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Anyone contemplated going with high quality OEM Holden, GMME Saudi, or HSV replacement clips for the front of your US Monaro to differentate yourself? Front end crashes will happen and the clip will need new headlight housings, urethane etc anyway. People 'clip' their pickups with Escalade, Navigator front ends all the time for about $2k so it seems feasable except for how & who will ship what we need as a 'kit'. I preffer the new HSV lines looks over the PMD GTO's looks any day and see this as a popular mod possibly and a way to shake off the GTO purists hating attitudes towards GM's highest quality car in decades. Face it guys - its not a GTO like PMD marketing wants you to believe - its a left hand drive Monaro. I personally would not mind being part of the Holden 'Lions Den'. I just dont see why the HSV GTO didnt become the actual US car on the outside! I actually like the spoiler on the Aussie car. US cars OEM wing looks like it doesnt even line up right?
It only seems appropriate to do a Lumina since the Saudi Monaros (Lumina SS) are left hand drive anyway and its a Chevy motor under the hood! Its funny how we all hear the Poncho retro 'purists' are mad about the lack of tiny scoops on the US GTO but are ok w/non Poncho Corvette power? Anybody over in OZ have a way of getting the non-GTO gauge clusters, Bowtie steering wheel trim, and bumpers/lighting/emblems? To bad there arent to many photos of the Saudi cars at www.GMME.com The only drawback to doing one of these is dealing with the GTO stitching on the seats. Too bad it wasnt just done on the headrests? As a flipside, the GTO stitching will allow us to build HSV GTO replicas though!! We will need just an airbag cover with the lion head to complete the interior. HSV body kit and headlight housings to do the outside. Same hood right? Oh yhea - wheels..
If GM didnt have all its eggs in one basket w/Monte Carlo tooling/development money in NASCAR and same stupid U.S. C.A.F.E. rules I'm sure in a perfect world Lutz would have a Monaro as the Lumina SS in place here in the US. He would also want the Commodore 4 door to be the Impala SS and the UTE to be the El Camino. I see the UTE coming b/c an Elky is a car platform and will be exempt from future SUV CAFE tariffs that are planned for truck/SUV platforms in the near future. Lutz car dynasty is ripe for explosion based on this fact and the advent of D.O.D. multi valve V-8's. (Actual results for us will vary based on old federal laws - thats it. This is a whole other matter more complex than these facts b/c of tooling/production costs & union/trade issues)
Linky is a must see(dial ups go cook something while it loads)....http://www.hsv.com.au/cars/vy2/y2brochure.pdf Page 6 & 7 is what I'm talkin bout!
It only seems appropriate to do a Lumina since the Saudi Monaros (Lumina SS) are left hand drive anyway and its a Chevy motor under the hood! Its funny how we all hear the Poncho retro 'purists' are mad about the lack of tiny scoops on the US GTO but are ok w/non Poncho Corvette power? Anybody over in OZ have a way of getting the non-GTO gauge clusters, Bowtie steering wheel trim, and bumpers/lighting/emblems? To bad there arent to many photos of the Saudi cars at www.GMME.com The only drawback to doing one of these is dealing with the GTO stitching on the seats. Too bad it wasnt just done on the headrests? As a flipside, the GTO stitching will allow us to build HSV GTO replicas though!! We will need just an airbag cover with the lion head to complete the interior. HSV body kit and headlight housings to do the outside. Same hood right? Oh yhea - wheels..
If GM didnt have all its eggs in one basket w/Monte Carlo tooling/development money in NASCAR and same stupid U.S. C.A.F.E. rules I'm sure in a perfect world Lutz would have a Monaro as the Lumina SS in place here in the US. He would also want the Commodore 4 door to be the Impala SS and the UTE to be the El Camino. I see the UTE coming b/c an Elky is a car platform and will be exempt from future SUV CAFE tariffs that are planned for truck/SUV platforms in the near future. Lutz car dynasty is ripe for explosion based on this fact and the advent of D.O.D. multi valve V-8's. (Actual results for us will vary based on old federal laws - thats it. This is a whole other matter more complex than these facts b/c of tooling/production costs & union/trade issues)
Linky is a must see(dial ups go cook something while it loads)....http://www.hsv.com.au/cars/vy2/y2brochure.pdf Page 6 & 7 is what I'm talkin bout!
