Was it really a Vangaurd

[leon]

G Day.
I was reading my local paper this morning at the breakfast table, The Campbelltown Macarthur advertiser, in the drive section there's an article on the 1950s Vanguards, Its celebrating the Marque's 60th anniversary by doing a 8 day rally covering 2000 Kms.
It also stated that the Vanguard was the official car used in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games :-\.
I always believed it was our very own FE Holden.
Did some one get it wrong?  ::) 

[NascoHunter]

They sure did Leon. We all know it was the mighty FE and they should look at the pictures more closely.
Cheers,
Tony.

[Shayne]

I haven't seen the article or the photo that you are talking about in this thread, but not ONLY FE Holdens were used at the 1956 Olympics.

"Just to stop everyone thinking that only FE Holdens were used during the Games in 1956, apparently there were 121 cars of which 20 were Holden sedans.  Others used were Humbers, Austins, Morrises, Customlines, Dodges, Plymouths, De Sotoes, Rovers, and VW Kombis.  Something in that list for everyone "

The quote above was 'cut and pasted' from a previous discussion on this forum.

[leon]

Well there you go, You learn some thing new every day. :o
Thanks Shayne, Tony.
Regards.
Leon

[Shayne]

Just posting some of these pics again because a lot of them have disappeared from the older threads.





Has anybody got one of these plates hiding in their shed? :o

[Shayne]

And a couple more... Excuse me for posting pictures of F%rds, but you understand it is only for historical research purposes :-[