Holden, Ford or Valiant - The 1970s Australian Family Car We Lost

A lot of you told us what was in your driveway, so this one is built from your comments. Holden, Ford or Valiant: seventeen things about the 1970s family car, from the wagon you wish you had kept to the year Holden lost the top spot by 572 cars. Every price and date comes from the papers of the day and the official count: Canberra Times price lists and car yard ads from 1971 to 1977, the Bureau of Statistics motor vehicle census of September 1976, the Navy News on the XA Falcon, the 1975 Canberra student debate on football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, and Pedr Davis on Ford outselling Holden in 1977. A second researcher tried to prove every line wrong before it was recorded. Thirteen of the car shots are real photographs of surviving, restored cars, taken in recent years (credits below). Every other picture is an AI-made reconstruction of the period, not a photograph. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:33 The wagon you wish you'd kept 1:26 The station sedan 2:20 Half the wagons in the country 3:04 What a Kingswood cost 4:00 The badge ladder 4:53 Nineteen dollars sixty a week 5:38 The trade-in and the duco 6:33 Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars 7:30 Hey Charger 8:25 The XA Falcon 9:20 The panel van 10:09 The Monaro Dad pretended not to want 11:01 The P76 11:49 The Japanese car next door 12:45 Brock or Moffat 13:38 1977, the year Holden lost 14:43 The last Valiant 15:33 Which one was yours Real car photos (Wikimedia Commons, cropped): HZ Kingswood SL wagon, VH Valiant Charger, XA Falcon 500, Leyland P76, CM Valiant Regal: Jeremy from Sydney, CC BY 2.0 HJ Kingswood wagon, Datsun 180B: OSX, public domain XB Falcon 500 GS wagon, XC Fairmont: sv1ambo, CC BY 2.0 XC Falcon, HX Kingswood: Sicnag, CC BY 2.0 LX Torana A9X: Museumsfotografierer, public domain CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... What should we look back on next? Tell us in the comments. This one came straight from yours. New trips back every week. Subscribe. #AustralianNostalgia #1970sAustralia #Holden #Ford #Valiant #Kingswood #Falcon #GrowingUpAustralian #AustralianCars