{"id":10634,"date":"2016-12-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/news\/350-cube-1974-holden-hq-ute"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:26:02","slug":"350-cube-1974-holden-hq-ute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/features\/350-cube-1974-holden-hq-ute","title":{"rendered":"John Dwyer\u2019s HQ Holden ute"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Some 17 years ago, John Dwyer purchased this HQ ute from a caravan park on the flood plains of the mighty Murrumbidgee River in his hometown of Narrandera. As he removed chunks of river mud from the Quey’s rusty inner sills that day, he had no idea what he’d let himself in for.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the November 2016 issue of <\/em>Street Machine.<\/p>\n

He had no way of knowing that it would take so long for the ute to again see the light of day, or that it would be finished to such an exacting standard that it would debut at Australia’s premier indoor show, in the company of the finest show cars in the land.<\/p>\n