Australian Muscle Car

Steve Normoyle

In the 1970s it was hard to think of anything more quintessentially ‘Aussie’ than the chorus line from that legendary Holden TV ad jingle – surely the ‘C’mon Aussie, C’mon’ of the Australian car industry.

Except that this famous Aussie ad turned out to be a direct copy of Chevrolet’s 1974 campaign in the USA, with the chorus changed from the original ‘Baseball, hot dogs,

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