Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Ep. 18 The Weird Chrysler Cars of the Early 1960's" video.
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1:30 And this is something Australian car designers avoided like the plague! As Holden got into automobile making in 1948, its first model, the 48-215 was very basic in its design and was only tarted up to a minimal degree in the follow-up model, the FJ. And through successive models, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ and EH(the first to have auto gears as optional), Holdens were built for Substance Over Style IN SPITE of being an American-owned company. Of Ford's Australian-built cars, the first Falcon was a disaster as it was likely built in "clueless" America but in right-hand-drive for Australia, those first American-built cars were substance over style and fell apart on Australian suburban streets. The Ford name came to mean "Fix Or Repair Daily" in Australia. We did see some of the Chrysler models here that were American-designed but latter Chrysler models were designed and built in Australia because we Aussies rejected the stupid, ostentatious "style-over-substance" shallow approach to car design favoured by the Yanks.
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