You're not taking the Kingswood!
Ian Kerr
Pickle me grandmother! Australia Post has released a set of stamps featuring Holden cars.
Back when Australia made cars, Holden was the Australian-born favourite. You were a Holden person or a Ford person, then both Holden and Ford stopped producing cars in Australia. So these days you’re either a Hyundai person or a Toyota person. Or something like that. Anyway…
The new stamps features five of the iconic car models that made the Holden brand an Australian household name:
The 1948 Holden 48-215 sedan;
The 1963 Holden EH Premier;
The 1968 Holden HK Monaro GTS 327 (is it a bogan car? Comment below…);
The 1971 Holden HQ Kingswood Ute, a favourite of farmers and tradies;
The 2006 Holden VE Commodore SS V (for cashed up bogans).
Over the course of six decades, Holden constructed more than 7.6 million vehicles for Australia and the world. There are still 1.6 million Holdens still on the road across the country. (No idea how many are up on bricks in people’s front yards.)
Ted Bullpitt might be spinning in his grave at Holden closing its factories, but he would approve of these stamps.
