8 Super Rare Australian Sports Cars
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- 8 Super Rare Australian Sports Cars
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Todd Wilkes was behind the wheel of the giocattolo that ended both the car and his existence. Right, this was before WSID was built so the drags were on the eastern creek race track front straight. that went up hill but had a sand trap up top. Well the event, Todds giocttaloa wasn't stock, it had the motor out of his prior car in it, but the event was a speed run so the organizers decided to run it opposite, so down hill. Stuck throttle, 300+kmh, no sand trap. yeah that'll do it.
Yeh...it was a dumb..piontless. accident.
Just watched it absolutely insane wtf was going through organisers heads he had a blast tho to be fair the adrenalin rush slowing time and going out with a bang 🎉
Stupid decisions result in pointless fatalities. R.I.P. Todd Wilkes.
I got there late as I was working..
As I got there everyone was leaving Eastern Creek.. The event was abandoned.
Idiots all around.
The Jost 7:30 had superb lines compared to similar.
Coupé is pronounced COO-PAY not COOP
Marque is pronounced MARK not MARKY 🙄😂😂
Both are correct
Way to tell that computer generated voice
'Muricans
I've loved the Nagari since I was a young boy and hoped to own one at some point. To me, they are an Aussie built 'Corvette'... just add side pipes.
The Roadsters are particularly beautiful.
They're better than that, they were beautiful, fast and comfortable.
@@metricstormtrooper Very true.
One car that you missed was the Buchanan. They were built in the 1950s and maybe the 1960s. Some models were Aston Martin based designs with Holden power plants and some were based on the AC from England and had Standard Ten mechanicals. The latter was called the Cobra so in fact Australia had the name Cobra long before the United States.
Was typing you didn’t cover the Mirella but you did get it. Was an amazing bit of kit, was hoping you had the full info on it. Austin Kimberly 2.2 6 cylinder turbocharged and 4sp manual, later changed to Mazda 13B turbo and lancia beta 5sp gearbox. I think from memory Citroen CX front screen and Alfa GTV front screen for the rear, and light emitting diodes for the dash. Think it was named after his daughter (odd name tho). Wish the molds were handed over to someone to manufacture…regardless of year mikes car was one of the greats
Wasnt the Goggomobil Dart built in Australia?
Yes, but hat's featured in another video because having a small 2cyl motor definitely wasn't a sports car!
Yes good point but if not a sports car then what was it, it was extremely light, like about a third of the weight of the average sports car, I know it did not have the top speed to drive on the highway but it must have had a decent power to weight ratio, isnt a 2 seater lightweight literally the very definition of a sports car?
@@fruitopia6798 I've driven one and yeah, they're a sports car by the definition of the day. Pinging away, spiralling smoke from their little two-strokes. Gear shifter H-pattern was sideways, with 1---2, then 3---4 rather than the vertical gate we're used to. Was fine until I had to pull out into traffic and forgot momentarily. Crazy machine!
My boss owned a nagati drophead, after many traffic fines he sold it for 17k, you shoud the sheet steel chassis but still said it had a tubular soace frame, one Stupid error describing the first car, i cant wait for the others.
I saw Joss JT1 on the internet
That’s one to tell the grandkids about!😯
“Coop “A’s””. WTF is that?
Maybe Coupe? (coop)
Yeah!
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Probably an AI commentary?
There are two ways to pronounce the word. Coop is more English-like and coupé sounds more French I guess. I say the latter. Both are correct.
“Advertisement”, “garage” and such too.
2:29 full Name is Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint.
I used to have a red sprint, nearly bought a giocattalow in new farm for $35000 many years ago a decision I still regret
You missed probably the best of the rare Aussie sports cars well probably Two! The first one is the Melbourne built fibreglass constructed “Perentie” a rare aussie sports car powered by a 350 Chev engine that looked a bit like a Chevy Corvette but was a four seater, one of these cars was used in the Australian mad Max movie, “Fury road” and the second car is the Queensland built performance car with a V8 powering it based on a Mazda MX-5 or what you call a Miata over there and was named the “ Bullet”
Yep, the Bullet was a MX-5 powered definitely by a Toyota V8, I think 1UZFE. One of the two guys that built them was a friend of my brother. Saw a video of it when they drove it down to Melbourne to show it to some people. My brother used to say "not a bad effort for an electrician and a pastry cook".
Pretty sure the Perentie were Australian made 4WD & 6WD Land Rovers made for the Australian military. They had fully galvanised Chassis & Alloy bodies & Isuzu Diesel truck Straight-6s (turboed on the 6WD). Meaning even after nearly 40 years they still have buggerall corrosion issues so go between 20000 & 60000 AU$ at auction (depending on model)
@@mickvonbornemann3824 different Perentie. You're right about the 4x4 and 6x6 military vehicles. They were based on Land Rovers but aside from the above modifications, they were also widened over a standard Defender. Amazing to think there was nothing off the rack that was fit for purpose, so we just built what we needed (well, a contractor did, but you know what I mean). The Perentti (different spelling) was a Corvette clone built on a Holden ute or panelvan chassis. To the untrained eye, they look like a C3 Corvette Stingray, but the Corvette has a single side window in each door, while the Perentti has an extra window behind that due to its 2+2 configuration. They're also looong for a Corvette. I can't remember how many were built; 17 pops into my head for some reason. Believe it or not, about a year ago I spied on while I was on the school run in the pouring rain. Absolutely lost my brain.
What about the Elfin road car and track cars from the early 2000's era, with LS1 power. The road car was just over 800kg's, the track car was around 730kg's... I saw their display shown at the Melbourne Auto show in the early 2000's from memory
The coupes you showed at the end of the Nagari segment were Mk7s, not Mk8s. The latter don’t have windows aft of the B- pillar.
Weren't they a pretty car.
This might’ve been an informative, enjoyable video. However, the use of an AI narration ruined it for me; it’s made me question if the research was also outsourced to a fake brain. Please, please do your own research and narration or just don’t bother.
I know the Americans cut the 'e' off the end of coupe when they pronounce the word meaning they keep their chooks in them , but as the word is French in origin (coupé) the correct pronunciation should end in an 'ay' sound!
A 'coopee' sounds like one of those dolls won at a fairground or showground!
Also 'marque' isn't pronounced as 'marquee', because that's a tent for a wedding/reception/party!
I doubt they know what a chook is mate!!
Only thing worse than the Yank accent is a robot Yank accent!
What about the LS1 powered Elfins??? There was a track model abd a street model- didn't last long. From the early 2000's era
You forgot the hurricane
Worked at Holden back in the day when they had the hurricane and the XU2 in our apprenticeship workshop Matec. The XU2 looked similar to an RX7 Mazda but was built much earlier. The Hurricane had a lame 253 V8,the rear vision mirror was a tv monitor due to the lack of a rear window.🫣
Very interesting, I had never heard of most of them. You should check out another rare Australian car, the Goggomobile. (Seriously, that is its name lol.)
Interesting content. So great profiles there.
Is aloominum like aluminium?
What about the Hurricane
CONCEPT! Duhhh!
I've driven the Hurricane. Definitely not a road car
We finished the last two Giocattolo's in our workshop that went to auction after the company folded...I recall my brother and I thrashing these beasts around the streets of Herston before we sent them to the auction rooms...man was it fun.. check the bottle of Bundaberg Rum and two crystal glasses in the repair kit...this guy had style..
It's such a shame they folded. I remember reading about them in an old sports car magazine in 1988. They claimed a 13.4 1/4 and the author of the story got to borrow one for the weekend and told a story about how he was accelerating at WOT around a sweeping curve with the crest of a hill right at the apex. While clipping the apex he came across a young girl doing a 3 point turn in a Beetle on the other side of this corner- he swore that in any other car he would have T- boned this girl, but these things had huge 6 pot calipers front with something like 345mm front rotors and some big 300mm 4 pot's at the rear. They had 10" wide front tyres and 13" wide rears from memory- with 3 piece Simmons rims... I've loved these cars since childhood, after reading the whole mag front to rear 1000's of times as a kid- these things were one of the wildest cars of the era... Oh, they also claimed in the article that they came with the 200kw Group A Commodore motor, but it COULD be option with a 410kw race motor if you wanted it... Todd Wilks and his JUDGE with his 1000hp turbo Holden motor was a highlight, RIP Todd- a hung throttle at those speeds would have been terrifying with that much power, while heading towards concrete barriers... Australia lost a motoring pioneer in Todd
Get your facts straight. First, British Leyland is not Australian, it's British, says so in the name. Second, none of the other cars in the list are real, none of those companies even exist, we Aussies don't see any of them on our roads ever and nobody ever talks about them.
Speak for yourself, at least 3 of these are pretty well known in Aussie classic sports car circles...
@@DavidNeasbey I've heard of all these cars, and have seen at least one example of each in the metal, either at a car show, at a museum or on the road. The only cars I've never seen is the Illinga AF2 and the Mirella 230TS. As for British Leyland not being Australian, if course they weren't, but they were an Australian arm of a British company, first as BMCA (the A is for Australia), then as Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia. The majority of the development of the Leyland P76 was handled in Australia, by Australians.
Your number 1 is a bit of nonsense really, yes, incredible looking, but that was it. Underneath that skin that had no operational windows and relied on air conditioning, was a mix up of old cheap used parts such as the engine and gearbox from a 1960s designed Austin Kimberly.
10/10 for styling, 2/10 for execution.
One of my former race engineers in Australia worked on the Giacottolo prototype under Barry Lock (ex McLaren F1 and designer of the Kaditcha racing cars) and it was a very serious piece of kit. Way overengineered but thats Barry for you. The engine started like on the Walkinshsw VL Group A production line... And the rights moulds and design to the Ikara ended up in Greece
The Bolwell Nagari Sports is a Roadster not a convertible!
Ikara means ‘Throwing Stick’ NOT Meeting Place!
I have a mate with a Nagari.
It's running a 400 small block chev .
Awesome 🤩
That can't be helped.
So?
The Bolwell should have had a GT or GTHO motor in it. 0-60 in low 5 quarter in high 12 top speed 175-180 mph.
The AF2 has Foxbody Mustang GT wheels lol
These are sweet!
And the Centaurs ?
Forgot the Velacia.
My wifes cousin had a yellow bolwell running with a holden 202. He ran it in one if the first Taga Tasmania events. Not sure whatever happened to it. Nice little car.