Great work John. Good to see you getting some old projects “finished” (there’s always something else to do). My HQ has been registered for 15 years and there’s still some things that need doing since the full rebuild. Make sure the kids carry the old Holden mantle.

Love it. Such a shame we don’t have Holdens anymore. Simply good value for money vehicles. Drove well, reliable and looked good. Thanks for sharing

Great to see another ole gurl brought back to life Roothy.. You a gem mate used to watch all your 4wd Action DVDs year's ago John great behaviour right there mate!!!

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate - appreciate that

Bloody beautiful

A good build done right. This thing will go forever 🙌

Great Those old Holden's are piss easy to work on too. Modern vehicles 4x4 included are full of electronics designed to make things harder or impossible for the backyarder. The other side of the coin breakdown on the road is so easy to repair. P.s..... Mum total me to stop feeling things when I was boy!

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more - simple is best, and you've got to cop a feel.

Don't forget to connect the heater hoses to the inlet manifold. Makes it run heaps better, especially when cold.

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Too roight, but we haven't been getting a lot of cold in Queensland lately - still haven't sorted any of the under dash v entilation either...

Good onya roothy, looks exactly like mine did when I got it!

Done an amazing job on that, as you always do roothy 👍👌

Wow Lovely Ep and Ute

Bloody awesome mate

Turned out bloody beautiful roothy and the handbrake of course (karen) Happy Travelling guy's cheers and Beers 🍻 Steveo Queensland ❤️💙

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Beers all round. In ya mate. Thanks.

They see EVERYTHING!

I still dearly miss both my EJ's, my 202 HX Kingswood, my 202 HJ Prem. I was a stupid young kid and stupidly sold them back in the day when they were worth peanuts. Now...sigh...it's like thinking back on your first love. Lovely job there mate, she's a beauty and I have a special place in my heart for the 202. If I had the money, I'd love to own an old Holden, pretty much done with BS, insanely complicated, poor;y built new cars that you can't get parts for 5 years after new. It's a shame though that these cars can't really be driven as dailies anymore because they're so valuable. Of course they're fun to drive and show off on special days.

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

I drive mine most chances I get, including trips to the tip, What gets me is we built these great cars in Australia once, now we make nothing.

Great job that took me back working on the old Holdens

Looks great Roothy. Congratulations. I'd love to bring my FJ Ute over for a play date with the HJ.

Great video mate!

great ute Roothy and well done

Great video Roothy. Job well done.

Awesome stuff love the old holdens, true Ozzie Utes.

Thanks for sharing Roothy as an old mechanic that takes me right back to my youth, beautiful car

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Beauty Al. Appreciate your comment!

Congrats Roothy! Great to see you again!

I enjoy watching you work on an old vehicle again.

Looks good

good old utes had a HQ ute i bought written off by a ford ltd near canberra airport rebuilt it had to cut and shut it to repair it firewall was bent like a banana best ol ute i've had did many trips to alice 'darwin in it

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Yep I was lucky how straight this one was, even tho the steering column had collapsed from too many tracks.

Bloody awesome...my second car was a 1980 WB blue 202 trimatic auto in sian blue...spelling may be wrong. Nice to see that red humming.❤

The balance and blueprint sounded nice and smooth. Good thing about Holden back in the day was there were lots and lots of em parked behind farmers sheds, plenty of parts, sometimes given away, now they’re like gold..

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Yep. I couldn’t believe how hard it was to find basic stuff like a steering column or even a head that wasn’t cracked. The country ran on red motors once.

Thats awesome Mate! the headlights are a sin though haha

What a beaut....., nice one 👊👍

Great content and great ute. Love it thanks roothy

Olds cool

well done - i have a few more honey do's then wifeypo happy and all my projects get a stab,....

Needs to be a modern v8 John, the modern technology, power and fuel effiency is too good to not have.

The HJ didn’t cop all of the ADR27A emissions plumbing that made the HX a thirsty slug. And how thin and panoramic are those A pillars on these!

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

HJ is all Australian too - makes you proud, but makes you wonmder why we can't do shit nowadays....

@bluecent

5 ай бұрын

@@JOHNROOTHROOTHY there’s a lot to be said too for a warmed up Holden 6 in a relatively light weight body free weighty additions.

How could a holden be a hotrod😂 keep to 4wd Roothy

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

I love all machines - always have!

Hi Roothy I've been following your channel a long time. The Holden looks great. Hope you do a few trips in it. But I've got one question, do you still have the Mustard Toyota?

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Yep, we're off on a big trip in the HJ soon - it'll show up here eventually. Yellow truck was sold a couple of years ago to a young family in Melbourne who are loving it - as they should!

@tubbytub2990

5 ай бұрын

@@JOHNROOTHROOTHY If your up on the Atherton Tablelands area let me know, we have a place for you to camp at and some great people who would like to meet you.

202? I recall they were an overbored 186 which tended to put a leg out of bed eventually.

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

That's about right but not so much a leg out as too many got overbored -

Football, Meat Pies Kangaroos and Holden cars That's the way I like it! what you think true blue?

@JOHNROOTHROOTHY

5 ай бұрын

Too bloody right mate!!!