Car Ten - Holden FJ  1954, first of two

Car 10 Holden FJ -1954I have no idea why I called this page 'The fantastic FJ', there really was not much fantastic about this car...this is the first of two FJ holdens I was to own, both of them were ex Sydney taxis and had probably traveled to infinity and even beyond...I brought this particular car when the Falcon (car No 9) started to play up...now the Falcon was a '62 and this one a '55 model..lol, not many people go backwards in their car choices.

I really cant recall a whole lot about this car, or the next one. The FJ was the second car that GM-H (General Motors - Holden) produced in Australia, the first, commonly but unofficially called the FX came out in 1948, funnily enough the year of my birth, in fact the first one came off the Fisherman's Bend (Vic) just one month before I was born. It was about this time that I was working on a grain elevator at Newcastle but, as usual I soon became bored with this and decided to travel on..btw, wish I still had this car, FJ's and the earlier FX's will fetch good prices today...being Australia's first car.