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“Collecting muscle cars changed my image from a nerd to a ‘bogan nerd’ amongst my friends and clients”

6

Number of muscle cars owned by Rod Holt

$120,000

Price Holt paid for his oldest and most expensive car, a 1957 Chevy

2022

The year Holt’s 1957 Chevy won People’s Choice at the Augusta Car Show

ROD’S REVVED UP

There are two things Rod Holt enjoys doing: driving positive outcomes for his clients and restoring muscle cars

ROD HOLT, owner-manager at Mortgage Choice Dunsborough in Western Australia, started collecting muscle cars six years ago. He had been encouraged by his wife to get a hobby and chose muscle cars after regretting selling his 1974 VJ Valiant Charger as a young man.

“Due to [the cars’] ages of around 50 years old like I am, almost all of them need tremendous work to restore back to driving condition,” Holt says. “If it were not for the fact that my best mate is a sort of mechanic and also wanted to help me restore the old girls to driving condition, I wouldn’t have opted for this new passion of mine.”

The first car in Holt’s collection was a 1971 Valiant Charger 770 V8. He also owns a 1975 Ford XB 351 V8 Hardtop GS, a 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, a 1966 Ford XR panel van, and a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado. Holt’s rare 1957 Chevy Bel Air V8 (pictured) won first prize in the People’s Choice awards at the 2022 Augusta Car Show.