You guys are awesome. Philadelphia is sending much love and respect to the amazing aboriginal people. Need another season. I am very grateful I found this content. One Love
I loved this show as a kid. Watching it now, I can understand how all they want to do is be able to drive around to see their families and get out into the bush... That's all you really need.
The good old days , these people are the characters of the bush, helped them out near Uluru , no petrol , gave me gold coins for petrol , filled the xd ford up , push start with my cruiser bull bar, away the bros go to docker river WA 😂😂 great memories ❤ Australian Aboriginals 😂❤
Is troos bob ekse (Serf Efrikin). Visited Tennant Creek (Warumungu: Jurnkkurakurr) once. Many vehicles and people like Mad Max for "hooning" in the bush to hunt and kill "rogue bulls". Spent 8 mths with the Yalata Mob (Nullabour). Vehicles were worse. All glass gone. No doors or seats (beer crates). Flat rims only. Roof dented down. All blood stained from kangaroo wombats etc. Tracks throughout the bush destroying unique special mycorrhizal fungi groundcover ?? Another planet ?
This is awesome! The fella using shell casings in place of fuses was brilliant. I never knew about that car culture and I could listen to stories of scavenging and repairing all day.
There's a story about a red neck in the USA who used a live 22 bullet as a fuse in his pickup , the circuit concerned faulted and overloaded setting the bullet off . As the fuse box was under the dash on the driver's side he got shot in the groin I heard he survived !
@dongraham4760 a round going off that's not in a barrel does nothing but make a bang and pop the bullet out of the casing. No way enough force to get "shot" by it.
I've been watching bush mechanics since I was five years old, and still, love it till this day. Wish we could do more for these aboriginal tribes. We all forget how good we have it and still complain.
Same man, I remember this as a kid, was the best, we need to treat our aboriginal brothers and sisters as sacred, they've been left to the wayside and as a nation we should be responsible, with Rio Tinto blowing up a sacred site being the most recent, it's disgusting how they've been treated here, in their own land, for stupid ore and white privilege
Wish we were still making more analog machines. Was originally excited about the Grenadier(hoping I'd get one 10 years after release) then the starting price doubled in the time it was coming to market and they chose a BMW mill, wish they'd sell a rolling chassis. Electrification strange as it sounds may be a route to simplification as things are being regulated. As full electric drive reduces mechanical complexity, fitting a diesel or gas generator into the payload and reducing battery and capacitor weight to a level that evens out demand with just enough range to get you home, could be the thing that keeps diy mechanics in the game. Newer fuel powered vehicles are getting so expensive and complex that they only make sense for the first owner, when they're in full service warranty. At least the land rovers and things. And I'll never afford one. Just saying, looking at the regs and what's coming out. People will be building cars around VIN plates otherwise as the cars in the junkyard now have just about reached the age of complexity where in at. Meaning they're new enough that you never know if the sun visor falling off will trigger limp mode.
Back in the days before computer controlled engines, fly-by-wire throttles and electronic transmissions. Break down in the bush in a 21st century car and you're buggered!
@@frommarkham424 Even in societies that rely on recycled tech really wanted to replace it all if given a chance. Cuban car owners for example have to scrounge for whatever tools and parts they need to keep their cars running, and their cars are only held together by bailing wire (duct tape is too expensive in Cuba) and prayers...
Had to ask an online forum to find this, I remember watching it over 10 years ago and being fascinated, I still am, I never knew at all that north Australia is like this, has to be one of the most incredible documentary films
@@benwilliams3539 they came up with a cultural complexity that enabled them to survive for forty thousand years in a tough environment....technology is more than just mechanical toys....and actually the aboriginal man on the fifty dollar note was a prolific inventor ahead of his time so you are wrong....he designed a helicopter 20 years before anyone else.
Huge respect for anyone able to make do as well as these guys do with as few resources as they have out there. Funny, yes, but also a testament to some truly impressive ingenuity.
Very nice. My uncle, who is in his late 80s now, told me a story when the first car came to the village in the 30s. He was a small boy then. He said everyone ran away when they saw the first car, they thought it's a beast coming to eat them. He told me "we ran away and climbed a rock cliff so it couldn't get us". The one who drove the car was from another village. My uncle was so impressed by the car to the point that after few years he bought his first car. He went and drove it from the dealership in the city and brought it to the village. It was his first time driving, he had no license, until now I don't have any idea how he was able to drive the car.
Thanks for the posting of this, highly entertaining and surprised it didn't go further back when it originally aired, love their sense of humour and ingenuity!
The old ways of building autos were so much simpler that people could keep their old cars going for years and years by themselves (like we did--my dad was a mechanic), so the auto industry had to find ways to make the autos break down more quickly and have parts that had to be ordered (it's called obsolescence), and that needed a specially trained mechanic to install them for you, so everybody down the chain got to make money 💰 off you. We're such greedy people. I'm thoroughly enjoying the ingenuity of these remarkable mechanics, but especially that they see a car for what it is-- a way to get from point A to point B, not a status symbol or a way to show off one's money (money that could help a lot of needy people). It's just a mode of transportation. My hat's off to you all! 🥇
Changes the clutch out before the plates cool lol.these guys are faster with a hammer and leatherman than the local mechanic is with an entire shop full of tools
These fellas taught me so much about being resourceful, I’ve currently got a thin plate cut out of a washing machine welded to the underside of my muffler to make it quieter Couple of bush mechanics tricks to get the distributor to play ball (lots of zip ties) It’s an EL falcon but it sounds exactly like that blue holden
So it's Jan 2022 now - and still I love this. I spent 12 years in Africa, and all my inheritance, but I'm so, so glad to be able to come home... even tho' I'm a whitefella.
@@norbik8678 I come from Papua new Guinea but I lived 2 years in Armadale..they were the best days of my life. I really got to know good old Aussie stuff, from A Papua New Guineans point of view the land down under Rocks!!
I lived KUNUNURRA for 12 years then moved to Perth wish I never left watching this makes me home sik living of the land fishing for barra .u don't relise wat I had till it's gone
This is how you live for the day , the hour , the minute !No real planning , no real looking ahead , just solve the problems as they come along one after another !
@@BlackAsAU Our neighbours insisted on installing a dual Aerial splitter and we stupidly agreed, this meant we couldn't even access ABC or SBS in their prime.
I love seeing these bush fixes with stuff not car parts that have no business being used as car parts, I just love that shit! Great content f'n brilliant!!!
I absolutely love this show been watching when first came out and I have an indigenous cornie who does another of this sort of stuff when he's stuck gets him out of trouble and makes me laugh 🤣🤣
Bloody awesome! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm in awe of these guys. Interesting comment at 22:13 about trying to repair newer vehicles with Engine Control Modules and advanced electronics. I would be very interested to see a later day follow up.
I don't know how or why this popped up under recommended - although I have watched all of Jack Absalom's old episodes as well as Bush Tucker Man so maybe that's why - but I'm really happy it did!
Thanks For Sharing this videos,i think this is a piece of Aussie history.....even its not fully realistic,but its amazing entertainment in that time...those who watch it in that time might have fun...greeting from Malaysia..
Here in Canada, I've seen and heard of crazy repairs, mostly diringong drunken days long hunting and fishing trips hundreds of miles from anywhere. PANTY HOSE AS FAN BELT, PANTS BELT AS FAN BELT, RAW EGGS OR PEPPER FOR RADIATOR LEAKS, STEERING A TRUCK WHILE SITTING IN THE ENGINE BAY WITH A WRENCH AS SOMEONE ELSE CHANGES GEARS AFTER STEERING PUMP DIES, FEW MORE I CANNOT RECALL EXACTLY
I drove through Africa born and raised although I'm white. I remember bush fixes, chopping down tree trunks to to fix broken springs. Those were the days!
Beautiful work done on the car tyre Proper mechanical minded folk ,, These fella’s would survive in a cave never mind the ground,, People like this are so traditional and always been around the Australian bush ,, There’s a place made famous called laramagh we’re an Irish man called paddy mururity and his dog Kelly missing after a night out in local pub called the pink panther Back in 2017 never seen since If anyone find’s out anything please let the autortieys know,,, His hat and wallet were in his home something he doesn’t leave behind him and his quad bike all these but no sigh of the Irish ☘️ man or his dog Kelly,,
I'm really happy that you threw this up again. It brings back memories of working out West of Winton (and all around that country) in the late 70s. But then it also reminds me of when I lived up at the Cape and drove busses between Cooktown and Coen and Cairns. Thank you again. I loved this when it was first released and love it even more now.
Full Biscotti You can't change the clutch without taking the gearbox off because the clutch is within the bellhousing. They've just manufactured & edited that little scene for extra B. S. comedy ? Proof is you never see the car being driven after the "false fix" ? There are many humorous moments in the video but with some organisation like maintenance/tools/inflated spare tyres (tires) they could have done a lot better ? If they maintained their vehicle they would get much more life out of them ? Then you wouldn't have wrecking yards like shown at 21:10. This is unfortunately normal for Aboriginal communities across Australia. I encountered some aborigines in 1983 on the main highway South of Tennant Creek (Alice Springs area Central Australia). The had broken down. They were out of petrol, the battery was on the low side, they had no radiator cap, so the no water in the cooling system, the starter motor was broken. You could hardly recognize the engine because it was covered in a mass of grass seeds & dry grass, just able to tell the shape, it was a miracle that it ran ? The car they had was a 70's model Holden & I had a 60's model Holden (Holden is a GM branch of their manufacturing in Australia & made a lot of models & cars to suit Australian conditions & only recently have they closed their factories & now make cars off shore). They made some cars for the USA market as well, the Pontiac GTO & the Chev Caprice. These cars were based on the local V8 supercar which won many championships as did Ford over the decades. They perform very well. Compared to what the aboriginals had my car was a "Rolls Royce" It was well maintained & I did nearly 200,000 miles in it & bought it with 80,000 miles on the clock. Mechanically it was still going fine but the body rust beat it so I had to pension it off. It went to a wrecking yard where many parts no doubt were recycled. Anyway I had petrol (which they wanted it for free) 20 litres (liters) 5.3 US gallons but no freebies from me. $10 magically appeared & I poured the petrol into their tank. I even had the drum pouring nozzle. Gave them some drinking water & water for their radiator. Then pushed their car down the highway where they clutch started it. They slowly motored down the highway & I followed them for a bit. All was well so I over took them & waved a friendly goodbye. The problem was they ignored me after stopping & helping them. Talk about ungrateful ? I passed their settlement & it too was full of wrecked cars spread all over the place ? I'm retired now at 71 & 1983 is a long time ago. Hard to say if wrecked cars are still the norm out there in the settlements ? Probably more likely than well maintained vehicles with minimal wrecks ?
@@hughmoore810 cheers hugh, yeah mate its still the same. Im from Australia and have been up north a few times, still alot of wrecked cars about. I was just having a chuckle at the vid because I know you need to remove the gearbox to get to the clutch. Ive just finished doing a conversion on a 2009 FG xr6 falcon from auto to manual. Thanks for the reply though, sounds like you had some epic adventures of your own whilst in oz. Stay safe mate, cheers
@@gothestorm9927 Yes I understand where you are coming from. I now live in Sydney area but never left OZ land as I left Sydney with new wife in 1980. I was on the "road" for some years. Worked in Gladstone, Charters Towers, Mt Isa, Darwin, Wivenhoe dam out from Ipswich, Biloela, Gladstone again, Greenvale mine Nth of Charters Towers. It was Survey construction/mining type work. Ended up back in Sydney in 1986 so 6 years of travel, my wife had our 1st child in Sydney in "86. Started out with not much cash but had the trusty old Holden & trailer. Earnt enough to buy a house in the Sydney metro area so earning well above normal wages paid off big time. Owning your own house at 38 was just so good. I did all my own maintenance on vehicles so knew how to keep them going for years. That's what disturbed me about Aboriginals & their "wrecking crew" mentality ? They had no respect for what was a miracle in engineering for everybody = the humble motor car. You only sow what you reap & many got stranded because they abused the vehicles ? It seems not much has changed over the decades ?
@@hughmoore810 wow, small world! I now live about 30 minutes out of Ipswich, not far from wivenhoe dam. In a little place called Kensington grove. I love hearing about travels from fellow aussies, sounds like you've had your fair share of adventures. Glad I got to hear about some! I'm still spinning out about how close you were located to me. Even now your only about 10hrs away lol
Very inspiring. Never give up! Thx for the tips. When driving backwards, one should sit and control the gas pedal and another on the bonnet steering ;)
Those Commodores were great cars. When they first came out from Germany the cars when tested in the South Australian Outback kind of fell in half. The firewalls cracked! The German engineers couldn't believe it. They came out and were forced to agree. We need roads. GMH substantially reengineered the cars. And shoved in a 308 so everyone from Peter Brock to communities outback could enjoy these great simple strong cars. Not sure about modern rubbish from China! This was a great series. Great the original EH wagon has been preserved.
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You guys are awesome. Philadelphia is sending much love and respect to the amazing aboriginal people. Need another season. I am very grateful I found this content. One Love
I loved this show as a kid. Watching it now, I can understand how all they want to do is be able to drive around to see their families and get out into the bush... That's all you really need.
This is the way it was, with my family in the 50, 60 , 70's Alabama, USA
Sounds pretty similar down south, fix car to drive to family, drive thru bush and break it again, repeat
“Keep it, We might meet some white fellas with patches”
Best bush mechanics line ever.
I grew up in the Pilbara and loved hearing the old peoples stories.
I will always love this series.
@H HOUR HOTEL nah bruh he played for hawthorn and bombers.
Where abouts in the pilbara did you grow up in?
@@Bruce-mx6sj
Karratha, Wickham, Samson.
Also spent quite a bit of time in Newman and Hedland.
The good old days , these people are the characters of the bush, helped them out near Uluru , no petrol , gave me gold coins for petrol , filled the xd ford up , push start with my cruiser bull bar, away the bros go to docker river WA 😂😂 great memories ❤ Australian Aboriginals 😂❤
This is a cross between 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' , and 'Mad Max'.
hahahahahahah no shit bro lmao
Is troos bob ekse (Serf Efrikin). Visited Tennant Creek (Warumungu: Jurnkkurakurr) once. Many vehicles and people like Mad Max for "hooning" in the bush to hunt and kill "rogue bulls". Spent 8 mths with the Yalata Mob (Nullabour). Vehicles were worse. All glass gone. No doors or seats (beer crates). Flat rims only. Roof dented down. All blood stained from kangaroo wombats etc. Tracks throughout the bush destroying unique special mycorrhizal fungi groundcover ?? Another planet ?
I fondly remember The Gods Must Be Crazy
Better!
I gave u hundred like cos gods must be crazy was awesome film so is madmax
This is awesome! The fella using shell casings in place of fuses was brilliant. I never knew about that car culture and I could listen to stories of scavenging and repairing all day.
You can use anything metal that'll fit as a fuse. Expect it's no longer a fuse.
I used a .303case to fix a broken bypass hose fitting in a Mazda engine block,it tapped in perfectly no leak,got us out of shit...
There's a story about a red neck in the USA who used a live 22 bullet as a fuse in his pickup , the circuit concerned faulted and overloaded setting the bullet off . As the fuse box was under the dash on the driver's side he got shot in the groin I heard he survived !
I saw that story on mythbusters.
@dongraham4760 a round going off that's not in a barrel does nothing but make a bang and pop the bullet out of the casing. No way enough force to get "shot" by it.
I've been watching bush mechanics since I was five years old, and still, love it till this day. Wish we could do more for these aboriginal tribes. We all forget how good we have it and still complain.
Same man, I remember this as a kid, was the best,
we need to treat our aboriginal brothers and sisters as sacred, they've been left to the wayside and as a nation we should be responsible, with Rio Tinto blowing up a sacred site being the most recent, it's disgusting how they've been treated here, in their own land, for stupid ore and white privilege
Yeah they don't want anything from us... They're happy the way they are... And what's this "we" stuff? Maybe you forget how good we have...
Yes!!! So much Yes.
They don't need help. You need it more than the Bush mechanics! They don't need nothing there going in!!!
Wish we were still making more analog machines. Was originally excited about the Grenadier(hoping I'd get one 10 years after release) then the starting price doubled in the time it was coming to market and they chose a BMW mill, wish they'd sell a rolling chassis. Electrification strange as it sounds may be a route to simplification as things are being regulated. As full electric drive reduces mechanical complexity, fitting a diesel or gas generator into the payload and reducing battery and capacitor weight to a level that evens out demand with just enough range to get you home, could be the thing that keeps diy mechanics in the game. Newer fuel powered vehicles are getting so expensive and complex that they only make sense for the first owner, when they're in full service warranty. At least the land rovers and things. And I'll never afford one. Just saying, looking at the regs and what's coming out. People will be building cars around VIN plates otherwise as the cars in the junkyard now have just about reached the age of complexity where in at. Meaning they're new enough that you never know if the sun visor falling off will trigger limp mode.
Back in the days before computer controlled engines, fly-by-wire throttles and electronic transmissions. Break down in the bush in a 21st century car and you're buggered!
That is why you need an FJ40 for the bushlands of australia.
regardless of any of that i dont think none of us gonna pull of what these dudes are doing lmao
Well..society asked for all that new tech
@@frommarkham424 Even in societies that rely on recycled tech really wanted to replace it all if given a chance. Cuban car owners for example have to scrounge for whatever tools and parts they need to keep their cars running, and their cars are only held together by bailing wire (duct tape is too expensive in Cuba) and prayers...
Watching him spit the gas in the carb was like damn 😂 thats hardcore af
Rusty Shackleford that was leaded petrol as well 🤣
He drank the other half
Hahahaha 😆
@@samjohnson4014 GOLD!!🤣🤣🤣
@@rustyshackleford309
With a bit of river water.
Had to ask an online forum to find this, I remember watching it over 10 years ago and being fascinated, I still am, I never knew at all that north Australia is like this, has to be one of the most incredible documentary films
That's how awesome and versatile we are in the bush you can't beat old cars
I admire indigenous people they are self sufficient for thousands of years And still are with technology I know where I will.go in an apocalypse
Good old Aussie ingenuity...give these men a few more tools and some scrap metal and they could fly to the moon
Yea, like undoing wheel nuts with pliers !
It's a scripted tv show, it's make believe
@@AnarchyEnsues oh...so what ....it's the spirit and concept that is brilliant
they had all the time in the world and only came up with spears and boomerang
@@benwilliams3539 they came up with a cultural complexity that enabled them to survive for forty thousand years in a tough environment....technology is more than just mechanical toys....and actually the aboriginal man on the fifty dollar note was a prolific inventor ahead of his time so you are wrong....he designed a helicopter 20 years before anyone else.
Huge respect for anyone able to make do as well as these guys do with as few resources as they have out there. Funny, yes, but also a testament to some truly impressive ingenuity.
Awesome Work!
Yall really captured the spirit of this show with Black As. This is a real treat.
Unbelievable talent, too much respect for land owners of AUSTRALIA
They were leasing them now sold off
Very nice. My uncle, who is in his late 80s now, told me a story when the first car came to the village in the 30s. He was a small boy then. He said everyone ran away when they saw the first car, they thought it's a beast coming to eat them. He told me "we ran away and climbed a rock cliff so it couldn't get us". The one who drove the car was from another village. My uncle was so impressed by the car to the point that after few years he bought his first car. He went and drove it from the dealership in the city and brought it to the village. It was his first time driving, he had no license, until now I don't have any idea how he was able to drive the car.
Now I understand why Holden had to reinforce the Opel Commodore for the Australian market... Damn those things take a beating 😂😂
Love the show :-)
man these guys are smart and are innovating!...cheers.
That clutch replacement!! Hahaha😂 Fantastic! 👍👍
Out of this world
@H HOUR HOTEL no bubbles burst man this is a movie for fun with a lot of creativity
Fake as fukk...😀😀
@@henryrollins9177 you are damn right there Henry !
It was fake. Same with the tire "fix" too.
Thanks for the posting of this, highly entertaining and surprised it didn't go further back when it originally aired, love their sense of humour and ingenuity!
I used to watch this back in the day. Thought it was fantastic then! Just sent it to my son who is an apprentice mechanic. He’ll love it.
@@BlackAsAU David Batty ???
The old ways of building autos were so much simpler that people could keep their old cars going for years and years by themselves (like we did--my dad was a mechanic), so the auto industry had to find ways to make the autos break down more quickly and have parts that had to be ordered (it's called obsolescence), and that needed a specially trained mechanic to install them for you, so everybody down the chain got to make money 💰 off you. We're such greedy people. I'm thoroughly enjoying the ingenuity of these remarkable mechanics, but especially that they see a car for what it is-- a way to get from point A to point B, not a status symbol or a way to show off one's money (money that could help a lot of needy people). It's just a mode of transportation. My hat's off to you all! 🥇
These guys could cross the country with a piece of wood and a sparkplug,cheers
He straight up spit gas into a carb to help it start 🤣🤣🤣 I’m impressed
the best aussie show on earth.wish they,d made more.
awesome show , the original aussie spirit , bloody beautie.
Such mechanical brilliance! Wood for a temporary clutch plate, etc. etc.
This has a “me and the boys” vibe to it
Definitely😂😂😂
No...
I met a couple of half Aborigine ladies with a USN buddy while visiting Australia. These people are simply amazing-John in Texas
Changes the clutch out before the plates cool lol.these guys are faster with a hammer and leatherman than the local mechanic is with an entire shop full of tools
Keep their culture alive and let them be happy just the way they are .
These fellas taught me so much about being resourceful, I’ve currently got a thin plate cut out of a washing machine welded to the underside of my muffler to make it quieter
Couple of bush mechanics tricks to get the distributor to play ball (lots of zip ties)
It’s an EL falcon but it sounds exactly like that blue holden
Absolutely amazing watching these guys, the ingenuity and skills these guts have is amazing. This is the meaning of "Thinking outside the box".
Cheers!
So it's Jan 2022 now - and still I love this. I spent 12 years in Africa, and all my inheritance, but I'm so, so glad to be able to come home... even tho' I'm a whitefella.
I remember seeing this back in 2000 on the ABC. absolutely loved it!!!
Love watching these REBEL films.. Fuggin awesome 😆 lol 😊
I watched this year's ago when it was on TV. I've loved them ever since. One of my favorite movies.
Cheers!
I love Australia. It will be good to get home one day, and ignore my family .
Armadale is beautiful this time of year.
Mmm Armadale.. Kinda like Balga!
@@norbik8678 I come from Papua new Guinea but I lived 2 years in Armadale..they were the best days of my life. I really got to know good old Aussie stuff, from A Papua New Guineans point of view the land down under Rocks!!
Love the windscreen washer for a fuel pump.
I lived KUNUNURRA for 12 years then moved to Perth wish I never left watching this makes me home sik living of the land fishing for barra .u don't relise wat I had till it's gone
I have been looking for this for about ten years now! Thank you for uploading 😁
Loved the way they bought the new car 😁😁
This is how you live for the day , the hour , the minute !No real planning , no real looking ahead , just solve the problems as they come along one after another !
Wow! Those guys are truly awesome I would love to hang out with them ,
Thanks for the video. I can remember seeing this show when I got home from high school. I really enjoyed watching it.👍😎
We watched it at school in class... i was amazed and loved it immediately. These days i doubt the teachers would have the balls to show it In class.
The fuel must be very cheap at that time
This is incredible nothing can get a Australian down
I could watch this all day
Loved this the first time I saw it. Brilliant!!
Down under. Love it.... these guys live right!
Never saw this show when it originally aired but I remember people always talking about it, cheers for the reupload.
@@BlackAsAU Sad to say I never saw it before, it's old school Black As.
@@BlackAsAU Our neighbours insisted on installing a dual Aerial splitter and we stupidly agreed, this meant we couldn't even access ABC or SBS in their prime.
@@BlackAsAU thanks to you guys, I get to see it in all it's glory
@@SEEYAIAYE yeah same man, I remember when everyone talked about it.
Always a fresh sounding battery when they start the car
Wonderful film, who thought to document this , brilliant!
I love seeing these bush fixes with stuff not car parts that have no business being used as car parts, I just love that shit! Great content f'n brilliant!!!
Seen this countless times, never gets old 👍
I freaking love everything about this!
That poor old Holden 😂😂😂😂
I forgot about the bullets as fuses 😅😅😅😅
I absolutely love this show been watching when first came out and I have an indigenous cornie who does another of this sort of stuff when he's stuck gets him out of trouble and makes me laugh 🤣🤣
Bloody awesome! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm in awe of these guys. Interesting comment at 22:13 about trying to repair newer vehicles with Engine Control Modules and advanced electronics. I would be very interested to see a later day follow up.
I don't know how or why this popped up under recommended - although I have watched all of Jack Absalom's old episodes as well as Bush Tucker Man so maybe that's why - but I'm really happy it did!
Camera Guy: Oi where do i sit?!
Bush mechanics: room on the hood mate
Use the safety jack ( gas can ) it really works
I have never seen this before but I thoroughly enjoyed it
This really inspire..when you get stuck in forest road..😁
Thank you so much for uploading this
Thanks For Sharing this videos,i think this is a piece of Aussie history.....even its not fully realistic,but its amazing entertainment in that time...those who watch it in that time might have fun...greeting from Malaysia..
Made a clutch from gidgee wood, so classic, I love these Walpiri guys. Scotty Kilmer should go to Yuendumu.
@@BlackAsAU my mob calls it gidgee, very hard, good for brake pads too.
i love the BUSH MECHANICS
this is some mad max level stuff right here
Absolute gold.
You boys have made me proud
So many memories. Us simpletons would die without N.R.M.A and so on
Gold! Enjoyed every minute! Thanks for sharing
Here in Canada, I've seen and heard of crazy repairs, mostly diringong drunken days long hunting and fishing trips hundreds of miles from anywhere. PANTY HOSE AS FAN BELT, PANTS BELT AS FAN BELT, RAW EGGS OR PEPPER FOR RADIATOR LEAKS, STEERING A TRUCK WHILE SITTING IN THE ENGINE BAY WITH A WRENCH AS SOMEONE ELSE CHANGES GEARS AFTER STEERING PUMP DIES, FEW MORE I CANNOT RECALL EXACTLY
Thanks fellas, picked up some great mechanical tips there for sure.
Excellent!!! Thanks for taking the time to fim and post. I had a chuckle along the way. Awesom ingenuity and bush mechanics.
I drove through Africa born and raised although I'm white. I remember bush fixes, chopping down tree trunks to to fix broken springs. Those were the days!
Beautiful work done on the car tyre
Proper mechanical minded folk ,,
These fella’s would survive in a cave never mind the ground,,
People like this are so traditional and always been around the Australian bush ,,
There’s a place made famous called laramagh we’re an Irish man called paddy mururity and his dog Kelly missing after a night out in local pub called the pink panther
Back in 2017 never seen since
If anyone find’s out anything please let the autortieys know,,,
His hat and wallet were in his home something he doesn’t leave behind him and his quad bike all these but no sigh of the Irish ☘️ man or his dog Kelly,,
cheers!
Shows like this really do belong in mainstream media, it would generate alot of viewers and educate us white fellas more
Spinifex tyre made me laugh and pulling up2 the car yard with blankets n handing over a wad of cash..
Hilarious mechanics
This takes me back 50 years.
Has Junior sharpened up his work ethic yet? 😂
Spinifex tyre, brilliant 👍👍
Always a classic.
I'm really happy that you threw this up again. It brings back memories of working out West of Winton (and all around that country) in the late 70s. But then it also reminds me of when I lived up at the Cape and drove busses between Cooktown and Coen and Cairns. Thank you again. I loved this when it was first released and love it even more now.
Love it good job. Can’t wait for season 3 boys
Stoked for black as s3!
Proud to be Aboriginal!
Thank you for watching!
How have I not seen this!!!
Oh man, This is so damn cool.
I love how he changes a clutch without taking out the gearbox lol 🤣🤣🤣
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You can't change the clutch without taking the gearbox off because the clutch is within the bellhousing.
They've just manufactured & edited that little scene for extra B. S. comedy ? Proof is you never see the car being driven after the "false fix" ? There are many humorous moments in the video but with some organisation like maintenance/tools/inflated spare tyres (tires) they could have done a lot better ?
If they maintained their vehicle they would get much more life out of them ? Then you wouldn't have wrecking yards like shown at 21:10. This is unfortunately normal for Aboriginal communities across Australia.
I encountered some aborigines in 1983 on the main highway South of Tennant Creek (Alice Springs area Central Australia). The had broken down. They were out of petrol, the battery was on the low side, they had no radiator cap, so the no water in the cooling system, the starter motor was broken. You could hardly recognize the engine because it was covered in a mass of grass seeds & dry grass, just able to tell the shape, it was a miracle that it ran ?
The car they had was a 70's model Holden & I had a 60's model Holden (Holden is a GM branch of their manufacturing in Australia & made a lot of models & cars to suit Australian conditions & only recently have they closed their factories & now make cars off shore). They made some cars for the USA market as well, the Pontiac GTO & the Chev Caprice. These cars were based on the local V8 supercar which won many championships as did Ford over the decades. They perform very well.
Compared to what the aboriginals had my car was a "Rolls Royce" It was well maintained & I did nearly 200,000 miles in it & bought it with 80,000 miles on the clock. Mechanically it was still going fine but the body rust beat it so I had to pension it off. It went to a wrecking yard where many parts no doubt were recycled.
Anyway I had petrol (which they wanted it for free) 20 litres (liters) 5.3 US gallons but no freebies from me.
$10 magically appeared & I poured the petrol into their tank. I even had the drum pouring nozzle.
Gave them some drinking water & water for their radiator. Then pushed their car down the highway where they clutch started it. They slowly motored down the highway & I followed them for a bit. All was well so I over took them & waved a friendly goodbye. The problem was they ignored me after stopping & helping them. Talk about ungrateful ? I passed their settlement & it too was full of wrecked cars spread all over the place ?
I'm retired now at 71 & 1983 is a long time ago. Hard to say if wrecked cars are still the norm out there in the settlements ? Probably more likely than well maintained vehicles with minimal wrecks ?
@@hughmoore810 cheers hugh, yeah mate its still the same. Im from Australia and have been up north a few times, still alot of wrecked cars about. I was just having a chuckle at the vid because I know you need to remove the gearbox to get to the clutch. Ive just finished doing a conversion on a 2009 FG xr6 falcon from auto to manual. Thanks for the reply though, sounds like you had some epic adventures of your own whilst in oz. Stay safe mate, cheers
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Yes I understand where you are coming from. I now live in Sydney area but never left OZ land as I left Sydney with new wife in 1980. I was on the "road" for some years. Worked in Gladstone, Charters Towers, Mt Isa, Darwin, Wivenhoe dam out from Ipswich, Biloela, Gladstone again, Greenvale mine Nth of Charters Towers. It was Survey construction/mining type work. Ended up back in Sydney in 1986 so 6 years of travel, my wife had our 1st child in Sydney in "86.
Started out with not much cash but had the trusty old Holden & trailer. Earnt enough to buy a house in the Sydney metro area so earning well above normal wages paid off big time. Owning your own house at 38 was just so good.
I did all my own maintenance on vehicles so knew how to keep them going for years. That's what disturbed me about Aboriginals & their "wrecking crew" mentality ? They had no respect for what was a miracle in engineering for everybody = the humble motor car. You only sow what you reap & many got stranded because they abused the vehicles ? It seems not much has changed over the decades ?
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@@hughmoore810 wow, small world! I now live about 30 minutes out of Ipswich, not far from wivenhoe dam. In a little place called Kensington grove. I love hearing about travels from fellow aussies, sounds like you've had your fair share of adventures. Glad I got to hear about some! I'm still spinning out about how close you were located to me. Even now your only about 10hrs away lol
Brilliant never show it on TV now lol sort of mechanically R rated! Very clever
loved the trick of cooking the battery... perhaps thats what Tesla do!
Very inspiring. Never give up! Thx for the tips. When driving backwards, one should sit and control the gas pedal and another on the bonnet steering ;)
Good shit. Fully enjoyed. Nice nostalgic upload. Appreciated..
Those Commodores were great cars. When they first came out from Germany the cars when tested in the South Australian Outback kind of fell in half. The firewalls cracked! The German engineers couldn't believe it. They came out and were forced to agree. We need roads. GMH substantially reengineered the cars. And shoved in a 308 so everyone from Peter Brock to communities outback could enjoy these great simple strong cars. Not sure about modern rubbish from China! This was a great series. Great the original EH wagon has been preserved.
These guys are badass
not even the entire mad max franchise will ever be as cool and ingenious as the inhabitants of Dream Country
They should start a company and create the ultimate bush ride.
I remember watching this way back awesome
Very clever men.
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