One Owner

[Smooth customs]

Have been searching through thousands of photos, negs and slides for material that will be on my web page.

Found these of a one owner wagon I bought in the late 70's

Was a mint low milage car that had been owned by a little old lady. She bought it new and then learnt to drive!

Had only one seat belt on the drivers side, and no one had ever sat in the rear seat. Her weekely shopping had been the only things it had carried.

I bought it the day after she traded it on a new Mazda auto sadan.
The guy at the car yard had put it at the back of the yard near the office to get it out of sight of potential customers and was going to send it off to auction on the Monday. He could not believe I was interested and tried to sell me a couple of other sporty ones on the lot.

This thing drove like new , and you could not hear the motor running.
Clutch and gearchange were smooth and everything about it was just so good.

Used it as every day transport and went as far as Bathurst one weekend for a drive. Have photos taken on this trip, but am still looking for them.

A little over a month after I bought it, one night a drunk driver comming the other way went to sleep and plowed into us.

This was the result.
The photos dont show how twisted it was, as the cops calculated he was doing over 80 when he hit us.
The Falcon he was driving, ended up with the motor pushed back through the firewall and under the dash.

He was unhurt!

We were not so lucky, but if we had not been in such a solid car the outcome could have been totally different

Over the years I have owned a few FB and EK's, but this was the nicest one. And should never have ended up like this

[minifb]

OUCH THAT WOULD OF HURT Cheers Mark

[Ady]

Makes you want to cry

[parisian62]

what a shame Paul. looks like you were lucky to get out alive.

regards
Stewart

[Aussie Bob]

Oh gee! What a waste.

The background cars remind me of the St Marys Police Stations, where they use to house the old fatal cars out the back.

[Smooth customs]

A car like this is a once in a life time thing, if you are lucky enough to find it.

My wife and I were in it at the time of the accidient, and we are both lucky to have come out of it as we did. On impact the body twisted that much that the passengers side doors popped open.
She was thrown out onto the road as the car started to roll, the doors dug into the road and stopped the car from going over on her!
I took the full impact and that caused the injuries I recieved

I have owned a large selection of Holdens, of a very wide variety of models and 99% were either modified or customised.
After buying the wagon I had no intention of making any changes at all. A car like it needed to be kept in the condition it was built and delivered.

The car was taken to a towing holding yard in Moorebank, took me a couple of days to find it after the accidient.

Am still looking for the more plesant photos where we enjoyed the time we had going places in it, for the short time we did.

[Smooth customs]

So here are some photos of how it looked before the accidient.

A couple taken on a trip out west only days before its unfortunate demise.

You will notice the miss matched wheels, the original tyres were worn and the local tyre shop could not fit new ones for me on a friday arvo after work. But promised me they would be done by the following Monday.
So I fitted some spares I had sitting around home.

You can tell by the cloths it was Winter and the original heater was not as effective as it should have been.

The other shot was taken at Stanwell tops the week after I bought it, When I had hair! and no grey ones. I had been lucky enough to find an old original seat belt to fit to the passengers side. Unfortunatly the buckle would not lock, and I never got to find one before the accidient.

[Sputzwagon]

Oh my GAWD, Paul! You DID have hair on the top of you head!!!
I thought it was an urban legend
Scotty.
P.S. the top two of those photos are taken at Lennox Bridge at East Blaxland by the look of it.
Scotty.