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# Forgotten Holden homologation hero listed for sale
- URL: https://torquecafe.com/forgotten-holden-homologation-hero-listed-for-sale/
- Published: 2026-08-10T20:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T20:00:57.000Z
- Description: The Country Dealer Team Gemini is one of the lesser-known hot Holdens of the early 1980s, and now one has popped up in the classifieds.
- Author: Jordan Mulach
- Tags: News, Classics & Unique

Holden’s hottest performance models from the 1980s can be traced back to the Peter Brock-led Holden Dealer Team, but not many remember a small outfit which tried to turn smaller models into pint-sized racers.

The Country Dealer Team was established by James Faneco as a way to promote – you guessed it – Holden’s non-metro dealership operations, who chipped money into the firm which chose the Gemini as its racing base.

Given this was the Group C touring car era, the race cars had to be based on a road-going model, and it helped to have a hotted-up one in showrooms to base it off, leading to the creation of the CDT Gemini.

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Image via Gumtree

Two variants of the CDT Gemini were made: the S1 and S2, both sporting a unique bodykit on the base four-door Gemini SL/X body, as well as wider wheels, firmer suspension, a sportier exhaust, and racing-style steering wheel.

While the CDT Gemini S1 featured minor engine refinements (such as a Weber carburetor on the standard intake manifold), the S2 had a twin-carb manifold, a new camshaft and improved valves, bringing power up to 90kW.

At the time, this was enough to cut its 0-100km/h time to 10 seconds, quick at the time for a 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine. Later S3 examples gained a Garrett turbo.

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Image via Gumtree

There’s no final number on how many CDT Geminis were made, though example number 020 has been listed for sale on [*Gumtree*](https://www.gumtree.com.au/web/listing/cars-vans-utes/1343360586?ref=torquecafe.com), finished in Palais white and with its livery still intact.

Listed at $45,000, it’s a pricey Gemini, however it pales in comparison to the price of HDT Commodores from the same era, some of which have fetched more than $1 million.

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