
Holden
Starting Work & Buying My First Car
I started work on 14 February 1963 as an apprentice Panel Beater.money I had saved until this time. But equally, limited by my lack of knowledge of what was available to buy.

I started work on 14 February 1963 as an apprentice Panel Beater.money I had saved until this time. But equally, limited by my lack of knowledge of what was available to buy.

Australia’s first successfully mass produced car. For a low cost, four door, six-passenger family car, with excellent performance and comfortably accommodated 2 adults and 3 or 4 children on two bench seats.

Our family had two proper Soap Box Racers stored in the back yard. An older pre-war dark blue “heavy car” and a white, lighter construction developed later.