• 12: The cars we sold back then

  • Nov 10 2022
  • Length: 13 mins
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12: The cars we sold back then

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  • The 1960s was a decade of great change and the motor vehicle industry played a major role in those changes. 

    The decade began with the introduction of the iconic Mini and ended with the arrival of home-grown muscle cars – the Holden Monaro, the Falcon GT and the Valiant Charger.


    In between, came the beginning of the end of our preference for European vehicles with the arrival of the Japanese.


    The major styling feature introduced during the sixties was the ‘Coke bottle effect’, in which the boot and rear door panels were swept upwards over the wheel arch creating a profile which resembled that of a Coca Cola bottle. 


    The first Australian car to incorporate the Coke bottle ‘hump’ was the XR Falcon in September 1966. 


    The styling of the car was inspired by the Mustang, copying both the coke bottle style line and the long bonnet and deep, stumpy boot.


    Whereas the fifties were dominated by British made 4-cylinder cars, the sixties saw Holden, Ford and Chrysler erode the supremacy of the imported 4-cylinder car and establish the locally built 6-cylinder models as the Australian motorists’ premier vehicle of choice. 



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