Readers’ Photos # 104: FC Holden Ute
I've said it before and it's very, very likely that I'll say it again: Holden's model-naming conventions are as illogical A-F! As best as I can tell, this is an FC (four vertical and three horizontal grille bars and rectangular front indicators, built into a chrome strip above the bumper). The FC replaced the FE (five vertical grille bars, five that are horizontal and simple round front indicators, sitting on unadorned sheet metal) in 1958. I'd have thought that C , coming before E , would denote an earlier car but, no, not in Holden's bizarre interpretation of the alphabet. Had logic prevailed, the next car in the series would have surely been an FD (?). No! Not on your Nelly; it became the FB! And, to compound such silliness, the FB was replaced by the EK! Didn't Holden's Model Naming Department know that E comes before F !? I feel sorry for people born before the introduction of Sesame Street!...