Aussie Muscle Cars That Left Americans in the Dust!
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- Aussie Muscle Cars That Left Americans in the Dust!
Australia may be known for kangaroos and outback landscapes, but when it comes to muscle cars, the Land Down Under has unleashed some serious power that even had Americans taking notice! In this second volume, we dive into more legendary Aussie muscle cars that had the muscle, style, and speed to rival anything on the American scene. From brutal acceleration to unique designs, these cars show why Australia’s muscle car history is one to remember. Buckle up as we explore the Aussie beasts that sent shockwaves across the globe!
Intro
00:00
00:43 The Charger R/T E49
02:07 HG 350 Monaro GTS
03:42 Bolwell Nagari
05:01 XW GT Phase 1
06:13 XW GT HO Phase 2
07:31 LX A9X Torana
09:08 71 RT Six Pack E37 Charger
10:47 XR Falcon GT
12:01 AP6 Valiant
13:36 1979 Ford XC Falcon Cobra
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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
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
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 thought a five eight was a rugby position.
Too much AI and not enough human checking. Sloppy.
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.
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.
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
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.
And the Australian cars actually turned corners and stopped.
All so called a slant 6 a V8 🤔
Turn the volume down, just watch 😎
Someone cannot spell "Litre" what is going on with this country, Australia.
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 ,
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.
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.
Man I just love those Brock A9X's
This is what AI , does to "documentaries , makes Mockumentaries.
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
AI, aluminum😂 get stuffed this producer...
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
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.
@@MacRODesign55
Nice try.
The only Chargers ever available 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 NZ Chargers were built at Todd Motors.
Obviously, any Charger built & raced in NZ was a SUBSTANTIALLY modified car.
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.
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.
The E37 & E38 along with numerous other V8 or otherwise 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.
All AI , expect many more for us genuine enthusiasts
The Yanks had big blocks.... Aus no
You forgot the Torana GTR-XU1
and that genuine enthusiasts are watching A.I stuff it up
i wish i still had my torana XU1 best car i ever owned LJ 2 door
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
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
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
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.
Wasn't the A9X an L-34 ??
It's a Vee 8, not a five 8. Geez.
Not in stupid A.I. Terms
Are you serious where's the torana's
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.
An XC cobra for $100 000? Come on, keep dreaming
What you need to remember is, with the americans,they will tell that they are the best at everything, they believe if it isn’t done in america or by americans it’s no good, they just like to be out done by anyone,especially by a bunch convicts from the land down under. Lol.
100% Ronald I agree! What did you think of the video?
@@AmericanPatriots-r2c I thought it was very informative, though I’ve seen most of these cars on the roads at one time or another, but just thought the rivalry was local. I’m very impressed.
Torana XU1, Torana L34?
Missed it out again
Plus, American Muscle cars had been and gone by the 1970s. Imagine if we had big blocks in Australian cars.
Emissions regulations killed the U.S muscle cars.
Garbage & Mostly Incorrect
I stopped at the 351 Windsor FIVE EIGHT. AI...is shit.
Not going to "like" this at all. Very sloppy information accuracy. The AI voice has really bad pronunciation.
Fail.
Where's the GTHO Phase III or the GTHO Phase IV that caused the Supercar Scare?