The Holden Monaro ( / məˈnɑːroʊ / Mon-AH-ro) is a car which was manufactured by General Motors ' Australian division Holden. It has a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and was produced with a two-door coupé body from 1968 to 1975 and again from 2001 to 2006 and with a 4-door sedan body from 1973 to 1977. It may come as a surprise to learn that 4574 HJ Monaro sedans were built with just 943 coupes rolling out of the factory. Which brings us to the car being auctioned at Turners Napier. It was sold new in NZ in 1976, has the more desirable 308ci V8 (the American sourced 350 having been dropped for the HJ) and an auto trans.
MUSCLE CAR COLLECTION HQ Monaro GTS 4 1973
Holden HQ Monaro 4 Door Recent Additions: 427 AC Cobra Phil Hill Richie Ginther The Nurburgring Plymouth Volare Owen Magnetic Pocono Olds Omega Barney Oldfield Roger Penske Peerless The Offenhauser Story SPA-Francorchamps Ontario Motor Speedway Wolfgang von Trips Oldsmobile Studebaker George Selden Zandvoort ZIS and ZIL Franklin A. J. Foyt Holden HQ Monaro GTS 4 Door Reviewed by Unique Cars and Parts Our Rating: 4 Holden's First Performance 4-Door Inevitably, the trendsetting two-door Monaro had such a strong influence on the rest of the Holden range that sedans took on a similarly sleek look. 13 Holden Monaro 4 door cars for sale or order in Australia Save my search Sort by: Featured Refine Search Clear All Make Holden Model Monaro Badge Series Version Location Year Price Finance Odometer Fuel / Electric Transmission New / Used Keywords Engine Electric Style Body Type Colour Seats Doors 4 Features Lifestyles Other The final four door HQ Monaro GTS 350 examples still made a fabulous farewell to the Chevrolet small block V8 with Salisbury rear axle, Muncie four speed and 70 series radials. DATE OF INTRODUCTION July 1971. Four door sedan - March 1973 PRICES AT TIME OF INTRODUCTION Monaro (2850 cc six & 3 speed manual) - $3120,
1977 Holden HX 4 Door GTS Monaro Original 308 Turbo 400 GregDuggan Shannons Club
The Monaro GTS 350 four door that arrived almost two years later in March 1973 should have been the most desirable version of all. The reasons why it could never match its Falcon GT rival in the desirability stakes and still doesn't, can also explain the beginning of the end of Holden as Australians knew it. The practical four-door sedan was the clear favourite with buyers so to clear the remaining stock of coupe bodies, Holden released a limited edition Monaro coupe designated the LE. The LE used parts from various prestige models including Monaro and Caprice models and strangely, Pontiac-like honeycomb wheel covers. Here we take a look at one of the more fondly remembered variants, the four-door Monaro GTS. That certain something The HJ-series Monaro GTS mightn't have the cache of the 'Bathurst' HK/G/T-series of the late 1960s, and it certainly doesn't have anything like the power of the 350ci Chevrolet-powered HQ-series. But it was a model that. Gallery 1. THE HZ brought Holden's final iteration of the Monaro, albeit with no products actually bearing the revered name, with the four-door sedan trading solely on the GTS moniker. It remained available with both the 4.2- and 5.0-litre V8s until June 1978, when Holden dropped the smaller engine.
1974 Holden HJ MONARO 4 DOOR Shannons Club
Holden Monaro LS Two four-door sedan variants of the Monaro GTS were released in March 1973 [2] and similarly to the SS the new sports sedans were a special vehicle package optioned on a lesser model, in this case on a V8 Kingswood sedan. Option XV4 was the HQ GTS sedan. Option XW8 was the HQ GTS350 sedan. There is a view expressed by critics of late 1970s Monaros that the four-door HZ was a betrayal of model's heritage as Australia's first true muscle car - little more, in effect, than a 'tizzied' up Premier. Well, try this for a contrary take on the HZ's role in performance Holden history.
Search & read all of our Holden Monaro reviews by top motoring journalists. To be present for the return of the Holden Monaro in 2001 was like observing the return of a religious deity. The VT Commodore-based two-door coupe heralded absolute adulation and hysteria when it finally hit showrooms three years after its sensational appearance at the now-defunct Sydney Motor Show in 1998. The final 4-door HQ Monaro GTS 350 examples still made a fabulous farewell to the Chevrolet small block V8 with Salisbury rear axle, Muncie four-speed and 70 series radials. 1974 -1976: Holden HJ Monaro Coupe and 4 Door As a rush of new European models entered the market and Australians were presented with a wider range of choices in general.
1973 HQ Holden Monaro 350 GTS 4 Door Holden muscle cars, Australian muscle cars, Custom muscle
Inevitably, the trendsetting two-door Monaro had such a strong influence on the rest of the Holden range that sedans took on a similarly sleek look. The proc. Model DescriptionWhat we have here is a 1:24 Scale replica of the 1973 Holden 4-door Monaro. This as you will see is very highly designed and built model. So.
