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A mate has recently spent a couple of months visiting his Mum and siblings in Greece.
We were at the Birdwood Motor Museum just the other day, and he got quite fired up at the memories the old Holdens brought to him.
Anyway, later on that day he mentioned that he saw an old Holden on a farm not far from his sisters place. He thought it might be a FJ but I suggested more likely to be an FB/EK (or later thru 60s) as they were the LHD cars that GMH built. Am I correct in thinking that? I guess someone might he returned to Greece with a FJ but I kind of doubt it.
Anyway, it ve told him to get his sister to take something me photos and send them. I’ll take a look and see if I can identify what model it is (& perhaps what make if it wasn’t a Holden).
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I'm not sure when LHD started but LHD Holdens were made up until HG, and LHD Torana up until LX. LHD export territories in 1967 in that area that you could probably have driven to Greece from were:
Bahrain.
Greece.
Iran.
Iraq.
Jordan.
Kuwait.
Lebanon.
Libya.
Qatar.
Saudi Arabia.
Syria.
There were RHD export territories around there too, like Aden (became the capital of Yemen), Cyprus (by ferry), Pakistan.
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The first LHD Holdens were FBs beginning on 16 May 1960.
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I thought so, the first batch went to Hawaii ?
Still it would be cool to see a LHD FB-HG or LH.
Would you know if they’d have an id plate in the engine bay like ours did? |
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