Geelong All Holden Day highlight – EH custom panel van

After six years away, the Geelong All Holden Day made a triumphant return in 2025. Thanks to the efforts of the Geelong FX-HZ Holden Car Club, this all-Holden celebration saw more than 450 cars attend, coming from Geelong, Melbourne, country Victoria and even interstate.

Along with standard vehicles from throughout the entire 1948-2017 production period of ‘Australia’s Own Car,’ the 2025 Geelong All Holden Day also saw plenty of customs, like this EH panel van.

With so much going on with this custom, it was hard to know where to look first. The exterior was as good a point as any, with the bold metallic green paint leading the eye to features that included HQ exterior mirrors, aftermarket alloys, chromed headlight bezels, front bumper overriders and NASCO-style door handle scuff plates.

At the rear, the factory bumperettes had been removed and gas struts added to the upper tailgate, but those features get overlooked thanks to XW Falcon tail lights. These had been seamlessly blended into the back end in place of the factory lights.

Under the bonnet, the fully detailed engine bay housed a supercharged 3.8-litre V6, which wasn’t an aftermarket conversion, but a rare factory option offered by Holden on the VS Series II and VT Commodore in the late 1990s. While it produced more power than the N/A 3.8 V6, the supercharged version couldn’t match the V8s output, not could it be had with a manual transmission – only a four-speed automatic was available. That explains why this panel van had an auto fitted.  

In the cabin, the factory bench seat had been replaced with leather-trimmed sports bucket seats. There was also a custom shifter, full carpeting, aftermarket pedals, wood-rimmed steering wheel and a Kenwood stereo head unit.

While an aftermarket gauge pod atop the dash has been a common addition to Holdens of this era, this van reconfigured the hood over the main instrument cluster to include them.

Further changes included a ’90s-era Commodore speedo in place of the EH speedo, plus a tacho fixed to the A-pillar. As one of the additional gauges was for the supercharger boost pressure, it perhaps explains why the tacho was mounted separately.

A full-length headliner had been fitted, but somewhat ironically for a panel van, the load area was the least modified part of this very impressive vehicle.

For JUST CARS’ report from the 2025 Geelong All Holden Day, click HERE