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Game over: the last Holden

Garry Rogers cheekily likes to think of this as the last new Holden made in Australia. It might not have rolled down the Holden production line, but this 2020 reprise of the GRM Bathurst 24 winning Monaros of 2002-’03 certainly is a new Holden – and what a Holden it is... How ever legitimate the last-Holden claim may be, with this new Monaro 427C the Holden Lion can exit with a mighty roar rather than a whimper. It also brings a whole new meaning to Holden’s 2003 Bathurst 24 victory slogan: Game Over. Photoshoot: Graeme Neander

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Gallery: Adelaide Chrysler Festival 2026

Scenes from the ninth annual Adelaide Chrysler Festival over the weekend of March 20-22, put on by the Chrysler Car Club of South Australia. Images: Bernie Hart/ Motography Media

Purebred orchids

Orchids are renowned as a beautifully flowering plant which can be grown from the stem. This lovely pair of ‘Orchid Metallics’ weren’t created by that method – they were in fact made in a Holden factory – but they share identical Holden DNA and are a matching pair in all respects apart from one of them being a Sandman panel van and the other a Monaro GTS four-door. These painstakingly restored orchid-hued HQs make for a very rare twin-set of Holdens.

Smoking HOs

Oran Park’s 1971 Australian Touring Car Championship final round was dubbed the ‘greatest day in Australian motor racing’. Some say it still is more than 50 years later. Main image: Autopics.com.au