Holden Torana SL/R 5000
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The affordable way into an LX Torana. Around 1,250 SL/R 5000s were built against 405 A9Xs, and the standard car trades at roughly a third of the homologation version while sharing the shape, the 308 and the era. It also appears at Australian auction regularly, which almost nothing else in this library does.
It lives in the A9X's shadow and always will, which caps the upside. Rust in the light-gauge body is common and expensive, and the market is full of cars presented as more than they are - an SL/R 5000 dressed as an A9X is the single most common misrepresentation in Australian muscle.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
A 1976 LX SL/R 5000 sedan sold at Seven82Motors on 9 August 2026 for $100,000 plus buyer's premium, offered at no reserve. That figure is a hammer price before premium and is not directly comparable with houses that quote inclusive, so it is recorded as stated rather than adjusted. The same catalogue is the source for several other Australian lots in this library.
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Is separation from the A9X. The A9X is the homologation car and carries four Shannons sales between $196,000 and $290,000; a standard SL/R 5000 is roughly a third of that. Both were sold as LX Toranas and auction catalogues routinely list them under the same words, which is exactly the confusion that has produced errors elsewhere in this library. A car described only as SL/R 5000 should be assumed NOT to be an A9X unless the option code is documented.
A 1976 SL/R 5000 sedan sold at Seven82Motors on 14 June 2026 for $127,500 at no reserve, hammer before premium, 34 per cent above the value carried here. That gives this entry two no-reserve results in the same lane two months apart: $127,500 in June and $100,000 in August. The later and cheaper car was the standard one; the dearer wore a full A9X-style body kit. That spread is either what factory appearance is worth against a modified car, or it is a falling market, and two lots cannot separate those. The value stays where it is until a third does.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Holden Torana SL/R 5000 is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Holden Torana SL/R 5000, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.