other old holdens

[robbzfc58]

lots of members mention cars they "used to own"
they sound interesting & i cant get enough of em!
how bout some pics
           cheers   trev

ps   holdens only  of course!!!  

[Burnsy]

I use to own this one Trev can believe the rock in the picture that someone has thrown at it?  See my album for more.

............. chasing pics of my old blokes FC that he never stops raving about to post as well.

Cheers,
Mike

[robbzfc58]

sad end for it burnsy   do ya have a pick of it when it was shiny          this was my 1st old holden ......selling  it seemed like a good idea at the time.   i had it thru the 70s(during the hay-days of the panel vans).........god i miss it!!
it was totalled 6 weeks after i parted with it
  its very difficult trying to read the keyboard with tears in ya eyes
          trev

[4hammers]

Hi fellas.
Here is a shot of my Dads FC when he first got it. It was a well optioned demonstrator, that included radio, mudflaps, grille badge, bonnet bird & alloy wheel trims. He added the little nodding dog accessory in the rear window !!
He had it for a few years, but then sold it. I tried to track it down & was successful......kind of....It was totalled a few months before I found it & wound up at the Hobart tip
I love that colour scheme.
Rob J

[4hammers]

Here is my first FC. It was a very run down, but original car. I restored it (My first go), but in this shot had not put the side trim back on, due to lack of correct clips :-/.
This car was sold when I needed a wagon for my first born, but disappeared. I have no idea where it is.
Engine bay was fully chromed.
This is the car I set on fire while welding in floor pans

Rob J

[Burnsy]

Here it is bright and shiny, years ago before they had grass on the oval, tough back then in 1999 in Queenstown, played on gravel!!

[Burnsy]

The car that started it all, this is why I didn't grow up in a F##$ family

Dad's FC bought in 63 for around 1000 pounds and sold in 70 for $300 and now he wants it back

[customFC]

Here's a pic of the second FC I owned.
Unfortunately it was stolen and never seen since. There is a thread in the real cars section that has more pics.

Regards
Alex

[robbzfc58]

MORE!!     MORE!!!

[Tailshaft_Tim]

Unfortunately, these aren't cars I used to own, but cars I "coulda-woulda-shoulda" had.  Well, according to my Dad anyway, I was " supposed" to inherit the old family car as my 18th birthday present, had all survived.



1st is Dad's EK, before and after shots.  2nd is the R/T Charger the family had when I was born - unfortunately, whilst we were living in Malaysia, it was stripped whilst it was in supposed safe storage back home!  3rd & fourth cars were our family transport when I was a teenager, 4.1litre Cortina & GTR XUI (which Dad didn't let me drive on my L's).

When I got my licence at age 17, I went against the family taste for 'faster' cars and bought the car that I'd saved for since I got my first paper round at age 10: a stock FC (pictured left).  Later, I bought a modified FC wagon (after I accepted that a little more speed can't hurt).

Obvious question is “Why the F*** is there a F*** in the photos?” - this is another "coulda had" story.  Once we got back from Malaysia to find the Charger stripped, we went used car shopping at Parramatta Rd.  We found a tough red & black SS Torana Hatchback which Dad put a deposit on immediately.  When we went back the next day to pick it up, the Holden Dealer had sold it to someone else for more money!  Dad was so p*ssed off with them that he went straight to the F*** Dealer and got the Cortina instead (of course, he later wished he’d just waited for the next Torana and eventually got the GTR-XUI which we restored).

[robbzfc58]

OUCH !!    Tim  i prefer the stock look of the ek in the 1st pic.   real nice charger & xu1...oh yea  the cortina...its yellow

[surferboy]

gday trev
next time we catch up i'll bring pictures of my bedford van i used to cruise in.(it had a 173 holden motor so it still counts doesnt it) . i think the ex has all the photos of the cool lj torana we had.
i must get me one of those scanner thingys and learn how to post pics.!
       surferboy

[fastjbav6]

I've just emailed Brad W (fcfromscratch) some photos(my 1st attempt at posting)  of my cousins posing with FC's in the 1960's.
Maybe they can be posted here Brad.

Regards  Seb

[nicko]

Hi heres my favorite car but i have had many nice cars over the years including this and a couple of Fo&ds.
this FC was grey and owned by a Priest in Tatura (near Shepparton )in Victoria and had 38000 original miles on clock when i purchased it in 1986

[Tony FC5859]

G'day Nicko, I love your red and white FC, I've got a red FC, which I want to put a white  flash  down the side of as well , its also got a similar set of wheels on it.  Tony

[nicko]

the white is on whole boot as well

[fcfromscratch]

Here is Seb's first pic...cousin Frank in his mother's arms and Charles standing by the car....circa 1962

[fcfromscratch]

the second one is cousin Charles in front of the FC also in 1962...

[fcfromscratch]

last one is of Pina in front of an FC Ute....

[RET]

They're great pics, Seb.  That cousin Charlie, he's a picture of sartorial elegance, eh?

cheers
RET