Time Machine - Aussie Car Memories 8
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Here is episode 8 in the Time Machine - Aussie Car Memories series. Check out all the episodes and please Like👍, Share and Subscribe. Thanks to my Subscribers for sending their old i ages through. If you have some you would like to see included, please email to mjbehr@yahoo.com.au
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Here is episode 8 in the Time Machine - Aussie Car Memories series. Thank you to the Subscribers who sent through their old photos. If you would like to see your photos included send to mjbehr@yahoo.com.au
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This is why I love visiting country towns & even lived in Lithgow. You can squint & see the past. Thanks Mark.
@@UncleJoeLITE Very true. 👍
The neptune servo is awesome to see an would be great to have
These pictures are absolute gold!! They belong in the National Archive.
@@EVISEH Thanks 👍
Hi Mark another interesting trip down memory Lane the beautiful gold xb wagon takes me back to a time when my brother and I were sitting in the back of my grandfather's immaculate white xb wagon he bought it from a Ford dealership it was a traded Medibank private sales rep vehicle 6 seater with rare two way tailgate A lady from his church her son asked my grandfather to buy his xb Ford Fairmont station wagon with 351 absolutely immaculate as well and he would trade my grandfather's on a new car I was 18 at the time I said that's a great Fairmont wagon I had seen it sadly only reason my stubborn Welsh grandfather stopped the deal because of electric tailgate window 😓😓 cheers Stephen ✌️ from Qld 🐨🐨🦘🦘
@@stephentaege6255 What a shame. A 351 wagon would have been terrific. 👍
I'M AN OLD FART, so these shows are wonderful for me,,,,, best nostalgia ever,,,,, specially as i recognise most of these places
wish you'd change the music though,,, sounds like i'm on the centerlink hotline
love ya shows mate
@@normo-w9v Ha. Glad you like it. If only Centrelink sounded so good (I wouldn’t know actually). 👍
Centrepiece at 3:45 is a Holden built Chevrolet Ute. A 1946 or 47 model only built by Holden here for the Australian market. Hope we eventually see the Holden built Chevrolet utes introduced just months after the first Ford ones.
All decades before the El Camino and Rancheros and before the smaller Holden badged utes based on the 48-215 sedan.
Well spotted.
@@johnd8892 Thanks. I’ll try to find some. 👍
SA wins the Award with the most number of exhibits. 🇦🇺 ❤
@@MelodyMan69 I made sure I put plenty of SA in this episode following feedback. 😄👍
0:42 - how old must that pickup have been at that time, so cool.
0:48 - Neptune "Lubritorium" - classic!
@@MrGutfeeling Agree and yes, love Neptune as a brand. Very cool. 👍
I'll have a look at our photo albums to see if there are any good car pictures to send.
@@aussietaipan8700 Thanks 👍
Morning , even Debbie Harry made it in ur time machine. ;o)
Yep ..my first reaction too😂
@@robertristinge4385 Yes. She just popped into Adelaide while we were there! 😄👍
@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars 😄👍
She went out at night eatin’ cars, she ate Cadillacs, Lincolns too Murcurys and Subarus.
@ That’s right. Good song. 👍
4:11 The Austin 1800's nickname came about as a result of a casual comment by an Australian journalist, who when taking rally pictures from a helicopter through a telephoto lens remarked that the cars looked like "Land Crabs" as they cornered sideways.......and the name stuck. An oddball car with a superb suspension.
@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars Yes. I drove a brown automatic one years ago and really liked how it drove. 👍
@@markbehr88 Yeah, my mother had one in maroon with white vinyl interior, it looked like the full 'nouveau riche'....in those days appearance was everything.🤥😆
@ Nice colour. 👍
I had two. A Mark 1 and a Mark 2. Both white. My mum had a Mark 1 in Powder Blue. They rode well and handled very well. Rack and pinion steering and front disc brakes at a time when your standard Ford or Holden had vague steering box steering and drums all round. I believe that the Austin 1800 sold more per capita in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
@ Really? That is interesting re the sales? 🤔👍
Great video again Mark. Particularly enjoyed the shots of the cars from the 1969? London to Sydney race. However, as a former Hillman Hunter owner (they weren't that bad!) I was disappointed to see no shots of the winning car. Keep the great videos coming. 👍😃
Thanks for watching and I’ll keep that in mind for future episodes. 👍
I wonder if there are any of those Brabham Torana models still in existance?Has anyone seen one at any car shows or on the road,cheers.
@@TheTigerQuoll I have not seen one for 30 plus years. 🤔👍
At 0.29 is a visual rarity. A left-hand drive Holden for export - but to where ? When I was in Cape Town in 1969, many of the taxis were Holdens. But right-hand drive, naturally.
@@petergraves2085 I think there was LHD in Greece? 🤔👍
I have seen a promo film for Holden exports at the time of the FB model. So around 1960 to 61.
In it the new first they show is a left hand drive export FB.
They announce these were for markets in :
Greece
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Kuwait
and Hawaii
My brother visiting Greece in 1980 used a taxi that was an HR Holden that the driver was very happy with.
Not sure how Hawaii went as an export market, but also heard of them turning up in Washington State and Oregon.
The US Road and Track annual for 1969 had Holden 186 specs listed amongst a table of car specs. Presumably those with a sales presence in the USA back then. Then followed by road tests of 427 Corvettes, 429 Mustangs, Lamborghini Miura for $20,000 new , Mercedes Benz 300 SEL 6.3, a retro test of a Benz Gull-wing and a Checker Marathon amongst a mix of quite a few others.
@ Very interesting 👍
@@johnd8892 My uncle lived in DC. When visiting a GM storage yard he spotted a LHD EH Premier wagon that had been abandoned by GM after the Montreal World Fair in 1967. It had been left with the windows down and the seats had rotted. I helped him find replacement seats in AUS.
@@yasi4877 possibly from the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York rather than show a three or four year old EH in 1967 Montreal.
The Yellow XB coupe in the start of #7 belonged to a mate of mine. He had if from new, He couldn't believe it when I showed him last night.
That’s great to hear. Looks like a terrific car. 👍
Did I see Deborah Harry ?
@@barrycuda3769 You did…..in the Flesh to quote one of her songs. 😀
@markbehr88 The more, the better.
@@barrycuda3769 👍
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@@tonybennett638 😄👍
Tc cortina bit of a unicorn these days hey mark
@@davidbarnsley8486 Yes there is a veritable cornucopia of them in this episode. 😄👍