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While the writing has been on the wall for car forums for a long time, there are still a few people out there flying the forum flag for us tragics. One of them is a talented young bloke by the name o...
While the writing has been on the wall for car forums for a long time, there are still a few people out there flying the forum flag for us tragics. One of them is a talented young bloke by the name o...
Der teuerste aller Pick-up? Australien ist weit weg. Und wir haben Australien auch automobil nicht wirklich auf dem Bildschirm. Dieser Tage lasen wir aber eine Geschichte, dass ein «Ute», also ein Ut...
Holden Hurricane. Photo courtesy GM Media. With last month’s sudden announcement that GM will kill off the Holden brand as it pulls out of right-hand-drive markets, Australian government officials ha...
Photo credit: James Banks Photography via Flickr ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Imagine if the Chevrolet Celebrity was rear-wheel-drive and friendly to small-block swaps. That’s kind of what the Holden Commodore w...
How could we not want to look at something Holden-related this week, given the recent news that General Motors plans to phase out the brand in 2021. Many will argue that Holden really died when local...
SFers, look out for Ralph Ziman’s “ Spoek 1,” a former South African military vehicle that has been abandoned, restored, and decorated by Zulu, Shona and Ndebele artisans, which will appear at this w...
As we mentioned in our recent story about Holden concept cars, General Motors announced plans to wind down sales, engineering, and design operations for its Holden brand in Australia and New Zealand ...
All images courtesy GM Media. For a division that built distinct production cars for nearly 70 years, Holden – which GM officially terminated over the weekend – built surprisingly few concept cars. T...
Photos via Manheim Even though Holden stopped building cars in Australia two years ago, it will nevertheless be possible to buy an Australian-built car from the Australian arm of General Motors when ...
The Chevrolet El Camino died in 1987, the Dodge Rampage’s dim light was extinguished in 1984, and the Ford Ranchero never got to the see the 1980s. For those who love the automotive mullet that is th...
Photo via Travis McKimmie. A little more than a year after threatening to crush one ute enthusiasts’s dream vehicle and throw him in jail for as long as a decade, French Customs authorities instead r...
While there are other races on the Australian Touring Car Championship schedule, other circuits around Oz to turn a tire in anger, it’s Bathurst (technically the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, N...
TheDieselDartGuy showed up on the AACA forums recently to show off the Nissan six-cylinder diesel-powered 1974 Dart he bought new, one of a handful converted shortly after they left the factory to de...
Photos courtesy Travis McKimmie. It’s merely a fluke of the design and manufacturing process for the HG Holden ute: a gap between floorpans not present in sedan or station wagon versions. However, Fr...
What is the scoring system the Telegraph used in its England versus Australia decade-by-decade car comparisons from a few years ago? And how exactly did they choose the cars to represent the decades?...
Photos via Mitch Vickers. Typically, you buy the car first, then the license plate. In Australia, where number plates can be bought and sold separate from a car, one collector of Holden’s luxury mode...
Holden HT Monaro. Images courtesy Holden. As Holden prepares to end production in Australia for good later this month, the GM subsidiary has planned a number of ways to remind Australians of all the ...
Holden-built 1932 Chevrolet boattail prototype for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car was produced by GM for the Australian market with the boat tail wooden pattern body pr...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. A crash and fire might have taken the first Holden Dealer Team-prepped car out of its very first race, but that front-page event also provided the key to the team’...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...