The worst Kingswood. Bad brakes. Bad handling. Puny engines.

Too bad we can't have such good outward visability in todays cars, would make them safer with the blindspots.

The next model Torana ended up being bigger in size in order to compete against Chrysler Centura and Ford Cortina?

They shouldn't have.

One of the best looking Holdens ever. Handled like a bucket of bolts. My dad had an orange one, bought new in 1971.

Just after the 1972 Bathurst win

I had one.... What a mistake, after that horrible experience I went to Japanese made cars and never looked back.

it was the ( AUSTRALIA 6 ) GM bought them out and so got the inline straight 6 cdlr patent

Was this 85? What does SL stand for?

Dad told me Kingswoods were at the 1972 Non-Aligned summit in Sri Lanka for the dignatries. I think this was a very good car and he said that these stood out to him when he was a child waving a flag to the cars

The last of the real Statesman's. The WB was a fitting tribute to saying hooroo to what started in 1971 as the HQ.

Even as a ford man. The HQ was one of the best cars we made hands down. SO was the HJ even the Hx and so on

Who here still owns a Holden and knows that Holden will always be Australia’s car

GMH wanted to build a modern revolutionary car to replace the HQ series and the Kingswood. But they built the Commodore instead.

Go better

Go better

Go better

Awesome

my mum had one of these back in the days

WOW that’s old

I used this at the start of a yr12 high school graduation video, it turned out to be the funniest of the day. Thanks mate for uploading this, it's a great hit of nostalgia from before I was born.

They dont make em like they used to. In holdens case, they just don't make 'em.

leader of luxury? Putting Lipstick on something from the 70s wasn't luxury.. The Fairlaine/ LTD weren't amazing either but a dam site better than this monstrosity.

we inherited a camira, bit of a lemin really. heavy steering, no power, issues starting it that nobodh could fix

Love how this is an “official” Holden KZbin page and nobody in their team even bothered to check what year it was from (let alone what years they built Camira)...

Holden get ur act together start building cars again or supply old parts dayumm I need parts for my VH commodore guys

Yes & Holden built the VN Commodore for that reason - Australians wanted a larger car. I found that driving a VL Commodore sedan was o.k. when I've been single but my VY SS Commodore has a lot more room in it than they do for a family sedan than the earlier cars did. I'm not sure what the General did with the ZB Commodore but I think it's the same thing again as that !

There world class standards was in my old man's 1974 504 Peugeot, as standard equipment not paid options 12 years earlier

Absolute woeful engines with no effort to adapt properly to ADR27A. My aunt had a new HX Premier that stalled out on the Harbour Bridge. She never went back to Holden. It's as though Holden wanted to die then.

The water proofing was not up to driving in waterfalls.

How many Camiras did you ever see towing something? Lol.

I had the model after this......a VK wagon. The Trimatic in it was a piece of shit. The engine had a pinging problem once it reached operating temperature as the engine management computer was no longer operating correctly. There was a panel of switches on the dash to the left of the main gauges that operated minor things such as rear window wiper and heated rear window........and not one of them still worked! An HG Kingswood that I owned prior to the VK was a better car, but I guess it was an earlier design, and had less to go wrong.

Poor quality visuals .. this was the 70's ...not 1870's sounds like John Laws doing the voice over ?..anyway I had a HQ for 15 years ..did the job. Sold it for $400 20 years ago.

That’s cool i want to repaint my holden premier hq. May i know what of original paint that u used for car ? Regards from bali

My aunt borrowed my dads HX Kingswood in 1979 and was involved in a six car crash that included a truck and Toyota landcruiser of the time.The Kingswood was unrecognizable.How my aunt came out of that car alive I will never know?

Are you sure this was assembly at Holden I don’t remember any Holdens with wooden spoke wheels and fenders like that

Beginning of the end for Holden? Pushrod six. Crappy drum brakes? sloppy steering, poorer workmanship, fewer features. The Japanese sixes by then were OHC and better features and build - even though they looked awful. But, I suppose these cars could be modified from stock to be decent. They had a pretty decent simple and handsome style. Kind of like a more modest version of a yank tank at the time. Fit new carbs or even f.i. . Extractors. Better springs? The 253 V8 would be OK. They had front discs? I reckon, when 1977 came around, they knew the end was nigh. The Commodore was really just a compact European car and nothing like the Ford XD which was Aussie sedan size.

We love you forever & hate Genarel Motors!

One of the worst Holdens. Emission control system was a power destroyer. Sloppy handling. Bad brakes. The HZ was rushed in to introduce radial tuned suspension and a better handling car.

"... And an optional electronic fuel-injected engine"... Uhhh, optional? I'll take one with an engine thanks!

I had a HX premier with 4.2 V8. Worst car I ever owned. Gutless and the handling was downright dangerous.

HOLDEN is gone completely now.

Having gotten laid several times in the back of a red one of those Camira wagons back in the day, I wholeheartedly 👍 this !!!!!!!!!!!

The HX Kingswood and LX Torana had possibly the brightest, in your face colour choices of any Aussie cars in the history of local manufacturing. Who can forget the greens, turquoises, yellows, oranges, etc? I preferred the HJ.....loved the floor mounted headlight dimmer and more powerful engines.

I love Holden forever

so then the HX wheezed it's way in to infinite history.

can you win if your in the US?

Oh what a night down around back in 63 she was pretty and i was free what a lady what a night , use hear this song in the back of the school bus going to school back in my days .

Had extractors fitted to 202 HZ cast iron exhaust manifold looked from a tractor in 1930 rubbish noticed more power instantly car was then adequately powered