"HQ" Question.

[Vombil]

Amen to that!!!! Totally agree...

hahah bang on fellas!

[Q set]

Come-on. Give us a HQ dash any day. (It goes nicely with the rest of my HQ). I mean where else can Mum make a couple of cuppas, but on the large fold down table (glovebox lid) with handy cup indentations?. Where else can you find good solid metal to bolt accessories onto (accessories like your 1973 5 lb CB with matching faux wood facia)? Where else can you pull the whole thing out with a shifter and a phillips, add a few extra gauges, mix and match a facia pannel and be on the road before said cuppa goes cold.
I admit Im a little biased,.. and that no modern radio/sterio fits in without help from a angle grinder and rounded bastard, but at least the Q dash is made of good solid stuff. ... (Besides the impact absorbing top bit...... safety all the way)

[HK1837]

because of the long speedo? WB ran only as commercials and LWB luxury sedan really only because they had nothing else. Wasnt the VQ the next Stato?

Mauser

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This is a good thread agro... at one point he had xc bonnet vents in the back.

Mauser

Yes, the HJ long speedo is pretty unique. In many ways the HJ is as much a HQ as a HX-WB. Whilst the HJ sedan and wagon got the revised rear quarters and the front panels of the HX-HZ it retained many HQ features. At HJ release most of the HJ engines were the same as the HQ (except the 308's compression went from 9:1 to 9.7:1), it kept the wipers on the dash, foot operated hi-beam, clutch mechs, big plug harness, fixed seat belts (on commercials) just to name a few. As far as I am aware the HJ wasn't even meant to exist, there was supposed to be an all new car after HQ. This is why the HQ went for so long - as they made their minds up. Once it was obvious that this car was going to keep going, more was done for HX and HZ and then WA and WB.

In my personal opion, whilst I really do like HQ's even the lowly Belmont and Kingswoods are sweet, I do like the sports versions of HJ better. My favourites of all Holdens other than HK are HJ GTS coupe and HJ Sandman. Both the HJ GTS coupe and HJ Sandman still retain the raw yet subtle look of a HQ but balance it with the beautiful HJ GTS dash and guards. The base model HJ's (Belmont and Kingswood) are ugly ducklings though and are not as nice as HQ's. I'm not really sold on HJ LS though, I like the HJ Premier but the HJ Premier front on the HQ LS doesn't look right, GTS nose is nicer - maybe the black chin spoiler does it? And the ugly strip dash of the HJ is I think the reason so many Prems and LS's were originally optioned with the silver GTS dash.

Yes VQ was the next "Statesman" in name, but the next W sized vehicle was really WH in 1999.

[Epic_Dragon]

i love the HQ dash much prefer it over the next dash that came along.

[GNW1974]

I am totally selfish, I love the individual nature of the HQ dash where passengers are not really involved in whats happening with speed etc. But then I can remember the sheer excitement the later GTS dashes used to create and I would happily own one as well.