Holden History Info

[VT97CALAIS]

Good afternoon ppls,

I've come across this decent PDF document.
It detalis the history of Holden and Holden cars too.
Very good reading!
check it out here:

http://media.gm.com/aus/holden/en/company/history/HH13Part3.pdf

Cheers,
VT97Calais

 

[96VS]

That is a good read. But I am interested to know where the Commodore got its name from? Was it to do with Opel or was it the fact The Commodores (the band) were pretty big when the VB came out?