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Fx-Fj Car Clubs in Australia

ACT

FX-FJ Car Club of Canberra, Eddy Hoek, 02 6292 8937 http://www.edzholden.com

NSW

48 and FJ Holden Owners Club of NSW Inc, PO Box 578, Parramatta, 2124, 02 6705017
48 to 67 Holden Drivers Club, Dave Miller, 02 49332639
48-68 Holden Car Club, Dave Milner, 8 Morton Street, Raymond Terrace, 2324, 02 49332639
V8 & FJ Holden Owner Club Of Nsw Inc Po Box 578, Parramatta NSW 2124. Neville Bennett: Secretary (02) 9627 1304
FX-FJ Holden Club of Aust, Brian Bouttit, 32 Lamonerie Road, Toongabbie, 2146, 02 96368058
FX-FJ Holden Drivers Club, Lot 273 Groves Avenue, South Mulgrave, 2756, 02 45772996
FX-FJ Holden Drivers' Club, Mary Brown, Lot 273 Groves Avenue, South Mulgrave, 2756, 02 45772996
Illawarra Early Holden Club Incorporated, Secretary PO Box 87 Woonona NSW 2517.
Southern Suburbs Early Holden Car Club, http://wwwssehcc.com.au Alan, 02 95242488
Southern Sydney Early Holden Car Club, John Warnoll, 115 Hall Dr, Menai, 2232, 02 95871278

VIC

FX-FJ Holden Club of Australia Melbourne Chapter Inc, Barry Black, PO Box 386,Nth Melb 3051, 03 9470 6350  ah
1948-67 Peninsula Holden Car Club, Phil Coombes, PO Box 2083, Carrum Downs, 3201, 03 5996 2579
Classic Holden’s of Country Victoria, Brian, RMB 1103, Ararat, 3377, 03 53956 2316
Early Model Holden, Trevor Read , PO Box 209, Vermont, 3133, 03 9887 1220
FX-FJ Holden Club of Australia, Bendigo Chapter, Secretary, PO Box 152, Bendigo, 3550,
Geelong FX-FJ Holden Car Club, Nola Appleton, PO Box 81, Geelong, 3220, 03 5248 2593
Peninsula 1948-1967 Holden Car Club, Simon Blackwell, PO Box 2083, Currum Downs, 3201, 03 7896524

QLD

Bundaberg Early Holden Club, G Stubbins, 23 Avenell St, Bundaberg, 4670, 071 526591
FX-FJ Holden Club of Queensland, John Whitten , PO Box 3523, South Brisbane, 4101, 07 5498 5106
Gold Coast Combined Early Holden Club, Garry Hamilton, PO Box 2961, Nerang East, 4211, 07 8014716
Northside FJ-FJ Holden Car Club, Basil Bemvenuti, PO Box 2226, Chermside, 4032, 07 2051568
United Earlies Fx Fj Car Club PO Box 195, Carina, Brisbane Qld .Les Seaman (07) 3206 7625

SA

48-78 Southern Holden Car Club, Dean, PO Box 448, Morphett Vale, 5162, 08 3841421
48-FJ Holden Club, Dean Qualman, 347 Churchill Road, Kilburn, 5084, 08 2695255
FX-HZ Holden Car Club, Terry Highett, PO Box 958, Salisbury, 5108, 08 2500439
Southern Early's FX-FJ Car Club, Geoff Hampton, PO Box 29, Hackham, 5163, 08 3881054

WA

FX FJ Holden Car Club of WA, PO BOX 242, BENTLEY. 6102, WA email - fxfjclub@iinet.net.au,

Other Early Holden Clubs

Holden FE-FC Car Club, Spyro Bouras, GPO Box 444, Goodwood, 5037, 08 2671664
FB & FC Car Club of Victoria INC, Michael Materia, PO Box 3061, Auburn, 3123, 03 4597769
FE & FC Holden Club, Wilma Koetsier, PO Box 251, Box Hill, 3128, 03 98708766
FE-FC Holden Car Club of Queensland, Neil Sweet Man, 74A Woodville Place, Annerley, 4103, 07 8489056
FE-HR Holden Owners Club Act Inc, Graham, PO Box 867, Civic Square, 2608, 06 2513607
FE/FC Holden Car Club of NSW, Siggy Moseneder, PO Box 609, Parramatta, 2124, 02 9714681
Queensland FB/EK Holden Car Club, PO Box 211, Cannon Hill, 4170,

EH Car Club of Victoria, Keno Barbie, P.O. Box 4364, Ringwood VIC 3134 03 9762 0760
EH Car Club of Tasmania Inc, Tony Wickham, PO Box 287, Rosny Park, 7018, 002 658525
EH Holden Car Club, Vincent Moran, PO Box 492, Auburn, 2144, 02 96386453
EJ & EH Holden Owners Club, Darrell Head, PO Box 2734, North Parramatta, 2151, 02 98999731
EJ-EH Car Club of WA, Darryl Weller, PO Box 463, Bentley, 6102, 09 3610384
EJ-EH Holden Social Car Club Canberra, Richard Kimber, PO Box 208, Mawson, 2607, 02 62942155

ACT GMH Club, Adam Andrikis, 7 Pollux St, Yass, 2582, 02 62585909
ACT Holden Owners Group, Aneata Ward, 9-7 Forbes St, Turner, 2612, 02 62478722
Holden Sporting Car Club of NSW, Sam Silvestro, PO Box 251, Bankstown, 2200, 02 96332899
Holden Sporting Car Club of Qld, PO Box 558, Fortitude Valley, 4006, 07 33662000
Golden West Holden Owners Club, Alex McDonald, 5 Hooley Street, Parkes, 2870, 02 68624540
Holden - Pre 68 Holden Car Club, Bruce Clementson, 03 7959530 A/H

(Part of Cowleys Car Club - visit their site http://www.cowleys.com.au/public/carclub.htm for a list of other car clubs)

 

 

 

 

 

The story of the Holden symbol

The first Holden emblem was a life-size wooden horse which stood above the entrance of the Holden & Frost Saddlery works in Adelaide.

As an emblem, the Holden Lion relates to the time when the general practice by coachbuilders was to have their name or trademark engraved on the doorsill or on a large plate fastened to the instrument panel.

In the USA, Fisher Body had a neat, embossed replica of its coach trademark attached to the lower part of the cowl. At this time Holden's Motor Body Builders was using a large engraved brass plate, the foreground of which was a figure representing industry with a background of factory buildings. This design was far too detailed for the embossed treatment on a small plate. A new emblem was needed. A 'Wembley Lion' medallion was chosen, depicting an Egyptian lion, the symbol of the Wembley Exhibition which was held in London in 1924. (Egyptian antiquity heavily influenced fashion themes of the day from clothes arid furniture to films and songs.)

According to fable, the principle of the wheel was suggested to primitive man when observing a lion rolling a stone. Several sketches were made and it was decided to go ahead with the design. George Raynor Hoff, one of Australia's leading sculptors, was commissioned to develop the design in the solid. From a plaster model, small metal replicas were produced for nameplates.

These were affixed to all bodies built from 1928 to 1939 on the lower near side of the cowl in a similar manner to Fisher. The design was also adopted as a trademark in all Holden advertising. The Holden Lion also became the emblem for the first Australian GM car, the Holden. Although updated, in 1972 and again in 1994 this symbol is still used on all Holden cars.

 

Gym ... Or Art?

These kids are clambering over a ripper sculpture by Melbourne artist Salvatore Amato. Take a peek at the number plate and you'll notice the playground monument is a see-through FJ.

The work is part of the City of Box Hill's Neighbourhood Improvement Program, and commemorates the site of Australia's first drive-in theatre, the Hoyts 650 car Burwood Skyline Drive-In, which closed in 1983 after 29 years of operation.   The tube steel FJ sits in the park next door as a reminder of pre-video times.

(Street machine Magazine)

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Describing Car Noises to Your Mechanic!

(from The Web Garage)

It is important that you be aware of normal sounds from the engine, transmission, exhaust system, and tires of your car. If you hear unusual sounds, you should listen carefully so you can describe the noise to your service technician (mechanic). Unusual or extremely loud sounds, called "noises," can often tell a service technician about the vehicle's problem.

Many people, however, often find it hard to describe a noise. Here are some descriptions of noises that may be helpful when trying to describe your car noise to a service technician. Memorize the particular noise name and its description before going to the workshop, or print out this list and take it with you!

(ps: I'm Kidding!)

 

That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!

-- Greg Petrolati

(Definition of a British Car! - Ed)

Defining a Motorhead

  1. Do your best trousers get oil and grease on them?
  2. Have you ever bought a tool because it looked cool and never used it?
  3. Have you ever bought any special tools, unique to one model?
  4. Is there, somewhere in your garage, a piece of steel pipe that you have, on one or more occasion, used for extra leverage?
  5. Do you worry that you will develop mesothelioma from working on asbestos brake shoes/pads?
  6. Do you spend more time listening to the car noises than the radio?
  7. Do you spend more time listening to the car noises than your partner?
  8. Have you ever used the domestic oven to heat gearbox or crankcases in order to remove or fit bearings?
  9. How many containers half full of unidentifiable petrochemical products are there around your home right now?

-- Donald Mackie

What is shipwright's disease ...

In LBC terms it goes something like this:

The glovebox light is out, I'll just replace the bulb, but look, the contacts are a bit corroded, so I better put in a new socket. To do that I have to pull out the glovebox itself, and look here! The heater is leaking. I'll just pull off the leaking hose and whoops! The core is rusted. Off with the dashboard, out with the heater core, and oh my, there's rot in the firewall. IN the engine compartment, I take out the battery to see the rot, and I can't weld the patch on it without taking out the engine, so out with the hoist. While the engine's out I might as well rebuild it, and the transmission and clutch. And I noticed that the shocks are shot, so off with them, and the suspension bushings have seen better days, but look! The spring tower's cracked, so I have to weld it, but I can't get at it without removing the body, so....

...so replacing the glovebox bulb led to a frame-up restoration.

Some of you may think I'm making this up. I made up only the specific details of this case.

 

The radiator cap solution...

The discussion of radiator caps reminds me of an old car I once had. You know the kind, ratty and raggidy, driven when I was a poor college student. I was having trouble with something I couldn't readily identify myself, so I took it into the shop.

The mechanic looked at it a couple of minutes and said, "What you really need is the radiator cap solution."

"Oh," I said, trying not to sound too confused. "Do you mean the radiator cap isn't holding enough pressure?"

"Thats part of the problem" he said. "You need to lift the radiator cap and drive another car under it. Then the next day you can replace the radiator cap, and it should solve your problem."

-- LLoyd -ahh, the good old days-

Rust protection

If you check the original owner's manual for any British car it says, usually on page 14, the following:

Rust proofing is not required due to the unique British Car Dynamic Oil Spray System (BCDOSS) with which your vehicle is equipped. Also note there are no required winterization precautions as the car will spend its winters being in a constant state of repair.

... you could look it up ;-)

-- Mike Himelfarb

You know you've owned a Jaguar too long when...

-- George Cohn and others

Alternative to the Dremel Tool...

In February in Wesley Chapel, Fla., Joseph C. Aaron, 20, was hit in the leg with pieces of the bullet he fired at the exhaust pipe of his car. While repairing the car, he had needed to bore a hole in the pipe and, when he could not find a drill, tried to shoot a hole in it.

[Tampa Tribune, 2-17-95] Rob Chiles

10 Best Tools of All Time

Forget the Snap-On Tools truck; its never been there when you need it. Besides there are only 10 things in this world you need to fix any car, any place, any time.

  1. Duct Tape Not just a tool, a veritable Swiss Army knife in stickum and plastic. It's safety wire, body material, radiator hose, upholstery, insulation, tow rope, and more - in an easy to carry package. Sure, there's prejudice surrounding duct tape in concours competitions, but in the real world, everything from LeMans-winning Porsches to Atlas rockets use it by the yard. The only thing that can get you out of more scrapes is a quarter and a phone booth.
  2. Vice Grips Equally adept as a wrench, hammer, pliers, baling wire twister, breaker-off of frozen bolts and wiggle-it-til-it-falls-off tool. The heavy artillery of your tool box, vice grips are the only tool designed expressly to fix things screwed up beyond repair.
  3. Spray Lubricants A considerably cheaper alternative to new doors, alternator, and other squeaky items. Slicker than pig phlegm, repeated soakings will allow the main hull bolts of the Andrea Doria to be removed by hand. Strangely enough, an integral part of these sprays is the infamous Little Red Tube that flies out of the nozzle if you look at it cross eyed (one of the 10 _worst_ tools of all time).
  4. Margarine Tubs with Clear Lids If you spend all your time under the hood looking for a frendle pin that caromed off the pertal valve when you knocked both off the air cleaner, it's because you eat butter. Real mechanics consume pounds of tasteless vegetable oil replicas just so they can use the empty tubs for parts containers afterward. (Some of course chuck the butter-coloured goo altogether or use it to repack wheel bearings.) Unlike air cleaners and radiator lips, margarine tubs aren't connected by a time/space wormhole to the Parallel Universe of Lost Frendle Pins.
  5. Big Rock at the Side of the Road Block up a tire. Smack corroded battery terminals. Pound out a dent. Bop noisy know-it-all types on the noodle. Scientists have yet to develop a hammer that packs the raw banging power of granite or limestone. This is the only tool with which a "Made in Malaysia" emblem is not synonymous with the user's maiming.
  6. Plastic Zip Ties After 20 years of lashing down stray hose and wiring with old bread ties, some genius brought a slightly slicked-up version to the auto parts market. Fifteen zip ties can transform a hulking mass of amateur- quality wiring from a working model of the Brazilian Rain Forest into something remotely resembling a wiring harness. Of course it works both ways. When buying a used car, subtract $100 for each zip tie under the hood.
  7. Ridiculously Large Craftsman Screwdriver Let's admit it. There's nothing better for prying, chiseling, lifting, breaking, splitting or mutilating than a huge flat bladed screwdriver, particularly when wielded with gusto and a big hammer. This is also the tool of choice for all filters so insanely located that they can only be removed by driving a stake in one side and out the other. If you break the screwdriver--and you will just like Dad and your shop teacher said--who cares, it has a lifetime guarantee.
  8. Baling Wire Commonly known as MG muffler brackets, baling wire holds anything that's too hot for tape or ties. Like duct tape, it's not recommended for concours contenders, since it works so well you'll never need to replace it with the right thing again. Baling wire is a sentimental favourite in some circles, particularly with the MG, Triumph, and flathead Ford set.
  9. Bonking Stick This monstrous tuning fork with devilish pointy ends is technically known as a tie-rod separator, but how often do you separate tie-rod ends? Once every decade if you're lucky. Other than medieval combat, its real use is the all-purpose application of undue force, not unlike that of the huge flat-bladed screwdriver. Nature doesn't know the bent metal panel or frozen exhaust pipe that can stand up to a good bonking stick. (Can also be use to separate tie-rod ends in a pinch, of course, but does a lousy job of it).
  10. A Quarter and a Phone Booth See tip #1 above.

-- Origin regretfully unknown

Peter Egan's Tool Dictionary

Peter Egan [Road & Track]

UK English Motor Racing Glossary

-- Paul Garside

Lucas Aphorisms

-- Collected from LBC folklore

British Bumper sticker

All parts falling off of this car are
of the highest quality British manufacture.

Five surgeons taking a coffee break

1st surgeon says: Accountants are the best to operate on because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.

2nd surgeon says: Nah, librarians are the best. Everything inside them is in alphabetical order.

3rd surgeon says: Try electricians, man! Everything inside THEM is colour coded.

4th surgeon says: I prefer lawyers. They're heartless, spineless, gutless and their heads and their butts are interchangeable.

To which the 5th surgeon, who has been quietly listening to the conversation, says: I like British car restorers... they always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end.

British Bumper sticker - Naps

Frequent naps prevent old age, especially if taken while driving.

 

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