A Real Car ....

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

In Bunnings Car Park today ... !!

Nice ...

[xelasnave]

Yes but...
Alex

[leon]

Nice indeed, solid as a rock, with those bumpers.

Leon

[RAJAH235]

Yeah. Looks great but it will most probably end up killing you in any kind of crash.
(No crumple zone/s to collapse first.)

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by RAJAH235

Yeah. Looks great but it will most probably end up killing you in any kind of crash.
(No crumple zone/s to collapse first.)

I assume it doesn't have a collapsable steering column either? That should get you first.

[Sunfish (Ray)]

FB or FC ? I forget. I think I had both. . Saw a perfect blue station wagon model today wth metal blinds in the rear. A slow Sunday drive on a clear day but pure nostalgia . I had a metallic blue one in perfect order given to me by a brother I think and none of them stopped that well. Weighed tons. And a pink and grey galah model that cost $50 in Year 12. The windscreen wipers were vacuum from the motor manifold and so required your date to put her hand out the window in heavy rain to give them a nudge .

[Zuts]

When I was a boy,

Don't know how he did it, but my dad turned up with a brand new FC Holden, just been released with the plate HOT 249.

[The Mekon (John Briggs)]

Originally Posted by Sunfish

FB or FC ? I forget. I think I had both. . Saw a perfect blue station wagon model today wth metal blinds in the rear. A slow Sunday drive on a clear day but pure nostalgia . I had a metallic blue one in perfect order given to me by a brother I think and none of them stopped that well. Weighed tons. And a pink and grey galah model that cost $50 in Year 12. The windscreen wipers were vacuum from the motor manifold and so required your date to put her hand out the window in heavy rain to give them a nudge .

That car is an FC. The FB was the later model with "wings and fins" and you describe the common colour scheme well as "pink & grey galah model" Had to smile at that! And I think all kids remember those vacuum wipers, and the fact that you could start it without the key if the key escutcheon was not locked.

[doug mc]

My first car. When i was a boy.

[UniPol]

My Dad bought a brand new FC Holden in 1958 and I've attached a pic of our family taken in either 1958 or 1959. I had another sister born later in 1959 and a brother in 1961 making a total of six kids. It is still hard to imagine that the car carried two adults and six kids around for many years, towing a trailer and caravanning as well. No seat belts, no baby carriers, metal dash .... from Wikipedia : "The Holden FC series is an automobile produced by Holden in Australia from 1958 to 1960. Introduced on 6 May 1958, the FC is a face-lifted and improved version of the Holden FE series, which it replaced." I seem to recall that we had the Holden for about ten years and Dad traded it in for a Zephyr station wagon, it was more powerful 85 bhp as against the Holden's 72 bhp! More room in the Zephyr, we could ride in the back now and look out the back window which doesn't bare thinking about these days. I'm nearly 70 now and my brothers and sisters are all still alive and thankfully were never involved in a car accident.

[pmrid (Peter)]

A great attraction of the early holdens was that the only tools you needed to carry were a hammer and screwdriver. My how thngs have changed.

[Sunfish (Ray)]

The great attraction of cars for me now is that you don’t need either.

But I think it would be still fun to own that pink station wagon to go as far as the end of the road.

In 1975 a 15 year old car was a wreck. A fifteen year old Japanese car on 200k now is still reliable for another 200k.

Mind you, it is annoying having to replace all those expensive sensors .

Originally Posted by pmrid

A great attraction of the early holdens was that the only tools you needed to carry were a hammer and screwdriver. My how thngs have changed.

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Bow ties and snappy cardigans. Wow even small boys were dressed up then. The car is polished.

Must have been a wedding.

Originally Posted by UniPol

My Dad bought a brand new FC Holden in 1958 and I've attached a pic of our family taken in either 1958 or 1959. I had another sister born later in 1959 and a brother in 1961 making a total of six kids. It is still hard to imagine that the car carried two adults and six kids around for many years, towing a trailer and caravanning as well. No seat belts, no baby carriers, metal dash .... from Wikipedia : "The Holden FC series is an automobile produced by Holden in Australia from 1958 to 1960. Introduced on 6 May 1958, the FC is a face-lifted and improved version of the Holden FE series, which it replaced." I seem to recall that we had the Holden for about ten years and Dad traded it in for a Zephyr station wagon, it was more powerful 85 bhp as against the Holden's 72 bhp! More room in the Zephyr, we could ride in the back now and look out the back window which doesn't bare thinking about these days. I'm nearly 70 now and my brothers and sisters are all still alive and thankfully were never involved in a car accident.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

I was over at Bribie Island today and spotted this parked near the water.... ( V8 Side Valve )

[AstralTraveller (David)]

My first car was an FC wagon - hand-me-down from a grandfather who had been taken off the road. I loved it! But that love is mostly for the freedom and the good times with mates (and the girl-friend ). The car itself was nice in some ways but, of course, nothing like a modern car. I always carried a spare fan belt, top and bottom radiator hoses, hose clamps and appropriate tools. Rubber parts were pretty dodgy in those days.

If I had more money than sense I'd like a stock standard bare-metal rebuild early Holden. I'd have to be living in the country because you wouldn't drive it in the city - not for fun anyway. I'd just take it for the occasional putter into town or for a picnic - and only in fine weather!