By CASEY NEILL
FROM Australia’s first home-made Holden to its last, the Dandenong Valley All Holden Street Car Show will have it all.
The eighth annual Rotary Club of Endeavour Hills event will roll into Dandenong on Sunday 3 April.
The inaugural event attracted 40 cars and brought in $2000.
The number of cars on show had last year grown to about 500, with entries pouring in from across Victoria and interstate, and fund-raising topped $24,000.
A 1948 FX Holden – the first of the make manufactured in Australia – will this year be on display alongside one of the last Australian-built Commodores.
There’ll be entertainment, kids’ activities, a Rotary barbecue and other food vendors, a performance from band The Infernos and a visit from Melbourne Transformers.
Judging will this year include an extra category, Built by Holden but not a Holden, to cover Chevs and Buicks that had Australian-built bodies by what was then Holden’s Motor Body Builders Ltd which started in 1919.
It will be among 50 trophies awarded on the day for Holdens ranging from immaculate original to highly modified.
Money raised will support community programs including Hand Brake Turn, Casey North Community Centre, Big Brother Big Sister, Operation Newstart Dandenong and Casey, Teenage Road Accident Group (TRAG), Life Education and Livvi’s Place at Marriott Waters.
The show will be held at Greaves Reserve, Bennet Street, Dandenong, from 9am to 3pm.
Entry is $5 for adults and free for children aged under 16.
Visit www.rotaryendeavourhills.org.au or www.facebook.com/groups/dandenongholdenshow for more information.
