Car Ten - Holden FJ  1954, The fantastic Fj.

I have no idea why I said 'The fantastic FJ', there really was not much fantastic about this car...but the Holden FJ, the second car to come out of GM-Holdens Australian plants was indeed fantastic,  around 170'000 were produced from '53 to '56....this is the first of two FJ Holdens I was to own, both of them were ex-Sydney taxis and had probably travelled to infinity and even beyond...I brought this particular car when the Falcon (car No 9) started to play up (auto tranny, my very first too!)...now the Falcon was a '62 and this one a '55 model...lol, not many people go backwards in their car choices.

I really can't recall a whole lot about this car, or the next one. As said the FJ was the second car that GM-H (General Motors - Holden) produced in Australia, the first, commonly but unofficially called the FX , correctly, it was the "48-215", this referred to the year 1948 and the standard sedan model type, while the "FX" designation came from an internal Holden reference, 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. See photo to left with PM Ben Chifley. 

Note, this is supposedly the very first Holden the number one, oddly I have seen the 'First Holden' in a number of car museums around Australia, often next to Ned Kelly's 'original' bullet-proof vest.

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.