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.

Bradley See’s Holden HK Monaro GTS

We caught up with Bradley See and his HK Monaro GTS at Red CentreNATS 5

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400-cube 1970 Holden HT Monaro

Plenty of people would have you believe that an HT Monaro is the perfect muscle car. David Galea set out to improve on perfect

HG Monaro at Red CentreNATS

Troy David shows us around his daughter’s stunning Monaro at Red CentreNATS 2020

1000hp LSA-powered 1976 Holden HJ Monaro GTS streeter

Despite numerous setbacks, Shaun Dunstan is transforming his cherry-black HJ GTS Monaro into a 1000hp street-and-strip burner

LS1-powered 1968 Holden HK GTS Monaro

After a lifetime building top-notch race cars, Monty Brown turned his eyes to the open road

Blown LQ9-powered 2004 HSV GTO

HSV’s GTO coupe was always a looker, but we wish they were all built like Robert Guljas’s awesome blown example!

Charlie Jones’s 1969 Holden HT Monaro – BAD69

We spotted Charlie Jones’s old-school HT Monaro laying down reliable 11-second passes at last year’s Holden Nationals in Heathcote

Twin-turbo LS1-powered Holden Monaro CV8 – flashback

Looks like a stock Monaro. Goes like it’s got twin turbos under the bonnet. Funny that

Blown LSX-powered Holden HQ Monaro GTS – MRGM8

Dave Guilfoyle’s genuine Purr-Pull HQ GTS Monaro swapped a 6/71-blown 502ci Chev for a Magnuson-blown 427ci LSX, and we can’t get enough

Turbo 358-cube 1971 Holden HQ GTS coupe

Take a Chevy V8, add a turbo and a little boost and you’ve got a recipe for horsepower

1100hp blown big-block 1972 Holden HQ Monaro LS – 1FATHQ

There’s plenty of thunder once this pitch-black Holden HQ’s 1100hp blown big-block fires up

780hp 1968 Holden HK Monaro GTS

Niko Prommnitz’s 780hp Holden HK Monaro proves you don’t need to go buck-wild with a classic design to build a killer street car

Blown 406-cube 1971 Holden HQ GTS Monaro – BLOWN2DR

A family trip to Australia’s biggest horsepower festival so inspired Noddy Perkins he just had to get a tough, supercharged toy of his own

Blown 1973 Holden HQ Monaro – flashback

Old school – the coolest school of all. Just ask Justin Craig

615ci Pro Street Holden HK Monaro – PRO HK

A Holden HK GTS Monaro that kicks butt on the dyno, in Summernats judging and at Drag Challenge

Daniel Szabolics’s twin-turbo big-block HQ Monaro

Daniel Szabolics’s twin-turbo big-block HQ Monaro packs six-second potential and doorslammer-level power

Project Monaro – the full story

Project Monaro sees Holden breathing new life into its most iconic modern Aussie muscle car – and you could win it!

Szabolics HQ Monaro runs 6.654-seconds @214mph

Daniel Szabolics has set a scorching new PB in his twin-turbo HQ Monaro

Turbo Monaro makes the quickest and fastest pass in Drag Challenge history on amazing Day One

Daniel Szabolics’ epic twin-turbo big-block HQ Monaro broke the Street Machine Drag Challenge ET and MPH records twice on Day One of Drag Challenge 2019!

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Holden’s Project Monaro – part 5

Craig Lowndes puts Project Monaro through its paces at the Lang Lang Proving Ground