Youtube hearted comments of John D (@johnd8892).

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Admire the honesty and scientific approach to this.
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  8. Safer to share all the Tim Tams with friends and neighbours than eat them hourly in your family.
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. The Queensland fix is a memorable bonus.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. Tatras are Czech. Russia made no worthwhile cars. They still have other priorities.
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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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  51. 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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  52. 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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  53. 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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  54. A backward step to go for V6. Search for the Ford Barra inline six to see what can be achieved. From Australia.
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  55. Minties best left melting in your mouth than bitten into.
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  56. 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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  57. 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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  58. 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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  59. 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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  60. 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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  61. Promoted as give away but really a lottery.
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  62. 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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  63. Better result than most Australians that I have seen.
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  64. We should all start our comments with " G'day Ian " just to remind him or maybe rub it in.
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  65. 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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  66. Subtitles said Back at bastards
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  67. 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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  68. 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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  69. Just paid $4.90 for the cheapest 12 700g eggs today in Melbourne.
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  70. 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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  71. 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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  72. 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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  73. 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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  74. 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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  75. 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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  76. 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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  77. 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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  78. Left Hand Utes of Colorado. May still be in business. Sport wagons too.
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  79. 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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  80. 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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  81. 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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  82. 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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  83. Lots of them on the NFSA YouTube channel to save you the trip.
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  84. 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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  85. 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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  86. 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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  87. 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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  88. 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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  89. 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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  90. 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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  91. The DJR Falcon sponsored by Mighty Mite on the front spoiler. The local superior alternative to competitor Vegemite.
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  92. 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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  93. 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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  94. 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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  95. 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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  96. 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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  97. 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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  98. 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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  99. Search YouTube for The big beer ad
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  100. A few electric and hydrogen powered cars in this too.
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  101. 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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  102. I think a 1967 XR Falcon station wagon.
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  103. 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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  104. 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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  105. 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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  106. 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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  107. 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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  108. 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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  109. 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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  110. 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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  111. Chicken tax on imported utes help stop them. Since about the seventies.
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  112. 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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  113. 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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  114. 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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  115. 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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  116. 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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  117. 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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  118. 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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  119. 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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  120. Power in kilowatts just add a third to get the horsepower figure.
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  121. 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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  122. 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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  123.  @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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  124. 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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  125. 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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  126. 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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  127. 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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  128. 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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  129. Old pictures can be very good because film has very high resolution, maybe 20k or more.
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  130. 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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  131. 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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  132. 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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  133. 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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  134. 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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  135.  @IWrocker  I will give you a lined up link in the morning. 1:42 am here now.
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  136. 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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  137. 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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  138. Popular in Australia and New Zealand too. A few of my school friends had full size tables in their homes.
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  139.  @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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  140. 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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  141. 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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  142. 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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  143. 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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  144. 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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  145. 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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  146. 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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  147. 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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  148. 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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  149. 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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  150. 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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  151. G'day Ian. Glad you found Blendline TV. Lots of grassroots Motorsports that deserves a wider audience.
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  152. 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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  153. 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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  154. 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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  155. Air con also just called Air.
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  156. 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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  157. 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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  158. 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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  159. 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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  160. 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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  161. 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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  162. 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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