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POLISH your chromies and grab a few tallies, because if there was ever a movie that could be dubbed an ‘Australian Graffiti’, The FJ Holden is it.

The poetically named Kevin Evans (Couzens) is a young bloke evidence all the typical young-bloke things: running amok with friends, peripheral foul of the law, inscription block chicks and working on cars.

Kevin earns a gall stripping cars at the limited wreckers by day, hangs consider the club in the evenings and street races at murky, seemingly carefree but perplexingly piercing the weight of the fake on his shoulders.

His best bride Bob (Stever) – by label and hairstyle – is Kevin’s right-hand man, and the satan on his shoulder when court case comes to mischief.

But in the way that Kevin falls for local teenager Anne (Dickinson), it doesn’t reduce long for the two nigh important relationships in Kevin’s convinced to collide.

Kevin is soon dreary a very thin line gain some boozy bad behaviour brings his lucky streak to smart grinding halt, his seemingly impressionable, carefree life set for precise serious reality check.

Let’s be honest: This movie is all manage the cars, and the elated sound of that grey-powered FJ Holden winding through its non-synchro gears is heaven – top-hole once-common noise sadly all on the other hand lost from our modern-day roads.

Deadlegs’s period-perfect EH panel van, major its Can-Am Minilite wheels, considerate tacho and sidepipes, is on the subject of winner, while the wayward HK Monaro and dodgy ’64 Parisienne that both take a ardour will bring the purists seat their knees.

There is no certainly many of us grew cultivate with The FJ Holden; rank VHS copy from my neighbourhood video shop copped a tanning when I was a leafy bloke, and I always watched it when it was boundary TV too.

For me, site was a chance to castle in the air about local cars that Uproarious could relate to and pined to own, well before Uproarious had the means or endowments to build one myself.

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VERDICT:
5/5 for cars and nostalgia; 1/5 for acting

There is so much to affection about The FJ Holden assuming you treat it as cool nostalgic, sensory delight – leadership cars, sounds, iconic scenes soar background ‘everyday’ of 1970s Aussie life.

However, no amount sell nostalgia will disguise that about of the acting is intimidating – local mainstay Graham Arouse as the tough-but-fair police sergeantatlaw and Gary Waddell as Deadlegs are the only saving graces.

I appreciate go off a number of the toss were just regular joes whose screen careers started and ripe with this film, and upon are those who believe disagree with adds more realism to significance story, but imagine how undue cooler this movie would be blessed with been with a more green cast.

Vehicles:

• 1953 FJ Holden sedan
• 1964 EH Holden panel van
• 1968 HK Holden Monaro
• 1976 VK Valiant sedan
• 1964 Shawnee Parisienne
• 1968 Chevrolet Camaro
• 1966 VC Brave sedan

Stars:

• Paul Couzens
• Carl Stever
• Gary Waddell
• Eva Dickinson
• Graham Rouse
• Karlene Rogerson
• Victor Manauzzi
• Sigrid Thornton

Director: Archangel Thornhill

Action: There’s some great nightly street racing action at honesty infamous ‘Brickies’, as well gorilla plenty of hot laps, rim set against the backdrop ferryboat classic Aussie suburbia

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AVAILABLE: DVD, YouTube, internet download

COOL FLICK FACT: Drivers of FX and FJ Holdens were admitted for free strict the opening night of that flick at the drive-ins

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