My Holden Special Station wagon - 1962 model

After I left Brisbane and returned to Sydney, I had  brought another Holden, this time a station wagon. It was an EK model, one of the most popular Holdens made. Regarding the two photos above The photo on the left is not the one I had but it is a better photo than what I had, the photo to the right is of the actual car and the photo was taken at Bathurst, at the famous Bathurst 1000, or as it was known back then, The Hardie Ferodo 500. Not sure on the year but probably around maybe 1971.

It was also about then when I met Pam, my wife to be, I had  job in a small meatworks at Homebush. Pam's family had a vacancy for a boarder and I moved in.

The other two blokes in the photo are Tim and Rob, two friends I had met in Brisbane and spent some time traveling with in north Queensland. They were Tasmanians but were currently living in Brisbane, doing 'a lap' around Australia , they were neighbours at the San Mateo caravan park I was living in in Slacks Creek, (Long gone) on the corner of Padstow and Logan Roads Eight Mile Plains,  they were on a working holiday touring Australia. Returning from NQ they were back in the same caravan park.

They drove down from Brisbane and we all met up again at the "big race'.

It was a great weekend.

The EK was a great car, I loved it. It had however, like most of my older cars, travelled a long distance, it needed to be upgraded.

Before leaving Sydney I traded this old Holden in at a Parramatta Road car sales on a Cortina....Ron Hodgson motors, one of the cities largest at that time.