Holden HQ Television Commercial

[adamcharney]

Why the bloody hell did they park their car in a waterfall? Some people just make no sense.

[Jamesnov1970]

I just noticed that many are copying this video, Please give credit where it is due that is all I ask.

[arokh72]

Met a man during my Census duties who has a 1974 HQ Premier with only 70000km on the clock. It is a beautiful vehicle, apparantly his grandkids are arguing over who is going to get it when he passes. Only now the only thing wrong with it is the paint is starting to show signs of wear and tear.

[Giggler99]

I always park my cars underneath waterfalls, do you? :)

[dan1701a]

@fordlandau I kind of thought the rear end looked like a Chevy Impala.

[shaftkilla]

holden had a perfectly good holden kingswood, premier, monaro and statesman, but they replaced them with the piece of shit holden commodores.

[Aussiemarco]

When I was a little kid, our next door neighbours has one of these. Great looking car, but whenever I got a lift in it, it rolled so much it made me seasick! That's little kids for you! Thanks for posting a great memory.

[GanGoz]

Jamesnov1970 I am old enough to have owned and driven both of those cars, my first car was an HQ 202 with a traumatic box and LSD a real race car!!!! NOT. Sold it and got a torana with an L34 spec 308 in a 4 door, not genuine SLR. They are nowhere near the same size.

[SuperPoida]

@demonsbutterfly

HQs dont have fins!!!

what the fuck r u smoking?i want some

[fordlandau]

the lights in the bumper bar were lifted off the equivalent Chevrolet of that time...it was just a styling feature and not practical at all..as to Holden the name ?...Holden and Frost were saddlers and harness makers in Adleaide in the 1890s...soon they began to make buggies and carts..when the new fangled automobile came they started building the bodies for imported chassis by General Motors.. Edward W. Holden pursued the connection and by the mid 1930s, they were a subsidiary of GM.

[JBofBrisbane]

Yeah, great styling, inspired by Chevrolet (but then, wasn't every Holden except the HD and HR?). Suspension and handling was crap until HZ model and RTS. Actually, the Torana was styled to look like the larger Holdens, not the other way round.

[fordlandau]

why is the car parked in a waterfall??

[ticklishtrout]

ah serenity

[asd36f]

My Dad had a mustard yellow HQ. I remember the vinyl seats which got incredibly hot during summer - you had to put a towel down otherwise your legs would get burnt!

[elapxidi]

HQ what sexy cars standard modified the legend will never die will never sell my one xy gt my asshole ford crap

[BEAR55100]

The commercial song ♪The Great Way to Move♪ sounds jauntily and gentrily to me!

[450hp202turbo]

we had holdens in our family  as far back as FJ model , at one stage we had to ht, preims,a wagon and sedan same mint met" green on both with white roof .

[AshtrayI]

When the HQ was being developed in the late 60s the American boss of Holden of the time wanted the new car to ride like a Cadillac, which explains the appalling dynamics which took til 1977s RTS to rectify

[Jac9480]

I Love the HQ the best Holden Ever

[demonsbutterfly]

Why did they build the Brake lights inside the Bumper Bar. What a Ridiculous Invention!!!!

[ozphil]

same reason they had fins on the rear of just about every car in the late 50's/early 60's.......style of the day. look at a 62 Holden.....fins.......yikes

[demonsbutterfly]

Fins are Great on older cars..Space travel Dreams of the day...

[Firehound6264]

Yeah they are bloody hard to see. they corrected it on future models

[demonsbutterfly]

First thing to Break if touched when parking. The HQ Brake lights and indicators were a joke, designed by a clown obviously!!

[Arineisgod]

has anyone ever heard of the holden brothers?

[ozphil]

I think they were the original company Holden, they were originally coach body builders and were merged with General Motors back in about 1947

[ABCD1594]

hq are still to this day THE best built car by holden (FOR LOOKS AND STYLE) and i would give anything to buy a genuine 2 door

[dogonthebox]

the hq holden is my favourite car.they looked better than anything around at that time.especially the premier.gmh was the first local car maker to introduce this shape and styling,everyone else just copied it.the features introduced on it were all new as well.gmh were and still the pioneers of the australian automotive industry.

[jcbeckettnz]

I agree, a great looking car. However it was actually designed by an American & was heavily influenced by Pontiac designs of the time. Holdens have always been branded "the all australian car" but it's more sadly not a lot of local content goes into it. Even Holdens fabled 308 was a copy of the Chevy 307, they just made it themselves to dodge tax laws of the time.

[ozdaren]

haha, i was making more of a comment on the shape. the nose looks similar. my 70s memories are a bit hazy.. i only knew the cars in the 80s.

[Jamesnov1970]

Ok fair enough :)

[TheRealRangaMan]

I've got a HJ myself, nothing on this though

[ozdaren]

looks like an overgrown torana..

[Jamesnov1970]

Wow, I do not agree..

Now tell me, do you know all the models of the torana?

Some are just as big or even the same size as the HQ...

[GanGoz]

@Jamesnov1970 There is no torana model that even came close to the size of the HQ, even the largest torana was only a mid size sedan

[Jamesnov1970]

@GanGoz The SLR 5000 comes very close

[jorologo]

Personally I'm a FORD man. But the HQ Holden Kingswood, Monaro and Sandman was by far the best looking range of cars that Holden rolled off its assembley line. A true blue Australian engineering masterpiece.

[fordlandau]

why are they parked in a waterfall?

seriously.. I remember these coming out in the early 70's and they looked so modern it was as if the space age had arrived in Australia!..All right ..I was only 15 then but these cars looked incredibly modern then!!

[fredfungalspore]

Good to see Chrome again. Plastic and airbags dont do for me.........

[pugpoo]

say what you want but the hq was the most produced car in Australian history so you HQ mockers must be a great car to have made half a million of them.

[BADGTS]

pugpoo you are right mate they made more hq's then any ford's built and out of half a million hq's there where only 8900 hq gts/4 monaro's built.

[KYZA1124]

old adds are funny

we have a 1971 holden kingswoon hg sedan with twin carbs and extractors and a 1978 torana sunbird with a twin barrel carbie and a holly

[Wholelotofshakingoin]

Anyone got this add that hasn't been copied a 100 times.

[clubpenguin777]

We love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden Cars! What a car!

[snoopy99990]

These days for Holden It would be Theatre,Caffe Lattes,Kim Chee and Holden Cars.

[xscotty666x]

stop writing this fucking comment on every holden commercial ad on here you goon its annoying.

hq's are hell anyway :D

[BazzaScrot]

So bad, so so bad. But better then a fuck arse ford.

[clubpenguin777]

what? those cars are so great!!!!!!!

[aussiepride555]

now remember, EVERYTHINGS better than a fuck arse ford...

[ozphil]

look real hard and you can see it rusting right before your eyes

[intheshitter]

haha nice

[JuzzyProX]

This was and is the greatest car

[Jamesnov1970]

Holdens are better those POS Fords

[wikwak67]

@Jamesnov1970 holden stands for (horrible old disgusting engine noise)

[Jamesnov1970]

@wikwak67 well you would rattle too when you get old :P

[vinylman4533]

These were the best Holdens ever. Especially the V8 models and Monaros.

[slk320k]

...I remember as a very young kid the ad "Australians love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars ... ". Does anyone have that one to upload ?

[gmcorvette]

That is my favourite classic Holden shape, especially the Monaro GTS coupe!

[tuppyontoast]

The HQ was one of Holden's purest styling efforts. I love how they exported the body shells to Mazda in Japan. Mazda used to put rotaries in them and sell them as the "Roadpacer" - they were a sort of executive car which were packed with features.

I wonder if any Roadpacers are still running?

[pyw304]

A local wreckers (Blacksoil, near Ipswich, Qld) brought in a couple about 10 years ago.

From Malasia(?).

[JBofBrisbane]

@tuppyontoast - I know it's been three years, but the Roadpacer was actually an HJ Premier body with a Mazda 13B rotary. Japanese registration laws make it prohibitively expensive to register a car more than four years old (making everybody subsidise the Japanese auto industry by buying a new car at least every four years), so I doubt there would be any left running.

[snoopy99990]

Not Bad but Holden's This is It for the Commodore was better.

[Wholelotofshakingoin]

Commodores are a joke compared to the HQ.

[Wholelotofshakingoin]

At least back in these days they showed you the cras features and not just special effects that don't even relate to the vehicle.

[johno01970]

nice ad!