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05-04-2012, 10:27 PM | #1 | ||
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DRIVE The real 'last Monaro' is finally sold
Joshua Dowling April 5, 2012 - 1:03PM Six years after production ceased, the last Holden coupe is officially off the books. The last Holden Monaro ever made was sold at auction six years ago for $188,000 to raise money for charity. But the last brand-new Monaro in dealer stock was sold only last month for about half the price, almost six years after the car went out of production. The burnt orange HSV GTO Coupe – build number 739 and with just 17km on the clock – was kept by Holden dealer Alan Mance as a collector’s piece. But the dealership in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray was urged by Holden to get the car “off the books” because it was old stock. The official VFACTS sales figures for March 2012 showed the sale of one Monaro – even though the model had not been listed for at least four years. Phillip Mance, the 47-year-old son of Alan Mance and 25-year veteran of the car business, told Drive: “I haven’t even driven it. I reckon it’s a collector’s item. There’s never going to be another two-door coupe made in Australia. Those days are gone. It’s a piece of Australian history.” Mance junior has no plans to drive the car and will not register it. “It’ll stay in the family,” he says. The HSV GTO Coupe had a recommended retail price of about $88,000 when new, but being a Holden dealer the cost of this example is likely to be a little less than that. The Monaro has only done 17km. Alan Mance has been a Holden dealer since 1978. The company also has the last of the Kingswood-based Statesman sedans in its collection. The Last Holden Monaro CV8-Z was built on December 13, 2005 but was resprayed a unique colour and then auctioned for charity on e-Bay in February 2006. That car was bought by a Ford fanatic and collector, Queensland-based Darryl Mattingley. However, after the last Monaro-badged vehicle was made, Holden's Adelaide factory continued to build the two-door coupe in various guises for HSV and for export until 9.37pm on June 14, 2006. Mance’s HSV GTO Coupe has a build date stamp of June 16, 2006 as the date it left Holden Special Vehicles. The last Pontiac versions of the Monaro were exported to North America in a final batch a few days later. Unlike the fanfare surrounding the last Monaro, which was unveiled at the Melbourne motor show and featured in the mainstream media, Holden's final coupe rolled off the production line with no fanfare. A group of nightshift workers gathered around the car and one of their colleagues snapped some photos. The last red coupe was sold as if it were any other Pontiac GTO. At the time, the owner of the last Monaro told Drive he was still happy with his purchase. “Mine is still the last Monaro,” Mattingley said.
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05-04-2012, 11:16 PM | #2 | ||
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i see these drive around all the time god they have aged
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Ill never forget, my ex g/fs is a motoring journo and we were returning a test monaro to Melb and we were followed down the hume highway by a bloody helicopter for about 10kms
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It's a real drivers car and apart from the unique paint, trim and wheels it had its own unique instument cluster which is the statesman instrument cluster with back lit white dials I purchased the second last one that was available in the country at that time and paid $1000 extra for them to hold it or 3 months till my other lease was finished All in all the package is so much nicer than the normal CV8 and leaves you wanting for nothing |
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There's a nice black one in town, definitely something I want..
Nice deep dish black rims to go with it too.
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05-04-2012, 11:17 PM | #12 | ||
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id own one, still a nice car imo.
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Lad at work just sold his for 27 , didn't hold the value like he thought it would . Nice car though .
Good stuff that they are keeping a low k example for the future ...it will be worth a bit in time , though I agree with above - didn't age well :/
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I think they look great, I'd own one for sure. A nice car, badge aside and all that.
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it`s a holden i`d own also , much nicer than the current models.
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I like the Monaro I'll admit. without all the bodykit extra's and such.
But the Efijy is the only Holden I lust for.
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my favorite holden i would one day love to own is the old HK-HG Broughams. love the **** end and tail lights on those things. that would look nice sitting next to an XW GT! I can only dream
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06-04-2012, 01:09 PM | #21 | ||
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Yeh id have one!! Just not in that dated bloody Tiger Mica colour!!
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06-04-2012, 08:39 PM | #23 | ||
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These WILL be collectable. No doubts about it.
Give them twenty years and watch the prices copy what happened to all of the seventies muscle (remember that no one wanted them either in the late eighties / early nineties). Cashed up, fifty year old Gen Ys will be reminiscing hard about the Good ol days of the first decade and wanting to re-live it......just like the baby boomers did ! (We are currently in the twilight of this muscle period, 2016 is the end of it :( )
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2 door Commodore, nothing more, nothing less
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all 2 door versions of the said vehicle were called monaro's, but the gts was also made in 4 door versions too |
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07-04-2012, 04:32 PM | #28 | ||
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Holden fans got the Monaro and we got the AU..
Great looking car.....considering "large coupes" have always failed to be profitable in OZ it's amazing this car actually happened.... |
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