Harmen Sterrenburg, 25,
Sliedrecht, The Netherlands
1971 HOLDEN HG KINGSWOOD UTE
186 CI SIX-CYLINDER, THREE-SPEED MANUAL
ABOVE: We were sitting by
the English seaside in a New
Zealand-assembled Australian
car registered in the
Netherlands. That makes the
Commodore VT Series I-era
Eurovox tape player under
the dashboard the least weird
thing hereRIGHT: Harmen (right) and his
expat Aussie mate Travis can laugh
about it now, but the latter’s yellow
HG ute was held up by French
authorities for over a year. “They
told me that it would be crushed.
It was all: ‘Nope, nope, nope;
we’re keeping the car, you’re never
getting it back,’” Travis recalls.
“Suddenly I got an email in French:
‘Yeah, come and get your ute.’
Mate, I hired a truck that day!”BELOW: While
Harmen’s car has
certainly received a
blow-over of vibrant
red paint, the engine
bay remains in original
condition. New
Zealand-assembled
Holdens had colour-
coded engine bays and
metal heater boxes,
according to Travis
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