Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Shane Warne was so highly regarded outside Australia that soon after condolences have been passed on from the UK from : Boris Johnson prime Minister Mick Jagger Ed Sheeran Elton John Some of the ones I have heard on the news so far as well as just about everyone in Australia. Highly regarded in India and Pakistan and every other cricket playing countries.
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  2. G'day Ian. At 5:40 the hole is the Ford Shaker Hood. Also used first in lots of US muscle cars. Air scoop mounted on the engine so moving with the engine. At 7:00 yes a Valiant Charger.
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  3. When the F1 championship started in 1950, the engine choices were 1.5 litre supercharged or 4.5 litre unsupercharged. The winning cars early on were Alfa Romeo with a 1.5 litre straight eight and Ferrari 1.5 litre V12. By the time the British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V16 got sorted out the formula changed to 2.5 litre without a supercharger. So the expensive development of the BRM engine was largely wasted. Later Cooper cars with Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren driving showed the importance of good handling and low frontal area by moving to mid engined and less costly race cars. The even used an engine designed to power fire fighting water pumps by Coventry Climax. Enzo Ferrari hated that English cars practically made in garages , as he called it , could beat his racing factory cars.
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  4. Some US terms would not confuse us in Australia. Stroller often used for the smaller collapsible types of prams for instance.
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  5. On my driving test my tester and instructor talked about a recent test where the learner avoided a spare wheel coming out of a service station. The test stopped there and then with the learner passed. He had shown more awareness and road skills by avoiding that than any further testing could show. It seems to me you are in that category too.
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  6. One of the most memorable events in Bathurst history. Even my mother was cheering at the time. Bathurst converting my Mother to a once a year race fan like many in Australia. Peter Brock driving the legendary Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback to first place ahead of another seven Toranas filling places one to eight. Last Bathurst for Torana with rule changes next year. The the Peter Williamson Toyota Celica next but a long way back. The heavy Falcon hardtops were even further behind as by this time they were outclassed the lighter Toranas as was the single Camaro that failed to finish. Alan Moffat Falcon failed to finish. Maybe karma from being helped in qualifying by some murky rule application to help him out. Torana was one of the few cars sold with four , six or eight cylinder engine options.
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  7. The guy stopping the interview was a beach inspector that had some powers but he liked having the power a lot.
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  8. When Conrod was all a straight I understand most cars needed to back off before the last bumps on the straight so as not to be launched into the air too much.
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  9. Out of the factory the best they got was 302 HP. Still amazing for a 265 cui six naturally aspirated. With the four speed gearbox they could out accelerate the competition over the quarter mile.
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  10. He had some bad advice in the comments here a while back. Maybe a butter salesman.
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  11. Bob's your uncle comes from Bob Menzies. Prime Minister of Australia from 1949 to 1965. If he was your uncle you could expect to be favoured.
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  12. Admire the honesty and scientific approach to this.
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  13. Safer to share all the Tim Tams with friends and neighbours than eat them hourly in your family.
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  14. The Goodwood events are great. Goodwood also provide a huge amount of coverage where they explain more about the cars running and the times they set against each other. Always learning something new from the coverage. Earliest this year may be the 1903 Mercedes race car being pushed hard. So near 120 years old. Duke of Richmond's driveway. Wikipedia has some of the amazing story of the Duke or Lord March.
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  15. At 8:16 is Albert Park Lake which is an easy walk from the centre of Melbourne. Also where the Australian Formula One Grand Prix had been held for about the last ,25 years. Daniel Riccardo taking us through a lap with the speeds reached and a track map: https://youtu.be/ujmwGDoarYg
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  16. All the racing Falcons built for the last forty years are four door cars. The other Shell DJR racing two door you have is the Australian racing version of the Mustang. Built to convert the racing Falcons to Mustang looking cars at minimum cost. This was since Ford here stopped making the Falcon but sold imported Mustangs. Controversial conversion that differed from a real Mustang for parity with the Holden Commodore as well as using the tube frame from the Falcon four door. No distortion in the road car Mustang you can buy from Australian Ford dealers at BMW type prices.
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  17. About 1999 NASCARs ran at Bathurst. They were 10kph or more faster on Conrod straight but 10, seconds a lap slower overall.
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  18. I think the engine sound at 11:15 is likely a two stroke motor that had several brands use them in older Eastern Europe.
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  19. Used to go to Altona beach. Amazed it got into any top beach list.
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  20. To get a feel for how big a shock the passing of Shane Warne is , search YouTube for his name in the past 24 hours or past hour. So many posts from around the world , not just Australia.
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  21. I remember the start of JB HiFi around 1974. My brother would help by making a bit of a trek to the single original store at Keilor East to buy bulk boxes of TDK Cassette tapes. Some for him and some for me. Now fifty years later most of my electronic stuff comes from one of their many stores in Melbourne.
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  22. Searching YouTube for Dick Johnson Sierra Will reward with lots of info and videos on the turbo era of Bathurst and how Dick developed the fastest Sierra in the world trying to keep up with the fastest Nissan Skyline R32s in the world. All locally developed to be better than overseas factory teams.
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  23. There was also rarely seen film of the track damage caused by one of the two "Record" setting runs of 1955. The force of the locomotive and train moving from side to side even on nominally straight tracks pushed the tracks out of straight alignment. It took something like a month to repair kilometres of the record track back to usable condition. A more recent TV documentary pointed out that the two competing locomotive companies did not exactly match each other with the top speed but it was just announced that way for both the CC and BB locomotive. There is more available film from a plane showing the overhead power supply catenary being melted and a shower of sparks trailing and then the locomotive coasting for many kilometres with pantographs down so as not to cause any further damage to the catenary. Lucky I saw the track damage film when I did because the poster said be quick as this suppressed film will not be allowed to be shown when the owners find out. Damages the 1955 legend as well as the track.
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  24. The 142 mph of the XY GT HO was not the big upheaval. The government purchase threats came in 1973 with news reports of the XA GT HO phase 4, Torana GTR xu2 V,8 and Charger 340 V8 four speed all being described as 160 mph off the Showroom floor. So much of a scare that all these race models did not happen and the race rules started being changed to allow more race modifications compared to showroom cars.
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  25. The car that lost the wheel at 4:17, AKU 991 is a 1935 Aston Martin Ulster. 1.5 litre sports car made before tractor manufacturer David Brown rescued the company after WW2. Where the DB models came from.
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  26. Lots right but Red car at 11:00 is a 1954 Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Indy car. Did a good time for a two speed gearbox.
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  27. Another local alternative to Vegemite is Mighty Mite. I find it easier to spread and cheaper unit price but just as good. Mighty Mite was always Australian owned unlike Vegemite which until a few years ago was owned by Kraft. Might Mite also sponsors the Shell DJR V8 Supercar team as seen on their back wing.
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  28. Slammin Sam Kekovitchn ex VFL/AFL player then coach for North Melbourne. Later media football commentator. Went on to be used in ads for lamb around Australia Day. Many very popular version made and looked forward too each year. Lamb chops nearly as popular a steak in Australia but sausages are the BBQ staple. See also the democracy sausage and Bunnings sausage.
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  29. Your right. In racing you gotta do what you gotta do to keep going. Driver was mainly the late Peter Williamson. He was a great driver in a great car, with Celica beating most of the larger V8 car driver combinations. The next year he pioneered RaceCam for the world and provided commentary along with it. Something few drivers do around the world. In 1979 all the bigger name drivers , even Peter Brock, were too worried to have RaceCam in there car. Peter Williamson could see the benefit of RaceCam straight off.
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  30. Gday Ian. The De Tomaso with the 351 Cleveland at 3:20. Australian motor after about 1973 since the 351 Cleveland motors would have been sourced from Ford Australia from their Geelong engine plant. This was after Cleveland motor design US production ceased and the tooling was sent to Australia. The local Australian Cleveland was refined and made in both 351 and 302 versions. Available optionally in Falcon and Fairlane cars. Standard in the Falcon GT and was the motor used by the Mad Max car. De Tomaso were upset when Ford scrapped the tooling in 1983 without letting them know. So those later De Tomaso cars are a bit of an Australian muscle car.
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  31. Correction to Peter Brock mention around 10:30 . Was in Western Australia. The event where Peter Brock made his fatal error was Targa West. This other Targa was a Western Australia attempt at replicating the success of Targa Tasmania with a similar event but on worse roads. Although Targa Tasmania has had too many fatalities also.
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  32. Would have to be the most upmarket McDonalds store in Australia, yet the prices seems standard. Right in the middle of Sydney in an historic building so in keeping with the building. High pedestrian traffic there likely helps with the high rent. The common suburban McDonalds quite different but similar food range and prices, I expect. Not sure since not been for ten years or more.
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  33. Chrysler Valiant Charger. Just needed a four speed gearbox to beat the Holdens and Ford's in 1972. Hemi six with triple Weber carbs developed in Australia. The only Aussie two door that outsold the four door versions. Supporting the underdog.
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  34. Back sixty years ago in Australia a roast chicken was on the expensive side and served on special occasions like Christmas. Still common to have roast chicken at Christmas here. Even though heading towards peak summer heat. Turkey and duck much rarer, but a cooler seafood meal more common. Fried chicken from KFC for a few who can't cope with cooking and just buy takeaway all year anyway.
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  35. Ian, the change in currency to Australian dollars and cents was a big deal back then. Film on Australia preparing to change from pounds shillings and pence currency and why giving the example of how difficult currency arithmetic was with pounds shillings and pence or LSD as it was often abbreviated to. https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs Even grade four schoolkids would have to learn that arithmetic before decimal currency. The song was heard so much and so catchy that Australians over a certain age can still sing the song or at least remember the change over date of the 14th of February 1966.
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  36. Ian. You mentioned Hugo Boss Cologne. Not everyone knows the amazing history of the first 4711 Cologne from over two hundred years ago and how it is named after its originating German city of Cologne or as it is spelt in Germany Koln : https://youtu.be/QBmcTvXUqFA From this I just learnt about the 4711 house number connection.
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  37. A switch is also better at quickly completing a circuit compared to the slower method of plugging in. So less damaging sparking of contacts.
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  38. G'day Ian. Bathurst 12 hour GT3 sports car race this weekend and today with the main race on Sunday. Unfortunately links to channels seem to be now stopped on your channel.
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  39. Hubnut drove his same Australian made car on both the steepest road in New Zealand and in Wales. It was an Australian made AU Falcon/Fairmont that he bought cheaply in New zealand to tour the country, but he liked it so much that he later imported it to the UK after a period of sellers regret : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbj6bgYuBL4 Cost him a lot more to import the near 20 year old Fairmont than to buy it.
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  40. In Australia if you plug an active appliance into a powered socket you can often hear the crackle of the bad electrical contact being made. Not a desirable situation. Our usual power switch is designed to make this circuit contact very quickly to prevent sparking and heating of contacts. Assuming you have quality switches. Not always the case with some brands on the market.
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  41. The Queensland fix is a memorable bonus.
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  42. Lot of love for the Valiant Chargers here in Australia being the underdog car doing more with less. Some wins here but usually out gunned by Ford Falcon and Holden Torana. In New Zealand they dominated on there tracks and drivers. Won their biggest race for years in a row. Rare to find any hate for them here. A good one gets big money but not as much as the stratospheric amounts the top Falcons and Holden's go for.
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  43. Early 1938 film exists when it was an unsealed racetrack. Search YouTube for Bathurst 1938 Australian gp Grand prix cars of the time on dirt.
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  44. Eggs at 6:40. Here if you buy them at Coles they are at room temperature but at Woolworths they are in the chilled section. I go with the Woolworths chilled , and keep them in the fridge and wash them before cooking in my egg steamer to hard boil them. Also test that they don't float just before cooking.
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  45. G'day Ian. From 5:55. The Geelong Football club theme song will confirm you got it right in one attempt and help others, even in Australia, get it right : https://youtu.be/akAkWj7kXt0 My Aunt lived in Melbourne for the first twenty or more of her life. But after moving to Sydney she would get it wrong when ever I met her thirty or more years later.
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  46. Air jacks activated by the air spike guy with the air hose onto the left C pillar. Less NASCAR like over time, but started with fuel cans, lug nuts and trolley type jacks in the sixties.
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  47. It varies how the locals had treated the Magpies in the past. Aggression breeding aggression the likely cause. Fortunately the ones that lived in my area were very friendly and appreciated us digging weeds out of the garden. Magpies likely thinking, how good are these humans digging up grubs and worms and not eating any of them. These humans here just leave the grubs and worms for us in the soil they loosened up for us. Common in my whole suburb, never heard of an attack unlike my cousins distant suburb.
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  48. My then five year old nephew astounded everyone with how perfectly he could turn on a US accent when visiting there with his family. Disneyland , Grand Canyon etc. Mama can I have a drink of water, was the phrase he heard and asked his own Mum in perfect American for fun. Pleased with himself but easily went back to his normal Australian accent . So very receptive at that age.
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  49. Great series coverage. At 10:08 the blue car is the Australian built Chrysler Valiant Pacer. More detail on the Pacer story here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Always loved how well this underdog car went with its then 225 slant six. Great driver who prepared the car very well to beat so many V8 cars.
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  50. Known as the BOP motor as each of Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac had versions of the 215 cubic inch or 3.5 litre aluminium V8. The Oldsmobile version had an extra head stud to better cope with the turbo charging option they used in 1962. Shortly before the Corvair turbocharged air cooled flat six. All well before the turbo charged Porsche and Saab turbos that some claim to be the first turbo cars. In 1965 Jack Brabham and Repco in Australia saw the possibilities of the Oldsmobile block and created a three litre overhead cam version that won the 1966 F1 championship for the Repco Brabham car and was developed to win again in 1967 for both the drivers and manufacturers championship.
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  51. The largest fires recorded were the fires of 6th of February 1851 when 25% of Victoria was burnt including a million sheep but much less population then so only twelve people recorded as dying. The causes and the history of this and other fire events not taught much these days. Does not fit in with the global warming ideas so ignored by current distorted narratives.
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  52. G'day Ian. There is a little known amazing American Revolutionary war connection of Mt Kosciuszko : https://youtu.be/FwrFXdc5kCg Includes how to really pronounce it. Also highly regarded for his Polish-Lithuanian significance, so the mountain was named after him by the explorer Strzelecki. The monument not too far from Ian.
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  53. The FF and Interceptor both started with the 383 motor in 1966/67. 440 only in the Interceptor later in the seventies.
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  54. Gday ian. The truck you paused on at 8:10 is a Bedford TK produced by the General Motors British truck make Bedford. The TK was introduced about 1962 ( I know find out it was 1960) with the TK meaning Tilt Kab. For servicing the whole cab including seats and controls titled forwards giving great access to the motor. These were very popular in Australia and sold as the truck arm of Holden. The manager engineer who successfully set up the Bedford truck arm of Vauxhall around 1930 was Sir Laurence Hartnett. His capabilities so impressed General Motors that they sent him to Australia to run General Motors Holden. Or more specifically to eirher close it down or make a go of it. This was in the mid thirties when the Holden body building company was severely impacted by the depression. He was very impressed by the capabilities of the staff and turned the company around. This turn around was further accellerated by their wartime production of huge amounts of non car production . This put them ten years ahead in capabilities after a year or two. His next major milestone was to get the production of the first unique Holden cars off the ground with the strong business case he put to GM management in Detroit. So the Father of Bedford trucks was also the Father of Holden cars. Holden soon emerging as the most profitable on investment if any GM division for a decade or so. There is a documentary on the Holden story the goes into the detail if his contribution.
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  55. The Captiva and other Daewoo cars rebadged as Holden's is a big part of why Holden has ceased as a company in my option and a few others.
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  56. We started with the US Legends cars but added the late forties early fifties Holden bodies to them. Later on the went to near current Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon V8 supercar bodies.. A good series but struggled for exposure in recent years. The Surfers Paradise support race you saw had to be around twenty years ago. Edit : I now see it is much newer.
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  57. Good list. Except at 10:10 I would say a 57 Chev four door. Edit meant to say 56 but a phone typo.
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  58. Yes, licorice gives you a good run for your money.
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  59. This first VF 1969 Pacer used the 225 slant six. Next model Pacer went 245 hemi. Shannon's have detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Some get confused with the next hemi model.
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  60. G'day Ian. A young kid in Australia put together this good vid summary of the VW Kombi culture in Australia: https://youtu.be/Yp95LqFmO44 There is even a Kombi Road in Clayton Victoria where the Australian made VWs were manufactured at the peak of VW popularity here in the sixties . In 1960 VW even outsold Ford here and only outsold by Holden. VW lost popularity after 1966 so the factory I think made Datsuns and Volvo cars eventually being the base for the higher performance Holden Special Vehicles. Might now be converting handfuls of expensive US full size pick up trucks to right hand drive.
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  61. Togs for swimwear was a widespread description in my youth here in Victoria. Heard the use from Queensland just recently wrt Australian swim team.
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  62. Mark Larkham a great commentator backed up by his previous racing abilities , of course driving in THE race, as well as team owner and developer. Wikipedia has more on him.
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  63. A motoring YouTuber Hubnut took several months holiday in NZ and Australia largely to drive all the cars seldom seen outside these two countries or being easier to access a huge range in NZ. Eg the Wil you commented on near the end : https://youtu.be/rDxiT2EO_OM He drove around NZ in a cheap old AU Falcon. He liked it so much that when his channel did well he re purchased the Falcon Fairmont and imported it to the UK for far more than he paid for it.
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  64. Wikipedia search confirms it was beaten in all but one race it entered. Best result was a team 1,2 in the 1976 Swedish GP So not quite unbeatable but very interesting.
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  65. I think one of the first things Cate Blanchett worked on in her early years before she went on to much bigger things.
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  66. An Australian pioneering motorcycle movie from 1974 was Stone. Lots of Kawasaki 900 machines in it. A summary of the film better than I could possibly do : https://youtu.be/UWp5hJMegXQ Lots of connections with later films.
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  67. My club started just labelling a slotted box "Donation Appreciated' and ended up with quite a few $50 notes as well as gold coins. Even more money than previous years fixed $2 with someone saddled with taking the money and making change. No issues with someone too poor or tight with money either. Most obviously appreciated what we put on.
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  68. Car at 9:17 is the British Ford Lotus Cortina mk 2 from 1966 to 1970. Double overhead cam Lotus head used so still fast today. In Australia the more basic earlier GT and GT 500 Cortinas with pushrod engines won the first three Bathurst 500 events in 1963 64 and 65. Australian built first race specials Beating V8 Studebaker and Dodge Phoenix cars with crap brakes and high fuel consumption needing many pit stops. Even the EH Holden six cylinder cars lost out to the Ford Cortinas. Took the bigger engined Morris mini Cooper S to beat them in 1966 once the race special GT500 big fuel tank race special Cortinas were banned and the minis had their problems sorted out. The Cooper S then took the first nine places in 1966. The small blue car was the later Clubman version of the Mini. Nothing to do with the recent BMW mini, just using a highly regarded name.
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  69. The right hand drive Mustangs in 1966 were converted with great difficulty at the Ford factory in Australia. Shannons story : https://youtu.be/svo0flmsgaw
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  70. The early eighties Falcon had the 351 Cleveland motor as an option, but cast at the Geelong Ford engine plant in Australia. There might be some markings on the Geelong cast improved engine blocks that show their origin. That was after US Ford gave up on the Cleveland and sent the tooling to Australia. Australia also made a 302 version of the Cleveland which is unique to Australia. Called the 4.9 litre here and preferred by many not wanting the extra expense of the 351 5.8. Although most Falcons sold here were six cylinder cars with the V8 take up only peaking at 30% for the 1972 XA model. All other Falcon models had less Cleveland V8s used or not available at all. I understand that most late production De Tomaso Pantera mid engined Italian supercars had the Australian cast engine blocks. That company were most upset when they found that Ford Australia ceased production of the V8 and destroyed the tooling.
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  71. His team being the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in the late twenties under severe difficulties was a huge achievement.
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  72. Was the first with constant all wheel drive in 1966 as opposed to the primitive off road selectable four wheel drives like Jeeps and Land Rovers etc.
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  73. Another vote for Jack Brabham being best. Triple world champion and in his own car for one of them in 1966 with an Australian built world beating Repco engine he organised. Team mate Denny Hulme won in 67 because Jack kept the less tested new parts for himself. Otherwise he could have won in 67 too. Bad luck in a few races stopped him being World F1 champ again in 1970. Alan Jones mainly lucked into driving the great Williams car in 1980, although a good driver he never achieved what Jack did any very likely no one ever will.
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  74. The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today. But the name was not registered or trademarked in Australia and many other countries. So local unconnected businesses using the name and ideas were set up. Morphed later to concentrate on supermarkets. Safeway in Victoria may have had a similar idea but was taken over by Woolworths and renamed as late as the 2000s or so without asking customers what they thought. I still call it Safeway often. Coles also started with the five and dime idea but the sixties offshoot supermarkets soon dominated and Coles like to give everyone the idea that they have been grocery stores for over a hundred years.
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  75. Most supermarkets and even Kmart and Bunnings are open until 9 or 10pm. What closes are local small cafes chasing work break related business.
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  76. Although the full race is 161 laps, co driver relief has been mandated for near fifty years. Enforced limits on how long a driver is allowed to continually drive has set back many teams when miscalculated. Only safe way given the physical stress of the cars and pace these days.
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  77.  @mick1535  There was a late fifties addition of lanes in a way. My understanding is that lanes 7 and 8 were added for car use in the late fifties by removing trams from the bridge. These lanes formerly dedicated to trams then became available for use by road traffic.
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  78. There are the Federal Police but much lower profile. Airports seem to be their main patch.
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  79. Good to see this. Maybe in response to my loved comment a few months back with a few links. Even as an Australian I have to admit New Zealand leaves us for dead for variety. Not sure how they afford to keep all the types going. Even in the fifties and sixties NZ had import laws encouraging many different models from a parent company. Helped out the Rootes group with Hillman cars but also Humber, Singer, Sunbeam and even Commer badged versions of the same car.
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  80. From Wikipedia : The Ford Falcon (AU) is a full-size car that was produced by Ford Australia from 1998 to 2002. It was the sixth generation Ford Falcon and also included the Ford Fairmont (AU)—the luxury-oriented model range. The AU series replaced the EL Falcon constructed on the new at the time EA169 platform, and was replaced by the updated BA series. Full size for us anyway.
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  81. Weird fun fact. The first cheerleaders were all Men and remained so for many years. https://youtu.be/0ve0VCE8fw0
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  82. Moffat here no where near race speed. Just a filming run with a cameraman in the week prior to the race when the road was in public use. Hence the 1960 Holden's parked doing sight seeing. Still driving faster than anyone else would do.
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  83.  @kaypotter2867  yes the Chrysler 265 Hemi. In ultimate E49 form with triple Weber carbs it made 302 HP off the showroom floor.
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  84. A great vid on the late Peter Williamson and his racing acheivmemts : https://youtu.be/UOdpiftLytM
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  85. Quite a history of the Violet Crumble. Developed very early by the Hoadley company in South Melbourne when it had a thriving manufacturing base. The hygroscopic nature of honeycomb led Hoadley to eventually dip his bars in chocolate, to keep the honeycomb dry and crunchy. Thus, in 1913, the Violet Crumble bar was created. Took a few years to establish a market presence but by 1929 the success may have influenced Fry's in the UK to develop Crunchie. A not as good copy perhaps? Lots of upheavals in the last 50 years had Cadbury taking over lots of companies and changing recipes and dumping products with new niche companies bringing better versions back.
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  86. Smaller ones got a bit popular too. The Gemini based Sandpiper and the Ford escort based Sundowner : https://youtu.be/nedG3_RUHAs Smaller purchase price and fuel consumption.
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  87. Duststorms not just in the desert. Even Melbourne experienced at least one that I remember. Happened after a long drought then hit days and high winds. A week or two later very deadly bushfires from similar conditions : https://youtu.be/n5BZkVLIBsE I remember being in my city high rise office job when it suddenly became like night with the dust.
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  88. So how did you convert the US colour TV from the US colour standard of NTSC to the Australian PAL standard?
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  89. G'day Ian. Towing using cars was common in Australia too. Needed to make sure the caravan or trailer being towed was not too heavy and so on the small side. This kept Australian production Holden, Falcon and Valiant cars in production as being better able to cope with towing. A film from about 1949 Victoria, before the Holden cars became common , with lots of towing by cars for summer holidays : https://youtu.be/EJBtElrbdtw Early colour film insight to a different era we have evolved from.
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  90. A VW Beetle 1200 in stock form won the Bathurst 500 in 1963, but only in class A for the least expensive cars. Beat the mini 850 in the class on the last corner of the last lap as the supposedly better handling Mini rolled. Was number 54 and looking like Herbie the Love Bug which was 53, yet several years before. Maybe Bathurst was the inspiration for Herbie.
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  91. The little green car at 5:45 or so is an Austin of England A30 from the mid fifties. These came with a sub 1 litre engine of around 30 hp and handled fairly well for the time, so the low power did not upset them too much. In the later sixties a young Peter Brock got his hands on a cheap old one and set about making it a fast Sports Sedan race car by fitting a 2.8 litre Holden six cylinder motor in it from a wrecked Holden . So giving it about five times the power of a standard car. Peter did so well in driving the over powered race special that he got selected by the Holden Dealer team as a new driver. A driver that team manager Harry Firth believed could develop into a race driver. Harry Firth reasoned that if he could win races with such a difficult to drive home built special he must have the right stuff for a dealer team driver. Recently a replica of the original Brock Austin/Holden special has been made and raced : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcf-FgGWkZM&t=100s
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  92. A very useful service surprisingly used by my extended family. More of the history of the service here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxset-GFh1Q Gives more of the early background.
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  93. Although the earlier model Barinas from Suzuki and then Vauxhall/Opel had a much better reputation before the Barina became a rebadged Daewoo.
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  94. The Victoria state Census did count the indigenous population until taken over by the Commonwealth at Federation. Some areas of the Inland were not explored until the 1960s when some tribes had first contact.
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  95. The Volvo 145 and 245 station wagons seemed to be a favoured car. Would feel far less safe in some of the front wheel drive hatchbacks also in this.
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  96. Actually this very special, one of seven made, Kar Kraft car was given to Alan Moffat by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. As he described on a documentary about his racing career. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars to be racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid of Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. Alan Moffat being highly regarded by Ford Australia at the time. The US driver who was originally supposed to get the car was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars. A very high win ratio, I recall 67%, with Moff driving this car. Even beat the Bob Jane ZL1 Camaro sometimes when that was sprung on the scene here later on. Our rules allowed a seven litre engine for a while. Later it was on display at a Ford dealer in New Zealand while racing there. The story was local NZ driver, Jim Richards, went in there, with the help of his local Ford dealer mates, in the dead of night and recorded and learnt from all the special suspension, body and engine parts that made these cars perform so much better than other Mustangs on the grid at the time. Or so Alan Moffat said in the doco.
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  97. Melbourne only bigger using a seldom used urbanised area definition that Dan Andrews latched onto. Would Dan try to mislead us? Try searching for australian bureau of statistics capital city populations to see the more commonly used definition over the past fifty years.
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  98. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones. Amazing that no one remembered this is a smaller slant six.
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  99. Stopped being Fiat connected more than 30 years ago. VW now.
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  100. The landmark Australian film Picnic at Hanging Rock Based around the mystery story there about 1900. Worth a look if you can.
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  101. Tatras are Czech. Russia made no worthwhile cars. They still have other priorities.
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  102. There are some bridges and roads in other countries where they have a movable physical barrier. The flexible barrier is moved at off peak times to give more lanes for the upcoming peak direction. Needs a special dedicated truck that moves a flexible, but still heavy, barrier like a zipper.
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  103. In the sixties and seventies as well as Falcons and Holden's Kingswood rare cars used were Studebakers, Ramblers and later our Chrysler Valiant including the hi po Charger models. E49 I think or maybe 360 V8.
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  104. A rattler here is not the unknown rattlesnake but an older passenger train,. Used since the mid sixties in Victoria as Red Rattler train , later picked up in Sydney.
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  105. A few proposals and engagements for marriage in Australia used a cheezle until a ring could be brought.
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  106. The True Story of Ned Kelly worth a look : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlICFFZRBIA
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  107. Any source of the "Magnetron" tale? Melbourne had horse trams then cable trams then electric motor trams. An explanation of the cable winding power houses dating from 1885 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43T1p4CswYo&t=133s Lots more about the pre electric trams in the whole thing, Hydraulic systems for lifts etc yes, but the magnetron was a WW2 invention for radar not a ancient transport system.
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  108. At 9:35 that is the American Bill Thomas Cheetah race car. Chevrolet 327 engine but a primitive mid sixties US design of suspension meant it made more noise than race actual race wins. Beaten by Cobras, Corvettes and most other racing sports cars of the time. Described as evil handling mostly.
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  109. Many US interested car guys import older US models if they have enough money and interest.
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  110. The 327 was the top of the range motor in the first HK Monaro in 1968. Won Bathurst that year beating the Falcon XT GT 302. Next year the HT Monaro with the 350 won. Then Holden concentrated on racing the Torana GTR XU1 from 1970 on for a few years with no Monaros raced.
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  111. Damaged the stolen VW and dumped it.
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  112. G'day Ian. Visited there in 1980 with lovely May weather. Recently been inspired to learn how to pronounce it with the help of this song : https://youtu.be/DJXj86ZckQg YouTube search for me just needs the Lla typed to suggest the full name and save typing. May 1980 was even T shirt weather on the top of Mount Snowden.
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  113. Was going to suggest this when it was first released on TV the other week. Being an ad Qantas will be happy getting a bigger audience. So no YouTube strike probs. One of the few ads that people really like to watch. Is there any ad series ever that has such an effect?
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  114. The electrical fuse board pre about 1970 used ceramic plug in fuse holders to the power board. You would screw in a little length of fuse wire, commonly sold at even supermarkets up to the last ten years or so. Wires of different gauges would melt, or fuse, if they carried more than their rated amp rating and so break the circuit and protect house wiring from dangerous short circuit or overload currents. Usually 10 and 15 amp rating with some 8 amp. Surprising how most people got the hang of putting new fuse wire in and understanding why it blew. Usually from too many high current appliances plugged into a circuit. Mostly ok, but some people were a risk with how they did that task incorrectly. These ceramic and wire fuses replaced by circuit breakers like a switch. Some old existing fuses still around , but by law electricians cannot repair them but only replace by newer safer designs.
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  115. The Valiant AP6 at 5:16 is the standout for me. The first Valiant ute iIRC. Utes being used hard for work purposes back then , so rare to see a survivor car in such good condition. A fun fact was usually we only got the smaller of the US sourced motor designs but right from the first 1962 R series Valiant here they had the 225 slant six as standard with 145hp. Back then this was a huge power advantage for the Valiant over the 75 HP Holden and 85 HP Falcon here. The small US 170 cui slant six was unknown here. Might have been the most common US Valiant not the 225. They sold out so quickly for the R and S series. Now sought after unlike the US versions.
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  116. Always tap water for this Australian, and many like me.
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  117.  @IWrocker  co drivers compulsory since the early seventies with driving stints limited to an hour or two. Even with a co driver you have to be extremely fit both physically and mentally to stay on the lead lap for the 161 lap race duration. Legend Jim Richards teamed up with new guy Mark Skaife to win the 1991 race in the Nissan Skyline R32. Skaife set the fastest qualifying time of 2 12.63. Total race time of 6hr 19m 14.80s a new race record . A race time not beaten until 2010. Set even with small engine class cars competing in the race. Even small but fast Toyota corollas with 1600cc motors. V8 Commodore came second a lap down.
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  118. Australia usually avoided the larger engine options, but when the Valiant was introduced here in 1962 we went 225 only and so avoiding the smaller US 170 models. The Valiants here were the big power cars against the Holdens and Falcons. 145 BHP in the Valiants 75 BHP Holden 80 BHP Falcon when the Valiant was introduced. Valiants were first with a V8 option in 1965. Ford and Holden played catch up until the 1967 Falcon GT.
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  119. The 1919 flight time is plain wrong. It was the first risky fight in 1919 raking 28 days as per this film : https://youtu.be/DKxsis9woBs A celebrated event to do that first flight with a huge prize. Took into the thirtues before commercial flights. Near a dozen stops and still took many days and huge expense.
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  120. At 13:00 , yes a Rover. Made lots of sedans for mainly right hand drive markets. The big success for left hand drive markets was the Range Rover and Land Rovers. Likely the first SUV that now infest our roads pressuring cars out of existence.
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  121. My Australian old childhood family home built in the early fifties had mixer taps giving a single outlet for all hot water taps except the bathroom hand basin. So nearly seventy years ago. Similar with first home I bought myself. Another fifties house. Current home has single lever mixer taps in all the three bathrooms and two kitchens. All no gap toilets. First home with AC, but the evaporative type that does not cope on humid days. Must get some proper reverse cycle AC. He is describing Europe for most things, so not really the rest of the world.
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  122.  @Kayenne54  Lots of references from Australia back even a hundred years ago referring to flats. Flats started to have negative connotations starting in the fifties with public housing tower blacks. Response from the real estate industry is to call them apartments to distance them from public housing. Worked well as even now lots of people in high rise object to calling them flats.
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  123. G'day Ian. At 30:09 you asked about the Leyland Force 7. A very rare car that did not get into full production. A sports version of the P76 which had a 4.4 litre larger version of the original Range Rover V8. More detail and a drive from Glen Everitt : https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE One of ten survivors went for auction a while back : https://youtu.be/HVz8EewBRIs From Grey's Auctions, another we have here with lots of cars you would like on their channel. Like this Torana to be auctioned online this week : https://youtu.be/kuwLmN-hUQc
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  124.  @peterflynn2111  No , in 1972 it was a newspaper front page headline and article. Covered and shown fifty seconds into this : https://youtu.be/xc4BklbauwA Peter Wherret and others added their opinions later as the anti push gained strength.
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  125. Very little difference in Victoria Australia. Just different names and perhaps age ranges
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  126. Erica Bana at 7:02 wearing the St Kilda Football club jumper of the then Victorian Football league. He might even be number one ticket holder at St Kilda nowadays. You were right about the car being a Ford. Similar to US Falcons of the era. The car being a 1967 local XR Ford Falcon station wagon built not very far from where the photo was taken, The JVL prefix Victorian registration plate ties in with the car year, since 1967 started with the JRD plates and 1968 started with JXE plates.
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  127. He has Vegemite both on toast and in soup. Took advice how to do it properly. Likely found some more ideas since.
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  128. The ultimate modded Barra can be found by searching YouTube for Barra 2200 HP. Unbelievable HP but still able to be driven sedately and smoothly away from the Dyno competition by owner Maria Passos.
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  129. Three locations mentioned , Saudi, Ozarks and our back Queensland. All may have in common some oil and gas activity and some fugative gas emissions that may burn slowly for a while.
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  130. I think even better as a Saturday morning show after they quickly dumped the cartoons. Big part of it was John Blackman who was the seldom seen voice behind Dicky Knee and numerous other characters in the show. Very quick witted funny guy now overcoming recent severe health problems affecting his voice. If anything he may have inspired the much later Agro character.
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  131. We had some of the early sixties and mid seventies Skoda cars in Australia. There were also a lot of 1950 model year Skodas on register in Australia, althogh I have never seen one in the flesh.
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  132. Thanks for taking the time to explain that term better.
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  133. The AU Fairmont Falcon so impressed the UK car YouTuber HubNut, used in his New Zealand travels over a year ago. So much so that when he heard it was up for sale again in NZ he bought it again and had it shipped to Wales. Even though the shipping made it about eight times more than what he paid for it. About the only one in the UK
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  134. From Bonnie's out of service train story at 1:30 , the Melbourne Jolimont rail yards just outside Flinders St Station where out of service trains were stored like hers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnBzVpuEQA&t=28s Actually a very common story for many people. Now the trains are stored many kilometers away after the peak hour so now can be even more delayed rather than fifteen minutes or so.
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  135. The seaside towns of Brighton and st Kilda near Melbourne in 1918 hit by what was described at the time as a tornado. Aftermath filmed : https://youtu.be/nNH7WAksXXw Not as many cameras around then compared to today. The home of many now colourful beach house bathing boxes that have impressed you in the past.
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  136. Interesting WW1 story with the Amiens Gun, a several hundred ton German railway mounted gun that was captured by Australian engineers and later was displayed in Sydney after the war. Barrel is in Canberra. Worth the equivalent of multi millions then. https://youtu.be/mKXm90I3UaY Or a surprisingly good Lego version of the story : https://youtu.be/_3EibitrxfI
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  137.  @janp1088  even before Covid there were a few Melbourne shops saying card only. Butcher in Kew comes to mind. Even in the sixties the butcher shop cashier was often banned from handling meat because of the dirt from lots of money. Rapid trend recently. My bank was keen to set me up last year. They take a cut of each card transaction from the retailer.
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  138. Another thing about the P76 at 11:45 is that while even now some people are still repeating the Lemon propaganda , it was so good that it led an international very testing marathon rally through Europe and North Africa . Some of the story here : https://youtu.be/o04tHPPflvk Much more of an Australian design than the first Holden, Falcon or Valiant. Even more recently a P76 won the Peking to Paris long distance Rally for classic cars several times to show it was not a fluke. Up against Porsches, Mercedes, BMW and numerous other more expensive cars. Some coverage : https://youtu.be/RgyD-uTxiwo Not bad for an 87 year old driver. Most 87 year Olds struggle to keep driving let alone be part of a team winning a Peking to Paris rally several times in a so called lemon car.
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  139. This is from the 1997 Super Tourer two litre only race. One of two years when there were two Bathurst 1000 races. Two litre on channel seven in October and a V8 Holden vs Ford enduro but in November on channel ten. A split in opinion of the two motorsport organising bodies. The two litre race had much more international connections of cars and drivers and this got Murray Walker here to commentate. As well as F1 he was a legend in the UK commenting on these type of cars. Brad Jones racing group developed the Audi locally to a very high level but a BMW won the race IIRC. This year there will be a TCR endurance race in November. But getting less publicity. Two litre or 1.6 turbo or some parity system I think. Will the future Camaro vs Mustang enduro here continue to create interest in future? Mustang and especially the Camaro very expensive here so less connection with Australians.
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  140. Even the US History Guy devoted an episode to the significance of the Eureka rebellion and flag : https://youtu.be/H0lOq5pGzcw Despite a few errors and mangled pronunciations. Lots of on going democratic improvement arising from this and some spreading world wide.
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  141. G'day Ian. By far the majority of road length in Australia are dirt or gravel roads,. However by far the majority of road travel is on standard sealed road surfaces in the cities and between major regional cities and towns. Need to be going to and from and isolated area to be on gravel or dirt roads. Some of these just see a few cars or trucks a day.
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  142. My fave too. Always Australian owned too
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  143. Supercar channel seems to have a whole days live coverage available on YouTube. But only to people outside Australia and New Zealand with some subscriber limitations. Not sure if payment involved as I have not used it. Using network Sevens coverage from 8:30 am to 7:90 pm. A major free to air station that devotes so much time to the coverage such is the interest in Australia and New Zealand. Even non motor sports people look in a bit or a lot. Seven network invented race cam. Lots of historic clips and driver background in the coverage so far between support races. Race starting about thirteen hours from now.
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  144. While it should be no big deal how there is different pronunciation of Hyundai in the US and Australia the importers actually ran an ad on how they thought it should be pronounced which Australians took to ; https://youtu.be/yI2aUjwFF0k From the earlier eighties models before the low price value of these Excels really put them on the map here. Australia an early important trst market since if a car does well in Australia then likely to do well in the US to a large extent. Toyota and Nissan philosophy they used in the very early sixties. Hyundai now a contender for second largest car selling company in Australia along with Mazda, the Ranger ute company, and Kia. Toyota number one by a big margin for many years.
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  145. Veal Parma more popular in Melbourne. Last one never heard of. Chips and soft serve ice cream new to me.
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  146. Another show to watch and search for on YouTube is Footy show street talk. Lots on YouTube but a controversial insight into Australia that was one of the most watched segments of television in Australia for years starting in 1994 for more than ten years. Went to the US as well. Venice beach I recall
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  147. He died in the later new Western Australian Targa not the Tasmanian Targa.
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  148.  @benjaminregusen6378  The Targa name confuses many but the Targa West was a Western Australian copy of the Tasmanian event : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVPToyoTaY
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  149. At 5:24 that map is just reflecting the unexplored nature of Australia in 1793. Took another decade or two clear up the major mapping uncertainties. An 1840s heirloom map in my family had the Inland part of North western Victoria marked as Unknown.
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  150. Insert and removal of a plug is not very fast acting so causes arcing and damage to the contacts. Much more that a properly designed switch. Especially for high amperage appliances.
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  151. Great summary of the era nearly forgotten by many.
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  152. Minties best left melting in your mouth than bitten into.
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  153. Search YouTube for Housing Commission Flats Definately not just low level housing as claimed in some comments. Apartments to distance from Commision Towers. Comments on these flats an eye opener.
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  154. Utes originally car based light trucks and recorded separately in government statistics and registration charges since the thirties. Now getting applied to any light trucks since the car based ones went out of production. Earlier lots of others not Holdens or Falcons. The high performance ute just cropped up largely in the last thirty years since most were work horses.
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  155. A small Japanese naval landing force did in fact invade Australia during World War Two. But landing on a particularly isolated and desolate part of the north west of Western Australia, they found no water, no food sources, no shade and no materials worth capturing that they could see at all. They retreated in a very short time and this remained unknown for many years.
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  156. This was from the period 1961 to 1965 when Formula 1 changed from a 2.5 litre limit to 1.5 litre. Four, six and eight. Later some twelve cylinders ran. In 1966 they went up to a 3 litre limit. They were worried that Can Am sports cars of the time were getting faster than F1.
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  157. All the hemi sixes got rid of the slant. A completely new non slant engine.
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  158. Woolworths was first established in the US around 1900. Business people from both the UK and Australia visited the US and saw how well the US Woolworth's business model worked so just took the ideas back to the UK and Australia and set up equivalent variety department stores using the Woolworth name and the best of the business style. The US Woolworth's did not expect to expand beyond the US so did not trade mark the name Woolworth's. The UK one lasted into the eighties while the Australian one morphed into Big W with Woolworth's being reserved for the developing supermarket chain. Woolworths and Coles fight it out for number one supermarket chain in Australia. As I remember the story anyway.
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  159. Ian you were right about the origin of the Fargo brand truck at 11:17 . Fargo was originally a US Chrysler offshoot for export trucks but usually made in the market they were sold in. From the thirties major sales were in Canada and Australia. Phased out starting in the fifties. Seems lots it the old tooling went to Turkey. So you were right. An Australian built ute Fargo from 1937 came up on Shannons auctions a few months ago : https://youtu.be/YJNXoQZz_Us Called a Dodge Fargo so may be a ute version of the Australian 1937 Dodge sedans assembled here with increasing local and Canadian content. Part of the Australian thirties boom in ute versions of sedans where nearly every maker tooled up here for a simple ute version meant for work purposes. Lots of advantages having a ute version back then.
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  160. Unreasonably hard quiz for some reason. Not too many Australians would get a perfect score and perhaps a minority would do better than you. Quizzes are interesting but need to be reasonable or harder if multiple choice.
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  161. A median salary is a more informative salary indicator to use. It is the salary the 50% are below and 50% are above. Not affected by the hugely high incomes of billionaires and the like skewing the average.
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  162.  @steveskrobot9496  this is from the 1997 Super Tourer two litre only race. One of two years when there were two Bathurst 1000 races. Two litre on channel seven in October and a V8 Holden vs Ford enduro but in November on channel ten. A split in opinion of the two motorsport organising bodies. This year there will be a TCR endurance race in November. But getting less publicity. Will Camaro vs Mustang enduro continue to create interest in future?
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  163. Not underpowered for the early fifties Australian market. Especially power to weight wise.
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  164. This might have been the last of the 750cc limit era when two stroke machines dominated. I think the confirmation is all the two stroke exhaust smoke at the start and the two stroke sound.
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  165. Peanut butter widespread in Oz. Even sixty years ago Kraft peanut butter was on shelves alongside Kraft Vegemite. ETA was another top selling brand. I know this since I have over sixty year old collectable peanut butter jars that when empty convert to drinking glasses. Collectable because they have human type peanuts playing cricket printed on the jar. Given to me by my grandmother when a child. In my pantry I have peanut butter and Mighty Mite but no Tim Tams or Milo confectionery type stuff. Ad from 1984 ; https://youtu.be/qlHGB4Gwrjk
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  166. We can thank the US market and specifically the US Mercedes Benz importer, Max Hoffmann for getting the car into production. He pressured Daimler Benz to make a road version of the very successful racing 300 SL from the early fifties. The sealer from this, amid nevousness from the factory about how many of such a car could be sold, was Max Hoffman putting in a firm order for 1000 cars. That order got the road car proposal underway and unusually shown first at the New York Motor Show around January 1954. The Gullwing doors were to provide clearance for the very strong and light (50 kg) tubular frame extending to where s normal door would require an opening. First non diesel car to have fuel injection. The biggest US market, California, really preferred a convertible, so that was developed soon after. The slanted six cylinder motor, to make things lower , may have inspired Chrysler and others to develop the slant six and other makes slant four design. As you suspected there was a very successful race car 300SL but earlier and perhaps less than ten made but far too stripped of luxury as well as expensive to be sold as a road car. Think the early uglier racing cars won LeMans 24 hour in 1952 as well as the Carrera Panamerica road race rally through Mexico. These wins got Max Hoffmanns attention for the road version and knowing how much money the US market was willing to spend on cars.
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  167. No. Cugnot in Paris in 1769 was well before that. Three wheeled and front wheel drive.
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  168. Easy to miss Part 2 https://youtu.be/LPiSyilTFeI Since first part not labelled as such.
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  169. Ram and Silverado are sold here new. But outsold by about one hundred more popular cars. The $100,000 starting price puts them out of reach to most. Not much US right hand drive production, mustang and new Corvette only I believe, means these trucks need to be converted here adding to the expense Ford in the news here talking about the F series making a comeback. I expect a huge price. Even Ford's only big seller here, the Ranger, is getting very expensive with the new models.
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  170. Although there are comments that this Surfers Paradise circuit was used for Indy cars, it was more the CART side of things when the IRL split happened. Less known in Australia was the CART vs IRL war , so they all get called Indy cars. Eventually the costs became too much so just reverted to just V8 supercars mainly with near the same income as the joint race meetings but with much less costs. Seems about twenty years ago we had the mixed meetings.
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  171. So good potentially that it got banned. Leas aero resistance from the low profile tyres too.
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  172. The daily commercial top speed is 320 kph. Much slower than the record run so as to keep damage to the equipment and electricity consumption to reasonably affordable levels. Even so many in France will say the fares charged to use them are too much. But the fares barely cover the operating costs.
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  173. Most of Australia did not get to see the race either. It took until the 1969 race until the TV coverage was extended to outside Sydney and parts of New South Wales. This coverage is from newsreel movies footage shown leading up to the main feature at cinemas.
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  174. Pre war prototypes 6hp . Post war production started at 9 hp. Then increased over the years. Documentary on them : https://youtu.be/Bak50Emxa_M
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  175. All sorts of cars and utes sell more than the Tesla 3. Just spin on it a while back that it was the biggest selling large sedan. Tritons, Corollas , Mazda 3, Rav 4, Klugars , LandCruiser, MG, Hyundai's, Kias all outsell the Tesla. But the Camry did not last year.
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  176. Tesla below these twenty outselling it : Toyota HiLux – 64,391 Ford Ranger – 47,479 Toyota RAV4 – 34,845 Mitsubishi Triton – 27,436 Mazda CX-5 – 27,062 Toyota Corolla – 25,284 Toyota Landcruiser – 24,542 Isuzu Ute D-Max – 24,336 MG ZS – 22,466 Hyundai i30 – 21,166 Toyota Prado – 21,102 Mitsubishi Outlander – 19,546 Kia Sportage – 18,792 Hyundai Tucson – 17,870 MG MG3 – 16,168 Mazda CX-30 – 13,891 Mazda BT-50 – 12,937 Mitsubishi ASX – 12,753 Toyota Kluger – 12,562 Kia Cerato – 12,354 Tesla 3 around 10,800. Might be 30 and not 3 ranking. Yearly figure for 2022 not a monthly blip when a boat comes in.
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  177. Echidna also commonly called the spiny ant eater in times past but less so today. I would not be so pedantic to call Spiny Ant Eater wrong. Even the then treasurer and future Prime Minister, Harold Holt, called it a Spiny Ant Eater when describing the soon to be released first decimal coins for the five cent piece. : https://youtu.be/Qnmp-da-U6E A not so fun fact that after a year or two being Prime Minister he went for a swim into the ocean off a semi private surf beach and his body has never been found. The local council of his electorate commemorated his name by naming a public swimming pool after him.
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  178.  @Reneesillycar74  they dropped the laws after ten or twenty years, but for a while it caused confusion when people from those states asked for peanut paste in other states. Search for Queensland bans peanut butter will show more detail.
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  179. First a 383 6.3 litre then later some had the 440 7.2 litre option for the SP cars. All Chrysler motors. Expensive new and more expensive restoring the usual rust buckets that remain looking affordable.
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  180. Red car at 11:00 is a 1954 Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Indy car. Did a good time for a two speed gearbox.
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  181. Promoted as give away but really a lottery.
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  182. More coverage after changeover day : https://youtu.be/x-RiX5NCn8w $5 a later useful addition. No $50 and $100 bills then. Thinking was no one would need a note as big or bigger than a week's wages then. Inflated prices today would have them in shock.
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  183. Blinky Bill first published as a book in 1932. A favourite Australian childrens book remaining in print and having steady sales ever since. Later published in different forms and colour illustrations. Made into cartoons and film in the nineties is what many remember most. A vid of the original book being read : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll0LNqkOdGo
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  184.  @jankwartel1860  Sounds like someone with very unreliable knowledge of Mad Max.
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  185. There are Holdens racing at Bathurst this weekend, but in the Suoer 2 and 3 support races for older model cars
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  186. Police car racing at Bathurst but early sixties Studebaker. Studebakers of the later era sold surprisingly well in Australia assembled here from Canadian sourced parts and local content. More common here than Buicks, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Lincoln, Mercury, Dodge and Plymouth. Similar with Ramblers being assembled here. Police thought highly of them. Some police racing enthusiasts bought them at police auctions to go racing at Bathurst. Story of the Australian Studebakers here : https://youtu.be/SHHTPLw-oNM Some of the police highway pursuit cars were two door cars. Standardised on V8s with highest trim level here to justify higher prices and simplify the range. I will try to track down vids of Victoria Police Studebaker cars used in the popular local Australian TV show Homicide.
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  187. Yep. Ford hoping to replace the Falcon in the nineties with the joke Taurus.
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  188. Some discussions of this demo I had come across was that the Peter Brock Torana in this did not have the right Bathurst gearing for the differential so could not get up to the speed it should have on Conrod straight.
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  189. Not native animals though, but imported in the 1800s and became feral and widespread. Both Camels and Water Buffalos were introduced here for other purposes but when that purpose ceased the remaining animals bred widely in the wild and became feral.
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  190. The 50% of population map , even though it is from 2011, would still be much the same. The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides suburb like population figures each year. When I was reporting on that, as part of my work for years, it was rare for even parts of the regional areas growth to exceed the major metropolitan areas growth. That trend for the capital city areas to increase their share of a states population had been happening since the thirties recovery from people heading to the bush to live on eating rabbits and look for itinerant work. One thing that did happen was that "suburbs" on the fringe of metropolitan areas would start functioning as part of the metropolitan area and thus be absorbed in the metropolitan area instead on functioning as regional areas. Often called Urban Sprawl but caused by Australians aversion to living in multi story high density flats. For Victoria in the fifties, places like Dandenong and Werribee were regarded as Country towns in the fifties with industry like farms, livestock sale yards and similar. Now very suburban.
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  191. All the Vauxhall cars like that were built in Australia and badged as Vauxhall for export to the UK. Never made in the UK. Always a niche product sold for a short time in smallish numbers but only when Vauxhall were another GM brand from about 1930 to 2016 or so.
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  192. Interesting to compare the views of this compared to your AFL vid. Tells you something about interest in the two codes.
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  193. Better result than most Australians that I have seen.
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  194.  @gold4leaf  Dollars and Cents are not metric. No metric standards for currency, unlike weights and measures. The USA have had Decimal currency for over two hundred years but are still anti metric. A metre is the same all around the world , but the value of a dollar depends which country it was minted by.
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  195. We should all start our comments with " G'day Ian " just to remind him or maybe rub it in.
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  196. Actually given to him by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid on Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. The US driver who was supposed to get it was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars
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  197. I now find the rules allowed him to change to larger hemi six in 245 or 265 spec with triple Weber carbs. Still impressive. Recently may have changed to a V8 to get the win Cameron Tilley deserves.
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  198. Sounds like the 1970 Torana based GTR-X. Fibreglass body on a XU1 running gear. Saw it at the 1971 Melbourne motor show and as a brochure collecting kid grabbed a few brochures. Nearly got into production : https://youtu.be/Independent https://youtu.be/idSFdOpzAMo Think I saw film of it running round Lang Lang proving grounds
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  199. Took a while for Bathurst 500 race cars to be allowed to put a roll cage into the car. Was it 69 or 70?
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  200. Good to see Daniella. Thanks for her suggestion. Amazing stuff. Only saw a tiny group of these visiting NZ. Never seen any glowing insects in Australia, so might be rare here.
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  201. A British company but designed and made in their Zetland Sydney factory. Only sold in Australia and New Zealand.
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  202. This likely to be done in the Thursday, Friday or Saturday. That is why you did not see it on our Sunday Livestream.
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  203.  @IWrocker  No native deer but herds grew from some deliberately introduced for sport hunting in the 1860s before we knew better ,: https://youtu.be/Ej4CzKTmMb8 Cause quite a bit of damage like most introduced species and would not happen again. Some think they are native or like to hunt them so do not want them eradicated.
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  204. Lots spent on suburban and regional rail in Victoria , but to little effect. Just being largely used by highly paid city workers in banking. Legal services and insurance. Well above average workers getting high subsidies with taxpayers paying 80% of the operating costs that are not covered by the fare revenue. Only about 15% of travel but needing three million dollars a day from taxpayers. Meanwhile roads that serve all the dispersed non CBD destinations that people are travelling too in the biggest numbers are poorly funded or taken away from cars for use by cyclists as a playground. I might get complaints about these points from people wanting a free lunch believing the government can pay when it is really taxpayers. Would be less of an issue if transit users paid for the operating costs like car users do through high taxes on petrol, fines and toll etc. And some wonder why petrol in Australia is taxed so highly.
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  205.  @AustralianLightsAndSirens  your channel would have to be close to the go to resource for the answers though. Gave Ian a few links to your site to give a definite picture.
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  206. Italian Pininfarina design from the early sixties based on his Ferrari California styling.
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  207. Perhaps an even bigger reason was to access all those cheap Japanese right hand drive cars that become surplus to Japan after a few years due to very strict roadworthy requirements after even a few years. Aimed at keeping the local car makers and so the Japanese economy healthy. American Somoa would have seen nearby New Zealand doing that with Japanese imports
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  208. Must be lucky where I live. Had many a weekday Bunnings sausage sizzle served up by local charities in Victoria. Queensland just catching up as usual.
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  209. Subtitles said Back at bastards
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  210. Lots of the media principle of "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story". In this stuff.
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  211. In the 1940s the thirty odd years old Aston Martin sports car company were close to closing. David Brown of David Brown tractors bought the company. From then on all new Aston Martin cars were prefixed by the DB initials of the new owner. Some of the Aston Era tractors : https://youtu.be/tRytt3UOTCs Also little known is the fact that Lamborghini started as a tractor company. Part of the story why they made the cars from Jay Leno : https://youtu.be/-wjL7lDtxW8 For a quite a few years they made both tractors and the GT cars.
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  212. Much earlier the first Downyflake Donut restaurant opened in Melbourne’s Swanston Street in 1950. Their “American Donut Machine” was a source of fascination as the donuts were extruded, floated around in their bath of hot fat, and were automatically flipped, drained and tossed hot into sugar and spice. Downyflake outlets also opened in other major shopping centres and interstate. A treat for kids for years was to stand in front of the store and watch them being made behind the front window of the store. Back when families would visit the CBD.
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  213.  @jimspink2922  I think that was NSW only. Never happened in Victoria. But it was the time when a huge number of safety measures we introduced. Victorian compulsory seat belt wearing the first in the world and most effective measure. Few would argue against now.
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  214. This one was his. Actually given to him by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid on Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. The US driver who was supposed to get it was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars
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  215. Holiday in Bali. So close to Australia and tourist oriented that often much cheaper to have holidays there than in Australian resorts. Especially the snow skiing resorts. Very popular along with Thailand.
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  216. And for the booming SUV market GM forced Holden to use the Daewoo Captiva called the Craptiva here for some reason. Mistakes piled on mistakes. Many more.
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  217. Sounds like the widespread scam using fake Telegram accounts. Faking successful YouTube channels. Do not respond to but report them.
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  218. The Maslan map at 4:37 is all made up from his guesses since no Europeans that he would have communicated with had been to the vast majority of the area he imagined had water sources any non desert vegetation. Just laughable compared to the reality even in 1833. Most very difficult to explore without planes or very good motor vehicles. In the 1860s the huge Burke and Wills expedition to travel inland from Melbourne to Darwin had them die from the conditions they were not expecting from lack of water
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  219. I think the last new Holden anything for sale was 2021. A total crash and burn unlike Ford which has the Ranger being top seller in recent months with Toyota having supply issues and years long waiting times for in demand models.
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  220. And when he does not understand he goes to the effort of finding out and listening to advice to help out.
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  221. Just paid $4.90 for the cheapest 12 700g eggs today in Melbourne.
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  222.  @BassMatt1972  check the tail lights of this vid about 6 minutes in of the MG midget and Austin Healey Sprite shared body cars : https://youtu.be/Jmwg_7SwslM
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  223. Weekly news items in Australia of problems with newish homes and flats destroying families with the problems from deregulated home building. Getting worse with predictions of 50% of building companies forecast to go bust with materials, prices and skilled worker shortages.
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  224. The Maslan map was his fictional ideas at 4:37.
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  225. Missed from all these comments is the US Falcon Sprint at 1:37. In the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally the Falcon was fastest on every stage but the anti big engine handicap system made sure the Falcons could not win. So a rally system where the fastest car may not win. A recent vid staged recreation of the event had a Mini Cooper pass the leading Falcon which never happened in the event. So creating fake history for those that preferred it. The real winning move was paper calculations to discount the Falcon Sprint times. Not so exciting way to win a rally.
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  226. It was a real running car driving on Melbourne and Detroit roads for display and publicity purposes. Just a one off hand built car though. I think you mean it should have been put into production.
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  227. Chev badge at 2:25 on a Holden never factory fitted , even to the early and late model Holden's that did have US Chev motors ad an option. A controversy here.
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  228. Might be a regional thing. In Victoria it's Togs or Bathers but rare to here swimmers. Swimmers more a Sydney thing.
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  229. The 265 Hemi six was only raced in the two door Charger body from 1971 onwards that I have ever seen any reference to. Not counting the secret VF ute development mule for camoflauged testing of the Charger running gear. Geoghan doing the testing said it worked better than the Charger being lighter.
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  230. The US had the first colour TV broadcasts in June 1951. However it was s near disaster as TV manufacturers did not like the system used and mostly did not make the expensive sets. So only tiny numbers saw these broadcasts. The huge majority of people could not even see the system on their incompatible black and white sets. Took until later in the fifties for a better system to develop and become the US standard and be more widely adopted. Australia was late to colour as they wanted to adopt the very best system available rather than the low quality pioneering system that the US got stuck with. By 1975 colour TV sets were much more affordable in real terms than the first B&W here from 1956. Same for TV companies buying cameras etc for colour. So some benefits of waiting.
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  231. The first eighties Holden Barina was a re badged Suzuki Swift that built up a good reputation that went downhill each time Holden changed the Barina sourcing company design. Rapidly with Daewoo.
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  232. Just search YouTube for Bathurst 1971 Or any other year of interest back to 1938. Yep pre war on dirt.
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  233. Was this the Clint traumatised when young by his birthday cake with his name written in icing in block capitals? CLINT?
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  234.  @aussieausdeutschland4245  so it lasted that late into the late seventies Commodore era?
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  235. The Golden Fleece Stanley campaign when full service was the attraction: https://youtu.be/q4HZcUGPr3A
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  236. Usually you get comments knocking a driver or other personality. Not for Mark Larkham though. Tells you something about how he is regarded Yet when Seven network outbid the Ten network for the race, they dropped him. Took a little while till Seven had to take him on again, realising the big mistake they made.
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  237. In my Melbourne experience the bins from adjoining local government area s have different bin colour codes. Maybe to stop local theft or bin companies making mistakes. If a big block of flats had a big dumpster then who handles such a big thing to put it out? More manageable with each flat having its own bin. Must hang out on the next garbage collection morning to see what trucks they use. Garbage day varies within a local government area so that the task is spread over the working week.
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  238. Weber in Italy developed the carb setup. Legend has it the Charger test mule is still there.
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  239. At 11:46. That looks to me to be the rare Australian Leyland P76 V8. Should try to find a link on them and one of the ten coupe versions made. https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE A lot of this vid a bit short and dark to tell.
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  240. The Falcon GTs HO was originally HO for High Output internally at Ford but changed it to Handling Options so as not to upset the Government and media too much. Only minor or no handling upgrades to the XY GT but lots of high output power upgrades. Did not state the power for the same reasons.
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  241. He died in a replica of a Cobra Daytona Coupe as originally designed by American Peter Brock. How spooky is that. Search Pete Brock Cobra Daytona on Youtube.
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  242. The Fish TV was the idea of community TV station Channel 31 as an overnight test pattern broadcast when the station was unmanned. As you saw in the comments it attracted some late night interest. C31 started lots of Car interest shows like Classic Restos with Fletch and In Pit Lane. In Pit Lane had the last interview with Peter Brock before his untimely death. Both shows are on YouTube as well now. Would be great if you could join in an In Pit Lane livestream or their Full Course Yellow shows. Would really give you a feel for thebwhole range of motor racing in Australia from grass roots and up, including historic coverage. Another is Blend Line TV starting on C31.
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  243.  @karenmcneill2602  luckily the title and description said 1988. I am old enough to remember the ad but not the year. Early models trying to establish the brand.
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  244.  @karenmcneill2602  your welcome. Amazing how a YouTube search will turn up something obscure that I had only vaugely remembered. Close thing because it had only been posted in the last two weeks.
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  245.  @reddog5378  I just did the search and showed up three or four versions of it from Peter Williamson's Celica. Pity this guy does not allow links to be posted unlike dozens of other channels I subscribe to.
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  246. G'day Ian. At 2:08 , Hey Charger! https://youtu.be/PZdp9Eavi5g And it might had inspired the later US ad : https://youtu.be/LBgWMIhODlI Glad to see the family is safe and well after the tornadoes. House too.
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  247. In the fifties in the UK there was a popular BBC Radio series which inspired a 1959 TV series : https://youtu.be/pyKp3cGs5Z4 The series was filmed at Elstree studios in London with location work done in Australia. Not sure if it was shown in Australia, but an indication of the world interest in the RFDS.
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  248. Although running his own team with lots of help from Phil Irving of Repco for engines and Ron Tsurenac for chassis design. The T in the BT model names of Brabham cars. Lots it others less well known too, but still an unmatched achievement getting such a team together.
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  249. And Bob Jane was driving for the winning team in the two previous years when the 500 race was at Philip Island. Driving locally assembled Mercedes Benz 220SE and then a Falcon XL.
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  250. G'day Ian. You might like to look at Wolesley Road Point Piper in Sydney. Understand that this is the most expensive street in Australia. Wikipedia saying properties there were forty times the median average price of properties in all of Australia. Sometimes the cheapest property is cheap for bad reasons not talked about too much. Would hate to see an overseas person buy into a bad area on just a cost basis.
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  251. No one had heard of Thunderstorm Asthma until that rare extreme dry windy Thunderstorm event that caused huge amounts of the grass pollen to be swept into the air. People outside allergic to the Rye grass pollen in many cases got severe asthma that overwhelmed the health system and led to I think ten fatalities in those with compromised health.
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  252. Bo Seton won in 1965 driving a Cortina GT 500. Not in the winning Mini Cooper S in 1966. The only year the Mini won. Not sure he ever raced a Mini at Bathurst. Correction in 1966 Bo Seton drove the 6th place Mini. The fast Cortina GT 500 models were excluded by new rules.
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  253. My old family home built in the early fifties had mixer taps for all hot water taps except the bathroom basin. So nearly seventy years ago.
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  254. News in my feed today was from Drive was that a new low volume car company called Drive South says it will begin reproducing the LX Torana hatch design from the 1970s utilising modern manufacturing techniques, powered using a similar 6.2-litre V8 fitted to late-model Holdens. The vehicle will utilise fibreglass composite bodywork fitted to an aluminium chassis – inspired by V8 Supercars – fleshed out using CAD (computer-aided design), with 95 per cent of the components to be manufactured in Australia. Road legal and priced around $250,000. It will be interesting to see how that develops.
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  255. Wikipedia confirms the story I heard that it was created for Lord Lamington Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901 or so. Recipe in print by 1900. So at least 121 years old.
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  256. Cobras standard 302 but optional 351 which this one runs like.
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  257. From Wikipedia The first 200 Cobras produced were given the 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8, while the other 200 received the 4.9L 302 Cleveland ... the only exceptions to this being build number 001 is a 302ci (4.9 litre) V8 and build number 351 is a 351ci (5.8 litre) V8.
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  258. Hillman Imps were built in Scotland. All Rootes group cars very British , the French connection came very late after the Chrysler take over in their dying days. Hillman Imps also assembled in Port Melbourne and raced at Bathurst. Even from 1962 they had a Coventry Climax designed OHC slant four aluminium engine mounted in the rear. won the BTCC several times. Search Shannon's club TV Imp for more info.
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  259. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  260. And at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast they run the V8 supercars one week of the year : https://youtu.be/16A6ASR0WIk
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  261. At 3:45 it is a US Chevrolet Greenbrier Corvan or the delivery van version. Never sold new in Australia but imported in the past few decades to have something unusual in Australia. Rear engine air cooled flat six cylinder van version of the Corvair : https://youtu.be/TlKFyaBfkRc Saw a ute version in Melbourne a few months back. First I ever saw on the road here.
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  262. Tell him one of the comments said this all a computer game simulation. LOL
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  263. The design imported from the US for the first XK Falcon in 1960 but assembled here from Australian and Canadian parts. Over time the local content went up. Never fully imported for sale as a built up car. Would have had huge import duty taxes.
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  264. Lowe's worked with local Woolworths to create a rival to do as well as Bunnings. A disaster. Ended up with lots of empty new big stores. One of their most famous blunders was stocking SNOW SHOVELS because they sold well in the USA.
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  265. G'day Ian. An historic vid on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for its opening in 1932 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5cZ-IO0Eg Lots of longer more detailed vids on the engineering and opening are available.
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  266. A random search for properties will show so many more east coast properties because of the population distribution.
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  267. When released, the SLR 5000 was too fragile for racing, especially the original back axle. On release of the SLR 5000 few Holden teams ran it, sticking with the Torana XU-1, for quite a while until some of the problems were improved on but not completely sorted out. There are some detailed youtube videos around with people from the time spelling out the problems. Alan Grice was forced to run one by his sponsor but explained he had to baby the car so the back axle would not break. I went to the Sandown 500 around 1974 expecting to see the SLR 5000 but none to be seen. These issues were the reason for the major upgrade of the A9X versions with a completely different much stronger rear end.
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  268. Although the Pacer started in 1969 with this VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  269. The zipper barrier in action : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0Q2bDnBUc
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  270. Mr Squiggle the legend explanation vid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksBpaAsjX-c On TV for forty years since 1959, so some grandparents would watch the same Mr Squiggle on TV they watched as kids but with their grandchildren.
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  271. Actually from the AC Ace when AC were struggling to find a replacement for their Bristol six cylinder motor based on a pre war BMW motor.
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  272. Another 360 Charger on YouTube which on searching is the E57 model : https://youtu.be/u73T9FLzdZI?si=wFcGDO25kF9CtBgl Being late it is badged as 5.9 litre. Torque Charger road test also a 360. Despite what some with dodgy understanding and lacking search capabilities may rant on about.
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  273.  @johncunningham4820  surprised the engined cast st Geelong for a long period are less well known. Detail in this Wikipedia in the Australian section the Australian only 302 Cleveland based engine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_335_engine
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  274. Ute was 50-2106. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.
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  275. Lots of the Calder Park complex was from the sixties. 1962 first race I think. Remember Beechey, Jane and later Moffatt racing there as well as the top ATCC drivers. Drag racing from about 65. Some early stuff on YouTube well before the oval.
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  276. Springfield might dispute that.
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  277. Close to every season sees a change to the specifications of the cars. A big drift from the near showroom stock condition of fifty years ago. A few years earlier and nobody ran a roll cage and even a change to non showroom tyre makes of the same size caused an objection from teams who did not think to use a better make of tyres. Eg Pirelli to replace stock Dunlops.
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  278.  @jamiewilson3599  I think it was all filmed in 1966 for release in December 1966. I remember reading from the local library a massive expensive book covering Formula 1 in 1966. Autocourse I think. In it the starters of each race were listed including Monaco with a 4.7 litre camera car. Lots of coverage in the book of the film since it was such a big deal. In the top ten grossing films for 1967.
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  279. With the move away from Holden and Ford police cars I think it has been recorded that even police command are not happy with extra costs and problems arising from losing these always there taken for granted cars. Despite special deals police and government get. Some sad days reported when the last Falcons or Commodores are retired from police use but they get huge sums at police auctions. Report of one of the last : https://youtu.be/7JD4CiZFUqw
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  280. Left Hand Utes of Colorado. May still be in business. Sport wagons too.
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  281. US Maloo from them : https://youtu.be/qCghlIdH54I
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  282. This Skyline was rear wheel drive before the later Skyline R32 all wheel drive that won the race. Some connections with the Australian Skyline family road cars for sale here : https://youtu.be/pjJT2CW6oF8
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  283. Donut van an institution at the Queen Victoria market in Melbourne since 1950 : https://youtu.be/GcNTX9wjBSI But the Melbourne preference for non holed hot jam filled Donuts although marketed as American and exotic. Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  284. I would have said only one in ten thousand Australians have made a crossing like this but lots of claims in the comments. So your viewers are an adventurous mob.
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  285. A typo. Aussie legend John Goss. He was good but not a God.
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  286. It is Green Fox body Mustang V8 302 that Dick ran for a short time before the Red Shell Sierra Cosworth cars arrived with Shell sponsorship big money.
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  287. The only Ford components of the so called Ford Cosworth DFV V8 multi championship winning engine is the 100,000 quid Cowsworth got from Ford to develop the engine and allow Ford to have naming rights to the engine. Quite a bargain as still so many think it reflected Ford engineering skills when none were involved. Similar with the Lotus Cortina with its Lotus twin cam head that gave it the big advantage but never developed
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  288. The Efigy did the cruise on Woodward near Ian as well as a few shows. Think it won best in show in the US.
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  289. In the last year's of Falcon production Ford did close to zero advertising for Falcon but lots for Mondeo. Hoping we would all take up the late Mondeo that was Falcon size but front wheel drive. A major company sharing my office building around 2014 went all Mondeo for its fleet, so must have got a good deal on them. Ford expecting as much sales share as the US model labelled the Ford Fusion.
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  290. At 10:08 the blue car is the Australian built Chrysler Valiant Pacer. First round headlight VF model. More detail on the Pacer story here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Always loved how well this underdog car went with its then 225 slant six. Great driver who prepared the car very well to beat so many V8 cars. Upgraded to the E49 265 hemi by the time of this race.
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  291.  @royferntorp3575  compare the car to the Shannon's Pacer in the vid.
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  292. Ian, a bit after 30:09 you wondered what the Goggomobile Dart was. An Australian small run cheap sports car from 1959. Story here : https://youtu.be/Zk2sgj_9uKc And admired a Summernats : https://youtu.be/bnzeuBIavKs German running gear, Australian body keeping taxes low.
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  293. Except no surf beaches in Joliet and the likes of Jennifer Hawkins thin on the ground too.
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  294. How do you think people who remember pounds shillings and pence feel. Prior to 14th February 1966.
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  295. Dodgy driving school guys had a scam based on this. If you looked dodgy too he would say for an extra hundred or so he would line up an examiner to guarantee a pass and licence. In the event he did nothing. If you passed he would smile and keep the cash. If you failed he would say "sorry I could not line up XXX the tester" so here is your money back. Happy customer getting their money back as a guarantee. No one bribed , everyone knowing happy, only two mainly knew what was supposed to happen and no complaints. So hard to detect that scam was happening.
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  296. No. Targa West near Perth.
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  297. Written by Australian songwriter Geoff Mack in 1959 who, after the success with lucky Starr in 1962 , went on to write a total of six versions and got royalties from most of the other compositions using his idea for other countries. He spent time in Japan immediately after the war so was confident to write a Japanese version.
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  298. Lots of them on the NFSA YouTube channel to save you the trip.
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  299. Searching YouTube for Chryslers on the Murray should show lots of local and imported Chrysler and Rambler products. Eg : https://youtu.be/EUQodzrhEbM The Classic Resto series shows lots of other local car scene but Fletch is more at home describing imports.
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  300. Not quite how it happened at 19:20. No government ban but both federal and state governments said that make those cars and you won't get the tens of thousands of yearly fleet sales to government.
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  301.  @IWrocker  Comet test where the Edsel connection is explained : https://youtu.be/JsRVOU2GWuQ Very few in Australia know the Mercury Comet link let alone the Edsel connection. You can see lots of similarity with the body panels of the XP Falcons used in the test but lots of improvements also made to the cheap surplus tooling with strengthening and better motors and gearing to make a now sought after classic Falcon. Back in the day my Father was most impressed by the improvement to the Falcon that this durability run and his friends owning one showed in the flesh.
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  302. ​ @daveamies5031  some of the very high res you can get in negatives can be useful. Such as zooming in to a particular area of interest to see just that. Eg the Holtermann glass plate negatives from the 1870s where phenomenal detail of interest can be seen by zooming in. Thousands of them. Even used on the old ten dollar note. It seems the minimum size used was eight inch by ten inch glass plate negatives. Even damaged negatives like this can be useful. Just zoom in around the damaged parts. Every person I have shown them to has been amazed at the quality.
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  303. In 19 teens Melbourne the council areas of Camberwell and Box Hill voted to ban Hotels selling alcohol. Since that time just over a hundred years ago there have been numerous votes to overturn the Hotel ban but each one has failed to get a majority vote and there are no hotels serving alcohol in these areas, But adjoining areas do. So a limited prohibition to this day.
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  304. You might try to vary this with less or more butter and more or less Vegemite until you find the optimal levels for you. I find a slice of cheese in a sandwich with Vegemite goes well too. A quick non junk food snack or even a lunch. A cheese and Vegemite Sanger ( sandwich ) being a school cut lunch staple in Australia for sixty years or more. Or if you want to be really Australian a slice of beetroot on it too. Health benefits of beetroots esp for men.
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  305. On the radio today a news item with snake bite advice to treat with both brown snake and tiger snake antivenom to be sure. The most common snake bites in Victoria.
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  306. Gas in Australia for cars is Liquid Petroleum Gas or LPG. Got widely used for taxis and vehicles of high petrol consumption by converting to LPG. LPG having much less tax on it since a refining by product and also more abundant in our off shore oil wells. So popular that Ford made dedicated E has Falcons in the Barra era. Rapidly going out of use since newer cars not amenable to conversion and taxis going hybrid.
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  307. Mr Green. You have scored the bottom comment among all the comments. Were you aiming for that?
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  308. Although Peter Brock died driving in Targa West near Perth. This was got wrong by Ian and quite a few of the comments.
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  309. Hook turns only in intersections having trams and heavy traffic. Not at intersections without trams.
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  310.  @edwardfletcher7790  the 1968 to 72 chev nova had engine options of 153ci (2.5L) I4 194ci (3.1L) I6 230ci (3.8L) I6 250ci (4.1L) I6 307ci (5.0L) V8 327ci (5.4L) V8 350ci (5.7L) V8 396ci (6.5L) V8 402ci (6.6L) V8 Quite a range. From Wikipedia for the Chevy Nova.
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  311.  @edwardfletcher7790  I used to believe that widespread Torana claim until I found out about the Nova options , especially the slant four half a V8 motor. 12 Novas were sold by Holden in 1962 as GM expected them to replace the Holden. Why they did not is worth searching YouTube for Shannon's Club TV Chevy Nova
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  312.  @alanriley9754  yeah a typo from the T and Y being next to each other on my tiny phone screen. Now fixed.
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  313. Latest installment just two or so weeks ago ,,,;: https://youtu.be/0xgWr1gYdgQ
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  314. ABBA on record of thanking Australia for re launching their career after Eurovision win being a kiss of death. TV music clips got their sales up well before other countries.
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  315. Worth listening to Bjorn about 45 seconds into this to hear how Australia rescued ABBA from obscurity : https://youtu.be/AkJ5RWZdT54 Plenty of vids around on how huge they were in Australia.
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  316. A 1950 US Chevrolet sedan delivery that did not develop from a ute : https://youtu.be/5S4HeNOekTQ Lots more US panel Vans can be found but not called that.
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  317. Gradually they are running more road courses. Possibly inspired by the 2012 memorable race they ran a Watkins Glen, an ex F1 course : https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpBjJvUAcys&feature=share7 Took Australian Marcos Ambrose in the 9 car to teach them how to drive on a road course. Other drivers lining up asking him how he did it after qualifying. Being a multiple Australian V8 Supercar champion helped him a lot.
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  318.  @eddyottway7305  confirmed in Ian's latest vid : https://youtu.be/uF3IrlJAAvA
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  319.  @goosegarage78  the US did not get the XM and XP models. Although little known fact is the XP in many ways is a US small Edsel that never made it into production as an Edsel but was sold as the first 1960 compact Mercury Comet although with no Mercury badging. Later Ford here used the old tooling and body strength with modifications for the XP. The XP was make or brake for Ford, so badly were the XK and XL received here. Minor local differences for the XR to XY, with more as they went on to the US models. Although so similar that there are a few XT GT cloned two doors around using a US body shell, just like Ford did with a circa 1968 show car that failed to generate enough interest for production here.
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  320. Louvres are venetian blinds. A popular dealer accessory in the sixties to reduce heat and glare from the sun when air conditioning was usually an aftermarket super expensive alternative. Show cars with them now being period correct and owners collecting every dealer accessory they can. Even big money on eBay for the right tissue box to fit the optional holder.
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  321. Just 400 Cobras built. Half 302 rest 351. Probably more now with all the clones. This possibly one as the originals are too expensive to race, even the fake clones get exxy.
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  322. Brockoff biscuit radio ad before Arnott's took them over in the seventies: https://youtu.be/BeUrnGIDkvU Then Arnott's made their versions after closing Melbourne factories.
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  323.  @hermansnazzledorf2950  Rarely saw them in 1966. Fifty cents was big money then. Enough to buy five or more days of newspapers or two gallons or so of petrol or around eight litres.
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  324. Last night's news for Melbourne had a overseas millionaire pay tens of millions for a penthouse floor that has not even been built yet. Just to use when he visits Melbourne for a few weeks a year or so A way of getting money out of shaky countries problem governments. Easy to buy residency in Australia with a few million.
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  325. Holden called them Station Sedans until about the HT model.
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  326. Jam doughnuts st Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  327. Tasmania must attract old Citroen cars. A test of an originally Victorian registered 1955 model 2CV that is now in Tasmania: https://youtu.be/5GSTZceciTo The Hubnut presenter owns his own newer 2CV in Wales and has also tested a Traction Avant but not in Tasmania unlike quite a few Australian cars he covered on his visit to Australia and New Zealand.
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  328. Loved Turkish delight since about five years old , so seems weird that some people do not like it. Mr Hoadley very smart when he came up with Violet Crumble about 1914 or so.
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  329. EK made from May 1961 to July 1962. 48-215 preceded the FJ shown here. Released November 1948. Replaced by the FJ minor upgrade in 1953.
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  330. The upmarket Morris Mini Cooper S with a 1275 cc engine was the fast one. The winning year was 1966 when the Cooper S filled positions 1 to 9 beating the drum braked Valiant V8 as the next car outright. From 67 to 71 it was all Ford and Holden V8 models, although the Cooper S usually won the class for cheaper mid priced cars. Mini Minors were slow. In 1963 getting beaten by a VW Beetle looking like Herbie but number 54. Took the big upgrades to Cooper S spec to be fast and reliable.
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  331. Brockhoff silent movie ads from the twenties showing some of the 100 or so biscuit types they made event then ,: https://youtu.be/wqQQMH7jc10 Many of the current Arnott's biscuits came from the takeover of Brockoff. Quite a few more vids in the channel.
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  332. Surprising how many get this wrong. Thanks for the details that may convince them.
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  333. Both Valiants in the race had the 273 V8 first available as an option on top of the line Valiants. All the Studebakers had the 4.7 litre V8 which was the only motor in Australian sold Studebakers. All these cars had drum brakes only. Not enough people had bought the disc brake option in the Valiant to qualify for the race.
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  334. Lots of incorrect factoids here by unquallified people. They will be less enthusiastic when the minimal benefits emerge and the huge costs must be paid.
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  335. Australia or more specifically the colony of Victoria helped out an American navy vessel in 1865. After repairs the ship picked up about forty Victorian crew that they badly needed : https://youtu.be/yEBX2QTMrQo Caused an international incident because it was the Confederate Navy and British colonies were supposed to be neutral in the Civil War. All centred around the Williamstown docks area of Melbourne.
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  336.  @solarfunction1847  only won one race mid development then abandoned, then banned. Wikipedia of it taught me a few things I did not know previously.
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  337. Plenty of room for the 318, 340 and 360 engine options. Although always automatic from factory.
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  338.  @joandsarah77  yep. Common for these events to keep people away from the normal activities that benefit the economy. Resulting in a net negative unless you have a rare business that directly benefits. But those businesses have far too much influence on government.
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  339. Both Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren likely got there car building and designing skills at the Cooper F1 team in 1959 to 60. The Cooper approach was to point a new driver at a set of tubing saying there is your car just build it. A great learning experience for Frank Gardiner as well. Might have flowed on to Dan Gurney when driving for Brabham cars too. Three drivers that drove F1 cars of their own company.
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  340. XR was the first V8 option model Falcon with the 289. A few years after the Valiant V8.
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  341. Aftermath of a very rare 1918 tornado hitting the suburban Melbourne beachside suburb of Brighton . Very upmarket even then ; https://youtu.be/nNH7WAksXXw Few in Australia will have heard of that.
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  342. The LH model had big problems in racing. Took until the latet LX model with A9X options to make it really good for racing. This is Peter Brock driving the legendary Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback to first place ahead of another seven Toranas filling places up to ninth place Toyota Celica.
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  343. Arnott's were unknown in Victoria prior to the mid sixties. Lots of Victorian biscuit companies taken over by foreign owned Arnott's and became Arnott's biscuits like Teddy Bears. Originally Guests Teddy Bears of North Melbourne.
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  344.  @jenniferharrison8915  still not finding a market for their products in Victoria until they took over Victorian biscuit companies and made Arnott's versions of Victorian biscuits like Guests Teddy Bears.
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  345. Two HP is the road tax related calculation based on either piston area or engine size. The actual brake horsepower was much more for all except very early cars pre 1910 or so. UK and Australia used the RAC horsepower calculation, France likely something different. Almost forgotten about now but lasted into the seventies in Australia for road tax purposes.
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  346. I understand it has a 50 or so paid full time and part time staff chosen for their skills.
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  347. G'day Ian. Not many US vehicles for sale in Australia since the US companies have given up on making right hand drive cars. So expensive to have them converted here that just two types are converted here and sold by dealers. All well over $100,000. Mustang the exception and C8 Corvette in only very limited numbers. Mustang far more common but impressing less buyers over time after the first sales burst on release seven years back. The top three sellers are light trucks that the makers like to call utes even though they are not car based. Reason is they dont have real utes to sell any more. Massive rise in prices in the past three years. Take or leave it pricing then maybe even a years wait for in demand types. Lots like me holding on to their six year old cars. Being a looked after Mazda it is still running like new.
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  348. At Talladega and similar longer super speedway tracks NASCARs actually had less power with a restricter plate reducing the amount of air the engine could suck in and so reducing power. Even many years ago NASCARs were considered to be running at dangerously fast speeds. Especially after at least one high speed crash where I think a car ended up in the crowd despite the fences etc.
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  349. The Port Melbourne Swallows biscuit factory established in 1854 in a 1932 industrial film : https://youtu.be/fcPd0T7hL3o Another Victorian biscuit company that I think Arnott's took over and are the origin of some current biscuits.
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  350. Introduced to Australia not long after in 1898. Later dairy industry objected to the term butter, so in Queensland, SA and WA it was changed to Peanut Paste to comply with state laws around 1930.
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  351. Was Targa West near Perth. Widespread confusion of the two Targa series.
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  352. Now 54 years unbeaten. Although for the last 25 or so years only V8 s allowed.
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  353. Leyland name was only after the 1972 takeover and sent local production down hill. By that time the mini was out of production here. All the notable mini race victories here were BMC Morris Mini Cooper S models. Some historic racing may be private import Leyland Minis from the UK.
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  354. All filmed with good quality 16mm or more stock and professional cameras and lenses giving great resolution suitable for projection to giant movie theatre screens. It took well into the nineties for video tape and digital to start to surpass the quality of film. If you see Sharp images from the seventies or earlier then it was from film.
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  355. Won class A in 1963. Beat the mini 850 in the class for the least expensive cars. Was number 54 and looking like Herbie which was 53, yet several years before.
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  356.  @danesorensen1775  thanks. Interesting history. I now remember the Landau making the step up to the then new four wheel disc brakes but did not know of the extra motive. A story from my family. In the early seventies my father bought an ex Navy International Harvester light truck/ute. Surprised me that this came fitted with four wheel disc brakes. PBR I recall. Not sure if this was just navy spec or standard. Perhaps the first Australian made vehicle with four wheel discs. Perhaps more for fade resistance than rapid stopping given the primitive truck suspension.
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  357. First the Pontiac GTO version of the Monaro then the Pontiac G8 version of the Commodore then later the Chevrolet SS version of the Commodore. Or the rarer Chevrolet Caprice PPV version of the Calais or our Caprice for US police work. People got one of those from the cop auctions like the Blues Brothers.
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  358. Except the Australian Ford Falcon ran from 1960 to 2016. Seventeen years more. Only a few car nameplates in the world with a longer run.
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  359. The 1986 Bathurst 1000km race was for cars in three classes Class A For cars of up to 2000cc engine capacity, it saw a variety of cars entered. Most numerous were variations of Toyota Corollas, with individual entries of a turbocharged Fiat Uno, a Ford Escort and a Nissan Gazelle. Class B For cars of between 2001 and 3000cc engine capacity, it featured the turbos; Mitsubishi Starion, Nissan Skyline and Volvo 240, but also included Alfa Romeo GTV6, BMW 323i, Mercedes-Benz 190E and Toyota Supra. Class C For cars of over 3000cc engine capacity. Apart from a strong presence of BMW 635 CSi, the swansong of the V12 Jaguar XJS, and the first appearance of a turbocharged Ford Sierra, it was the domain of the V8; Holden Commodore SS Group A, Ford Mustang and Rover Vitesse. Commodores ran 1 and 2 then the early Nissan Skyline then the Dick Johnson Mustang ( Fox body?) Peter Brock's Commodore only made it to fifth place that year.
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  360.  @jankwartel1860  No expensive imported Jensens in Mad Max. All Australian cars for that Australian film. The most memorable was an Australian XB or XC Ford Falcon GT coupe with an aftermarket nose job etc. Lots of XB and XC Falcon coupes on YouTube to compare with as well as Cars of Mad Max vids with more details, but no Jensons. A Jenson was a very rare sight on Australian roads. Lots of XB
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  361. I have a few dozen Toranas A9X four door and hatches, XB Coupes, XW and XY GTHOs that I race hard. Not a billionaire, just Scalextric 1:32nd scale slot cars being affordable. Latest buy was the Jag XJS winner from Bathurst 1985.
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  362. Regal was the 1965 introduced equivalent of the Holden Premier and Falcon Fairmont. By 69 they went long wheelbase with the Valiant VIP. to compete with the long wheelbase Fairlane. All before the Statesman. Last attempt to compete at the top level was the short lived Chrysler by Chrysler in 1972 with cheaper Regal and Regal 770 models in parallel but standard wheelbase. Regal was long lived trim level. 1965 to possibly 1981.
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  363. Chrysler by Chrysler in production longer that I thought : https://youtu.be/BX4CuuUw_FM
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  364. Melbourne had many unofficial names in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". The Fawkner party settlers had taken over before Batman brought his settlers in on his second visit. The first official name proposed was Glenelg. But Governor Sir Richard Bourke overruled this, and on his visit in March 1837 decided on Melbourne — after the then British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in the English Midlands.
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  365. Quite a few Darrell Lea race cars at Bathurst being the main sponsor of the Bathurst 2016 winning car driven by Will Davison and Johnathan Webb seen here the previous year : https://youtu.be/QSt20I88-HQ And longer coverage including winning car Stix sweets sponsored : https://youtu.be/AGhdJgYbo18 Started 17th but won. Also the Bathurst 12 hour Aston Martin a few years earlier : https://youtu.be/sOytVs7-wNM Owner of Darrell Lea was Tony Quinn who drove the sports cars in many events. Drove well but helped by buying the best cars. I race one of the Darrell Lea Rock Lea Road Aston Martins myself, but a more affordable version like this ; https://youtu.be/cuIyVrhVtJ4
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  366. My thoughts also about the 225. However it seems this series allows fitting of different spec motors from the same manufacturer. Went 265, 318 and now 400 it seems. Rules allowed changes to keep even racing in the field. Not well publicised rules to help with the underdog does good excitement and encourage variety.
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  367. The first eighties Barina was a re badged Suzuki Swift that built up a good reputation that went downhill each time Holden changed the Barina sourcing company design. Rapidly with Daewoo.
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  368. Also marketing spin. Apartments supposed to sound more upmarket.
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  369. More names here in the Australian Silo Art trail : https://youtu.be/_pRYuiw1AXI Perhaps get your wife to look first to confirm it is worth a reaction. A new idea started about ten years ago for wheat silos on the wheat sheep belt of rural Australia. After the first one had such an impact, so many towns were proud to have it done to their silo. Often depicting local identities.
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  370. Flats have no fixed definition and usage varies with time and state. Flats used widely much earlier in Australia. Search YouTube for Beautiful Bondi 1926 Around 14 minutes in the caption says A new building of ultra modern flats - Berkley Court - fronting the beach. Still standing but may be marketed as apartments. The term apartment just to distance new flats from public housing flats and their problems. Search housing Commission Flats and you will get lots of references to well over three storey buildings. Especially in Victoria.
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  371. My first use of a computer was this landmark first Olivetti one from 1965. My High School mathematics teacher had one on loan for us to learn just a few years after they were in production : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I3biFudfn4&t=122s A few years later I went on to programming computers in Algol, Fortran and Cobol in the mainframe punched car input era. A valued skill in my later employment.
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  372. Starbucks found a small new niche of iced coffee. Something that the traditional coffee shops rarely do, but it is popular. This small turnaround was so notable it made it to the finance sections of the news.
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  373. G'day Ian. So you don't have the phrase : Ticks All the Boxes to indicate it meets all the criteria. Interesting.
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  374. Mighty Mite for me . Even though Coles stopped selling it for whatever reason.
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  375. The mosiac choices at the end. The one with most information is just past your right shoulder with the smiling suit and tie guy .
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  376. A sample of 1950s Police cars and Ambulances of the time and some of the cars on the road then : https://youtu.be/aPzeOpCzS1g Local Ford V8 preferred by Police then. The Holdens of the time were all 2.2 litre six cylinder cars with not much more than 60 HP. Early fifties local Ford Mainline ute doing work too. Well before the US Ford Ranchero.
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  377. It's an HD Holden with the X2 motor. Came 17th. Beaten by the Toyota Crown and Fiat 1500 amongst many others. The HD set back Holden quite a bit as people did not like the look. The HR was clever and cheap restyle that was more accepted.
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  378. Decimal currency came in 1966. But metric measures were a seventies introduction. Bathurst went to 1000km in 1973 from memory. No metric standards for currency.
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  379. Likely the oldest factory film from Australia is the Port Melbourne biscuit factory workers filmed leaving the factory of Swallow and Ariella, established in 1854, but taken in 1905. https://youtu.be/6cgQQfSqLZY Another taken over by Arnott's many years later.
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  380. Flats in use in the 1920s before public housing gave them a bad name and real estate people started calling them apartments in response : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lU0EeUo6LY&t=843s
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  381. G'day Ian. You are likely to have seen Vodafone advertising in V8 Supercar racing. Boost is another phone co sponsor.
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  382. The DJR Falcon sponsored by Mighty Mite on the front spoiler. The local superior alternative to competitor Vegemite.
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  383. School starts in Australia in very late January after Australia Day on the 26th of January. Used to be early February. Later for University. Add six months to get the Northern hemisphere equivalent.
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  384. The Cugnot steam road wagon tractor preceded all of these in 1769 Paris. French revolution stopped development I think.
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  385. All the race Chargers were 265 at least but still did an amazing job. Unbeatable in New Zealand at the time
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  386. Glow worm vid a few days ago was one to look for.
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  387. Not having speedometer and signage references to miles sped up the metric conversion process by thinking metric quicker.
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  388. He has , and posted his reaction.
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  389. Not just based , GM sold the tooling to Rover.
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  390. An an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But not the newer boxy A40. A YouTube search will confirm.
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  391. 18:10 . Lots of state governments here have found a cash cow for extra cost special custom number plates to register cars with. Lots of different types.
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  392. Three speed auto and drum brakes. Not enough people bought the disc brake option to qualify the car.
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  393. Only the 225 six for the R and S Valiants here if in original condition. 273 V8 came two models later in 1965.
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  394. A 1910 Fiat four cylinder 28 litre race car. Others might have got up to 60 litres before WW 1.
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  395.  @steveskrobot9496  got it right. Search YouTube for Beast of Turin.
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  396.  @grandy2875  yes the Gemini Gypsy was another more affordable one : https://youtu.be/IryXlfxMciw I thought the bubble window was mainly on the Ford Escort Sundowner, but could have been optional on others.
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  397. Also some up market councils around 1920 had hotels banned in their council areas after ratepayers prohibition type votes to have a less alcohol related violence in their area. Still enforced today stopping any new Hotels. Search for Dry Zones Camberwell Box Hill to see articles on how the ratepayers of the area still support this in numerous votes over the last hundred years.
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  398. I think Ed heavily relied on that more comprehensive series from Shannon's.
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  399. G'day Ian. This vid from a few years ago on how to get a Holden Maloo Ute legally registered in the US : https://youtu.be/hjTOEX-qJB8?si=OPAVHYhhXpu0uYex Some other commitments are guessing about what gets converted and how. This guy has had it done for him and goes into the detail.
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  400. The millions of tons of iron ore and coal swamp the value of imports. Perhaps the only country in the world to do this China not too happy about that when they tried to punish us with import restrictions with huge problems for them arising. Eg power shortages and blackouts.
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  401. 28 litre four cylinder.
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  402. Response from owner in top comments says a much modified Kombi motor taken out to 2.8 litres.
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  403. Please keep in mind that Magpie aggression varies by how even a small minority of locals had treated the Magpies in the past. Aggression breeding aggression the likely cause. A life lesson there. Fortunately the ones that lived in my local areas were very friendly and appreciated us digging weeds out of the garden. Magpies likely thinking, how good are these humans digging up grubs and worms and not eating any of them. These humans here just leave the grubs and worms for us in the soil they loosened up for us. Common for Magpies in my whole suburb, never heard of an attack unlike my cousins distant suburb in springtime.
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  404. Bathurst 1967 showing quite different pit stop methods. https://youtu.be/WxXAC_1bc4I Pity the sound is out of whack. The first Falcon V8 win had Holden respond the next year with the rivalry continuing over the years.
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  405. Metric was seventies until it was legally specified. First Bathurst 1000 was 1973. Lots of confusion out there with Australias version of decimal currency and the later adoption of worldwide metric common standards.
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  406. Yes a misleading map because they just chose a record hot day in December 2019 which does not represent the averages that are more meaningful.
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  407. Mike was the World Championship Wrestling referee on TV channel 9 in the sixties. The announcer , Jack Little, was always careful to refer to him slowly as Mr Michael Hunt, since the wrestling was on live TV in Melbourne at least.
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  408. Both no longer owned by GM. Now owned by Peugeot. But even this may be part of Stelantis. Lots of upheavals in the car industry.
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  409. A few weird exceptions like South Melbourne 3205 right next to Southbank 3006 and also Albert Park 3206. All walkable from the CBD of Melbourne. Frankston 3199 about 40 km away. Postcodes just designed for mail delivery and not geography.
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  410. On Glenn Everett's site, where this came from, his second most recent vid is about his own S series Valiant . This is the same model as the blue and silver car pulling out of the pits. Glenn gives a great background of his black car and their history in Australia.
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  411. Link to it https://youtu.be/zPBGrBw8VjE
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  412. The Chappell brothers coached to a high standard when young by their grandfather Vic Richardson who achieved the following : Captain of Australian cricket team. Member of the Australian and state baseball team. Captain of the South Australia football team and Sturt Aussie rules. State representative at golf. Tennis state title winner. Also high standard at Lacrosse, basketball and swimming. Hard to find anyone in history with this level of multi sporting achievement.
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  413.  @johnmurray587  The link to the Shannons car history shows the body is a VF. Yes a few V codes skipped as did Holden.
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  414. Melbourne had many unofficial names used in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". The first official name proposed was Glenelg. But Governor Sir Richard Bourke overruled this, and on his visit in March 1837 decided on Melbourne — after the then British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in the English Midlands. Some of these early names derived from hearing the original native tribes names for parts of their land. Newspapers from Tasmania of the time most commonly refer to Barebrass for a while until Melbourne was declared as the official name. Batmania having the most jokey attraction but least recorded in any documents from the time. The new name Naarm recently cropping up being the traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne. Naarm is the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation. The Kulin Nation is a collective of five Aboriginal clans: Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Taungurung and Dja DjaWrung.
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  415. I think only this early Valiant with the 273 V8 raced at Bathurst. Story of the cars here. How the first V8 Valiants went close to winning Bathurst, but let down by not enough buyers optioning disc brakes. From Shannon's : https://youtu.be/cJC759IAQTo Chrysler also saw the 273 V8 as only needed in the top of the line luxury Regal models with automatic transmission only. Not what was needed for racing. Thought they only went with six cylinder models in later official Chrysler entries. The Mini Cooper S did have front disc brakes and ran early Dunlop radial tyres in the race. A few others did also. These V8 Valiants and the V8 Studebaker cars held back by using drums all round.
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  416. Queenslanders confuse everyone else talking about packing their Port. Meaning suitcase from the archaic term Portmanteau. Ah Queensland, set your clocks back one hour and sixty years.
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  417. Ex police pack Valiant Charger : https://youtu.be/-6zwgAko_Zc Highway patrol from the seventies.
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  418. Except no Chrysler connection at all. A British patent company but the P76 designed in Australia with more local content than the big three cars. https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE
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  419. We did have a NASCAR type banked oval racing here with quite a few NASCAR drivers paricipating. Search YouTube for Calder Park Thunderdome Lots of commenters here seem unaware of it. Probably because it only lasted from 1988 for about ten years or so. Both NASCAR type cars raced and local AUSCAR types in separate races. The local NASCARS raced at Bathurst a few times so search for Bathurst NASCAR to see a 100km race.
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  420. Good vid. The pies and sausage rolls you had were a bit larger than the normal fast food pie in Australia for at least a hundred years or more at the football and cricket or for lunch on a site or at school. So the comments about eating without cutlery are more for smaller pies you hold in your hand and not these larger family size pies usually cut up and shared. Normal sized snack pies : https://youtu.be/LA1MxmIrqAA
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  421. A rare surviving live ad for Guests biscuits of North Melbourne: https://youtu.be/dU2CGHvuzpY Guests were the originators of Teddy Bear biscuits and Arnott's continued with a version after taking them over.
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  422. Popular to play but not so much to watch.
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  423. Search Barra 2200 HP to see the ultimate one so far.
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  424.  @milksheihk  when the FE finally had that body type Holden only called it a Station Sedan : https://youtu.be/M2LeZkLbzkI Did so officially until about the HT well into the sixties.
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  425. Largely uninhabited due to being desert. Difficult to supply people with reasonable cost necessities like water.
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  426.  @flamingfrancis  yes there is a comment here about an 18 year old with an inheritance that allowed him to buy a phase 3 for $65,000 in the early nineties. Had it for three months, driving it like he was in a race, until he crashed it at 150 mph. Comment did not mention the casualties. Likely too horrific.
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  427. Ian, interesting history of the horses connection on the can : https://youtu.be/-0nIqTIiaxw I suppose similar to Budweiser.
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  428. The big hit film Kenny was mentioned here. Surprised everyone with the record audiences it got for a very low budget film. Due to inspired writing and acting. Partly filmed at the Calder Park racing complex. Looking at this clip you can see the race circuit leading to the drag strip then later Kenny caught up in a big rig truck race on the Thunderdome high banked track as covered by you in the last week or so, but racing trucks : https://youtu.be/-PXDoRvojtU Being a low budget Melbourne film it was much cheaper to go to a local Melbourne race track with ready made rowdy drag racing crowds. Bob Jane advertising everywhere since he owns the track.
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  429. The Holden Commodores were larger cars than the Omega although directed to share the Omega styling by GM head office to save money. No turbo sixes but five litre V8 Holden built motors giving similar performance.
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  430. The original was, but the Australian and the UK Woolworths just copied the US name since it was not registered outside the US in the twenties.
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  431. Get yourself a hard drive and record all three days of coverage to watch when you get home. I do this even though I have never been to Bathurst. Watched every year since the first nationwide broadcast in 1969.
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  432. Yep.The jingle is why everyone remembers the changeover date. Or the colour version from the NFSA with comments allowed : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs
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  433. In Victoria and Tasmania we call a lobster a crayfish. Fresh water crayfish are yabbies.
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  434. Nearly the majority of vehicles in Victoria are a member of the RACV. Must have been linked to the RAC near a hundred years ago Also RACQ in Queensland but no RAC in NSW. Less sure about the other states.
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  435. A link to some of the historic RACV service vehicles used in the past and their badging : https://youtu.be/2s_MuiBC3sU
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  436. Phillip island track definitely not just amateurs. Holds two world championship rounds for MotoGP and world Superbike. Also V8 Supercar rounds. Large grass run offs are good for motorbikes and cars. Amature type races also run frequently with the run offs helping for safety and car damage sake. Unlike other tracks with lots of concrete barriers lining the track. Cars still get scary fast according to my friends experiences driving on it.
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  437. Ford summary of 91 years manufacturing in Australia : https://youtu.be/GMtdTl6sO5o In five minutes. Includes their first 1934 ute with the 302 model number, but well before the 302 V8. Reached the market just a few months before Holden released their Chevrolet ute.
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  438. The Mini Cooper S was a lot faster than other small cars. One of the few cars with disc brakes as well. Light weight so even less stress on brakes , wheels and tyres. The Valiant and Studebakers put a lot of stress on their drum brakes, wheels and tyres even though they were the fastest cars down Conrod straight and up Mountain straight they really stressed out the car. That's why the commentator said Bathurst was not a big car track. Too many failures under pressure by big cars previously.
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  439. All Channel 7 as nine did very little motorsport and still do not cover anything significant. RaceCam story from 1979 : https://youtu.be/x_be7FFf0oE Would be surprised to see anything before this from Nine , let alone RaceCam.
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  440. Ian was pleased to learn about the Australian Ford Territory when I sent him a link to a Hubnut test of a normal condition Ford Territory. Not known much outside Australia and New Zealand.
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  441. Holden Colorado's not for much longer being out of production like all Holden's, even the badge job ones.
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  442. The major part of metrification happened in the seventies in Australia. To quote Wikipedia ; The conversion of measurements—metrication—commenced subsequently in 1971, under the direction of the Metric Conversion Board and actively proceeded until the Board was disbanded in 1981. Lots more info in Wikipedia My memory was the 1974 model cars had metric Speedos. Earlier miles for older cars here. My new model car adjust depending on the country it is in or you can set the default in the screen menus. The Stuart Highway is rare for speed limits. The highest speed limits on the best freeway standard roads is 100 and 110 kph, so a lower limit than most of the US. The Northern Territory has the highest road fatality rate per head of population, kilometres travelled and vehicles registered by about a factor of three compared to other states of Australia.
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  443. The Mini Cooper S spec in 1966 was the only mini that won Bathurst. But took out places 1 to 9. Next were two Valiant V8 cars. No Holden or Ford V8 in 1966. The Valiants could have won if enough Valiant buyers had bought the disc brake version by the time of the race entry closing. Studebaker V8 also hindered by having to run drum brakes. The Mini was never banned and had class wins for cheap or small cars well into the seventies. What was excluded were the Cortina GT 500 race special from 65 as more realistic sales levels were needed to enter than the 100 big fuel tank Cortinas. Ford and then Holden V8 domination started in 1966 with the 289 powered Falcon XR GT.
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  444. Moffat surprised everyone by going with a Mazda RX7 early eighties when the Falcons became un competitive in that era.
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  445. Barum story. Fifty years ago I had a set of Barum tyres on my bicycle going to school in Australia. They were not very good. Soon had to be replaced by Australian made Olympic tyres that were much longer lasting.
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  446. Practically all the Opel components that GM head office imposed on Holden were thrown out as sub standard junk that was not up to the task. Costly reworking of Opel ideas sent Holden on a downward spiral. With the Opel ideas and designs for the Commodore , Holden lost the best selling car in Australia position it held from the early fifties until the Commodore problems became widely known to car buyers around 1982. Just European throw away ideas about cars from Opel.
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  447. An owner's story of other imports https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  448. G'day ian. All the dot gov dot au sites show legal plate options. All non standard involve an extra fee so is a nice little earner for governments seeking more tax revenue to buy votes. At least they usually last the life of the car so don't talk too much about annual plates like the US in case they get more revenue ideas. Lots of other options in the gov sites . Likely too many for you to cover. Some of the largest auction prices Shannon's get are for plates with two or three digits over a hundred years old.. too valuable to be on a car these days.
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  449. Search for the preamble of the Australian Constitution and you will find : The States' shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, When it came to the crunch in 1901, New Zealand got cold feet although participating in the 1890s Federation conferences. People from NZ may be better placed to comment on what happened. In the early Constitutional Conferences, Fiji was also involved.
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  450. Yes, he has seen and reacted. Search his old vids.
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  451.  @kellyfoster6983  here it is : https://youtu.be/BPMzm1vL6x4
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  452. 160 mph was the newspaper headline that stopped them.
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  453.  @jimspink2922  yes still lots of variations state to state. Victoria licence still 18 and older. Seatbelts were in cars as standard earlier but Victoria was the first in the world to make the use of fitted seatbelts compulsory while traveling on all roads In 1970. Took other states longer, the even later for the rest of the world. I remember Peter Brock giving a talk at uni in 1973 emphasising the importance of seat belt law compliance as well as drink driving and other issues.
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  454. You will likely get sent some party pies soon. Much more manageable size , even for kids. Popular as finger food at all sorts of functions and parties in Australia.
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  455. Photos of it exist with 1946 Michigan number plates.
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  456. Story of Texan Jim Hall of Chaparral cars with his 2J Can Am sucker car from 1970 eight years before the F1 car Got banned quickly. Just like Jim Hall using a moving aerofoil wing around 1965, well before their use in F1. His 2D coupe won the 1967 1000 km of Nurburgring even though it used an automatic transmission based on the Chevrolet 2 speed production version. Beat the Ferraris and Ford GT 40 cars etc. Jim Hall was an amazing innovator ahead of his time but not as widely known as he deserves. More detail here : https://youtu.be/wHCfkKiEqDQ
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  457. G'day Ian. Not quite the Falcon XD race car but .... Cars and Bids has a 1987 Falcon ute for no reserve auction. Fitted with a V8 and 5 speed manual trans I think. No reserve and under $9000 just now. From North Carolina. About nine hours to go Search for Falcon Ute. No pressure .. .. but
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  458. 349 Charger as the E55 made but detuned and made an automatic only luxury version. Saw on YouTube driver geoghan talking about a few special Keith Black 340s meant for the race team. The E49 six did get sold with 302 HP and a four speed.
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  459. Both the Valiant V8 models that ran in 1966 beat all the Mini Cooper cars. But they were beaten by nine of the faster and newer Mini Cooper S cars. The S indicating a newer faster Mini model.
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  460. Except it was called the Armstrong 500 for the first three years at Phillip island. 1960, 1961 and 1962.
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  461. An an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But not the newer boxy A40. A YouTube search will confirm.
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  462. I think it is a handicap race to spice it up.
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  463. Ford Cortina. Never heard anyone call an English Ford a Toyota.
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  464. A few years back he ran the 265 but now a 358 NASCAR based V8.
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  465. Similar desert bogged truck issue in the news tonight : https://youtu.be/HWjkvAJGhy4 But a family needing more help. Rain in the desert rare but can be intense when it comes.
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  466. Ian , a Melbourne film from 1964 and 65 in 4k res that film provides. Starts with Melbourne winning their last VFL/AFL Grand Final. Favourite to win the Grand Final this Saturday after so many years of nothing. Includes bits of the Holden factory in action at Fisherman's Bend and Dandenong too : https://youtu.be/TC7D5T_m_-k Big changes since, very nostalgic for Melbourne residents.
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  467. But in Tasmanian newspapers of the time Batmania was the least used. Melbourne had many unofficial names in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". The first official name proposed was Glenelg. But Governor Sir Richard Bourke overruled this, and on his visit in March 1837 decided on Melbourne — after the then British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in the English Midlands.
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  468. They found a popular niche for iced coffee. Lots of vids on YouTube about it. Not my taste, but young buyers seem to.
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  469. The Cortina GT 500 that won in 65 were excluded as a race special by new minimum production number rules. The Cortina seen here is a very basic slow cheapest model.
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  470. Yes, also the long wheelbase Valiant VIP was another that did not have the success of the 1968 Fairlane that he did not show.
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  471. My thoughts also, better expressed than me.
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  472. On TV Current Affair tonight there was a story on how a Sydney beach council have parking charges of $10 per hour to keep non residents away from their beach. An increasing trend in over populated parts of Australia. Even with beaches within an hour or so on crowded roads, use of beaches is not as common as you might think.
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  473. Although the Utes were a 50-2106 code. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.
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  474. I am pretty sure it was the first Holden Astra being a re badged Nissan Pulsar. The Toyota partnership came later. Holden trying to keep up with the Ford Laser sales after the front wheel drive Gemini was a disaster. The Corolla in the vid has NSW number plates too.
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  475. No sense in the US date convention it is just the way you have always done it. No logic behind it as the rest of the world can see.
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  476. G'day Ian. London Taxis are available for hire drive in the US. As used by comedian Stephen Fry on his travelogue on the US : https://youtu.be/n5BFjYxx768 Go to the minute mark to see the London Taxi he drove in lots of iconic US places . Then he explains that he hired it in the US. Then each place in detail in the first of the series. Shown on Australian TV not sure of the US.
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  477. This was notable as an Australian designed 308 cui 5044 cc V8. But not the only Australian designed V8.' The Repco V8 F1 and sports racing motors that in the Brabham F1 car won the 1966 and 1967 F1 Championship for Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme. All built in Richmond Vic then Maidstone Vic in suburban Melbourne. As well as the 3 litre ones F1 version there were 2.5 litre and I think a 4 litre Can Am sports car version. Another version raced at Indy for a while. The first ones were radically modified Oldsmobile 215 cui blocks fiited with overhead cams annd dry sumps. After identifying what could be done better with this motor, a new design was drawn up and cast locally. Jack Brabham won the 1959, 1960 and 1966 World Championship for Formula 1. The 1966 win made him the only driver to win an F1 championship in a car of his own make. Around this time Brabham made the greatest number of racing cars of any manufacturer at the time..
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  478. A mix of Australian roads and cars over the years, but usually showing what not to do out of road safety instructional films : https://youtu.be/rhmZP8iuZUg A mix of the cars we used.
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  479. Yep. Ian reacted eight months ago : https://youtu.be/BPMzm1vL6x4
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  480. Another local car auction house in Australia is Shannons. Recent auction high lights : https://youtu.be/PH9jeWB0xug I wonder if Americans go mad for low numbered number plates? In Australia you can keep them permanently and move them from car to car. Although the high value ones just stay in safes.
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  481. Once you have mastered Llanfairpthywingallantisilioggogoch then master this Australian hit song from 1962 : https://youtu.be/1OZWi-mTkNU Or if you need the lyrics : https://youtu.be/20oqyMVbss0 The songwriter of this did so well that he wrote another seven versions for countries around the world including the US.
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  482. For this race Peter had as his co driver one of the best , being Jim Richards. Jim could easily drive at the pace needed and not damage the car.
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  483. Ford never made a V6 Falcon. Only straight sixes.
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  484. Some of these vary depending which state you are in. Cantaloupe much more widely used than Rock Melon in Victoria for instance.
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  485. Searching the Torana club site they say (with extra explanations by me) : Only 405 A9X Toranas were produced for sale to the public and these consisted of 305 four-door sedans and 100 two-door hatches. (the road going ones) ...There were an additional 52 GMP&A (General Motors Parts and Accessories) body shells specifically produced for competition made up of 11 sedans and 41 hatches. (It was from these body shells most racing teams would build almost all of the race cars with all the racing modifications and deletions allowed by the rules).
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  486. Search YouTube for The big beer ad
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  487. Beach Boxes at 1:20 . Some record prices for these in the very expensive Melbourne suburb of Brighton : https://youtu.be/cYAeBWbkNHE Also get to see what is inside.
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  488. Lots do not appreciate the intelligent, skilled and clean racing that dominated this year. Maybe they should watch dirt track demolition derby races being more their style.
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  489. Clayton was the VW factory. Puegeot cars were assembled by Continental & General at Heidelberg West along with some Citroens , Renault , NSUs and Studebakers at different times. Then Renault bought the factory but continued assembling Peugeot's. Even assembled Cortina Station wagons when Ford were overstretched. Might have been others too.
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  490. Lot more views of this than your NRL vid. As I expected.
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  491. Only went to the Mini Cooper S because the winning Ford Cortina GT 500 was banned as too much of a race special. Numbers sold rules increased s lot in 66.
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  492. I though so but I found this : HP Sauce is similar to A1 steak sauce, but it's definitely not the same thing. Let's take a look at the ingredients of each: A1 Sauce Ingredients: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Salt, Raisin Paste, Crushed Orange Puree, Spice, Dried Garlic, Caramel Color, Dried Onions, Potassium Sorbate (to Preserve Freshness), Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed. HP Sauce Ingredients: Tomatoes, malt vinegar (from barley), molasses, glucose-fructose syrup, spirit vinegar, sugar, dates, modified cornflour, rye flour, salt, spices, flavoring, tamarind. Contains: Gluten Barley and Rye. Though it's a minor ingredient, the tamarind is probably the biggest contributor to the difference in flavour – though HP Sauce is also marginally sweeter. Keep in mind that there are also a few different variants of HP Sauce, and in this case, we're referring to the original, “basic HP Sauce”. I was surprised A1 sauce was given the name by an English King it was made for in England.
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  493. Hope you find this Holden history documentary interesting. From the very early beginning in 1856 when they were horse oriented https://youtu.be/XOCILCfDo5A Took until 1968 for the first performance oriented 327 Monaro came out designed to win Bathurst. Before the 307 around the same time all the Holden cars were six cylinder.
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  494. A few electric and hydrogen powered cars in this too.
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  495. Black cars easy to miss at night. Unlike the bright colour cars.
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  496. Yesterday was a significant anniversary. Four years since Holden ceased production in 2017. Also in the news today was the local Brimbank Police in Victoria taking their last Commodore SS V8 , called Quicksilver, out of service. Also discussed were another two called Big Red and the Cookie Monster having been taken out of service earlier due to unspecified damage. Often a tactic of suspects to allegedly ram Police cars so that the police will not pursue them with a damaged car. Very sympathetic judges here rarely apply the full extent of sentencing here when the usual advised excuses are rolled out if suspects get to court.
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  497. The 427 Monaros won the Bathurst 24 hour race without a supercharger. So an even more impressive achievment against the rest of the world's cars.
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  498.  @arffadailey8055  there are more recent twelve hour races , but the 427 Monaros came 1st and 2nd at the 2003 24hr race : https://youtu.be/kkQkbYLGuTw No mention of roo problems that I came across.
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  499. Just four days apart in 2006. 4 September – Steve Irwin dies in an accident when he is struck in the heart by a stingray barb off Queensland's coast. 8 September – Peter Brock is killed in a smash when his rally car skids off a bend and hits a tree.
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  500. Australian made Austin 1800 ute making a river crossing: https://youtu.be/VrxQlkj_YTQ Based on a UK design from 1965 with a 1800cc transverse front engine front wheel drive sedan car. As well as the sedan the local Australian factory made a ute model at little extra cost. Did not sell that well so a rare car even in Australia.
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  501. Owner story https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  502. Just sharing the same US Detroit head office approved styling. Very few parts, and especially panels and glass are interchangeable. Looking similar leads lots of people reaching incorrect conclusions about the mass market Holden's. Where Opel parts and engineering was used in some Holden's they were found to be too weak for Australian conditions. More suited to the throw away mentality to cars in Europe.
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  503. I think a 1967 XR Falcon station wagon.
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  504. My brother was a Weet Bix eater. He did not believe me when I told him about the tax status of Sanatarium through its ownership by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. He finally looked it up and quickly converted to Uncle Tobys Vita Brits.
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  505. Absolutely still race the Moto GP World Championship races there. Just searched YouTube for Australian Moto GP and found an ad for the 2024 race to be held in October as well as highlights for the 2023 and 2022 races. When they stopped racing the Moto GP at the second rate Eastern Creek track, the Moto GP went back to the annual Philip Island Australian Grand Prix there. Surprised you had a different idea.
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  506. G'day Ian. If a car in Australia is left hand drive then it is almost always an import from the past thirty or so years. This was when the laws were relaxed to allow older collector cars in left hand drive to be driven on the road here in a limited way The V8 in the 1965 HD Holden is not standard. This would be a much later high performance engine transplant to the car. When new the top motor available was a 179 cui six cylinder, so under three litres. The Jag special looks like someone making a good attempt at a replica of the thirties Auto Union, now Audi, V16 supercharged race cars that had about 600 plus HP. When used in hill climb events they used dual rear tyre setups so the tyres would be less likely to turn to smoke on heavy acceleration.
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  507. Original video link is provided in the description as always. Do just watch the original too.
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  508. And Norman did win the Gold Logie the next year. In each of his shows prior he would recap how his campaign to win the top award was going as a reminder for the public to vote for him. A very Norman acceptance speech from him after being presented by Lee Marvin : https://youtu.be/sbvWhCHa_IU Hie is clutching his Qantas travel bag greener to emphasise his tourist nature.
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  509. Crowd attendance at AFL vs NRL from 1957 to recently https://youtu.be/T-sxy_F5Nt0
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  510. Steven Johnson racing here. Son of Dick Johnson.
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  511. Front discs on all winners from the 1963 Cortina GT onwards. By the 70s some ran 4 wheel discs. Michelin radial tyres the common choice, but Pirelli, Dunlop and Olympic all used early on. 1965 Coverage shows lots of the radial tyres in use then by reading the stickers on the tyres. No rule to be limited to road cars standard tyres, just a tyre of the same size. Drums and maybe cross plys maybe on the small car also rans going for a class win.
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  512.  @gold4leaf  dollar currency is not metric. No metric standard for currency. Every dollar around the world is different, unlike the metre, gram , second etc. All these have metric standard legal definitions. The whole idea of standards.
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  513. Also a factor was that 500 miles was beginning to be too easy and take too short of time. So a longer 1000 km , or around 620 miles, was a tougher test and a loner race for TV and fans. These days even 1000 km over a bit quicker so that starting time becoming later so the finish and presentations add to peak TV ratings.
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  514. The chocolate block is made the way it is so that it can be broken off into individual smaller bite size sections. Didn't count but maybe 5 by 12 so maybe 60 smaller pieces can be broken off so that it does not need to be eaten all at once. Designed to be broken off along the thinner parts of the chocolate.
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  515. Mr Parris, since you tried to provide timestamps you need to use the colon : for them to work not a decimal point or full stop ( . ).
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  516. Local Viper owner story https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  517.  @IIIPronGIII  about half way through this the guy points out the only visible difference is the GT HO on the glovebox and the front and rear spoilers : https://youtu.be/rYwpM3hag90 Similar story with this one showing the build plate with tiny GT HO lettering but the other external badges and stripes are identical with the GT : https://youtu.be/VAQBpavVs-g So maybe you remember the glovebox lid as a passenger. A few others on YouTube show the glove box lid also being lettered but nothing outside for HO.
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  518. Actually not Bathurst but the Calder Park complex. Looking at this clip you can see the race circuit leading to the drag strip then later Kenny caught up in a big rig truck race on the Thunderdome high banked track as covered by Ian in the last week or so : https://youtu.be/-PXDoRvojtU Being a low budget Melbourne film it was much cheaper to go to a local Melbourne race track with ready made rowdy drag racing crowds. Bob Jane advertising everywhere since he owns the track.
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  519. In description as always with Ian.
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  520. Think that was a cat lady. The one with a hat? Her questions are better thought out.
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  521. No GTR XU1 in 1969. Under development from the GTR and released in August 1970, the first ultra-performance Torana, the GTR XU-1, was developed by Holden along with Harry Firth of the Holden in time for Bathurst 1970. The new hot models from each of the big three were kept under wraps until just a few months before Bathurst so as not to let the opposition know what they were up against. In a way the 69 GTR Torana was a decoy before the bigger engine triple carb XU-1.
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  522. Yep. Ian did that quite a while back : https://youtu.be/BPMzm1vL6x4
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  523. And SEAT still is a Spanish brand, unless they are all called Cupras now. Like the ones trying to be sold where I am.
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  524. Unlikely to see this street track at Canberra again. Only lasted a few years before the Government funding it said the costs outweighed the benefits. Same with Adelaide and a few other street tracks. US similar I think.
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  525. Forty years of experience on how to get them working better applied to this one. Better than new.
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  526.  @theghost6412  may be just painted to look like a Cobra, but even then still worth a lot. I doubt many of the six cylinder ones have not been converted to a hi po version.
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  527. Some info here : https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE
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  528. Big part, perhaps the majority, are the Hong Kong connected people. I can see why they want to be in Australia.
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  529. Your request already done : https://youtu.be/8bxnICVnvt8
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  530. Still a few phone cable trench covers labelled PMG.
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  531.  @RushiAnton  what source a newspaper or Dan Andrews. The ABS had always been the official source and you avoided them.
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  532. Although not Pacers in this race. They came in 1969.
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  533. Bathurst 12 hour Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/RhiYzmiq2F0?si=xkxIy9hkdPKnVBX4
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  534. And the Ford Corsair around 1964. Soon dropped. Not a desired motor.
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  535. When first sold in 1948 the priority was farmers getting produce to market and this was a suspension design criteria not to break eggs travelling over a plowed field. Sales at first only to farmers and doctors such was the shortage
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  536. Easier also than most Australian tests by being in a sparsely populated quiet country town,
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  537. Brad Jones also led the 1995 Australian NASCAR series. Often night racing at the Thunderdome like this event : https://youtu.be/BwaY3ANzNgQ Early night racing for NASCAR and avoiding the heat of the Australian summer avoiding clashes with most other competition with other racing
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  538. I would say New Zealand takes the prize for the most car models. Everything from Australia but many more models , especially from Japan being also right hand drive : https://youtu.be/_oa4PIeP4zs And : https://youtu.be/acKBoEbBBYM Even though I am Australian the very easy import laws in NZ allow lots of Japanese cars that rapidly get cheap in Japan after a few years. No need to wait 25 years. They even get creative sourcing parts to deal with keeping them running. Even the NZ built Trekka that many New Zealanders do not know was built : https://youtu.be/YsY9WrTHkek And the Duzgo : https://youtu.be/49M1f14JoRo
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  539. I learnt today that ACCO stands for Australian Constructed Cab Over as devised by International Harvester Australia.
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  540. For steam cars and electric cars they are automatically in the right gear and all much earlier than 1939.
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  541. Cars pulling trailers used to be common in the US too. Even made a top movie about it : https://youtu.be/1HZvFxEn5k8
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  542. Only knew of the Trans Am version of the 302. Slight chance it may have gone 351 very late in its racing life, but doubtful.
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  543. Link to original vid in description as is standard for Ian.
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  544. Ian glad you liked this. The Falcon XY GT HO was the car Alan Moffat won the 1971 race with. As you covered in your 1971 Bathurst vid of Alan Moffat in car film a few days before the race running about 80% of race speed. The now unusual tyres look like the standard Dunlop Aquajets that came with these cars. Supposedly good at clearing water for safety road use, but off the market in a short time. Never saw a beige Vinyl roof on performance Ford's. More common on the luxury Falcon based Fairmont and Fairlane cars of the era. Friend bought an LJ Torana XU1, mint condition, for 15k in the early nineties. He thought he did well selling it for 30k ten years later to buy a boat. Maybe his would be worth 200k or more now.
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  545. The pioneering ABS brakes in the FF were Dunlop Maxaret ABS originally developed and applied to aircraft landing wheels. Well before the later Mercedes ABS system.
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  546. The VH Valiant and Charger story in more detail touching on how well they sold as a two door https://youtu.be/uZwWmTuwzts
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  547. They had them in the past but the dealerships had very poor parts availability and servicing. So poor sales had them withdraw from the market. Jay Leno has a few older Citroen cars he owns and likes in his vids.
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  548. Peugeot decline story from the USA: https://youtu.be/S5Sc5KH1XHo
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  549. But that phase 4 was unfortunately wrecked in a rally. If they only knew what it would worth intact.
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  550. Glad I helped by suggesting this. Made in New Zealand making use of their mountainous scenery. Carlton Draught is just one line of beer made by Carlton and United Breweries. Sponsored VFA football since the 1870s which split off into the VFL in 1896 and expanded into the AFL competition in the 1980s. All the same Australian rule Football game started in 1859 in Melbourne. Carlton a suburb adjoining Melbourne with a brewery there until the 1980s or so.
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  551. The little known dry lake racing in South Australia : https://youtu.be/f-vKjB8JWsg
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  552. I recall, and a search confirms, that in 1971 they sold for s $5250 sticker price (plus on-road costs) and you would have to chase down a dealer that had one. So even more of a bargain. Seems cheap now but then the price would be a years wages for most. Then the fuel cost and insurance costs would hit you hard too.
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  553. Or is it Adelaide International Raceway at Virginia?
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  554. My brother's family of wife and kids visited. All were unhappy that It was very difficult to get healthy meals. Lots of cheese on everyone and other fatty stuff. Hard to get healthy vegetables and salads.
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  555. The Cameron Tilley blue car started racing with a 225 slant six like this 1969 model Valiant Pacer originally came with but later the rules allowed him to use the much more powerful 265 Hemi in line non slant six as used in the 1972 E49 Charger. Likely fitted in this race. Later he changed to a V8 for more power at less expense. Great series coverage. At 10:08 the blue car is the Australian built Chrysler Valiant Pacer. More detail on the Pacer story here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Always loved how well this underdog car went with its then 225 slant six. Great driver who prepared the car very well to beat so many V8 cars.
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  556. A slice made into four triangles are easier to manage for kids. Even in up market adult catering finger food the four small triangles method is considered Verry Elleegant as we say in Australia and New Zealand since yesterday.
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  557. 1963 Australian assembled Standard Vanguard ute six cylinder : https://youtu.be/XqepuV74pkk A rare car now. Vanguard sold better in Australia than the UK but not enough to keep in production. Impressed more people when they got a new body and upgrades including price and sold as a Triumph 2000. No utes with that sports image.
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  558. EK Holden. Made from May 1961 to July 1962.
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  559. Unfortunately by saying 1920s in the title, so many are jumping to the conclusion that this is 100 years or older. The more reliable dates estimates at 11:19 on the original of 1928 to 1932 are not being noticed or absorbed.
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  560.  @IWrocker  Peter driving the Daytona replica before the crash. And how it impacted the event in 2006 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVPToyoTaY
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  561. Grey car is an EK Holden made from May 1961 to July 1962 . A facelift improvement of the 1960 FB. Holden had such huge market share then that they could get away with old styling. Second yellow is an FJ made between 1953 and 1956. First facelift and improvement of the original 48-215 or FX as it is commonly called. The 48-215, with vertical slatted grille, was made from 1948 to 53. From November 1948 and October 1953. A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951.
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  562. G'day Ian. Hot topic lately is the prime minister wanting to allow 16 year old kids to operate fork lift trucks. Such is the demand and shortage of qualified operators. Lots of opinions flying around. I value those coming from fork lift drivers knowing it is not a trivial task.
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  563. Those Coles mini collectables of grocery items did very well for Coles due the pester power of kids in parents when the kids wanted to collect the whole set. No product in them just solid plastic or hollow. Even the hard to get ones were bringing ridiculous sums on eBay at the peak of the craze. I expect someone has plenty of spare ones to send you. Woolworths had to rapidly come up with an alternative collectable to stop the loss of tens of millions in market share. A hit topic for finance reporters talking about share prices.
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  564. Yes , but he did part 1 and 2 for Shannon's so these are on that site.
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  565. Searching Race Cam Bathurst 1979 should show it on YouTube.
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  566. Lots of turn left on red in Melbourne at major intersections. But where there are specific separate flared lanes to do it . Eg Victoria and Hoddell. Whitehorse and Springvale etc. However some of these heavy traffic directions had bad accident records so lights were put in to link it in with the other lights to prevent conflicts.
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  567. I want the most exotic Holden. The Holden Hurricane. Some YouTube of it from 1969. EFIJY show pretty good too.
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  568. G'day Ian. At 6:38 you ask what the little car is. Seen again spun round at 9:24. It is a British Ford Anglia that was sold here in the early sixties as Ford's cheapest economy car. More detail from this vid including how the Anglia was successful in motorsport including later in it how they were modified extensively with a range of engines for Sports Sedan racing ; https://youtu.be/JjOkmu4xwiY Later called the Ford Uglia as a joke because of its Detroit inspired looks. Even used as an unliked Police car in Victoria for menial tasks. Low cost helped people go motor racing without a lot of money before all the big money cars started dominating. The first motor used in the Anglia was the start of Cosworth by tuning them to much higher power leading to Cosworth eventually dominating formula One with the DFV V8 and having many Indy 500 wins.
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  569. Studebaker story from Australia touching on its numerous early Bathurst attempts, often driven by Victorian Police : https://youtu.be/SHHTPLw-oNM More Studebakers here than Oldsmobile, Buick, Mercury, Plymouth, caddilac and Lincoln. Preferred Victoria Police car from 1962 to 1966. All V8 models assembled at Heidelberg West in Victoria.
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  570. Vintage Caravans in Australia often with the type of cars that pulled them ; https://youtu.be/sZODFn-Juug
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  571. The 57 was the new 500. Replaced the pre war design front engine four cylinder 500. Loved in the US to convert to a dragster.
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  572. I think someone did in his last box opening.
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  573. Or even this might help : https://youtu.be/1BXKsQ2nbno
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  574. This got 2202 HP at the wheels. A better vid shows that more clearly. So even your estimate is way under.
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  575. An example from a search : https://youtu.be/5ZuS8ZGm6Os
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  576. The preferred car of Australian surfers in the early sixties if they could afford one : https://youtu.be/qmMeqid_fmU Outsold Ford here in 1960, before the Falcon got more accepted. From the Clayton VW factory, later taken over by HSV.
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  577. News on the radio a few minutes ago is that the Chrysler brand is being withdrawn from the Australian market after being on sale here for around one hundred years and Chrysler Valiants being built here until 1981. The last models are the 300C models for the NSW police force. Low numbers sold here and right hand drive markets around the world led Chrysler withdrawing from all right hand drive markets. Like GM , Chrysler are not flexible enough to make right hand drive vehicles unlike nearly every other non US make in the world. Even makers of small numbers of cars like Ferrari, Lamborghini make right hand drive versions. However Tesla do not seem to have the problem. Another US exception is the mid engined Corvette where there is no engine to get in the way of the steering column. Mustang and Jeep seem to be unaffected so far.
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  578.  @IWrocker  Jeeps here more popular than the 300C and few less successful Chrysler cars like the shirt lived here Neon and one or two others now withdrawn from sale. Even your looking at Facebook market place shows a lot of competition in the SUV marketplace dominated by Toyota.
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  579.  @IWrocker  Speaking of Jeep , just a few days ago this short clip of Australian 70 to 72 Falcons showed up on my feed with the rare jacked up Ute version using Jeep four wheel drive drive train from the Jeep Brisbane assembly factory : https://youtu.be/1ywJo2UPTxo
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  580. The description on this film that Ian provided the link said it was filmed in 70mm. Only a few films in 1962 would use 70mm. That and the camera lenses are a big part of the high quality here. But even 35mm and 16mn can be good.
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  581. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones. Amazing that lots of US Valiants had the even smaller 170 slant six nearly unknown here.
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  582.  @petersargeant1555  further digging showed the rules allowed the later model E49 motor which he likely went with. He had recently gone V8 in it.
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  583. Ford UK at the same time as the Cortina also made a few larger cars like the six cylinder Zephyr of near early Falcon size. UK buyers made the cheaper Cortina the top selling Ford there. Ford would have loved to sell as many of the more expensive Zephyrs but buyers were cash strapped for purchase price and petrol taxes. Same with the later Granada looking like an XD Falcon. Ford here were nearly going to manufacture the earlier Zephyr here until they saw the first secret Falcons in the US.
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  584. Another iconic Australian ad was the Hey Charger ad from the early seventies https://youtu.be/PZdp9Eavi5g Soon had every kid in Australia going Hey Charger when they saw one. The ads and the car pricing had the two door Charger version of our Valiant outselling the four door sedan for a few years. Ford and Holden had much more trouble selling coupes. Hemi engine was our hemi six cylinder that ranged in power from 140 HP in the base model to 303 HP in the ones made to qualify for Bathurst.
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  585. Yep, but need to ad in Holden for anyone outside Australia.
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  586. From Wikipedia The first 200 Cobras produced were given the 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8, while the other 200 received the 4.9L 302 Cleveland ... the only exceptions to this being build number 001 is a 302ci (4.9 litre) V8 and build number 351 is a 351ci (5.8 litre) V8.
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  587. Although Australia had wharfies and UK had dockers. Test Fremantle Dockers.
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  588. And the German Daimler company ceased using the name Daimler on the cars before 1910 and instead called their cars Mercedes. In 1926 they merged with the Benz company to then market Mercedes Benz cars.
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  589. You need these Tim Tams that do not run out https://youtu.be/I5bY2UVY7QI
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  590. Yes , but his position was a unpaid water boy gofor. Not to many racing mechanic skills.
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  591. 1948 Ford Australia ute , and references to earlier ones : https://youtu.be/O-G-c20TUYs Before the Holden and all working vehicles so few survivor cars.
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  592. He followed that advice first off when he did his Vegemite vid s month or so back. Got it right and loved it.
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  593. There are a few surviving Holden production made Chevrolet utes in the early years before the first 1950 fully Holden Ute. Some got snapped up by US collectors in recent years like this one : https://youtu.be/QHp3uCxuIVc And this one from 1950 ; https://youtu.be/2kvVPvDkq0Y Well before the first el Camino.
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  594. Never saw a vinyl roof on any HO Falcons either.
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  595. Except for the very first rotary production car. Not a Mazda but the NSU rear engined Spyder from about 1965. One of Jay Leno.
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  596. The blue longer car looking like a Cadillac was a Holden Statesman. Up until the middle sixties Holden, Ford and Chrysler had available locally assembled versions of US full size cars, often from Canadian parts. Chevrolet Bel Air, Pontiac Laurentian and Parisienne, Ford Galaxy and Dodge Phoenix. As the US versions got harder to make in right hand drive the local companies developed there own larger looking luxury long wheelbase versions using the locally made cars as a base. First of these was the Ford Fairlane with the longer wheelbase of the station wagon floor pan, four headlight grille and longer back with different taillights. Usually V8 option chosen by richer buyers. Was very successful for Ford being much cheaper than a Galaxy and looking nearly as impressive. Heaps of Falcon parts used, but did not look like it to buyers. Ford eventually dropped the US sourced Galaxy and LTD models as the Fairlane take was much better. Holden and Chrysler also went this direction. The Statesman your saw was Holden's smart use of a few extra parts to cheaply make a more up market car. Worked well that even you thought it was a Cadillac, but a Cadillac here would cost you four times the price to import and convert, so very rare here new. Chrysler by Chrysler a similar idea but not quite as successful. All Chrysler production taken over by Mitsubishi around 1982 with the demand for Japanese smaller four cylinder cars. The few people here wanting a US car then largely went with the locally assembled Rambler Rebel and Matador or a local Javelin or AMX. Smallish numbers but much cheaper than a US import and local right hand drive conversion option. Eventually Toyota purchased the AMI factory in Port Melbourne that assembled Toyotas, Ramblers and Triumph cars. Soon it was making just Toyotas such was the demand for Toyotas.
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  597. Your Australian ad revenue may have shot up in May. With all the political advertising your vids attract. Poll day today Saturday. so expect this advertising to disappear soon.
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  598.  @chrish4469  Although in the early years even what seemed to be foreign cars had to be assembled in Australia. Even the Studebakers were assembled in Heidelberg West in Victoria.
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  599.  @mikldude9376  Shannon's have a vid on Studebaker. Points out how the price went down a lot, about 40% once local assembly started with some easily done local content : https://youtu.be/SHHTPLw-oNM Think the main assembler was Continental and General in Heidelberg West in Victoria. Helped convince Victoria Police to buy them.
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  600. The proposed tens of billions of dollars rail to Melbourne airport will be no faster than the Skybus that is the only public transport in Victoria that does not need taxpayer subsidies.
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  601. At 4:00 is the Fiat S76, later also known as Fiat 300 HP Record and nicknamed "The Beast of Turin" for a land speed record attempt. Later ended up in Australia where it crashed and the remains got used for a sawmill. IIRC. Thankfully restored, lots of vids on it.
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  602. And the Repco Brabham car won the championship again in 1967 with Denny Hulme driving. Jack got a bit greedy with the new development parts kept for himself to use first. Denny kept the proven parts which proved more reliable enough for him to win the championship. Not a bad record for the Repco engine company starting with cast off Oldsmobile aluminium engine blocks that they beat all the Ferrari, Maserati, Honda, BRM and Ford engined cars in 66 and 67.
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  603. Even some of the older one and two shilling pieces had higher silver content. Were kept in families as safer for the Christmas pudding tradition. For quite a few years after 1966 you would still see them in change. Then the price of silver rose rapidly in the seventies or so and the old silver coins were scooped up by the illegal melting down merchants.
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  604. Carrol Shelby put the small light Ford V8 in a UK sourced AC Ace to create the Cobra built by Shelby at Venice Beach but with Ford approval and sold in Ford showrooms to attract the crowds to buy something they could afford. The Cobra was such a success , that Rootes approached Shelby to help doing the same conversion to the Sunbeam Alpine to later create the Sunbeam Tiger although it was nowhere near as good as the Cobra or built by Shelby. Both started with the 260 but later went to the 289. Later Cobra went 427 with huge improvement needed to handle the power.
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  605. I am getting all your notifications. However a discussion on Australian radio tech show from a YouTuber having issues and how hard YouTube is to contact and fix the issue
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  606. Link to the 2021 AFL Grand Final full game played on Saturday to help you see which teams got to the final : https://youtu.be/gJmD8LC9p68 People still talking about it being the best game ever played.
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  607. G'day Ian. Missed from most of these comments is the US Falcon Sprint at 1:37. In the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally the Falcon was fastest on every stage but the anti big engine handicap system of the French organisers made sure the Falcons could not win. So a rally system where the fastest car may not always win. A recent vid staged recreation of the 1964 event had a Mini Cooper pass the leading Falcon which never happened in the event. So creating fake history for those that preferred it. The real winning move was paper calculations to discount the Falcon Sprint times. Not so exciting way to win a rally.
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  608. September 2006 had Australia shocked : 4 September – Steve Irwin dies in an accident when he is struck in the heart by a stingray barb off Queensland's coast. Also on this day Colin Thiele author of Storm Bird but a less truamatic death. 8 September – Peter Brock is killed in a smash when his rally car skids off a bend and hits a tree. Adds to the saying that bad news comes in threes
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  609. For quite a few years after our K-Mart first opened in 1969, the K-Mart sold guns and ammunition for hunting. Big display ads in newspapers leading up to the start of duck season. This being peak gun time in the past. Air rifles still need to be licenced here so rarely sold. K-Mart stopped the rifle sales about 1980 is my guess. Never handguns though. Much more restricted in Australia, but my friend legally had a Magnum for a pistol range club.
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  610. G'day Ian. Lots of fish and chip shop memories got raised by this comedy vid on old school fish and chip shops that are still popular but not as extreme as this : https://youtu.be/SVgzuE7293Q Newer current one : https://youtu.be/DRbLaBdfIQs Was so common a feed on Friday nights.
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  611. Rage is the ABC TV overnight continuous music broadcast. Lots of classic music clips on YouTube will have the Rage stamp in the corner. A go to source for music focused Youtubers, especially Australian ones.
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  612. White Maggot refers to Australian Rules umpires from when they dressed in a white shirt and shorts uniform. Used by Rstbag footy supporters. In the early sixties Barry Humphries had a monologue on what a Rstbag is.
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  613. First factory sedan, but in the fifties a few drivers ran Ferrari and Maserati open wheelers and sports cars. Rear engined Cooper's were built in the English factory for Australian open wheel drivers.
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  614. Apart from the early sixties turbocharger fitted to the 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire V8 and Chevrolet Corvair Corsa passenger cars.
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  615.  @bengtolsson5436  the turbo Oldsmobile and Corvair were affordable day to day cars sold in large numbers for the US market.
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  616. Lots of mistakes and wrong emphasis in the 101 facts. So do not take as gospel.
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  617. Some up market councils around 1920 had hotels serving alcohol banned in their council areas after ratepayers prohibition type votes to have a less alcohol related violence in their area. Still enforced today stopping any new Hotels. Search for Dry Zones Camberwell Box Hill to see articles on how the ratepayers of the area still support this Hotel/Pub ban in numerous votes over the last hundred years. Currently a lot of remote aboriginal communities have decided to ban alcohol due to the serious problems arising.
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  618. G'day Ian. More on the Ford Territory from someone new to them : https://youtu.be/cvPXMisv3h8 Ended up driving the test near my home. Lots of Australian normal cars on his channel in his Australian oddities playlist He is not just concentrating on modified cars or the top of the range .
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  619.  @fugawiaus  Never saw any information that Lotus supplied half the F1 field. In 1966 and 1967 it was the Repco Brabham cars that won the championship. Definetly the Ford Cosworth DFV V8 was used by half the field or more after 1968. But only Lotus involvement was being the first and at first exclusive user of the engine. Separate company Cosworth were the brains behind that engine..
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  620. The open trams with a trailer were cable trams pulled by a moving cable under the road. Youtube search for Cable TRam Melbourne will explain more.
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  621.  @IWrocker  search YouTube for Race Cam Development 1979 For more of the story of the earliest in car cameras for TV developed by Seven Network engineers here and later sold for other markets. Quite a few early race cam vids on YouTube.
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  622. About six or seven years ago a standard Tesla S did very well in the Go To Whoh event : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLebwnN6zNY&t=175s Only just beaten by some trailer cars.
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  623. This Torana prototype would get much more money. My guess a million plus. The 1970 Torana based GTR-X. Fibreglass body on XU1 running gear. Saw it at the 1971 Melbourne motor show and as a brochure collecting kid grabbed a few brochures. Nearly got into production : https://youtu.be/idSFdOpzAMo Think I saw film of it running round Lang Lang proving grounds
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  624. Around 1996 I filmed a much bigger and taller mega load of 960 tonnes moving in suburban Melbourne. Unfortunately I used a Sony video 8 camera that later started chewing up tapes. Still trying to find someone who can transfer the Hi 8 tape to a more robust media. From memory, even though it was a pretty flat set of roads, it needed three trucks at the front and two on the rear all in tandem. The load carrying trailer had what seemed like sixteen rows of sixteen tyres and steering positions on the trailer. Took two days at about 3 kph with roundabouts demolished then rebuilt just for the move. It was a 960 tonne catalytic converter from an oil refinery shipped from Japan by sea and road the last few kilometres.
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  625. The Ford Louisville big semi trailer front power unit was launched in Australia in the eighties. Sold to Ford loyal owners partly on the basis of looking and being American. Misplaced loyalty. The experience soon had them off the market and not too many survivors.
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  626. Toranas, Chargers and others are in part 2. If Ian does not run into problems showing that from Shannon's.
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  627. The S5000 Australian open wheel cars racing at Bathurst next week will be the closest we get to F1 type cars. May be quicker than F1 cars than a few decades back. Hope they stay safe and do not prove why F1 cars should not race there. Back in the sixties there were fatalities of a fast open wheel car launching off the Conrod bumps. I might have been thinking of the Bevan Gibson very fast racing sports car fatality ; https://youtu.be/18BYKcnNe5o Or perhaps thinking of Max Stewart.
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  628. Trying to make the globe of the earth a flat map distorts the size of areas in the northern and southern extremes making people think they are larger in area than they are on the globe of the earth and reality.
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  629. Common for these events to keep people away from the normal activities that benefit the economy. All sorts of road restrictions on the public to keep the games smoothly running for example. Resulting in a net negative unless you have a rare business that directly benefits. But those businesses have far too much influence on government.
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  630. Shorts at 11:20 or so were called Hot Pants for a while. About 70 or 71. https://youtu.be/wxAIY93Ifrk
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  631. G'day Ian. The Supercar scare origins given in this : https://youtu.be/xc4BklbauwA Lots of comments imagining or badly recalling other explanations. The Ford is one example of the cars that were stopped but a much higher performance Torana and Valiant were also stopped. Even less known was a proposed 351:V8 Cortina answer to the Torana V8 was also stopped very early on. The only reason of concern then was road safety impacts. The emissions and fuel resource aspects came later.
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  632.  @aussieguy3689  a search of YouTube for housing Commission Flats will show the high rise flats.
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  633. The Million Dollar plus Maloo was a very rare W1 LS9 one to attract that auction price. I understand bought by a company that specialises in raffling (conducting a lottery) special hard to get cars after they use them for a while. The super rare W1 supercharged LS9 Maloo on auction sold for $1,050,000 earlier on 30th January 2021. It was big news on TV and all other media in Australia at the time. The HSV build date plate of 29/12/2017 might have helped, being a few months after the other last official Holden. Rare because it was one of four or six secretive W1 Maloo utes limited by the availability of the LS9 motors they used. Seemed to all be owned by people with very close ties to HSV and not widely made known to potential buyers. So much harder to buy than the much larger run of LS9 equipped W1 sedans that were reported as being sold well over sticker price. Another W1 Maloo has been announced to be up for auction in the past few days here. The people who were allowed to buy the original cars look to be making quite a tidy profit if they achieve anywhere near the million dollar mark like the first one did. At the same auction a Holden sedan of the standard spec V8 SS sedan, but the highest VIN plate number, and so a claim to being last Holden, went for $750,000 at the same 30th January 2021 auction. Such is the local attachment to Holden before it was destroyed.
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  634. Chicken tax on imported utes help stop them. Since about the seventies.
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  635.  @archygrey9093  search YouTube for Chicken Tax For lots of detail better than I can explain.
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  636. My understanding is that Arnott's biscuits were unknown outside New South Wales before about 1965. Each other state had their own separate biscuits brands before Arnott's took over companies and lost the recipe and know of how to make very popular biscuits well. Victoria had Guests, Brokoff, Swallow and Ariel, Lanes and Weston's. Mac's shortbreads of Kerang in Victoria are my favourite shortbread. The tin boxes with classic cars on the lid help too. Very collectable. Looking at one with a 78 A9X Torana hatch now. Need to do a taste test of these and Arnott's version.
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  637. Both 302 and 351 From Wikipedia The first 200 Cobras produced were given the 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8, while the other 200 received the 4.9L 302 Cleveland ... the only exceptions to this being build number 001 is a 302ci (4.9 litre) V8 and build number 351 is a 351ci (5.8 litre) V8.
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  638. Mostly just corporate styling in common. When it comes down to parts lots of the overseas parts do not fit. XD Falcon only shared the headlights with the Euro Granada although similar styling.
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  639. A highly watched Australian house construction vid from 1946 : https://youtu.be/oEL3K45yWUw From an amazing time when many returned servicemen returning from the war built their own house in the post war baby and building boom. Amazing levels of determination and skills that we are unlikely to see again. Gives you an idea of how perhaps the majority of homes were for families. When purchased today they usually get knocked down for something much more elaborate given the now huge land values these bigger blocks were on. My families story pretty much.
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  640. Robert Timms emigrated from England in 1890 and built up the coffee side of his business post war. So successful that Unilever bought him out in 1980. Similar story to many Australian successful businesses being bought out.
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  641. Australia and New Zealand were the only countries outside Japan where you could buy an R32 new from your local Nissan dealer.. I think to comply with expected racing rules to limit cars to locally available models. Local racing just banned them anyway after being developed locally to be so dominant. For more info search YouTube for Shannon's Club TV Nissan R32 .
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  642. Free phone booths left after an attempt that nearly got rid of all the pay phones. The free ones now serve very poor people not able to afford or cope with mobile phones. Phone service dearer here Also aims to help when a phone is lost, stolen or dies. Free internet available near them too mainly aimed at emergencies.
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  643. Not much race footage unfortunately. Too early for in car race cameras. This is pre race promotional film, hence early 1960 Holdens in the time parked. At 75 up and Heavy they were too slow to race even in 1960.
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  644. Slab of beer started off in NSW. Got taken up in Victoria by the eighties or so. So another term that varied by state and time period.
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  645.  @piglos  I am older and remember when the much bigger than six pack wrapped in plastic was introduced from NSW using their term slab.
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  646. Lots of the cars here were made in sheds in tiny numbers for a tiny period. Mostly ambitious failures.
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  647.  @barath4545  given how much trouble all but the Brabham team had with the three litre engines and cars to match in 1966 I am surprised, with the benefit of hindsight, that no one took the option of supercharging the existing 1965 season 1.5 litre cars dialling in the amount of boost needed for each track. Maybe the supercharged era of the early fifties was thought of as too old fashioned or forgotten. All sorts of three litre or even 2.7 litre Climax engines tried and abandoned in 1966 by all but Brabham. Brabham took the smart route if developing their 2.5 litre Tasman series motor from an Oldsmobile aluminium small block. Not aiming for the most power but reliability, even torque and small size to fit in their existing 1965 F1 car. An approach good enough to win the championship in 1966 and 1967. No driver will ever achieve that again.
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  648. A bumper bar gets called a Fender here sometimes, especially years ago. What you call a Fender we call a mudguard.
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  649. Doubt if it is a genuine factory car though. More likely a local chop job that loses the value of an original car.
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  650. Same for me.
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  651. Victoria Police BMW 530D : https://youtu.be/FUIp9syqJDk From an unusual site attracted to the lights and sirens but a widespread coverage of short reality clips.
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  652. Nope.
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  653. Examination of Victoria Police pursuit methods and outcome : https://youtu.be/VkdomRLEOv8 Although not mentioned too much here as important.
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  654. When you say Richmond, just about every state has a Richmond. All different in characteristics.
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  655. Often with these cars they are just badges that way for a country from the one main factory.
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  656. Some Australian cricket players were also exceptional playing local baseball. The Australian previous national team cricket captain Ian Chappell comes to mind. His grandfather Vic Richardson was the same and at the top level of about seven sports locally.
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  657. NASCAR fans miss out by not racing in wet conditions. They should do it, at least on road courses, to let the best drivers rise to the top.
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  658. Possible solution to the soggy straw problem. Grab three or four of them and change to a new one when the used one before it starts it's soggy phase.
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  659. G'day Ian. Congratulations to the USA cricket team beating the world power Pakistan cricket team in today's World Cup Cricket tournament. Surprised everyone but the US could be emerging as a rapidly improving power in the world of cricket.
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  660. Is that US gallons or Australian gallons?
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  661. It seems an engine upgrade was allowed to the 265 Hemi E49. Still impressive.
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  662. We were surprised when the new upstart Bunnings that we had never heard of in Victoria took over our long established McEwans hardware chain. We all predicted a disaster. How wrong we were. McEwans ad from the eighties : https://youtu.be/MtuT4sE5iRw Even the sixties : https://youtu.be/E6UMuK56Oyc
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  663. Crazy to represent a cities climate by a heat map of one day as that map did.
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  664. The A9X cars were street legal if not modified too much for racing. Needed to be street legal to qualify for the race, but the race allowed a few more mods like exhaust and roll cages etc.
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  665. Torana club says : "Only 405 A9X Toranas were produced for sale to the public and these consisted of 305 four-door sedans and 100 two-door hatches." These were the road legal ones with the A9X option pack.
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  666. The grave digger monster truck and others has run in Australia. Melbourne 2019 ; https://youtu.be/UOod2i_HXoc
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  667. Ford Australia much smarter not having the expense and fragility of the Jaguar engine. Otherwise show me a fleet of Jaguar taxis, anyone praising Jaguar reliability or cheaply modifying one for 1000 plus horsepower.
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  668. Game over for outright wins, but winning the class for more affordable cars was a sales bonus for many years.
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  669. Before the cable trams there were some horse pulled trams. Last one to the Zoo until the stables were burnt down in the twenties Police Strike chaos.
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  670. A search for Barra 2200 HP will reward.
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  671. Snake at 12:04
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  672. Usually we just need a ball park so simpler to just add a third to the Kw figure to get horsepower.
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  673. Ian , about Legacy. Why the name Legacy is reserved for just one important organisation in Australia: https://youtu.be/hQlJB2PjV6U No one in Australia would or should argue against that.
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  674. Here you go : https://youtu.be/q08YLYeeaLY Anticipating your request.
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  675. Except in a Fish and Chip Shop just chips. Never a Fish and Hot Chip Shop.
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  676. Kw to horsepower, just adding a third is very close. So 300 kw goes to 400 HP.
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  677. I expect the high end collector cars were brought in before prices went crazy. I saw one of the wing cars on the road locally about 1996.
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  678. But with forty years of knowledge how to modify them to the extreme.
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  679. If you can sing this you are pretty good cause close to no one in Australia can sing it like Lucky Starr : https://youtu.be/1OZWi-mTkNU Lots of background in the description.
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  680. Morris Mini Cooper S only won the 500 race outright in 1966. But took first nine places. First 500 race at Bathurst was 1963. Ford Cortina GT won and then again in 64 and the the GT 500 model in 1965. The only V8 models the Cooper S beat in 66 was the automatic V8 Valiants and Studebakers. Both let down by drum brakes. Studebakers also had weak wheels. In 1963 a VW 1200 beetle beat the mini 850 in class A for the cheapest cars. The Cooper S later won its class sometimes but never outright again. Cars later had to be recent production but the Cooper S was out of production by about 1971 or so.
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  681. The crashed car was a locally built replica of a 1964 Cobra Daytona. Powered by a V8 Chevrolet engine. No Viper connection at all.
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  682. Just limited to post 2009.
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  683.  @coffeecolic5799  a sloppy original video criteria with that outlier. Unless they were aiming for recent production but slipped up with that very obscure Suffolk brand. Would be a very long list of it really was ALL. In that case many defunct mass market makes should also be on the list.
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  684. Quite a mix of cars used to run at the Easter Bathurst meeting. Film from the 1967 Easter meeting including the Australian National Formula One cars back then ; https://youtu.be/QRCfqMimWL4
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  685. Link to original in his description as always. So no probs.
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  686. Australia may have had the first purpose built car racing track in the world. Much earlier In 1905, James Robert Crooke built the world's first purpose built racing car track inside his pear shaped horse racing track at Aspendale Park, Victoria, Australia The first car race meeting at Aspendale Park, was organised by the Automobile Club of Victoria on 29th January 1906, in front of an estimated 1,000 spectators. Photos and newspaper reports online for more info.
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  687. 1960 XK Falcon here started with the US 144 six of about 80 HP. Then 170 option was a big deal. Later 221 then much later the 200 and 250 sixes were the most purchased cars. 289 V8 option from the 1967 XR then later the 302 and 351 became the choices for many years. V8 sales peaked at just 30% of Falcon cars in 1972. Different story about the ones worth keeping.
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  688. Falcon XK and XL story https://youtu.be/x6JhdxJKsQI Especially from about 2 minutes in.
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  689. Except that the 70,000 miles was the total of six cars. Ford chose the description to give the impression that each car did that. Still receiving fifty odd years later.
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  690. How the first V8 Valiants went close to winning Bathurst, but let down by not enough buyers optioning disc brakes. From Shannon's : https://youtu.be/cJC759IAQTo Chrysler also saw the V8 as only needed in the top of the line luxury Regal models with automatic transmission only. Not what was needed for racing.
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  691. Seat belts on all cars in the race, but more visible from some angles on the original full video linked in the description.
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  692. Another form popular here for a while was Rallycross held partially on the infield of the Calder racing circuit and on parts of the track to give a mix of surfaces. Peter Brock dominating around 1971 with his special Torana : https://youtu.be/IhXfpvHEtbw Torana GTR XU1 won a lot of the rallies back then. Usually driven by Colin Bond.
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  693. I would say 351 Australian cast Cleveland by that stage. From Wikipedia The first 200 Cobras produced were given the 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8, while the other 200 received the 4.9L 302 Cleveland ... the only exceptions to this being build number 001 is a 302ci (4.9 litre) V8 and build number 351 is a 351ci (5.8 litre) V8.
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  694. At 16:42 looks like the mark 1 Ford Cortina GT. Versions of these won the Bathurst 500 in 1963, 64 and 65. First Three peat. Not sure when the next three wins in a row were. Not the Lotus version that many people think.
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  695. Harder to find a manual these days. Many come only auto and the trend to electric cars effectively autos.
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  696.  @fknows1  I would love to see that in any dated reference. I searched Trove for it but saw nothing in trove coverage up to the sixties. Definitely used in Sydney press by the late eighties to describe the withdrawal of 1920s style suburban trains as Red Rattlers but nothing I have seen published in an earlier era.
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  697. Almost certain the tyres are the standard Dunlop Aquajets : https://youtu.be/yAFPHQ2T1qE
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  698. Lots of cars valued in the Australian market recently posted on the Shannon's channel for an upcoming auction worth a look to see the variety of cars in Australia. But this Peter Brock championship winning Torana GTR Xu1 Holden dealer team car expected to sell for well over a million : https://youtu.be/QgkYKIBqsRc
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  699. Melbourne AFL show was first : 24 March 1994 – 25 September 2019 NRL copy was later starting and off the air a year earlier : 1 September 1994 – 27 September 2018 For the September 1994 finals series after Nine Sydney saw how well the AFL show did. Dates from Wikipedia. NRL less ratings too No doubt you did not see the earlier AFL shows . AFL show did better in other states than NRL show. Although this clip is the midday show not any footy show
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  700. This is Phillip island track in Victoria, Eastern creek is in NSW. The MotoGP shifted from the creek to Phillip island. MotoGP riders love the island. Chrysler also had a 215 hemi six as the cheapest option. Still more power than the Holden and Ford sixes of the day unless an XU1.
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  701.  @johncunningham4820  215 not as well known https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi-6_Engine
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  702. Likely the Cortinas were standard shells upgraded with newer hotter motors and painted to look like the rare and expensive Lotus Cortina models that were only imported here in small numbers. Originals likely too expensive to race these days. However lots of standard Cortina models assembled by Ford here with some local content.
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  703. Gearshift covered in this test of one in Australia. An even earlier 1955 model with an even smaller less powerful motor, but Victorian registered at one stage but now in Tasmania on a tractor museum : https://youtu.be/5GSTZceciTo Not a big seller in Australia but tried in the fifties to cope with rough roads and use little fuel. Possibly inspired by the success of the 1.3 litre Peugeot 203 winning the tough round Australia Redex trial and amazing everyone.
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  704. All were inspired by the original Lotus 7, then evolved. Lots of others too. Lotus sold the 7 rights to Caterham.
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  705. Wikipedia of Holden Monaro shows when the four door Monaro was introduced late in HQ production. Soon was selling faster than two doors since they were cheaper and easier for family or mates in the back to use. Shannon's had a story of a great two door HQ Monaro that sat at the dealers unsold for over a year. Luxury LS Monaro introduced to try to sell unsold two door bodies. Falcon coupe a similar story with the Cobra version introduced to try to clear out unsold two door bodies sitting around. Worked well, these Cobras now worth a mint. Now these two doors are in great demand but back then after the initial burst in sales they became hard to sell as a dearer car with harder to access rear seats. So not viewed the same way back then when it mattered to the car companies. Even the last Monaro /GTO Holden knew it would likely only have a relatively short production life as the niche of two door buyers were satisfied but commonly kept their cars as cherished weekend toys and not daily drivers here.
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  706. Yes. Fuel and repairs. Four on the plane all were needed to fly, navigate and maintain it. No passenger plane services for many years.
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  707. Australia got rid of the copper coloured bronze one and two cent coins in the eighties. Government does not like to talk about when inflation makes the metal in the coin worth more than the coin. A problem with coins for hundreds of years. So these were withdrawn from circulation. From then on payments by cash got rounded up or down to the nearest five cents. Was fair in that ending in one or two would round down and three or four round up. With similar steps up to 99 cents. So you lost a pittance half the time and gained half the time. I was such a tight wad at petrol pumps that i would try to squeez in an extra free two cents worth.
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  708. Another NFSA preserved film of Melbourne in 1964 and 65. Includes a bit of the Holden factory and workers : https://youtu.be/TC7D5T_m_-k
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  709. ​ @tonys1636 the RAC horsepower rating only estimated it based on total piston bore area and not the stroke. The RAC rating being used for taxation purposes in the UK led to lots of long stroke engines being developed in the UK. A longer stroke have tax free capacity.
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  710. That was a Holden badged Astra. When the prices went up too much they sold it as an Opel Astra for a while but that did not save GM in Australia. GM dominant in Australia from the thirties nearly every year until about 2005. Now very much an also ran with no vehicles in the top 100 selling vehicles.
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  711. Lots to interest in Targa Tasmania. This one the Chrysler Charger six https://youtu.be/5FTDdtLs6_g
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  712. The 65 model Valiant Regal had the V8 option first here. Although Australian assembled Fords had V8 car models every year back to the thirties. Chevrolet locally took until 1960 to have V8.
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  713. Lots of sponsors of the race over the years. Hardie Ferodo for a while in the booming interest years.
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  714. More detailed test of the weird looking Renault Avantime from Hubnut : https://youtu.be/mNf4EzEcNLQ After he drove Australian cars like the Holden Maloo and Falcon XR6 Barra turbo. If you are looking for an unusual car. Hubnut is likely to have driven it
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  715. Mental as Anything also a mix.
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  716. They don't like small pick ups and in the sixties the US government put the chicken tax on them which is still there. They prefer the massively larger ones with Ford F250 being the number one selling US motor vehicle.
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  717. Friend bought an LJ Torana XU1, mint condition, for 15k in the early nineties. He thought he did well selling it for 30k ten years later to buy a boat for his family of kids to use.. Maybe his would be worth 200k or more now. Dates approximate.
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  718. A hot news topic today caused by a visiting American lady enthusing about the quality of Australian sliced bread. Not even high end artisan types , but just the standard Tip Top sliced white. A bit hard to arrange Australian sausages and bread to get the true experience.
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  719. At 18:20. Chrysler did make the race model Charger Ed pointed to with the 302 HP E49 Charger triple Weber Hemi sixes made in a run of a few hundred. What was stopped from sale was faster models like the Ford Falcon GTHO phase 4, Charger 340 V8 four speed and Torana GTR XU2 V8 five litre. And likely a few more in future pipelines like a 351 V8 Cortina if the phase 4 got beat by the Torana V8 However later on milder road models did get built but the racing rules did allow the cars to have much more engine mods for racing. Like the late seventies Torana A9X and Falcon Cobra coupes. Road versions sold with much less power by then but then much modified in racing..
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  720. Although Alan Moffat was born in Canada. Moved to Australia with his parents with Massey Ferguson or similar. Likely naturalised long ago and an Australian citizen.
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  721. Add to the list Mercedes Benz in the fifties and arguably the current Mercedes Benz cars. Swamps BRM if you count the recent ones.
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  722. Yeah don't stop the pursued , with the result of letting them drive into the Bourke Street pedestrian mall in Melbourne and mow down and kill many including a six month old kid in a pram.
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  723.  @WaDarkPhoenix  thanks for the insight into your value system.
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  724. Far longer were Marathon de la Route events at the Nürburgring from 1965 to 1971. Started at 84 hours up to the 96 hour 1971 event. Mix of road based sports car and touring car classes. The only event the Mazda Cosmo 110S pioneering Wankel rotary car entered. Only beaten by works Porsches and a works Lancia to get fourth place on its first very difficult race.
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  725. Just searched and they say six litre another says 358 so maybe that rounds up to the 360.
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  726. The Studebaker story in Australia and how they were so close to winning the early 500 races from Shannon's : https://youtu.be/SHHTPLw-oNM Police motorsport club drivers bought ex Police cars at the Police auctions. Nearly a real world Blues Brothers connection. I think Australia was the only place on the world where Studebakers were circuit raced back then Helped that they were locally assembled and more common on the roads here than Buick. Oldsmobile, Dodge, Plymouth, Mercury, Cadillac and Lincoln. Also helped that they were a common Police car in Victoria for a while.
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  727. Surprising that amount for a fifty year old car. Very rare to have much expenditure, interest and discussion in 1971 for a 1921 car. A fifty year difference then.
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  728. South Australia is the southern state of the central part of Australia. The term southern Australia for the southern part of Australia caused confusion for him. A vague area consisting of parts of some states but usually all of Victoria and Tasmania.
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  729. Well someone could lash out and send him some of the old one cent and two cent coins that most people have in jars for the last forty years or so.
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  730. G'day Ian. The three wheeler Scammel Scarab with its extreme maneuverability can be seen about three and a half minutes into this interesting fifties documentary from the Scammel company : https://youtu.be/GkwEfeE6GGs?si=LJqUlN7JpB12vpAi The whole vid is worth a look too.
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  731. At Caltex in Australia in 1959 the nice customers were the attraction to work there : https://youtu.be/eS71dFz8TIY
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  732. Station wagons were rare in Australia until the FE model Holden Special Station Sedan were released in March 1957, marking the first time that Holden had included a wagon in its range. Holden did not call these station wagons until the 1969 HT model. I think Holden wanted to avoid the horse drawn wagon or railway wagon connotations. Also lots of states would register station wagons as commercial vehicles with higher registration charges and even a few restrictions on the roads they could use. Only Holden used the station sedan term, even though the public used the term station wagons. I may get some comments that "we always called them station wagons" ignoring the Holden literature and advertising. Holden did not change the mind of the registration authorities with the term station sedan either. Once Holden released the station sedan they became extremely popular partly to show you could afford the flasher station wagon version. For quite a while of the station wagons on the road over 50% were Holdens. Holden with 1969 HT model finally realised the term station wagon did not have the negative aspects they thought. If someone calls them an estate then it is unlikely they are Australian. Drivetribe being UK based and having this view of the world.
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  733.  @chrisrumble2665  yes I did say the late Peter Williamson. A great video on him ; https://youtu.be/UOdpiftLytM
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  734. The mini was a BMC car with Austin, Morris then modified Riley and Wolseley versions. The genius designer , Alec Issigonis was a long term Morris employee who had previously designed the Morris Minor. So Austin just one version of the car with some markets being rational only sold them as a Morris car.
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  735. You might try using a : ( colon ) instead of decimal point to get the effort you put in to time stamps to work. Colon works.
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  736. The Chrysler Charger is based on our Chrysler Valiant with a six cylinder 4.3 litre 265 cui near hemi motor. Triple Weber carbs etc eventually gave it 302 HP off the showroom floor. It would eventually out accelerate the top Falcon and Torana when it later got a four speed gearbox. Let down on the race by sticking with a three speed gearbox to be an all Australian car. Finished seventh in the rsce. The US Dodge Charger is a much larger heavier car. Not sold here. The Holden Torana was a six cylinder car that placed fourth behind three Falcons. Next year Peter Brock won in the wet with the Torana as pictured in the ending mosiac screen choice..
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  737. The ute code was 50-2106. The sedan 48-215. The 215 and 2106 had nothing to do with engine size of course but just the GM design number for that year of design. The original cars have builders plates on the firewall with these codes if some idiot has not destroyed them over the years. Engine size from the first Holden to the FC was always 132 cubic inches . FB had a small increase in size.
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  738.  @MelodyMan69  ok delude yourself about engine sizes . Do you have any reputable source or just your delusions
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  739. And that price was for the base model. 215 smallest six. Dog dish hubcat steel wheels. Likely three speed column change, rubber mats and vinyl seats. No radio. Drum brakes, and a waiting list to get one. But once that price got you in the showroom the salesman could show you several much nicer higher spec ones on the floor for a much higher cost but immediate delivery.. Bait pricing still happens today.
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  740. Volvo 122 S driven by Kevin Bartlett and John Harvey finished 15th outright. Wikipedia interesting reading.
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  741. The Battle Of Brisbane was so significant that even the History Guy made an episode about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_GuNizRNk
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  742. Drawing pin widespread usage in Victoria. Might even have boxes labelled drawing pins. I think from holding paper for draftsmen or artists to draw on. Runners dominant usage in Victoria but used to be sand shoes. The WA pocket using runners might be Kalgoorlie reflecting lots of Victorians moved there chasing gold in the massive 1890s depression that had Victoria lose a lot of population.
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  743. A rear wheel drive R31 Skyline before the later Skyline R32 all wheel drive. Some connections with the Australian Skyline family road cars made in Australia for sale here : https://youtu.be/pjJT2CW6oF8
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  744. Gday Ian . Another historic Melbourne film for you in 4k : https://youtu.be/TC7D5T_m_-k Filmed in 1964 and 65 and released in 1966 to present Melbourne in a most favourable light to encourage new migrants.
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  745.  @IWrocker  not joking. Lots of surf vids on YouTube for Newcastle . Here is one : https://youtu.be/DcIeaQYDmlA
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  746. But how far back do you go for defunct brands?
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  747. Probably more than 10,000 rpm. Honda S800 road cars were doing that around 1966.
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  748. The early British settlers of Melbourne came from Tasmania and for the first two or so years gave the area several unofficial names in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". Most of these was how they heard the area described by the local Aboriginal tribes. The funniest one Batmania is derived from John Batman who organised early settler groups from Tasmania seeking cheaper grazing land. This name is the least recorded as being used in Tasmanian newspapers of the time. The Bare .... type one being most used. The NSW government of the time formalised the settlement, but claimed all the land to sell or allocate later. The first official name proposed was Glenelg. But Governor Sir Richard Bourke overruled this, and on his visit in March 1837 decided on Melbourne — after the then British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in the English Midlands. So the funniest Batmania, was the least used. The was since the rival Fawkner settlement party wanted no recognition of Batman.
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  749. Funny that in Victoria we stopped seeing Mobil service stations over twenty years ago but with the petrol sold at 711 shops but little Mobil branding. Maybe SA a test market for a Mobil comeback
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  750. A test broadcast of colour TV from 1968 from the Royal Melbourne Show ( like US state fairs ). : https://youtube.com/watch?v=NjiAprY1JuU&feature=share7 Less than ten years later the young performer, Jamie Redfern, would be performing in Las Vegas.
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  751. Lots of extra info in the description of this.
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  752. 250 years old! Wow. Before the first fleet in 1788.
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  753. Just search for : 147 break To see the top players achieving this and how much interst there is.
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  754. These XP models and the XM models were the first to move away from the American Falcon designs to get durability acceptable to Australians. This durability test was to demonstrate that the changes made to the Australian Falcon had made the car much better. If Falcon had continued with the low sales and bad reputation of the 1960 to 1963 XK and XL Falcons , Ford were looking at closing Australian production. The XM and especially XP models were so much better that they saved Ford by the conscious decision not to use the 1964 US Falcon design but make something better. More of the story of the XP and the difficulties of the durability run from Shannon's : https://youtu.be/nEkrX1qH5jo Used the 1960 Mercury Comet as a basis , which was really a stillborn compact Edsel. So you could claim that one of the best Falcons was an Edsel here.
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  755. Based on the look of the 1953 FJ Holden , but all brand new body panels and mechanical parts.
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  756. Original link in description.
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  757. Gday Ian. How about a Bathurst 12 hour race for these type of cars? Its on again on this Sunday from 6am to 6pm in Australia. Hope you see this comment so that you do not miss the race. A twelve hour Livestream reaction might be a bit too much to ask for. Starting coverage from 5:30 am you get to see these racing unusually in the dark and at the break of dawn. Only with the once a year 12 hour event do you get to see that. There may be some YouTube livestreams of the race in your country as there was in Australia today for Friday practice and will be for Saturday qualifying and interesting support categories before the full race on Sunday.
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  758. Some 383 390 and 400 full size cars.. There were locally assembled Ford Galaxie and Galaxie/LTD from the Homebush assembly plant using Canadian parts. From about 1965 to 1971. The big engines in these were 390 and 400 V8s. Favoured choice of Government state Premiers at the time. Dodge Phoenix a similar story getting up to the 383. All Luxo barges.
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  759. Melbourne cable trams from 1888. Electric trams in outer areas a few years later , starting with along tram road. Horse trams earlier but earlier still in 1854 the start of suburban steam trains.
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  760.  @amandajb2024  search for Dry zones Camberwell Box Hill For more info on the topic like a Melbourne Age article how the vote are being undermined by the State government over riding the council for restaurants in recent years. One mistake in the article was that the West side of Burke Road was the city of Hawthorn that allowed pubs.
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  761. At 19:45 , that is an Electric Frying Pan. As was noted they were very versatile with the temperature setting control on the plug in spike thing via the knob. However the two pin plug with non angled pins means it is not Australian. Australian plugs usually three pins with two angled. Sunbeam were a major Electric Frying Pan brand since they were invented at least as far back as the fifties and still going strong in Australian homes. The big point of the amber glass thing at 15:30, that puzzled you earlier , was that it was a sliding door. A widespread space saving door in Australian homes since the fifties. Maybe inspired by the sliding doors on many Australian suburban trains but then applied to homes internally. Quite a few variations on semi opaque glass but often just wooden with no glass.
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  762. Melbourne had many unofficial names in its first years, including Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla, Bareheep and most popularly "the Settlement". Most based on what settlers thought the local Aboriginal tribes said it was called. The first official name proposed was Glenelg, before the official Melbourne after about two years.
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  763. Pre war Australian Grand prix and many other races on the full circuit but unpaved. Search YouTube for Bathurst 1938 Australian gp More than MGs and a hill climb.
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  764. In the US it is common to get a cap and gown when graduating pre school. So ........
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  765. G'day Ian. At 2:40 you asked how the Australian children of the 1800s created the Australian accent. The reason suggested is their parents largely coming from different parts of the UK where even counties have differences in speech and accents. Due to this children of different parentage wanted to fit in as part of a group of Australian children like all the others in their social circles and not stand out stand out like their parents as being different to other parents. This lead to a blending of accents of the children with the most exceptional parts of their parents accents blended out. Soon leading to children developing a blended accent of the English language that was noted as something new, notable and unusual in some of the Newspapers and Journals of the time.
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  766. The fuel taxes are so high in Australia to fund the level of public transport we have. In Victoria fare revenue from public transport only covers about 20% of the operating costs let alone the capital costs of new expansion running into hundreds of billions for proposed new underground lines. Really only serves a small proportion of travel. This being CBD work travel in the main. Even though this is declining as business gets out of high cost CBD locations. Voters like to vote for free lunch projects and pork barreling and wonder why taxes are high.
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  767. Australian 302 motors of that era were Cleveland design too. After the US got rid of Cleveland motors and sent the tooling to Australia for the Ford Geelong engine plant.
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  768. Only for a short time for the Valiant. Likely not in production when the range photo was taken.
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  769. As soon as the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli the instruction was "dig in," to save their lives. Hence Diggers started.
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  770. Ian , Ads for your supermarket interest. Safeway Victoria and Woolworths NSW with two versions until the Safeway name got squeezed out : https://youtu.be/_tMPhfmE5y8 And https://youtu.be/AmFTM9ddHXM For your supermarket interest. No one in Victoria wanted the change imposed. Lots still call it Safeway including me
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  771. This was the only year the Mini won outright. Needed to be in Cooper S form to win and have the Ford Cortina GT 500 race special banned. The Cortina GT and GT 500 won in 1964, 64 and 65. A threepete. Not Lotus versions but much less expensive Australian developed cars with tuned pushrod Cortina motors and sold to the public in Ford dealers. Rules changed in 66 to need many more examples sold to try to prevent race specials being developed.
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  772. So was the engine changed ? This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  773. Marty Monster did not learn a lesson from this and did another matchup near a pool outdoors. Took quite an effort to avoid serious consequences. https://youtu.be/JUz93v_s18A
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  774. He won his first two championships for Cooper cars and had a big input into the 1960 Cooper he won the 1960 world championship. The amazing Repco Brabham V8 cars did not enter F1 until 1966. Won the world championship in its first year then again in 1967. Jack learnt a lot at Cooper cars hands on approach. But seeking out Ron Taurenac as the later car designer was a master stroke. Brabham cars always have a BT number meaning Brabham Taurenac. Both Australians.
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  775. Made in tiny numbers for just a few years.
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  776. At 9:23 the Ampol petrol brand goes back to the thirties but the servos got rebranded as Caltex in the nineties but now Caltex is going and Ampol being reintroduced. Caltex were connected to Ampol since the beginning of Ampol. Red Bull V8 supercars team was Caltex sponsored but changed to Ampol just last year. Think US Caltex wanted too much money to use the Caltex signage. Classic Caltex ad from 1959 even though the super says 1961 : https://youtu.be/eS71dFz8TIY
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  777. Might be a tribute car clone to be out in use. Would still want one of the price was right. An older teacher friend of mine had a very good condition XY Fairmont six. His students were always at him to sell the car in the nineties. So even then people had plans for XYs at a good price. Fairmont trim closer to GT spec.
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  778. G'day Ian. Yes we had the Holden Cruze here. Assembled for a while in Adelaide using mostly Daewoo parts. Big problem for GMH in not delivering the low running costs that a segment were looking for. Much more detail and instructive comments in this recent should you buy test : https://youtu.be/CXMRoVYjFNw Lucky I did not listen to my father about buying one of these. Had rose tinted glasses from the media praise at the time and as he worked for Holden as a fork lift driver on the golden EH Holden years of 63 to 64.
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  779.  @edwardfletcher7790  except for the early chev novas and recent C class Mercedes. Perhaps a few others.
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  780.  @rorirocks6663  also before the Torana was the  @Edward Fletcher  the 1968 to 72 chev nova had engine options of 153ci (2.5L) I4 194ci (3.1L) I6 230ci (3.8L) I6 250ci (4.1L) I6 307ci (5.0L) V8 327ci (5.4L) V8 350ci (5.7L) V8 396ci (6.5L) V8 402ci (6.6L) V8 Quite a range. From Wikipedia for the Chevy Nova. Even the 62 first ones had four, six and eight options very early on.
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  781.  @flamingfrancis  an 1156cc Torana cheap model entered in 67 hoping for a class win in class A for cars Under $1800. Did not do too well. Beaten by two Datsun 1000s, two Hillman Imps and a Toyota corolla, so all the other car models in the class. The first HB four cylinder only Toranas are nearly forgotten. A rebadge and mild restyle of the HB Vauxhall Viva before Holden got more serious.
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  782. The US did have sedan delivery cars at least as early as the fifties. Two door station wagons without glass and rear seats. For commercial work like our panel vans were until about the seventies boom.
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  783. An an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But not the newer boxy A40. A YouTube search will confirm.
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  784. Shannon's Club TV worth a look on YouTube for local cars in Australia. Near 140 episodes covering most cars mentioned in the comments in more detail on YouTube. More interesting info than can be conveyed in the comments. Missing only local Fairlanes, Statesman and Ramblers since they did not race much or at all here.
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  785. No wrap around rear windscreen in an EH Holden. Simple.
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  786. Gaytime ice cream ad from 1965 : https://youtu.be/GjyBKZgMuFc Rare surviving ad from this early. Jokey setup not typical car or clothes.
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  787. Virtually every car assembled in Australia pre 1940 had a ute version in Australia with Australian automotive engineers producing the extra body panels in the assembly plants to satisfy demand for a ute version. Usually a tax saving to sell a ute Within a month of that 33 Ford,which was after the model A, the locally assembled Chevrolet here had a ute version for sale. Pontiac, Dodge, Plymouth, Austin, Morris , British four cylinder Ford's all had local Australian ute version for sale here. All in the thirties before the first 50-2106 Holden ute. Often called an FX ute or a 48-215 ute , but both names not correct for the first Holden ute. Even pre the Ford ute , local body builders offered ute versions of early sedans. Searching Trove for Australian newspaper illustrated utes will show lots of the early ones like a 1930 Austin 7 ute made by local car body builders. Pre the Ford claim to be first. Will provide some links to YouTube of pre Holden utes.
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  788. He spent his early time in Victoria where we do say bathers and togs and more rarely swimmers or costume. I expect you are reflecting NSW usage. So many terms vary from state to state.
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  789.  @aussieguy3689  So bathers is a Victorian term where this Tristan posting learnt the term from. Both bathers and togs in use in Victoria.
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  790. Power in kilowatts just add a third to get the horsepower figure.
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  791. A detailed example of some of the ins and outs of running a BP service station in Australia : https://youtu.be/cPEUa-rzqSg On the channel lots of coverage of service stations for some reason.
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  792. Wikipedia of Holden Monaro shows when the four door Monaro was introduced late in HQ production. Soon was selling faster than two doors since they were cheaper and easier for family or mates in the back to use. Shannon's had a story of a great two door HQ that sat at the dealers unsold for over a year. Luxury LS Monaro introduced to try to sell unsold two door bodies. Falcon coupe a similar story with the Cobra version introduced to try to clear out unsold two door bodies sitting around. Now these are in great demand but back then after the initial burst in sales they became hard to sell as a dearer car with harder to access seats.
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  793. Also the 360 V8, but all less powerful than the E49. The weight of the V8s made them handle worse, so Chrysler developed the six for racing
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  794.  @TheDodgeFactor  they only had a limited number of 340 engines. Then they standardised on the 360 for the 770 Charger as in this road test from the time : https://youtu.be/t6yAozhmp6E?si=xCcGyedAj85s78kY
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  795.  @TheDodgeFactor  do some research yourself . Wikipedia explains the changes. 360 not for racing just simple production. As you have been told elsewhere here, not just by me
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  796. Anyone can confirm the 360 in later production Chargers for a while. Just search Valiant Charger 360 for numerous references. Quite a different story to those with dodgy memories. After Chrysler gave up on racing.
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  797. Thought I heard today that it being held back to December due to NSW dealing with the Virus.
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  798. Search Youtube for Brock Monza to see him racing one.
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  799. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  800. Lots of British Cockney rhyming slang got transferred to Australia and is understood and sometimes used here. But some developed here on the Same principles. Eg Trouble and Strife is wife. Rubbity dub is pub. Often just rubbidy. Unusual that instead of shortening a word they are lengthened to phrases rhyming with the word but sometimes shortened to one word of the phrase to be more obscure and helping to be used as a code for those in the know.
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  801.  @ronniegauci3843  although the local content would vary model by model and year by year.
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  802. Close. I recall and a search confirms that in 1971 they sold for s $5250 sticker price (plus on-road costs) and you would have to chase down a dealer that had one. Seems cheap now but then the price would be a years wages for most.
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  803. In Melbourne, like most capitals, there were only three TV channels until 1964. ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9 in Melbourne. ATV0 opening in 1964 was a big deal. Other states got used 10 for the new channel around that time. ATV0 converted to ATV10 years later. SBS much later opening, eighties from memory.
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  804. Not just Ian. The name Mopar caught on in America in the early sixties to cover the various Chrysler products. In the US Chrysler was reserved for the top of the range brand. The equivalent of GM and Cadillac. https://youtu.be/FFOGukQlzjc
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  805. Peter Brock first got noticed making the most unlikely car he built a race winner against much more expensive cars with established drivers https://youtu.be/4aK70zmlo0Y Possibly the highest win ratio ever and yet is was a home built special.
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  806. ,351 Cleveland from the 335 series Ford design. From Wikipedia In November 1971, Ford of Australia began to manufacture the 335-series V8 locally at the Geelong engine plant. They produced both the 351C-2V and 351C-4V engine along with a short stroke version displacing 302 cubic inches. These new locally built engines replaced the previously imported 302 Windsor and 351C from the USA. Initially, the cylinder blocks were imported from the USA, while the remaining parts were manufactured in Australia at the Geelong Ford Foundry. In 1973, Ford of Australia received word of the fact the Ford of USA was stopping production of the 351 Cleveland engine after the 1974 model year. As a result, Ford of Australia placed an order for approximately 60,000 engine blocks to act as a supply until Geelong could start producing its own engine blocks. In 1975 Geelong began production of its own engine blocks which it continued until December 1981. All engine blocks produced in Australia were the short deck 9.206" engine block. The last Australian Ford to receive a Cleveland V8 engine was a Ford XE Fairmont Ghia ESP sedan, Vehicle Identification Number JG32AR33633K built on 25 November 1982.[1] Ford Australia continued to make remnant stock of the 351C available in Bronco and F-series vehicles until August 1985. Australian-built 351 engines were also used by De Tomaso in Italy for the Pantera, Longchamp, and Deauville cars after American supplies had come to an end. These engines were tuned in Switzerland and were available with a range of outputs up to 360 PS (265 kW; 355 hp).[32] Unlikely to have a Windsor in this era car. Also very few know that the later exotic DeTomaso cars often came with a Geelong built engine. This helped the cars qualify for slightly less import duty due to Australian content.
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  807. Polymer high security notes, just in time for the rapid move to a cashless society that is compulsory in an increasing number of places here.
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  808. Yes the 1919 flight time is plain wrong. It was the first risky fight in 1919 taking 28 days as per this film : https://youtu.be/DKxsis9woBs The sea time was even longer. Ian assuming the 28 days was a sea time.
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  809. Monaros were rebadged with a new grille and sold as the Pontiac GTO in the US circa 2003 for a few years. Never as a Camaro. The Camaro does use the Holden developed Zeta floorpan design though. Wikipedia Holden Monaro should confirm the above points.
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  810. A bigger car but the US head office wanted that corporate look. Shrared only tail lights maybe.
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  811. Ian has provided a link to the original video without him talking. He does this original link provision in the description of all the relevant reaction vids that he produces. So your problem easily solved for you by Ian.
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  812. Another dated use of Godzilla was on the cover of Wheels magazine for July 1989. Likely came out in June. I think before they were racing in front of Seven commentators.
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  813. Except that at most only 30% if buyers went with the V8 option. Most went with the 200 six or 250 six. Even some two door cars sold with the six but rarer.
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  814. Must to have difficult for the early VW Beetle cars without a fuel gauge, like my mother's 1956 accelerator wheel model. She kept a laundry stick near the tank to dip into it for a reading. Although once broken down on the side of the road she was glad to see a friend a the family show her the reserve tank lever. All in Australia so no Autobahn issues.
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  815. Peter Brock as a race commentator in the 1999 race, but for the competing 2 litre race series that soon after lost out to the less variety of the Holden vs Ford V,8 only series. https://youtu.be/epFrt2Lt_qQ Peters son racing in this. A lot of coverage so not suggest a review just what else ran and in the wet.
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  816. Look at the full video or Wikipedia to confirm there were co drivers in this 66 race. Commentator talks about the co drivers.
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  817. How to pronounce John Bowe at 0:56 from the man himself.
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  818. A week or two back he posted photos of a Holden badged one in a local Chicago suburb car park. You can see them in his community posts. Was also glad to see my link to the Chicago Holden connection. Car club.
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  819. Big crowd at 1:01 was for a free concert featuring the Seekers. The Myer music bowl was built to provide a free concert venue but got corrupted over time until the free intention , being on public land, is nearly forgotten. The Seekers were huge at the time. Number one records in the UK and USA as well as Australia. 1968 documentary giving part of their story : https://youtu.be/40LuQVZYepE
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  820. Brown car at 4:40 a 1962 EJ Holden. More info and comparison to next EH from 63 : https://youtu.be/O-BRV25r8cs Blue car the 1956 FE Holden with less side chrome than the next model FC from 1958 : https://youtu.be/U00blgHv6XM
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  821. Gold Coast? Search YouTube for Gold Coast bikies
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  822. All Mini Coopers had front disc brakes. A big part of why they won.
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  823. It was Targa West near Perth. Some widespread confusion in the comments due to two events with Targa in the name.
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  824. So I look forward to a future video on your progress on pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll.
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  825. Another fish and chip shop worth a look for recording a big part of our culture : https://youtu.be/bBb7LJ6DFEA Explains what Flake is too. The most requested fish serving in Melbourne.
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  826. If it's such a good thing then why would users be so against paying ten times the fare to pay for the costs of running and expending PT. PT promoters just freeloaders.
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  827. V8 rarer than the 265, 245 and 215 sixes but there were 318, 360 and the rarest 340 V8 options versions of the Charger. Mostly the same options of the same years Valiants.
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  828. Other than manufacturing Holden there were other GM makes Holden assembled to help GMH get near 50% of the Australian market around the 1960 peak years : https://youtu.be/QknV_aFJ6Mo I understand that Holden then was the most profitable division of GM for return on investment.
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  829. Something like $100 billion of gold extracted from Victoria by the 1890s that the government knew about. Helped make Melbourne the highest income per head of population in the world by the 1880s. But it was wasted on white elephant projects like dozens of loss making Octopus Act railways and bank buildings. Soon had Victoria in a depression in the nineties losing population and no longer having the highest population. History soon to be repeated with our big spending state government pork barreling policies.
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  830. Explained in his pinned comment.
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  831. Donut van an institution at the Queen Victoria market in Melbourne since 1950 : https://youtu.be/GcNTX9wjBSI But the Melbourne preference for non holed hot jam filled Donuts although marketed as American and exotic. Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  832. That's what I recall as standard then. Hope to find my XY Falcon broucher to confirm. Hinted at in this ad for Dunlop Aquajet SP tyres. : https://youtu.be/yAFPHQ2T1qE Some comments say Uniroyal which seems an aftermarket tyre that I had never heard much said about. Deep in another HO review story they mention standard Aquajets.
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  833. Dibber Dobber is more a kids term. Criminal circles would say dog.
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  834. The reasons and story behind the VW on the footpath of course made the news for you to consider how we are going with law and order in Australia and Victoria in particular : https://youtu.be/rrjR9WAMl2w?si=pLFrYOGVTYThm3Hy Although some comments here think the important issue was the car being a Polo and not a Golf.
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  835. In earlier times we had Plymouth. Dodge and DeSoto cars locally made with high American content. The 1954 Plymouth P25 was sold here in a modified form from 1957 to 1964. Although named as the Australian Chrysler Royal AP1, AP2 and AP3 models. Sedans and much rarer station wagons and ute versions. US head office could not see a business case for new tooling so got us to continue facelifting the 54 model. Also dropped the multiple brands so all were Chrysler badged from then on except for a Dodge minor comeback for luxury cars and trucks. Fargo trucks dropped. Story in Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Royal_(Australia)
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  836. Ovaltine is a competitor to Milo. Slightly different taste and was promoted as a healthier drink.
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  837. An amazing piece of Bathurst history, but although the fastest lap for many years, records can only be set in racing. Back in 2003 the cars were much closer to road cars. Only in more recent years they went the NASCAR route of shells on mainly a tube chassis. Still working lights, doors and wipers so they can race in the rain. Rain spices up lots of races with tyre strategy. Under pressure now since Holden and Ford stopped producing Commodores and Falcons by 2017. GM were market leader from about 1938 to 2005, but now are around 40th in sales. Without the Ranger ute Ford would struggle to be in the top twenty for sales.
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  838.  @IWrocker  GM had such a rapid decline after Holden stopped production that the plan for GM cars badged as Holden's was abandoned and the nameplate retired. 2020 Holden badged cars down to below early fifties supply limited numbers. GM given up on right hand drive markets. Sales for 2020 : Toyota: 204,801 (-0.5% YTD) Mazda: 85,640 (-12.3% Hyundai: 64,807 (-24.7%) Ford: 59,601 (-5.8%) Mitsubishi: 58,335 (-29.9%) Kia: 56,076 (-8.8%) Volkswagen: 39,266 (-21.4%) Nissan: 38,323 (-24.2%) Subaru: 31,501 (-21.3%) Mercedes-Benz: 29,455 (-7.9%) Pandemic affected hence declines from previous year. Ford and Mitsubishi are heavily reliant on light truck/ute sales. So Ford would be 42,000 less without the Ranger. Biggest selling model is Toyota Hilux but sell significant numbers of Corollas and SUV types. SUV now half of all sales in Australia. Bathurst races in February this year and the TV coverage would not use the word Holden. Saw US News today that Toyota had also overtaken GM for the last quarter sales in the US.
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  839.  @IWrocker  search YouTube for barra wins 2200 hp To see what some of the last Ford Falcons here could be developed into even with the locally developed six cylinder Barra motor.
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  840. GM were hoping the Opel Insignia, sold as a Buick Regal in the US, imported and badged as a Holden Commodore would sell well as replacement to the locally made Commodore. Sales were abysmal largely due to the backlash of stopping local production after taking taxpayer subsidies to keep it going with export markets. That is what I understand.
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  841. List is near current production.
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  842. Mazda has a higher share of the market here than any country in the world, even Japan. Only behind Toyota for sales. One reason you see lots of highly regarded Mazda 3s. Biggest seller for many years is the Toyota hi Lux pickup imatatng a true car based ute.
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  843. Search Barra 2200 HP to see even more power on the dyno by Maria Passos.
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  844. Lots more than that , but missed out not being in production after 2009. I though Reliant built the Scimitar model in their range.
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  845. If you get called a flog , it is an insulting reference to what nearly all guys have done when alone and feeling frisky.
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  846. Hard to see a black merging into the black night unlike the Ford in yellow.
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  847. On the original vid comments he apologises for getting the P76 wrong. His excuse was living in Greece for twenty years. I would say Greek accent.
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  848. The prices asked for your trucks here when new would buy about two Maloo or Falcon utes. Such were the import duties, luxury car tax and conversion to right hand drive costs.
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  849. Jim Richards and his Falcon Sprint that he won the TCM series with in 2010 and 2013. https://youtu.be/dquJ6zmaq6w Always up near the front at other times. Jim has now retired from this series. A Falcon but shares close to nothing with Australian Falcons. Australian Falcons of the era concentrated on building strength into the new model Falcons cost effectively. This was due to the US original designs we used for the first two Falcon models had big problems in Australia that nearly shut down Ford manufacturing here. Took the 1965 XP models , unlike any US Falcon, to establish confidence in the Falcon nameplate. Shannon's tell the story here : https://youtu.be/nEkrX1qH5jo
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  850. Up until the FB the grey engines were even smaller at 132.5 until they needed more power for the heavier FB.
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  851. This guy won the million dollar Maloo W1 but preferred the option of $700,000 being more usable : https://youtu.be/EIbxDxAFdng
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  852. Was that in Australia? Thought Australia never had those in the last sixty years that I remember. In Victoria anyway Or are you describing the UK or was it a state thing ?
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  853. Yes that's Peter from Legendary Motorcar in Canada. Lots of exotic stuff from him was on TV and now on the tube.
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  854. 1948 Chevrolet ute made by Holden in Australia. https://youtu.be/QHp3uCxuIVc One of many utes that Holden made before the 50-2106 that many call a FX ute.
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  855. The 1890s or so US controversial introduction of Pool as easier to play than Billiards even made it into a popular fifties stage musical, being the Music Man with Trouble : https://youtu.be/W2ySBtVLCYA?si=7070HQjoxYXsbKG9 Or : https://youtu.be/79FY7nRGdak?si=mhLo6I9jlA_Gm9vm Billiards nearly died out since an Australian, Walter Lindrum was near unbeatable in it for forty or so years. They even changed to rules to stop him scoring massively with one of his hard to master shot techniques. He still kept winning after the rule change though.
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  856. Amoco was another brand we had here in the sixties and seventies. Gone despite these well remembered ads : https://youtu.be/JWmAPvgxABo
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  857. If you got attracted to the $2795 cheap advertised price of the Charger you got a 215 small version of the motor. Once in the dealer the upsell began.
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  858. In Victoria you can only get tested in a four door car so that the tester can sit in the back seat to give instructions and view how you perform. Your credit instructor next to you So many ute types could not be used.
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  859. Next to look at is 1965 to see the winning Cortina or 67 for the first Falcon GT winning in colour.
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  860. Pool at Glen Iris.
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  861. Vid of pool. Details in description. https://youtu.be/yM4_0ZDPSyc
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  862. Not native animals though, but imported in the 1800s and became feral and widespread. Both Camels and Water Buffalos were introduced here for other purposes, but when that purpose ceased the remaining animals bred widely in the wild and became feral.
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  863. Just lost a long description of seeing one of these Corvair utes in Melbourne for the first time the other week ; https://youtu.be/HrhCAiV7diY Close to unknown here. Although the first prototype Corvair was disguised as a Holden in the US in 1959 by badging and hubcaps. Car mags here said rear engine for Holden with a photo story. The next Holden photos would always sell lots of magazines back then but we got sucked in. The latest Mid engine Corvette also got first developed looking like a Holden Ute as well. Saw it on YouTube.
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  864. I know what Monte Carlo biscuits are. Might be the same more than fifty year old biscuit. Was near top of the range in price. Old ad , but searching for this see a current Coles ad at $2 a pack : https://youtu.be/pXRcHvJlrSg
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  865. The financial impacts of the Coles supermarket little shop collectables : https://youtu.be/m3-qKY4qToo Big multi million dollar impacts. Although it was a Dutch promotion company idea Coles we're thankful they took up. I used to take them when someone behind me looked like they had kids or grandkids and give them to them. Always appreciated especially by those on limited budgets that would not get to many normally.
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  866. Little known about that car is it ran a 3.3 litre XU-1 motor since it was lighter and parts easier to get anywhere in the outback. Still plenty of power for off road. Even though the XU-1 had been out of production for years.
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  867. One standout show mentioned here is Utopia. Vid pointing out it was not so much written but observed : https://youtu.be/gdG-l_WELNw Although this series was shown well over seven years ago some of the absurd examples , like the tunnel example, are in the real life news in Melbourne this week. Our public service being so concentrated on giving politicians what they want to hear that they lost the skill to identify problems that will arise with politicians brain fart ideas, let alone feel safe raising any issues. Problem is a big section of the voting public swallow the spin and their brain fart ideas align with those getting the votes that count
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  868. Daily variations in Capital city petrol prices due to competition between petrol companies. Some prefer to pay higher prices all the time with agreed higher profit margins. I just keep track of the cycles and don't buy near the top of a cycle or buy less
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  869. An earlier 67 XR. The later XW after the XT was the first Falcon not to have round tail lights. 67 matches the numberplate too.
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  870. At 1:33 . Yes a Holden Colorado but not on sale anymore new since the 2020 demise of Holden, even the badge engineered ones Colorado did not sell as well as several competitors. Hardly any new GM available, only 250 Corvettes but all sold out and still to be delivered. Silverado available. Very rare to see any as they are all well over $100,000 here. Amazing since GM vehicles were the top selling one here from about 1930 until 2008 or so apart from Ford doing well in the eighties when the first Holden Commodores did not do well
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  871.  @Nathan-ry3yu  LX series arrived in February 1976. UC was the last in 1978 but no V8 options or race history. All the teams rapidly went LX with the A9X stronger running gear option and the fragile LH dumped. UC became a four cylinder Sunbird when the Commodore arrived. So quite a few years racing the 1976 model LX.
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  872. For a while here the Ford territory was the biggest selling SUV here. It was taken to the US to show head office. They were amazed and said it was the best Ford made at the time but did not find Ford' Aus with left hand drive exports. US head office and unions wanted all left hand drive markets for the US parent company.
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  873. Some Australiana for you : https://youtu.be/StcXGhuliRk Big hit in the eighties.
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  874. I seem to remember that the limit was always 0.05 % BAC in Victoria. Especially when Peter Brock started using the number. He was very active on the road safety front and gave a talk at my University in Melbourne around 1973.
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  875.  @peterolsen9131  Peter Brock was using 05 well before the states outside Victoria changed to 0.05%. Like you said Qld still 0.08% in 81, while he Peter was using it here in 1979. To quote his Wikipedia Brock worked with the Victorian authorities promoting the campaign against drunk driving. The most obvious sign of this association was the race car number 05 which related to the 0.05% blood alcohol limit in Victoria, which he utilised constantly from the mid-1970s. Most cars he raced in, regardless of the motor racing division, bore this number, including the car in which he died. So before any of the changes, Peter being from Victoria would have been most aware and supportive of the 0.05% BAC limit well before the later changes you spoke about. Doubt you could find anything from Peter Brock promoting a 0.08% limit. Chronology important.
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  876. Was originally HO for High Output internally at Ford but changed it to Handling Options so as not to upset the Government and media too much. Only minor or no handling upgrades to the XY GT but lots of high output power upgrades. Did not state the power for the same reasons.
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  877. Doug de Muro drives quite a few ,25+ year old Japanese imports on US roads on his super popular channel. So 25+ years seems to be the key.
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  878. American Graffiti ; https://youtu.be/OZ9Gp6Qc8LQ Star drives a 2CV as a contrast to the Hot Rods his friends drive. Established George Lucas as a director priducer who later went on to Star Wars.
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  879. The car used in the film has been found and preserved : https://youtu.be/YXEg2883VHc Although a very rare car in the USA.
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  880. Ian, the Ford Capri at 15:20 is an Australian designed and made car but based on Mazda 323 front wheel drive running gear. Top of the range was the Turbo model. Came out about the same time as the Mazda Miata/Mx5 or just before. We had high hopes for it as an export car as it was sold in the US as the Mercury Capri. First Australian convertible for nearly fifty years, but many had leaky roofs. Most people paid extra and got the much better Mazda instead. That turbo might be one of the last ones that had the problems mostly sorted out. I think we exported Ford Laser sedans as Mercury Tracers. After those relative failures , Ford Australia were prevented from more US exports and to countries other than the Pacific rim.
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  881. I think I remember the NASCAR's racing there averaged 140 mph laps with the Auscars around 125 mph laps. Another thing that I think made it fail was track developed lots of dips and bumps over time. Likely from the low quality fill that formed the earthworks of the track Bob Jane invited it to be used as a free place to dump earth, supposedly clean fill, , but according to a truck driving friend, this lead to it being treated as a virtual toxic waste dump during the four year construction by quite a few unscrupulous earth removal operators. Local Melbourne expansive clay soils did the rest.
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  882. Togs was a widespread description in my youth here in Victoria. Heard the use from Queensland just recently wrt Australian swim team.
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  883. ​ @monkemagic9726 yes my old 50s built house still mostly had them when I sold it in 2016. A legacy system. But I had a feeling new installations of ceramic fuses stopped around 1970. Maybe and electrician could be definitive about the dates.
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  884. G'day Ian. Just the other day Glenn Everitt posted a dyno vid on how easily the Holden Australian made 308 can get a big power boost but still be very Street able : https://youtu.be/vzXlxu6NJnE Worth a look.
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  885. My dad driving my mother's second hand 1956 oval rear window model with the roller accelerator pedal showed her it could get to 70 mph with the comment that you could drive all day like that. She was not too impressed though. Bit different to lots of English cars of the time which would start boiling or worse when driven near their top speeds.
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  886.  @shabingly  yes the Monaco result for this film.
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  887. Up until then the big cars like V8s had failed. Even in 1967 the 1600cv Alfa Romeo nearly won but had bad luck.
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  888. G'day Ian. Yes the weekend. But the first time a shorter Bathurst race for the current V8 Supercars has been run to start the season. Todays 250 km race has be run and won, with lots of unexpected incidents. You may be able to watch the Sunday race tomorrow live, in the same way you often do. A Saturday and Sunday 250 km race added together to call the meeting the Bathurst 500, %00 km total and not the 500 mile single race from 1963 to about 1972. 250 km needing less time investment than the OCtober 1000 km race that will still be run. Support race was great with a mix of historic sedans. Toranas, Camaros, Mustangs and a Valiant Pacer were the ones I remembered.
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  889. I now see my estimate was far too low. Wikipedia currently says they have expanded to 360 employees. Lots of work needed for this. Well beyond other volunteer hobbyist displays. Their YouTube channel has interviews with lots of their young employees. Not the usual older or retired model railway club volunteers.
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  890. All Valiants had the 225 cui with 145 HP as standard up until the 1970 hemi six models. By the time of the first Valiant the Holden was up to 75 up after the earliest ones had 60 HP. So the Valiant, with near twice the power of the Holden, was considered an affordable rocket ship if you could find a dealer that had not quickly sold out of the early ones. Valiant was the first of these size cars with a V8 option on the 1965 AP6 Regal. One model before the VC. But aimed at the luxury market with high spec trim and auto only. Unusual that most US early Valiants had a smaller 170 cui slant six that never came here.
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  891. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  892. Also later came with a 360 option and just a few with the 340. But I believe all automatic versions aimed at luxury market and not raced.
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  893. The Chargers that raced back in the day were all the largest 265 Hemi six versions with triple Weber carbs. The 245 was the cheaper motor.
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  894. Grey car is an EK Holden made from May 1961 to July 1962 . Holden had such huge market share that they could get away with old styling. Only one engine , a 2.2 litre six with 75 hp. Not much more than the 1948 model with 60hp from much the same engine. Around this time the new Chrysler Valiant and Ford Falcon shook Holden up a bit so new sixes in 1963 EH model with 149 of 100hp and 179 of 115hp being thought of as high performance at the time. Still behind the dearer Valiant standard here 225 six with 145hp. Took until 1968 with the new HK model to have the five litre V8 option of the Chevrolet 307. Keeping up with earlier Ford and Valiant V8 options. Later in the year the first Monaro coupe pillarless hardtop was released with top option being the Chevrolet 327. Aim was to beat the Falcon GT at Bathurst which it did. The V8 engine options were always a rarely taken up option due to higher costs, with higher taxed fuel, insurance and purchase price. Was only in the last year's that the V8 option got to 30% or so, usually less than ten percent of all full size Holdens. Around 2008 Commodore stopped being top selling car in Australia as the Mazda 3 outsold it. People looking for a cheaper to run car with fuel prices increasing rapidly then. Mazda still having more market share here than any country in the world, even Japan. Number two after Toyota for many recent years.
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  895. The Pontiac connection : Vegemite was invented a hundred years ago to compete with the original.Marmite import from the UK. Was called Parwill originally to compete but later changed names to Vegemite and gradually overtook Vegemite with prizes of new Pontiac cars to win in the thirties. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
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  896. At high school I liked true Downball against the corner pockets of walls not this kiddy four square.
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  897. Wikipedia says 200 of the 351and 200 of the 302. All the fake clones go 351 and likey a few originals converted by owners losing value by non matching numbers.
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  898. Australian assembled Rambler AMX from the AMI Port Melbourne factory : https://youtu.be/xq7dM-AGmk0 One of just 25 made at twice the price of a Falcon GT or Monaro GTS at the time. Normal Ramblers made in larger numbers. Not called AMC here as too similar to AMI and we were just getting used to Rambler name. A step up in price over Holden and Ford but considered a luxury semi performance car. NSW police and government car for the Rebel and model before. Classic was it ?
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  899. Seems RHD cars can be registered in the US if 25 years old or over : https://youtu.be/tn-Z5FHXcBA Doug de Muro drives some from time to time.
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  900. The short lived Bathurst gold rush as reported in the 1983 race coverage : https://youtu.be/zgcwJ5Ap9KY
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  901.  @zwieseler  still way behind the original rubbish claim that the Tesla 3 was the third biggest selling car model in Australia from the OP. Even 16th brand still not number 3. 10,877 still quite a bit behind the top 20 list that I could find. But surprisingly the total make ahead of Audi and Honda. Or maybe not a surprise such is the actions of these two makes contributing to their decline. Big growth in Tesla sales , but lots of statements about them around
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  902.  @zwieseler  the original point was model 3 sales not being number 3. Before you changed the subject to the make to try and get a more significant ranking. Model 3 only 10.8 as I said. Where does that suit in the Vfacts ranking of the top models sold in Australia? I could only find the top 20 easily and the Tesla Model 3 is well below them.
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  903. Agree 100%. Saved me typing.
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  904. Surprised the Superbowl started on 7 Hd ten minutes ago. On from 1000 to 1600.
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  905. The Chrysler 300 was very popular when introduced here. Helped in the demise of the Ford Fairlane here. Ford's long wheelbase luxury car that even many owners did not know it was just a clever upgrade of the Falcon but looking wider. Lots of the US looking cars at this event are private imports of cars over 25 years old. By the mid fifties all of the Chrysler brands here were cut back to Chrysler and Dodge. Dodge reserved for a large US based expensive car the Dodge Phoenix but also Trucks using International Harvester cabs with a Dodge grill and engines. Later the cheapest Valiant Ute was the bare bones Dodge version with silver painted bumper bars.
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  906. The R and S were assembled here from imported US CKD kits with some local content added. Search YouTube for shannons club tv r s Valiant For more of the story and how quickly they sold out. Plymouth Valiant in the US with smaller engine options. Chrysler Valiant only here until the much later cheap Dodge ute version only for a few years.
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  907. I think the Ken Burns Baseball documentary tracked Baseball being developed from the early playing of Cricket in the US originating the the British roots of the USA.
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  908. Chrysler Graz Austria factory where lots of Australian market Chrysler products of the last decade or so came from : https://youtu.be/a6mgQotsL7A
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  909. Good attempt. This was also the idea behind Geoff Mack in 1959 writing his song ' I've Been Everywhere'. In 1962 it was a big hit for Australian singer Lucky Starr : https://youtu.be/cjm3zSCjNoU Geelong mispronounced to flow in the song better. So successful that Geoff Mack wrote seven other versions for other countries. The US version was a hit for Hank Snow before Lucky Starr could release his US version. Also later covered by Johnny Cash. This made many think Johnny Cash wrote it.
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  910. No Chilay is correct in that country. Ask a Chilaen.
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  911. I recall, and a search confirms, that in 1971 they sold for s $5250 sticker price (plus on-road costs) and you would have to chase down a dealer that had one. So even more of a bargain when new. Seems cheap now but then the price would be a years wages for most. Then the fuel cost and insurance costs would hit you hard too.
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  912. When GMH introduced a four version called the GTS Monaro they started selling better than the more expensive Monaro GTS. These were sold and badged as a GTS Monaro even though a four door. No Kingswood trim in them unless that one was a later cloned car like so many are these days.
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  913. GM performing so badly and inflexible worldwide that they withdrew from all right hand drive markets. Look at all the other makers that right hand drive presents no big problems. Basically every worth while company make right hand drive cars.
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  914. A check of Wikipedia of Holden Monaro shows when the four door Monaro was introduced late in HQ production. Soon was selling faster than two doors since they were cheaper to buy and easier for family or mates to get in the back seat to use. Shannon's had a story of a great two door HQ Monaro that sat at the dealers unsold for over a year. Luxury LS Monaro introduced to try to sell unsold two door bodies. Falcon coupe a similar story with the Cobra version introduced to try to clear out unsold two door bodies sitting around. Worked well, these Cobras now worth a mint. Now these two doors are in great demand but back then after the initial burst in sales they became hard to sell as a dearer car with harder to access rear seats. So not viewed the same way back then when it mattered to the car companies. Even with the last Monaro /GTO, Holden knew it would likely only have a relatively short production life. Once the niche group of two door buyers were satisfied but commonly kept their cars as cherished weekend toys and not daily drivers here. So far less ongoing sales and not enough to justify a new model.
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  915. Some conversions litres to US gallons in the comments How many know that there are 3.78541 litres in a US gallon. Lots of confusion around on the US gallon being different to the imperial gallon. The 4.54 litre factor is an Imperial Gallon.
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  916. I recall,l and a search confirms, that in 1971 they sold for s $5250 sticker price (plus on-road costs) and you would have to chase down a dealer that had one. Seems cheap now but then the price would be a years wages for most. Then the fuel cost and insurance costs would hit you hard too.
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  917. No slant for these, as can be seen when the engine is shown. Last slant 225 were with the 1969 VF models.
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  918. Yes. Just double the kg and add 10% and your at pounds.
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  919. By the time John Batman made his second visit with his party of settlers , the John Fawkner arranged party of settlers without John Fawkner were already established and taken the choice land.
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  920. Old pictures can be very good because film has very high resolution, maybe 20k or more.
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  921. Luxury car tax adds further to the price of expensive cars.
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  922. Playing an old record with a $5 note. https://youtu.be/o1WfFfT7GAI The third most popular vid on our National Film and Sound Archive site. Although I like the second most video the most.
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  923. Coroner's report on the Victoria police policy on just tailing a car and not taking them out : https://youtu.be/1eDkdimGntQ Not much has changed despite this. This reality swamps all the pretty colours.
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  924. From 10:42.. These 1948 Chevrolet cars were assembled by Holden, but all I have seen were four door Sedans or utes. My Father bought one in 1968 for $1. When new they were much more expensive than the Holden, so some people bought the cheaper ute version : https://youtu.be/QHp3uCxuIVc Well before the El Camino. Started in the thirties. First car I learnt in. All Chevrolet cars were six cylinder until 1955, but a 3.5 litre six unlike the more frugal 2.2 litre six being the only Holden engine until 1963 red motors. Ford were the main V8 people.
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  925. Wikipedia of the must see film from 1966 Grand Prix : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_(1966_film)#:~:text=Circuits%20featured%20in%20the%20film,Autodromo%20Nazionale%20Monza%20(Italy). Even hard nosed film critics loved it. Possibly inspired by this 1962 film sequence.
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  926. Plonk was a widespread description of wine in the past. Usually cheap sly grog with dangerous additives to cheaply make it stronger, but the notoriety spread to all wine for many years. Made wine looked down upon for winos. Sly grog meaning unlicensed alcohol usually sold out of restricted bar hours to the then numerous alcoholics. A bit moonshine like but more wine based. Started in the twenties even without any prohibition era here.
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  927. I now see from the original via the link that it was filmed in state of the art 70mm film stock. Very expensive and still gives current digital methods a run for its money in high quality. Likely more than 8k equivalent quality is possible with 70mm film stock.
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  928. How many are not made in the UK anymore? Think MGs have not been UK built for over twenty years. All MG cars now China built as well as owned. All cheap China built sedans now, but some still think they have something to do with the classic MG cars.
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  929. Only the 225 was a slant six. All the others were variations of the new for 1970 hemi engine. All these are normal vertical sixes as can be seen when the engine is shown on this one.
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  930.  @russellhorsefield9199  I would trust the vast amount of documentation in print and film of the 225 slant six and Chrysler Australia's move to the vertical hemi six for the other sixes than your memory. Unless you can point to something that does not rely on your memory. Do you still claim the other sizes were slants as well?
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  931. Just like he reviewed it for you within minutes ; https://youtu.be/34tQiyhAAI8
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  932. G'day Ian. Part 2 of this from a more original source covering Toranas, Falcon Coupes and Valiant Charger cars and others : https://youtu.be/54SRgZx_YgA?si=FZWH7EmTOKoWGCoR Same channel had the original part 1. Some recapping in part 2. Not sure about a part 3 or more.
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  933. These are two litre cars from when there was a split between a two make V8 series and two litre cars with too many makes to easily remember.
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  934. Jeep mainly the Grand Cherokee sold here. A local recent test : https://youtu.be/Pm1yLSvGH5U Trying to recover from a bad reputation here with good early sales of Jeep say fifteen years ago diving down after problems and how Chrysler here dealt with warranty issues. Similar with Chrysler 300C. Some may have been made in Austria. Yes in Europe not here.
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  935. Views might be a bit slow from Victoria with a very rare earthquake. A magnitude 5.7 super rare for us. A very old building had a wall collapse but no injuries anywhere so far.
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  936. G'day mate will rarely go down badly from a male to another male well known to each other or even just to be just pleasant from a tourist. Male female interaction more complicated can be unwanted male to female or far too wanted female to male. Female to female less common.
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  937. Fantastic detail. I was going to look up stuff about the blue paint but you did it all much better than I could. I need a laugh to the four wheel disc brake story would be good. I think Targa rules confine the cars to the engine they came with , but a few mods, so this would be no bigger than a 351 motor.
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  938. G'day Ian. At 16:05 you wanted to know more about car number plates. From Victoria the current standard issue, for the life of the car, and the most basic $170 upgrade to thin plates in black and white : https://youtu.be/6NbN7Hm526s However that should point you to the Custom Plates channel where the Victorian government give so many extra cost plate options you would be reviewing for weeks for just Victoria. Good money source for the government to find people willing to pay much more money for an unusual unique plate. Their most popular vid may interest : https://youtu.be/G8uA4qzJ_cg
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  939. Similar story with the Amiens Gun, a several hundred ton German railway mounted gun that was displayed in Sydney after the war. Barrel may be in Canberra. Worth the equivalent of multi millions then. https://youtu.be/mKXm90I3UaY Or a surprisingly good Lego version of the story : https://youtu.be/_3EibitrxfI
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  940. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  941. Brockoff radio ad for their Cheddar shapes : https://youtu.be/PuM03BthvKQ The origin of the Shapes cracker. After the takeover Arnott's expanded the range.
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  942. Russian KAMAZ trucks being used against Ukraine as we watch this. https://youtu.be/70CMFGPFkkk So there is the thinking behind them.
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  943. In case you want a HQ Holden Ute with the 308 Holden V8. From Las Vegas USA : https://youtu.be/DkDj-ihTNwM Be interesting to know more about it. Or a 2012 ute with left hand drive : https://youtu.be/F8phqJzZ7Lg
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  944. Congratulations on the birth of Sydney. Huge numbers of people were eagerly awaiting the good news. Surprisingly there is another Sydney young tweens lady that appears from time on her father's very successful US based car oriented YouTube channel. Just confirmed the spelling and could provide a lined up link of the other Sydney involved in the delivery of a very desirable car funded by his YouTube earnings covering his exotic and not so exotic cars.
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  945.  @IWrocker  I will give you a lined up link in the morning. 1:42 am here now.
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  946.  @IWrocker  Here is one of his vids from a few years ago where his daughter Sydney features : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4MsReUxtA&t=488s Big numbers of subscribers and views, although your growth in subs is amazing. Some of his most viewed vids are early one that went viral being unique. He also goes into detail how some of his very exotic car purchases are largely financed by the views he gets relating to numerous vids he makes on these cars. Even his vids on explaining his YouTube income got him lots of views. Not the top viewed Auto YouTuber but up in the top ranks. Hope you find that of interest.
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  947. Only 300 XY HO made. Helps confirm my memory that only 200 cars needed to be built. With 650 no XY HO could qualify.
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  948. G'day Ian. Another very small car that was sold in Australia was the 354cc two cylinder Honda Z360 as modified and used to great effect in the 1986 film Malcolm : https://youtu.be/rXiC0KBbmFY Charging through the streets of Melbourne.
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  949. Jordan Cox greatest pass at Bathurst : https://youtu.be/N81cEqZEDVQ As suggested by others for ages but not linked. Notice the view count.
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  950. Lemonade ad from the seventies. https://youtu.be/Tngmz2TfY1A
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  951. Targa Florio : https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE
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  952. Up until the sixties Safety Beach was known as Shark Bay. Wikipedia has more info on the shark presence but not so much on if they are still there.
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  953. Some rare colour film of Melbourne in 1940 film the last month's of the cable trams : https://youtu.be/tuUoY0gOT_U Similar cable trams were used in both Chicago and San Francisco although a later San Francisco design is still used. Filmed in colour before they disappeared. Period radio show provides the audio but not related to the scenes.
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  954. I have only seen one Chrysler Viper on the road here. Very rare import made super expensive by taxes and conversion to right hand drive.
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  955. With the demise of the Holden range and the Ford Falcon, lots of BMW police cars are in use in Australia. My state of Victoria for instance. Usually the turbo diesel versions that BMW have a hard time selling in Australia. How much taxpayers paid for these is kept secret.
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  956. Good that you often know more than the 101 guy. So fact check his distortions made to be funny.
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  957. The Fiats and Twin Cam were in the higher priced classes. The Coronas started being beaten in the second cheapest class by basic light Cortinas then later the Datsun 1600. Price based classes until 1973. Michelin tyres a popular choice but even in 1965 Dunlop and Pirelli radials were being used. Harry Firth put in a protest against the Pirellis being used in 1965 because he did not think of using them. Dismissed
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  958. Baseball is widely played in Australia , but as a participant sport. Few watch it and close to no TV coverage. This leads to many thinking there is no baseball in Australia arising from many who just watch sports. So what they do not see .....
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  959. G'day Ian. Some background of how The Sun News Pictorial became the largest selling newspaper in Australia : https://youtu.be/mAUvqLlByDY?si=B87kg0_7Cfw-qOSn Was very widely read in Victoria outpacing older newspapers. A big part if it was featuring photographs as a major selling feature. A very new idea when it started in 1922.
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  960. If kilograms to hard then just double the kg and add 10% and your at pounds. Then get used to kilograms for the future.
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  961. G'day Ian. Interesting US origins of that small 3.5 litre V8. It was originally a GM all aluminium small V8 that GM could not cast reliably so was taken out of production. The UK Rover company bought the tooling and worked out how to make it reliably. Then got used in many Rover cars, but most well known in Range Rovers. Known in the US as the BOP motor as each of Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac had versions of the 215 cubic inch or 3.5 litre aluminium V8. The Oldsmobile version had an extra head stud to better cope with the turbo charging option they used in 1962. Shortly before the Corvair turbocharged air cooled flat six. All well before the turbo charged Porsche and Saab turbos that some claim to be the first turbo cars. In 1965 Australian Jack Brabham and Repco in Australia saw the possibilities of the Oldsmobile block and created a three litre overhead cam version that won the 1966 F1 championship for the Repco Brabham car and was developed to win again in 1967 for both the drivers and manufacturers championship. No current or future F1 driver is likely to ever make their own F1 car let alone win a championship driving with it.
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  962. The great artesian basin has had windmills pumping water from it for 150 off years. But not inexhaustible and without salt problems.
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  963. That was the story in 1964 also. Wheeler dealers often try things on to see how much taxpayer funding and free land they can get.
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  964. The Renault R8 Gordini, like the one in your thumbnail, dominated the 1970 Australian Rally championship. Beating the Holden dealer team Toranas and Monaro GTS 350 V8. Pretty good for a 1.3 litre rear engined small car. More about these cars and the mass market basic versions in Australia : https://youtu.be/s5czNGopRfI
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  965. Bathurst early gold was more minor compared to the Victorian gold Fields waiting to be made public until Victoria separated from NSW on 1 July 1851. The influx of migration due to the gold rush soon had Victoria overtake NSW in population. Ballarat and Bendigo around 100 miles to the west and north west of Melbourne, but minor gold and diamond discoveries in Melbourne suburbs. Peter Brock brought up in Diamond Creek. Later in the 1890s another gold rush to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Gold mining still significant to the economy today. A big topic.
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  966. Same here. Mighty Mite better and cheaper. Annoyed that Coles don't sell it now
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  967.  @micheledix2616  maybe just a Coles Melbourne suburbs decision
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  968. The standard Mini most people bought back then was an 850 cc car with drum brakes and narrow tyres. The Morris Mini Cooper S were a 1275 cc engine that was much more powerful and had special racing strength internals. Disc brakes and bigger wheels and tyres. Stated by someone in the racing section of BMC Australia that BMC lost money on every Mini Cooper S they sold since the motor was built to such a high specification. The Mini Cooper S was more expensive to buy and so sold in much smaller numbers than the standard versions. Yet every Mini these days gets called a Mini Cooper. I think only one in a thousand were built to Cooper S spec.
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  969. Mopar insider has a story on a 1973 Aussie built Valiant Charger, from the Chicago suburbs, that just sold on bring a trailer for $22,000. Had a Link to this vid : https://youtu.be/2LGevxXbbYc Apparently an Australian bought it and it is going back to Australia. Not the greatest original example but still seems good. A few mistakes in the article. A mystery behind this car. Have seen it with fake Victorian plates.
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  970. Search YouTube for Bathurst 1981 heroes To see lots of qualifying in the wet. Camaros entered this year.
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  971. And for ages almost all the taxis in Australia were Barra engined Falcons . However turbos not needed but running on LPG to save money with still plenty of power compared to the lesser powered taxis today.
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  972. Victoria did not have convicts sent from England just some trivial workforce related small short term stuff from other penal settlements. https://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/Victoriasearlyhistory/convicts
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  973. It started that way but got upgraded to a six litre V8 about 2018.
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  974. At 1:08 I would think a Lotus 11 streamliner or one of many copies of them over the years. https://youtu.be/l8hkk7Qbryc Similar fifties era as the D type Jag but much more affordable with a much smaller motor and usually tax saving build it yourself option.
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  975. The XU1 only won Bathurst in 1972 with Peter Brock driving. The Weber option was in 1973 when the Moffat XA GT won. So the Webers did not win for Torana but the standard SUs did. Supercar scare of 1973 meant cars could be modded more to go faster and not have Supercars in showrooms. Rules relaxed for racing was the start of the rot away from production cars.
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  976. Popular in Australia and New Zealand too. A few of my school friends had full size tables in their homes.
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  977. Or is it Adelaide International Raceway at Virginia?
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  978. Not quite the end of the war newspaper , since the Japanese did not surrender until the two atomic bombs were dropped months later in August 1945. My uncle was never met by me since he died in the period after the war in Europe stoppped but Japan kept attacking Australian troops. He survived fighting in the middle East, then in New Guinea. But the debateable Australian and US action in Tarakan had him killed within such a short time until the real end of the war for Australia. The Melbourne Sun then had the price of 2d printed near the date..Few younger people know that means two pennies or one sixtieth of a dollar in todays money. However back in 1945 you would have to work much longer two earn that much.
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  979. South Australia the state has a few unique terms unknown outside the state. Sproggy meaning sparrow. Stobie pole meaning their local utility pole made of concrete to be termite proof. Probly invented by Mr Stobie.
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  980. The Hey Charger TV ads got nearly every kid doing the sign and catch phrase to every Charger they saw. https://youtu.be/PZdp9Eavi5g Chargers still get a few today from much older kids.
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  981. Would have enjoyed getting these all right, as I did, then saying I was from Australia.
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  982. Four girlfriends? Gotta get me a VW Beetle.
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  983. By the time these last 2 door Cobras were made they had four wheel disc brakes and for the racing ones lots of race reliability options.
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  984. I eat this now but also with a slice of cheese. I must be weird.
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  985. Great that you found a vid pronouncing Galah correctly. I had trouble finding one and gave up.
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  986. One key muscle car feature was that they were affordable. The cars in the vid were almost all unaffordable and many commercial failures made in tiny numbers for a short period. Unlike a sub $3000 Dodge Dart 340 or 383.
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  987. All Mini Coopers had front disc brakes. Jack Brabham, early on driving for Cooper F1. had a hand in the Mini Cooper development and approached Dunlop to make a small disc brake for the CoopEr Mini.
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  988. The Cortina MK2 were built between 1966 and 1970.
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  989. A US term for their early trams that used a four wheel trolley running on a pair of overhead wire to pick up electricity. Even when they changed to more reliable electric pick up systems the trolley name stuck,
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  990. There is also a link to the original with no pausing or comments.
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  991. The amazing American connection of Mt Kosciuszko : https://youtu.be/FwrFXdc5kCg
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  992. Can you ask your dad if Lotus used a special 2.5 litre version of the Cosworth DFV in the Australian Tasman series around 67,68 or 69? Or did they just use the standard 3.0 litre F1 DFV engines?
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  993. Original description says filmed in ,70mm. Searching YouTube for 70mm film will give results like these : https://youtu.be/6xGXjtpTj4o https://youtu.be/i12oWm3v6Ho
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  994. Started as 5,044 cc (308 cu in) (1969–1985), so this one here Later 5 litre racing limits came in so 4,987 cc (304 cu in) (1985–2000) According to Wikipedia.
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  995.  @IWrocker  351 using the Cleveland tooling that was sent to Australia for casting at Ford Geelong. Happened after the Cleveland had trouble meeting US emissions laws. Geelong also made a 302 Cleveland version for local Falcons. However 70% of Falcons and Holden's were six cylinder cars. 200 and 250 for the Falcon six.
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  996. That was the much later Skyline GTR cars.
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  997. Even 35mm film can look very good and even professionaly shot 16 mm. The 8mm amateur home use stuff gives film a bad reputation. Also early TV filming TV screens is pretty dire
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  998.  @Jeni10  Vegemite was invented a hundred years ago with the original.Marmite import from the UK. Was called Parwill originally to compete but later changed names to Vegemite and gradually overtook Vegemite with prizes of new Pontiac cars to win in the thirties. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
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  999. A few cable trams in the Melbourne scene. The two carriage ones. The steam trams were from Sydney.
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  1000. G'day Ian. More on the change to dollars and cents : https://youtu.be/x-RiX5NCn8w
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  1001. Every response here is describing their own state and perhaps thinking it is like that in the whole country. Surprised by some saying the still see plenty of Commodores. Must have different enforcement policies to Victoria. When the Commodores need replacing there will be no GM product to replace them. So the end of an era and will be missed by many of the Police.
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  1002. At 20:35 he showed the early sixties unsuccessful compact Fairlane. Assembled here from imported parts, so too expensive for a compact car here. Much more successful were the 1968 onwards Fairlane made here from Falcon parts but made to look much bigger using the station wagon long wheelbase floor pan and different four headlight grill and tail lights. Convinced many it was much bigger than a Falcon. Very clever lower cost , or higher profit, luxury car from Ford emphasising how Australian car companies needed to do more for less. GMH responded in a rush before the Statesman with the Holden Brougham. Cue your Brougham jokes. But just an extended boot, V8 and luxo touches. Did not look different enough from a Holden Premier, the previous highest trim level. The Holden Statesman also looked big but used so many standard Holden parts in the same way as the Fairlane did for Ford. Eg both used the same windshield as the base model smaller cars.
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  1003. The first Holden size was determined by what the average male wage could afford. 25 shillings a week back in the forties. Doco on it on Holden history.
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  1004. Quite a few Wombats in this vid. Not many know that in the thirties US films the name Flying Wombat was thought of as a good name for one of the first 'Cars of the Future' as seen in this clip : https://youtu.be/CpUHvXIXFQY Now a very valuable car that started a trend to cars of the future and Futurama displays.
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  1005. Toyota and the rest like to call them utes because they do not make car based utes any more for those looking to buy a true ute Smart move. Sucks in lots of people.
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  1006. Used in Australia too. Fifty or more years ago my local Amoco was Karl's Garage. He was expert in VW repairs but sold petrol too. Carpenters Garage was another local one maybe dating from the thirties
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  1007. Lots of comments on the 351 and 302 engine options, but these were only in at most 30% of Falcons with 1972 being the peak year. Most Falcons had a 200 or 250 six. Hardtops much more V8 take up.
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  1008. Shaker hood on the 1971 XY Falcon GT : https://youtu.be/bVBfcpVn3yk And on the 1970 Mustang : https://youtu.be/NKOsFyKJ4JA
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  1009. Looking at Wikipedia for a list of Major League Baseball players from Australia I counted 34 players, with the first in 1884 but most since the 1980s. The one I most remembered was Graham Lloyd. Pretty good record for those who believe there is no Baseball in Australia.
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  1010. Another rare on from the height of the van craze was the Holden Gemini Gypsy : https://youtu.be/IryXlfxMciw
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  1011. Cars at 4:46 . Brown with white roof is a 62 to 63 EJ Holden. Top selling car in Australia at that time as was the Holden from about 1950 to 1979 when the Commodore list sales to the Ford Falcon. Blue car behind is a 1955 to 58 FE Holden. Both with much the same 138 cui six cylinder of 70 HP the 75 later. Only one engine available in the Holdens from 1948 to 1963. Big car in front of palm tree is a Chevrolet Bel Aire, but locally assembled by Holden but nearly twice the price of a Holden. For those with lots of money
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  1012. G'day ian. At 4:42 is not where the Vegemite factory is. A fun fact is the Vegemite factory had most of its frontage on Salmon St Port Melbourne also was the address of the Holden head office and factory where the first 48-215 Holden was launched in 1948. GMH liked the unofficial name of Fisherman's Bend. Not sure if Holden's smelled slightly of Vegemite like the rest of Salmon St does. Also in Salmon st at the south end was the Rootes group factory assembling Hillman's and Humbers mostly. Later taken over by Chrysler in 1966 who had to be talked out of adding Chrysler to the Rootes Australia sign in the factory roof. Melway number one online in map 42 preserves this bit of history unlike most online mapping systems only interested in the current situation.
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  1013. Coober Pedy in the news this week due to the closure of its last bank : People are being forced to drive up to $200,000 in cash thousands of kilometres while vulnerable customers are handing over sensitive bank account details to library staff – that’s the dire reality facing Aussie towns with a number set to lose their last remaining bank branch. For the opal mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, their last bank branch – a Westpac – is set to close on February 17. Residents will need to travel six hours to its nearest bank in Port Augusta, which is 550 kilometres away, or access banking through the post office, which will only offer limited services. Lots of outback residents are not up with internet and computer usage. Some not even literate.
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  1014. 3:33 your Trash night is our Bin night. Although some Australians do go out at night with the aim of getting Trashed. Nightclubs and Pubs help with that aim.
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  1015. Some of the values of the most sought after early coins : https://youtu.be/h_izyLlSQxc
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  1016. Only until you probationary licence period finished.
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  1017. Victoria did not have convicts sent from England just some trivial workforce related small short term stuff from other penal settlements.
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  1018. The oldest surviving movie film in Australia is the trains arriving at the 1896 Melbourne Cup with Cup coverage just a few hours newer : https://youtu.be/TOUxWVC90Fk Early movie makers seeking out a topic of widespread interest even then.
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  1019. Although the XM and XP models from the mid sixties look very foreign to US eyes.
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  1020. Left hand drive export Holdens advertisement from 1960 promoting the export levels achieved including LEFT HAND DRIVE versions exported to Hawaii among other LHD markets https://youtu.be/I5YReuF6BVA Possibly GM head office and US auto workers unions would prefer these markets to be supplied by Detroit later. Would love to know how the cars were received in Hawaii or if any survive In 1980 my brother travelled in Greece in a 1967 Holden Taxi that the driver was very happy with.
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  1021.  @bushranger51  today is four years since Holden ceased production and also discussed on radio today was the Brimbank Victoria Police recording with regret that their last Commodore SS V8 called Quicksilver is now withdrawn from service ending an era for them. That also raised the topic of the Studebaker V8 as also used in the early Homicide episodes. Quite a few rang up who had bought one at the cop auctions like the Blues Brothers. Both Studebakers long ago and an SS just recently. Under the seats it was littered with breathalyzer straws. So a multi coincidence.
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  1022. That implies an Australian dollar will buy you 77.5 cents. The rate is down to only 72 cents per Australian dollar. Before banks give you less with their margins. Easier to ballpark multiply by 0.3 and deduct that. Changes every day.
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  1023. One of the last two or three commercial slot car centres in Melbourne. Mr Slotcar at Hallam : https://youtu.be/cJ6ZaybV84A Many home tracks for the multiple race groups in Melbourne too. One home track two doors from where I lived. Racing at it helped me decide to by my current house.
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  1024. Good point about Shannon's Club TV. Near 140 episodes covering most cars mentioned in the comments in more detail on YouTube. More interesting info than can be conveyed in the comments.
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  1025. Done eight months ago : https://youtu.be/BPMzm1vL6x4 This is the midday show not the fat show
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  1026. G'day Ian. You might like to see the 3 wheel capability of the luxury end DS Citroen. Also the stability of a blowout and hands free stopping : https://youtu.be/O7AijogHtRc Still impressive even though the car was first on the market in 1955 although this has the circa 1969 swivelling headlights helping with tight bends.
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  1027. Not candy for kids.
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  1028. That's what I recall as standard then. Hope to find my XY Falcon broucher to confirm. Hinted at in this ad for Dunlop Aquajet SP tyres. : https://youtu.be/yAFPHQ2T1qE Some comments say Uniroyal which seems an aftermarket tyre that I had never heard much said about. Deep in another HO review story they mention standard Aquajets.
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  1029. Lots of views on YouTube for Starbucks Iced Coffee vids. Surprising your viewers have not heard the news of their new niche they found.
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  1030. 11:45 . More on the Leyland P76 that comment guy got wrong : https://youtu.be/S21P9n2RoBE And more detail on the car from a Welsh car Guy visiting Australia trying to get rare cars to test : https://youtu.be/oSwgB_68Duo He got the base V8 with just two headlights. Higher Australian content than most Holden's, Ford's and Chryslers here.
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  1031. Highly regarded motoring YouTube guy here on an example of why Jeep having trouble here : https://youtu.be/rJa-GVLswK8 And more on the earlier range : https://youtu.be/PVsvkKfUnjc Comments on these reveal high level of agreement with Australian experience of Jeep. Worst brands 2019 opinion with Jeep right up there : https://youtu.be/yq-sGQdzYGU
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  1032.  @theghost6412  AP6 then VC Regals only at first as per Shannons good doco https://youtu.be/cJC759IAQTo I think the VIP came with the VE model after they skipped the D model for some reason.
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  1033. Australian design 308 with major differences to the Chev. Location of parts designed to suit right hand drive better for a start.
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  1034. Or edge of town dirt or gravel road to their house
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  1035. Amazing how many in the comments can't tell an EJ Holden from an EH. Same with the FE getting confused with the FC. It was a 62 EJ Holden and a 56 FE.
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  1036. I only buy refrigerated eggs from Woolworths or Coles. I think most Australian eggs are sold like that
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  1037. 1:37 is the US Ford Falcon Sprint. Made a year or two before the Mustang became the Ford performance car instead of an image based secretarys car it started as.
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  1038. This in car movie camera film , with a cameraman, but at closer to road speeds was partly got Channel Seven network tech types thinking about developing RaceCam for a live to air feed. Happened Eight years later in the 1979 race.
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  1039. Please keep in mind that Magpie aggression varies by how even a small minority locals had treated the Magpies in the past. Aggression breeding aggression the likely cause. A life lesson there. Fortunately the ones that lived in my area were very friendly and appreciated us digging weeds out of the garden. Magpies likely thinking, how good are these humans digging up grubs and worms and not eating any of them. These humans here just leave the grubs and worms for us in the soil they loosened up for us. Common for Magpies in my whole suburb, never heard of an attack unlike my cousins distant suburb.
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  1040. G'day Ian. Glad you liked my suggestion and were able to put up the vid so quickly. Learnt some more about the local Charger when finding more from your reaction and questions.
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  1041. I think Irish diplomatic plates, so right hand drive if it came from Ireland or is intended to go back to ireland after it gets to old for Embassy use. It would be interesting to know what are the import duties etc for importing cars to the US. These taxes might be a bigger issue for more affordable cars rather that upmarket Mercedes, Ferrari and Lamborghini cars. I know personally of people who own a Skoda in Australia and remember the early sixties small numbers sold. But the most intriguing were the biggish numbers of 1950 and 1951 models that appeared on registration records and then a big gap until the sixties.
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  1042. The 1960 XK was the first and even worse than the 1962 XL.
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  1043. The Cooper S cars in the race were limited to standard size of 1275 cc and the standard steel wheels as on the showroom cars. Due to being a series production race. So standard for all cars competing with winners often checked after the race. Other improved production racing classes may have allowed 1310 cc and change of wheels etc but not the Bathurst 500 race.
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  1044.  @doraexplora9046  no minilites on these Cooper S cars. Just go to the original film where early on they were putting wheels on and later where there are more close ups of the wheels. The rules were about 200 or even 500 Australian delivered cars had to be fitted with a factory option before it could qualify for the race. Other race series around the world may have allowed those wheels but not the Bathurst rules. Happy to be proved wrong and learn something if you can suggest a time stamp on the original film showing otherwise. Are you prepared to search for photographic proof from the 1966 Bathurst race and not some later race at another track? From about 30 seconds into the original film there is vision of the winning 13C cars standard steel wheels being fitted, if you need to be spoon fed.
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  1045. The slower 2ltr 4 cylinder Toyota Celica of Peter Williamson came ninth, beating all the Ford Falcons and the single Chevrolet Camaro that year. Tenth was a two litre Alfa. So not quite so slow, but more reliable than the heavy Falcon Coupes by then.
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  1046. ​ @KyrilPG the average speed of all these high speed trains, or any train, is well below the maximum speed possible. Yet so many uneducated people, like politicians, do calculations of journey times possible based entirely on the top speed they have heard. Like this record stunt speed. Much more informative but harder to find are the average speeds achieved in reality and what sort of track route is needed to achieve it.
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  1047. Melbourne public transport is hugely expensive. It is just that even the fare paying users only pay ten percent of the cost. You are into the taxpayer's pocket for the rest. Those taxpayers travel patterns being even less efficiently served by public transport.
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  1048.  @AnnQlder  demonstrating how out of touch you are with the tens of billions of PT expenditure with your fifteen second attention span like so many others.
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  1049.  @jcampbellshale  continue to delude yourself if you like.
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  1050.  @AnnQlder  you need to keep up with the construction costs and even purchase costs of new trains. Your heavily subsidised ticket costs delude you that PT is cheap.
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  1051. Generally the roads are better in the less populated states as they get a bigger proportion of the GST tax than the proportion of Australian population would indicate.
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  1052. My guess is this is a replica car with all good new bits added to a good Falcon base six shell
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  1053. Only the 1973 racing XU1 s were allowed to fit Webers after the racing rules changed.
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  1054. Falcon GT HO phase 3 fastest four door sedan in the world at the time because in Australia we like to ignore cars like the rare Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 AMG being five mph faster. 500 cc bigger motor and fuel injected overhead cam in 1971.
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  1055. Winning car co driven by racing driver Bob Holden , who never raced a Holden as far as I know.
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  1056. Christmas dinner at the beach in Australia in the fifties, with three roast chickens being a bug part of it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GM4Mp9uT4&t=400s Although the meal in the home shown had the other staple of a Christmas ham. Utes also in it doing the work they were designed for. Interesting government film released in 1958 and filmed earlier.
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  1057. Search for Racecam development 1979 for the story behind the Australian developed tech that gave us these images of Peter Brock in the race then went on to be sold and used in NASCAR as the system worked so well. Wish I was able to give direct links, but your channel seems not to allow this.
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  1058. How these older Australian cars were used for Mad Max is worth knowing : https://youtu.be/cEcfTwonSiw
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  1059. Almost all the high quality film like this was not for TV. But for showing on big screens in theatres where paying customers expected high quality. The 70mm film size used for this has never been bettered.
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  1060. K mart very successful here. Maybe bought the US name and some advice on store layout and purchasing methods back for the first one in Burwood East, Melbourne back in 1969. Neat their head office team in Melbourne. Greg Murphy lap of the Gods car sponsored by K mart. Same management as Bunnings, Coles and Target. K mart often in the news about how successfully they are managed here. Often right next to the Coles supermarket like my local one. Lots a K mart purchases in my house over the past five years. Quite a few K mart vids on YouTube by shoppers keen on what they have bought.
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  1061. These were the first of the non slant sixes. 215 entry level also. Even the 215 was more powerful than a six cylinder Holden unless an XU1 rare model.
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  1062. For a view of what the tunnel is like here is a train drivers view from one of the slightly different more enclosed car shuttle trains travelling from France to the English part of the UK : https://youtu.be/izxEyA-Fclc Not a huge amount to see inside the tunnel and even less for a truck driver sitting in his truck can. The other type of train running are passenger trains that will take you from the centre of London to the centre of Paris with much of the travel in France approaching 200 mph. City centre to city centre train times usually better than times using planes.
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  1063. Film made to help Australians with the conversion to decimal currency in 1966 : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs Includes some of the money sums that even fourth grade children were expected to start mastering. The jingle made the date of conversion stay in peoples head that heard it even today.
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  1064.  @ozzybloke-craig3690  So why did you bring up the name Vauxhall? Pretty irrelevant to utes or any obsolete Holden designs. So you are not aware that 90% of Vauxhall production was in the UK? Do you think Vauxhall is not connected to the UK? Apart from rebadged products like Holdens and Opels. Holden, Vauxhall and Opel all owned by General Motors not the GMC truck brand of GM. There was never even a Vauxhall badged Monaro Ute, another confusion on your part. What they did sell was a Vauxhall badged Maloo Ute but made in Australia. Even referring to GMC is misleading as that is just the truck brand of General Motors. Your thinking of that because an obsolete design exists it is likely to get made is not likely in a million years. The most accurate thing you said was that to quote you, you were "every pissed".
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  1065. Chunder is to vomit. See Barry McKenzie Watch Chunder.
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  1066. Traction Avant started 1934 as per the description in this rare few years later vid : https://youtu.be/HITDXRDA2Sg Also in the vid are listed a few cars earlier still by other makes. The 1930 front wheel drive transverse engine DKW F1 is worth looking up and disproves the BMC claim they invented FWD transverse with the Mini.
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  1067. The one off was even bigger a 429. Installing the then biggest US motor in the Falcon.
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  1068. The confusion over the UK version of dogging the basis of this very funny comedy car pooling discussion sketch as knowledge of the meaning of the term evolves : https://youtu.be/5u4hAxi5b6o
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  1069. The Dodge Phoenix luxury car in Australia including the unlikely racing of one at Bathurst ,: https://youtu.be/40vTCK7CQGI
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  1070. Hubnut with a 1955 2CV in Tasmania on circa 1955 Victorian plates : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GSTZceciTo I have a Melbourne Argus newspaper kept by my parents due to the 1956 Olympics with 2CV advertised on the front page.
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  1071. Jim Richards and Mark Skaife. Always a co driver event since the early seventies for safety sake. Not sure which driver did the best,. But Skaife was new then.
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  1072. Pretty clever of Holden in Australia to develop panel parts to make an export Holden off the line in Elizabeth South Australia that convinced so many Americans that it was built by Pontiac.
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  1073. The US likely has more standing start racing than anywhere in the world. Hard for many to imagine , but then they are not thinking about drag racing. Agree that once you go to any form of circuit racing then the standing start races on any form of US circuit racing is so much rarer. The only ones I can think of is when F1 events are run in the US Drag racing so widespread in the US that most even small towns have events for street cars if they are not too fast to be judged safe.
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  1074. G'day Ian Have you seen the Australian made Charger in Chicago? You would be one of the few in Chicago or the US that would know what it is if it drove past Mopar insider has a story on a 1973 Aussie built Valiant Charger, from the Chicago suburbs, that just sold on bring a trailer for $22,000. Had a Link to this vid : https://youtu.be/2LGevxXbbYc Apparently an Australian bought it and it is going back to Australia. Not the greatest original example but still seems good. A few mistakes in the article. A mystery behind this car. Have seen it with fake Victorian plates.
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  1075. Search for the preamble of the Australian Constitution and you will find : The States' shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, When it came to the crunch in 1901, New Zealand got cold feet although participating in the 1890s Federation conferences.
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  1076. G'day Ian. Lyrebird in the news mimicing the alarm and warning when lions escaped at Toronga zoo recently : https://youtu.be/wr_Eg8Zw7LA?si=Syr6IuVrA7MYCQg_ A crying baby too.
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  1077. First local V8 in our size cars was in August 1965 for the Valiant Regal V8 when the 273 V8 option was introduced. Although really as the top of the range luxury model with automatic transmission only : https://youtu.be/cJC759IAQTo So not quite the same as a muscle car, but surprised many as even the standard Valiant 225 slant six with 145 HP was ahead of Ford Falcon and Holden from its introduction in 1962. The Valiant V8 could have won Bathurst in 1966 if enough V8 buyers had paid for the disc brake option to enable a disc brake version to be raced. So without being able to stop more reliably the drum brakes Valiant got beat by Mini Cooper S models that won and took positions 1 to 9 in the 1966. Astonishing result never to be repeated. Chrysler less interested in racing early on here.
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  1078. Much more detail on the Mini Cooper S Australian modell from Shannon's : https://youtu.be/qOtVY2kb7aU Of course references how the Cooper S took the first nine places at Bathurst 1966 and how special the motor was. And how the Australian versions were perhaps the best ones.
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  1079. Inspired by and teamed up with Benjamin Franklins original ideas. In 1786, Ben Franklin, at age eighty, and Noah Webster, twenty-eight, teamed up. Their goal? Make English easier to read and write. But even for great thinkers, what seems easy can turn out to be hard. From a recent book on the topic.
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  1080. Better to get the Opel Astra for the US being made as a left hand drive car.
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  1081.  @daveofyorkshire301  any left hand drive Vauxhall cars though? That is the key point. Opel sold far more in the US than Vauxhall back to the sixties at Buick Opel dealers. Maxwell Smart even drove an Opel GT at one stage.
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  1082. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1083. Heaps of Japanese and Korean makes although some made in the US. Euro cars usually luxury makes like Mercedes Benz. BMW, VW and Audi. Most up market euro sports too. Mass market euro cheaper cars do not have the EU tariff and tax barriers to protect the euro smaller card from Japanese and Korean cars. Similar choice in Australia with Japanese and Korean cars being far better priced and dealer supported than Euro mass market cars.
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  1084. Starbucks failure here examined from an Australian point of view : https://youtu.be/DSerk5urTsY My nephew in the coffee roasting business points to him sourcing very high quality beans and his scientific roasting method producing award winning coffee.
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  1085. The Jim Clarke Lotus F1 type cars winning the Australian and New Zealand Tasman series supposedly fitted with a 2 5 litre Ford Cosworth DFV has Lotus fans ducking for cover. The Tasman rules only allowed 2.5 litre cars yet Cosworth has no record of any 2.5 litre DFV motors being made. Only full 3 litre versions then . So what was Colin Chapman doing then?
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  1086. For the 1972 race win only unfortunately.
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  1087. Apart from the Repco V8 F1 and sports racing motors that won the 1966 and 1967 F1 Championship for Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme. All built in Ricmond Vic then Maidstone Vic in suburban Melbourne. As well as the 3 litre ones there were 2.5 litre and I think a 4 litre Can Am sports car version. Another version raced at Indy for a while.
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  1088. US 1948 Chevrolet panel Van : https://youtu.be/B-7t9WBWyKo Lots more to find as Sedan Delivery types.
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  1089. If you look at Australian market car brochures from the fifties most makers , like Ford and Holden , will describe their utes as Coupe Utilities. Same term when they were first invented here as a modification to car bodies in the thirties boom in utility sales. There are YouTube videos of surviving Chevrolet and Ford utilities from the forties. Well before the El Camino and Ranchero. Even really obscure English makes like Armstrong Siddley and Triumph Mayflower had ute versions made for the Australian market.
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  1090. Coins. Imitation gold and silver. When the 1966 50 cent coins were round and silver they started being melted down after a few years because the silver became worth more than 50 cents. Same happened to much older shillings and sixpence coins made with higher silver content.
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  1091. Maybe a hundred here https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  1092. the list was limited to post 2009, so things like Sunbeam and Wolesley would miss out.
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  1093.  @dcarbs2979  Australia had the Leyland P76 from the British Leyland Company although mainly designed and built in Australia. Also had the Leyland Marina in four and six cylinder version. But like all these additions talked about here they do not qualify as not in production after 2009.
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  1094.  @angharaddenby3389  the qualification for the original list is to be in production after 2009.
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  1095.  @dcarbs2979  well you need to learn more before saying NEVER : https://youtu.be/oSwgB_68Duo?si=Ww33pdCJXnKyoV8q https://youtu.be/kpBCJJ3TFbc?si=afE6wAZ3nJDN2NtI
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  1096.  @ChristianJull  pretty hard for anyone to keep up with the vast Stellantis company: https://youtu.be/UT3T-pQRn4Q Which brands and models be saved is the question.
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  1097. Another US Sedan Delivery well before the first FJ Holden version. A 1941 Chevrolet : https://youtu.be/Wohvv1MnKLs But built for work like all the early ones.
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  1098. Yes EJ Holden. The only engine was the 138. 149 and 179 choices came with the next model EH.
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  1099. On YouTube there is a vid Alan Moffat talks about his Mustang Talks about the car through the bad sound.
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  1100.  @aussieausdeutschland4245  elsewhere I have seen reference to The last Kar Kraft Mustang designated for Bud Moore's Trans Am efforts, Seems Bud Moore was one of the few teams to be supplied with a Kar Kraft Mustang to use and perhaps further improve. So from the Moffat interview both are right as Moffs is a Kar Kraft supplied to him via Bud Moore. My guess redirected from Bud Moore to Moffat at Ford's direction.
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  1101. Only the V8. Only have seen the turbo versions in frag racing.
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  1102. Road car VL was mainly sold with the Nissan three litre six, but the racing Commodores always went with the five litre V8.
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  1103. Inspired by the 1930 Cadillac V16 production car perhaps.
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  1104. These XP models and the XM models were the first to move away from the American Falcon designs to get durability acceptable to Australians. This durability test was to demonstrate that the changes made to the Audience Falcon had made the car much better. If Falcon had continued with the low sales and bad reputation of the 1960 to 1963 XK and XL Falcons , Ford were looking at closing Australian production. The XM and especially XP models were so much better that they saved Ford by the conscious decision not to use the 1964 US Falcon design but make something better.
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  1105. Australian Ford Falcon taxis most commonly driven for 900,000 km before any major work needed on them. Running on LPG they dominated the Australian Taxi fleet before production ended in 2016. LPG fuel made even the four litre Barra engine economical but still powerful.
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  1106.  @IWrocker  the last US full size cars assembled here were the Ford Galaxie and LTD versions from 1965 to about 1971. Usually from Canadian parts. 289, 390 and 400 motors needed to drag them along. Expensive and small numbers. Favoured by those high up in government to be driven around in. Gradually replaced by stretched Falcon based Fairlanes then later an even more upmarket local LTD that convinced a few that they were US imports.
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  1107.  @flamingfrancis  yes heard from a work mentor type, with a baseball playing and coaching background, praising one of the brothers of Neil as being better than Neil at cricket but concentrated on baseball to a high level without becoming famous like Neil. Arising from a family connection to the Harvey family.
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  1108. Still having more vids posted in the last hour even a day later Still being the main topic of discussion on talk back radio as I type this.
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  1109. Donut van an institution at the Queen Victoria market in Melbourne since 1950 : https://youtu.be/GcNTX9wjBSI Close to trams. But the Melbourne preference for non holed hot jam filled Donuts although marketed as American and exotic. Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  1110. Found a Holden built 1948 Chevrolet ute built Before Holden built the Holden car. A few thousand made from Australian designs and new panel pressings. https://youtu.be/QHp3uCxuIVc My family had the sedan version purchased much later for $1. Early driving lessons in it for me.
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  1111. Agreement here that Grand Prix from 1966 is the one to watch. On YouTube: https://youtu.be/RqxMYBj8axU Also starring James Garner later making The Rockford files.
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  1112. Small cars in Australia had a significant market share in Australia even pre war. Australian bodied Austin, with convertible and UTE versions available : https://youtu.be/yBoWkq89h2M Lower purchase price and fuel cost an attraction for many. Stories and photos in my family of the pre war Austin Seven. Even the first car Peter Brock drove was an Austin Seven, but one he hotted up as a kid. The car still exists in this amazing collection : https://youtu.be/RhllAzdl0-Q
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  1113. Unfortunately the Torana XU1 only won Bathurst in 1972. The current Falcon GT versions best them in every other year they ran against each other.
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  1114. Australia converting to Australian dollars and cents from Australian Pounds Shillings and Pennies : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs Everyone of a certain age remembers the conversion date of 14th February 1966 from the jungle. Prior to that even fourth grade kids needed to learn how to add up in pounds shillings and pence.
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  1115.  @wizzard5442  the rules stated something like 200 V8s had to have them by the cutoff time months before the race. Not enough V8 buyers of the luxury Valiant Regal had paid the extra for discs by the cutoff time. Shannon's club TV on the V8 Valiants covered this problem.
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  1116. There is a marginal safety benefit to driving on the right. Studies have show a right handed bias to vision perception. Related to us mainly being right handed we notice things on our right quicker than the left. So when turning and incoming traffic decisions mainly occurs from the right humans on average react quicker. It is only a very marginal effect but still equates to thousand of potential lives saved per year in the road worldwide.
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  1117. Wrest Point casino in Hobart was the first in Australia. Only legal one for a long time.
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  1118. My dad driving my mother's second hand 1956 VW oval rear window model with the roller accelerator pedal showed her it could get to 70 mph with the comment that you could drive all day like that. She was not too impressed though. Bit different to lots of English cars of the time which would start boiling or worse when driven near their top speeds.
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  1119. Seems Ed got lots of his inspiration from the excellent Shannon's end of an era series. Part one of four : https://youtu.be/5tC7yP9LmAE A few less mistakes than Ed and more detail over two hours.
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  1120. Looked like a very late model Holden Astra. My guess a 2017 before GM virtually got out of the Australian market.
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  1121. Test of a 2019 Holden badged Opel Astra a year before they went off the market in Australia: https://youtu.be/KCgT74Dw3e4
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  1122. No electric trains in South Australia until the past few years. Trams , yes but no electric trains. Would love to know where your information came from.
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  1123. Not prohibition but during WW 1 concerns on the damage alcohol was having got prohibition type votes and had pubs close at 6 pm leading to the 6 o'clock swill. Lasted to 1966 in Victoria. Some suburbs council areas voted to ban pubs. Camberwell and Box Hill are two that cone to mind and still have bans. When new votes have been taken residents keep sticking to the bans.
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  1124. So which state are you in? Runners in Victoria or older generation said sand shoes. Not the American term sneakers.
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  1125. Peter Brock actually got his start in motor racing in Sports Sedans from the little Austin A30 that he built as a sports sedan with a Holden 179 six cylinder motor. Had a super high winning rate. Original lost but here is the replica that Peter was involved in building : https://youtu.be/4aK70zmlo0Y And a rare interview of Peter talking about the sports sedan he built ; https://youtu.be/fQiLMYfTR4Q I remember watching him on channel 0 Melbourne winning lots of races at Phillip Island beating far more expensive cars. He soon got noticed by Harry Firth when forming the Holden Dealer Team.
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  1126. Seems a very good first attempt without the expensive steering wheel etc. My young neighbour bought a $6000 steering wheel to compete in international simulator races. He is up there in the top tier and races against some supercar drivers from time to time.
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  1127. The Geelong AFL club song helps with how it is pronounced : https://youtu.be/X9rKF_0lP18
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  1128. Pontiac nearly did for 2010 but Pontiac folded : https://youtu.be/hjTOEX-qJB8
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  1129. The film Grand Prix from 1966 is well worth a watch. Played in Melbourne for months on the Cinerama theatre with a huge wide screen using the Cinerama three projector system. Lots of cooperation with F1 allowing camera cars in the races. On YouTube but skip the first minute of incorrect music due to usual problems of music : https://youtu.be/RqxMYBj8axU From the year when Jack Brabham won the championship with a car of his own manufacture. Will never see today's driver build a championship winning car. Used the Australian Repco V8 derived from an alloy small Oldsmobile V8 to beat all the big teams. Jack is in the film Did it again in 1967 with NZ team mate Denny Hulme having more luck than Jack. Beat the new unreliable Cosworth motors in the Lotus cars.
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  1130. This is what the titles sounded and looked like : https://youtu.be/GkMOAoiGuGc Much more appropriate music of the time of big budget blockbuster movies.
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  1131. Ian, look at pictures of pre world war one and earlier US made cars at shows etc and you will find most are right hand drive, especially the earlier ones. A big change when Ford changed to left hand drive, then others followed in the US.
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  1132. From the seventies at least , the V8 Rolls Royce Corniche was available as both a two door hardtop and convertible. Later even more two door hardtops. The Bentley equivalents had an even bigger range of two door hardtops dating further back.
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  1133. Another worth a look is a Holden Commodore used in recent rally to spectacular effect : https://youtu.be/_aBxYwbn0Jg Unusual action from Blendline TV who are more the affordable grass roots side of motorsport here.
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  1134. Record temperatures not too relevant to much. Subject to measurement errors too. The average temperature distributions are much more relevant on what people experience.
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  1135. Another must see video for anyone interested in the Ford Falcon XY GT HO and the lead up cars : https://youtu.be/sOQd1vT794s Partly explains why so much interest.
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  1136. Not when you search for the official ABS numbers with : australian bureau of statistics capital city population The news and politician beat up you refer to was just using an obscure little used measure of urbanisation but put Melbourne ahead by counting Melton, even though Melton has always been in the official ABS boundary of the Melbourne Statistical Division since at least 1966. Anyway having too much population is not a plus but is creating too many major problems from the Ponzi scheme of importing wealth without paying for the costs of it. Especially in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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  1137. G'day Ian. Booming for those few rich enough to own and use a movie camera. But for the poor and their children things were very grim : https://youtu.be/bAgiSVYOTU0?si=rT8GYFTywyc-jesL A similar story in pockets of most parts of Australia made worse by the 30s depression when still recovering from the 1890s depression and the severe impacts of WW 1.
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  1138. Gday Ian. The Bathurst 12 hour for 2024 is livestreaming on YouTube now for practice and qualifying. Some support races for historic sports cars from the fifties and sixties too.
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  1139. Some exaggerations to make the vid more notable. College sports here in Australia are usually amateur teams in the more amateur minor competitions without bug spectator crowds. An exception was the little known University team playing in the professional Victorian Football Leauge (VFL) playing Australian Rules Football before World War One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMV7FKvUXBU The VFL got renamed the AFL in the eighties although it came from a breakaway from the VFA after 1896. Amazingly this has a reference to anti brushing teeth ideas of a South Melbourne supporter at the time stating University players are the type of people that brushed their teeth. The Oxford Cambridge University Boat race for rowing boats has a competition dating back to 1829. Has to be the oldest continuing sporting competition in the world : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr2BVkPpe30 I think competing in these rowing teams you get awarded a 'Blue' which is highly regarded in some types of social circles. Lots of spectators too, but no prize money. This idea spread to Australian private schools with the head of the River inter school competition in each state widely watched and covered on Television to an extent. The 1998 Victorian event was the 131st running for boys. So quite a history too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf7p1y7Pt8o Would imagine many other school an University sporting competitions too, but perhaps not as big as the US.
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  1140. Or even Win on Sunday Sell on Monday.
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  1141. 1966 was the only time a Mini won outright. The race covered here. 1969 a Cooper S won its class C placing 14th. Holden Monaro GTS 350 was first outright, eleven laps ahead of the first of the Minis, then a whole series of other Monaros, Falcon XW GTHOs, Alfa 1750 GTV and even a Falcon GT Automatic beating the best of the Minis.
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  1142. Wikipedia confirms my memory that it was a later gradual process : The conversion of measurements—metrication—commenced subsequently in 1971, under the direction of the Metric Conversion Board and actively proceeded until the Board was disbanded in 1981. Are you thinking of currency conversion on 14th February 1966? Even the government decision was not made until 1968. Pharmaceutical products were one of the few early adopters. Road related about 1974 from memory.
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  1143. Fletch, who does heaps of these classic restos shows, but in Chicago for route 66 : https://youtu.be/sEOsJm9RP2c Does get things right?
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  1144. Maybe a few more shoutouts to come.
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  1145. As well as a good lighting system and better brakes they also needed windscreen wipers. Unlike NASCAR LeMans does not stop for wet weather.
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  1146. Not a shame in one way. We don't want overseas buyers making the ones left even more unaffordable and disappearing out of the country now they are no longer made here.
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  1147. On a building plan in Australia you will see WC meaning water closet. UK usage too so spread. To discourage the usage of Bathroom we often say 'Why do you want to have a bath' when someone asks for the bathroom. A good joke too
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  1148. Bit different to the ads in 1988 then : https://youtu.be/yI2aUjwFF0k
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  1149. Melbourne has lots of Trams clogging up the roads but in the US they would be called streetcars like in San Francisco and New Orleans.
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  1150. Saturn made its own design cars in the US from 1990. However on its last legs around 2005 it started selling rebadged Opels.
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  1151. First the Bathurst track is in New South Wales not Victoria. Secondly people live around the track in what are now valuable dream properties. People also want access to the park and lookout at the top.
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  1152. 1937 Chevrolet ute made by Holden before there were Holden's: https://youtu.be/afBD3SLV5Ww Right hand drive for Australian roads. Rare early survivor.
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  1153. Sounds like real estate agents trying to distance what they are selling from Housing Commission Flats. At least here in Victoria as a YouTube search will show numerous example of multi storey residences.
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  1154. A local replica of one though.
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  1155.  @panelvanman7671  of course. My first comment on this vid was how spooky that was.
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  1156. My Melbourne Woolworths chill the eggs but the Coles across the carpark does not. I go for the chilled ones and into the fridge at home.
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  1157.  @darthwiizius  Triumph three litre V8 only used in the Stag I believe. A few other V8s also under Leyland with the Daimler 2.5 litre V8 with hemispherical combustion chambers and a different larger 4.5 litre that may have been out of production. Then from 1973 the less known 4.4 litre version of the Buick/Rover that was used in the Australian Leyland P76. Many Stags in Australia had the problem Triumph V8 replaced by the 4.4 with a big upgrade in performance and reliability. Cheap Leyland surplus V8s were everywhere for a while.
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  1158. Some bad products too . Laughable that they thought there would be a big Australian demand for snow shovels and gun safes
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  1159. Last 500 mile race was 1972. Went to the longer 1000 km race in 1973 partly to give a full day racing as the 500 mile races were getting completed in too little time for fans and TV. As well as Australia moving to metric measures then.
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  1160. One car that won't appear in races but was very successful in Australia was the unique to Australia Ford Fairlane : https://youtu.be/BRKD_Zxh-7o And : https://youtu.be/33ZBiDWCc-Q Developed from the Falcon using the station wagon long wheelbase to a completely different looking car that even many owners thought were nothing to do with the Falcon.
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  1161. 351 optional like this one.
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  1162. From Wikipedia The first 200 Cobras produced were given the 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8, while the other 200 received the 4.9L 302 Cleveland ... the only exceptions to this being build number 001 is a 302ci (4.9 litre) V8 and build number 351 is a 351ci (5.8 litre) V8.
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  1163. Flats used widely much earlier in Australia. Search YouTube for Beautiful Bondi 1926 Around 14 minutes in the caption says A new building of ultra modern flats - Berkley Court - fronting the beach. Yes the term apartment just to distance new flats from public housing flats.
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  1164. The Victorian schools oath of allegiance from 1970 Australia : https://youtu.be/bOkza64AyaA The Broadmeadows Tech school principal arguing against it helped deliver the Broady Boys and the state of that suburb now.
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  1165.  @lukemanion2  Did not pay enough attention. Greg Rust commentating had me thinking it was really old.
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  1166. Although the Ute was a 50-2106. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.
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  1167. The 500 built criteria for racing seems high since only 300 XY GT HO cars were made.
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  1168. The Beatles were also huge in Australia. Some of the best early concert coverage of the Beatles was the Melbourne 1964 concert. https://youtu.be/eTEBjDZ3pyg Huge crowds and Studebakers Police cars as was common in Victoria then.
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  1169. All Hemi sixes by the time of the Australian Charger and the Valiant model before.
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  1170.  @johnwhear9600  you would have seen the 225 slant six in all seven year model Valiants prior to the VG release in March 1970 : https://youtu.be/4VtEaBsonb0 So slant six standard in the R, S , AP5, AP6, VC, VE and VF Valiants here. Although Valiant was the first of the big three cars to also have a V8 option. Or perhaps you saw the big American Dodge Chargers where the slant six was standard and gave them a lower priced car to advertise, but once in the showroom the salesman would have an easy job of upselling you to 318 to 440 V8 at extra cost. A few rare slant six US Dodge Chargers did make it to YouTube.
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  1171. Also the early 273 starting in 1965 was before the V8 Falcons and Holden's. Later 340 the rarest.
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  1172. Will only be around $16 US so less horrible.
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  1173. Larry Perkins and co driver Russell Ingles great achievement. Jack is Larry's son.
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  1174. Ian, This vid may be very instructive and Inspiron for you. This "Big Spider Attacks Daddy" vid from Australia has a super number of views but his pinned comments and links are very instructive but disappointing. https://youtu.be/bRV4d9LCawU His subscriber numbers and view numbers will blow you away.
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  1175. No one in the comments wanting shrimp, lamb or steak on the Barbie. Just like about 70% of food cooked on BBQs in Australia is sausages.
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  1176. Although with the current points scoring system he would have barrowly come second. Lucky for him his many poor races were discounted in the points system.
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  1177. Search for the Suzuki Mighty Boy sold here a while back.
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  1178. Ian. Some sixties Honda US colour ads for the 50cc Honda stepthrough and other Honda's : https://youtu.be/yy8IwKMmpIs Big impact on the motorcycle market even in the US.
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  1179. More detail on the Datsun Bluebird and how and why it was changed to try and win Bathurst outright : https://youtu.be/Shvb6BbAWUg From the Shannon's Club TV series of about 160 cars in Australia that had a racing and road impact. The presenters know their stuff and research to get things almost always right.
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  1180. Rick Springfield with an acoustic live version of his first solo hit in Australia before he went to the US to further his career : https://youtu.be/g1FXaTuUGqo
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  1181. G'day Ian. ABBA were huge in Australia. Worth listening to Bjorn about 45 seconds into this to hear how Australia rescued ABBA from obscurity : https://youtu.be/AkJ5RWZdT54 Plenty of vids around on how huge abba were in Australia.
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  1182. Yes I guessed the price since I watched the auction live on YouTube. Also pervious recent auctions they have gone for these million dollar prices. Cheaper for US buyers sort of. Ballpark take 25% off for US dollars. Whole auction available on YouTube for a while if you have a spare eleven hours ; https://youtu.be/d0BrfiBaK1U A few million plus Holden's too but some after the auction. Interesting how you had previously passed over the boxier XY GT HO not knowing how rare and desiresble the hoeys are here. Luck for us as some of the later coupes get bought by Americans and disappear but not any earlier cars I have seen.
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  1183. It was the article in a Sydney Sunday Newspaper about the 160mph supercars like the XA phase 4 that started the pressure that stopped the phase 4 , XU1 V8 and Charger 340 four speed from the big three Headline and dates can be seen here : https://youtu.be/si1dSF0VN4s A big shake up with government threats not to buy fleet cars if these race specials were sold to the public. Government fleet sales were the biggest market for the big three.
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  1184. Morris Mini Cooper S only won the 500 race outright in 1966. But took first nine places. First 500 race at Bathurst was 1963. Ford Cortina GT won and then again in 64 and the the GT 500 model in 1965. The only V8 models the Cooper S beat in 66 was the automatic V8 Valiants and Studebakers. Both let down by drum brakes. Studebakers also had weak wheels. In 1963 a VW 1200 beetle beat the mini 850 in class A for the cheapest cars.
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  1185. The Australian weather bureau, the BOM, stopped using Fahrenheit on 1 September 1972. So just a couple of years after the old Sun News Pictorial newspaper showing a forecast of 72F. The highest selling newspaper in Melbourne and Victoria and likely Australia. Still is, although merged with the evening Herald newspaper to become the Herald Sun in the nineties. No longer five cents but i think around three dollars when i last looked at how inflated newspaper prices have become.
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  1186. These are highlights of this car over the full five or six day event. How it is run and winners here in Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targa_Tasmania The record of Jim Richards in this is amazing. He was Peter Brock's co driver in the 79 Bathurst clip then for many years including winning in the Skyline R32.
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  1187.  @aussieguy3689  yes you are zoologically correct, but a big part of the public without your knowledge would just say they caught a really big yabbie.
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  1188. Yes this is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1189. Gold at 4:30. A old goldrush TV series song that helped me remember the start of the rush in 1851 : https://youtu.be/7CGAzD8B-NI A bit of exaggeration in the series based on the Cobb and Co stage coach company. This was set up by one of the large numbers of Americans who headed here once the 49er California Gold Rush petered out. Setup by Freeman Cobb. One of many Americans, some of whom knew the money to be made was in supplying the miners. Gradually displaced by railways, but the last outback stage coaches lasted until around 1920 in Queensland. The Freeman Cobb Concord coach design being better suited to Australian road conditions than the British designs in use here. A few more complete episodes on YouTube.
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  1190. The whiplash Bathurst episode : https://youtu.be/31ldylOOiVA
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  1191. XY gtho phase 3 was put on the market in 1971 just in time for Bathurst 71. Late production so competition did not have enough time to respond. A 2009 race for NC historic cars.
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  1192. The better the males are having a big range the easier it is for them to attract the female birds. Pretty strong incentive to be good at your art
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  1193. I wonder of lots of Australians have been spending time watching the AFL and NRL Grand Final series in recent weeks. Both watching and attending the game and game related activities. If the drop off in analytics is disproportionality Australian and maybe New Zealand , then this may be the case and just a short term effect.
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  1194. Thought Dunlop Aquajets SP were standard then . One of many tyres with the red wall option then.
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  1195. Almost certain the standard Dunlop Aquajets : https://youtu.be/yAFPHQ2T1qE
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  1196. Melbourne auctions commonly have a reserve higher than the top figure. Offering the top figure before auction will rarely buy you the house.
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  1197. Took a while to decide on Canberra and then build it.
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  1198. Ambulances in Victoria are now mainly Mercedes Benz Sprinter Vans. Forty or more years ago were mainly car based ambulances but moved with controversy to truck based Ford F100s and similar partly to cope with extra weight of equipment. Ambulance role over the years has changed to be more first responder medical treatment rather than the older fast transport to hospital only. An example of the first Mobile Intensive Care Ambulances or MICA : https://youtu.be/20otQ9G150M From Ambulance Victoria channel. Ambiances in Victoria over the years but dates sometimes way older than the cars, so inaccurate ; https://youtu.be/rD0JbUQWLOY Lots of types used but not in big numbers for all types. Near current ones and the crews ; https://youtu.be/vcKhxQbgJqE
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  1199. G'day Ian. To convert Kw to HP just add a third to it. 300 kW plus 100 = 400 HP near enough.
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  1200. Only true for some of the low volume Holden small cars. For the larger six and eight cylinder cars that were the bulk of Holden sales they just shared similar styling. From the US Detroit approved styling that was also lucrative for transfer pricing purposes. Very few parts, and especially panels and glass are interchangeable. Looking similar leads lots of people reaching incorrect conclusions about the mass market Holden's. Where Opel parts and engineering was used in some Holden's they were found to be too weak for Australian conditions. More suited to the throw away mentality to cars in Europe.
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  1201. The most remembered part of the 1963 Bathurst race. Neck and neck all day.
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  1202. Yes an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But not the newer boxy A40.
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  1203. @HalNordmann  I am aware of the New Zealand made , but with Skoda running gear, from the Hubnut video : https://youtu.be/YsY9WrTHkek?si=et0SISkXlOJHUfNB However that was more modern from the sixties and found no market in Australia. The early fifties Skoda cars were fully imported from CZ. I think from a time when Australian wool was very expensive due to the Korean war demand. Possible that the Czechs back then bought wool with a car delivery instead of cash. Even the Trekka had some of that bartering going on. Harder to find information on them, but early Skodas did get mentioned and shown competing in early fifties car rally from the Australian state of Tasmania. Hard to track down that rally film.
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  1204. How the US full sized Chevrolet car was viewed in Australia in the sixties https://youtu.be/Z1Hkvhklkv8 If you paid the premium price. So only a Small market share.
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  1205. In Victoria you have to have a four door car so the tester can sit in the back seat and your instructor in charge to an extent in the front passenger seat.
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  1206.  @BentConrod  just a messenger conveying what Moffatt thought and acted on. Might have also been before the dick Johnson unexpected success. Did Moffatt ever go with Falcon after the Mazda?
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  1207. G'day Ian. A land speed record was set at lake Eyre in 1964 by Donald Campbell in Bluebird : https://youtu.be/rqvpcX4HoCg Big news in Australia at the time. Soon surpassed by thrust driven cars. Even the   Bluebird wheel driven record soon beat by Goldenrod in 1965. Built by some California hot rodders building Goldenrod with four Chrysler Hemi production based engines and beat the Bluebird record for wheel driven cars. A shoestring budget, compared to Bluebird, in their backyard fruit shed beating all the resources Campbell put together. An amazing achievement by the Summers brother's setting a record for wheel driven cars unsupercharged that lasted from 1965 to 2011 and then just beaten by another 5 mph. The Summers brother's also had to deal with rain at Bonneville causing issues.
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  1208. NSW police I think as well as SA.
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  1209. A competitor to Shelby by Bill Thomas. First introduced around 1964 using a Chevrolet 327 against the Shelby Ford engines. Not much racing success
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  1210. By the time of these Cobras they got four wheel discs. Road cars and helped the racing ones of course.
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  1211. The upside down and convict distortion is not too funny even the first time hearing it. Need more imagination and understanding of what is really different and funny in Australia. Like you perhaps.
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  1212. An an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But not the newer boxy A40. A YouTube search will confirm.
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  1213. Nope. Aussie built 308. Check Wikipedia for Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback.
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  1214.  @norsehall309  came across comments from one that said it was a cheater motor, stroked out a bit, so maybe more than the allowed production 308.
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  1215. Mr Bean drove an ordinary Mini like the vast majority sold. Only one in ten thousand or so were the high performance Cooper or Cooper S versions.
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  1216. But all unofficial but helped Bill Thomas build them to a limited extent. Even the Chevrolet Corvette was not Given Chevrolet official racing sponsorship due to the GM ban on racing in the era
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  1217. RB30 was the road car standard motor. V8 optional and used in all these Bathurst racing Commodores.
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  1218. Video of high rise flats in the news in 1988 in Melbourne https://youtu.be/ZBN8_hylLW4 Also reflects why the term apartment is used to have people forget these aspects of flats.
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  1219. G'day Ian. Very good scores by you. I expect lots of Australians would score worse than you on the Australian questions. My guess about 30% would do worse. Some questions very odd like Facey which I have never heard or seen. Only Bert Facey and his Australian classic book My Fortunate Life. A really sad but uplifting story. Searching for Facey on YouTube here only brings up A B ( Bert ) Facey and his amazing story : https://youtu.be/yRlnDa65NU4 Well worth a look for everyone in Australia too.
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  1220. Yes and every years Bathurst has great stuff, especially the early years when there were more makes running of cars you could buy on Monday.
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  1221. Early sixties Octavia cars were sold in Australia for a few years then the rear engined ones in the seventies. Was it the 100MB or similar?
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  1222. Problem is that politicians and a high proportion of swinging voters like to imagine that there are notional financial benefits of Olympic Games that exceed the huge costs. Most countries, looking rigorously St the track record of previous Olympic Games, have given up wanting to fund them. An even worse case is the Commonwealth Games. Only the politicians running Victoria into the ground and their echo chamber want them.
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  1223.  @MickH60  and even the De Soto's and Fargo trucks sold in Australia up to the mid fifties.
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  1224. Beach Inspector conference in 1967 where they were moving with the times a bit : https://youtu.be/kkKkG3tcrOA Another excuse for the ABC to get bikinis on TV.
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  1225. Think of it as another barrier to stupid thieves that stop the stealing manual cars that they have no idea about how to drive them.
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  1226. G'day Ian. You are familiar with car auctions, but in Melbourne a big proportion of houses are sold at auction. Surprised that a YouTube channel devoted to it : https://youtu.be/h1gUeNMenyk Being a recent one. Usually the more expensive houses in long established areas.
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  1227. It would be better if these lists were ranked by the volume produced over the last ten years with some cutoff level. Some trivial production makes listed.
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  1228. Not always like this newer Malloo there : https://youtu.be/hjTOEX-qJB8
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  1229. Automatic licence conditions from VicRoads for Victoria copied just now : "If you pass your probationary drive test in a vehicle with an automatic transmission, you can only drive vehicles with an automatic transmission during your probationary period. This condition is displayed as an ‘A’ condition on the driver licence card. At the end of your probationary period, you can drive vehicles with a manual transmission without having to do another driving test provided the condition is not required due to a medical condition or impairment. If you are required to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission due to a specific medical condition, the condition will apply regardless of whether you are a probationary driver or not. This condition will be displayed as a ‘V’ condition on your driver licence and/or learner permit card. Removing the A - Automatic transmission condition If you have a probationary licence with an ‘A’ automatic transmission condition, the only way you can have this condition removed is to pass the drive test in a vehicle with a manual transmission. When you have passed the drive test and paid the licence variation fee you will be issued with a replacement driver licence card that has the ‘A’ automatic condition removed." So in Victoria the restriction to Automatic restriction only just applies for the few years of the probationary period. I got my licence in an Automatic, but do not see any restrictions on my licence many years later and do not recall it when I first got my licence.
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  1230. A big change from previous years in Australia when cars did the towing work in by far most cases
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  1231. Well before the Mini Cooper, Cooper cars revolutionised racing cars by developing mid rear engined racing cars from the late forties. After they won the world championship in 1959 and 1960 with Jack Brabham driving every other maker dropped the front engined F1 cars. Even in the US Indianapolis race the amazing performance of the under engined Cooper car soon had the Indy cars drop the front engined cars. The Mini Cooper was just a simple high profit conversion of the Mini using F3 engine parts and experience. Well established in F1 by the time of the Mini Cooper cars.
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  1232. Link to the Original vid provided in the description.
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  1233. If your talking about 6:38 what the little car is. Seen again spun round at 9:24. It is a British Ford Anglia that was sold here in the early sixties as Ford's cheapest economy car. More detail from this vid including how the Anglia was successful in motorsport including later in it how they were modified extensively with a range of engines for Sports Sedan racing ; https://youtu.be/JjOkmu4xwiY
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  1234. Lismore NSW floods seem even worse to me. Deaths recorded in people unable to get out of their homes - https://youtu.be/95tHmvK3Noc
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  1235. Should be and option on the TV screen to skip the ad after a minute or two. Mine does.
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  1236.  @M.J.80  the good news is that the longer the ads are played that means more income for Ian. YouTube views and so ads being his main income. Other channels have pointed out the ads do have some benefits for the channel and not just all going to YouTube. The long ones I come across are for gold and the Clive Palmer financed political ones
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  1237. Flats used widely much earlier in Australia. Search YouTube for Beautiful Bondi 1926 Around 14 minutes in the caption says A new building of ultra modern flats - Berkley Court - fronting the beach. Yes the term apartment just to distance new flats from public housing flats and their problems.
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  1238.  @IWrocker  Went for $13,100 US. So can we expect to see a "I bought a surprise car" vid?
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  1239. I understand from traffic engineers that all Victorian intersection traffic lights have at least a one second all red phase to help with all red light running incidents.
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  1240. Just out from Shannons on the Holden Ute Story (with a few early model confusion errors) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlF_fI6g5F4 The time around Nurburgring is only bettered by high performance sedans and sports cars.
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  1241. At 1:38 , I though you were going to break into song song this ; https://youtu.be/j8WWUWVeIv8 If you could master that you are better than 98% of Australians at handling words and accents. Apart from the song getting Geelong and Wangaratta wrong.
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  1242. Muscle cars usually based on affordable mass produced cars. The 383 and 440 Jensen Interceptor and FF were not that. Neither were the numerous Italian GT cars using the simplicity of a US or even Australian V8.
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  1243. G'day Ian. Glad you found Blendline TV. Lots of grassroots Motorsports that deserves a wider audience.
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  1244. San Francisco in 1906 driving on the right but nearly all cars steering wheels on the right as well : https://youtu.be/sHkc83XA2dY A little known aspect of early US cars.
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  1245. I am not much of a Cricket fan , but the top ten balls bowled by Shane Warne even impress me. : https://youtu.be/Qs2Pw952rcI Problem is you would need to watch years of dull cricket to see these highlights.
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  1246. Other languages spoken due to high migration into Australia from other parts of the non English speaking world. English speaking requirement not always needed for entry. A few pockets here you may feel like you are in another country when foreign signage and language dominate.
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  1247. The record setting 1967 concert at 1:01 with the almost everyone there to see the Seekers at the peak of there career after returning from England : https://youtu.be/wsIbfYEizLk The images from planes and helicopters were before the crowds built up even more, so the noise would not interrupt the concert. Some say 500,000 in a city of 2 million then. Audio of near the full concert : https://youtu.be/2DMFt8cYeTk As broadcast on radio. You can hear people getting restless waiting for the seekers.
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  1248. Lloyds YouTube live auction for one of these now on : https://youtu.be/d0BrfiBaK1U Like Mecum. Lloyds have the high end cars in about three or four hours. High end like Falcon XY GT HO. Others will surprise. Hope you can catch the live stream. Not sure they save it for long afterwards.
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  1249.  @flamingfrancis  Moffat always referred to it as the Coca Cola Mustang. His major sponsor to help with the huge running costs , also BP and Goodyear. But they did not purchase it for him. I think at the time nobody could buy a Kar Kraft Mustang. As I understand they were all built only to the order of Ford Motor Company who decided if you were worthy enough to get one supplied. Don't think he had Coca Cola on his GTHO.
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  1250. Gday Ian .Lots of comments here about all Holdens being Opels. Sometimes true for the rebadged small cars in the Holden range. But usually just same US Detroit head office approved and influencef styling. For most of the larger cars very few parts, and especially panels and glass are interchangeable. Looking similar leads lots of people reaching incorrect conclusions about the mass market Holden's. Where Opel parts and engineering was used in some Holden's they were found to be too weak for Australian conditions. More suited to the throw away mentality to cars in Europe. Helped by salted roads and rust and wanting the image of a new car for status.
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  1251. There is population increase from births exceeding deaths as far back as I can track, but for many years that is swamped by much larger net immigration. Checking the ABS statistics on line will give the actual numbers.
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  1252. Another Holden built Chevrolet ute from 1952, well before the first El Camino : https://youtu.be/I9yWLUBYeg4 Another one snapped up by a US collectors originally from Australia. Holden built Chevrolet utes from about 1935 to this last version in 1952. Holden cheapest utes then in full production and the Holden built Chevrolets concentrated on more luxurious and expensive sedans in limited numbers.
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  1253. Healy 3000 was a 2.9 litre six and not a V8 though.
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  1254. The feral deer problem is being talked about on the radio as a problem that may spread foot and mouth disease that is ravaging Bali now and may spread to Australia. If it does it will have a hundreds of billions dollar impact on agriculture here. In the early seventies California shot 20,000 white tail deer to successfully control a foot an mouth disease outbreak. We may take action here after it is too late.
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  1255. If it's a pre 911 old four cylinder motor then yes. If you can find and afford one. Simpler to upgrade a VW.
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  1256. Nope. Do some more research. Wikipedia perhaps to start.
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  1257. The Lous Cortina not eligible for the 1966 race, Not an Australian assembled car sold in sufficient numbers here to qualify as a series production car. Anyone can paint a car how they like and often did.
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  1258. Pretty sure he took out Australian citizenship at some stage early on.
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  1259. G'day Ian. , Surprised you did not know about the van at 3:45. It is a US Chevrolet Greenbrier Corvan or the delivery van version. Never sold new in Australia but imported in the past few decades to have something unusual in Australia. Rear engine air cooled flat six cylinder van version of the Corvair : https://youtu.be/TlKFyaBfkRc Saw a ute version in Melbourne a few months back. First I ever saw on the road here.
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  1260.  @IWrocker  on the same channel is his $7000 police auction Chev/Holden Caprice PPV : https://youtu.be/bIQmJneLmvc
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  1261. Quoting from the net for Australian schools in Victoria at least until well into the sixties there was the Oath of Allegiance : If you are of a certain age and attended a primary school in Victoria, then you will remember saying this every Monday morning, come hail or shine, standing out in the quadrangle under the Australian flag. We stood to attention with our right hand over our heart as the flag was hoisted up the pole and we chanted in the sing-song fashion of children. I love God and my country, I will honour the flag, I will serve the Queen and cheerfully obey my parents, teachers and the law. It was evidently called the Patriotic Declaration and has since disappeared into history. These days you will get woke groups arguing against every point in the move to the chaos they prefer
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  1262. Ian has several vids on the Thunderdome races. Worth looking at.
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  1263. The V,8 ute series with Commodores and Falcons was where the popularity built up. When they changed to a four cylinder diesel series, people lost interest. Do they even race the four cylinder light trucks any more?
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  1264. Story here by owner https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  1265. Good vid, but it missed out on the Kookaburras amazing laughing call. Unique and worth finding. Here is one variation : https://youtu.be/TqdRQxgtZtI And text explaining why : https://youtu.be/UXA0-YAoo9Q
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  1266. This was not downball at my old school high school with buildings over a hundred years old. Our Downball was more based in this guy practicing for school : https://youtu.be/ndD62qoCiF8: But at my high school all the building s had an extra foot or two of brickwork with beveled edges. The bevelled edge was important as having the ball below the edge and you were out. Any number could play until all the losers were eliminated. The favoured courts had bricked up old windows and ledges that gave lots of unpredictable rebounds to make things harder. Mix up the power shots with a gentle return to get opponents out of position for a return. Even some of the teachers got involved at lunchtime. Did not need any stinking court lines marked out in true Downball. Not a primary school game like the one shown in your vid that seems to have caught on and pinched the name of our true Downball. Yours looks like four square for little kids
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  1267. F1 likely using refinements of the pioneering Australian channel 7 race cam system of 1979 for the Bathurst 1000 coverage. Refined and documented a few years later in this vid : https://youtu.be/eeEnSK8mRQ8 Lots of similarities even the pedal cam a few years later. In race driver interviews still not attempted elsewhere.
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  1268. The 500 built criteria for racing seems high since only 300 XY GT HO cars were made according to most comments here and in Wikipedia.
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  1269. Victorian 1851 Gold Rush attracted more Americans.
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  1270. He never raced a Holden I think.
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  1271. G'day Ian. As a Jeep guy, how do you feel the current Chrysler/Stellantis upheavals will turn out? Some reports on YouTube saying the whole Chrysler/ Dodge/Ram/Jeep brands may soon be defunct arising from their financial and continuing sales decline position. Sound very grim.
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  1272. You can if you put it through crash testing and emissions testing etc. Limits imports to companies big enough to finance that. Pretty much the same in Australia unless it meets stricter overseas standards.
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  1273. Canada still play cricket to an extent. Canada doing well against the West Indies in 2003 : https://youtu.be/XpyxU91JKZE
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  1274. G'day Ian. Uluru transformed into a series of water falls in the past few days : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKdXMjYJwLw Very rare event from very rare heavy rainfall that is also cutting many major roads and railways. Resulting in shortages in many supermarkets in Alice Springs and other isolated places. Inland towns very defendant on just one or two roads or railways. Some coverage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5X_IS6r8_g
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  1275. And those injured vandalizing trains but fell off in motion. Astonishing how some have nothing to do with car use
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  1276. Notice there is no lamb on the Barbie nor any shrimps. Sausages really dominate Aussie barbecues.
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  1277. The A9X mods were mainly to remove the fragility of the earlier cars. Very successful at doing that.
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  1278. Just looked up RAM sales in Australia for 2021. Sold 3819 in a market of 1,050,000 vehicles sold. So 0,36% of new cars. Placed 68 , so 67 other make and models outsold it. But the Mustang only got to 91., No Chevrolet Corvette or Silverado in the top 100. Big growth in the Chinese made MG that got to number 10 after being unheard of a few years ago. Toyota Hilux number one then Ford Ranger not too far behind. Chrysler 300C off the market I think. Might be interesting for you to search for the top 100 cars sold in Australia for 2021.
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  1279. Many people I know from work, friends and family play baseball. But hardly anyone would watch a baseball game. It is more a participatory sport. Next to no TV coverage except on obscure digital channels at say world series finals times. Few even watch these.
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  1280. The convict era was only a tiny part of Australian population growth. No convicts sent to South Australia and only a handful to Victoria for a few months unsuccessfully. Tasmania lots though initially. So even the cell block joke is wrong. Biggest boost to Australian population was after 1851 start of the gold rushes and the prosperity that bought. Melbourne for a decade or so the highest per capita income in the world from the flow on of gold.
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  1281. Yes Hey Charger. Ian covered it ten months ago : https://youtu.be/2eRyDdcq0Q8
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  1282. And Arnott's was unknown in Victoria until the mid sixties when it started taking over so many Victorian independent biscuit companies and losing recipes and knowledge of how to make many popular Victorian biscuits.
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  1283.  @keithkearns93  amazing I found in YouTube some vids on Brockhoff. One of the major Victorian biscuit companies. Looks like magazine ad with a radio ad music over the top. https://youtu.be/BeUrnGIDkvU Lots more on his channel. Some of them now in the Arnott's range. Looks like the Shapes type was developed from Brockhoff.
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  1284. A few Americans like Robby Gordon have tried multiple times to win the Dakar but usually broke the trucks. Although noisy they did not have the advantage that expected : https://youtu.be/QvGDxS9W51A
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  1285. Brock and Moffat have driven in the Le Man's ,24 hour race. As did many of our V8 drivers. Larry Perkins was the most successful. Let Mans 66 co winner with Bruce McLarrn , Deny Hulme also drove at Bathurst. His last race due to heart attack. From NZ.
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  1286. Last Valiants here in 1981. Then Mitsubishi fully took over the plant.
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  1287. By 1965 all the production Cooper S racing were 1275 cc. As was the winners of the first nine places of Bathurst 1966. Relaxed rules in recent years have many taken out to 1410 cc or maybe more.
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  1288. Only late era Vauxhall cars had the problem of Opel influencing them.
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  1289. Eucalyptus drops should not be used as candy, especially for kids. Try them first, usually for blocked up nasal passages if it is the ones I am used to.
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  1290. A theory a while back was that Australian talk evolved to not open your mouth too widely in case flies got in. Theory was why some pronunciation and slang is more widespread in rural areas but caught on here.
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  1291. Donut van an institution at the Queen Victoria market in Melbourne since 1950 : https://youtu.be/GcNTX9wjBSI But the Melbourne preference for non holed hot jam filled Donuts although marketed as American and exotic. Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  1292. Some really early VW Beetles had an 1100 engine. Split oval rear window. Cable brakes and crank handle to start them. Not sure if they had the electric starter as well as the crank handle option. Did yours have the wheel accelerator instead of the flat pedal. Oval rear window or split oval?
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  1293. A new unintended damaging downside of drone use cropped up in the news the other week. A likely bird interested drone pilot flew a drone over the nesting site of endangered birds that fly thousands of miles to Australia to nest avoiding Northern winters. The birds decided that their likely millenniums old nest site was not safe from this new noisy predatory drone bird and so flew away abandoning their eggs. We hope that this is just a temporary glitch but we are not too sure of the damage done to the next generation of birds.
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  1294. Jam Doughnuts at Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  1295. Air con also just called Air.
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  1296. MG garbage petrol cars still selling in Australia and elsewhere as well as the dearer electric cars. A few buyers still think of them as a British make, as was the Chinese plan in buying the name.
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  1297. A much longer tribute to John Clarke and his life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=539bkrv7g2k Not exactly reaction material but recommended to anyone who has not seen it and can appreciate the work of John Clarke. A useful insight in the New Zealand and Australian view of life for many.
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  1298. The Cameron Tilley blue car started racing with a 225 slant six like this 1969 model originally came with but later the rules allowed him to use the much more powerful 265 Hemi in line non slant six as used in the 1972 E49 Charger. Likely fitted in this race. Later he changed to a V8 for more power at less expense.
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  1299. Although a Shelby Daytona locally built replica of the original car designed by the American Peter Brock around ,64.
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  1300.  @stephanweinberger  the rail wheels should also provide the track detection connection circuit that is used for level crossing train detection. Just needs the rail wheels to be clean enough not to be electrically insulated from the rails.
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  1301. Wheat silo art trail may interest too : https://youtu.be/_pRYuiw1AXI
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  1302.  @dylanzrim3635  even in the eighties my Mother tried to pay a parking fine with her saved up 50 cent pieces but got rejected by council guy quoting some law even then. So even ,50 cents. Not sure about gold coins.
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  1303. The BMC Mini Cooper cars. Once Leyland took over they dumped John Coopers input and named cars for years.
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  1304. There is also the famous US racing involved Pete Brock. He designed the famous Cobra Daytona streamlined faster version of the Cobra. Our Peter Brock died in a modern replica of a Cobra Daytona, you could say they body designed by the US Peter Brock. Spooky or what?
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  1305. But without the Lotus twin overhead cam engine Ours just had the pushrod four slightly worked.
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  1306. Fairlane is the same width as a Falcon using lots of tricks to make it look bigger. No Fairlane station wagon here.
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  1307. A London car meet with Chargers and a lot of Holden's and a few Ford's including a very good Mad Max replica : https://youtu.be/QejJj43MGBw Although he lives in Wales he imported the Falcon/Fairmont that he drove around New Zealand since he liked it so much. Lots of Australian and New Zealand cars from his visit in 2019 to early 2020. Deserves some help to get him over the magic 100k subscribers. Hubnut has been just under for a while now..
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  1308. Ford here was hoping to replace the Falcon in the nineties with the joke Taurus cars they imported. Got burned by that idea here
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  1309. From the VE model then a few more, but not all.
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  1310. I had some steak sandwiches recently made with the most expensive eye fillet steak thinly sliced by the butcher. Fantastic to eat and worked out cheaper than any Hamburger chain hamburger offerings.
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  1311. The 142 mph of the XY GT HO phase 3 caused some safety concerns from government. The 160 mph showroom cars planned to be built for 1973 was the big upheaval. The government purchase and legislation threats came in 1973 with news reports of the XA GT HO phase 4, Torana GTR xu2 V,8 and Charger 340 V8 four speed all being described in a front page newspaper report as 160 mph off the Showroom floor. So much of a scare that all these race models did not happen and the race rules started being changed to allow more race modifications compared to showroom cars. The start of non showroom cars in 1973 leading to today's plastic body tube frame cars.
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  1312. You wanting to learn more about car based utes. One I could find easily is the 1949 Ford Mainline I think based on the Ford custom assembled here. Although we called them Single Spinners. https://youtu.be/RKFKtKIKoqI Harder to find YouTube of the pre war ones , but Ford , Chevrolet, Dodge and many others had the local factories design and press new body panels to cope with the real boom in ute sales pre war. Usually had a convertible option too. All well before the Ranchero and El Camino.
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  1313. The most popular American food in Melbourne are the Queen Vic Market American Doughnuts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63NUKyINUCE Although the recipe might be from Berlin r similar.
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  1314. Might have been the Ford Sundowner. Not many on YouTube but this XD claims to be one : https://youtu.be/IEXOKLtYcOg Not sure if it is genuine. Escort version looks the real deal : https://youtu.be/nedG3_RUHAs
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  1315. Burke and Wills 1860 fatal expedition doco : https://youtu.be/80uFcbZalf0
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  1316. No DFVs from Cosworth in this 1962 film. Five years later introduction in 1967 but still beaten in the championship by the Australian Repco Brabham V8.
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  1317. Goon less used than goonbag.
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  1318. 16:19 gotta be a 59 or 60 Cadillac imported much later.
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  1319. Here is where Ian covered this car doing demo laps with a cameraman riding in the car. https://youtu.be/TdWbjk3gOqk A few days before Alan Moffat won the race in car like this and very near showroom condition. Well at least compared to later years and now.
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  1320. Yes an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35.
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  1321. Just being discussed on radio now is that only 7% of licence tests are taken in a manual. In Victoria over the last year.
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  1322. A lots before the Mainline like this 48 Ford ute and references to the panel van version and earlier ones : https://youtu.be/O-G-c20TUYs
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  1323. I think Mercury Merkur in the US. A big failure as per recent vid on Merkur.
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  1324. Same double line rule in Victoria : U turns You are not allowed to make a U turn on a road if there is: a single continuous line down the centre of the road double continuous lines down the centre of the road a 'No right hand turn' sign a ‘no U-turn’ sign. You are allowed to make a U turn: on other roads at intersections with traffic lights unless there is ‘no U-turn’ sign. When making a U-turn you must give way to all other vehicles and pedestrians. Surprised that WA would allow it given the danger of it.
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  1325. Good luck to him. Pity it is only on Stan TV.
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  1326.  @piglos Well done to the team. Like to see someone not powered by big money do well. I was tossing that trial option up. Hope you can cancel it without them forever drawing down on your account.
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  1327. Pineapple common in Melbourne. Never heard Lobster.
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  1328. Lol, he came from Canada.
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  1329. There are links in the latest comments to both the original Shannon's parts. And to part 2 by me last night.
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  1330. Ian doing part 2 soon.
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  1331. Yes then use a recent exchange rate for A$ to US $. Higher price here is almost all higher fuel tax. Our octane rating system is different too.
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  1332. Both Grice and Johnson ran in US NASCAR races around the same time. A comment at the time was in NASCAR you need a lot of friends on and off the racetrack.
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  1333. Just replaced my Victorian licence from ten years ago.
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  1334. Toyota having a bet each way calling the sixties Hi Lux a utility truck about 16:30 into this vintage Theiss Toyota film from the sixties : https://youtu.be/Xes3_-HWKF4
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  1335. Part of the explosive reason that 5:01 was empty back to the 1870s, then similar uses until recently : https://youtu.be/tmOC5TrcYtI Now hungry developers and local government want it redeveloped for housing.
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  1336. BMW and VW in Victoria. Not seen a Stinger. Must vary from state to state.
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  1337. Started in 1851 just after Victoria was safely separated from NSW as a state in its own right. Discoveries kept quiet until then.
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  1338. Because if the huge area of the Australian Alps.
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  1339. Another journey that needs a car ferry is driving from mainland Australian states to Tasmania: https://youtu.be/REpXK2ZmHoA?si=_G0_iDOWuWmR1CpG Fortunate they had a lovely calm weather crossing. Also the ferry now leaves from Geelong as the privatised Melbourne port fees were increased too much and the local council and Victorian government are so anti car making things difficult.
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  1340. His memorial function from the Melbourne Cricket Ground , as discussed and linked here in the comments over the past day, had and estimated one Billion viewers around the world. Huge interest in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as the UK and New Zealand. Broadcast live and uninterrupted on just about every free to air TV network in Australia last night.
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  1341. South Africa too , as in this source : https://youtu.be/rmcd_G_ydj0
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  1342. A great report but you might want to edit the date to 1970.
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  1343. He does like Australian Rules football and so has done three AFL videos. His first Australian videos. Might be disappointed with English rugby derived games claiming to be Australian and just a NSW and Queensland thing.
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  1344.  @williamduval5976  sounds like you are not educated about Australian history and the indigenous Marngrook game that heavily influenced Tom Wills. Not many NRL reactions compared to Australian Rules football and when they are posted get less views. Not much interest in playing it in rugby countries either.
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  1345. A recent vid of a Holden Monaro GTS in California. https://youtu.be/wunD51X7DvY Had the front replaced with Statesman nose. To be original it should have a front like the yellow four door Monaro GTS in your vid. Surprising how in some US car meets people stop looking at Ferraris and crowd around a Holden sometimes. And a ute too. https://youtu.be/YNsM2dfU6sM
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  1346. Mini Cooper S win and places one to nine was only in 1966 the year before the first Falcon GT was made. They did beat the V8 drum braked Valiants and Studebakers that were faster on Conrod and Mountain straights. The Mini Cooper S never won outright again at the Bathurst 500 or 1000.
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  1347. I understand all the Chrysler V8 engines were imported from the late fifties Chrysler Royal V8s then the local Dodge Phoenix to the 273 V8 fitted to the smaller Valiant body. The first Australian made V8 looks to be the Ford Customline of 1953 with 85% local content and Australian cast engine unlike the imported later Chrysler V8 . As per Shannon's history I watched a few hours ago : https://youtu.be/c_lcGAn43cs
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  1348.  @davidcruse6589  as I said all V8 engines by Chrysler were imported. Just installed in local Valiants. The 1952 Ford's were built in Geelong including the local V8 engine, not being imported. And thirteen years before the Valiants importing the V8 engine. Quoting Shannon's : The V8 engine fitted to the AP6 and VC Valiant V8 was fully imported and reflected the latest developments launched in the US in 1964.
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  1349. Prickly Pear much earlier than WW2. You might find Ian's reaction to that story a while back interesting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBa1TxDFpN8
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  1350. We don't put a R in Mazda also.
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  1351. So was the engined changed? This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1352.  @-sandman4605  the E49 was the later different looking two door Charger from 1971 or 72.
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  1353.  @-sandman4605  Surprised that the fat body E49 Pacer existed. All the racing was in the E38 then E49 Charger two door from 1971. Some websites are sloppy captioning photos trying to cover lots of model years in one article. However this one racing is a 1969 VF slant six 225 not a hemi. As per Shannon's vid.
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  1354.  @-sandman4605  searching YouTube for E49 Pacer will show mainly the Charger version or some older cars with an engine transplant. E49 Pacer are too rare and unwanted.
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  1355. No. Targa West near Perth.
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  1356. Although the owner of this one has a MOPAR sticker on the dash. MOPAR a term used by those who actually own the cars.
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  1357. Are the old designs even built to Mercedes standard.
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  1358. Although the Utes were a 50-2106 code. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.
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  1359. Vipers in Australia. Maybe 100 according to this local owner : https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE Lots of knowledgeable people here saying none since it is so rare to see them on the road. Lots of Viper stuff on his channel like the US$35,000 conversion to right hand drive cost.
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  1360. If you want to drive a Commodore in the US seek out a Chevrolet SS or Pontiac G8 or GTO from the last twenty years. We were hoping for more US sales to keep Holden in production, but no such luck.
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  1361. Search online for : Bill Mitchell EH Holden To find out what a disaster the proposed original EJ, EH and EF local designs were. Caused a huge shakeup from US GM head office head stylist Bill Mitchell and US staff taking over so he design appearsnce to make the good looking designs we know as the EJ, EH and HD Holden. Then further impacts on Holden designs A little known story kept quiet until recently.
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  1362. ​Usually around 4PM Saturday, so about 6 hours from this comment.
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  1363. ​ @IWrocker Shootout 5:05 pm I now see on the TV coverage I see So four hours from this comment.
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  1364. Marty the Monster vs Kangaroo is worth a look. https://youtu.be/SYaIDupJXcs Did not learn the lessen so I was surprised to see another version too https://youtu.be/JUz93v_s18A
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  1365. New notes just in time for a rapid shift to cards and Tap and Go phone payments.
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  1366. Not just US, no one other than shops have that many. Thanks for the Kg conversion.
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  1367. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1368. Charger a great dark horse car but first ran in 1971. Later 302hp out of a 265 cui six. In the 1970 race a Valiant Pacer with just the 2 barrel carb came fourth and fifth beating all but the third place getting Holden Torana XU-1 cars. No Chargers then. All more compact and nothing in common with US Chargers.
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  1369. The scripts were nearly written by politicians and others in the news that week. John Clarke just expanded on some of the stupidity of those in the news during the week. The scary part is that a large section of the public support much of the stupidity by supporting their companies and or voting for them.
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  1370. G'day Ian. Well done how well this is going for you. I expect a whole new group of viewers too from the look. Knowledge and quality of the responses
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  1371. First on TV as a team on 9. Then to the 7:30 Report after they were stupidly sacked from A Current Affair on Channel 9 when Jana Wendt left 9 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=539bkrv7g2k&t=890s
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  1372. Also starring Sean Connery, who later had a bit of success playing James Bond.
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  1373. Trick or treat only gradually catching on here in the last forty years. Supermarkets etc encourage it to sell more stuff. I have moved to a new house a few years ago so did not want to be labelled a Grouch, so not wanting kids with too many unhealthy lollies played a trick instead. Hard to disappoint real little kids, certainly not going to use the C word approach or anything too aggressive. When the kids knocked at the door I offered them a plate of nice washed baby carrots. Helps clean their teeth and a bit nutritious. I was surprised that they really liked the carrots as did their parents. Either very polite or health concious kids in my new area so either way worked out well. A trick and a treat at the same time. The surprising defenders of Halloween here are people of Scottish ancestry where it came from.
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  1374. G'day Ian. Like to see one of these drifting ? In the thirties at least, as part of the bus drivers training , older buses similar to this one would be used in drifting or skid training. Caught on newsreel film : https://youtu.be/gP_hG65skG0?si=UY8VvhWUexDx7Umk Including a few confident people on the top deck. I think this training to control skids continued into the eighties. There was a video on YouTube of the depot open day where you could travel in a bus on the skin pan as a passenger. Seventies or Eighties.
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  1375. A lot of extra work needed to engineer out the Opel weaknesses and cope with Australian roads. Not entirely successful as the Commodore was the start of Holden's decline from earlier massive market dominance.
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  1376. In Australia, Sydney had the most use of double deck buses. I think phased out around the mid to late seventies. When the Melbourne, Bourke street cable tram line was closed in 1940 that tram route heading north was replaced by double decker buses. That was until 1955 when it was converted to electric trams. None of these Australian buses were as nice as the Routemaster buses. In Melbourne some double deck buses have been recently introduced for the unsubsidised Skybus airport route and an outer suburban rail feeder route. Might have been more than too, like the Hobart double deck ancient trams. Went around 1960.
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  1377. F1 are very strict and will block any non authorised coverage. So covering it with any footage could result in a lot of wasted effort.
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  1378. The US did have sedan delivery cars at least as early as the fifties. Two door station wagons without glass and rear seats. For commercial work like our panel vans were until about the seventies boom. A 1950 Chevrolet version : https://youtu.be/5S4HeNOekTQ Lots more in the US but not called panel vans.
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  1379. Re the $2795 base price. And that price was for the base model. 215 smallest six. Dog dish hubcat steel wheels. Likely three speed column change, rubber mats and vinyl seats. No radio. Drum brakes, and a waiting list to get one. But once that price got you in the showroom the salesman could show you several much nicer higher spec ones on the floor for a much higher cost but immediate delivery.. Bait pricing still happens today.
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  1380. Still lots of fish and Chip shops in Victoria. Has been for about a hundred years or more like the UK. Proper chips not French fries.
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  1381. Australian made Ford Zephyr ute made before Ford here saw the pre production Falcon and decided to make that the Australian volume production model : https://youtu.be/klyOgbyAOhE English Zephyr collectors wanted it more than the local owner.
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  1382. Hard to know which ones actually got to air.
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  1383. All V8 cars for nearly thirty years. Removal of V8 word was expecting a change in the future that still has not happened. Kia Stinger interest never got off the ground for example. Nor other makes. Next year gen 3 Camaro vs Mustang but both still V8.
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  1384. Typo? Biggest six was a 202. V8 was a 308.
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  1385. As others have said the ones with the V6 Buick based 3800 may be the best for value and US parts availability. The Car Wizard could not talk more highly of it : https://youtu.be/rK9Y-a1-6JU Of that age there is likely ten times more six cylinder utes than the ones with the Australian design V8 which parts are getting harder to find even in Australia. If you find you need more power then supercharge it or swap for your local LS V8. Gobsmacked how cheap to register a car in the US. Although ours includes medical insurance some of which goes to uninsured cyclists smashing into the back of parked cars and trees and even ratbag vandals riding in the top of trains to show off.
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  1386. Not safe to run high downforce open wheel cars etc on high banked, high speed ovals. Reason being the G forces on the driver from cornering can cause the driver to pass out from the blood rushing away from the brain with the G forces involved for long duration corners. I think the Indycar series found this out a few years ago and had to stop racing at certain high speed ovals. Indy course less of an issue with tighter turns and less length.
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  1387. For many years, a hundred or so, multiple storey housing were just flats in Australia. Often government provided for those in need. US often called the Projects. In the last twenty years or so the word apartment was increasingly used to distance multi storey housing from welfare housing connotations.
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  1388. A 2CV made it into several movie star roles such as this one from the landmark American Graffiti film : https://youtu.be/YXEg2883VHc One of just three non US vehicles in the film.
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  1389. G'day Ian. I thought that train was the BHP iron Ore world record train from 2001, but i now see that was 7.353 km long and not the 4.5 km one you have shown. (Oops got confused when you quoted the British imperial mile units). The vid of the record setting train of so close to 100,000 tonne : https://youtu.be/Tz4djk6UaE0?si=P20OnK3f6oLQEXTg Might be the older colour scheme of the one you had shown, but there are several iron ore railways in the area. Despite the less knowledgeable previous comments that road trains do the work in the outback, when it comes to a significant task like iron ore, those companies build there own railways to perform the task. Each of those ore cars in the train is carrying about $10,000 worth of iron ore. Next add that up for the whole train, then the daily totals for the trains they run.
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  1390. Lots more top notch and rare panel vans at the 2015 Nationals at Bathurst : https://youtu.be/aCGhLGiBPv8
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  1391. Taken over by Mitsubishi. I thought the last Valiants were in 1982. I now see that Valiant production ended in August 1981 with production of the last CM model reaching just 16,005 units out of 565,338 units of all models.
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  1392. And this film was even better being early 70mm filming
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  1393. John Cooper died in 2000. Cooper ran a Maserati 3 litre V12 engine in 1966 and came second in the championship. More powerful than the championship winning Repco Brabham V8 but too heavy an unreliable. Concentrated later on the simple money stream from the Mini Cooper. Jack Brabham won the championship for them in 59 and 60 and drove the Indy car that impressed everyone. Jack also had major input into the Cooper designs for 1960 and the hands on approach of Cooper helped him start his own racing car company. Similar story with Bruce McLaren working for Cooper's.
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  1394. Same answer for me as a Victorian although sneakers a sixties American TV term not widely used unless heavily US influenced.
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  1395. Not as well known overseas as the Grand Prix corporation would have you believe.
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  1396. Peter Brock had his last crash at the WA copy Targa West near Perth.
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  1397. Funny how we think the Red Back is unique since less of us know about the Black Widow Spider.
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  1398. Phillip island Australian Grand prix in the twenties used closed public roads not at the much later circuit. Much earlier In 1905, James Robert Crooke built the world's first purpose built racing car track inside his pear shaped horse racing track at Aspendale Park, Victoria, AAustralia The first car race meeting at Aspendale Park, was organised by the Automobile Club of Victoria on 29th January 1906, in front of an estimated 1,000 spectators. Photos and newspaper reports online for more info.
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  1399. Just released an even faster but much more affordable car at Bathurst : https://youtu.be/gu95fdEENsQ From Blendline TV coverage of grass roots motorsport here.
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  1400. G'day Ian. A misleading claim in the comments that the Tesla 3 is the third biggest selling vehicle in Australia. Just confirmed it it under number 20 by a search. The Ranking for 2022 is : Toyota HiLux – 64,391 Ford Ranger – 47,479 Toyota RAV4 – 34,845 Mitsubishi Triton – 27,436 Mazda CX-5 – 27,062 Toyota Corolla – 25,284 Toyota Landcruiser – 24,542 Isuzu Ute D-Max – 24,336 MG ZS – 22,466 Hyundai i30 – 21,166 Toyota Prado – 21,102 Mitsubishi Outlander – 19,546 Kia Sportage – 18,792 Hyundai Tucson – 17,870 MG MG3 – 16,168 Mazda CX-30 – 13,891 Mazda BT-50 – 12,937 Mitsubishi ASX – 12,753 Toyota Kluger – 12,562 Kia Cerato – 12,354 The Tesla was around 10,800 but hit the headlines outselling the Camry by a bit. The biggest selling large ish sedan. That achievement got very distorted in the media.
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  1401. A dated likely first use of Godzilla was on the cover of the Australian Wheels magazine for July 1989. Likely came out on news stands in June. I think before they were racing in front of Seven commentators.
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  1402. And Peter Brock died in replica of the Cobra Daytona originally designed by famous American racing figure Peter Brock. Two countries have a racing Peter Brock. Spooky plus.
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  1403. Just checked and the first passenger flight from Australia ti England was as late as 13 April 1935. This was the first passenger service operated from London to Brisbane by Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways. It initially operated weekly and the trip took 12 and a half days. It would become known as the Kangaroo Route. Anything less than a day is very recent
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  1404. An an Austin A30 or the upgraded newer A35. But very briefly called an Austin seven in some markets in tribute to the pre war Austin Seven. A YouTube search will confirm.
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  1405. An hour before your vid in my feed was this local opinion on Jeep Grand Cherokee : https://youtu.be/Gxo5gwBJFNQ Comments get a fair bit of agreement.
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  1406. Radial tyres used in this run . From 5:48 Dunlop SP41 radials. I think the first Dunlop radial. The XP was the Falcon that introduced the disc front brake. A certain option for these cars unlike the buying public.
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  1407. I had been thinking for years that the ten feet, stop , ten feet , stop repitition type driving was best suited to a hybrid electric drive with the diesel being more or less constant revs charging the battery to the optimal level. Much more productive than just the mayor having a hybrid car for show. Not sure if such trucks exist.
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  1408. 1948 Chevrolet ute made by Holden , but chopped and modified : https://youtu.be/UvMKgJMW-LA
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  1409. 308. Just over five litres.
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  1410. How do the deal with the strong shift there to electric cars.? All electric cars being effectively automatic transmission.
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  1411. In early Tasmanian newspapers reporting on the settlement Batmania is the least used. The others were versions of how the Aboriginal tribes described the area
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  1412. ​ @SiqueScarface the Beetle Hubcaps got flatter around 1966 or so.
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  1413. In Melbourne it took until 1969 for us to get Bathurst live on TV. Ties in with your age. Was a Sydney only broadcast until then.
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  1414. Winners of the big Dakar race : https://youtu.be/kmyCPY1NIvc Over time they got far removed from the road cars they were originally based on. Some cars seem only built for Dakar like the Schlessor Buggy. From the rear wheel drive mid engine buggy class.
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  1415. 1500 cc was the limit then.
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  1416. Almost certain the standard Dunlop Aquajets : https://youtu.be/yAFPHQ2T1qE
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  1417. Some crazy auction prices for old Victoriaian registration plates from 2019 : https://youtu.be/sTppvf-C80c?si=nVLGT88hbbyDUf46
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  1418. Auto Union original at Goodwood : https://youtu.be/m0aPekqm2Do
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  1419. Good suggestion so he did : https://youtu.be/PawNbxZW8H0
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  1420.  @rossbrumby1957  Radial tyres used from the first 1963 race. The 1965 coverage has lots of identifying labels of the radial tyres in use. As does the R on the tyre meaning radial. Dont know where this myth of cross ply tyres comes from. Lots of road cars yes, but never rules against using the multiple radial tyres in production from the fifties if the same size as standard tyres.
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  1421. Rules were to use the same size tyre as the production car. Early on smaller tyres in use by road cars. Radials replacement tyres allowed despite widespread mythology.
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  1422. G'day Ian. At 1:36 is a Ford Falcon Sprint from the US around 63 or 64 built. 260 or 289 V8 with lots of lightweight panels. I understand the Falcon Sprint was fastest on every stage when it ran back then but did not win the rally over small engines Mini Cooper S cars. The rules had a handicap system that took the win off large engines cars
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  1423. A few years ago he upgraded the stock 225 slant six to the Australian 265 hemi six. But from 2018 he was allowed to upgrade to a new 358 or six litre NASCAR based V8. Or so my search says.
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  1424. Sydney traffic in 1975. Filmed at 9 frames per second instead of standard 24 fps as a film saving experiment , so everything looks sped up by nearly three times : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gUJlcUhh5Y Glad he did this experiment of what was ordinary then but rare now. A more interesting mix of cars to me, with lots of Holdens, Falcons and Valiants as well as the often UK sourced smaller cars and VWs. If you said then that in 2023 you would hardly see a Holden they would think you were mad. The pedestrian and traffic levels seem higher from an era before people increasingly gave up on Sydney CBD for better local activity choices.
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  1425. All the professionally shot film in 16mm, 35mm and in this case 70mm can be very good if the film is looked after. The 8mm home movies give film a bad name.
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  1426. A 49 Ford ute coverage : https://youtu.be/4nv-s7ZAlOE
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  1427. Multiply by 0.74 not divide.
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  1428. If you had this advice on how to make it first you would blow everyone away with your technique : https://youtu.be/UESWWIaXYs4 The power of a YouTube search.
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  1429. The US was actually 24 years earlier in 1951. But a big disaster that had to be replaced after four years or so. Some explanations on YouTube.
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  1430. AFL attendances are way ahead of NRL and soccer. However soccer is popular with little kids less able to develop the skills needed for Australian Rules or AFL. Even three year Olds can kick a round ball that is already on the ground. They like that better than missing a kick of an oval ball thrown down to their foot and timing it right to kick it.
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  1431. Forty years ago I travelled at 140mph with no roughness or concern. On my trip to the UK in a late running HST 125 train. Easy to walk along the carriages to open the door window to stop watch time the mile posts flashing past. Faster than normal 125 mph to make up time.
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  1432. Radio ad for 21 years of Brockhoff Salads crackers in 1975 : https://youtu.be/vbEHx0jYIRM Made in Burwood Victoria as well as lots of other cracker types in the ad. Later taken over by Arnott's who tried to make them the same by annoyed many customers of the originals.
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  1433. The 2CV was the first car with radial tyres I believe. Michelin X tyre. Michelin owning a big part of Citroen.
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  1434. The only one I like and remember buying was the Turkish delight , but just one years ago. Really none of it is really healthy food. My preference is avoiding all of these to keep my most valuable possession in the best condition. My health being my most valuable possession as should be everyones when you think about it.
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  1435. The American LeMans Series also raced there once in the Race of a Thousand Years. Was it 1999/2000 or 2000/2001 : https://youtu.be/3WECff7_IaE?si=zyR5EnCzrJ5YNzZC
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  1436. First passenger flight as late as 1935 taking over 12 days. Earlier were all record seeking crew only.
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  1437. The early Monaro race cars went 327 then 350 Chevs, but this middle era until into the nineties it was the 308 then 304 Australian made Holden engines. From then on Chevrolet motors in Holden road cars then all the race cars gradually went with them. Larry Perkins was the last to run a Holden engine in the V8 series.
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  1438. Lots of Chargers raced at Bathurst. Do you mean not an obvious factory team?
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  1439. Chargers at Bathurst 1971 was the first year : https://youtu.be/ebJjba05mUg
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  1440. Also some up market councils around 1920 had hotels banned in their council areas after ratepayers prohibition type votes to have a less alcohol related violence in their area. Still enforced today stopping any new Hotels. Search for Dry Zones Camberwell Box Hill to see articles on how the ratepayers of the area still support this in numerous votes over the last hundred years.
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  1441. Can't work out what's in it for the Bot master.
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  1442. Also lots of Rambler American, Classic, Rebels and a few AMX. Some used by NSW govt and Police.
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  1443. No lasting convict settlement in Victoria.
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  1444. Drum brake mythology. ALL Bathurst 500 winners had front disc brakes at least. By 1982 may have been when most high performance road cars had four wheel discs although the 1967 Alfa 1600 GTV cars running 3rd , 4th and 5th had them and apart from some wheel problems may have beaten the first XR Falcon GT cars. Late fifties Jaguar sedans had four wheel disc brakes if you got the 3.4 litre and wire wheel option. Even the Renault R8 cars in the 1963 race had four wheel disc brakes and radial tyres as standard.
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  1445. These did for a year or two
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  1446. Story https://youtu.be/_7A9csGAbXE
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  1447. Do not recall any factory HO badging. All the upgrades not too visible other than the easily faked chin spoiler.
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  1448. The first flight in 1919 with a crew of four military personnel and no passengers took 28 days
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  1449. Rainmaking likely related to silver iodide cloud seeding being experimented with at the time. If it developed that you could do this successfully to have it rain on your large farm you could be depriving other farms in a widespread area of the natural rain they should have a share of. This guy is a clown not wanting any facts or reasons to get in the way of his Mr Funny Guts act.
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  1450. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1451.  @johnvender digging further it is not super clear but it seems the rules allow him to use the 265 Hemi six ; https://youtu.be/kbUT9WD5Sv8 Still high praise from some big names both for car prep and his driving. Latest news is he may have gone V8 for the car. Valiants had the 318 as an option for this model and later the racing weapon 340.
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  1452. My understanding is that the Ford, Mazda and VW light truck utes are now or soon will be Thailand built Isuzu under the different body work. In the same way the next model of the big selling Mitsubishi Triton will soon be a Nissan Navara under the body work. Mercedes gave up on that Nissan sharing idea.
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  1453. Possibly too much detail on Australian major supermarkets Coles and Woolworths https://youtu.be/tCjcjAAkYOM In Victoria Safeway supermarkets got taken over and renamed Woolworths like the rest of the country. Annoyed most customers.
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  1454. The US importer , putting his money where his mouth was, with his order for 1000 cars convinced Daimler Benz to get this road version of their 300SL race car into production.
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  1455. I remember as a kid that a half Penny would buy one to four of the loose lollies at the local milk Bar shop. As a kid the owner would sometimes throw in a few extra if you were young enough and known as being well mannered and well behaved. Back before sixty years of inflation made the old coins more valuable for the metal content. Although the right ones in good condition can be valuable. Years earlier there was a quarter penny called a farthing and an eighth penny called a mite. Never saw them though. Gone over a hundred years or so ago. A much watched vid from the NFSA from the time we converted from Pounds Shilling and Pence to Dollars and Cents : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs Most who heard the song then remember the conversion date Before this even children in fourth grade needed to learn the complicated currency arithmetic as shown in the film. Nowadays even bank tellers need calculators.
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  1456. The purple is a standard Holden colour from a while back. Test of a HSV Maloo in that colour : https://youtu.be/NS2wCEZvOXU
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  1457. Wikipedia currently says they have expanded to 360 employees. Lots of work needed for this. Well beyond other volunteer hobbyist displays
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  1458. This is the VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1459. With that paint scheme, sound and performance it is likely to be the rare Mk 2 Lotus Cortina. Not stock anymore whatever the base car was.
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  1460. Current vehicles called utes here : https://youtu.be/gsorX3DpFNQ Now that you can't buy a new car based utes, these get called utes instead of light trucks to change buyer preferences.
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  1461. Motorcycle racing at Bathurst near forty years ago ; https://youtu.be/4UB21frWyEM And with sidecars ; https://youtu.be/4Z4OTrPVcow
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  1462. Japan also had sedan based utes that they would call pickups. That was an advantage for Australian sales as a ute. Like this 68 Toyota Crown : https://youtu.be/RTaVptapjU8 Lots of earlier ones too, like the Tiara ute version of the sedan.
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  1463. Gday isn. A video of the Holden Efijy running in the Woodward cruise as a demo when new : https://youtu.be/6hRMi8xKhSo?si=mgHcm9ZCbrf06Wpa Might have won a prize or two when it was shown in the US.
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  1464. And Dodge trucks up to semi trailer size. Yet also the luxury expensive US based Dodge Phoenix. An unusual mix for Chrysler Australia.
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  1465.  @chevychitchat  yes Holden kept the Chevrolet badges only on Chevrolet cars assembled by them from the thirties till the late sixties. Holden assembled but not a Holden. Same with the Bedford trucks. Pontiac's, Vauxhals and other non Holden things GMH assembled..
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  1466. 1972 was the last year that price was part of the class definition. But odd that it was litres multiplied by price. Think this was the only year this system was used.
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  1467. They discovered a rarely used definition of metropolitan areas where Melbourne came out higher. Despite comparisons over the last hundred years not using that definition.
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  1468. Ian, Tornado in Horsham Victoria a few months ago. Some explanation by trained meteorologist Jane Bunn who is everyones favourite weather presenter : https://youtu.be/ai3S8pcKYvE Now any extra spooky coincidence that you may know more about from Horsham PA : https://youtu.be/x2ITrfJRZnA Another one in Victoria near Horsham today but has not yet hit the TV news yet.
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  1469. The Pacer started with the VF slant six model in 1969 https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk The VG model next was the first of the Hemi label non slant 6. Usually a 245 but the super rare four barrel carb big tank version may have been taken out to something like 258. With the VF came the first two door pillarless coupe versions using US Dodge Dart panels. Heaps of these butchered into lame back yarder convertibles in later years.
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  1470. A US disastrous launch in 1951, then about four years later a better system became the US standard.. YouTube vids cover it.
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  1471. Bob Janes Camaro ZL1 with the seven litre aluminium V8 would blow away all the Trans Am cars were in the US which were limited to five litres.
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  1472. The tiny islands and Antarctic territory have little impact on Australians.
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  1473. The early sixties BMC made for Australia was Morris nameplate for smaller cars and Austin for the larger cars of BMC.
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  1474. Lots of NASCAR lap averages over 200mph let alone top speeds. Saw Marcos Ambrose do it a lot when watching his races on Australian TV. 200mph average from 1970 then cars got restricted but still there was a 212 mph qualifying in 1987. Some high speeds in this vid : https://youtu.be/cwdlskZ50m4 Although the tracks had a lot to do with it. 245 mph at LeMans in the sixties and seventies with the Ford GT40 or Mk 4. Later the 917 Porsche and even faster turbo CanAm versions. All more limited now for safety of spectators.
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  1475. How could anyone support this mob and their method of saving Australia ; https://youtu.be/2ZlXNGmxV1A Just a destructive mob made even worse by attacking frontline health workers at a testing station.
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  1476. Kangaroo attack in the Melbourne news tonight : https://youtu.be/XVg5MHwgnX0 And : https://youtu.be/WmDyoOPfPRM Outer south east Melbourne suburb bordering on rural areas and an ex sand mining area converted to native botanical gardens. So real damage done to the lady unlike all the drop bear rubbish stories.
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  1477. Usually just a winter thing , although just during the last week it has been so unseasonably cold that there was snow recorded down to even small altitudes. Quite a few alpine resorts with ski lifts and snow making machines to make up for when the weather does not provide enough snow. Need to be on the rich side of income to afford a skiing holiday though.
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  1478. Although the Utes were a 50-2106 code. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.Although the Utes were a 50-2106 code. You might like to check. Quote : A coupe utility derivative, coded as the 50-2106 and marketed as the Holden Coupe Utility, was produced from January 1951. That code should be on the original firewall builders plate.
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  1479. Part of McDonald's trying to Americanise us. Successful too when we don't object.
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  1480.  @mikeyhau  fries is probably correct for the McDonald's ones with hardly any potato content as opposed to the fish and chip shop thicker ones eaten in Australia for well over a hundred years. Would you like fries with that,?
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  1481. The 500 started being over too quickly also.
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  1482. So the car had an engine change? This is the original round headlight VF 225 slant six original Pacer unless an engine upgrade is allowed. So even more impressive. Shannon's detail here ; https://youtu.be/dv-1x1sPiTk Common confusion of the first slant six Pacer and the next model hemi powered ones.
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  1483. The one day temperature map is just meaningless. Would have been much better to show long term averages of maximums an minimums by season.
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  1484. Perhaps you have a UK background. Never an Austin 7 here. Always sold here as a Morris Mini from the first 850 to the Cooper S and Mini K. Or does the 7 reference come from something else?
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  1485.  @michaelcrane2475  So that's why it sounded foreign to an Australian being a term from NZ. Thanks.
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  1486. Never attracted to McDonald's but in Australia I understand they have free coffee refills if you like black coffee. Some attracted to the free aspect.
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  1487. Though we do have a Vermont in Melbourne and the US state.
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  1488. Race went to 1000 km in 1973. Partly because the 500 races were getting over too quickly.
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  1489. The 427 examples never got into real production. Just a few 427 Monaro coupes made for racing by drivers like Peter Brock and similar to beat Ferraris and Lamborghini etc at the Bathurst 12 hour races about ten or more years ago. Thought too expensive to get into production.
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  1490. Donut van an institution at the Queen Victoria market in Melbourne since 1950 : https://youtu.be/GcNTX9wjBSI But the Melbourne preference for non holed hot jam filled Donuts although marketed as American and exotic. Footscray railway station another famous long lasting one : https://youtu.be/kaaXMb-9wBo Hard for Krispy Kreme to compete with these institutions, but unfortunately he passed on just the other month as per the description and comments. Jam doughnuts preferred again.
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  1491. Queens Birthday and the King's Birthday before that in most Australian states is around the first or second Monday in June. Possibly the date range fixed from to do with George III or similar era.
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  1492. Rocky Road or Rocklea Road?
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  1493. Virus having major impacts on air fares now. Australia virtually closed to tourism as a virus response. May be a year or so but even then air travel unlikely to get back to normal.
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  1494. Still rare for most to see a kangaroo. Usually in the quieter parts of the countryside and some of the fringe outer suburbs. Rare in the inner parts of cities but does happen from time to time and so rare that it is put on the nightly News.
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