[Petrol] One for the bush-pig and the prickle ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

Last night on Top Gear the Vauxhall Holden Monaro was deemed deeply desirable. A 5.7l V8, rear-wheel-drive muscle car, coming out in the UK for around £33K ... It was doing 60 at 1500 revs ... I've driven cars that would stall trying to do any speed at revs that low ...

Not ideal for town driving, admittedly, but for petrol-heads living in the city, who only drive when they've got long distances to cover ... (They also liked the S-Type R, but it cost about 10K more. The evil Chrysler 300C Hemi was judged a near miss, due to poor ride and iffy brakes.)

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Not the Kingswood!

[redcountess]

I forgot to mention last night that the HK Special was only 6 cylinders not 8, and according to this was actually called a Kingswood, not Special, but I don't remember it having a Kingswood badge.

In Australia there was a popular comedy series in the 70s called Kingswood Country about a dysfunctional family in the 'burbs, a precursor to Kath and Kim, but sillier. At that time, the Kingswood, like Ford's Falcon, was *the* Dad car. The father would exclaim "not the Kingswood!" when anybody wanted to borrow it, and it became an Australian catchphrase :-)

It may have only cost AU $50, and because I was on my Ls and it was unroadworthy I only drove it up and down the driveway, but the HK was the only car I've every had, and I miss it!