In the classic age of automobile manufacturing in Australia 1955-1995, the market was dominated by three Australian manufacturers: Holden, Ford and Valiant. All you need to do is to attach the correct name to each classic Australian car.
Paul Reiser made an appearance on Jay Leno’s Garage, and, looked at a couple of cars the host had prepared for him. But little did he know one of them had belonged to Johnny Carson, a 1939 Chrysler Royal.
They are the heartbeat of our community, and the work they do and the people they help is all the reward they seek. Today they are among the most deserving of Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients. These are their stories.
sturt stewart and his family move away. when stewart graduates high school in 1984, he decides to take a summer road trip back to enid. i got a greyhound bus ticket. he took me over to his shop and i got to spend some time with my grandfather. and with all those cars. sure, they look like heaps of scrap but stewart comes to understand this was his grandfather s pride and joy. his collection. its centerpiece, these two depression era cars. grandpa had a fascination with the cord. it was the first car that had front wheel drier. they d done some ingenious things under the hood. stewart heads out west for college and launches a successful furniture business in san francisco. then in the fall of 2000, a call from out of the blue sends stewart scrambling back to enid.