Nah, definitely the single headlight jobs for me Bonnar_Bloke.
I grew up seeing my father driving various taxis through my childhood and we never had a family car, so the cabs he got to drive heavily influenced the cars I admired. That probably explains my fascination with trains and buses too! We used them a lot!
I have a vivid memory of seeing a VJ Valiant take off from the local taxi rank with it's loud deep helicopter sounding exhaust bellow as a young kid around 1977 and I was instantly fascinated with the exhaust note and it stayed in my head and I was chuffed when my yellow Valiant made a similar sound when I got it in 1995.
My dad drove an immaculately kept HZ Kingswood SL taxi in beautiful RSL cabs livery in early 80s and I particularly remember it's shiny metal wheel covers with the square Holden emblem in the centre, all in perfect condition.
He got me to sit on his lap in the car park while I steered it on a couple of occasions! That Kingswood steering wheel is in my head now.
I'll never forget the Legion Cabs base in Foveaux St Surry Hills in Sydney with a line up of XC Falcon cabs in Legion livery stabled there in 1978 when I went with my father. Years later when I pulled in there to fuel my car earlier this decade, the buildings hadn't changed much at all (it looked like a run down dungeon still!) except with a lineup of BA Falcon taxis in Legion livery. Sadly the base and all the buildings were sold to developers a few years ago and it's all gone now. I guess the central location became to valuable to use as a taxi base and they relocated to Arncliffe, near Sydney airport.
I was actually amazed it was there that long.
