1963 - [60 Years] Holden's Record Year

1983 - [40 Years] The birth of the SS Commodore dynasty

1948 - 75th Anniversary of the birthday of the first Holden car!

A major celebration of some of the recent greatest anniversaries of “Australia’s Own Car” – Holden.

·        > The car that created history in this country just turned 75 and coincided with two other historically significant anniversaries…

·       > 40^th Anniversary of the first SS COMMODORE and Brock’s VH SS range

·     >   60^th Anniversary of Holden’s landmark record year of 1963

·      ·       75^th Anniversary: THE OF THE HOLDEN CAR: 1948
Unveiled by no less than the Australian Prime Minister in November 1948. For this feature we uncovered many behind the scenes, never-before-seen photos of the Holden’s creation and development from our research at GM in Detroit, USA. And explains why this car gave birth to an entire and extensive high-tech manufacturing industry.

This company soared to new heights in 1963, setting a new sales record and commencing Holden’s second great era with the iconic EH Holden.

GM-H was a diverse industrial corporation also: manufacturing household whitegoods (the Frigidaire division), assembling GM’s American Chevrolets and Pontiacs and English Vauxhalls and Bedford trucks, total exported Holdens reaching almost 45,000, a Royal Visit to its Adelaide factory, manufacturing of the millionth Holden.

·     · 40^th Anniversary: THE BIRTH OF THE SS COMMODORE
The SS nameplate became the greatest sports-motoring nameplate in Australian automotive history. Introduced in the HQ range, later extended to LX Torana then onto Commodore in VH. From there S became was also the longest continually running sports option ever seen here. The VH SS was a range in itself, offered as GROUP ONE, TWO and THREE under the roof at Peter Brock’s HDT SPECIAL VEHICLES.

Recently clocking up its 40^th Anniversary this feature story combines stunning studio photography with historical information, official brochures and other imagery.

No other man strode the Australian motor racing and high-performance motoring landscapes than Peter Brock. The father of the greatest vehicle improvement organisation ever seen here, and record-holding 9-time Bathurst winner.

His HDT SPECIAL VEHICLES organisation modified brand new Commodores into the greatest Grand Touring machines never offered before in this country. The 1983 Commodores lifted the standard to a new high with the debut of the Commodore SS GROUP 3. Here its 40^th Anniversary is celebrated with glorious photography and a detailed and insightful investigation of all the elements that were brought together and why it became a legendary Holden.

·    RARE, UNSEEN HOLDEN ARCHIVE PHOTOS
JUST Holdens’ privileged and unfettered access into the historical archives in Australia and General Motors world headquarters in Detroit, USA, this time brings readers some snapshots of Holden’s very successful export programme: with photos from 1963 to 1976 – see Holdens being loaded onto export ships. Plus interior trim manufacturing 1963 at Elizabeth (S.A.) and six cylinder red motors at Fishermen’s Bend and more.

·    HOLDENS FAREWELL BATHURST WIN & "Flick-back thru the Decades"
A snapshot and tribute as the final chequered flag on the more than 52 years of Holdens competing in the highest echelons of Australian motor sports.

·    HOLDEN CLUBS & EVENTS

The “HK-HT-HG HOLDENS” NATIONALS were held in the amazing region of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula. See what happened.

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