RETRO-FUTURISM

n the 1960s, while obviously popular in this part of the world, Holden wasn’t exactly generating a lot of buzz on the international motoring scene. In fact, most people had probably never heard of the brand, and maybe rightly so. Until the late ’60s, Holden was simply the builder of simple three-box, utilitarian vehicles that did little to excite the imagination or get anyone talking, let alone the hard-to-please international motoring press. Holden wanted to change all that. The first step was to release a desirable car that, while performance orientated and decidedly sleek, was accessible to the everyman Aussie bloke — and that was the HK Monaro,