Tony Pryce is remarkably calm for someone who saw his pride and joy - a baby blue 1949 Holden FX - partially dismantled to fit through the doors of the National Archives of Australia building in Canberra.
"No worries at all," he said with a smile.
The mudguards and back bumper bar had to come off the car to get it through the archives' front doors so it could sit in the foyer, ready for Friday's official opening of the new exhibition, Rear vision: the Holden collection, a homage to "Australia's own car".
