The classic/fave car thread

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I bought a second hand HG Holden with a red 186 motor

I learnt all my early stuff rebuilding the old grey or red motors, would make some pocket money helping my neighbour service cars at the weekend as a side gig. He was a GMH production line foreman, worked on lots of FB and EJ models initially.

Did quite a few red motors, recall a couple of favs were HK Monaro and Broughams we upgraded from 186 to 253 or 308. The 253 was a special job as this was using aftermarket mounting blocks and a special tranny transom, I think in the end the 253s were probably my favourite.