Start with what the Holden FC is: a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé utility / 2-door panel van with 2.2L GMH '132' I6, built from 1958 to 1960, at the height of the post-war boom. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Alf Payze. 191,724 were built.
How it came about
The Holden FC series is an automobile produced by Holden in Australia from 1958 to 1960. Introduced on 6 May 1958, the FC is a facelifted and improved version of the Holden FE series, which it replaced. Although it is exclusively an Australian design, the styling is reminiscent of a scaled-down North American 1955 Chevrolet.
The hardware
The engine is 2.2L GMH '132' I6. 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. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Holden line-up the Holden FC has a clear place: it replaced the Holden FE; it handed the line to the Holden FB. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Patrol, the Dodge Challenger, the Nissan Skyline. Its Holden stablemates include the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Holden FC — 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.