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HOLDEN HQ KINGSWOOD WAGON 6CYL
HOLDEN HQ KINGSWOOD WAGON 6CYL
Image provided courtesy of the National Holden Motor Museum Echuca
$25.10
The HOLDEN HQ KINGSWOOD WAGON 6CYL This image is of a 1973 Holden HQ Kingswood Station Wagon displayed at the Echuca Holden Museum. Its livery is in Balmoral Green with white top and Chestnut trim and the car has featured in Survivor Car Australia magazine. This particular HQ was a special factory optioned vehicle with 202 six cylinder, 4 speed, bucket seats, sports console, air chief radio, GTS instrument dash, mud flaps and outback pack. It is believed that this is the only one of its specification.
More broadly the HQ series of 1971 was a completely new design, introducing larger capacity 173-cubic-inch (2.84 L) and 202-cubic-inch (3.3 L) six-cylinder engines, with the continued availability of 253-cubic-inch (4.1 L), 308-cubic-inch (5.0 L) Holden and 350-cubic-inch (5.7 L) Chev V8 engines. HQ was the most radically engineered Holden since the introduction of the original 48-215 model of 23 years prior. It featured a perimeter frame and semi-monocoque construction, and was the first full-size Holden to have coil spring rear suspension. As a cost-saving measure, HQ was only engineered for right-hand drive, hence it was not feasible to sell the car in left-hand drive markets. Thus Holden exports declined from 41,181 in 1973 to just 7,440 in 1975. Over the following years this led to a large decline in export vehicle revenue needed to fund the HQ-HZ series replacement. Despite this, HQ became Holden’s most popular car, selling 485,650 units, a total yet to be surpassed in a Holden. It was however, sold over a longer timeframe than previous models.
At the time, Holden’s then managing director, an American named George Roberts, insisted that the HQ Holdens should “ride like a Cadillac” and that the front suspension be engineered to make the car prone to understeer for “safety reasons”. Advertising of the car promoted its “jet-smooth ride” over rough roads. Notwithstanding persistent criticism from many motoring journalists, this policy persisted with the subsequent HJ and HX facelift models. It was arguable whether Australian buyers favoured this engineering philosophy and it was not until the 1977 HZ facelift that radical changes were made to the suspension to improve handling.
This plate has no embossed characters but has a pressed out embossed border and is made from high quality aluminium and the artwork applied by a dye sublimation process with a lovely gloss finish. They measure 37 x 13 cm, exactly the same as the traditional fully embossed type of plate and look just like our other Aussie made novelty number plates; even the mounting holes are in exactly the same positions, so they can easily be hung on display indoors or outdoors. For protection during delivery we use extra packing materials to ensure they arrive in tip-top condition
If you would like plates made to your own design, we can easily do this for you. Virtually anything you want can be created with our modern digital equipment. The key is good art, and we can do
ANY GRAPHIC! ANY DESIGN! ANY COLOUR!
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