Morley says...

OKAY PHIL, I don’t mind turning this into buy, swap and sell. Not if it’s in the name of sharing the joy of old car mags, anyway. Meantime, I remember that HQ Holden record very well. I used to do a radio show in Melbourne on a community station called Triple R (Many years ago now, does anybody out there remember it?) and we somehow managed to snaffle a copy of the little, floppy, plastic record and then proceeded to play it to death. It was hilarious.

If memory serves, one side had fashion designer and television personality Bobo Faulkner (they don’t make up names like that any more. Bobo, real name; Ann Minchin, left us about three years ago) giving her stylistic opinion of the brand-new HQ. But the biggest thigh-slapper was the road test of the HQ V8 by the then editor of Modern Motor, Rob Luck, who spent the entire test shouting praise over the sound of screaming radials (or they might have been cross-plies; we don’t know). We used to sit in that sound booth and laugh till we cried, knowing that the punters tuned in to Triple R (still the country’s best community station) were doing exactly the same.