one of the best mod’s I’ve done.
Then came my first engine build because I wanted more power. I started with a 179 HP bottom end which I put rings and bearings in, and then also picked up a 161 high comp head from my cousin which I cleaned up and put on along with a Crow cam. It all started fine until it went bang after only 5 minutes, which I found out that higher lift cams need different valve springs!!! It had put a push rod through the rocker arm. Fixed that up with some Crow valve springs. Started it all up again and it was all sweet. Pretty good for my first engine, ran a 16.5 sec quarter mile.
Kept it like that for a while and then the body needed some attention so I took the plunge and decided to paint in really bright Blood Orange. Stripped it down and got it re-sprayed at Fern-glen Panels by Johnny. Got it all back home and reassembled it all with new rubbers and I now had a really cool ride. Since then have dropped it two inches and dropped in a worked 202, and just basically mucked around with it as you do. Also from becoming a mechanic over this time I reckon I’ve leant a lot more from tinkering with my own car than from my apprenticeship as well a having a heap of fun building it.
- Adam Schaap (Scrapie)
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