The Holden EJ is a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé utility / 2-door panel van from Holden, built from 1962 to 1963, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 2.3L GMH 138 Inline 6. Alf Payze, Stan Parker drew it.
The story
The Holden EJ is a motor vehicle produced by Holden in Australia from 1962 to 1963. Introduced in July 1962, the EJ replaced the Holden EK series.
What is underneath
Power comes from 2.3L GMH 138 Inline 6. It weighs 2492lb (1130 . It shifts through a 3-speed manual / 3-speed "Hydra-Matic" automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 105.0 inches (2667 mm). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Holden EK; its successor was the Holden EH. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Jaguar E-Type — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Holden catalogue sit the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Holden EJ has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.