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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Rescued Holden HQ – reader’s car of the week

Family-owned since new, this HQ has been given a new lease on life

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Summernats

SURVIVOR BLOWN BIG-BLOCK MONARO AT SUMMERNATS – GFORCE JUNKIE

Stored away in a shed for almost three decades, the GFORC3 JUNKIE blown big-block HK Monaro is back and ready to turn heads once again

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434-Cube Holden HK Monaro

You’d be hostile too if you crashed your HK Monaro. Fortunately Eddy Jausnik now has an even better one

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10-second LS-powered Holdens: VK Commodore and turbo Monaro CV8 sleeper

Tony Rohr and his son Pete each have a 10-second LS-powered Holden

9 years ago

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2400rwhp turbo LSX-powered 2005 Pontiac GTO

WA’s Rob Salvador wanted to have the quickest LS-powered car in Oz

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ELITE-LEVEL BLOWN HOLDEN HQ MONARO GTS – HUMBLE

An elite Holden HQ Monaro GTS with Summernats Grand Champion-sized ambitions

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Lloyds December Classic Car Auction– Astill Mustang, HT GTS Monaro, LX hatch and more

Howard Astil-built custom Ford Mustang among the oldies up for grabs at this month’s Lloyds Auction

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630CI HOLDEN HK GTS MONARO – READER’S CAR OF THE WEEK

630ci Merlin Chev-powered HK Monaro GTS runs five-second eighth-miles

9 years ago

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Home-built Holden HT Monaro GTS

Not every car build project is a tale of agony and hard luck

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350-cube custom 1973 Holden HQ Monaro – MR HP

Sure, this Holden HQ Monaro was built for the show circuit. But only until it hits the street

9 years ago

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Rescued LS2-powered 1970 Holden HG Monaro

Long after it’d died a natural death, this Holden HG Monaro came back to life

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Bare-metal Holden HQ Monaro ‘Sicko’ in the build

Looking back at the radical rebirth of a much-loved former SM HQ Monaro cover car in the build

9 years ago

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Blown WB-fronted custom 1974 Holden HQ GTS Monaro – TUFF HQ

Holden WB Caprice front end on this HQ Monaro is only part of the story. Wait ’til you see the inside

9 years ago

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Brendan Cherry’s twin-turbo 1968 Holden HK Monaro

Brendan Cherry swaps his AGRO-01 HQ for a show-worthy, big-grunt twin-turbo HK

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Events

Lloyds Ford vs Holden auction – video

Classic Holdens and Fords up for auction this weekend at Lloyds on the Gold Coast

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Monaro GTS and Falcon GTHO Phase III Bathurst racers up for auction

Two legendary Bathurst racers from Holden and Ford are set to go under the hammer this weekend

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Lloyds Classic Auction September – VL Walkinshaw, Shelby GT500, Monaro GTS

Classic American and Aussie collectible muscle cars up for grabs at this month’s Lloyds auction

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Street Machine TV

KING OF THE STREET #4 HIGHLIGHTS – VIDEO

Highlights from Tunnel Vision’s King of the Street #4 no prep heads up comp at Ballarat Airport

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555-cube HQ LS Holden Monaro – BADHQ

A $2000 purchase was just the start of the tale of Grant Griffiths’s sweet Holden HQ Monaro

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KING OF THE STREET #4 PREVIEW

The fourth King Of The Street no prep grudge racing event is on this weekend at Ballarat Airport

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