Dad told me Kingswoods were at the 1972 Non-Aligned summit in Sri Lanka for the dignatries. I think this was a very good car and he said that these stood out to him when he was a child waving a flag to the cars
My aunt borrowed my dads HX Kingswood in 1979 and was involved in a six car crash that included a truck and Toyota landcruiser of the time.The Kingswood was unrecognizable.How my aunt came out of that car alive I will never know?
The HX Kingswood and LX Torana had possibly the brightest, in your face colour choices of any Aussie cars in the history of local manufacturing. Who can forget the greens, turquoises, yellows, oranges, etc? I preferred the HJ.....loved the floor mounted headlight dimmer and more powerful engines.
I remember the press giving it one helluva caning cos it handled like a dog and the engines were strangled to the point of being gutless. I remember looking at a near new one,202 auto Kingswood. I took it for a run....nice enough to drive and comfy but oh so gutless. I bought a Valiant, no power problems there.
Oh what a night down around back in 63 she was pretty and i was free what a lady what a night , use hear this song in the back of the school bus going to school back in my days .
Absolute woeful engines with no effort to adapt properly to ADR27A. My aunt had a new HX Premier that stalled out on the Harbour Bridge. She never went back to Holden. It's as though Holden wanted to die then.
Had extractors fitted to 202 HZ cast iron exhaust manifold looked from a tractor in 1930 rubbish noticed more power instantly car was then adequately powered
The song seems ill fitting for the product. The HX was a model to avoid despite it's big upgrade to the interior appointments.It was the first do be subject to the crippling anti pollution gear but didn't yet recieve the much needed RTS handling improvement.
Even Stallite faced exhaust valves and rotators couldn't save it. Used to replace exhaust valves at 20,000km. Holden ran the engines lean to comply with hydrocarbon tests, but at the expense of cylinder temperatures and NOx emissions. The temp gauge would go all the way up 'Especially in Darwin.' so Holden's fix was to replace the temp sender unit with a differently calibrated one that showed half way at 100C.
At least with these and the HZ you could as a taxi and family car for six in them.I look at the Toyotas they have as cabs now it’s a joke if one has more than two kids to the point for health and safety reasons they should all have an Uber account and if travelling together have two Uber XL’s if it’s four adults same household.
safest my ass.my little spark has six airbags,traction control,abs and a lot of things many an old kingswood driver never got when they were new.i bet you for those that are still around today if someone ran up your rear bumper you would have been off to hospital by ambulance and the car a wreck beyond recognition.
@@franzchong5889 - no interchangeable parts with other Holdens? Well, afterall, it was a Daewoo Matiz. The fact that you claim there are no interchangeable parts is not a good thing as it increases production costs for spares and usually means it will have a limited road life. However, you might have luck checking out spare interchangeable parts with a Chery QQ3.
One of the worst Holdens. Emission control system was a power destroyer. Sloppy handling. Bad brakes. The HZ was rushed in to introduce radial tuned suspension and a better handling car.
Yes for sure. How they could turn the ground breaking HQ into that disaster is beyond belief. The HX had it's good points, nice interior, light steering plus a very good finish. But it was a disaster at anything over 70 kilometeres per hour. That's when Mr. Hyde became Doctor Jekyl.
Beginning of the end for Holden? Pushrod six. Crappy drum brakes? sloppy steering, poorer workmanship, fewer features. The Japanese sixes by then were OHC and better features and build - even though they looked awful. But, I suppose these cars could be modified from stock to be decent. They had a pretty decent simple and handsome style. Kind of like a more modest version of a yank tank at the time. Fit new carbs or even f.i. . Extractors. Better springs? The 253 V8 would be OK. They had front discs? I reckon, when 1977 came around, they knew the end was nigh. The Commodore was really just a compact European car and nothing like the Ford XD which was Aussie sedan size.
The XD was just a 1966 XR platform with a boxy body grafted onto it hence the leaf springs and terrible turning circle (not good for a taxi), OK for fleets but not so for more demanding use. At least the Commodore was new and different despite its Opel origins but an 80s Kingswood would've been ideal
@@sutherlandA1 It was what Australia needed.The h Series was well past it even with the rather overdue suspension changes in the HZ and the handling upgrades.While not much bigger than say a Japanese Medium of the day such as a Skyline or things like a Fiat 132 or an Alfetta or one of those Audi 80's or 100's the Commodore could do everything they could without the dreaded arm/leg/fix/name the euro brand stories.
Dad told me Kingswoods were at the 1972 Non-Aligned summit in Sri Lanka for the dignatries. I think this was a very good car and he said that these stood out to him when he was a child waving a flag to the cars
My aunt borrowed my dads HX Kingswood in 1979 and was involved in a six car crash that included a truck and Toyota landcruiser of the time.The Kingswood was unrecognizable.How my aunt came out of that car alive I will never know?
The HX Kingswood and LX Torana had possibly the brightest, in your face colour choices of any Aussie cars in the history of local manufacturing. Who can forget the greens, turquoises, yellows, oranges, etc?
I preferred the HJ.....loved the floor mounted headlight dimmer and more powerful engines.
I remember this add from when I was a kid. The song was a corruption of "Oh what a night" by the Four Seasons.
I remember the press giving it one helluva caning cos it handled like a dog and the engines were strangled to the point of being gutless. I remember looking at a near new one,202 auto Kingswood. I took it for a run....nice enough to drive and comfy but oh so gutless. I bought a Valiant, no power problems there.
so then the HX wheezed it's way in to infinite history.
Oh what a night down around back in 63 she was pretty and i was free what a lady what a night , use hear this song in the back of the school bus going to school back in my days .
my mum had one of these back in the days
They dont make em like they used to. In holdens case, they just don't make 'em.
dad is restoring a red hx monaro same as the one on the add and the guy that had it before him use to take a boat and back it into the ocean haha
Absolute woeful engines with no effort to adapt properly to ADR27A. My aunt had a new HX Premier that stalled out on the Harbour Bridge. She never went back to Holden. It's as though Holden wanted to die then.
Had extractors fitted to 202 HZ cast iron exhaust manifold looked from a tractor in 1930 rubbish noticed more power instantly car was then adequately powered
The song seems ill fitting for the product. The HX was a model to avoid despite it's big upgrade to the interior appointments.It was the first do be subject to the crippling anti pollution gear but didn't yet recieve the much needed RTS handling improvement.
Yes what a car indeed> Holden were particularly poor in adapting engines to ADR27a
Even Stallite faced exhaust valves and rotators couldn't save it. Used to replace exhaust valves at 20,000km. Holden ran the engines lean to comply with hydrocarbon tests, but at the expense of cylinder temperatures and NOx emissions. The temp gauge would go all the way up 'Especially in Darwin.' so Holden's fix was to replace the temp sender unit with a differently calibrated one that showed half way at 100C.
At least with these and the HZ you could as a taxi and family car for six in them.I look at the Toyotas they have as cabs now it’s a joke if one has more than two kids to the point for health and safety reasons they should all have an Uber account and if travelling together have two Uber XL’s if it’s four adults same household.
Holden get ur act together start building cars again or supply old parts dayumm I need parts for my VH commodore guys
Bro have you forgotten about Rare Spares?
safest my ass.my little spark has six airbags,traction control,abs and a lot of things many an old kingswood driver never got when they were new.i bet you for those that are still around today if someone ran up your rear bumper you would have been off to hospital by ambulance and the car a wreck beyond recognition.
Ehm, it was probably a correct statement in the 70s when this commercial aired, keep in mind that it was many years before your Spark was built.
franz chong - I also hear that a Spark has 'keyless entry.'
In other words, you never have to lock it as no one would ever steal it!
@@maifantasia3650 an anti theft alarm in fact.unlike almost all other holdens there are no interchangable parts.
@@mattiasjohansson1727 this ad is from 1976.my car is a april 2017.
@@franzchong5889 - no interchangeable parts with other Holdens? Well, afterall, it was a Daewoo Matiz.
The fact that you claim there are no interchangeable parts is not a good thing as it increases production costs for spares and usually means it will have a limited road life. However, you might have luck checking out spare interchangeable parts with a Chery QQ3.
I had one.... What a mistake, after that horrible experience I went to Japanese made cars and never looked back.
I had a HX premier with 4.2 V8. Worst car I ever owned. Gutless and the handling was downright dangerous.
What a dodgy adaptation of that song..
One of the worst Holdens. Emission control system was a power destroyer. Sloppy handling. Bad brakes.
The HZ was rushed in to introduce radial tuned suspension and a better handling car.
Yes for sure. How they could turn the ground breaking HQ into that disaster is beyond belief. The HX had it's good points, nice interior, light steering plus a very good finish. But it was a disaster at anything over 70 kilometeres per hour. That's when Mr. Hyde became Doctor Jekyl.
Beginning of the end for Holden? Pushrod six. Crappy drum brakes? sloppy steering, poorer workmanship, fewer features. The Japanese sixes by then were OHC and better features and build - even though they looked awful. But, I suppose these cars could be modified from stock to be decent. They had a pretty decent simple and handsome style. Kind of like a more modest version of a yank tank at the time. Fit new carbs or even f.i. . Extractors. Better springs? The 253 V8 would be OK. They had front discs? I reckon, when 1977 came around, they knew the end was nigh. The Commodore was really just a compact European car and nothing like the Ford XD which was Aussie sedan size.
The XD was just a 1966 XR platform with a boxy body grafted onto it hence the leaf springs and terrible turning circle (not good for a taxi), OK for fleets but not so for more demanding use. At least the Commodore was new and different despite its Opel origins but an 80s Kingswood would've been ideal
@@sutherlandA1 It was what Australia needed.The h Series was well past it even with the rather overdue suspension changes in the HZ and the handling upgrades.While not much bigger than say a Japanese Medium of the day such as a Skyline or things like a Fiat 132 or an Alfetta or one of those Audi 80's or 100's the Commodore could do everything they could without the dreaded arm/leg/fix/name the euro brand stories.
They shouldn't have.