The last Brock Holdens

These are the last Peter Brock Holdens. It’s a fact that’s not widely known but, in the year before his death – the year ’05 – Peter Brock developed a performance package for VY and VZ Holden Commodores, Utes and Monaro CV8s, offering them in Group 1, 2 and 3 variants reminiscent of the old Brock HDT Commodores of the 1980s.

Photoshoot: Chris Currie Images: Derek Bode, Alan Langworthy, Ray Berghouse

Story: Steve Normoyle

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Brock Enhanced. That was the name chosen for the programme, and it fairly summed up what Peter Brock and his team were trying to do. It was never meant to be a direct reprise of the old Brock HDT Special Vehicles business – and in any case HDT continues to this day in a different guise – but rather an alternative high-performance Holden package from what was available elsewhere in 2005, and one which came with the personal touch of Peter Brock.

Unsurprisingly, when word began filtering out about these new ‘Brock Enhanced’ high performance Holdens it attracted its share of interest among potential buyers. Perhaps also unsurprisingly, however, it was met with somewhat less enthusiasm behind closed doors in Port Melbourne.