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Some of the design cues on the first generation Monaro (fastback roofline and wheel arches) were directly lifted from the '66 Toronado.

When was the last time an add was made that gave a CRAP what a man felt like?----OH the good old days!

Edited May 29, 201214 yr by Carguy

Well, most ads care too much about how a woman would feel if you buy their product. Sad but true.

Those were neat looking cars...based on an Opel even then, I think...and the Brazilian version was the Chevy Opala. Not sure, but they appear to be slightly bigger than a Nova in size.

Those were neat looking cars...based on an Opel even then, I think...and the Brazilian version was the Chevy Opala. Not sure, but they appear to be slightly bigger than a Nova in size.

Nope. No Opel involvement back then. In the mid to late 60s (HD and HR family and the HK, HT, and HG family), much of Holden's design cues came from Oldsmobile.

A lot of Oldsmobile designers were brought into Holden when GM head office saw the hideous prototypes for the locally designed EF series (supposed to be released in 1965). The entire EF model was canned, and the quick and dirty Oldsmobile influenced HD model (referred to by many as the "H"astily "D"esigned or "H"olden's "D"isaster model) was cobbled together and released instead. The HR model that followed cleaned up a lot of the HD's less than popular design cues.

The HK, HT, and HG models that followed (the Monaro in the advert is a HK series) all had strong Oldsmobile influences, but by the time the HQ series was being designed for late 1971/early1972 release, the head designer (John Schinella) had just worked on the '70 and '71 Pontiac GTO models and the HQ was designed as a 4 door version of the GTO, with some unique GTO styling features transferred unchanged.

Edited May 29, 201214 yr by JamesB