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

  1. Tatras are Czech. Russia made no worthwhile cars. They still have other priorities.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. A few proposals and engagements for marriage in Australia used a cheezle until a ring could be brought.
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  6. The True Story of Ned Kelly worth a look : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlICFFZRBIA
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Many US interested car guys import older US models if they have enough money and interest.
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  10. 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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  11. Damaged the stolen VW and dumped it.
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Always tap water for this Australian, and many like me.
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  17.  @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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24.  @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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  25. Very little difference in Victoria Australia. Just different names and perhaps age ranges
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. Thanks for taking the time to explain that term better.
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. My fave too. Always Australian owned too
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. Veal Parma more popular in Melbourne. Last one never heard of. Chips and soft serve ice cream new to me.
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  46. 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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  47. He died in the later new Western Australian Targa not the Tasmanian Targa.
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  48.  @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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  49. 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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  50. 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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