Songs often remind us when and where we were for the first time we heard it. The day I picked up my FE Holden in 1964, on the Air Chief radio came Hermans Hermits singing 'I'm Into Something Good', which indeed I was. This is more of a place rather than a car, really. During the first few weeks I worked at John Sprinzels in London in 1970, The Hollies had a hit 'Gasoline Alley Bred', and if any place was full of petrol heads, this was it. Full of pure exotica, Lancaster Mews throbbed with the sound of Cooper Ss, MGBs, Porsche 911s, Alfas of all sorts and the odd Corvette, Ferrari, Lotus and Marcos. The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' always reminds me of Bathurst in '68 as it was the number 1 hit at the time and 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dah' was on at the same time as the London-Sydney Marathon.
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