Start with what the Holden FB is: a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé utility / 2-door panel van with 2.3L GMH '138' I6, built from 1960 to 1961, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Alf Payze. 147,747 were built.
How it came about
The Holden FB is an automobile produced by Holden in Australia from 1960 to 1961. Introduced on 14 January 1960, the FB series replaced the Holden FC range.
The hardware
The engine is 2.3L GMH '138' I6. On the scales it comes to 2473 . Drive goes through a 3-speed manual. 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.
Family and rivals
In the Holden line-up the Holden FB has a clear place: it replaced the Holden FC; it handed the line to the Holden EK. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Jaguar E-Type, the Dodge Challenger, the Nissan Patrol. Its Holden stablemates include the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Holden FB — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.