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COMMODORE – THE END

RIGHT NOW, I’m feeling a bit out-of-sorts. Flat. Dejected. Not hungry. Nah, thanks for the invite, but I think I’ll stay at home tonight.

I should be grinning: Last week I hung a set of number plates on a nice tidy bargain late-model daily driver, and just yesterday I sold another of my cars, freeing a nice wad of cash and some driveway/garage space for my next project car.

But, those three cars – my nice ‘new’ daily, the car I sold yesterday and my next project – are all Holden Commodores. And yesterday the announcement came that Commodore is no more. In fact, my phone started beeping as I arrived home from

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