Football, meat pies, kangaroos, and Holden cars — it's the Aussie image portrayed in the classic 1970s car ad.Thirty years after being inspired to fit a car in his lounge room, the 52-year-old can now watch the footy on TV, eat a meat pie on the couch, all next to his beloved Holden Monaro .His obsession with the lounge room garage started when he watched a movie when he was 22."It was a crazy police detective who had a Trans Am," Gary says.
"I did have another house in Brisbane … I was there during the 2011 floods actually, so luckily I didn't," he says."The wife couldn't really understand it," Gary says."She probably also thought … cars are messy — oil spills and the smell when you start it up is in the house for about 15 minutes.Father and son bondHis father was a car salesman and owned a wrecking yard in Logan, south of Brisbane.
"I was out the front kicking the football to myself and I heard this car coming up the road," he says."It was yellow with black racing stripes and it was an HQ Monaro.He eventually bought a Holden HQ GTS Monaro in 1986 for just $300.The idea of old Holdens fetching as much as new Ferraris might be jaw-dropping to some, but an auctioneer says there's a "frenzy" surrounding some rare models.
Thirty years after being inspired by a movie, Gary can now roll out of the driver's seat and onto his couch."Sometimes I drive that and I actually feel like he's there next to me. It's pretty special," Gary says."I thought I would be a bit cooler and still have hair when I got this done.
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