FE-FC Holden Discussion Forum

Hey Guys,

This is my Dad - Old Man Emu - with Old Mrs Emu, the Emu Sister as an Emuling and of course - the beautiful little baby Emu in his mother's arms. 1961.
It would be a great pic of the wagon if it wasn't for all those Emus in the way!!
Hey Craig A, do ya have a program that can remove people from car pics?

I'll post a few more soon.

Emu - Reminiscer(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-1-1-1077149700?m=1&pg=0&ro=0&co=0)

Here's another with Grandad and Grandma Emu.

I think it was in Gunnedah, but I don't remember.

Actually I found out it was in Gunnedah and I'm in the picture behind my mothers maternity dress!  
So this picture was really sometime in middle 1960.

Ckeck the classics in the background!

(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-2-1-1077137418?m=1&pg=0&ro=1&co=0)

This one is in the backyard at our house in Sutherland in Sydney. Note the matching attire on the emulettes. Also note the well pulled-up pants and rolled up sleeve to reveal bulging bicep on Old Man Emu.

In the middle next to the pillows is the old Slide Projector. It went on every holiday and I still use it at family gatherings to display Emu History which was prolifically recorded by the senior Emu.

My sister used to sleep in the space at the back of the wagon on long trips. Pretty safe eh?

The FC Holden Wagon - the perfect car for the perfect Aussie family departing on a perfect holiday to the Gold Coast - Beautiful One Day, Perfect the Next!
(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-2-3-1077338449?m=1&pg=0&ro=1&co=2)

Here's the car in 1964. On the way to the Gold Coast again. Taree I think?
Note another little Emu sibling. He turned out to be the Black Sheep of the family and drives a Ford.

Again, this shot   shows the versatility of the Holden Wagon. Breakfast in the back. Sleeping arrangements you ask? Dad made a wooden bench which layed across the drive shaft hump on the floor in front of the back seat. Emu slept there. Sister slept on the back seat and little bro over the back. Dad would drive through the night and hence breakfast in the back. Sometimes he would drive straight through. We would go to bed in Sydney and wake up at Broadbeach or Kirra. How exciting!!

(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-2-4-1077373999?m=1&pg=0&ro=1&co=3)

Last One!

I hope I'm not boring you, but I'm having a blast. Its like Slide Show night all over again and I must say that I'm pretty proud of my technological ability for being able to post all these.

I think this was the last trip to the Goldie in the FC. Stayed in a Motel. I think the Old Emu was going soft on the driving through the night thing. I think it was Grafton? Need to check with the Old Emu while he can still remember the details.

The Old girl was starting to show wear. The car, not Mum! But now that I mention it.................

Back to the story. The Old Bloke skipped the entire "E" years and bought a new HD wagon, which, just quietly was a bit of a pig. He traded straight up to an HR wagon and the trips continued for another 5 years until one day we lobbed on the Gold Coast and never went home!

What a great move! Here the Emu sits today on the Beautiful Gold Coast. Owner of a FC Wagon not unlike the Old Emu's and lovin it!

Hey just noticed, how's the camera around my neck. What a tourist!!

(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-1-5-1077374026?m=1&pg=0&ro=0&co=4)

             EMU  THIS IS YOUR LIFE

 great stuff emu        got more?

emus everywhere its a kiwis worst nightmare plus it looks like they were breeding even worse!!!!!!!!!!!!

but i do notice emu that not only have you have an fc but ewe still were the clothes from that era
your a legend werein hand me down clothes ya dad gave ya
where ya teeth bad back then too?????

ps still got the sandels????


kiwi -future bird not stuck in the past like emus
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Look like great times !!! Wonder if the kids of the younger generations will treasure the pictures with there parents by the Hyundai as much ?//  Doubt it ... HOLDEN RULES.......   TRULY AUSTRALIAS OWN CAR... fantastic photos Emu.

That's you with the camera?  Jeez you've let yourself go a bit...

Great pics.  My Dad (RKT) also had a Blue/White FC Wagon when he and mum got married.  Maybe one day we'll come across some photos of it.  They went on their honeymoon in it, so I imagine there must be some somewhere...

cheers
RET

Nice ones Emu.  Bet you had loads of fun going through the albums for FE/FC pics.  Always nice to see pics of these vehicles in their earlier days.
;D

Tremendous Emu, keep up the slide show and don't listen to the jealous kiwi
John M

Love the stories.
Not too dissimilar to my own upbringing with Dads FC wagon. His was cream with a brown flash though. No colour pics of it anywhere, just 1 B&W. My Dad loved his super 8 movie camera. I will get around to converting some footage into stills one day. Our trips were a lot more local (Canberra, Bathurst etc)
Regards
Alex

Guys
I really love all the photo's you have put on this string. The only problam is that they are in my imagination and all I can see on the screen are a lot of X's.

Please end my frustration nad give me a look

Strange they where all there yesterday
John M

Help!

Where r my beautiful pics?

Emu

Emu
I think the Kiwi has taken over 'star photo'and put a stop on your pictures. ::)
But really it usally means the server where your photo's are stored is having problems and does not want to talk to this site, it will more than likely fix itself.
John M

They're back!!

Whoooo hoooo!

Happy Emu.

Emu just had a look though the pic's and read the stories. Brings back some old memories for me, even though I was my family black sheep (Dad had a green and white zepher wagon) and I went after Holden.

Regards
Sarge

Hey Sarge,

Rackin up those posts aren't ya!

I found another slide of the Old Emu's FC - Just gotta get a print and then scan and post.

Its of me in my Mum's arms about to come home from the Sutherland Hospital after my birth. The FC Wagon features beautifully!

I used to race a Zephyr - Mark 2 I think - at Surfers Paradise Speedway. In the "Bombers" What a blast!

A mate and I found it on a property. We towed it behind his HT Brougham until it started. Stripped it out and put in the roll cage etc and raced it for about 12 months until I totalled it. Actually everyone else totalled it, I just held on while I was bashed all over the track. We won a few races in the time.

The amazing thing about the old "Maori Mustang" was that we were on a tight budget, so we didn't even change the oil that was in it when it sat in the paddock! We raced it for 12 months and didn't use any oil and the day it was totalled it sat forlornly in the mid field ticking over like a sewing machine, with that same oil in her.

What a beauty. Pity it was a Ford!

Emu - Former Ford Racer

dont knock the maori mustang big bird


ewe is gettin desperate postin for postings sake !!!!!!!

specilly now rets disabled ya post counter



kiwi _guru  and mustang by maori expert

Emu I remember the old mans wagon was much the same. the only time it got any attension was when dad wanted to punish me. He would make me go and wash it out the front of or house and then call all my mate around so they could se me taken care of a ford. But I give that old car one thing the places dad took it when we would go rabbiting on the weekend most cars would have died in the arse.

Regards
Sarge

Quite an interesting picture story there EMU .... Its funny how the cars of our childhood creep into our adult lives... I am into FC Holdens because as a kid I would watch the neighbours kids learning to drive a terracotta and adobe Biege FC around the paddocks... They eventually hacked the boot and tulip panel out with an axe and pulled the back seat out.... It was then used for feeding the cows their silage out of... the FC farm Ute had long since been parked in front of the chook pen and still sits there today... The crushers took away all the other cars  in the late eighties... Its this memory of FC holdens that I got into them... Even built  a tribute FC Ute and took pics of it beside the neighbors dead one.... Take a look.... cheers Streetneat

Great Stuff Streetneat!

Fine looking ute! The Blue one is quite cool too.  ;)

Good story too. I think psychologists call it "Early Conditioning" that makes us revert to things of childhood. I call it good taste.

Its great to have you on site. I think the club debate is blowing over. I pulled back from getting too involved after my first comment. I prefer my input to be classed more as "Light Entertainment/Comedy".
The summary is, these blokes are not really like any other car enthusiasts I know and are unlikely to deliberately cause you any grief. This site is the envy of many others. I have a mate with an FJ who continually whinges about the lack of a site like this for FJ ers. A lot of tribute goes to RET and probably some other anonymous, behind the scenes guys, who keep this forum so well managed.

Keep posting, I'm thoroughly enjoying your pics.
I am a bit jealous that you worked out how to post pics so quickly. It took me months!!  :'(

Bit slow, this Emu

Emu
      I think your right about the earl conditioning thing. The only reason I went for Holdens was with Dad and four older brother's I needed to stand out a bit being the youngest. Funny part is that now that Dad has pasted only one of the older brother's (the oldest) is still 100% f**d.

regards
Sarge

I found one more of me n the FC.

That's me (The Baby Emu), my parents and my sister in front of the FC in  front of Sutherland hospital in Caringbah, Sydney. Christmas 1960.

This shot shows the number plate quite clearly.

Does anyone know if it is possible to track down any history from this car using this plate.
Ken, are there departmental records etc that can give me a lead? I'd love to know what happened to the old girl after dad sold it.

Emu

(http://photo.starblvd.net/Emu_FC/1-3-4-1080556728?m=1&pg=0&ro=2&co=3&pw=*4CDB40373917)

Emu, You can go to rta site & go to number plate ordering, (it's down at the time of this post) & type in the no. BVP-773 if it is available the system will let you order it for your car, but I don't know if you would have any luck re a search.
Gary

Just bringing this to the top seeing as how it took me hours to post all these  pics!

Emu

yawn  ;D
yep there good emu yawn  ;D
yawn  ;D
where are the latest yawn pics of HILDA ? :o

kiwi bird who wants ta see hilda pics  :'(

That's my life your yawning at there Kiwi.

Be careful!

Updated Hilda pics will be forthcoming.

yawn
really emu
hadnt noticed yawn yawn yawn
;D ;D ;D

Thanks for bringing this back to the top, Emu.  Great pics and story.

Maybe the yawner from over the Tasman is short on history as well as short on legs.

Heh Emu
Great photos and family history very interesting and a thrill to see thanks for sharing!!! By the way love the wagon it was a pearler!
Brett

Great photos Emu,

Funny you should mention the sleeping in the back thing, I remember being 7 or 8 and laying on the back seat of mums FC wagon, we were racing dad to work and had an accident.  The back of the front seat acted like a great big trampoline and I clearly remember bouncing between the front and back seats without hurting myself at all.  In fact I remember the bloke we ran into getting a hammer out, bashing the crap out of the front guard to get it off the front tyre so we could continue the race...........great days indeed.

Nige

Hey Nige,

Great story!! Interesting how our perceptions of safe travel have changed from one generation to the next.

My mum used to let me stand on the seat in front of her and steer the car. One day I steered from Gymea Bay across the "Tom Ugly's" bridge to Nan n Pop's place in Sans Souci! :o

Gotta be some kind of record for a 3 or 4 year old.

Yea Guyzzz
   Safety sure has changed ,  our "child safety seat" was a padded , wooden fruit box , that sat neatly on the front seat of the car between mum & dad so we could see out the front , comfort PLUS .  same seat was used for my sister - 1947 + , me 1953 + (shhhhh) and my brother 1963 .  How far up the street would you get these days before being pulled over.  :P

   Norm  :)