They started life as 1.2L 4 cyl Vauxhall Viva's and some brain at Holden decided to shoehorn the 6 into one and a local legend was born!
The XU1's were homologation specials for Bathurst where they had to sell xxx road versions to get them in!
A bit primative but they were very light...
Fairly close but a little more expensive to do it this way as there was quite a bit of custom work to make the dampers fit a Mk3 as I wanted externally adjustable.
Boso: Not sure which motor I just remember they were very quick and had either twin carbs or triples!
One of our home grown "super cars" back then was an XU1 GTR Torana and the first version had a 186ci pushrod highly tuned I-6 with triple sidedraft carbs that was blisteringly fast for what...
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