Custom Holden Monaros

Developed from a few scrawls on the wall of Holden’s then-new Technical Centre, awards and accolades quickly followed its release, with the new HK Monaro coupe taking out Wheels magazine’s Car of the Year award in 1968, also winning Holden its first Bathurst and backing it up the following year in the updated HT.

Initially lean and lithe, the Monaro aged like Elvis, getting fatter as the years went on. Technically the Monaro-badged coupe bowed out in 1975 with the HJ Monaro GTS, while nameplate lived-on for a tad longer on the HX GTS Monaro sedan until late in 1977.

The Monaro name returned officially in 2001 with the V2 CV8 Monaro, going through several different interations and also being exported overseas badged as either a Pontiac or Vauxhall, until bowing out with the rest of the VZ range in 2006 to make way for the new VE platform.

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414ci small-block Chev-powered HQ Monaro TUFHQ – video

When the going got tough, Craig Dixon’s TUFHQ got tougher

BARN FIND HK HOLDEN MONARO AT STREET MACHINE SUMMERNATS 30

Check out this crazy shed-find Holden Monaro that has been cruising Street Machine Summernats 30

CULT CAR HEROES OF SUMMERNATS 29 – PART 2

In part two of our Summernats 29 cult heroes, we give a shout-out to three more outsiders who we reckon deserve a pat on the back for their efforts from last year

498-cube big-block 1971 Holden HQ Monaro GTS – ATUFHQ

Bright green and extremely mean: Shannon Jennings’s Holden HQ Monaro is one car you don’t want to make angry

Blown 1969 Holden HT GTS Monaro

Michael Galeski’s 1969 Holden HT GTS Monaro is bagged, blown and bad-arse

1000hp twin-turbo LSX HQ Holden

Greg South’s sweet HQ sedan hides its twin-turbo LS bones so well you’d never pick it for a 1000hp monster.

The wild times of Greg Trapnell’s AGROHQ

Greg Trapnell’s wild Drag Week conquering Holden HQ Monaro

Holden 355 stroker-powered HG Monaro GTS

According to Matt Kernke a cruiser should always run tens, naturally his 355-cube HG Monaro GTS does just that

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441-CUBE NITROUS HG HOLDEN MONARO GTS

Joel Lambert’s HG Holden Monaro GTS is a race-ready 441-cube Chev-powered elite level show car

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SMOTY 2016 #9: JAMIE MCKAY’S 1970 HT HOLDEN MONARO GTS

Valvoline Street Machine of the Year 2016 contender: Jamie McKay’s 1970 HT Holden Monaro GTS

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SMOTY 2016 #15: Dave Guilfoyle’s Holden HQ Monaro GTS

Valvoline Street Machine of the Year 2016 contender: Dave Guilfoyle’s blown big-block 1973 HQ Holden Monaro GTS

383-cube street-and-strip 1971 HoldenHQ Monaro

Check out the curves on Michael Garner’s beautiful 383-cube Chev-powered ’71 Holden HQ Monaro streeter

Leigh Haintz’s blown 1970 HG Holden Monaro

There’s close to 1000hp in Leigh Haintz’s blown, EFIed Holden HG Monaro – just enough to cruise the mean streets of Geelong

400ci chev-powered Holden HT Monaro

After falling in love with the Holden Monaro as a kid, Jamie McKay finally has his own – and it’s a stunning 400-cube Chev-powered street cruiser

Ross Heasley MRBADQ blown HQ Monaro

Ross Heasley talks us through his blown HQ Monaro burnout car and his plans for the future

427-cube HG Holden Monaro

IT’S been a long build, but Jai Ozog couldn’t be happier his HG Monaro

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HG MONARO WITH BLOWN 408CI SMALL-BLOCK

Up close with Leigh Haintz’s stunning blown Holden HG Monaro streeter

Barry Algie’s HT Monaro sports sedan

New Zealand racer Barry Algie spent 10 years turning a burnt-out HT Monaro into this monster Sports Sedan

Black, blown Holden HQ Monaro

There’s nothing quite as sinister as a black on black, blown, tubbed and injected Monaro

HOLDEN HX GTS MONARO: READER’S CAR OF THE WEEK

Steven Lewis’s clean HX GTS Monaro is an Aussie muscle car built and raced in the Red Centre