This photo of me was taken in 1969 when I was two years old. The vehicle is an Austin Freeway.
I don’t remember that being our family car, so it was probably one that Dad brought home from work. He was a car salesman at that time.
I looked up Austin Freeway on the web and found it was a British car adapted for Australia.
Wikipedia says:
The Austin Freeway was developed by the Australian division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC), based on the British Austin A60 Cambridge. Introduced in 1962, it was offered in both four-door saloon and five-door station wagon body styles. Using the locally built 2.4 litre six-cylinder “Blue Streak” engine, it represented the first attempt by BMC to challenge the dominant Holden and Ford Falcon models in the lucrative six cylinder family car class with a locally developed vehicle. An upmarket variant, the Wolseley 24/80 sedan was also offered.
Nairn Hindaugh says: “Australians in those days were convinced that if a car was any good it had to have at least six cylinders, and these types of cars commanded about 70 percent of our market.”
The advertising jingle said in 1962: “Makeway for the Austin Freeway”.
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