It is now quite sad to see the cars that the police and government in Australia are now driving, when we had such a good product, built in our own country and proven in anger, in endurance racing at Bathurst and the like. Great characters too, with their own businesses like Stormin Norman Beechey, Bob Jane and Sir Black Jack Brabham.
It is easy to understand where the country is going wrong. With the government having yet again, this year used billions in hardworking taxpayer money, to yet again bail out the banks, (though they may not be admitting that and trying to sell it in a different way) who produce nothing and by their greed destroy real businesses such as farmers and other producers, using their power for self interest, to pump up their own bonuses and extravagant lifestyles. The bankers reportedly spending on an extravagant lifestyle, in strip clubs and doing donuts on sports ovals, reportedly drunk in their Porsche, money robbed from the hardworking, the elderly, the poor and vulnerable, as the recent royal commission proved, but the government have done nothing about it. The grin on Frydenberg’s face at the end of the Royal Commission, on receiving the report was embarrassing. Shame on them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-...gation/9516708
With the current global virus, one can start to reconsider priorities, reconsider what is important, like in times of war. Medicine and nurses and doctors and food producers like farmers are important. Footballers, are they overpaid, self interested and greedy? Bankers, they occupy a privileged position, making money by virtue of it flowing through them. Could this task be better performed by government and cut out the greed of the banks in the process? Anyway, stumbled upon these Holden photos of production during wartime and it made me think of some of the errors of modern government and the self interest of many politicians and bankers, who have damaged the world by their greed and long forgotten the importance of a business that produces real product and not hot air.
GMH produced (perhaps more correctly assembled) the blitz trucks, people were paid to produce them, industry was grown around them. They supported the war effort. The farmers and other businesses such as sawmills then bought them and used them to produce and support the livelihood of families. Some are still being used to produce. Others are now being bought again and restored, supporting other businesses in the process. The old blitz has been literally carrying the country. The money used to bail out the banks, will it be spent pouring alcohol down the throat of the banker in the strip club, then flushed into the sewers?
These photos are a good source for restoration references.
Source: State Library South Australia Website
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r.../BRG+213/121/9