Peter Brock's HDT Special Vehicles P/L
The cars built by HDT Special Vehicles for road use quickly gained an enthusiastic following. The cars were built under Peter Brock's direction and had approval from Holden. Several versions of modified high-performance road-going Commodore sedans were produced through the early and mid 1980s, with some being "homologation specials" produced to meet the prevailing Group A racing regulations. These vehicles were all individually numbered with only 4246 Brock HDT's made and are considered to be collectors' items due to their rarity.
HDT and Brock's association with Holden ended sensationally in 1987, after Brock began fitting a device known as the "Energy Polarizer" to HDT vehicles. Regarded as pseudoscience by Holden and the vast majority of the Australian motoring community, a new VL series "Director" model was then released in February 1987 which incorporated not only the Polarizer but also a new independent rear suspension system developed by HDT without Holden's approval. Holden ended its association with Brock as he had refused to supply a Director for test purposes and Holden was therefore unwilling to honour warranties on any cars thereafter modified by Brock's HDT operation.
Holden, in a partnership of sorts with TWR, then set up Holden Special Vehicles, which business took over the role of producing factory-approved modified Commodores for general road use as well as for Group A racing homologation.
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