Car of the Week-Last Century?

Below is a pic of the first car that we owned as a family .
It was commononly known as a Holden FX.
The model was replaced by the Holden FJ that became an iconic Australian Car.
When my Dad first bought this car it was a navy blue colour.
Dad was a clever handyman so he repainted it as a two tone blue and white car and then to a two tone pink and white.
He was always  ahead of his time.
No one else had a Holden like this at the time.
It got sold many years later after sitting in my parents back yard for  a few years for about $50.
I had my first driving lessons in this car.
They were very roomy and comfortable.
The pics below were taken on a holdiday to Queensland that my parents took in 1960..
They had a crash on the way home..
Below is wiki link about this model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_48-215

These shots were scanned from original  Kodachrome transparencies on an Epson Perfection v700 scanner.
Pics taken on Kodak Retina 35mm camera by Glen Thompson

In front of one of the Glasshouse Mountains  QLD.

Dad fixed this later. He was very versatile even though an Accountant by Profession

somewhere on the East Coast of Australia  1960

Car and Caravan of The Week

This is a very occasional series. It's almost should be title car of the century such is the tardiness of this idea.
Sometime back we took our then only Grandson to the Birdwood Motor Museum in the Adelaide Hills.
This is a world class museum of mainly cars and motor bikes driven and ridden in Australia since they first started appearing.

this Falcon station wagon is a little bit more modern than the caravan it is towing

This type of caravan was very popular in Australia in the 1940's and 50's

On a recent trip(April 2014) on the Morgan road in South Australia I came across this wonderful rusting car and caravan. A Valiant is the the car model.

Car of The Week

The Leyland Brothers Mike and Mal captured the imagination of Australians in the 70's and 80's with their home made style documentaries about Outback and Country Australia. Their show "Ask the Leyland Brothers" and the title became iconic in that era.This was one of their famous vehicles that took them on their journeys.Below are some relevant links

http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s941427.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Brothers

car of the week

A little while back my wife and I paid a visit to the Australian National Motor Museum at Birdwood in the Adelaide Hills.
A bonus when you take grandchildren on outings is you get to visit lots of places you might not normally programme into your schedule. This Museum is a world class Motor museum almost on our doorstep and I had never been.

So it is my intention to post a car of the week or vehicle of the week and this is the second such post featuring the Zeta.
See the link to the Wikipedia entry below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_%28automobile%29

Car of The Week

A little while back my wife and I paid a visit to the Australian National Motor Museum at Birdwood in the Adelaide Hills.
A bonus when you take grandchildren on outings is you get to visit lots of places you might not normally programme into your schedule. This Museum is a world class Motor museum almost on our doorstep and I had never been.
So it is my intention to post a car of the week or vehicle of the week from here on in for a while.
This first car is almost identical to the first car our family ever had.
My Dad bought one of these in the 1950's second hand and he gave it a paint job himself similar to the one in this picture.
When he eventually sold it it was to a young lad for about $50!
When I explore my archives and get good at putting old 8mm movies and slides on the web I'll show you some original images.

It is a Holden Sedan. FJ model. Ours was an FX  which was the earlier and  first Holden produced in Australia.These cars were every where in Australia in the 1950's and 60's and very popular and affordable.