There are so many incorrect statements in this, for example, the XR GT came out in 1967 not 66. And the A9X never competed against any GTHO’s and the only result a Charger had at Bathurst was 3rd in 1972. Plus, where is the most iconic Aussie muscle car, the GTHO Phase 3?
Welcome to the latest AI technology carefully crafted to totally destroy all accurate memories of Australia's once world beater but now thoroughly destroyed automotive industry. The clowns behind this evil actually hate us & deliberately show wrong images, quote wildly untrue "facts", intentionally mangle our proud history & ruin the minds of younger generations who only use the fool internet to research any topic. This vile machine will absolutely reply to you, pretend to be sorry, promise to remedy & then do no such thing. Aint it just great? Give it another 6 months & it'll tell you just how good Chinese cars are compared to anything ever produced in Australia. Imagine how good it will be when you can take your Chinese car into the drivethrough at Kentucky Fried Kitten?
Okay on TH-cam there is a thing that says go live now it's very simple to record yourself with all the correct information and make a video yourself just like I did
Exactly, the fastest car we produced didnt even get a mention and it was the fastest 4 door car in the world for 30 years or so. The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3
Well I'm going to add to the comments and state that that was the slant six not a V8! I don't know how the hell it could have gotten that wrong! The slant six is a beast of a block! Those things were light and powerful and very reliable! They were also very tunable and you could and people have done forced induction in the form of centrifugal superchargers and turbo chargers. Regardless of whether or not most of that information is correct I will say that these vehicles are absolutely gorgeous! As an American I have never been to Australia and I am kind of pissed off that more wasn't done with straight sixes in America. The straight six is a very versatile lightweight very durable reliable configuration! Not to say that I am not a fan of all internal combustion engines in all their configurations! I am a big fan of diesels V8 and inline and single cylinder! What can I say I love the classics! So I tip my hat to you in Australia and I say that you have some absolutely gorgeous vehicles and what you did with that straight six in the charger is brilliant! What I wouldn't give for one of those cars! Anyway that is my two cents and light ramble! Autism it's an interesting rollercoaster ride! I think there's a couple of other things but I'm not sure still working on that. I have some ideas but until I get some confirmation from an outside perspective I won't be entirely sure. Don't worry about me I'm all right! I am the happiest that I have ever been in my life it's just I want to know. Because if I know then I can at least explain myself. Honestly I don't mean offense! However I am brutally honest! That's why I had to say something! I couldn't let that slide! I have never had a slant six but that doesn't mean that I don't respect the hell out of them!
I suggest you look at the Australian Ford Barra inline 6 engine for a project. They are starting to take off on the USA (and several other countries) not only very strong but very easy to to tune for incredible power -plenty of examples, here in Australia, of street cars with in excess of 1,000hp. Track examples now are exceeding 2,000hp. There was a factory turbo option which put most V8s to shame. Highest ex-factory specification was 436 hp @ 6000 rpm, 425 lb⋅ft @ 2750 rpm -not bad for 243 cu in! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Barra_engine#Barra_270T_(FG)
maybe he was thinking of a Pacer, Did the AMC Pacer ever have a V8? AMC Pacer - Wikipedia The option package was available only with the 258 cu in (4.2 L) I6 or 304 cu in (5.0 L) V8 engine. "D/L" Package: A more upscale edition, the D/L was available for the entire run of the Pacer production and became the base model in 1978
Wasn't the slant 6. The E49 and E38 chargers were straight upright 6s. In 245ci or 265ci Hemis. The slant 6 was a 225ci in previous povo pack valiants.
The little misinformation here is that in 1972 most new cars in America were built with unleaded gasoline engines and the horsepower took a massive hit as did the performance. There were a lot of Japanese 4 cylinder cars out performing all American muscle cars.
The 1971 Ford XY GTHO Phase III was the fastest four-door sedan in the world at the time. It could reach 142 mph (228 km/Hr0 straight from the factory.
I hate the Bot narration in so many videos. Pronunciation is often just wrong. Who's ever heard of a "three hundred and two" Ford V8. it's a "three-oh-two". The order of the cars presented is all over the place with some duplication. With the AP6 Valiant, it talks of the V8 but only shows 6-cylinder engine bays. And we have "Barth-hurst" again.
@@duncanyourmate2433 Even funnier are all the goombies bleating & moaning in here because the wonky AI fact machine forgot to mention their beloved XA RPO Unicorn barge. It's hilarious these knuckledraggers conveniently forget Brock crunched their RPO dreamturd at Bathurst in '72 with a dinky little 202 XU-1 Torana. They should all be ashamed & stay hiding under their rocks. I can't stop laughing.
That was awesome but not to include the phase 3 GTHO is shameful. THE ultimate Aussie muscle that led the government of the day to put restrictions on car makers & put paid to the release of the phase 4.
A few people triggered in the comments section. Whilst there may have been a few errors here and there I still think it showcased the cars well and I enjoyed watching it. Cheers.
I remember my father got one of the first Monaros out of the factory .. custom leather white interior and a stunning burnt orange body .. as a teenager I would get embarrassed when I was dropped off at school ! It was very showy .. I remember the doors were massive !
@@lancetuckey6403 Yeah I was waiting for that too but as we didn't get it in production it wasn't going to appear in a video about what the yanks didn't get
@glennblanchard4193 Only I phase 4 went down the production line and was fitted with a HO compliance plate....it was green . The other 3....all red were standard XA GT falcons pulled from the line and modified to phase 4 specifications..... as for compliance plates I have no idea.. One of the 3 remaining cars was sold in 2018 for over 2 million.
Yeh right, except that it is all AI. Have you ever heard of a "Five Eight" instead of a V8? That just annoys the hell out of me. I might not be 72 but I'm not far behind you and I agree this was interesting but it's not all true. These You Tubers just use AI to get their videos out there and as far as they are concerned it doesn't matter if it's wrong, because that just makes more of us comment and that is all their looking for, comments, because it makes their channel better and creates more of an income for them, and I just got sucked in again. I really wish I had kept my Torana, (and my XW Falcon, hindsight, it's a fine art) even if I could never tune those carby's properly.🤣 I do agree Steve it was nice to watch and it bought back a lot of memories.👍
@@Jumbo-k4t Well aren't you a star. Doesn't change the fact that these vids are often so far off track they're rubbish. And I've got better things to do than try to produce an accurate correction. You seem to like doing it. Go for it.
@@pauljolly8687 I'm not correcting anyone I'm making adult videos to make people laugh because I'm bloody funny lol All I'm saying is I wish more people would contribute instead of thinking it should be done for them .
@@Jumbo-k4t Actually Why don't you see if you can make one that is more accurate. I want to confirm my suspicion that you are dumber than the AI that made this video.
I went to New South Wales last month to pick up a 4x4 I'd had rebuilt. While we were there, we visited an elderly relative who has Alzheimer's. He kept asking his son (my second cousin,) "where's me car, son?" And each time he'd get out his phone and show him the last few videos of him sitting in his car which is locked up at his son's house in a purpose built garage behind the house. It's his bright yellow and black A9X Torona, in mint condition, with 45,000km on it. He bought it new and only drove it around the small country town they live in. I had no idea!
Makes you sick, doesn't it? It's deliberate. AI is owned by the same grubs massively invested in big pharma. The more they drive you insane & make you throw up, the more money you spend on sickness.
I'm thankful for my '72 Valiant Charger R/T... It hasn't let me down, and I have driven it countless times between my Tumwater home and the Bay Area... Even doin' shakedowns @Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca!!!
The video is about aussie muscle that left US cars in the dust- which no aussie car ever did. I love my Chargers, but it wasnt quicker than every usa mopar that year. Every usa brand of muscle had something quicker than the E-49.
The E49 had a V8 340 cui. It was the E38 which was the 6 cylinder with triple dual throat webers I HAD ONE. 14 second 1/4 mile. The XW Ford 351 cui V8 GTHO phase 3 was the fastest standard production car in the world 1971. Bolwell wasnt a standard production car, more like a kit car or Clubman type. I drove all thes cars when I was 17 to 18 years old 1972/73. Ford was #1 even though losing Bathurst in 1972 to GM 6 cylinder XU1, GT Fords gave me goosebumps everytime I heard one at the traffic lights. A9X was the resurgence of GM muscularity, There was no E37 the race car was the E38 with 6 Pack. I loved the XR GT, to this day little 289 was champion but 351s blew its wheels off. AP6? I had one, it was a shopping car and NO V8s?? It had a slant 6 and was wicked performer. XC Cobra was a tamed down GTHO 351, I also loved The XC Coupe style and it had impressive 5 litre 302 V8 power BUT NOTHING LIKE 351 CLEVELAND GTHOs. 71 GTHOs go for $1 Million Plus at Auction today and Torana A9X HALF THAT PRICE AT AUCTION. Ford is #1 on auction blocks in supercar era. I hope I straightened this out for you, without criticising as I was a BOY RACER of the early 1970s and fulthy rich to afford it, this was a really good artcle stacked with nostalgia for me, thankyou
If the Falcon XA Phase 4 were officially released as a limited production run homologated road version that would have to be 8n the op 3. Phase 4 and the Torana LJ XU2 were the true supercars we almost got.
I once owned a '69 South African Valiant Barracuda with a (I think) 325 cu. inch slant six engine. The car was standard. What a pleasure, should never have sold it, regretted to this day.
A mate purchased a GT HO Phase III about a month ago. We've been cruising in a few times and it's a head turner. Everywhere we go we see smiles on faces - it's an awesome car.
The rarest car on this list is the Ellexa Nine Ex Torana. You are more likely to see a James Hardie Phase 10 Asbestos Air Guitar before you'd see one of these.
@JoeShabidu Oh, u mongrel. I googled Ellexa Nine Ex Torana, cause Id never heard of it and then a huge CLICK hit me in the back of the head. wtg fella, lol
@@JoeShabidu Seriously, r u that thick. What the fk is a Ellexa Nine Ex Torana? Do you mean a LX A9X Torana? If thats whats trying to come out of your mouth, I suggest you listen/look more closely at the video yourself. People like you make so many look dumb.
Peter Brock raced the Big Banger A9X around bathurst and he won the Great race and i have gotten the slot car version the original smoking brand on itself and it's a well done design of the slot car 100% percent perfect at all times
Correlation is not necessarily causation, but that 'muscle car' era [1970's] was also when people were 5 times more likely to die in a car crash in Australia than they are today. ESPECIALLY young men! I grew up in that era and at about age 30 I could recall two of my peers dying of natural causes, three committing suicide and at least 30 or more dying in car or motorcycle crashes. I'm amazed I survived!
@@iannagel2499 better regulation/policing. Young d!ckheads can't get away with a fraction of things we got away with as young d!ckheads. Same with old [drunk] dickheads.
@@tazman8697 Thanks tazman, I know about that, just a pity they didn't show one with a V8 in it. Gotta admit though, it would be damn near impossible to find one now adays.
The 1966 Falcon has the flower pot steering wheel which was unique to 1967 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars. Also, the engine shown in the video is a 351, not a 289. The 351 was first available for the 1969 model year.
A9x was just a remanufactured Chevy Vega. Falcon was also an American car. Both GMH and Ford as well as Valiant were all American companies. The So called Aussie HQ Monaro even had Comaro stripes and thr GTHO PH3 had a mustang scoop as did many xb falcons. The Falcons had Mustang floor pans and suspension. No diff buddy.
@ bullshit. Some parts may be similar. But the Aussie muscle cars were superior because they were designed properly. The American vehicles you mentioned weren’t anything like the Aussie cars.
@@marksmart9754 They were in fact pretty much the same. all falcon floor pans and suspension and brakes were mustang items. The Torana was Chevy based. The Salisbury diff was an American diff not Australian and the GMH front suspension was the same as so many other GM cars. After all, GMH and Ford were 100% American car manufacturers.
@@matton36zThe Holden Salisbury diff is not the same as the Chevrolet Salisbury diff... parts don't interchange. Salisbury is the name for that type of diff, Borg Warner,Dana. Banjo is the name for diffs that have a removable differential 'center'. Various Ford,early Holden, Toyota 4WD.
@@ate71622 Thats correct. The Holden salisbury was just a Borg Warner. As for tyhe Banjo, yes that was Australian and what a piece of garbage it was along with the Aussie 4 speed.
Stopping was also optional, and if you stopped too fast, your seat mounts would break, and you would be catapulted out of the windscreen, seat and all. These "muscle" cars are remembered with rose tinted glasses, because the were all rubbish, all death traps, and they were not put together very well at all. All about power, and nothing else. That is why they failed.... because they were rubbish.
F.O.R.D. FKD OR RUN DOWN , FOUND ON RUBBISH DUMPS , FUNGUS ON REAR DOORS , I DO LOVE 1966 XR 289 windsor , but my GMH 1966 HR X2 , A TRUE RARE MASTERPIECE,, THE BEST CAR Australia ever produced. RARARA
As an Australian growing up in this time period this video has so many embarrassing factual errors it's gobsmacking. Where the hell is the E38 Charger? How in gods name can you not have the XY GTHO Phase III in the list?? SERIOUSLY .... Where is the XA GT and GTHO Phase IV ? Where is the GTR XU1?? WTAF You have to be taking the piss pitting an AP6 on the list above any of these and you didn't even have accurate pics. This is an embarrassment. AI voice over ? Are you serious. To the author. Go back to square 1 and do proper research and get the facts before putting out such rubbish.
Chargers did not dominate the racing scene far from it they ran behind the Torana’s & GTHO’s. Also the 1969 Falcon Gt Phase 1 was a Falcon GTHO Phase 1 with a Windsor 351 v8
@@MacRODesign55 Nice try. The only Chargers ever available out of showrooms & directly to the public in NZ were luxobarge 770s & every single one of them was an automatic. No R/T E37s. No R/T E38s. No R/T E49s. No E55s. All retail NZ Chargers were built at Todd Motors except for special orders. Obviously, any serious Charger built & raced in NZ was a SUBSTANTIALLY modified car. The popular NZ category won repeatedly by automatic 770 Chargers only permitted locally assembled cars which didn't allow GTHOs, XU-1s or L34s. It did allow weird locally built 770 Chargers optioned up with the E37 Triple Weber performance pack producing over 300BHP. This was a nutty Valiant cake walk where go fast Valiants were protected species oddball flyers allowed to stomp all over little Hillman Imps & other ordinary average nonperformance cars. Discusting really. Other NZ Race Rules allowed for such modifications while Australia's ATCC was run under strict series production rules up until the advent of Group C in 1973. Some easy research will quickly tell us why Moff's Mustang failed in NZ. Probably a lack of locally available suitable tyres or engine issues & a lack of spare parts? Dunno. Would have to look into it. NZ motor racing was a closed environment clearly geared to ensure locally built Valstangs won everything easily. Am no Ford fan. Actually prefer Valiants & would love a V8 VC Regal in white with the black vinyl top. However, history records NO Chrysler powered item ever got anywhere near Moff's purpose built '69 Hollman & Moody TransAm Mustang, except in oddball NZ where the rules were weird & unique & suited to locally raced cars. It's a shame cash strapped Chrysler Aust lagged so far behind Aust Ford & Holden in everything they did. The Falcon had Windsor power & a 4 speed in 1967. The 186S HR Holden also had a 4 speed by 1967. What was Chrysler Aust thinking by going racing with a 3 speed box in 1971? Chryslers 1971 VH range didn't even have a single vent in the dash! Bizarre. Go fast Valiants came with disc brakes & NO DAMN BRAKE BOOSTER! Madness. A booster was an optional extra. Some of us old geezers survived the Australian Muscle Car era & we have the limps & the scars to prove it. We remember the first Hemi sixes failing & overheating because the kooky heads split straight up the middle. We remember having to go through the ridiculous process of having to remove entire front mudguards off VH Valiants when the stupidly hidden bonnet hinge springs broke & we got blasted by the missus for cutting handles off brooms to make bonnet props for dopey Valiants. Things got really dangerous & irritating when Chrysler retained the very same tinny frame rails from all the slant models & then tossed in their thumping great crazy heavy truck Hemi Sixes AND THE FRAME RAILS BROKE BEHIND THE STEERING BOX! Absolute madness. Thousands & thousands of reasonably healthy Valiants went to the tip because the loony torsion bar front ends chewed out their piddly little bushes, the front ends squeaked like mad, the wheel alignment went berserk, cost a fortune to fix, didn't get fixed & the inner edges of front tyres got chewed off in just one weekend driving to & from the beach. Crazy. Then there was the early version of the Hemi starter motor which also screamed it's guts out at sunrise when the neighbour wound the motor over in his Vitamin C E37 as he tried to leave for work. Just plain annoying. Then there's the terrible vinyl used on the seats which went hard, cracked & split & curled up like egg shells. Not nice. My family had Valiants. My old man was the A-Grade mechanic at the Ampol servo at Balgowlah Heights on Sydney's North Shore until we left in Oct '73. The Old Girl had a hotted up AP5 & we really loved that car. It was traded on Parramatta Road for a gleaming mint Slant/Auto VC in Sept '73. It also wasn't a bad car but when things got really serious in Aust Motor Racing, Chrysler Aust fell miserably behind. Had they punched out the E49 when they first released the E37 in '71, I recon Brock probably wouldn't have nailed down his first Bathurst win in '72. Had Chrysler Aust stopped pissing around & dropped a half a dozen E49s on the Bathurst grid in '71 & maintained some serious momentum, Holden's piddly little 202 XU-1 would have needed a rocket up it's clacker to keep up. Unfortunately for Aust Valiant fans, Chrysler just never could keep up & the teency little Torana got the '72 win & as if to prove it wasn't a fluke, the little six banger Torana very nearly did it again in '73. The ATCC & the Manufacturers Championship in Aust during the late '60s & right up until the early '90s was a very serious business. The cars, mechanics & drivers who won these events didn't win by accident. The cars had to be truly supreme. The poor old Valiant just wasn't quite good enough. I was right in the middle of it. I remember it all like it was yesterday. Some of us desperately wanted to see a Valiant break through for a Bathurst win because we felt they deserved to win. Our Valiants were Aust built cars, they had their faults, they sometimes drove us nuts, but we loved them anyway. NZ is a different story. They had seriously fast operators like Coppins & Richards, wildly hotted up TwinCam Escorts, V8 Cortinas, monster Big Block Camaros, locally developed Mustangs & hordes of enthusiastic Valiant people who went to huge extremes to get their Valiants competitive. We knew the Kiwis were into it big time the minute Richards & Coppins arrived here & grabbed a podium (Third Outright!) straight off the bat in a fast but notoriously fragile L34 at Bathurst in 1974. The L34 was then still only a newborn baby which had just begun it's racing life in Adelaide on the 25th of Aug '74. Crazy fast talented Kiwis Richards & Coppins had what it took to get their virtually untried Torana to the Bathurst finish line ahead of an entire field of top shelf local Aussie talent except for just one other L34 (Forbes & Negus) & the winning Goss / Bartlett Falcon. The Kiwis had arrived! One day I'll find a decent book showing New Zealand's Touring Car Racing History. That would have to be a fabulous read. It'd be interesting to discover just what was done to get Chargers into the winner's circle seeing as it rarely happened here.
@@MacRODesign55 PS: A good mate had an oddball Charger in Brisbane back in the early '90s. It was a Magenta '71 770 with the line of black dots embossed into the sill covers. That car was plated as optioned: E37, so it had a Webered 265 & 3 on the floor. I can only assume Todd Motors in NZ were importing these "Six Pack" optioned 770s, tossing the slush boxes, upping compression ratios, installing aggressive camshafts, bolting in manual boxes & basicly assembling homegrown R/T Chargers? Whatever it was they got up to, it clearly worked.
These fancy-pants, 'factory built', muscle cars were for middle-aged men with money and a mid-life crisis. For most of us poor young fellas of the era, if we wanted a 'muscle' car, we had to build our own Frankenstein's monster. There's a good documentary on life in 1970's 'Straya. It's called Mad Max.
No aussie muscle left the americans in the dust- either in acceleration or top speed. Ours may have handled a little better as road racing was our game.
I’m pretty sure you’ll find the GTHO ph3 was ‘the fastest production car in the world’ for many years, maybe even decades. Edit, you know, the one that wasn’t mentioned in this video….
@@nathanhansford76 like who cares Australia had its own outlook of what we liked, US cars never took off here to big and gas guzzlers and I think ours looked better
Sorry Ross, your WRONG.....only the aftermarket US muscle cars were quicker on the road than ours . The big engined Mustangs were impossible to get off the line and keep straight etc etc. Only the improved USA cars were both quick and DRIVEABLE !!! AND the US factory cars were limited by governors.....massive V8 engines and hp, but limited to a top speed about 117 mph, like a Falcon GT was......the XY GTHO doing 140 mph and the XA RPO engine ( phase iv GTHO ) doing 160 mph even if out of tune.
They were all rust buckets, which is sad as not many of these icons exist anymore...... They all handled like pigs and had shit brakes except the Holdens which had brakes known as "sudden death", which could put you through the windscreen..... but as a mechanic of the era, I can say they were very easy to work on as there was plenty of room under the lid and we had a lot of fun trying to get more horsepower out of them.......
@ They were 5.8s, the metric equivalent in litres of 351 cubic inches. However, getting back to my original reply in context, the voiceover which stated “five 8” was accompanied by the text “V8” with that same voiceover previously saying “vee-8” when accompanied by the “V8” text. The algorithm itself is inconsistent.
I have a mate who has a A9X this car has been sitting have covered in carpet for over 30 years in the open….IT WENT VERY WELL INDEED. I USED TO FEEL VERY VULNERABLE SITTING IN THE BACK WHILST THE OLD HATCHBACK WAS GIVING ALL SHE HAD…I RECKON IT WASNT A EASY FEAT GETTING OUT THE BACK IN A STACK…BUT WHAT A SHAME HOW ITS DYING 💀 MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY…THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SILVER SPOON LADS ARE SPOILED ROTTEN…..
Interesting, but several problems here. Firstly, the Holden Torana GTR-XU1 should surely have been mentioned, and why has this not been done in chronological order? Bit of a dogs breakfast in my opinion.
As I was saying back to my RAV4 with a powerful four-cylinder 2 L CVT transmission sports mode and traction control…Holden N ford compete with that…oh shit use don’t even exist..
the A9X Production figures are wrong I have seen the book from GMH listing every lx toranas built, their was only 90 hatches made and over half were scooped up by racing teams they are the rarest cars built in Australia and a genuine 1 will set you back over $million today their is only a very small number road going cars in hatch back, the model with the solid mounted steering and t10 4 speed with 3.55 diff ratio are the rarest, the Ford cobras wasn't the end of Australian muscle cars both Ford and Holden building into 2017 with cars that put most to shame GMH with its SS range of models and Ford with their XR series of falcons we love our tough cars and they still sort after by petrol heads
Im not sure what your trying to say, the 351 windsor was a stand alone engine. There were many other windsors which were totally different such as the 220, 289 and 302.
Whoever made this atrocity ever realise that our Aussie models were the same underneath as the American parent company. So cringeworthy this video is for a razzy nomination
@@FromTheGong true but one did run down the production line and was officially a PH4. Would be interesting to see how much it was felt at auction, if only I had a few million dollars 🙏
@@MarkCockerill-r9tthe three phase 4's werent production- they were at best pre production test cars. Assembled well away from the production line where spies and loose lips could not access.
@@rossbrumby1957 The Ph 4 was a production car until the government banned them, there was one that went down the production line, it was a green 4 door PH4 now owned by a dentist in Sydney.
Despite the nay sayers, FORD sold hundreds of GT RPO's with the full Phase 4 engine, top loader gear box, Bathurst diff, and GTHO suspension and brakes. These cars were real 160 mph Phase 4 HO's, but officially sold as Falcon GT's for the same price. All the relevant info is on the compliance plate. 2nd hand , the GT RPO is worth more than the GT.....but if it has the full RPO extras on the compliance plate, then it is worth almost as much as a Phase 3 HO, although some collectors and enthusiests will pay ANYTHING for the right RPO.
Just a damn shame they never learned how to pronounce Chrysler. Damn it people it is NOT Chrys/ler It is Chry/sler. We have videos of the man himself Walter P Chrysler talking about the new Chrysler Corporation and that is how he pronounces it. Sounds like Cry Sler and NOT Cry/sla there is an R find it.
Another great video, love the (at least by me), never seen before factory shots. Well done. Makes me proud of our Aussie engineering and appreciative of the American parent companies who provided the development money.
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and provided the engines and engineering lol 351 how cute ! how about 500hp monsters living in the US ? No Ozzy's got robbed. they came in late and got to stay longer. their 70s cars after 72 were probably faster than what we had , but before that ya / no not even close. i can't help but laugh when he says MONSTEROUS 351. lol little peanut motor.
There's a _lot_ of cr@ppy vids (produced by humans _or_ A.I.) about old skool Strayan performance cars. It's tough to pick the absolute worst - but _this_ one is possibly up there. 🙄
The bullshit of the comments are noted, they, themselves are wrong in many of what they say. BUT the fact is , Australia DID produce the fastest production car in the world with the GTHO. The Bolwell was a fibreblass vehicle with GM/Holden motors, not the ford. Bolwell became a part of GM Australia.
What annoys me is that sweden thinks its the largest muscle car nation outside of the US, yes thats right the nation that produced nothing but the volvo. Copium much.
Yeah, in quite a few places this vid is a load of poop. We were always casting an eye on the American scene here in Aus to see what they were doing. If anything our cars handled better because the cars were engineered that way as our roads were on average rougher. It is often interesting to compare the muscle cars of the US and Aus to see what was similar, what was different. If there is one thing I thank the internet for is that it has introduced many of our American cousins to our muscle cars and our car culture. They complimentr each other. Just a strange vid overall.
in 1972 there was no such thing as a Muscle car in America, so the cars built in Australia didn't need to be vary good to beat them, a Monkey on tricycle could have done the job. If you would have said 1971, I would have said bull ship!
There are so many incorrect statements in this, for example, the XR GT came out in 1967 not 66. And the A9X never competed against any GTHO’s and the only result a Charger had at Bathurst was 3rd in 1972. Plus, where is the most iconic Aussie muscle car, the GTHO Phase 3?
Welcome to the latest AI technology carefully crafted to totally destroy all accurate memories of Australia's once world beater but now thoroughly destroyed automotive industry.
The clowns behind this evil actually hate us & deliberately show wrong images, quote wildly untrue "facts", intentionally mangle our proud history & ruin the minds of younger generations who only use the fool internet to research any topic.
This vile machine will absolutely reply to you, pretend to be sorry, promise to remedy & then do no such thing.
Aint it just great?
Give it another 6 months & it'll tell you just how good Chinese cars are compared to anything ever produced in Australia.
Imagine how good it will be when you can take your Chinese car into the drivethrough at Kentucky Fried Kitten?
Okay on TH-cam there is a thing that says go live now it's very simple to record yourself with all the correct information and make a video yourself just like I did
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So you just dropped everything about you straight into the matrix?
Well done.
@@johnbrooks9523 What the hell are you talking about? dropped myself in lol I'm not sure you're good at communicating
Exactly, the fastest car we produced didnt even get a mention and it was the fastest 4 door car in the world for 30 years or so. The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3
Well I'm going to add to the comments and state that that was the slant six not a V8! I don't know how the hell it could have gotten that wrong! The slant six is a beast of a block! Those things were light and powerful and very reliable! They were also very tunable and you could and people have done forced induction in the form of centrifugal superchargers and turbo chargers. Regardless of whether or not most of that information is correct I will say that these vehicles are absolutely gorgeous! As an American I have never been to Australia and I am kind of pissed off that more wasn't done with straight sixes in America. The straight six is a very versatile lightweight very durable reliable configuration! Not to say that I am not a fan of all internal combustion engines in all their configurations! I am a big fan of diesels V8 and inline and single cylinder! What can I say I love the classics! So I tip my hat to you in Australia and I say that you have some absolutely gorgeous vehicles and what you did with that straight six in the charger is brilliant! What I wouldn't give for one of those cars! Anyway that is my two cents and light ramble! Autism it's an interesting rollercoaster ride! I think there's a couple of other things but I'm not sure still working on that. I have some ideas but until I get some confirmation from an outside perspective I won't be entirely sure. Don't worry about me I'm all right! I am the happiest that I have ever been in my life it's just I want to know. Because if I know then I can at least explain myself. Honestly I don't mean offense! However I am brutally honest! That's why I had to say something! I couldn't let that slide! I have never had a slant six but that doesn't mean that I don't respect the hell out of them!
I suggest you look at the Australian Ford Barra inline 6 engine for a project. They are starting to take off on the USA (and several other countries) not only very strong but very easy to to tune for incredible power -plenty of examples, here in Australia, of street cars with in excess of 1,000hp. Track examples now are exceeding 2,000hp. There was a factory turbo option which put most V8s to shame. Highest ex-factory specification was 436 hp @ 6000 rpm, 425 lb⋅ft @ 2750 rpm -not bad for 243 cu in!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Barra_engine#Barra_270T_(FG)
maybe he was thinking of a Pacer, Did the AMC Pacer ever have a V8?
AMC Pacer - Wikipedia
The option package was available only with the 258 cu in (4.2 L) I6 or 304 cu in (5.0 L) V8 engine. "D/L" Package: A more upscale edition, the D/L was available for the entire run of the Pacer production and became the base model in 1978
Wasn't the slant 6. The E49 and E38 chargers were straight upright 6s. In 245ci or 265ci Hemis. The slant 6 was a 225ci in previous povo pack valiants.
I still remember the "Hey charger" ads on TV
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Anyone remember the Mad Mile at Samford?
The little misinformation here is that in 1972 most new cars in America were built with unleaded gasoline engines and the horsepower took a massive hit as did the performance. There were a lot of Japanese 4 cylinder cars out performing all American muscle cars.
Not in 72 the japs werent.
The 1971 Ford XY GTHO Phase III was the fastest four-door sedan in the world at the time. It could reach 142 mph (228 km/Hr0 straight from the factory.
This is what AI , does to "documentaries , makes Mockumentaries.
You have got a fair amount of the information wrong the LTD and the XB GT Falcon were the first to have four wheel disc brakes in 1973
welcome to 'el cheapo' made AI , just for clicks , expect many more , sadly
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All really disturbing.
omg that AI voice over is so bad ! , who has ever called a V8 " five eight "
@@phillcc8524 It was AI and it read the V as a Roman numeral...number 5 🤣
I hate the Bot narration in so many videos. Pronunciation is often just wrong. Who's ever heard of a "three hundred and two" Ford V8. it's a "three-oh-two". The order of the cars presented is all over the place with some duplication. With the AP6 Valiant, it talks of the V8 but only shows 6-cylinder engine bays. And we have "Barth-hurst" again.
@@p38arover22some of us oldies say "Three Hundred And Two Cubic Inch V8" because IT IS ! Whipper-snappers think they know it all !
@@p38arover22 So Don't get your knickers in a twist ! Ha Ha .
5.8 litres probably
You forgot the Torana GTR-XU1
and that genuine enthusiasts are watching A.I stuff it up
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Even funnier are all the goombies bleating & moaning in here because the wonky AI fact machine forgot to mention their beloved XA RPO Unicorn barge.
It's hilarious these knuckledraggers conveniently forget Brock crunched their RPO dreamturd at Bathurst in '72 with a dinky little 202 XU-1 Torana.
They should all be ashamed & stay hiding under their rocks.
I can't stop laughing.
@@johnbrooks9523 Harry knew how to tweak rules , FORD taught him how they did it .
@robyncahill9179 a serious question for you , Torana GTR XU1 or Charger E 37-38 for the win ?
That was awesome but not to include the phase 3 GTHO is shameful.
THE ultimate Aussie muscle that led the government of the day to put restrictions on car makers & put paid to the release of the phase 4.
A few people triggered in the comments section. Whilst there may have been a few errors here and there I still think it showcased the cars well and I enjoyed watching it. Cheers.
I remember my father got one of the first Monaros out of the factory .. custom leather white interior and a stunning burnt orange body .. as a teenager I would get embarrassed when I was dropped off at school ! It was very showy .. I remember the doors were massive !
Did I fall asleep and miss the XY Phase III GT?
Yeah WTF?
What about the legendary......but short lived phase 4..
@@lancetuckey6403 Yeah I was waiting for that too but as we didn't get it in production it wasn't going to appear in a video about what the yanks didn't get
@glennblanchard4193 Only I phase 4 went down the production line and was fitted with a HO compliance plate....it was green .
The other 3....all red were standard XA GT falcons pulled from the line and modified to phase 4 specifications..... as for compliance plates I have no idea..
One of the 3 remaining cars was sold in 2018 for over 2 million.
351,s used to blow up pushed too hard 302 windsor better bye
Man I just love those Brock A9X's
As a Gen X male I love these Aussie muscle cars, I remember them fondly
gen x LOL Jesus what a Google sheep Allowing the Americans to put you into groups so you're easier to control
Being 72 I think I have an insight; the producers of this video did a superlative job, Tnankyou
Yeh right, except that it is all AI. Have you ever heard of a "Five Eight" instead of a V8? That just annoys the hell out of me. I might not be 72 but I'm not far behind you and I agree this was interesting but it's not all true. These You Tubers just use AI to get their videos out there and as far as they are concerned it doesn't matter if it's wrong, because that just makes more of us comment and that is all their looking for, comments, because it makes their channel better and creates more of an income for them, and I just got sucked in again. I really wish I had kept my Torana, (and my XW Falcon, hindsight, it's a fine art) even if I could never tune those carby's properly.🤣 I do agree Steve it was nice to watch and it bought back a lot of memories.👍
Too many errors to be treated seriously. Chronology was all wrong.
Well you make a video that's more accurate stop thinking that everyone else has to do the hard work ,contribute it's easy I did
@@Jumbo-k4t Well aren't you a star. Doesn't change the fact that these vids are often so far off track they're rubbish. And I've got better things to do than try to produce an accurate correction. You seem to like doing it. Go for it.
@@pauljolly8687 I'm not correcting anyone I'm making adult videos to make people laugh because I'm bloody funny lol All I'm saying is I wish more people would contribute instead of thinking it should be done for them .
@@pauljolly8687 I am not correcting anybody I am making people laugh maybe you should have a look
@@Jumbo-k4t Actually Why don't you see if you can make one that is more accurate. I want to confirm my suspicion that you are dumber than the AI that made this video.
I went to New South Wales last month to pick up a 4x4 I'd had rebuilt. While we were there, we visited an elderly relative who has Alzheimer's. He kept asking his son (my second cousin,) "where's me car, son?" And each time he'd get out his phone and show him the last few videos of him sitting in his car which is locked up at his son's house in a purpose built garage behind the house.
It's his bright yellow and black A9X Torona, in mint condition, with 45,000km on it. He bought it new and only drove it around the small country town they live in. I had no idea!
So many errors, the first and last time I will watch this channel
Makes you sick, doesn't it?
It's deliberate.
AI is owned by the same grubs massively invested in big pharma.
The more they drive you insane & make you throw up, the more money you spend on sickness.
Get off your arse and make a video then .very simple don't always leave it up to everybody else then complain
They were the greatest of days! So many memories!
I thought a five eight was a rugby position.
Too much AI and not enough human checking. Sloppy.
Ford 351 Windsor and Clevelands are Five Eights.
I'm thankful for my '72 Valiant Charger R/T... It hasn't let me down, and I have driven it countless times between my Tumwater home and the Bay Area... Even doin' shakedowns @Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca!!!
So where's the VG hemi pacers ? 245 in different states of tune.
The video is about aussie muscle that left US cars in the dust- which no aussie car ever did. I love my Chargers, but it wasnt quicker than every usa mopar that year. Every usa brand of muscle had something quicker than the E-49.
its all AI crap mate , made for clicks ,
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The E49 had a V8 340 cui. It was the E38 which was the 6 cylinder with triple dual throat webers I HAD ONE. 14 second 1/4 mile. The XW Ford 351 cui V8 GTHO phase 3 was the fastest standard production car in the world 1971. Bolwell wasnt a standard production car, more like a kit car or Clubman type. I drove all thes cars when I was 17 to 18 years old 1972/73. Ford was #1 even though losing Bathurst in 1972 to GM 6 cylinder XU1, GT Fords gave me goosebumps everytime I heard one at the traffic lights. A9X was the resurgence of GM muscularity, There was no E37 the race car was the E38 with 6 Pack. I loved the XR GT, to this day little 289 was champion but 351s blew its wheels off. AP6? I had one, it was a shopping car and NO V8s?? It had a slant 6 and was wicked performer. XC Cobra was a tamed down GTHO 351, I also loved The XC Coupe style and it had impressive 5 litre 302 V8 power BUT NOTHING LIKE 351 CLEVELAND GTHOs. 71 GTHOs go for $1 Million Plus at Auction today and Torana A9X HALF THAT PRICE AT AUCTION. Ford is #1 on auction blocks in supercar era. I hope I straightened this out for you, without criticising as I was a BOY RACER of the early 1970s and fulthy rich to afford it, this was a really good artcle stacked with nostalgia for me, thankyou
The E49 was a 6 cylinder The E55 option was the 340 V8
And the Phase 3 was an XY not an XW And there was an E37, it was a milder E38 version
If the Falcon XA Phase 4 were officially released as a limited production run homologated road version that would have to be 8n the op 3. Phase 4 and the Torana LJ XU2 were the true supercars we almost got.
How does in become 8n?
Dont forget that the E-55 340 chargers were detuned and given only autos for the same reason. They were all game changers that never happened.
I once owned a '69 South African Valiant Barracuda with a (I think) 325 cu. inch slant six engine. The car was standard. What a pleasure, should never have sold it, regretted to this day.
A mate purchased a GT HO Phase III about a month ago. We've been cruising in a few times and it's a head turner. Everywhere we go we see smiles on faces - it's an awesome car.
@@JoeShabidu Just having what he's got is awesome and I hope it's insured for more than his house.
You guys are lucky , Its straight up
The rarest car on this list is the Ellexa Nine Ex Torana. You are more likely to see a James Hardie Phase 10 Asbestos Air Guitar before you'd see one of these.
@JoeShabidu Oh, u mongrel. I googled Ellexa Nine Ex Torana, cause Id never heard of it and then a huge CLICK hit me in the back of the head. wtg fella, lol
@@JoeShabidu Seriously, r u that thick. What the fk is a Ellexa Nine Ex Torana? Do you mean a LX A9X Torana? If thats whats trying to come out of your mouth, I suggest you listen/look more closely at the video yourself. People like you make so many look dumb.
The Monaro was a shocker of a car,did not handle that well.
Let’s face it, no car of the era handled all that well either.
Peter Brock raced the Big Banger A9X around bathurst and he won the Great race and i have gotten the slot car version the original smoking brand on itself and it's a well done design of the slot car 100% percent perfect at all times
No mention of the Torana L34 ???
Correlation is not necessarily causation, but that 'muscle car' era [1970's] was also when people were 5 times more likely to die in a car crash in Australia than they are today. ESPECIALLY young men! I grew up in that era and at about age 30 I could recall two of my peers dying of natural causes, three committing suicide and at least 30 or more dying in car or motorcycle crashes. I'm amazed I survived!
That's the result of simpleton level licensing requirements. Since that era, nothing has improved.
@@iannagel2499 better regulation/policing. Young d!ckheads can't get away with a fraction of things we got away with as young d!ckheads. Same with old [drunk] dickheads.
The 1973 2 door Ford Landau coupe was fitted standard with 4 wheel disc brakes long before the A9X or any Holden.
What about the 340 charger with the "Goodie" engine
That drag strip is in Heathcote dragway in bendigo victoria australia
How could you not mention the legendary XY Ford Falcon GTHO?
Why do you tell us that Chrysler put a V8 into the AP6 while showing a slant six engine under the bonnet?
Most of the AP 6's were slant 6's........ The V8 version was only available in Australia although some were privately imported to New Zealand.....
@@tazman8697 Thanks tazman, I know about that, just a pity they didn't show one with a V8 in it. Gotta admit though, it would be damn near impossible to find one now adays.
In south africa we had the firenza can am it dominated every car here even the fairmond gt couldn't keep up
The 1966 Falcon has the flower pot steering wheel which was unique to 1967 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars. Also, the engine shown in the video is a 351, not a 289. The 351 was first available for the 1969 model year.
And the Australian cars actually turned corners and stopped.
A9x was just a remanufactured Chevy Vega. Falcon was also an American car. Both GMH and Ford as well as Valiant were all American companies. The So called Aussie HQ Monaro even had Comaro stripes and thr GTHO PH3 had a mustang scoop as did many xb falcons. The Falcons had Mustang floor pans and suspension. No diff buddy.
@ bullshit. Some parts may be similar. But the Aussie muscle cars were superior because they were designed properly. The American vehicles you mentioned weren’t anything like the Aussie cars.
@@marksmart9754 They were in fact pretty much the same. all falcon floor pans and suspension and brakes were mustang items. The Torana was Chevy based. The Salisbury diff was an American diff not Australian and the GMH front suspension was the same as so many other GM cars. After all, GMH and Ford were 100% American car manufacturers.
@@matton36zThe Holden Salisbury diff is not the same as the Chevrolet Salisbury diff... parts don't interchange. Salisbury is the name for that type of diff, Borg Warner,Dana. Banjo is the name for diffs that have a removable differential 'center'. Various Ford,early Holden, Toyota 4WD.
@@ate71622 Thats correct. The Holden salisbury was just a Borg Warner. As for tyhe Banjo, yes that was Australian and what a piece of garbage it was along with the Aussie 4 speed.
The Chrysler Chargers were great in a straight line, cornering was an optional risk!
Stopping was also optional, and if you stopped too fast, your seat mounts would break, and you would be catapulted out of the windscreen, seat and all.
These "muscle" cars are remembered with rose tinted glasses, because the were all rubbish, all death traps, and they were not put together very well at all.
All about power, and nothing else.
That is why they failed.... because they were rubbish.
All so called a slant 6 a V8 🤔
Turn the volume down, just watch 😎
Where did you find the old man AI voice? GO TORANA!!! A9X! Rear of the Charger... sooo Iconic!!
F.O.R.D. FKD OR RUN DOWN , FOUND ON RUBBISH DUMPS , FUNGUS ON REAR DOORS , I DO LOVE 1966 XR 289 windsor , but my GMH 1966 HR X2 , A TRUE RARE MASTERPIECE,, THE BEST CAR Australia ever produced. RARARA
As an Australian growing up in this time period this video has so many embarrassing factual errors it's gobsmacking.
Where the hell is the E38 Charger?
How in gods name can you not have the XY GTHO Phase III in the list?? SERIOUSLY ....
Where is the XA GT and GTHO Phase IV ?
Where is the GTR XU1?? WTAF
You have to be taking the piss pitting an AP6 on the list above any of these and you didn't even have accurate pics.
This is an embarrassment.
AI voice over ? Are you serious.
To the author. Go back to square 1 and do proper research and get the facts before putting out such rubbish.
AI, aluminum😂 get stuffed this producer...
British AI accent pronouncing it like a North American AI
Someone cannot spell "Litre" what is going on with this country, Australia.
This video is a prime example of BENCH RACING! That's where your not nearly as fast as you think you are.
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi.
The 427 and good handling would have made the Monaro really go
Make that a L88 427 will ya' 👍
Falcon GT 351 fastest 4 door in the world.
Cost $5000 when they came out , or about a years good wage or a third of a nice house.
Ford xr6 hits 100ks in 4 seconds
Chargers did not dominate the racing scene far from it they ran behind the Torana’s & GTHO’s.
Also the 1969 Falcon Gt Phase 1 was a Falcon GTHO Phase 1 with a Windsor 351 v8
My recollection is that the Chargers kicked Ar5e in New Zealand, even beating the legendary Alan Moffat in his Mustang.
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Nice try.
The only Chargers ever available out of showrooms & directly to the public in NZ were luxobarge 770s & every single one of them was an automatic.
No R/T E37s.
No R/T E38s.
No R/T E49s.
No E55s.
All retail NZ Chargers were built at Todd Motors except for special orders.
Obviously, any serious Charger built & raced in NZ was a SUBSTANTIALLY modified car.
The popular NZ category won repeatedly by automatic 770 Chargers only permitted locally assembled cars which didn't allow GTHOs, XU-1s or L34s.
It did allow weird locally built 770 Chargers optioned up with the E37 Triple Weber performance pack producing over 300BHP. This was a nutty Valiant cake walk where go fast Valiants were protected species oddball flyers allowed to stomp all over little Hillman Imps & other ordinary average nonperformance cars. Discusting really.
Other NZ Race Rules allowed for such modifications while Australia's ATCC was run under strict series production rules up until the advent of Group C in 1973.
Some easy research will quickly tell us why Moff's Mustang failed in NZ. Probably a lack of locally available suitable tyres or engine issues & a lack of spare parts? Dunno. Would have to look into it. NZ motor racing was a closed environment clearly geared to ensure locally built Valstangs won everything easily.
Am no Ford fan. Actually prefer Valiants & would love a V8 VC Regal in white with the black vinyl top.
However, history records NO Chrysler powered item ever got anywhere near Moff's purpose built '69 Hollman & Moody TransAm Mustang, except in oddball NZ where the rules were weird & unique & suited to locally raced cars.
It's a shame cash strapped Chrysler Aust lagged so far behind Aust Ford & Holden in everything they did.
The Falcon had Windsor power & a 4 speed in 1967.
The 186S HR Holden also had a 4 speed by 1967.
What was Chrysler Aust thinking by going racing with a 3 speed box in 1971?
Chryslers 1971 VH range didn't even have a single vent in the dash! Bizarre.
Go fast Valiants came with disc brakes & NO DAMN BRAKE BOOSTER! Madness. A booster was an optional extra.
Some of us old geezers survived the Australian Muscle Car era & we have the limps & the scars to prove it.
We remember the first Hemi sixes failing & overheating because the kooky heads split straight up the middle.
We remember having to go through the ridiculous process of having to remove entire front mudguards off VH Valiants when the stupidly hidden bonnet hinge springs broke & we got blasted by the missus for cutting handles off brooms to make bonnet props for dopey Valiants.
Things got really dangerous & irritating when Chrysler retained the very same tinny frame rails from all the slant models & then tossed in their thumping great crazy heavy truck Hemi Sixes AND THE FRAME RAILS BROKE BEHIND THE STEERING BOX! Absolute madness.
Thousands & thousands of reasonably healthy Valiants went to the tip because the loony torsion bar front ends chewed out their piddly little bushes, the front ends squeaked like mad, the wheel alignment went berserk, cost a fortune to fix, didn't get fixed & the inner edges of front tyres got chewed off in just one weekend driving to & from the beach. Crazy.
Then there was the early version of the Hemi starter motor which also screamed it's guts out at sunrise when the neighbour wound the motor over in his Vitamin C E37 as he tried to leave for work. Just plain annoying.
Then there's the terrible vinyl used on the seats which went hard, cracked & split & curled up like egg shells. Not nice.
My family had Valiants. My old man was the A-Grade mechanic at the Ampol servo at Balgowlah Heights on Sydney's North Shore until we left in Oct '73. The Old Girl had a hotted up AP5 & we really loved that car. It was traded on Parramatta Road for a gleaming mint Slant/Auto VC in Sept '73. It also wasn't a bad car but when things got really serious in Aust Motor Racing, Chrysler Aust fell miserably behind.
Had they punched out the E49 when they first released the E37 in '71, I recon Brock probably wouldn't have nailed down his first Bathurst win in '72. Had Chrysler Aust stopped pissing around & dropped a half a dozen E49s on the Bathurst grid in '71 & maintained some serious momentum, Holden's piddly little 202 XU-1 would have needed a rocket up it's clacker to keep up.
Unfortunately for Aust Valiant fans, Chrysler just never could keep up & the teency little Torana got the '72 win & as if to prove it wasn't a fluke, the little six banger Torana very nearly did it again in '73.
The ATCC & the Manufacturers Championship in Aust during the late '60s & right up until the early '90s was a very serious business. The cars, mechanics & drivers who won these events didn't win by accident. The cars had to be truly supreme.
The poor old Valiant just wasn't quite good enough. I was right in the middle of it. I remember it all like it was yesterday. Some of us desperately wanted to see a Valiant break through for a Bathurst win because we felt they deserved to win. Our Valiants were Aust built cars, they had their faults, they sometimes drove us nuts, but we loved them anyway.
NZ is a different story. They had seriously fast operators like Coppins & Richards, wildly hotted up TwinCam Escorts, V8 Cortinas, monster Big Block Camaros, locally developed Mustangs & hordes of enthusiastic Valiant people who went to huge extremes to get their Valiants competitive. We knew the Kiwis were into it big time the minute Richards & Coppins arrived here & grabbed a podium (Third Outright!) straight off the bat in a fast but notoriously fragile L34 at Bathurst in 1974. The L34 was then still only a newborn baby which had just begun it's racing life in Adelaide on the 25th of Aug '74.
Crazy fast talented Kiwis Richards & Coppins had what it took to get their virtually untried Torana to the Bathurst finish line ahead of an entire field of top shelf local Aussie talent except for just one other L34 (Forbes & Negus) & the winning Goss / Bartlett Falcon.
The Kiwis had arrived!
One day I'll find a decent book showing New Zealand's Touring Car Racing History. That would have to be a fabulous read.
It'd be interesting to discover just what was done to get Chargers into the winner's circle seeing as it rarely happened here.
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PS:
A good mate had an oddball Charger in Brisbane back in the early '90s.
It was a Magenta '71 770 with the line of black dots embossed into the sill covers.
That car was plated as optioned: E37, so it had a Webered 265 & 3 on the floor.
I can only assume Todd Motors in NZ were importing these "Six Pack" optioned 770s, tossing the slush boxes, upping compression ratios, installing aggressive camshafts, bolting in manual boxes & basicly assembling homegrown R/T Chargers?
Whatever it was they got up to, it clearly worked.
All AI , expect many more for us genuine enthusiasts
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The pattern I see indicates all the misinfo is deliberate & carefully devised to confuse & cause arguments.
Jessh theyd be priceless now!
These fancy-pants, 'factory built', muscle cars were for middle-aged men with money and a mid-life crisis. For most of us poor young fellas of the era, if we wanted a 'muscle' car, we had to build our own Frankenstein's monster. There's a good documentary on life in 1970's 'Straya. It's called Mad Max.
i wish i still had my torana XU1 best car i ever owned LJ 2 door
You left out the faze 3 GTHO
Unfortunately there are so many errors in this.
You missed one the Leyland P76 that was shelved due to Leyland going broke.
No aussie muscle left the americans in the dust- either in acceleration or top speed. Ours may have handled a little better as road racing was our game.
I’m pretty sure you’ll find the GTHO ph3 was ‘the fastest production car in the world’ for many years, maybe even decades.
Edit, you know, the one that wasn’t mentioned in this video….
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Fastest "four door" production car and that would only have been in 1971, maybe 72.
@@nathanhansford76 like who cares Australia had its own outlook of what we liked, US cars never took off here to big and gas guzzlers and I think ours looked better
@@LSturboguy totally agree, hp for hp and kg for kg, Aussie muscle had it all over the yanks....
Sorry Ross, your WRONG.....only the aftermarket US muscle cars were quicker on the road than ours .
The big engined Mustangs were impossible to get off the line and keep straight etc etc.
Only the improved USA cars were both quick and DRIVEABLE !!!
AND the US factory cars were limited by governors.....massive V8 engines and hp, but limited to a top speed about 117 mph, like a Falcon GT was......the XY GTHO doing 140 mph and the XA RPO engine ( phase iv GTHO ) doing 160 mph even if out of tune.
They were all rust buckets, which is sad as not many of these icons exist anymore...... They all handled like pigs and had shit brakes except the Holdens which had brakes known as "sudden death", which could put you through the windscreen..... but as a mechanic of the era, I can say they were very easy to work on as there was plenty of room under the lid and we had a lot of fun trying to get more horsepower out of them.......
i think that would be an 'aluminium' transmission case
The e49 looks like a Toyota cilca in my opinion
FFS train your AI please ...its a muscle car channel that cannot correct pronounce Vee...8 not bloody 5...8
welcome to AI world where enthusiasts dont matter clicks do , very disappointed
@@duncanyourmate2433
Watching this garbage is like trying to sleep with a cactus.
Technically, It wasn't always wrong. Ford 351 ci = Five Eight.
It's a Vee 8, not a five 8. Geez.
Not in stupid A.I. Terms
Not always. The Engine in GTHOs and Cobras were Five Eights. The Cobra even had the Five Eight Badge on the Front Quarter Panel......
@@JoeShabidu No one called 351s , five eights , 5 point eight maybe as cubic inch spec , but not five eights ,
@ They were 5.8s, the metric equivalent in litres of 351 cubic inches. However, getting back to my original reply in context, the voiceover which stated “five 8” was accompanied by the text “V8” with that same voiceover previously saying “vee-8” when accompanied by the “V8” text. The algorithm itself is inconsistent.
Chronology is all over the shop and that ap6 engine isnt a v8, its a slant 6
I have a mate who has a A9X this car has been sitting have covered in carpet for over 30 years in the open….IT WENT VERY WELL INDEED. I USED TO FEEL VERY VULNERABLE SITTING IN THE BACK WHILST THE OLD HATCHBACK WAS GIVING ALL SHE HAD…I RECKON IT WASNT A EASY FEAT GETTING OUT THE BACK IN A STACK…BUT WHAT A SHAME HOW ITS DYING 💀 MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY…THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SILVER SPOON LADS ARE SPOILED ROTTEN…..
Interesting, but several problems here. Firstly, the Holden Torana GTR-XU1 should surely have been mentioned, and why has this not been done in chronological order? Bit of a dogs breakfast in my opinion.
All of these cars seem to be around the size of a nova or 60 falcon , most canadian machines were larger
As I was saying back to my RAV4 with a powerful four-cylinder 2 L CVT transmission sports mode and traction control…Holden N ford compete with that…oh shit use don’t even exist..
the A9X Production figures are wrong I have seen the book from GMH listing every lx toranas built, their was only 90 hatches made and over half were scooped up by racing teams they are the rarest cars built in Australia and a genuine 1 will set you back over $million today their is only a very small number road going cars in hatch back, the model with the solid mounted steering and t10 4 speed with 3.55 diff ratio are the rarest, the Ford cobras wasn't the end of Australian muscle cars both Ford and Holden building into 2017 with cars that put most to shame GMH with its SS range of models and Ford with their XR series of falcons we love our tough cars and they still sort after by petrol heads
Some amazing cars came out of Oz so sad that in one foul swoop the entire Oz built car industry was dismantled 🇦🇺😢
Your pics are not correct.
And the only Windsor plant built V8 was the 351. Ford called all the other small blocks the 90 degree V8 with its cid.
Im not sure what your trying to say, the 351 windsor was a stand alone engine. There were many other windsors which were totally different such as the 220, 289 and 302.
Whoever made this atrocity ever realise that our Aussie models were the same underneath as the American parent company. So cringeworthy this video is for a razzy nomination
Why show the 6 cyl engine in a so called AP6 valiant as a V8😳
Piss that AI voice off and do some research to get your facts right. Also why do these videos always forget the green GTHO PHASE4?
Because it was never officially released as a production model. But yeh, I'd chuck it up near the top.
@@FromTheGong true but one did run down the production line and was officially a PH4. Would be interesting to see how much it was felt at auction, if only I had a few million dollars 🙏
@@MarkCockerill-r9tthe three phase 4's werent production- they were at best pre production test cars. Assembled well away from the production line where spies and loose lips could not access.
@@rossbrumby1957 The Ph 4 was a production car until the government banned them, there was one that went down the production line, it was a green 4 door PH4 now owned by a dentist in Sydney.
Despite the nay sayers, FORD sold hundreds of GT RPO's with the full Phase 4 engine, top loader gear box, Bathurst diff, and GTHO suspension and brakes.
These cars were real 160 mph Phase 4 HO's, but officially sold as Falcon GT's for the same price.
All the relevant info is on the compliance plate.
2nd hand , the GT RPO is worth more than the GT.....but if it has the full RPO extras on the compliance plate, then it is worth almost as much as a Phase 3 HO, although some collectors and enthusiests will pay ANYTHING for the right RPO.
nothing about the gtr xu1 that beat the gt falcons
Leyland ❤
Can somebody find me a cobra for around $100k.
And the Aussies didn't have to meet emission standards.
Just a damn shame they never learned how to pronounce Chrysler. Damn it people it is NOT Chrys/ler It is Chry/sler. We have videos of the man himself Walter P Chrysler talking about the new Chrysler Corporation and that is how he pronounces it. Sounds like Cry Sler and NOT Cry/sla there is an R find it.
Another great video, love the (at least by me), never seen before factory shots. Well done. Makes me proud of our Aussie engineering and appreciative of the American parent companies who provided the development money.
and provided the engines and engineering lol 351 how cute ! how about 500hp monsters living in the US ? No Ozzy's got robbed. they came in late and got to stay longer. their 70s cars after 72 were probably faster than what we had , but before that ya / no not even close. i can't help but laugh when he says MONSTEROUS 351. lol little peanut motor.
However , not without an iron fist !
Im a aussie,my son got a ve 1968 valiant regal 6 cyl he put electronic ignition way 2 go bye mate
The Yanks had big blocks.... Aus no
I dont disagree with the cars liated. But the order of the story told is wrong, some info is wrong and the AI voiceover is farked
There's a _lot_ of cr@ppy vids (produced by humans _or_ A.I.) about old skool Strayan performance cars. It's tough to pick the absolute worst - but _this_ one is possibly up there. 🙄
Not going to "like" this at all. Very sloppy information accuracy. The AI voice has really bad pronunciation.
Fail.
The greatest piece of shi.... , no comfort, just muscles but without brain
where's the XU-1 ?
Doesn't anybody do a REAL documentary any more? 😢
The bullshit of the comments are noted, they, themselves are wrong in many of what they say. BUT the fact is , Australia DID produce the fastest production car in the world with the GTHO. The Bolwell was a fibreblass vehicle with GM/Holden motors, not the ford. Bolwell became a part of GM Australia.
The charger was rubbish, it was considered a good car for the missus like the celica
What annoys me is that sweden thinks its the largest muscle car nation outside of the US, yes thats right the nation that produced nothing but the volvo. Copium much.
Wasn't the A9X an L-34 ??
Two separate cars..
Are you serious where's the torana's
Did you have a Brain Failure before 7:56?
Yeah, in quite a few places this vid is a load of poop. We were always casting an eye on the American scene here in Aus to see what they were doing. If anything our cars handled better because the cars were engineered that way as our roads were on average rougher. It is often interesting to compare the muscle cars of the US and Aus to see what was similar, what was different. If there is one thing I thank the internet for is that it has introduced many of our American cousins to our muscle cars and our car culture. They complimentr each other.
Just a strange vid overall.
Why are you showing the ap6 with a slant 6 cyl, yet keep telling us ita a v8?
Where's the GTHO Phase III or the GTHO Phase IV that caused the Supercar Scare?
Garbage & Mostly Incorrect
in 1972 there was no such thing as a Muscle car in America, so the cars built in Australia didn't need to be vary good to beat them, a Monkey on tricycle could have done the job. If you would have said 1971, I would have said bull ship!