Hi everyone, long-time wagon owner, just found this site when I was searching for info about subs in wagons.. NZ is my home, I am sure there is an international flavour to this site so here is My New Zealand assembled, Australian Holden HQ station wagon. Little old 308 with a few QFT450s, th350 outback and a highway friendly 2.78 rear..
Welcome aboard seeker. Looks like a pretty neat little wagon you have there. I like it. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this one.
Is the Aussie Holden similar to U.S. Chevelle? I think I acquired this thought on here some time ago??? If so then your Holden would be a distant cousin to our Canadian Beaumont. Nice looking wagon you have there. I really like the colour. Glad you found us, welcome aboard
Those are closely related to the larger Opels and P.O.M.mie Vauxhalls. In fact, Canada had her share of older left hand-drive versions of these. Perhaps, most of them on the west coast where salt wasn't strewn in winter?:
Hi t Hi fannie cheers mate. the HQ Monaro is somewhat similar to the US Chevelle, the later 75-79 HJ-HZ is very similar in style to the Monte Carlo. Holden was a GM marque til the end a couple of years back. The colour is a mystery, we have had a similar colour made up for some repairs and mods, but will be resprayed in a couple of years when all the bodywork is done, it was sprayed in 2015 and some poor prep can be seen more and more with every passing year.. but the colour is pretty sweet, especially against the white roof.
Welcome, the colour on your Holden reminds me of a Ford light aquamarine that was on a 68 Fairlane I had years ago.
Difficult to tell in photos, but your green reminds me of the green on this Beaumont. It's called Grecian Green, I'm a big fan of the color. Will you change the color?
Welcome to the Station Wagon Forum, 'theseekerfinds'! Glad to see new folks coming by from New Zealand and Australia. Never been there myself, but my uncle, whom I was named after, emigrated to NZ from England after WW2. I still have a cousin or two over there somewhere - I think Stuart actually went to the big city in Australia, but he travels around a lot, so I don't know for sure. I'm in Oregon myself, after living the first 58 years of my life in Southern California. No wagons in my driveway currently, but I've had a few in the past.... - 1974 Mazda RX-4 rotary-powered wagon - 1985 Mercury Grand Marquis Colony Park - 2000 Audi A6 Avant - 2003 Ford Focus ZTW - 1981 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Tell us all about it! Marshall
For sure. I basically couldn't do anything myself on it - way too complicated, and EVERYTHING was hard to access. First, I got water in the passenger footwell. It was a clogged cowl drain. Shop had to pull part of the interior and dry out the carpet. Then there were more troubles, which I can't remember the specifics of. But I do remember that EVERY time the dealer touched the wagon, for whatever it was, the bill was at least $1,000...... And I LOVED driving it. Best handling vehicle I ever had. Finally decided I couldn't throw any more money at it, so I traded it in on the nice blue Focus wagon I had for years.
The A6 I inheritted leaked through the electric sunroof that wouldn't close. The dealer did a temporary fix (the sunroof still hung up, when I got it) and they removed all carpetting and insulation, to hang dry. It costed a total of 1.600€. If I recall right, it had around only 115.000 kilometers, at the time I sold it. It was getting biologically old, when the drive shaft bellows started to deteriorate. Electrical gadgets were starting to get troublesome. It seemed, just about every week, something would come up. So, I sold it, before it became an irreversable money pit Had to be a gasoline-fueled example. Mine had the much heavier-blocked turbodiesel V-6 which made it quite imbalanced in favor of the front. The A4s with their lighter 4-cylinder turbodiesels handle better and still are quick
I see a closer resemblance of the older ones with older Chevrolets. From a distance, this could almost pass for a '53 Bel-Aire
