The last HT
David Sheldon featured in the previous issue of AMC as the co-creator of the Holden six-powered Mini Sports Sedan, the ‘Molden’.
After the Molden experiment Sheldon opted for a more conventional avenue of racing: a HT Monaro GTS 350 in Series Production.
The plan was to compete in the 1969 Bathurst 500, with Don Holland as co-driver. The plan hit a snag in practice when the engine started blowing smoke. While their lap times were getting quicker as the two drivers settled into the weekend, at the same time the Monaro’s top speed on Conrod Straight was getting slower and slower.
“They were having a lot of trouble with rings in those engines in that first year,” Sheldon says. “This was when Nick Petrilli was putting Ajax down the bores of his engine trying to get the
