The Cars of the 60s: A History of Cars Manufactured and Assembled in Australia during the 1960s

Gavin Farmer looks at the history of car manufacturing and assembly in Australia in ‘Cars of the 60s’ . Following the boom times of the fifties, the sixties became a decade of consolidation on the one hand and a series of challenges on the other, some economic and some political. It marked the beginning of a very real challenge from Ford on GM-Holden as well as from Chrysler and several Japanese manufacturers who had quietly entered the Australian market. The decade began with a Federal Gov...