With Bob Jane 'Kleber' poster

Each side is over 2 feet wide!

A9X ANNIVERSARY COLLECTORS' EDITION!
"I AM THE GREATEST ...and I recently turned 30"

Do you understand what these phrases mean; “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday,” “Works Team” or “Homologation Special”? If you answered yes, chances are that you lived through the glory days when race cars were road cars, and road cars were race cars.

The days when you whacked down the cash on the Dealer’s counter, ‘sign here, press hard – three copies’, drove your hot Holden off the showroom floor, made minimal modifications, installed a roll cage and bolted on a set of big rims and tyres and took it to the racetrack – to race! It’s an even money bet that you probably drove it to the track and drove it home too.

Australia motorsport grew from the amateur days when ordinary blokes built their own race cars at home or, as the 1960’s progressed, they could buy a car equipped with cutting edge power, performance and handling from their local motor Dealer and race that. By the early 1970’s things were hotting up, a horsepower race and obsession with victory at Mount Panorama saw the three Australia auto makers release ever more powerful cars. ‘The General’ understood the advantage of a good power-to-weight ratio and concentrated on its little Giant Killer, the Torana, which grew into the muscular vee eight warrior with the LH model’s SL/R 5000. This was developed to the next level with the L34 and then evolved by addressing what were seen as the few weaknesses in that incarnation - to the mighty A9X.

To many, the A9X will always be Number One. The A9X blazed a trail of glory across the Australian motorsport landscape in the hands of the greatest names ever seen.

It’s the car that Brocky did the biggest demolition job on the opposition ever seen at Bathurst in that famous year of 1979. The A9X is, to many, the greatest racing touring car of all time.

The much loved A9X recently celebrated the 30^th anniversary since its release in 1977. You can relive the birth of what many believe is the greatest homologated road car to ever attack an Aussie track. JUST HOLDENS Magazine has created a one-off, never-to-be-repeated SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION to commemorate the 30^th Anniversary of the debut of the A9X. It’s okay if you are too young to have answered yes to the three questions in the first paragraph, this great one-off publication will help you understand what all the fuss was about.

In either case, you will be sorry if you miss this.

HERE’S WHAT THIS COLLECTOR’S EDITION WILL CONTAIN

The focus is on the year of 1977

The full story on how GM-H conceived and developed the A9X

A detailed look at the A9X’s first competition hit-out with an emphatic 1-2 victory at Sandown 1977 in the hands of Peter Brock

A detailed look at Bathurst 1977 where the A9X’s were on target to win

Photos of every A9X that competed, bar one, at Bathurst 1977

An interview with Phil Brock, Peter’s brother, who co-drive with Brocky at the mountain; it’s a ripper yarn

An interview with John Harvey, Marlboro Holden Dealer Team driver

A Photo shoot on a fantastic replica of the Bob Jane Kleber A9X Hatchback which competed at Bathurst ‘77

Photo shoots and feature stories on current road car A9X’s;

- A pair of white A9X hatchbacks. Given the extremely low numbers of genuine white A9X hatchbacks built you may never see this sight again.

- A red four door A9X

.....and more!

PREMIUM QUALITY

The production quality of this collector’s item will reflect the nature of its rarity and the place this magazine will hold in the Australian motorsport enthusiasts’ arena:

Book binding with solid spine

Special heavyweight cover with unique premium coating

‘Gold leaf’ lettering and highlighting on the cover

This Collector’s Edition will never be reprinted and is sure to instantly become a classic collector’s item.

 We previously announced that the cover of this COLLECTORS' EDITION would have gold foil stamping on the cover. We made the decision to use the money that would have cost on those great fold-out style posters above. We're sure you will appreciate looking at the posters again and again rather than a few pieces of shiney gold on the cover,

Photos of every A9X, bar one, that competed at Bathurst '77

Some great photography from Sandown '77

MAJOR FEATURE STORIES
Race Report from Sandown '77 and Bathurst '77

Interview with Phil Brock who co-drove with Peter at Bathurst '77

Interview with John Harvey; HDT icon

A glorious photo shoot of the current-day replica of the Jane-Geoghegan A9X (original was destroyed)

Feature Stories on current-day genuine A9X road cars

When was the last time you saw a genuine white A9X hatchback in the flesh... let alone two!