Pedal cars...

[Big Rob]

Me working on Dads FE Holden 1962.JPGP7044487.JPG

Fe was pretty flash with the trim kit down the side. That pedal car looks to be the Rolls Royce of pedal cars. You must have been a good kid in the lead up to Christmas!

Thanks, and yep, I was a lucky kid to get that. Dad was an Automotive Engineer too, so I got the bug real early. My oldest memory is the sound of a block and tackle chain being used to pull the grey motor out of that FE. I was probably wrapped in a blanket laying on the garage floor while it was all going on! I passed spanners to Dad before I could read the sizes on them (or knew what they meant) and remember rebuilding the 179 from our EH Premier when I was 7.
A couple of old pics....

And that tin of grease behind me in the pic of the FE is on the shelf in my shed now! Same tin, still with grease in it that I use from time to time.