football, meat pies, kangaroos and holden cars

[pixelbasher]

Sorry about the title, but most aussie would recognise it as an old ad campaign for holden cars.
I took a visit to the national museum in Canberra over the weekend and there was this FJ Holden on display. The angles aren't spot on, nor is the composition, but I had no tripod so made use of nearby walls. Apologies for the glass in the side shot, but they wouldn't let me move it out of the way :lol: I actually underexposed the side shot originally, so sorry for the excessive noise, but I used it to my advantage by using two layers, the original underneath, and a layer on top ramped up then erased the video screen so as to show detail in that. I was going to do the window as wel, but it looked too hard for a shot that probably doesn't deserve it. the experts could prob spot the poor erasing a mile off. :oops:

I was a bit surprised to see some of the front chrome work as scratched as it was, I would have figured someone would put some new chrome on it, but anyway, here's a piece of aussie motoring history.

[RadAL]

careful on cropping or getting too close on cars, you are close on the verge of cutting them off.

[realitysays]

LOL at the title. Where they playing tie me kangaroo down sport as background music?

[pixelbasher]

careful on cropping or getting too close on cars, you are close on the verge of cutting them off.

On the verge? well that's better than actually cutting them off no? ;)
Yup, I know the front ones a bit tight but I had to use the glass surround as a makeshift stand. And the only wall I could use for the side shot wasn't straight (damn modern yuppie architects :lol:) . No tripod, my mistake, and it was very dark in there. the front one was .5 second at ISO 320. I aint good enough to hand hold that long!
The front shot wasn't level out of the cam, so had to rotate straight....just made it.

Where they playing tie me kangaroo down sport as background music?

LOL! No but they were playing old ads holden used through a speaker. It was perfectly placed to use as a stand for a side shot, but the speaker was loud enough it was vibrating the cam, so I had to find the wall as support!

It's a pretty cool museum actually, all about aussie history, and costs nothing to visit.

[PhotosGuy]

It's a pretty cool museum actually, all about aussie history, and costs nothing to visit. It costs nothing to show us some of the other cars there either? ;)

[pixelbasher]

No no, sorry if i confused you. It's not a car museum, it's a "modern" museum that shows the history of Australia. It's situated at the nations capitol Canberra. If you saw the opening to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney on TV, you saw the museum :lol:
If I had more stuff to share, I would!
This was basically the first car produced in Australia. The FX was the first, but in small numbers. This is like the model T of Australia. These cars have a special meaning to me BTW: Lets put it this way.....my parents (who where very young when they had me) used to go "driving" ;) a lot in my grandfathers FJ :lol:

[PhotosGuy]

Oh, I get it now. So... no rides from "Road Warrior"? ;)

[pixelbasher]

No, but if there was, it would have been from the first one only. THAT was the legendary aussie one, it went all downhill from there!

[PhotosGuy]

it went all downhill from there! True, the movie flacks never know when to quit.
But as long as the check clears at the bank, Mel probably couldn't have cared less? 8 figures is fair compensation for a little embarrassment? :D

[lycan]

There is NO other car, but that of a HOLDEN.

[pixelbasher]

I hear they make Holdens to keep fools out of Fords.....so they say :lol:

[BOSS]

I hear they make Holdens to keep fools out of Fords.....so they say :lol:

You got that right and just for the record......the first Holden made by GMH was the 48/215....the prefix of FX was not official.

[pixelbasher]

With a name like "boss", I figured you would agree!..... although I'm more a 4L liter turbo barra kind of guy.

Thanks for the info on the 48/215 designation.