1972 Holden Monaro [HQ]

1972 Holden Monaro [HQ] in Mad Max, Movie, 1979

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin:

00:03:21 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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Author	Message
ben68 ◊ 2006-01-08 00:35	1972 Holden HQ LS Monaro 2-door
antp ◊ 2006-01-22 18:53
Settpistol ◊ 2007-04-07 07:35	Do you see me, Toecutter? Do you see me, man? Born with a steering wheel in his hand...and lead in his foot. He is the Nightrider...... cruising at the speed of fright! I am the Nightrider, and we ain't never coming back! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine! I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the Nightrider! I am ready. I am ready for your best. You should see the damage, Bronze! Metal damage... ... brain damage! You listening, Bronze? I am the Nightrider! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine. I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am an out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider, baby... ... and it's me and my Marmaduke, The Toecutter, he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one, the mighty hand of vengeance... ... sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rolling dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid... ...lay down a rubber road right to freedom! I'm doing up my '84 camaro as a tribute to this car and it's driver.
Torana Fan ◊ 2007-10-13 02:33	Hi This is not an LS Monaro as some people think. LS monaros had twin light fronts (like HQ premiers)if you notice this car only has a single light front (like HQ Kingswoods have) When car is just about to crash you see an in car shot of the dash (plain no clock)and on the right side next to the spedo the dash reads 'Monaro' and not 'LS Monaro -- Last edit: 2007-10-13 02:35:16
rjluna2 ◊ 2007-10-13 02:41	Torana Fan wrote Hi This is not an LS Monaro as some people think. LS monaros had twin light fronts (like HQ premiers)if you notice this car only has a single light front (like HQ Kingswoods have) When car is just about to crash you see an in car shot of the dash (plain no clock)and on the right side next to the spedo the dash reads 'Monaro' and not 'LS Monaro For this production of this movie, the badge and name were removed and taped over to make it look like a nondescript vehicle. I checked the instrument panel on this movie compare to other Holden Monaro I have looked at the eBay Cars Australia site and did came up with design same as Holden Monaro LS. I don't think Holden did offer base Monaro model. Do you concur with you Valiant1962?
Torana Fan ◊ 2007-10-13 04:33	Hi Holden did make a base monaro as they did in HK-HG monaros. I could not see any taping over on the dash (outside the car anything goes as its been respayed) regardless the nightrider was not going to much further as his fuel gauge was below empty.
antp ◊ 2007-10-13 18:00	Do not forget that all cars of this movie were quite modified and/or old repaired cars
rjluna2 ◊ 2010-05-16 01:26	Here is the instrument panel that I was discussing earlier: This lead me thinking this example is base trim of Holden Monaro [HQ]. This vehicle is powered with manual transmission: Here is one at the underground garage:
1lx304 ◊ 2010-06-08 13:27	Yep looks like a base model to me.
MONARO T ◊ 2010-06-14 07:09	Settpistol wrote Do you see me, Toecutter? Do you see me, man? Born with a steering wheel in his hand...and lead in his foot. He is the Nightrider...... cruising at the speed of fright! I am the Nightrider, and we ain't never coming back! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine! I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the Nightrider! I am ready. I am ready for your best. You should see the damage, Bronze! Metal damage... ... brain damage! You listening, Bronze? I am the Nightrider! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine. I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am an out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider, baby... ... and it's me and my Marmaduke, The Toecutter, he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one, the mighty hand of vengeance... ... sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rolling dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid... ...lay down a rubber road right to freedom! I'm doing up my '84 camaro as a tribute to this car and it's driver.
1lx304 ◊ 2010-09-26 01:25	The movie car was acctually a base model monaro 173ci, column shift auto. when you see the nightriders foot hit the brake, the car is acctually mechanic murry smith's valiant ute. the foot also belongs to murry smith. The movie car was origianlly metalic gold in colour. before kenedy miller wrecked it, the monaro was owned by an old couple and was in absolutley perfect condition before grant page and murry smith put ten years on it by cliping each other and hitting gaurd rails to give it a used/beaten up look. as you can tell by the interior...perfect cond.
rjluna2 ◊ 2010-09-26 02:01	That is an interesting information you have there. What is the source?
1lx304 ◊ 2010-09-26 23:57	The guy who built the nightrider replica had a mate who worked on the film set http://www.madmaxmovies.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9063&start=10
fastbackjon ◊ 2012-01-03 10:19	1lx304 wrote The movie car was acctually a base model monaro 173ci, column shift auto. when you see the nightriders foot hit the brake, the car is acctually mechanic murry smith's valiant ute. That's a nice story, but the pedals do look like Holden pedals, unless the Chrysler Valiant used similar ones. http://www.justclassiccarsparts.com.au/Holden-HQ-HJ-HX-HZ-brake-and-clutch-pedals.html Link to "www.ebay.com.au"
rjluna2 ◊ 2012-01-04 01:46	Here is the thread I found at Nightrider Monaro stating that is the base Holden Monaro. Comments/Rebuttal?
rjluna2 ◊ 2012-04-12 02:28	I found an ad showing the Holden Monaro LS [HQ] at http://gallery.oldholden.com/Jason1973/Car+Ads/image01.jpg.html Does this help?
Nightrider ◊ 2013-06-12 09:33
rjluna2 ◊ 2013-06-12 13:42	Hrmph, I never noticed the upside down ute at the trailer at the last thumbnail provided by Nightrider -- Last edit: 2013-06-12 16:01:34
Nightrider ◊ 2013-06-12 14:41	I never noticed, that speedometer needle was almost out of the dial.)
jpts ◊ 2015-05-18 09:49	The bit where the Pursuit Special comes into contact with Big Bopper was filmed at the intersection of Little River Road and Old Melbourne Road, near Little River, Victoria. The intersection since then has been modified. That and I also noticed that sitting on the dashboard on the driver side of the vehicle was a road map for the State of Victoria. -- Last edit: 2017-10-11 14:21:19
bb73 ◊ 2019-04-29 16:17	The shot of the Nightriders feet at the pedals is in either a HD or HR Holden. The silver accelerator bracket that bends to the left in the top right of shot was unique to those models. The shape/pattern of the visible rubber on the clutch pedal was the type introduced on HD and used through to WB. I know it's a small point but it's too often misquoted as being the pedals of a Valiant or an EJ or something.