This is the original 1968 brochure for the now infamous Holden Monaro. The Australian muscle car became sacred-poster-material on every Australian boy’s bedroom wall, it saw production from 1968 till 1977 and was then revived in 2001 till 2005.
The 2001 version was rebadged by Pontiac in the US and sold as the GTO, it was also sold in Europe, South Africa and the Middle-East making it the most successful Australian production car ever made. It was featured a number of times on the British television show “Top Gear” and won rapturous praise from Jeremy Clarkson.
This is the full brochure in HD and in sequential order, scroll down and click any image for the full-scale version.
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This 1973 Ford Mustang was built to race in the Trans Am series, with a heavy duty tubular frame developed by the Le Mans-winning Ford GT40 veterans at Kar Kraft, a highly modified Windsor 351 V8 built by Jack Roush, a close-ratio 4-speed transmission with a Hurst shifter, and a 4.11:1 locked differential. From a…
The Postie Bike is an Australian institution, they’re a lightly modified version of the Honda CT110 specifically built for Australia Post – an Australian government institution famous for its ability to find new and creative ways to not deliver your mail. This custom Postie Bike chopper was built as a collaborative effort between the Rising…
The California Star has always been a controversial car, it was built in the early 1980s as a modern day interpretation of the Ford Model T Roadster using a full space frame chassis, competition grade suspension and Wilwood brake calipers, a mid-mounted turbocharged engine, Porsche 911 rack and pinion steering, and a hand-formed aluminum body….
The story of the Africar is worthy of a Hollywood film, it involves millions of dollars, a Cambridge-educated engineering genius, a film crew, a global adventure, a wildly unusual automobile, and ultimately, a controversial prison sentence. Tony Howarth, and A Dream of a Car for Africa The Africar was the vision of Englishman Tony…
The AeroPod is a creation by master craftsman Dean Jackson, he was inspired by the design of classic cars like the Bugatti Type 57, the Duesenberg SSJ, and the SS Jaguar 100, and he wanted to bring some of that elegance into people’s homes. Jackson has been building bespoke furniture since the early 1980s, over…
The White M16 MGMC Half-Track was originally developed to fulfill an anti-aircraft role during WW2, with its M45 Quadmount of Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns. It soon found favour with infantry troops thanks to its ability to cut down considerable numbers of enemy soldiers and vehicles at some distance, Allied troops nicknamed the White…
