Holden Monaros... thanks..

[Brock Samson]

So, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say a mid-size chevy or GM product from the very early '70s, maybe Austrialia or South America.. any ideas?  kinda cool lookin but it's really stumped me..

[Tilar]

Too bad you don't have a pic of the front. The front fender looks like it has the cutouts like they put on some of the oldsmobiles and buicks.

At the first look it looks sorta like a 70's LeMans.

[Mopar2Ya]

~1974 Holden. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1971-1974_Holden_HQ_Monaro_GTS.jpg
http://richardlewis.org/pictures/thumbs/pages/monaro/15-hj_monaro.htm

[Tilar]

Interesting looking car. Even if Brock would have had a pic of the front I still wouldn't have known what it was, but it definitely looked like a GM.

[Brock Samson]

 i thank you and a search of google pics turned up this which i belive is the front of that first one..


another factory shot,..



here's a handy dandy monaro spotters guide i found too...
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa306/pictures/thumbs/monaro.htm
does anyone know if any of these were used in any of the MAd MAx movies?..
funny how much the early models remind me of a Pontiac GTO in the wheelhouse and fenders and then that later and most recently the Monro became the new GTO... now Pontiac is defunkt...
wow.. 




thanks again 2ya. 

[Old Moparz]

That's a pretty cool looking car, but the design is definitely confusing. The back does look like the early 70's Pontiac, but the front looks more like a '75 Fury.

[Brock Samson]

i just scanned a ton of threads and sites and pics of holdens some are pretty sweet like this one...



http://richardlewis.is-a-geek.com/monaro72.html

according to the text - it once ran 11s.. 

  In the first years they used alot of chevelle stuff - the hot models were called SSs but about '70 they began using GTO bits and took a quasi chevy/poncho persona,.. kinda ungainly at some angles but they look pretty darn sweet on occasion,..

pehaps we should turn this into a thread for cars from down under...  I'll retitle it and see what she'll do... 

it gets my vote for most impoved interior... 






this one reminds me of a monte carlo

[Jon Smith]

does anyone know if any of these were used in any of the MAd MAx movies?..

the night rider drove one