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    INCH- PERFECT

    Jul 17, 2019 4 minutes
    STORY IAIN KELLY
    PHOTOS
    NATHAN DUFF

    WHILE there were plenty of awesome cars designed in the 1970s, Holden’s HQ Monaro coupe has to be one of the top shapes to come out of the era of disco, fondue and bellbottoms. Mitch Godfrey’s Top 60 Elite-qualified Monaro didn’t start off as a stunner, but he turned it into a twin-turbo LSX454-powered, smoothed and slicked street car that packs a visual punch by enhancing what the factory gave us in 1972.

    “I bought the car about eight years ago with a naturally aspirated small-block and an 80s-style interior,” says the Queensland fabricator. “After a couple of weeks I swapped in the L98 injected six-litre

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