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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. Sam. I am a

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Speaker 1: forward man.

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Speaker 2: I've made no secret of that, but I'm sad that

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Speaker 2: the Holden is not going to exist anymore.

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Speaker 3: It's extraordinary, isn't it. It would be like an Australian

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Speaker 3: company buying Chevy and then shutting it down. It's such

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Speaker 3: an iconic Australian thing. It was bought by General Motors

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Speaker 3: and now they've said no more. But if people aren't

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Speaker 3: buying them and shifting tariffs and you know, we now

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Speaker 3: have other options to buy other kind of car.

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Speaker 2: We have the most diverse range of cars in any

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Speaker 2: other than any other country in the world, and we've

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Speaker 2: got a small population. And the Holden was mother was

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Speaker 2: the necessity of invention. Back in those days you had

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Speaker 2: to import American cars. The Japanese car market didn't exist,

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Speaker 2: and to get an American car from America to.

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Speaker 1: Hear it was a big deal. It is a big

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Speaker 1: bridge these days.

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Speaker 2: You go down to Piermint, you know, just where they

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Speaker 2: used to load the cars and you see all those

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Speaker 2: keys and Yunda's coming in.

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Speaker 1: That's what happened.

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Speaker 2: That's what killed And also it's our love of other cars.

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Speaker 2: Know BMW's Volvos all those other cars are easily accessible here.

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Speaker 3: So we're all nostalgic and heartbroken. But unless you were

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Speaker 3: going to go out and buy one, what can you do?

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Speaker 1: But I got I went down the YouTube wormhole.

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Speaker 2: I just started looking at you know, old Holden's on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: Mark Holden, Mark holding the Carnation.

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Speaker 1: And then I got into the movie The f J Holden.

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Speaker 3: What's that about?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's basically about young people in Bankstown driving around

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Speaker 2: an f J Holden trying to get with each other.

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Speaker 1: Puberty blues.

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Speaker 2: It's puberty blues without the beach. Remember the theme song

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Speaker 2: from the FJ Holden that they had Frankie J.

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Speaker 1: Holden.

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Speaker 3: So that's Frankie J. Holden singing about a Holden in

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Speaker 3: a movie called FJ Holden.

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Speaker 1: Very good, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: And then there's a there's a bit wearing Bagstown Square

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Speaker 2: where the girls go and get Chinese food and they

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Speaker 2: film pretty much them ordering Chinese food, and that takes

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Speaker 2: about ten minutes the movie. And then they're scintillating dialogue

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Speaker 2: like this, Who was the guy in the chog?

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Speaker 3: It's got the biggest sticking banks Town?

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Speaker 1: Did she say what?

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Speaker 3: I think she said.

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Speaker 2: It's got the biggest stick in Bankstown beg so many questions.

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Speaker 2: What if he moves out of Bankstown, is that comparative to.

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Speaker 1: Other big was the sample group? If he goes to Sutherland,

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Speaker 1: is it going to be the case.

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Speaker 3: Then I've got another question for you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 3: It was Frankie J. Holden's real name, Frankie. Did he

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Speaker 3: change it to an F word so he'd be FJ?

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Speaker 3: And does he now have to retire because the car

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Speaker 3: is retiring?

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Speaker 1: These are all questions that you could ask him.

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Speaker 3: I could ask you. You don't have any answers?

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Speaker 2: No, I have no answers. I'm sorry, I'm not with

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Speaker 2: Frankie J. Holden's name, his wife's I don't know. He's

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Speaker 2: in the band all fifty five. But that's as far

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Speaker 2: as my knowledge goes on that. Fair enough favorite Holden

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Speaker 2: For me it was the HQ Holden. I never owned one,

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Speaker 2: but I did own a Holden. I had a hate

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Speaker 2: said station wagon and one time I was coming back

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Speaker 2: from here, I was working in Musclebrook, had a little

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Speaker 2: baby and.

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Speaker 1: My wife and we had no money, were so poor

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Speaker 1: and one of the inlet you're in a manger.

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Speaker 2: We were coming back and this is after Morgan's christening,

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Speaker 2: So we're driving back from Sydney to Musclebrook and we

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Speaker 2: get to Toronto thereabouts. All of a sudden, the old

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Speaker 2: age said starts surging and then it stops completely on

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Speaker 2: the side of the road.

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Speaker 1: It's like midnight. I've got to get to work the

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Speaker 1: next day, and I'm thinking on the side of the

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Speaker 1: road and there's no one around. This is before mobile

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Speaker 1: phones and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I've cracked the hood and I've looked at her baby,

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Speaker 2: and I've looked at Morgan, and they're sitting in the

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Speaker 2: back and they're relying on me to get this car working.

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Speaker 2: And I went, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So I'd started and it would just cut out again.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't work it out, so I took the air

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Speaker 2: photo off and I got Helen to revet a bit,

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Speaker 2: and I put my hand over the carburetta because I'd

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Speaker 2: seen someone do this before, put my hand over the intake,

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Speaker 2: got it to revet, and went and took my hand off,

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Speaker 2: and the air sucked through and whatever it was in

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Speaker 2: the carby it cleaned it out.

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Speaker 3: So it's almost like you were doing chest yeahs.

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Speaker 1: And My wife looked at me as if I was

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Speaker 1: some sort of god.

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Speaker 3: Is that the last time?

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Speaker 2: That was the last time. That was the last time.

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Speaker 2: But I managed to fix the car, got it back home.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Just a hero moment.

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Speaker 1: Joined the and Amanda in the morning one at one

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Speaker 1: point seven. Tell you