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I have decided to email Glenn after reading his column (issue 437 on the demise of Holden) and even though he doesn’t really want any correspondence, I’m giving him some. How can you write a column in a mag and not expect someone to write in, after all that’s what having a column is all about.

I’m not going to give you any of my opinions in what went wrong, because like you I’m over it. But merely let you know how I’m handling it. I’ve owned Holdens my whole life, like my father did, and his before that.

I started to distance myself from October 2017 as we all knew what was coming, and indeed from the moment they announced the end of local manufacturing I knew like we all did the

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