Where has the time gone? Here we are marking the 50th birthday of the Ford XB Falcon. Half a century already? For many of us reading this issue of AMC (including this writer) it seems like yesterday, when those of us of a certain age were young and life was much simpler.
When the XB appeared in late 1973, Gough Whitlam was Australian Prime Minister (although not for long); Richard Nixon was US President (and also heading for trouble); Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Elton John and Led Zeppelin had topped the album charts during the year (on vinyl records, of course); The Godfather won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
CDs, DVDs, the internet, emails, texting, the curse of social media, mobile phones, digital cameras, digital everything else…