Part 4, Back in Time Photo Series-Old Street+Dealership Photos 50’s-90’s, Holden,Ford, Chrysler+V8’s
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- Take your memory back in time, to old photos in Australia with a sneaky few from NZ as-well.. Part 4 features Australia’s First McDonalds, the Chrysler Production line Bankstown as well as the Queens visit to Bankstown in 1980. Old photos of Luna Park, car dealership photos and street views from decades of the past.
what a great watch for 20 minutes - THANK YOU ! grew up in the 60s and 70s and WOW thanks for showing. By the way, for a few years thru the 1970s i drove a 1973 LJ HOLDEN Torana GTR-XU1 ....... gold, 6 lights at back. Triple Stromberg carbys, straight 6, 202 ci 3300cc red motor - chick magnet ! bought from John Newell Motors. Wept when i sold it. Holdens RULE ................. altho what do i drive today ? yes, a KIA 😄
I bet that Torana was a real head turner! XU1 worth so much today… glad you enjoyed the whole video. Most of us are now driving a Kia or something similar.. I drive Holdens but not as my daily anymore 🙁
It's nice to see people involved with their surroundings, no mobile phones, what a delight to see 😉
People were present in those days, they communicated, now they might be there physically but with a million distractions..
Really enjoying all these photos. Pt4 is very interesting showing all the police cars over the years. When we used to live in Western NSW in the 1960s, our local police man used to come out with his family in their blue HT Holden police car and visit us on our property every now and again. Great memories. Thank you for showing these to us. Keep up the great work.
@@petermanuel7128 thanks Peter… great story and great memories. There will be a 5th instalment in the future. Bet the HT looked the part..
To all those that remember the red rattlers and blue Harris trains in Melbourne I drove them and now a retired train driver cheers
That’s interesting, I’m from Syd we did have the Red Rattlers when I was young but not aware of what the blue Harris trains…
@ yes they the blue Harris trains ran from 1956 to 1988 there were sixty seven car sets all together in Melbourne
i did ride on them a few times before the 'Red Rattlers' were de-commissioned.
And my great grandfather got a retirement certificate featuring the Tait sets (that were introduced before my Grandfather was born…
And EVERYONE had to have a RED CAR 🚘 IN THE late 1970s and 1980s.
You often dont think of taking pics of boring, everyday stuff at the time, but it becomes priceless material down the track.
Sweet wooden boat at 4:42!
Hell yes! (I've been collecting videos and pics from the 1930s-- 1990s -- Interviews, Faces in the crowd at the cricket and at football matches -- Parliamentary 'Question Time')
@@doctorbohr1585 and the cameras had film then so so many would have seen it as a waste of film 🎞️ 🙂
@@GTZ05 "Why bother taking a photo of that old thing? -- It been there since before I was born -- They wouldn't be permitted to demolish it -- Thee would be a public outcry! -- The Minister for Works would lose his job!"
Love all the old Fords, holdens and valiants👍👍
Such character, you don’t see the Valiants as much as the Ford and Holdens at shows these days, but didn’t they look great 🙂
They do have an elegant line -- (Even the very old Holdens, 1960s and Fords)
I am a second owner of a 66 holden hr premier three on three and my daily driver and replaces a 67 hr wagon which rusted out go holden ford mopar all quality products
This was fantastic to watch!!!
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Couldn't stop laughing at 2:26 mark "note drip trays" had a mate nicknamed "Drip Tray" as he had a major protruding lower lip.🤣 Muck Donalds...the slow death of the good old Greasy Greek takeaway and a hamburger with the works, so big you couldn't get your gob around it!☺ Didn't know the coppers used Rambler Rebel's. Back when we were proud owners of Australian made cars, I remember when our neighbours bought a new Toyota Crown in the early 1970's, my Grandfather never spoke to them again as he fought the Japanese in Papua New Guinea in WW-II. A "Sunny-Boy" ice block cost 5c and lasted for yonks, a must in summer! What memories, we were much better off back then than we are today.☺
Haha I even had a cackle because of the nickname, that’s gold!! Glad there was an unexpected laugh in there for you 🙂. Quite true about the local takeaways on what started their slow death… The story about the crown also rings true to others I have heard, only if we had such little to pick on these days.. We have lost our car manufacturing and lots of other local manufacturing.. Most Australia’s used to be proud of this industry and it’s gone..
@@GTZ05
Pizza hut ruined pizza. McDonald's ruined hamburgers.
My Dad was in Navy , 40-46, he was even torn buying Izuzu -Holden Gemini , yet with 1.6 litre , auto , AM radio /A/C , guaranteed not to do anything quickly and she loved yellow Tartan seats , LOL . True , Toyotas particularly Crowns , Well Rod Hadfield , from Castlemaine , made a great adaptor plate that , put them behind Oz Holdens and Fords , three on the tree started to disappear ,4 on the floor , thought I was on another planet , sure got rid of those 50,000 Klm , Opel 2litre boxes put behind 186S Monaros . Tariffs made people buy Vauxhalls ,Austins , Morrises , Minis , Cortinas ,Vanguards anything with god save the queen , by the roadside boiling , Best Cop Cars , Tonsley Park Charger 340's made out of leftover bin ,Ask Cops
Those big hamburgers -- with strong onion and strong lettuce flavour -- were 20c in 1968 in a small country town -- they were as big as a saucer.
@@richardgreenlees7088 Up until recently you could still get that from a Greek take-away in Main Street Lithgow NSW. The works, meant the works, but I used to pass on the pineapple. It was so big they cut it in half for the wife and I. Good feed for $8-50.
The music absolutely fits in perfectly with what's shown here, life was simple uncomplicated everything nearly was handled with cash, classic motorcars that didn't look like each other railways were still king in the country regions all those drive-in picture theatre's that occupied the landscape, and most looked forward to attending, there was a true rest day on Sundays with little open, beautiful outdoor advertising ,calculators were as modern as technology got I coped with this no problems Character galore particular in buildings and much more ,cheers
Thanks Robert, happy you enjoyed, the music somehow has became my soundtrack to this old photo series of videos… everything had character and people talked more.
@@GTZ05Hey mate, what's the name of the track that plays through the video?
@marcolamotta I think it’s called Midnight Driving
The best years of my life.
Great times indeed
@@TomLaios They were the best years of my life as well 😊
I’ve been waiting for this to drop. Brilliant for the memories. Back Stump Hotel Merriwagga tallest bar in NSW. For the comment about the Rebels I understand they had to put a front sway bar so they would go around corners. And that blue SS hatchback…….well done and appreciated.
Glad you watched and looked out for it.. That Torana looked great and I’m sure those old pics didn’t do it justice, but it looks so great in blue.. Happy New Year!
I used to drink Mellow Yellow it had a nice taste. And the commercial with that beautiful Model. It was nice to see those old now classic Cars. Thanks 👍.
Mellow Yellow was a popular drink back in the day… it was a great taste that I miss. The old advertisement did alright.. obviously as the cars sold well 🙂
Yes they sure did 😊
I preferred Treska(?) - a grapefruit sort of flavour.
Yes I remember Treska it tasted like Grapefruit and a touch Lime. I also liked the drink Tab
Those were the days. I miss white Australia.
Awesome photos that bring back a lot of childhood memories. Great work!
Thank you, so many memories baked in there. Great fun
Thanks so much for this trip back in time.
Anytime….
Spot the fob. The nostalgia is incredible in these shots.
Exactly what I’m going for with these shots, hoping that a bunch resonate with every viewer..
An excellent compilation. It was pleasing to see Strathfield as I remember it and the c.1930's photo showing cake shop, Dunlop drapers and Orrs chemist looking towards Keary's milk bar on the corner of The Boulevarde and Redmyre Road. Keary's traded in the same location for nearly all of the 20th century and outlived just about every other business with the possible exception of some of the banks. Its nearly exclusively Korean businesses now with a smattering of Chinese and Indian.
Thank you, there were some really old pics of Strathfield in the mix.. All that history.. It is very different there now, but there are some magnificent old houses which are worth big bucks to this day. I remember changing trains at Strathfield back in the day and thought it was a pretty big train station..
Wow, I was born exactly two weeks after the first McDonalds opened in Australia 😂
That’s pretty cool.. Maccas was waiting for you 🙂
@5:24 The First and last Hotel at the Quay.
Had many a beer at that pub in the 70s.
No longer there
Was a good looking pub, hope you caught the Kingswood Taxi home 🙂
@@GTZ05 Nah. Train within staggering distance. Believe it or not I owned a 1973 Kingswood, HQ
@ and The mighty HQ was one of the best designed Holdens by Leo Pruneau, hopefully it served you well
Drip trays under the Dato’s is hilarious 😂
@@joshuaross4644 love the confidence instilled in buying a new car back in the day LOL… most of the cars back then leaked oil within a few years and or rusted.. I remember all the car parks in the shopping centres always being stained with oil. I prefer the old days, but to new cars credits, most don’t leak oil or rust so fast & are safe in a smash, but they are boring!
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Once EV's become the majority of the carpark, 2012 Corolla sedans will become interesting and classic.
@ you are probably right.. in time we will know the answer 🤣
@@GTZ05 The lanes on city highways had a continuous black streak down the centre due to all the oil drips from cars. Now you don't see that at all. It stopped being a thing in the 90s.
I'm a motor racing fan and I spotted the Holden Commodore VK driven by Larry Perkins/David Parsons in 1986 in the Bathurst 1000. The other motor racing photo I noticed was a Holden Torana A9X driven by Bob Muir and Sir Jack Brahbam in the Bathurst 1000 in 1978. 96 VS Commodore of Wayne Gardner taken in 1997. A VR Commodore car of Wayne Gardner taken in 1995.
All great racing cars and part of Australian racing history.. I love motor sport also but now there is no Holden VS Ford is I barley watch it 🙁
@GTZ05 Same here too. I do watch the Bathurst 1000 each year though.
@Terrilliser2024OZ same but not glued to the whole race like I used to be…
@@GTZ05 True here too!. I do like watching full Bathurst 1000 races from 70s and 80s on YT though.
@Terrilliser2024OZ same so much more entertaining.. more factory based vehicles.. I like them into the 90s and early 2000s also
Holy crap, is that the Woolworth store in Dulwich Hill in the first scene. My Mom bought my first BMX bike there in 81😃.
I am not positive the caption didn’t say the area, do you know the street ? MWwant to see if the building still exists… I hope it is because that’s a great memory of your first BMX 🙂bikes were everything for a kid, when did that stop? after the 90s I’d say when life when down hill with it haha..
At the time we were living in Dulwich St, Dulwich Hill which is adjacent to that Woolworth Store opposite Marrickville Rd. I swear looking at that picture, all the memories Of my childhood are just flooding back. Dulwich Hill was a great place and time to be a kid.
Absolutely brilliant. How I long for those simple days.
No one knew how good it was until it was gone 🙁
I have noticed a couple of images of Strathfield long before Strathfield Plaza and of course the high rise unit blocks
A good insight to Strathfield as I remember many decades ago.
And another thing I noticed is a certain car dealer called “The Cord Car Co,” as I recall was located on Parramatta Road at Five Dock.
Hopefully someone out there may have photos of Cullens Nissan Datsun dealer that was on the corner of Parramatta Road and Concord Road before the construction of the freeway interchange.
It was very much next to where I used to live when I was a kid.
It was quite different back then and the way so many remember it.. Im keeping a look out for some pics before the new road was built. Hopefully can slot them into a future video.
@ 2:47. That is the Golden Era Service station in Beechworth, Victoria. Still there although not a servo. That old RACV van is still there. I’m guessing that is a fairly modern photo because they do have a few ‘older’ cars on their forecourt now. And the guy on the left in the bucket hat does come across fairly contemporary to today. They do have a coffee van and some seats in the forecourt now (or did until recently - haven’t been up for a year).
That hz premier wagon was in beautiful condition in early 2000s it looks shagged now, they have had it since new i made an offer of $6500 to buy it obviously wasn't for sale
Sounds right to me, on the far right you can just see a ute like a Hilux that is much newer than the rest.. hope the place is still around
Coffee van and seating are still there! (visited Jan 2025)
Back in the day when McDonald's was spotless,Look at them now when you walk in and the kitchen area.
And when beef patties were real meat
a couple of my birthday parties were at Yagoona Maccas
They were great for kids, get a Time Machine and invite me, I’m there 🙂
0:28 Tram on Bayswater Road heading towards Edgecliff going past Rushcutters Bay from Kings Cross. 0:35 Traffic going past the North Sydney Orpheum Theatre on Alfred Street. It would have been 1951 as the movie 'Excuse my Dust' was shown that year. 0:40 Elizabeth Street Sydney? 14:31 Elizabeth Street Syd near St James Stn. 14:53 Darling Harbour where Barangaroo is now. 18:00 Liverpool Street, Syd Mark Foys in background. 18:58 Paxtons Cameras 285 George Street Syd. 21:02 George Street Hymarket Cinemas?
pretty cool pic isn’t it 😎
It was cool to see those VH Valiants in the factory,. Iv'e got a VH Ranger XL 245 , 2 barrel , automatic in Deep Chartreuse green . It was purchased in 1971 by our city council for the Town Clerk , and then given to the boss of the city council's bus depot ,where my father worked in the office, anyway ,dad always fancied owning it , and in 1980 they put it up for tender , and dads offer was accepted, $ 1750 I think it was . Dad owned it until 1996 , when he started to feel like the manual brakes and steering were a bit too difficult for him , so he asked if I'd like to do a swap for my Toyota Cressida , I accepted and it's been mine ever since, good old mum and dad , they wanted me to have it. I've owned quite a few Valiants over the years , AP6 , VC Regal ,VG Pacer hardtop, VJ Charger, VF Regal , VG sedan , and have now an AP6 Regal project car .🙂
They looked amazing and I enjoyed seeing the production line photos, the paint on them looks quite shiny as-well… great story about the car with your Dad and how you ended up with it.. That car has been with the family since new and there must be so much sentimental value to it.. what a gem. Thanks for sharing …
@GTZ05 A huge amount of sentimental value, I couldn't possibly sell it , but I get constant enquiries asking me if I would, my son will get it .
Big cars are great! I had small cars until I was given a big six cylinder Mitsubishi (Magna? -- I'm not much on details) -- What I noticed immediately was the smoothness of motion -- In my Daihatsu I felt even little speck of gravel -- In the six cylinder I thought I was travelling at 60 km/h -- but was really travelling at 80. (Whoops! What an oversight! How could I forget! We did have a second hand HQ Holden for a few years.)
@ 20:00. Painting the Harbour Bridge - that is of course Paul Hogan.
Good old Hoges…
Look at all the room on the roads!! 2:36 is the Black Stump Hotel with Cop car at Merriwagga Western NSW.
There was a lot more room that’s for sure and some great classics to share it with
Its a shame the when & where information on these photos are unavailable…👍
that’s a shame that you are disappointed, most of those details of locations and dates are not available, which is half the fun of it for the viewer’s discussing locations that they recognise... Happy New Year.
I remember the Mc Donalds near luna park get off at Milson point station walk down have a feed then off to Luna Park 5 mins away.
I don’t think I ever got to see that one.. would have been a great location for it..
OMG Yagoona Maccas by 2016 had been already GONE for as long as it existed? Insanity haha
I think when they closed it down it was because it was only by then getting one way traffic on the Hume Highway , Bankstown had 2 McDonalds in the Square plus the one on Rickard Road and Bass Hill was on its way.. They have a Maccas on it’s original site again opened for its 50th Anniversary.
G’day, Simpler times ‘ey?💕 I was born in 1970. My Uncle was a member of the FJ-FX Holden Club in Toowoomba 😊 Remember when you could work on your own car? These days, you have to take it to the dealership to have any work done on it 😮 Love seeing photos of yesteryear 🎉🎉🎉 We can’t trust our Prime Minister anymore. They’re just in it to see how much money they can get!!!
Stephen 🇦🇺
It's good to see someone who appreciates the simpler times, I think any kid that grew up in the 70s 80s and 90s was lucky.. new cars are all computerised and speaking of working on your own cars Melbourne wants people to apply for a permit to change their cars oil on your own property, that is what life is coming to nowadays, very sad truth on where things are at… don’t think we can trust many politicians
What a fabulous amount of photos. Thank you. What is your music background?
Glad you liked the photos, it’s just a tune that’s on I-Movie that is free to use without any copyright restriction’s..
@@GTZ05 what's I-Movie?
@warrenedser1996 it’s an in built movie editor on I-phones, it’s where I create and edit the videos. A year ago I didn’t even know it existed myself.
I grew up in Glen Waverley. The first Maccas was a huge event . One of the earliest KFCs too. Mum got a fly in her bun, so we weren't allowed either as kids after that. Still managed to go with friends, on the quiet, though. 🤫
@@BlackCatMargie they did really make an event of it, I know the Yagoona McDonalds opening had a designated bus for opening day.. Dad drove from Newcastle to Sydney (Guildford) in the late 60s for the first KFC opening, a fly in the bun doesn’t sounds good at all. Glad you went back though 🙂
When Wogs roamed the streets of Melbouuur. Tht large white Ford was the ultimate Wog Rolls Royce.
Amazing times and Melbourne still has a great culture
sorry I disagree , Valliant's were ethno velocipede motor of choice ,
While we were busy shopping for shiny things we we're taken over and our children will hate us soon enough.
Great memories and video bud👍
Glad you enjoyed this one aswell Jim, and thanks for watching as always
That is what I am always saying "spot the aussie"
I don’t think you are alone, I’m born here from a greek background and we say it all the time…
not a burqa in sight at bankstown then.
The attire has definitely evolved
Great
Looking at these images and glimpses / 'cameos' of men and women of 1930s -- 1980s -- small gestures -- demeanour -- posture -- even physique -- I get the distinct feeling that we have 'evolved backwards'.
@ 7:43. That is Middle Brighton in Melbourne. The supermarket is still there but now Woolworths (they took over Safeway of course). The building is the same but has had a facelift (fake stone on the front etc - Brighton is a wealthy suburb so they make it look trendy). The old CBA building is still there but not a bank. The building behind it is a pub that still operates. Between the pub and the old CBA is a level crossing for the Sandringham line.
The area looked really neat even back then.. that quite an old CBA branding, the days when banks were everywhere.. glad it’s still a supermarket, good to know 🙂
The street trees have really grown!
Holy cow ! Yes i thought i recognised the Safeway...I worked there as a night filler in the early 1980's.
The night crew were corrupt AF...LOL...thieving high end food from the deli at every opportunity....not me tho.
@ high end food theft from a high end area from what I’ve heard 🙂
Back when we had a truly free country, before everything was over legislated (pre 1990s).
Spot on
@@Wedgetail96 You are so right
I remember eating at the Yagoona maccas as kid & mother opposite me smoking & ashing her cigs in McDonald's ashtray, I recall a motorbike shop next door?
That’s right and there was a little car yard near as-well on the same side.. I think Yagoona closed down in 1994 because it was only getting traffic from one way… Bankstown had McDonalds outside and 2 inside Bankstown Square at the time.. Bass Hill would have also been close to opening.. there’s a new one on the site now but I honestly am not sure if it will survive there, unless it’s Uber eats side is strong
@@GTZ05 I rolled past Yagoona Maccas 3 weeks ago, i often look in, got me beat if it's open?
I came to Australia in 1990. It was very backwards when compared to countries like Germany. From what i heard double glazing windows are only now being installed in houses but not all.
Seeing those Highway patrol cars reminds me of living in Australia in 1988/ 1989 ( New Zealander) , and when in Brisbane, seeing a Highway Patrol cop , who had pulled someone over ,I'm pretty sure the cop car was a VK Commodore (possibly a VL ) in yellow, and the cop was wearing what looked like, a leather cap , leather jacket , a hand gun , and high leather boots . The uniform strongly resembled what some Germans wore in WW2 , I wondered how it was viable wearing that in the Brisbane heat . I really believe I saw that ,but it was a long time ago,can someone confirm ?
Hi Barry, I know we had both VK & VL pursuit vehicles in yellow, I am in NSW but I do remember our cops wearing that exact attire.. The pants they wore were almost business and in dark blue.. leather jacket and cap.. can’t say for sure in Brisbane though.. in the UK they also had that type of uniform..
@GTZ05 I think the pants on the one I saw were more like beige . The look surprised me , sort of like Mad Max or something, and definitely looked like someone not to mess with .Thanks, and it's a great video with all those photos. 👍
From Sydney, I'll be 69 in a couple of weeks, when I was a kid the police pursuit "vehicles" were and had been mostly motor bikes, hence that uniform. ALL the states bike cops used to wear the stretchy knickerbocker-jodhpur type pants same as the horse cops, the highly polished tall leather boots, big leather gloves, patent leather peak caps and kind of thick yarn wool was used for their fitted parade day like suit jackets, for wet weather they had leather "bomber" jackets both very impressive, and don't give me any lip as I mean business!! PLUS, most of the bike guys were really big, tall men. In Sydney the police motorcycle fleet was kept under the abutments of the Sydney Harbour bridge where the train & tram lines came out of North Sydney station , heading towards Milsons point station, that WHOLE vast area was full of bikes, they had a laneway behind on the western side of the bridge foundations with garage doors that open up into the lane, as the police bikes were serviced there as well, they are still there(the doors). Part of this closest to North Sydney station today holds a "flash" upmarket car sales centre, what the rest is now used for who knows as parts of it were/are double story floors, we went there on a school excursion once, at the same time all the giant Edwardian city mansions in both Arthur & Alfred streets, North Sydney were being torn down to make way for the new expressway going up the hill towards Cammeray. In early 1964 we went there for a final look at some of these impressive old homes, also on the day we went what was deemed the most Gigantic Oldest Moreton Bay Figtree was to be cut down as it was right in the middle of the 2 redundant streets and what would be the middle of the expressway, The tree fellers gave all the kids 2 inch thick, near one foot in diametre pieces of the tree branches, and some furniture companies were there to help as it gave a rare opportunity to obtain vast circular rings of wood, NONE of that tree was wasted as there had been a save the tree fight for some months going on but progress won not the tree.
As an aside, can you imagine the ruckus now if a infants/primary school excursion went scavenging and looking through a vast demolition site of old buildings so you could grab & take a souvenir. I picked up a nice house name plaque, about 2 foot long, 6 inches tall with a nice brass frame, galvanized steel back panel with the name "ELDORADO" set in gold gilt on glass with a black background. I still have it, it sits on my computer desk at home to this day !! and I still have my piece of the tree, I put it on Pa's lathe, made a perfect one-foot diametre, two-inch-thick circle, sanded and decorated it, and since adulthood it's been used for standing very hot items on, so no harm caused to kitchen benchtops. One wonders what happened to the other thousand odd circles of the fig tree given to all the other kids that day.
As newer cars became both faster and were made to handle better, the head count of bike cops dropped as they transitioned across to using more cars as pursuit vehicles, however they kept their original type uniform, later this changed. PLUS, in NSW when I was a kid there had been a couple of instances years ago where crooks had attempted to use their getaway cars as weapons to knock the bike cops over and deliberately attempt to harm and kill the bike cops. After this they went out at night in pairs, then after a few more years no more nighttime bike pursuit cops as cars took over that task.
@gregharvie3896 Some great memories there. Yes I think I recall the Highway patrol cops pants were as you described, and again ,were like some of Adolph's men wore. I'm not sure, but I dont think any cops in NZ still ride motorcycles , but in the seventies they rode Honda CB 750's , and later on they were on Yamaha's that had cast alloy wheels, and , as I recall they had issues with those wheels breaking ( not ideal) .As a small boy, I remember the Police where I lived, had an FC Holden panel van , painted black , and apparently had the nickname "The black Mariah " , I thought it looked really cool , it would have looked really good with a set of mag wheels , I wonder where it is now.
@@barrycuda3769 Hi from Sydney again. We had black Mariah's, prisoner movement vehicles as well, they were black, were 8 wheeler trucks with front dual steering wheels, they had a rear central "cage" system for the extremely bad prisoners, There was a verandah around this and half a dozen armed guards lurked behind bullet proof security panels, the guards had the biggest rifles that I had ever seen as a kid, and also some kind of lighter gauge machine guns, We had near almost identical royal mint trucks for moving large amounts of new notes, old notes to be incinerated, and shift pure gold to the PMG Works at Darling Harbour, where the Aussie Post Master General MADE all of our Aussie telephones, as pure gold was used on the old Bakelite phones dialers for really crisp clear voices, we went here & to the mint on a school excursion too. Also, these trucks shifted pure silver to the mint works dept' as with our old pre-decimal coins there was a really high silver content.
As an aside, when I was a kid at school still our FIRST circular 50 cent coins from Feb'14th 1966, soon had well more than 50 vents worth of silver in them, this soon changed as they were withdrawn in a flash and replaced with the angle cut nickel ones we still use. WHY, well a pack of Hong Kong based crooks were caught exporting TONNAGE of the 50 cent coins and pre-decimal silver color coins to extract the silver content.
Re the FC Holden panel van, my favorite panel van of all time, as it has the low same roof as the station wagon, this lower roof made them look more sleek than any other panel van and the FC front grill with its thicker bars and wider openings, plus the cool wrap around blinker and parking light pods looked was better than the fussy FE grill with a heap more vertical and horizontal bars, plus the little "pimple-like" blinkers. Also the early FC's the 1958 models had deep maroon plastic taillights that never faded, plus they blinked red for the indicators, an additional feature was the really bright clear GLASS reversing lights, which had a "part two" to them, when you twisted the headlight knob furthest it switched in the central dome light, and the reversing lights which lit up all round the back of the car, PLUS each reverse light had 2 cut outs in their back ground with 2 small glass "windows" which allowed the lights to illuminate the inner boot area, these and the whole reverse light system were GONE from the later 1959 FC' sedans with amber blinkers, and gone from all the panel vans be them late FC's or the newer FB & EK models. Prior FJ panel vans had a taller roof, and the FC update pair the fin model FB & EK Holden panel vans and all that followed had the tall commercial roof fitted. My first car a hand me down from a deceased great aunt was a 1958 FC Holden in Adobe beige on the lower half, and as a 1968 model had the mega two tone effect where the whole upper car roof, boot, upper rear guards & window frames were painted Olinda green, so it looked almost like a taxi from back then which were often in multi colors. The 1959 FC's had amber not red rear blinker lights and 2 tone was just window frames a bit of upper rear door & upper rear guard, however they had a chrome breaker at base of roof pillar and a way way longer rear chrome fin blade that met up with this roof pillar chrome bit, MEGA RUST started at base of roof pillar, killing the car, I remember walking back to mine in Glebe near Sydney Uni and another young 'p" plate driver had badly harked their FC with the back left wheel up really high on an 1800's deep stone gutter , and the roof had broken off the bottom half of the car & the sturdy back window had popped out clear unbroken from the car and was sitting on the boot lid --- how would you feel coming back to that. If you go to a FE-FC Holden meet you see few FE's as they used that same chrome bit on the bottom of the roof pillar on 2-tone cars, and you see equally few of the '59 FC's for same reason. I sold mine to a young guy in mid 1986, now near 40 years later he still has it and 4 more, I needed its undercover parking space for another car I'd just bought & I've still got that car too !!
Lol, my mates and I from school were at the Glenny Maccas open day
That’s really cool, one of the newspaper openings was for that maccas.. do you remember which year? I think the paper said 76 or 78? Was hard to read
The photo that said strathfield 1980 it was the 1990 I worked that red building in the background
1990s would be correct based on the cars I see in the pic. I didn’t date stamp this one and didn’t notice it being incorrect when I uploaded. Thanks for watching.
The maccas has reopened at the original Yagoona site.
Yeah it has, I was hoping when o announced it they would have kept the old building which had been used by an insurance company for some years, but they bowled it over, I don’t think it was drive through friendly
Ahhhh yes when all cars were gas guzzling rust buckets, were unsafe in any weather and launched you thru the windscreen....but they did at least offer RTS.
(Radial Tuned Suspension) LOL
Those Monaros tho.....i want one, how much ? LOL
HAHA, Yeah the RTS was a game changer, back then it was marketed so much as if it was like it was a new technology like Stability control.. So true though, they were all rust buckets up to the 70s/80s depending on the car and unsafe, new cars definitely have that over them but don’t have character in my view.
@@GTZ05 100 per cent
@@GTZ05 Modern cars have no style -- Even the standard British saloon or small car of the 1940s-1960s had style -- As did the old Holdens of the 1950s-1960s had
@ very true, the lines were so nice on those old cars
Well don't love Australia and it's early history many thanks l loved the journey
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
I didn’t know they were still building VG’s when the VH’s were released. Was it like the VL & VN where they continued VL production for two months after the VN’s release ?
Did you mean VC when the VH was released? I’m not positive but have heard they did use up most of the parts to sell both models, I heard they did that with the VL also
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Could be referencing the Chrysler scene at 8:47.
Sometimes the old model utes continued production after the all new sedan was released. The releases were often staggered as the company likely wanted the focus to be on the sedans first. Once established, they can redirect attention to the work models.
@ I think you are right on with that comment, that occurred to me after, with so many images and the previous vids I don’t remember off by heart every photos added.. but there is a bunch of Valiants in this
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All new and superceded models often had an overlap of around two to seven months.
XA Falcon Ute was released about six months after the passenger models. Similar story at Ford and Holden.
All I know is ,my VH Valiant is a 1971 model, and there are also 1971 VG Valiants
Hi, at 09:52 there is image of a Falcon near a Shell service station going up a wide aterial road. Can you tell me where this thanks?
It’s your lucky day, I know exactly where this is.. Woodville road Villawood NSW, just past the Mechano set heading towards Parramatta. The pub is still there, the shell service station I think is now a little car yard and just past there used to be Villawood McDonalds which closed down and became Gospel Pianos in the 90s in the Original McDonalds building
@@GTZ05 It doesn't appear to be there. That street on the left at the Shell in the photo going onto the main road doesn't continue across. The only street on Woodville rd where you describe continues across.
@Sonofalewis it is that street and if you zoom into the pic you will see the hotel says Villawood, I know this area well… the street does not continue across, the street on the left is a T intersection, opposite it and Villawood hotel is a large footpath with housing behind it.. the original image fits in better than in the vid and shows the pub better… I created a little private video for you to view the picture in more detail click the link Villawood hotel 924 Woodville Road
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Would like to see more images of that street at the 33-37 second mark. (Is it New South Head Road, near Rushcutter's Bay?)
(Any photos of the streets which run down from 'The Cross'? -- Or photos of buildings lining the 'Southern' side of the street leading up from New South Head Rd -- prior to the construction of the Eastern Suburbs Line? Would like tot know the name of the street at the 14.00 min mark.)
The photo at 33-37 seconds is somewhere in North Sydney Dec 1951.. I think I do have some photos down from the cross if I can find them will try to add them into the next one.. the photo at 14mins I am not sure of the location
@@GTZ05 Thanks for prompt reply -- Looking at the photo at the 33-37 seconds mark -- I wonder whether the ornate building at the top of the hill, in the centre of the pic -- could be the North Sydney Post Office, (still standing).
(I wondered whether the photo at the 14.00 min mark could be the top of Bayswater Rd -- I noticed that the name of the 'run'/ 'route' on the front of the bus is "Wylde Street" -- which is in Potts Point.)
@ it does look like the post office, I used to work in North Sydney and it does look like it
@@GTZ05 Thanks -- (If that is the PO, then the stream of cars turning right must be headed towards 'The Bridge'.)
Yep
In 50 years we will look back at the Nissan x trail
Wow look at that rare old beauty son 😂😂😂😂
You’re right anything with a petrol motor might be like that, the only element missing will be the Aussie made component that so many Australia’s were proud of..
i think they will exhausted supply of FWD electric 4WD gearboxes and the back suspension is horrific
Was that Paul Hogan painting the harbour bridge ?
It is, I think there are others floating around .. Saw that Hoges was in town recently as-well
obviously posted by a Holden nut.
And carefully selected
Re/ his images.
I am def a Holden fan but I like all old cars, heaps of others in there also
@@GTZ05 Yes -- Heaps of 1940s Holdens -- Possible that Mr "ArgUdson", (sic?) has a bias of his own?
Mello Yello and that old Woolies logo? More like 1979 not 1989!! But wow that Sydney Tower under construction looks creepy AF doesn’t it
Was introduced in 1979 and fazed out early 90s when lift took over., was my drink of choice as a kid, outraged when it stopped lol & also came back as a limited edition for about a week in 2013… very creepy tower indeed
Yes thank you for those memories love the video, shame how Australia has changed, the immigrants has changed horribly wrong today, high rise units everywhere ,nothing is made in Australia anymore like kitchen accessories cars etc, we need some politician like Donald Trump, prime minister, let's make Australia great again ,but it will never happen, it's a shame.
Thanks again hope you do another video similar to it thank you👌👍
You can blame the Globalist movement for that change. Started by Paul Keating, held back a little by John Howard then the flood with Krudd and Grillard and hasn’t stopped since.
It has changed a lot, the major cities and surrounding suburbs are not what they used to be.. the world has changed.. good chance for a part 5 as I still have a lot of left over images 🙂
OMG , yeah lets vote in a convicted sex offender , bankrupt , six times , You Needed to get Rid of Joe Hockey who killed car manufacture on the basis the Govt. subsidised it , didn't do Germans any harm Volkswagen owning Rolls Royce ,Lets have tariffs so we can only buy boiling english crapboxes
Aren't we all immigrants ?
@freeagent8225 Don't fall for left wing lies mate. The children of immigrants are NOT immigrants. So the answer is no.
So glad i owned some Aussie metal while i could; HG Kingswood, VB Commodore, XE Falcon V8 (my favourite) plus some Adelaide made Mitsubishi's.......1985 Colt sedan and a red TP Magna. None of em were outstanding cars, but i love how yhey were made here by workers who generated economic activity in surrounding areas.
Our government has betrayed us.
Without consulting us first, we'll soon be buying mainly EV's supplied by the CCP, whome we share no common ground with. Just disgraceful treachery.
Anyhow......good video of a nation we once knew.
Modern society: economists and policymakers know the price of everything and the value of nothing. No strategic big picture thinking at all in the last forty or so years.
Yeah it was a great time when we could buy Aussie made cars and our own workers were generating local economic activity, you had some gems in the mix and even as you said the later ones like the colt and Magna were not outstanding but we still put them together.. we had a 85 Magna and to be honest it served us well for over 5 years, motor was a little rattly but nothing broke down and there was plenty of room for us all…
Yes Hockey said subsidised to much must go , Germans subsidise higher %, ,we had volkswagen factory at Clayton , Vic, BMC factory , Rootes factory , Ford Chrysler, Holden , had to buy bloody Vauxhalls (god save the queen Tariffs at %47 ,) for anything not commonwealth made , thats where Ford and Holden started up KND, send Chevs , Pontiacs , Customline , Mainline utes, across the border into Canada voila , Commonweath made , Menzies and Black Jack McKewen , die hard royalists got the full nappy an spewed, Austin 1800s great seats , cause when you went through the tiny creek ,fan soaked the dissy Mini same ,great seats while you waited for AAA or NRMA , Hockey telling this 64 year old who worked for Ford at Geelong since he was 18 , that he'd re-train him ,as computer operator.The spin of jobs tyres , pads ,shocks , locks , as good a business mind a Dunlop who sold the only condom machine in Australia ,in Perth when the pill came out ,thought we'll be one jump ahead , no-one will want them anymore , the 2 blokes who operated it did so until 65 then sold it to Ansell ,Elizabeth S.A. turned into ghetto ,
simpler times, a lot of work, cheap beer, food, cars, we could trust the govt to do the right thing, the world was at 'peace' , when immigrants actually helped to build our country unlike the division albo and his useless minions have done to our once beautiful Australia
I don’t know what they all do today, but I can definitely agree that in the old days immigrants made Australia their home, tried to integrate and definitely helped build the country, I know my grandparents did this when migrating here in the mid 50’s they worked hard but there was also pride in it. They also would only drive Australian made cars, my grandfather was proud of his Kingswood and other cars before it..
@@GTZ05 My mother is not at all political but I remember her saying, when I mentioned the situation today and government largesse "we never got a penny from the government when we arrived".
@ my grandparents said they were promised some land to come to Australia but that didn’t eventuate and there was no financial assistance back then, so it rings true, they just got on with it and made a new life here..
@@GTZ05 And you guys have every right to be proud. As a car guy in the US, I'm very fortunate to own my VF2 SS, marketed here as the Chevy SS. It's awesome, best car I've ever owned. Glad I got one of the last ones!
and a Studebaker Lark
Very Evocative, But The Computer "Music" Was Just Awful!! Why Not Some 80's Contemporary Hits?!! They Were Pretty Awful Too, But Better Than A Computer In A Gay Bar!!
Copyright is the word Lucien, I’d love it to be 80s music but it will get blocked.. best thing to do for these videos is mute the sound and play your music. Funny thing is feedback on this music has been mostly good. Thanks for watching.
Cars were always super expensive in Oz 🤬
I think they still are and we still have the luxury car tax which was geared towards selling locally made vs imported, but the government loves it too much to get rid of it
8:12 Those utes don't look good. No doubt the guy that cobbled them together was sporting a mullet.
Made from actual Statesman’s.. not everyone’s thing I gues
Good Job mate.
Thanks!
A white nation, was a safe nation.
except if they were in uniform , or state politics , they added up every legal cent/penny Askin made , he retired with over ten times that , put it down to horses , yet couldn't name the TAB he went to (George Freeman 'colourful Kings Cross Identity)