- 2,993
- Brisbane
- jimipitbull
Dear Kaz,
On first glance you may just think that this is just another First Love request, aimed at practicality and originality. Well you are wrong. This is my First Love, my Second car. The bench mark of Three seats, sung to the tune of MTV's Pimp my Ride. If I manage to pull this off, you can play Xzibit.
What Holden put into the WB One Tonner was a level of technology matched only by calculator watches from the 1980s.
Some say it could outrun a speeding bullet. More aerodynamic than a locomotive, able to leap tall speeds in a single hour. That's over 100,000 metres. Per. hour. In fact, with a tail wind it can go even faster.
Max Ellery's factory handbook suggests it's among the last of them built. WB holds the world record for lowest production volume of all Holden models. 60,000 of them, and that includes sedans. And and that was 30 years ago. So using long division techniques from that era, we can improvise that there's probably around 2000 of them that survived.
The three speed trimatic column shift has factory formed linkage, heritage listed with natural aspirations. The 253 cubic inch V8 has the highest concentration of midi-chlorians I have seen on a blue motor. It's possible she was conceived by Statesman de Ville.
3.55 limited slip differential with a mass times acceleration force ratio of 1:1, so driving in the wet is a real problem, especially on grass. This truly is a driver's car, cleverly disguised as a cab chassis ute.
What's all this got to do with the Lunar Rover, you must be thinking? Well there's 384,400 km orbiting this original clock. Holden had to dial up the radials from the tuned suspension used on the VC Commodore, partly due to the radical ignition timing used in the 253. When they put together the first blue motor it was a two headed job, but it was so powerful that the exhaust manifold blew out the exhaust and the inlet manifold sucked. So they stayed with a single exhaust that threw out 8 cylinders in order to lighten the car up even further.
The motor produces almost as much power as two 2.0 litres, which when coupled to the three speed transmission and rear wheel drive, always use your turn signal, wear your seat belt and be a safe driver!
This is a unique opportunity Kaz, Holden WB has never been polygonned. Well, not to my knowledge. One of the rarest Australian vehicles, rating very high cult status by many suburban pubs. Original condition, Second owner.
So please GTP, pimp my ride.
With likes.
By the way, it's her birthday in October. The dirty thirty.
http://www.truckjungle.com/2012/02/02/full-history-hq-wb-holden-one-tonner-1971-1985/
On first glance you may just think that this is just another First Love request, aimed at practicality and originality. Well you are wrong. This is my First Love, my Second car. The bench mark of Three seats, sung to the tune of MTV's Pimp my Ride. If I manage to pull this off, you can play Xzibit.
What Holden put into the WB One Tonner was a level of technology matched only by calculator watches from the 1980s.
Some say it could outrun a speeding bullet. More aerodynamic than a locomotive, able to leap tall speeds in a single hour. That's over 100,000 metres. Per. hour. In fact, with a tail wind it can go even faster.
Max Ellery's factory handbook suggests it's among the last of them built. WB holds the world record for lowest production volume of all Holden models. 60,000 of them, and that includes sedans. And and that was 30 years ago. So using long division techniques from that era, we can improvise that there's probably around 2000 of them that survived.
The three speed trimatic column shift has factory formed linkage, heritage listed with natural aspirations. The 253 cubic inch V8 has the highest concentration of midi-chlorians I have seen on a blue motor. It's possible she was conceived by Statesman de Ville.
3.55 limited slip differential with a mass times acceleration force ratio of 1:1, so driving in the wet is a real problem, especially on grass. This truly is a driver's car, cleverly disguised as a cab chassis ute.
What's all this got to do with the Lunar Rover, you must be thinking? Well there's 384,400 km orbiting this original clock. Holden had to dial up the radials from the tuned suspension used on the VC Commodore, partly due to the radical ignition timing used in the 253. When they put together the first blue motor it was a two headed job, but it was so powerful that the exhaust manifold blew out the exhaust and the inlet manifold sucked. So they stayed with a single exhaust that threw out 8 cylinders in order to lighten the car up even further.
The motor produces almost as much power as two 2.0 litres, which when coupled to the three speed transmission and rear wheel drive, always use your turn signal, wear your seat belt and be a safe driver!
This is a unique opportunity Kaz, Holden WB has never been polygonned. Well, not to my knowledge. One of the rarest Australian vehicles, rating very high cult status by many suburban pubs. Original condition, Second owner.
So please GTP, pimp my ride.
With likes.
By the way, it's her birthday in October. The dirty thirty.
http://www.truckjungle.com/2012/02/02/full-history-hq-wb-holden-one-tonner-1971-1985/
