Random # 63: EK Holden Sedan

Identifying some Holden models is a bit esoteric for UMPH. Take, for example, the FB and EK series, which to the untrained eye are very similar.

Reference to Holden Heaven (http://www.holden.org.au/model/ek-holden/) suggests that this is an EK, as the earlier FB is said to have had wider-spaced front indicators (hard to tell from photos alone) and, more tellingly, didn't feature the red badge built into the chromework shown in the magnificent example depicted here. Please feel free to leave a comment if UMPH needs setting straight.

It's also hard to fathom is the logic of Holden's model designation. It's quite widely accepted that in normal people's alphabets the letter E precedes the letter F. It would therefore seem reasonable that an EK would be the version that came before the FB. But no, not in Holden-Land; GMH's interpretation has it the other way around! (EHs are later than EJs, too. Is there a pattern?)

All of this poking fun at almost certainly long-dead Holden employees shouldn't be allowed to detract from the excellence of this (almost certainly but possibly not) EK that took UMPH's eye in Noosaville on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It really did look great and, if the collective smiles of the small tribe of passengers that spilled from its doors and into the nearby cafe are anything to go by, it's not just UMPH and other passers-by that got a kick out of it being out and about that day.

U M P H

(uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com .)

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