Custom Holden Monaros - Street Machine

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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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

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Supercharged 1972 Holden HQ Monaro coupe

From first love to heartache and a loving reunion, Lennard Vidot and his HQ Monaro have been through it all.

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Video: Forming all-steel wide-body HQ Monaro panels

We follow the step-by-step process of forming the SHQRP HQ’s wide-body custom panels

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Pro Touring HQ Monaro: BUILTQ

Clay Barker’s Pro Touring HQ drives like a new car, but with an 820hp punch

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VIDEO: WIDE BODY SHQRP HQ MONARO

Peter Sharp’s SHQRP HQ wide-body Monaro at Meguiar’s MotorEx

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WHAT THE: HOLDEN HK MONARO FOR SALE IN SERBIA

Imported to Serbia in the 70s and confiscated by communists, this rotten old HK Monaro needs a new home

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VIDEO: wild HQ Monaro heads for Drag Week 2015

If Drag Week had a ‘most spectacular’ award, Greg Trapnell and his HQ Monaro would have to be in contention

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Trophy-winning Holden HT Monaro

Trophy-winner, cruiser and family runaround, Ricky and Tanya Allen’s slick HT Monaro epitomises the term ‘street elite’

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680hp HQ Monaro GTS streeter

Mick Sammut’s 680hp HQ GTS Monaro is built to rumble in the urban jungle

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VIDEO: PEDDERS BUILDS A MAD MAX-STYLE MONARO

With the release of Mad Max: Fury Road a month ago, everything has been going a little bit mad around here – and that includes the guys from Pedders, who have built this big-block HQ Monaro to give away

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