Rubbish title, I know.
After looking through Seth's lovely thread about the Ace Cafe Spring Riot I was quite taken with one particular car....
![](http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa65/sethke/11CustomShows/Ace%20Cafe%2005-11/Acecafe05-11_010.jpg)
My complete ignorance/lack of knowledge of a lot of American cars was compunded when it turns out to be, in fact, an Australian car. I'd originally guessed it to be a Mercury Cougar. How wrong could I be? (maybe the fact it's RHD should have hinted that it wasn't
)
So, while trying to broaden my American/Australian car based knowledge and after looking more into the Australian Chargers (which 30psi kindly indentified the car as)....which are very, very cool BTW, I stumble across an image of another car which very loudly proclaims "BRUTE" to me:
![](http://oldholden.com/ohfiles/images/hq1.jpg)
WOW....WANT...OOOF...all words running around in my mind at the time and who can blame me?
Some more searching and I find out it's a Holden Monaro HQ from circa 1972. Off I go looking for more images of the brute....but 99% of the cars I turn up look totally different. Most Holden Monaro's of that era look more like this:
Cool, yeah, but not the look I was expecting.
Some more digging into various Australian cars and I come across these pics which turn out to be titled "72 Holden Monaro":
![](http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa306/pictures/MonaroFront.jpg)
![](http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa306/pictures/MonaroRear.jpg)
I'm confused. 99% of Holden Monaro's look like the round light model above, but two of the search results tell me that there was a '72 Monaro that had the rectangular lights (which I much prefer - it's such a brute)
Seeing as the silver car is the best result I've found so far, I start reading the webpage for it (LINK HERE) and amongst all the history of the car is this bit of text: "in the early eighties when it was featured in a Dulux Durolux poster showing the car with the WB Caprice front end"
Off I go on another search for WB Caprice and turn up this:
![](http://cdn.wn.com/pd/d8/d8/bc267a479b12b9d4ab31391b3eba_grande.jpg)
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_150OXmz_-zc/Swd-YdVO1aI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ByuTOLFBIJ0/18-wb_caprice-01.jpg)
So it would seem that I was kinda along the right lines all along. It turns out the 'Brute' is a Holden Monaro HQ but with a WB Caprice front end fitted. Maybe that's why I couldn't turn up too much info on them.
I like them....I like them a LOT! Here is another one I found. A true brute if ever I saw one:
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/1971-1974_Holden_HQ_Monaro_GTS.jpg/800px-1971-1974_Holden_HQ_Monaro_GTS.jpg)
All of this then reminds me of a car I've always liked: the Holden Sandman - most notable from the van driven by Mad Max in the first film:
![](http://www.imcdb.org/i003176.jpg)
Another 'Brute' that I've always loved and admired. Boy would I really like to own one of them. Not the same front as the WB Caprice but similar in looks and 'brutishness'
While pondering the whole 'Brute' thing, I remember another car I am particularly fond of and which has a similar look to the Holden ones above: the DeTomaso Longchamp
![](http://www.allsportauto.com/photoautre4/detomaso/longchamp/detomaso_longchamp_01_m.jpg)
Yep, that also does it for me in a big way. Have some more shots (including a few from out very own Dbizzle's SuckSqueezeBangBlow blog)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q8kBt8ooNTE/S9g90CIUy4I/AAAAAAAADkE/9N54pW7gjdg/s1600/Detomaso_Longchamp_04.jpg)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q8kBt8ooNTE/S9g-ORwK-fI/AAAAAAAADkk/qPNsXRTRpdg/s1600/Detomaso_Longchamp_03.jpg)
![](http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-De-Tomaso-Longchamp.jpg)
![](http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-De-Tomaso-Longchamp-GTS.jpg)
![](http://wikicars.org/images/en/thumb/f/fe/Longchamp202.jpg/800px-Longchamp202.jpg)
So, there you have it...how one photo of a car I knew nothing about has lead to a delve into more cars I knew nothing about and some nice education for me along the way. I LOVE 'Brute' cars and would like to see some more...what have you guys got for me?
Nothing sleek, nothing 'beautiful'....just pain BRUTE ;D
After looking through Seth's lovely thread about the Ace Cafe Spring Riot I was quite taken with one particular car....
![](http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa65/sethke/11CustomShows/Ace%20Cafe%2005-11/Acecafe05-11_010.jpg)
My complete ignorance/lack of knowledge of a lot of American cars was compunded when it turns out to be, in fact, an Australian car. I'd originally guessed it to be a Mercury Cougar. How wrong could I be? (maybe the fact it's RHD should have hinted that it wasn't
![;)](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
So, while trying to broaden my American/Australian car based knowledge and after looking more into the Australian Chargers (which 30psi kindly indentified the car as)....which are very, very cool BTW, I stumble across an image of another car which very loudly proclaims "BRUTE" to me:
![](http://oldholden.com/ohfiles/images/hq1.jpg)
WOW....WANT...OOOF...all words running around in my mind at the time and who can blame me?
Some more searching and I find out it's a Holden Monaro HQ from circa 1972. Off I go looking for more images of the brute....but 99% of the cars I turn up look totally different. Most Holden Monaro's of that era look more like this:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O9JkMqBdNcg/S88G0ijBrCI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZJ-EazYtwQk/s1600/holden%2Bmonaro.jpg)
Cool, yeah, but not the look I was expecting.
Some more digging into various Australian cars and I come across these pics which turn out to be titled "72 Holden Monaro":
![](http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa306/pictures/MonaroFront.jpg)
![](http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa306/pictures/MonaroRear.jpg)
I'm confused. 99% of Holden Monaro's look like the round light model above, but two of the search results tell me that there was a '72 Monaro that had the rectangular lights (which I much prefer - it's such a brute)
Seeing as the silver car is the best result I've found so far, I start reading the webpage for it (LINK HERE) and amongst all the history of the car is this bit of text: "in the early eighties when it was featured in a Dulux Durolux poster showing the car with the WB Caprice front end"
Off I go on another search for WB Caprice and turn up this:
![](http://cdn.wn.com/pd/d8/d8/bc267a479b12b9d4ab31391b3eba_grande.jpg)
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_150OXmz_-zc/Swd-YdVO1aI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ByuTOLFBIJ0/18-wb_caprice-01.jpg)
So it would seem that I was kinda along the right lines all along. It turns out the 'Brute' is a Holden Monaro HQ but with a WB Caprice front end fitted. Maybe that's why I couldn't turn up too much info on them.
I like them....I like them a LOT! Here is another one I found. A true brute if ever I saw one:
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/1971-1974_Holden_HQ_Monaro_GTS.jpg/800px-1971-1974_Holden_HQ_Monaro_GTS.jpg)
All of this then reminds me of a car I've always liked: the Holden Sandman - most notable from the van driven by Mad Max in the first film:
![](http://www.imcdb.org/i003176.jpg)
Another 'Brute' that I've always loved and admired. Boy would I really like to own one of them. Not the same front as the WB Caprice but similar in looks and 'brutishness'
While pondering the whole 'Brute' thing, I remember another car I am particularly fond of and which has a similar look to the Holden ones above: the DeTomaso Longchamp
![](http://www.allsportauto.com/photoautre4/detomaso/longchamp/detomaso_longchamp_01_m.jpg)
Yep, that also does it for me in a big way. Have some more shots (including a few from out very own Dbizzle's SuckSqueezeBangBlow blog)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q8kBt8ooNTE/S9g90CIUy4I/AAAAAAAADkE/9N54pW7gjdg/s1600/Detomaso_Longchamp_04.jpg)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q8kBt8ooNTE/S9g-ORwK-fI/AAAAAAAADkk/qPNsXRTRpdg/s1600/Detomaso_Longchamp_03.jpg)
![](http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-De-Tomaso-Longchamp.jpg)
![](http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-De-Tomaso-Longchamp-GTS.jpg)
![](http://wikicars.org/images/en/thumb/f/fe/Longchamp202.jpg/800px-Longchamp202.jpg)
So, there you have it...how one photo of a car I knew nothing about has lead to a delve into more cars I knew nothing about and some nice education for me along the way. I LOVE 'Brute' cars and would like to see some more...what have you guys got for me?
Nothing sleek, nothing 'beautiful'....just pain BRUTE ;D