Special OCCASION
THE EH HAD A RUST HOLE IN THE REAR FLOORPAN THAT JASON’S MATES WOULD THROW EMPTY ICED COFFEE CARTONS THROUGH
ADELAIDE’s Lonsdale Autoshop has been pumping out killer builds for a few years now. Jason Riding is the main man on the spanners, and in recent years, he’s repowered Mick Cox’s AP6 Safari with late-model Hemi goodness and installed a Coyote V8 in Alan Robson’s Boxwood Green F100, along with all the chassis work required. He’s HiLux-diffed an 808 coupe, six-speed Tremec-ed several Toranas and even rebuilt the suspension on my 1973 Isuzu Bellett GT-R. But one thing he hasn’t done is finish off his stonking EH Holden Special. Until now.
To say it’s been a long time coming is an understatement; Jason has had the car for 30 years.
“My first car was an XR Falcon. It was pretty mint: killer paintwork, Dragway Splatts, XD Falcon seats, a 250ci six. It was worth about $2500 in those days,” Jason recalls. “It was cool, but I wanted an EH.”
Scouring the Trading Post, Jase found just the ticket
