The Holden HR is a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé utility / 2-door panel van from Holden, built from 1966 to 1968, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 2.6 . Joe Schemansky drew it.
Under the skin
Power comes from 2.6 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 2601lb. It shifts through a 3-speed manual / 4-speed manual / 2-speed Powerglide automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 106.0 inches (2692mm). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Holden HD; its successor was the Holden HK. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Dodge Charger, the Alfa Romeo Spider, the Lamborghini Miura — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Holden catalogue sit the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Holden HR has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.