Robin's FC Holden Sedan
(Modified)
Engine
  • 149 that is bored to a 161 with quarter race cam and ported and polished head.
Trans
  • 3 speed
Diff
  • Standard
Paint
  • Paint: Original ?
  • Body: ?
  • Insert & boot: ?
Wheels
  • Standard
Tyres
  • ?
Interior
  • Original ?
Other Stuff
  • Registration No: ?
  • Previous Owners:?
  • Mileage: ?
  • History: He's one for the nostalgic. My first FC. I have had it for about 30 years. Paid $90 for it and my dad and I restored/modified it in the back shed. It took us several years as I was still at school when I got it. Not looking too good now as it has been off the road for 20 years and the rats were nesting in it where I had it stored. It has a 149 that is bored to a 161 with quarter race cam and ported and polished head. I also had the centres of the chromies moved to be exacting on the legal limit for wheel track. This pissed off a policeman who got down in the mud to check the track one night.
  • In 1983 I drove it through the Ash Wednesday fires, I don't know why, but I did and my brother and I picked up about six people who had abandoned a fire truck and car in the middle of the flames. The only way I knew I was still on the road was the cats eyes in the middle of the road. I could feel them through the steering. Dodged the fire truck which was burning and the burning car and found the people who were going to lie on the road to get away from the smoke. They climbed in and on the car, two hanging on the open back door as my brothers bike was in the back seat, no time to move it. As I went to move off the engine stalled. The radiator had burst and the steam went straight into the air cleaner. I flicked the key, she fired up, in a good way, and we got out of that hell. I was later awarded a bronze medal for bravery from the Governor. The car was so hot that when I touched my bike that was in the boot I got a burn on my hand about 2x6cm and it came up about 1.5cm in height. Ouch! But the FC survived, Still has most of the burn marks on it. My nephew used it for a while then my brother and my wife. It found an Opel 4 speed and I think Torana bucket seats along the line. Now it needs another restoration.

 

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