good looking car though!
Horn cars was a name given to a range of dealer-modified passenger cars, usually Ford Falcons, sold at Australian Ford dealers in the 1970s.
The term "Horn car" comes from the Horn Car Accessories company which supplied the parts used to modify these cars.
Horn cars were an initiative taken by Max McLeod, who owned a Ford dealership in Rockdale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.
McLeod would add a range of visual modifications to his Falcons - typically spoilers, sunroofs and wild tape striping along the side of the vehicle - in order to make them stand out from the crowd and give his customers the chance to buy a "unique" vehicle.
The concept proved popular and was soon employed by other Ford dealers around Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_car
How about that, I learned of "horn cars" today! I'd never heard of them before!
Horn as in horny.70s Aussie speak.
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Delete"Drive one and you'll get one."
The correct rhyming slang for look is "Butchers hook" but you never say that you just say "Butchers" so it should have been "Have a Butchers at..". So the person who wrote the ad had no idea about rhyming slang and would have given any one that knows it a bubble (Bubble bath = laugh).
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ReplyDeleteStrange thing this Australian rhyming slang. Captain Cook does mean have a look. They have tons of these.I never quite understood it butit is kind of fun ,I guess.We really don't have an equivalent type of slang.I wonder how it all started.
ReplyDeleteAussie rhyming slang is derived from London's Cockney rhyming slang.By the way Americans are known as septic tanks.
DeleteMost Ockerisms were really only used to appease international audiences when our low budget low brow cinema was exported to other parts of the world. English audiences would be quite familiar with such obnoxious characters as Bazza McKenzie or Dame Edna from the 70's... Neither all that popular back here.
ReplyDeleteFor an Australian to speak like that while at home would really only make you look like a right goose. Particularly politicians who try to align themselves with the working classes.
Having said that, some of our vernacular is still alive and well....
After dealing with wankers all day, its time to get on the piss.
Figure that one out.....LOL.
McLeod Ford sponsored Ford Falcons that raced in the Bathurst touring car race from the late 1960's up to the mid-1970's. Their cars were distinctive due to the yellow/black chequer strip on the top of the windscreen. The John Goss/Kevin Bartlett Falcon that won the 1974 Hardie Ferodo 1000 was sponsored by McLeod Ford.
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