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I dont want to sound dense here guys but what exactly is this car ?

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Mitch.

It was ment to be the closest thing to a V8 supercar for the road. Holden was ment to sell them for around $250,000 each and they had buyers allready lined up for all the cars. They then pulled the plug and refunded all the deposits because they realised that they couldn't build them that cheap as it was costing $500,000 to build each car. Therefore only two remained, the original one Holden showed people to promote the car (the one in my first link I showed) and the other one which is this one at pickles.

My Dads Monaro is heavily modified in every aspect, braking, power, handling etc and the thing is absolutely unreal to drive so I can only imagine what something like the HRT 427 would be.

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i was gonna say something last night about the fact that the one in the auction pics had the 'banana' looking intake manifold (anyone else down with holden v8 lingo? lol) different from the link you posted PM-R33 but i didn't want to look ignorant in case i was wrong

so the guy who paid $920k for the ultimate holden actually got a watered-down street registrable version? ouch :\

i was gonna say something last night about the fact that the one in the auction pics had the 'banana' looking intake manifold (anyone else down with holden v8 lingo? lol) different from the link you posted PM-R33 but i didn't want to look ignorant in case i was wrong

so the guy who paid $920k for the ultimate holden actually got a watered-down street registrable version? ouch :\

Yeah bit of a difference between the two setups.

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the first one looks a lot like a garden variety LS1 to me

second one is tough... those trumpets mmm

Sure as shit looks like an LS7 to me.

One on display by holden has a red engine bay, and Chooka's got black. Unless holden stripped down a rare collectible and repainted it, my money's on it being chooka's.

What the hell wait up. I thought there was only two of them built, one of them is with Holden and the other was bought by old mate in Cairns for $900k. So which one is that?

your mate paid 900k for a Holden?

why pickles? unless times are that tough thought would have it at one of Shannons rare and collctable auctions

Depends on the Finance company that owns the cars now. Besides an auction is an auction, if your looking for collectables or rare cars you have to search all the auctions every week. They pop up everywhere.

your mate paid 900k for a Holden?

Lol first of all I don't actually know him. And the dude is a multi-millionare and owns like 20 (well probably not anymore since have of them appear to be for sale) collectable Monaro's.

Think of it this way. If you had a bullshit amount of money, had everything you wanted in life but enjoyed collecting Skylines (felt like an appropriate car to choose given this website), suddenly Nismo brings out the Z tune but cancels it and only makes 1 model available to the public, why not pay a bullshit amount of money so you can own a one off car that you love, even though your mates can't believe you paid $900k for a Datsun. Every one is different and every one is in a different situation, $900k might be nothing to him but to you and me seems ridiculous

It was ment to be the closest thing to a V8 supercar for the road. Holden was ment to sell them for around $250,000 each and they had buyers allready lined up for all the cars. They then pulled the plug and refunded all the deposits because they realised that they couldn't build them that cheap as it was costing $500,000 to build each car. Therefore only two remained, the original one Holden showed people to promote the car (the one in my first link I showed) and the other one which is this one at pickles.

My Dads Monaro is heavily modified in every aspect, braking, power, handling etc and the thing is absolutely unreal to drive so I can only imagine what something like the HRT 427 would be.

This is true. Such a shame the car never made it to the road because they would have been truly epic. There have been a couple of performance companies offering LS7 conversions on Monaros, however, so it's not impossible to build something close to the same spec. Probably for cheaper than these would have cost too, although not engineered nearly as well.

Lol first of all I don't actually know him. And the dude is a multi-millionare and owns like 20 (well probably not anymore since have of them appear to be for sale) collectable Monaro's.

Think of it this way. If you had a bullshit amount of money, had everything you wanted in life but enjoyed collecting Skylines (felt like an appropriate car to choose given this website), suddenly Nismo brings out the Z tune but cancels it and only makes 1 model available to the public, why not pay a bullshit amount of money so you can own a one off car that you love, even though your mates can't believe you paid $900k for a Datsun. Every one is different and every one is in a different situation, $900k might be nothing to him but to you and me seems ridiculous

Well said mate. Just because you're a multi-millionaire doesn't mean you have to be in Euro gear. Particularly in a country where this brand is better known than any other, limited editions are always going to fetch alot of money / retain their value well. Anyone who writes this off as just a Commodore with a bit of kit...has some dislike for Holden IMO :)

yeah its chooka's, looks like his whole collection is up, as has been mentioned. more tame inlet manifold etc to get it registered i believe

hes a builder from cairns and apparently the building game isnt going to well up there atm, few have come to the conclusion hes going under, hence the sale of the whole collection, and the fact its going through pickles.

Yeah thats a real shame and sadens me to hear. The guy obviously has a deep love with these cars and to have to get rid of them all when in financial hardship must be a truely difficult thing. If some one is willing to pay nearly a million dollars for something that some people (as shown on here) might right off as "nothing but a Holden" means it would have to be a truely difficult descision to sell.

Lol first of all I don't actually know him. And the dude is a multi-millionare and owns like 20 (well probably not anymore since have of them appear to be for sale) collectable Monaro's.

Think of it this way. If you had a bullshit amount of money, had everything you wanted in life but enjoyed collecting Skylines (felt like an appropriate car to choose given this website), suddenly Nismo brings out the Z tune but cancels it and only makes 1 model available to the public, why not pay a bullshit amount of money so you can own a one off car that you love, even though your mates can't believe you paid $900k for a Datsun. Every one is different and every one is in a different situation, $900k might be nothing to him but to you and me seems ridiculous

got ya I get it now, collectors car, I didn't read half the posts (which was obvious).

But if he was spending that much on holdens, then now i understand why he suddenly has them all repossessed...

got ya I get it now, collectors car, I didn't read half the posts (which was obvious).

But if he was spending that much on holdens, then now i understand why he suddenly has them all repossessed...

He was clearly doing something right to be put in the position to buy these cars in the first place. I highly doubt that buying these cars would have had anything to do with whatever he does to make money.

Pure ignorance.

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