Hyper-rare 1969 Holden Monaro to fetch $1 million at auction (2024)

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What is the rarest Holden Monaro? ›

The HJ Monaro LS coupé is close to being the rarest regular production car ever made in Australia with only 337 units produced. The HJ Monaro GTS coupé was discontinued during 1975 due to falling demand, 606 examples of the GTS were made.

The price range for the Holden Monaro varies based on the trim level you choose. Starting at $28,160 and going to $33,880 for the latest year the model was manufactured. The model range is available in the following body types starting from the engine/transmission specs shown below.

A classic Holden Monaro has sold at auction over the weekend for $715,000 – short of the expected $1 million. However, the car is deemed so valuable it could be banned from being exported because it is classified as a national treasure. The 1969 Holden Monaro GTS350 V8 was the company's first factory-funded race car.

Helping fill the gap is a decent supply of smaller-engined V8s including a couple of outstanding HK GTS V8s advertised at around $200,000 and a plain-wrapper Monaro with factory V8 at $100,000. More concerning is the number of 'repowered' cars in the market at prices approaching the money being sought for genuine ones.

Despite the less than sizzling engine in the road car, A9Xs rank alongside GTS Monaros as the most sought after of hot Holdens. Little wonder, as it features the ultimate set of Australian muscle car ingredients.

THE rarest Holden Monaro never built is up for sale and it's expected to fetch $1million even though it can't be registered. Spare $1m for a rare Monaro? It's the car Holden Special Vehicles hand-crafted when it was planning a limited edition, super high-performance version of the Monaro coupe, the HRT 427.

A rare 1968 Holden HK GTS Monaro 327, used for the school run and to cart irrigation, has sold at auction for $200,000 in Bundaberg.

Named after the Monaro region in New South Wales, the Monaro was introduced in July 1968 as a two-door pillarless hardtop coupe available in three models: the basic Monaro coupe, Monaro 'GTS' coupe & Monaro 'GTS 327' coupe.

Despite an end to production of the Holden Monaro-badged coupe it remained in production for HSV and for export markets until 14 June 2006 when the last model, a Pontiac GTO, quietly rolled off the production line bound for the US.

What is the most expensive classic car sold at auction? ›

A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé is the most expensive car ever sold, having gone under the hammer for a staggering $135m in 2022 - the equivalent of £114.4m. Previously owned by Mercedes-Benz, the car was sold by RM Sotheby's at the Mercedes-Benz Museum to an anonymous buyer.

1968 Holden Monaro Pricing and Specs

The Holden Monaro 1968 prices range from $4,180 for the basic trim level Coupe Monaro base to. The Holden Monaro 1968 comes in Coupe.

Holden HT Belmont, Kingswood and Premier models were introduced in May 1969, replacing their Holden HK series equivalents which had been in production since 1968.

Production figures for the Monaro are a little uncertain but it would appear no more than 800 HQ Monaro GTS sedans were made with the 350-cid V8, of which an estimated 200 came with the Muncie four-speed 'box (from the total HQ Monaro GTS production of 13,000), with survivors few and far between and it has long been ...

In 2021, a HSV Maloo GTSR W1 ute – just four official examples of which were built and sold to HSV board members and the company's most loyal customers – sold for $1,050,000, becoming the most valuable Australian car sold at auction.

Which is the most expensive and rarest car in the world? The most rarest car in the world is the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé. Only two of these cars were ever built, and one of them was sold at auction in 2022 for $142.9 million (AED 524,884,561).