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My first car, a 78 vb bought for $2500 in 92, white with burgundy velour interior , red oil breathing, fuel chewing 202 which took forever to warm up in winter, didn’t want to use the choke too much to save on fuel. I remember the first time I drove away in it from purchase I parked at some shops and could not work out how to put the thing in reverse??? I had to ask a random bloke who showed me how you had to push DOWN on the gear stick, I had only driven Mums 5 speed Corolla seca until then. That was my only Holden, got an xd pano after that and then a Ford Maverick (gq patrol) nd now a gu Patrol. Have only had four cars in 30 years.

Saw a HX V8 Ute still driving around as I came into work today. Be a collectors item.

Chugging away , must burn a heap of fuel, seems like a world away I had a V8, would not touch one now.

gtrxuone wrote:

westaussieguy wrote: Of no surprise really. The writing has been on the wall for some time. Still hard to believe nothing can be done to save it. But as someone said, gm is getting out of right hand drive vehicle production all together. With Australia's dwindling sales, was only a matter of time.
All of which begs the question is it the end of the Bathurst race? What about all the other v8 racing games? It would make a mockery of everything if holden only made special vehicles for racing?
Will Ford follow? One would hope not!
All the dealers will slowly close I would imagine.

GM will still sell the Camaro to HSV for right hand conversion.Like they currently do with the Ram Trucks.
Camaro will race in the v8's + Bathurst. Without Holden factory backing. That's why they won't sell the Holden name so they can sell flags,hats+tshirts at Bathurst.

You wont see the Holden name again, when they say its retired they mean it.

58shark wrote: I had a couple of Toranas and a few Holdens over the years. Best I had was either the HK 186 Ute - spent most of its life in the Kimberlys and was indestructible. Or it was my 97 VS Commodore. Used to go like the clappers and never cost me a cracker outside of running costs.
We had a discussion at work today. A couple of blokes reckon everyone will be ditching Holdens now - no spares, but I think that they will hang on to the good ones as collector vehicles. What do you think?

Judging by past experiences of car companies folding or pulling out it doesn't augur well, they only have to support cars for 10 years, after that its gone, and in the past most haven't even honored the 10 year requirements, things will get scarce and spare parts become a real issue, so like all old models will rely on wreckers.

Don't forget this is an off shore company by next year all local operations will be gone and moved to the USA. So they will be out of reach of local consumer laws.

Basically anything Holden will become a lemon locally, unless you are a die hard collector, most people wont touch them now.

They will have fire-sales at the dealers to off load the last few and other people will start trading or selling those they have pretty quick.

I remember when Leyland closed down here anything Leyland people ran a mile from (the P76 later became a bit of a odd ball collectors item) but not the Marina, and when Mitusbushi closed here, overnight the Magna became a lemon no one wanted, more recently SAAB went bust, who were a nightmare even before repair and pare parts wise, you hardly see any on the road now. Chrysler was another one that packed up and left, the Chargers suddenly began to lose appeal.

Makes it worse that GM are totally walking away from RHD globally and the Aus market.

LH SLR5000 my first car along with a LJ torana for run around work etc
HX panel van - work
VS commodore 5 litre supercharged
VZ SV6 sports commodore
VZ commodore executive is my current run around car when I’m not sipping chardonnay in my merc