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One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« on: May 31, 2020, 04:56:41 PM »
I can remember going for a ride in one of these when I was just a wee tacker.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2020, 06:27:01 PM »
Looks like a Nova on the front and a Chevelle on the back.

Nice!
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2020, 08:18:23 PM »
Looks like a Nova on the front and a Chevelle on the back.

Nice!
And in the first picture the body kinda looks like a Maverick.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2020, 08:50:06 PM »
Looks like a Nova on the front and a Chevelle on the back.

Nice!

Would that make it a Novelle?
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2020, 08:16:27 PM »
Or howbout a Chrysler Valiant Charger?
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2020, 08:47:55 PM »
Got some neat looking cars over there.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2020, 09:10:25 PM »
I really like the Monaro very sharp looking car.

Did Holden have it's own styling studio or was that done by GM in the states?
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2020, 10:07:06 PM »
All done in Oz.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2020, 10:28:44 PM »
Or a ford falcon
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2020, 11:47:16 PM »
Or a ford falcon

Much better looking Falcons than we had here.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2020, 11:58:51 PM »
All done in Oz.

They did a really nice job.

Much better looking Falcons than we had here.

I agree that looks like a Falcon. The US Falcons were decent cars but perhaps would have been more accurately called Ford Pigeons.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2020, 12:07:07 AM »
Or a ford falcon

Torino-ish. Some good-looking cars down there. :great:
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2020, 07:03:54 PM »
Or a Holden Torana GTR XU1.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2020, 07:43:37 PM »
That bears a resemblance to the Opel Kadette (which was a pretty cool little car). Opel was for a long time German GM.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2020, 08:04:10 PM »
They had a 202 ci six with triple su carbs.
The Charger had a 4.3 L six with triple Webbers.

Now Jaffer , don`t get all misty at the mention of su carbies.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2020, 08:45:39 PM »
I will try and restrain myself. But I do wish some of those Holdens had been exported to the US market.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2020, 02:23:16 AM »
Terrible photo I know, it is a screen capture off a video. Falcon 500 station wagon cruising passed me last week while I was auditing temporary traffic management on one of my sites.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2020, 05:11:10 PM »
Looks to me like a 71 Torino wagon with Pinto tail lights.the styling on these cars is real interesting.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2020, 07:44:57 PM »
Holden Torana A9X
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2020, 07:54:26 PM »
That bears a strong resemblance to a Vega.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2020, 08:21:37 PM »
Did they just take our cars and squint and yep we have a new design lol

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2020, 11:16:31 PM »
Better front view of a Falcon 500.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2020, 11:25:45 PM »
Later model - XY Falcon

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2020, 11:26:57 PM »
Back to Holdens - more Toranas

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #24 on: June 04, 2020, 06:15:34 PM »
Ford GTHO Phase 111 Falcon
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2020, 07:17:02 PM »
I watch a New Zealand based police show, Brokenwood Murder Mysterys, in it the chief investigator drives a 1971 Holden Kingswood 4 dr sedan. Which I find to be very Chevy Nova-ish.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2020, 08:03:30 PM »
I watch a New Zealand based police show, Brokenwood Murder Mysterys, in it the chief investigator drives a 1971 Holden Kingswood 4 dr sedan. Which I find to be very Chevy Nova-ish.

That is a very well written show. I particularly like the Russian pathologist. And because NZ is a small place, I know the guy who is the on set safety officer for the last three series. Some of the rural scenes are shot on his farm.
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2020, 08:20:02 PM »
Fern Sutherland is not hard to look at either.

The wife and I are addicted to English murder mysteries, started out with Midsommer Murders and other shows, which led to Canadian based Murdoch Mysteries, the Australian series Phryne Fisher and New Zealand based Brokenwood
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2020, 08:40:43 PM »
I'm guessing these are very hard/ impossible to find here in the states?

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #29 on: June 05, 2020, 01:04:25 AM »
Muddy, I would say only a few ever made it to the US.

GNAP, I agree with you about Fern. I quite like the Phryne Fisher series as well. Another one to look out for is the Canadian series The Frankie Drake Mysteries, another group of women detectives set in the 1920s.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #30 on: June 05, 2020, 06:40:33 AM »
Muddy, I would say only a few ever made it to the US.

GNAP, I agree with you about Fern. I quite like the Phryne Fisher series as well. Another one to look out for is the Canadian series The Frankie Drake Mysteries, another group of women detectives set in the 1920s.


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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #31 on: June 05, 2020, 06:17:57 PM »
Chrysler Centura
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #32 on: June 06, 2020, 03:07:10 AM »
I don't think that one that made it to NZ. Reading the Wikipedia article it sounds like a bit of a bitsa.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #33 on: June 06, 2020, 10:30:36 AM »
Leyland P76
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #34 on: June 18, 2020, 09:46:07 PM »
Holden Torana GTR XUI at full song.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #35 on: June 18, 2020, 09:52:00 PM »
Monaro doing the same thing.

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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #36 on: June 18, 2020, 09:58:39 PM »
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Re: One of my fav OZ muscle cars 1968 HK Monaro
« Reply #37 on: June 18, 2020, 10:00:07 PM »
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