Biante Model Cars are very pleased to present something a little different for collectors, the 1:18 Scale Holden HX Panel Van Holden Dealer Team Service Vehicle.
Throughout the 1970’s Holden teams were commonly seen using panel vans as their way of transporting the necessary parts, tyres and relevant tools for race meetings. If the race didn’t go as well as planned, sometimes the vans were also used for towing the cars home! Some of the bigger teams were known for replicating their race car liveries on the vans to complete the “whole team look” and there weren’t too many bigger teams during this period than the Marlboro backed Holden Dealer Team.
This particular replica is of one of the service vehicles used by HDT around the 1975 / 76 seasons and essentially features an exact copy of the iconic livery featured on their cars during that time. The race livery on the Panel Van actually works really well and it would have been fantastic to see the service vehicle and the race car sitting next to each other at the track back in what is now considered a golden era of Australian motorsport.
For collectors of Australian Touring Car Championship cars from the mid 70’s, this is a model that would fit nicely in your collection. While we can’t see the cars at the track any more, this model will look awesome alongside a 75 / 76 HDT Torana, particularly once the missing Marlboro logos are applied next to the HDT logos on to the sides of the car, bonnet and rear tailgate.
