Ross still Holden on to love of carmaker
THE Kingswood? You’re not taking the Kingswood.
He made the catchphrase a household saying during the 1980s as Ted Bullpit, the nation’s most famous fictional Holden owner.
Thirty years on, Kingswood Country star Ross Higgins is still eager to protect the brand he loves after the Aussie icon announced it was quitting production.
‘‘ It’s a real kick up the bum,’’ Higgins said from Sydney home he shares with wife Nadine. ‘‘I think it’s appalling, absolutely appalling and a damn shame.
‘‘And at Christmas, for the workers to get that sort of news it’s just very, very sad and a very bad look for everyone involved. I feel really sorry for the workers. My sympathies are with them.’’
It was Holden that inadvertently played a huge part in the Aussie classic Kingswood Country which starred Higgins as a loudmouthed, carobsessed putty factory worker from 1980 to 1985.
Now aged 82, he admits it’s the role that he became most famous for and earnt him a following among car enthusiasts who would often bail up the actor to discuss their love for Holden cars.
Higgins was a Holden driver but he later switched to Toyota.
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