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23/12/2018 4:23 am
PICs - Daily Dose of Diecast... Sunday
Christmas At Graceland
1953 Holden FJ Special 4dr Sedan
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
23/12/2018 4:28 am
Handsome little sedan / outstanding pics. But, he'd look 'lost' in Memphis.
23/12/2018 4:54 am
Uh - John? ... Why are there 2 rocks on the roof of the car ??? ( he he he he he he )
23/12/2018 5:03 am
Cuddly cute. Just like those rabbits spying on the car show the past few days.
23/12/2018 5:26 am
A super model that I do not have.
23/12/2018 8:20 am
Cute lil bugger!!
23/12/2018 1:01 pm
If I'm not mistaken, this is a model of an FJ Holden designed and built by GMH a subsiduary of General Motors. You could perhaps think of this car as a "baby" Chevrolet. The car was first released in 1948 as the FX, latter replaced by this one here, the FJ in 1953 remaining current production until 1956 or '57.
Prior to this Holden built bodies of their own design to fit onto imported kits from the US & UK that included a chassis, engine and running gear. Everything else needed to produce a finished vehicle was from local supply.
In 1960 Ford Australia launched their first Falcon model - a right hand drive edition of the American car. Around the same time Chrysler released its first Valiant and again, just like Ford, the first Australian Valiants were imported American Plymouth Valiants converted to right hand drive to suit local driving conditions.