Thanks Charles, this is fascinating. Big Aussie sedans were assembled in South Africa for a few years during the late 1960s and early '70s. And they included some of the top performance machines, but they carried different names. The XY Falcon GT was one of them, but it was branded as a Fairmont GT, and the Holden Monaro, as below, was called a Chevrolet SS. I believe the Monaro had 4 headlights? There were a few changes on the Falcon too.
In the last decade or so as values of Falcon GTs and Monaros have gone nuts people have been finding examples in SA and importing them to Aus and NZ.
Originally Posted by Chaswin
The "Boer Ferrari".
Australian Holdens were on sale in SA in the 1970's. There was the 4 door "Premier" - available with a V8 of 5.0 litres and 2 speed automatic - or the 2 door "Monaro", presumably built on the same platform. The V8 Monaro's were very popular as racing saloons, even if the handling was a bit tractor like. They also sounded excellent. Transvaal Motors was a long time entrant of this Monaro. Note the vinyl roof - very period. 5 litre V8, 240bhp and 0-100kph in 7.7 seconds. Decent figures for 1970 for the standard machine. This one was a little quicker! (A "boer" is Afrikaans for farmer).
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