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00:00 It was basically every household, right? So you're either Ford family or a Holden family.
00:09 It's intrinsic in the Australian idiom.
00:12 Ford rule!
00:13 All Fords are shit!
00:16 People are born into one or the other, Ford or Holden.
00:22 The rivalry then was seriously crazy. I mean, it divided families.
00:28 The most breathtaking car in here, new, all new Holden.
00:34 Here is the Australian Falcon, a car of sculptured styling.
00:39 Grandad had a Ford, dad had a Ford, I've got a Ford now, my son will have a Ford when he grows up.
00:45 Bathurst did that period, was the biggest and best showroom anywhere in the country.
00:50 You've got to have a bit of everything to win at Bathurst, you've got to have a bit of everything to go fast at Bathurst.
00:55 Some young guys would get them and go out there and wipe themselves out on the road.
00:58 Almost as many people are killed on the roads as had been killed in the Second World War.
01:03 Both manufacturers wanted to beat the other guy with their new toy,
01:07 and both of them had to put the toys back in the box for a while.
01:12 Ford and Holden were so focused on themselves,
01:15 they didn't see the threat of Japanese and Korean vehicles entering the marketplace.
01:19 There was people with tears, there was people devastated.
01:22 Yes, sad days. Sad day for Australia.
01:25 The fans hated the nuisance, they wanted the Fords and the Holdens to be up the front.
01:29 And the crowd are really getting worked up and I know why they are.
01:31 And both Ford and Holden fans took up the half-full beer cans and were throwing them.
01:37 This is going to remain with me for a long time, you're a pack of...
01:40 Go to mighty 38, Commonwealth!
01:42 The battle lines were drawn.
01:45 It is definitely to do with the history of being a full-blown Australian vehicle.
01:53 There was this mad, crazy Australian battle.
01:57 Just the red versus the blue and that was all they wanted in life.
02:03 Aussie blood runs red or blue.
02:07 Which one are you?
02:09 you
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