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Holden Monaro Pro Mod. A street machine that wants to be a street rod - that's the way one writer described this Australian transplant. Too late model to be a street rod, but too Pro Mod to be a Street Machine. An Australian named Bill Murfin made the 1970 Holden Monaro custom more as a fantasy car than a street fighter ... more a piece of exotic artwork than a mere combustion powered people mover. Murfin, an Australian coachbuilder, designed and built this car. He was a man driven to express perfection in this art form. So driven was he that he risked his health to complete this project working almost round the clock. Then when the car was almost done, a friend pointed out that he had left some of the original body seams on the car. Thinking that looked less than perfect, at that point he went back and started over again. That's why the attention to detail in this car inspires awe and appreciation from those who see it. The handmade alloy grille, bumpers and hood hinges and removable steering wheel and steering column are all made of billet aluminum. There is so much billet on this car that the builder called it ''Billit'' - Australian for humor. See the Amazing List of billet parts below. The engine is a Chevy 427 .030 with Crower fuel injection and a Crower manifold, heads ported to the max. Pistons are forged Manley lumpy tops 13.5:1 with a Crane cam. The exhaust is hand built with 3'' pipes and 2'' hand-made extractor tubes. The project might have stopped there if Murfin had not found a set of perfect mini tubs. Then he got carried away. The rear end is quite frankly a masterpiece. From the TCI convertor through a four-inch tailshaft, power went through the shortened and braced 9-inch differential to Funny Car-type Strange titanium center and 4.77:1 gears. The builder used a 4-link so he could have a back seat in the car. Everything in the suspension is rose jointed. Murfin used a paint called Mango Mist. That inspired such labels in the trade journals as ''Mango Maniac'' and ''Wild Mango.'' Other body mods include: pumped rear guards, Subaru Vortex door handles, billet front and rear bumpers, billet grille, shaved and smoothed tail lights, relocated bootlock and windshield wipers. The interior is as interesting and detailed as the rest of the car. A man named James Carroll redid the cut-down and reshaped Monaro seats in a VP Commodore-type tweed. He used a narrowed VP bench seat in the rear and aerospace harnasses were used. He also did unusual handmade work like the layered door trim and the one-piece fiberglass hoodlining. The headliner is one piece fiberglass covered with Commodore tweed. Murfin cut the alloy dash, then sent it to the U.S. to be fitted with gauges by Dakota Digital. The LEDs are orange to match the color of the car. He also decided to control the TH400 with Hurst Lightning shifters as in the Hurst Olds. After the car had been shown in Australia and made the cover of several magazines, it was taken to the auction in Arizona where it ended up changing hands. Mysteriously, it was never shown again in the U.S. except privately ... until now. At this time the owner has decided to offer it for sale. It has been appraised at $150,000.
Price - $ 100,000 |
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