If there's one thing left for Wade's Wonderful Nuggetorium, it's ABSOLUTELY a Race Nug. Convert Tony if you have to, I don't care, I just wanna see me favourite Aussie screaming incoherently round some corners
As a younger man, a buddy of mine had a Rio that he just... Left the keys in. Any time any of us needed to borrow we'd just shout "Will, I'm taking the Rio! Be back in a bit!" and no one ever stole it.
18:07 I think I’ve seen that car somewhere. It’s a Shitbox rally car. It’s a cancer charity rally where you buy a car for around $1,500 and drive it around the outback with other people. The Shitbox rally sticker is usually placed on the driver side and passenger side door of the car, and it’s usually circular. As to why it’s a massive ball, I think it’s meant to be a reference to testicular cancer and it’s highly encouraged in the rally to paint up/decorate your car whatever you like (whether it’s from something you like or completely original). You also have to raise $5000 in sponsorship money to cross the start line, so that explains the sponsorship stickers on the fenders. Hope this helps. Btw, the Shitbox rally also has a TH-cam channel if anyone is interested.
@@DaBoomDude Kinda, that’s to help disabled and sick children. Plus the car has the be around 30+ years old to enter the bash and is more expensive to get into. The Shitbox rally only requires a car that’s around $1,500 and $5000 in sponsorship money to help fund cancer research. They also help with funding the small outback towns they visit. (I watch a lot of Shitbox rally videos, trust me.)
Yup! Found it on the internet. It was 2022! There's article called 'Travel without limits: Kicking off the Shitbox rally 2023', and I found a hairy door with a Shitbox rally sticker on it.
Matiz, a true legend. A joke from back in the day: A guy comes to a bar, orders vodka, downs it and says "Ptui! Fuckin Matiz". He orders another, downs it and says "Ptui! Mother fuckin Matiz". It continues for a while until the barman asks: what happened? -I managed to get my semi with two trailers into a ditch. I was just trying to figure out what to do, when this guy in a Matiz stops and says to hook the chain and he'll pull me out. -No way. -Exactly. So I say: if you manage to pull my semi with that Matiz, I'll blow you -And what happend? -Ptui! Fuckin Matiz...
@@bleysmcnutt5500 i mean there's still an ocean between australia and the USA so i guess technically it is "across the pond". just not the atlantic pond
Yeah, Canadian, same here. That Epica was a Chevrolet and Suzuki over here, and it's really easy to see how Porsche did the engineering for the engine design, but Daewoo built it. It's got corners cut everywhere. We got the Corolla rebadged as a Chevrolet Nova, then Geo Prizm, then Chevrolet Prizm instead of the Camry. We also got a car almost unique to North America: the Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe twins. Toyota saw the styling on the Vibe, liked it, and debadged it and sold it as the Voltz in Japan. We got Daihatsus here, but they had a pretty good rep until they needed parts. They're 99% gone from the roads, and due to import taxes there never were many Rockys and Charades on the the road in the first place. Canada got UK Ford and Vauxhall imports into the 1970s, but getting any info on them is super rare.
theres 3 possibilities, 1: all the honda's ever sold in australia are still going 2: honda's aren't sold in Australia 3: They're too uninteresting to show
@@MuscleCarLover Yep, americans would be horrified at the prices of 90-00s civics down here. $10k for one that doesn't even have the one of the good B16s
UK fan here- yes, we still have the Combo B all over the roads! They're like a white-panelled rash that won't go away. Dads and carboot fanatics love 'em.
Yep, I'm European and we have Opels and yeah, they're still around. From the first gen based on the Corsa B to the one based on the Corsa D although they're rare nowadays, people mostly favour the Citroen Berlingo or Nemo...
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 every single red Combo in the UK seems to be an ex-Royal Mail van with completely faded paint apart from where the decals used to be
🤣 My first car was a Toyota Paseo, I bought it from my mum, tragic. I was 17 years old, pimped it up with a set of 17's and a huge sub and amp. It was supposed to be red, but had turned into a patchy pink in the sun, ugly! A mate who was 6'4 somehow squeezed into the back seat for a ride, he hit his head so hard, when I went over a speedbump (at speed), on the rear window it cracked the glass and gave him concussion. Ahhh, Happy memories!
My favourite fact about the XJ40 is that when they were developing it Austin Rover (who owned Jaguar at the time) wanted to save money, ditch the Jag V12 and put a Rover V8 in it. In response the Jaguar engineers made the engine bay too narrow to fit a V configuration engine, so the only suitable engine available was the Jaguar straight 6 (it was only at the very end of the generation, after Ford bought Jaguar, that the engine bay was modified to fit the V12)
That oldies section was the saddest part. They hung around for decades in a backyard or farm paddock. Somebody parked it thinking they'd fix it one day. Then, several decades and one funeral later, a descendant says, "I'm gonna have to get that towed to the junkyard."
Many years ago, I was in a relationship with a really sweet girl who was in a major head on collision in her Cruze. She survived and made a full recovery. The photos of the wreck were pretty horrifying, the car was obliterated but the cabin was intact. The Cruze gets a lot of hate from car people, and I understand. It was a completely unremarkable automobile. But the Cruze is okay in my book. The car itself was what saved that girl’s life. I will always, always have a soft spot for the Chevy Cruze.
i have a similar love for the 98 passat, a very boring wagon that drove like a dream and saved my life when i lost traction on a curve and flipped the car. i was uninjured but sadly the car was totalled.
The Falcon Wagon at 4:38 was in the Shitbox rally, a Cancer council fundraiser where cars purchased and fixed for under $1500 drive across the country. Signatures on the dash would have been from the driving team. Shame to see that it ended up in a wreckers but whoever put it there bought it for next to nothing and then drove it across some pretty rough roads. Might have even failed during the rally. I reckon Wade would enjoy going on one of the rallies, given the number of appropriately priced cars he has :D Give the rally a search, it's a great time Edit: the testicle car at 18:06 is also a rally relic, check your bags
I really appreciate you throwing up the wikipedia screenshots of the cars, to get an idea of what they are and what they would've looked like. Very useful for an American who doesn't recognize all of these cars!
Theres a tow truck in my area I see driving around with "BOMB DISPOSAL" written on the back of the tilt-tray. never fails to make me laugh when I see it
So that explains part of an old radio advert I heard in around 2004 or so! It had sounds of an engine failing to crank over and start, and there was a voice over that said something like "Are you driving an old bomp?". I didn't realise they were saying "bomb", probably due to my kid ears and/or the sound system in the Mitsubishi Magna we had at the time.
These places are either filled with hidden treasures or full of garbage because other people have already picked up everything good. However it’s fun to go there and see what you can find!
Being swedish I'm always super excited to see Saabs anywhere I wouldn't normally expect them Then I get sad, knowing they're dead. Mum still drives a Saab tho
The twenty years old = shitbox really does check out. In the past week two people have called my mom’s 2004 Volvo Cross Country wagon a beater. It really pissed her off since she loves that car and it’s in great condition, but at that age most people will just see it as some old car. Same with the Chevy Lumina and Dodge Intrepid I grew up in; perfectly cromulent at the time, but after a while seemed out of place on the road in a “they’re probably still driving that because they have to” kind of way.
If you didnt know, they sold magnas here in the US as the "Mitsubishi Diamante," my friend has a 1998 one, the clear coat goes away quick here too! Their family's had it for well over a decade and its endured 3 home paint jobs. (also yes it does blow smoke)
We had the US version in Australia too, they called it the Verada and was the "luxury" trim model featured the US bumpers and grill. Mine blew smoke and had the engine rebuilt 3 times...
My parents had a 2001 Taurus wagon with the 24v DOHC engine. Had a jump seat in the front to haul 6 people, and it did, with all our luggage across the country and through the Alberta/BC rockies. An option for that car were 2 rear facing jump seats, for a total of 8 passengers! Holy moly would it scoot! Similar power to a the 328 of similar vintage! I can still remember how soft the cloth interior seats were. In 2009 we sold it to a art muesuem curator who sought the car specifically for the engine. YEARS later in 2017, I recognized the missus of the guy who bought the car and asked about it. They put 120,000 MORE km on it before it ran outta coolant and died. RIP mom's waggo and shout out to the Ferd engineers Edit: Glad to hear you still have ole mate merc!
@@tescoshortage I had the 3.0 in my ford escape and it was the most unreliable piece of crap I've ever owned. They do have good power and torque for a little 3 litre though
The bench seat in the front would of been awesome I've never seen one with it here in Aus, same for no extra seats in the rear. Maybe it wasn't an option here
I've still got a 2004 wagon too cloth seats and bench seat in the back! Man it is genuinely one of the most fun and get you from point a to b cars ever. I will try to drive it till it falls apart, which living in Calgary, will mean the winter will kill it lol
That Daewoo Matiz you show @14:28 is actually not polish - we manufactured only 1st gen (horizontal, long blinkers), that one is post-facelift with small round blinkers.
A lot of the fake special edition ones are probably dealer specials. In the pre 2000s it was fairly common for dealerships to slap on stickers and badges and make up a "special edition" to try and move models that were sellimg slowly
Interesting, and come to think of it, it's starting to remind me of used PC sellers here where I live who'd bundle in a bunch of things like cheap accessories, a Windows setup skip, preloaded apps, and preloaded paid but pirated apps, so I'm imagining some of those dealer special fake trim level and special edition cars were probably like a different trim level bundled with some decals, dealer-installed options, add-ons, and/or accessories.
I will bot stand for the Toyota Paseo slander. I loved my 96 Paseo. First car, had it for about 12 years. It carried myself and 6 lads (stacked sideways, lying down, curled up in the backseat) to and from many an event. The boot leaked, the electric windows mostly worked, the door handle broke but my god I loved it. Broke my heart the day it went to the crusher.
I had a PT Cruiser for a brief period of time. It belonged to my sister in law’s parents first, whom then gave it to my parents. My parents weren’t doing anything with it after a while so I took it. And I drove it till the day the power steering was leaking i lost power steering while driving and found out it had a boat load of other issues that just weren’t worth fixing, so I scrapped it to the mechanic. I always knew they weren’t known to be great cars but it served me while I needed it.
For such an australian channel the shadow of your hat is the most australian My grandfather had one of those mid 90s taurus wagons - made it 650 000 km before the motor mounts rusted out and he was done with it
That grass adorned car unlocked half a memory, I remember some show/youtube video making a swimming pool mod to a car which had grass on the trim as well
6:00 heck yeah the Datsun/Nissan prarie. What a nugget. Fun fact, they have no b pillar and when you open the front doors as well as the rear sliding doors you end up with a car with a massive gaping opening right through the sides.
My Dad used to race a 1966 ford transit. It was a project he had with a friend of his. they swapped in a v6 out of an old Capri they bought. straight pipe exhaust, cause czech village race regulations. ripped up everything except the front seats and the speedo. after a few races they painted it black and yellow and called it the bumblebee. cause they straight pipe exhaust sounded like a czech communist era cropduster plane of the same name, which was unironically the best handling, and agile plane of its time, if you ran it low on fuel, and with no fertilizer and the dusting system removed. the thing became a legend, but the last time i saw it. It was sitting collecting dust in a 16th century barn. long story short. they are great vehicles.
The Combo was my first workvan as an electrician in Germany. What a piece of scheiße that was 😂 Floorboard rusted through and everything else was following.
Well as a European I have to tell ya that theirs a reason why theirs so many European GM vehicles in scrapyards and why the Stelantis era of Vauxhalls and Opels aren't common in scrapyards
What you gotta do one day is rescue one one of these old cars and get it back on the road, maybe a panel van. watching you and james do a complete rebuild would be absolutely amazing
A junkyard is a junkyard, and the one constant in them all will be the presence of the Chevy Cruze, Chrysler PT Cruiser, and Kias. After all, CRUZE stands for Corpse Running, Unreliable, Zonked and Explosive. The PT in PT Cruiser stands for Piece of Trash and KIA means, in military terminology, "Killed In Action."
I'd just come home from a long drive,turn on my Mac and this shows up, thanks a lot Wade(Also pls save that gold Passat,it looks so good..........minus the microfarm)
11:07 My mum had a Galant as her first car. It was half bog, half rust, it couldn't break 50kph going up any sized hill, and if she drove past a 1/4 tank, the engine would crap itself and wouldn't start again. Turns out the fuel tank was degrading somehow, and if you used more than a 1/4 tank of fuel, it would start to suck in the fuel tanks flakes and stall the engine. Filling it back up to a full tank would "fix" it though. She drove that thing until a driver T-boned her in an intersection and put the poor Galant out of it's misery.
Oh my goodness there’s a Ford Taurus! Yes! I immediately jumped and yelled “DADS CAR” when I saw it because I love them so much, they remind me of when my dad wasn’t a total jerk and how we would go for drives together. He used to give me 20 bucks to clean it out every month, it was great.
Had a ford Taurus wagon years ago, went thermonuclear driving it home once as it had no coolant. Somehow didn't blow the head gaskets lol. But boy it got hot, stayed hot for hours too.
Omg same! We had an 04 (my birthyear) Ford Taurus named Katie after the hurricane that we got off my mom's dad, and one day it overheated just before the major roadway we were taking to go somewhere (probably my grandma's) the year we bought it. It got fixed up though, and it made it a couple more years until my dad got sideswiped by a 12 point buck and destroyed the car
10:53 i unironically miss these kind of small cars that look like baby MPVs, they always look so nuggety. the opel agila/suzuki r-wagon is exactly this just even shorter maybe just because i miss MPVs in general because nobody makes them and they make much more sense as big cars than SUVs
My favorite part of the ball bag car is that someone took a door. I imagine it went through paint and all that before they used it, but it's more fun to think of their car as just having a single fleshy door with pubes on it as it rolls down the highway
Mentioning sentient cars in a junk yard reminds me of the movie "The Brave Little Toaster". If you've never seen it, you should give it a go. But be prepared for a children's movie from the 1980s to mess with your head. I still remember the range of emotions I felt from this movie to this day!
Saw an ‘89 Camry V6 wagon in our local U-pull last year. I still have photos. Interior and exterior were SO CLEAN for its year, such a clean example of the late 80s save for a small dent on a fender or something. Wish I had money to save it, as man, ones that clean in wagon form, V6 or not, are so rare, as are Camrys from that generation anymore at all. It didn’t deserve to be crushed.
Really great video even if I have trouble understanding some of your slang down under in Australia. Tons of love and support from the United States. And as a fellow Car enthusiast.
1:24 We had one of these when I was a little boy! Same color, style, and in a manual. It's the car that made me fall in love with cars. We called it the Celly. It was a 1984, which I think was the last year it was RWD. Great little car. The radiator fan didn't work anymore so the engine overheated all the time, except when you were doing 100. I was told that when it was finally parked, it had over 600,000 k's on it. It still ran. They just got newer cars and didn't want to drive it anymore. Good old Toyota R engines _never_ die. If that's an R, I bet it still runs.
My sister-in-law used to have a 1.4L Cruze. It died at 7 years old from (you guessed it) turbo failure. If you can nab one with the 1.8 and a manual, you've got yourself a pretty solid car.
My first car was a gold-colored Ford Taurus, back when they were all... Oval-y. I remember that back window looked like a weird blob. That car was a lawn ornament for years because the engine was a piece of garbage, but my grandad got it fixed up as a gift when I got my license. It lasted just long enough for me to make it to college before giving up the ghost for real. My dad cried when he sold the thing for scrap after they told him it wasn't worth salvaging. I loved that piece of shit car and it gave me a little jolt to see another one, even if it's in the You-Pull. Cheers, Wade.
4:27 Hopefully in 20 years 3D scanning/printing will be advanced and cheap enough that you can just make a new intake in your basement in an afternoon.
I have an 83 Celica Supra that I rescued from being a desert rat haven. They are very worth finding and keeping, sportiest of the supra's and can take the same (or any) drivetrain - albeit with a ton of strength mods and a new rear end. Put a Barra in one for kicks!
I was just thinking.. have you guys tried putting Av gas or race fuel into Tony? When I visited the old country as a kid, my uncle had to put the 104 octane stuff into his Maluch to be able to haul us and our luggage from the airport. Might give him a little boost in performance.
Do i understand anything about cars? No. Do i get half the phrases australians use? No. Do i enjoy watching someone somehow make every single car recieve s*** and praise at the same time? Yes.
Wade: doesn’t show a car that has a curse word on the hood
Also Wade: shows the testicle car
I saw this comment and had no idea what could possibly be a testicle car. It's literally a testicle car
I read this comment about six seconds before he found the scrote-wagon.
That is vehicular testicular entertainment.
Testicular manslaughter
Nothing wrong with a testicle car. Looks like it’s basically an ad to check for prostate cancer
It’s like a car related cashies special!!
Yeah!
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Carshies
Junkshies
@@YetAnotherGeorgethcrashies
Nothing could have prepared me for that last car, absolutely brilliant.
BUALLZ
The Scrotumobile
The Great Scrote
Ballswagon
I love how Australia is essentially a crossroads for European, Asian, and American shitboxes.
The American ones are exclusively in the wreckers. The only Neon I've ever seen in person was at U-Pull-It
We get the scraps of every country lol
@@MuscleCarLoveras well it should be, because its owner is at the graveyard due to mesothelioma
@@JeanMarceaux lol
If there's one thing left for Wade's Wonderful Nuggetorium, it's ABSOLUTELY a Race Nug. Convert Tony if you have to, I don't care, I just wanna see me favourite Aussie screaming incoherently round some corners
He has the croissant now, remember? That had race nugget mods done to it.
@@ALEXANDER1318
Ah yea, you're right..
He has a race nugget! The renault, aka Antoine, aka "French Tony"
Nah gotta be the free car, or completing the race nugget
Mallala Racetrack's just up the road from Wade....
It'd be hilarious!!
good to know Americans and Australians get to both share the joy of waltzing around a u-pull-it looking at nuggets
American U-Pull-it 🤝 Aussie U-Pull-It
I'm still mad mine closed
...15-35 years behind the rest of us apparently 😍
Despite being on the other sides of the world, it's interesting seeing how similar the American/Canadian and Australian "shitbox culture" is.
Always amazes me how far behind the developed world the USA is.
As a younger man, a buddy of mine had a Rio that he just... Left the keys in. Any time any of us needed to borrow we'd just shout "Will, I'm taking the Rio! Be back in a bit!" and no one ever stole it.
18:07
I think I’ve seen that car somewhere. It’s a Shitbox rally car. It’s a cancer charity rally where you buy a car for around $1,500 and drive it around the outback with other people. The Shitbox rally sticker is usually placed on the driver side and passenger side door of the car, and it’s usually circular. As to why it’s a massive ball, I think it’s meant to be a reference to testicular cancer and it’s highly encouraged in the rally to paint up/decorate your car whatever you like (whether it’s from something you like or completely original). You also have to raise $5000 in sponsorship money to cross the start line, so that explains the sponsorship stickers on the fenders.
Hope this helps. Btw, the Shitbox rally also has a TH-cam channel if anyone is interested.
Like the variety bash?
@@DaBoomDude
Kinda, that’s to help disabled and sick children. Plus the car has the be around 30+ years old to enter the bash and is more expensive to get into. The Shitbox rally only requires a car that’s around $1,500 and $5000 in sponsorship money to help fund cancer research. They also help with funding the small outback towns they visit.
(I watch a lot of Shitbox rally videos, trust me.)
4:42
Damn, and another shitbox rally car.
Yup! Found it on the internet. It was 2022!
There's article called 'Travel without limits: Kicking off the Shitbox rally 2023', and I found a hairy door with a Shitbox rally sticker on it.
The fact that there was a continued story to this is amazing lol, what are the chances.
Matiz, a true legend. A joke from back in the day:
A guy comes to a bar, orders vodka, downs it and says "Ptui! Fuckin Matiz". He orders another, downs it and says "Ptui! Mother fuckin Matiz". It continues for a while until the barman asks: what happened?
-I managed to get my semi with two trailers into a ditch. I was just trying to figure out what to do, when this guy in a Matiz stops and says to hook the chain and he'll pull me out.
-No way.
-Exactly. So I say: if you manage to pull my semi with that Matiz, I'll blow you
-And what happend?
-Ptui! Fuckin Matiz...
They were sold as Chevy Sparks
@@trishikinmukherjee8120 Only after 2008
"I see cuss words on the bonnet!!"
Glad to see Ford owners are the same across the pond 😂
Indeed😂😂
This is not "across the pond". Australia, not the UK.
@@bleysmcnutt5500 It's just a saying. It's not literal.
@@bleysmcnutt5500 i mean there's still an ocean between australia and the USA so i guess technically it is "across the pond". just not the atlantic pond
As a South African, the Holden aisle is legit like looking at an alternate universe where things are almost normal but slightly different
european here; Same thing for us as well! 90’s - 00’s rebadging at it’s finest…
Yeah, Canadian, same here. That Epica was a Chevrolet and Suzuki over here, and it's really easy to see how Porsche did the engineering for the engine design, but Daewoo built it. It's got corners cut everywhere. We got the Corolla rebadged as a Chevrolet Nova, then Geo Prizm, then Chevrolet Prizm instead of the Camry. We also got a car almost unique to North America: the Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe twins. Toyota saw the styling on the Vibe, liked it, and debadged it and sold it as the Voltz in Japan. We got Daihatsus here, but they had a pretty good rep until they needed parts. They're 99% gone from the roads, and due to import taxes there never were many Rockys and Charades on the the road in the first place. Canada got UK Ford and Vauxhall imports into the 1970s, but getting any info on them is super rare.
theres 3 possibilities,
1: all the honda's ever sold in australia are still going
2: honda's aren't sold in Australia
3: They're too uninteresting to show
Mostly 1, they're also weirdly expensive over here
@@MuscleCarLover
Yep, americans would be horrified at the prices of 90-00s civics down here. $10k for one that doesn't even have the one of the good B16s
@@damstachizzfeels bad because I really want a b16 Civix
1960s to 1990s Mercedes Benz are ALL on the road. 1990s Honda the same.
Yeah they just don't sell all that well here. Honda aren't unpopular either, but they're definitely not the mainstream brand they are in the States.
UK fan here- yes, we still have the Combo B all over the roads! They're like a white-panelled rash that won't go away. Dads and carboot fanatics love 'em.
Yep, I'm European and we have Opels and yeah, they're still around.
From the first gen based on the Corsa B to the one based on the Corsa D although they're rare nowadays, people mostly favour the Citroen Berlingo or Nemo...
I always find the red painted ones funny cause they are always pink after a couple years
@@isaacsrandomvideos667I always love how silly the older the car gets like that, brings so much character to that car
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 every single red Combo in the UK seems to be an ex-Royal Mail van with completely faded paint apart from where the decals used to be
@@LongLiveHelghast hahahah exactly
There’s still loads of those buzzing about in service
🤣 My first car was a Toyota Paseo, I bought it from my mum, tragic.
I was 17 years old, pimped it up with a set of 17's and a huge sub and amp.
It was supposed to be red, but had turned into a patchy pink in the sun, ugly!
A mate who was 6'4 somehow squeezed into the back seat for a ride, he hit his head so hard, when I went over a speedbump (at speed), on the rear window it cracked the glass and gave him concussion.
Ahhh, Happy memories!
I don't know what it was with the red paint all car makers used in the 90s that just faded away like no other colour
@@yaziyo red pigment fades the fastest
@@JessicaFEREMArtist, graphic designer there Jess?
@@yaziyosome of them (Honda definitely) used clearcoat with tint in it, so once that started to go, everything became pink.
Did the wheels even fit in the arches?
Never in my life did I expect to see a testicle car.
My favourite fact about the XJ40 is that when they were developing it Austin Rover (who owned Jaguar at the time) wanted to save money, ditch the Jag V12 and put a Rover V8 in it. In response the Jaguar engineers made the engine bay too narrow to fit a V configuration engine, so the only suitable engine available was the Jaguar straight 6 (it was only at the very end of the generation, after Ford bought Jaguar, that the engine bay was modified to fit the V12)
That oldies section was the saddest part. They hung around for decades in a backyard or farm paddock. Somebody parked it thinking they'd fix it one day. Then, several decades and one funeral later, a descendant says, "I'm gonna have to get that towed to the junkyard."
Many years ago, I was in a relationship with a really sweet girl who was in a major head on collision in her Cruze. She survived and made a full recovery. The photos of the wreck were pretty horrifying, the car was obliterated but the cabin was intact. The Cruze gets a lot of hate from car people, and I understand. It was a completely unremarkable automobile. But the Cruze is okay in my book. The car itself was what saved that girl’s life. I will always, always have a soft spot for the Chevy Cruze.
Awww, cute
i have a similar love for the 98 passat, a very boring wagon that drove like a dream and saved my life when i lost traction on a curve and flipped the car. i was uninjured but sadly the car was totalled.
Cars, when built correctly will give their lives for ours, there's a certain somber beauty behind that
The Falcon Wagon at 4:38 was in the Shitbox rally, a Cancer council fundraiser where cars purchased and fixed for under $1500 drive across the country. Signatures on the dash would have been from the driving team.
Shame to see that it ended up in a wreckers but whoever put it there bought it for next to nothing and then drove it across some pretty rough roads. Might have even failed during the rally.
I reckon Wade would enjoy going on one of the rallies, given the number of appropriately priced cars he has :D
Give the rally a search, it's a great time
Edit: the testicle car at 18:06 is also a rally relic, check your bags
I love that the event is actually named Shitbox Rally and that's not a nickname. Australians are the maddest of madlads.
I really appreciate you throwing up the wikipedia screenshots of the cars, to get an idea of what they are and what they would've looked like. Very useful for an American who doesn't recognize all of these cars!
Beaters are called "bombs" in Austrailia, I had no idea. Legitimately educational.
Beaters are for the beach and fangin around paddocks. Bombs are road going beaters.
Theres a tow truck in my area I see driving around with "BOMB DISPOSAL" written on the back of the tilt-tray. never fails to make me laugh when I see it
So that explains part of an old radio advert I heard in around 2004 or so! It had sounds of an engine failing to crank over and start, and there was a voice over that said something like "Are you driving an old bomp?". I didn't realise they were saying "bomb", probably due to my kid ears and/or the sound system in the Mitsubishi Magna we had at the time.
These places are either filled with hidden treasures or full of garbage because other people have already picked up everything good. However it’s fun to go there and see what you can find!
Just like thrift stores
@@gentlesoul221yeah, but it’s ✨cars✨
Being swedish I'm always super excited to see Saabs anywhere I wouldn't normally expect them
Then I get sad, knowing they're dead. Mum still drives a Saab tho
The twenty years old = shitbox really does check out. In the past week two people have called my mom’s 2004 Volvo Cross Country wagon a beater.
It really pissed her off since she loves that car and it’s in great condition, but at that age most people will just see it as some old car.
Same with the Chevy Lumina and Dodge Intrepid I grew up in; perfectly cromulent at the time, but after a while seemed out of place on the road in a “they’re probably still driving that because they have to” kind of way.
If you didnt know, they sold magnas here in the US as the "Mitsubishi Diamante," my friend has a 1998 one, the clear coat goes away quick here too! Their family's had it for well over a decade and its endured 3 home paint jobs. (also yes it does blow smoke)
Yep and they were built here in Australia too!
We had the US version in Australia too, they called it the Verada and was the "luxury" trim model featured the US bumpers and grill. Mine blew smoke and had the engine rebuilt 3 times...
I've only ever seen one Diamante in my entire life. It was blowing smoke.
Some of the luxury ones and wagons were built in Tonsley SA on South Road mate and exported to the USA
Dank: I can't show that car cuz it has a cuss word on the hood.
5 minutes later: ITS A SH*TBOX
Shitbox is the official term. lol
My parents had a 2001 Taurus wagon with the 24v DOHC engine. Had a jump seat in the front to haul 6 people, and it did, with all our luggage across the country and through the Alberta/BC rockies.
An option for that car were 2 rear facing jump seats, for a total of 8 passengers!
Holy moly would it scoot!
Similar power to a the 328 of similar vintage! I can still remember how soft the cloth interior seats were.
In 2009 we sold it to a art muesuem curator who sought the car specifically for the engine. YEARS later in 2017, I recognized the missus of the guy who bought the car and asked about it. They put 120,000 MORE km on it before it ran outta coolant and died.
RIP mom's waggo and shout out to the Ferd engineers
Edit:
Glad to hear you still have ole mate merc!
Those 3.0 Duratec engines are phenomenal. Way better than the 2.0 EcoBoost they’re putting in everything these days.
@@tescoshortage I had the 3.0 in my ford escape and it was the most unreliable piece of crap I've ever owned. They do have good power and torque for a little 3 litre though
The bench seat in the front would of been awesome I've never seen one with it here in Aus, same for no extra seats in the rear. Maybe it wasn't an option here
I've still got a 2004 wagon too cloth seats and bench seat in the back! Man it is genuinely one of the most fun and get you from point a to b cars ever. I will try to drive it till it falls apart, which living in Calgary, will mean the winter will kill it lol
TIL aussies also use "willy", that caught me off guard.
Garbage Time video right as I open my homepage? The algorithm has smiled upon me today
good on ya
same
That Daewoo Matiz you show @14:28 is actually not polish - we manufactured only 1st gen (horizontal, long blinkers), that one is post-facelift with small round blinkers.
sure, it's not the FSC one, easily can be the Uzbekistan-made by UZ-Daewoo
And it's not like Matiz was only made in Poland, a few other factories made it too.
We got swearie Wade today. Don't believe I've ever heard him say shitbox, definitely not ass this many times. He still wouldn't say the F word though!
"Shitbox" is the scientific term. Wade is a scholar, not a prude.
I garuntee you he probably swears like a sailor the same as any other Aussie off camera lol
TH-cam will demonetizate your video if you swear.
he said the f word multiple times on his last twitch stream!
A lot of the fake special edition ones are probably dealer specials.
In the pre 2000s it was fairly common for dealerships to slap on stickers and badges and make up a "special edition" to try and move models that were sellimg slowly
Interesting, and come to think of it, it's starting to remind me of used PC sellers here where I live who'd bundle in a bunch of things like cheap accessories, a Windows setup skip, preloaded apps, and preloaded paid but pirated apps, so I'm imagining some of those dealer special fake trim level and special edition cars were probably like a different trim level bundled with some decals, dealer-installed options, add-ons, and/or accessories.
That's so SS-ic!
That engine has been in the middle of the Commodore lane since before COVID.
Also, build up a 3.5 Magna sleeper. It'd be mad
One of the AWD ones, with a stonking turbo.
3:52 That's how I am with cars. "It's horrible slow and ugly, I want one." You're my spirit animal, Wade.
I am a proud owner of a green fiesta with 140,000 miles on it (not sure what that is in KM), but the plastic engine has not failed me yet.
I will bot stand for the Toyota Paseo slander. I loved my 96 Paseo. First car, had it for about 12 years.
It carried myself and 6 lads (stacked sideways, lying down, curled up in the backseat) to and from many an event.
The boot leaked, the electric windows mostly worked, the door handle broke but my god I loved it. Broke my heart the day it went to the crusher.
U-PULL-IT 5 for 1 special: buy 5 cars, get one working car*
*7000 hours of labour not included
I love how we get the Cashies specials on Dankpods and U-Pull-It adventures on garbage time! :)
Oh to be two aussie blocks giggling at the ballbag car in a u-pull-it
I had a PT Cruiser for a brief period of time. It belonged to my sister in law’s parents first, whom then gave it to my parents. My parents weren’t doing anything with it after a while so I took it. And I drove it till the day the power steering was leaking i lost power steering while driving and found out it had a boat load of other issues that just weren’t worth fixing, so I scrapped it to the mechanic. I always knew they weren’t known to be great cars but it served me while I needed it.
15:09 Jesus Christ those are worth so much money in running order. That literally is a “if I could fix it” van. Wow.
For such an australian channel the shadow of your hat is the most australian
My grandfather had one of those mid 90s taurus wagons - made it 650 000 km before the motor mounts rusted out and he was done with it
That grass adorned car unlocked half a memory, I remember some show/youtube video making a swimming pool mod to a car which had grass on the trim as well
18:23 the testicar
14:15 rare footage of James
He do be good looking
Him and his smugass grin
I'm trying to say sport!
BRO HE'S THIIIIIIICCCCCCC
6:00 heck yeah the Datsun/Nissan prarie. What a nugget. Fun fact, they have no b pillar and when you open the front doors as well as the rear sliding doors you end up with a car with a massive gaping opening right through the sides.
i love these nuggs, i own the US sedan version (stanza) and have been looking for the van to go with it
Side impact protection be damned!
@@Ford_TImelord its built like a soda can as well, with both doors open you can feel the body flex and twist, its kinda freaky
8:43 Satsuma AMP spotted!
Grah, the hours wasted trying to get one of those absolute nugglords to run reasonably well is some I will pay to get back.
glad im not the only one to point it out as a satsuma
@@ImInSpainWithoutTheS It honestly looks like some of the "Junkyard Find" save game mods I see on NexusMods.
@@devinmcleod3395 finland moment
2:01 walter white 🗿📸
“We’re outside and it’s lovely. No, it’s a 70s Volkswagen” 😂😂
My Dad used to race a 1966 ford transit. It was a project he had with a friend of his. they swapped in a v6 out of an old Capri they bought. straight pipe exhaust, cause czech village race regulations. ripped up everything except the front seats and the speedo. after a few races they painted it black and yellow and called it the bumblebee. cause they straight pipe exhaust sounded like a czech communist era cropduster plane of the same name, which was unironically the best handling, and agile plane of its time, if you ran it low on fuel, and with no fertilizer and the dusting system removed. the thing became a legend, but the last time i saw it. It was sitting collecting dust in a 16th century barn. long story short. they are great vehicles.
Oh, why did you not take the ball bag? Bonnet home with you?
1:37 never change DP, never change.
We need to give this man more Floatplane money so he can rescue nugs like the Ballbag car.
The Combo was my first workvan as an electrician in Germany. What a piece of scheiße that was 😂 Floorboard rusted through and everything else was following.
Well as a European I have to tell ya that theirs a reason why theirs so many European GM vehicles in scrapyards and why the Stelantis era of Vauxhalls and Opels aren't common in scrapyards
Oh they will be when those 1.2 3 cylinder engines shred their terrible wet timing belts.
Oh and the diesels just freakin out over adblue.
My mom had one of those 323s with the pop ups, to this day its her favourite car shes ever owned and she used to have a crazy E30 when i was a kid xD
What you gotta do one day is rescue one one of these old cars and get it back on the road, maybe a panel van. watching you and james do a complete rebuild would be absolutely amazing
0:29 in France the Citroën C15 is a legendary nugget van it's the symbol of rural France
i really appreciate how universal these types of business are the one near me almost looks identical on the other side of the planet
A junkyard is a junkyard, and the one constant in them all will be the presence of the Chevy Cruze, Chrysler PT Cruiser, and Kias.
After all, CRUZE stands for Corpse Running, Unreliable, Zonked and Explosive.
The PT in PT Cruiser stands for Piece of Trash
and KIA means, in military terminology, "Killed In Action."
Im glad that the music really exposes this for what it is
Cashies for cars.
I'd just come home from a long drive,turn on my Mac and this shows up, thanks a lot Wade(Also pls save that gold Passat,it looks so good..........minus the microfarm)
11:07 My mum had a Galant as her first car. It was half bog, half rust, it couldn't break 50kph going up any sized hill, and if she drove past a 1/4 tank, the engine would crap itself and wouldn't start again. Turns out the fuel tank was degrading somehow, and if you used more than a 1/4 tank of fuel, it would start to suck in the fuel tanks flakes and stall the engine. Filling it back up to a full tank would "fix" it though. She drove that thing until a driver T-boned her in an intersection and put the poor Galant out of it's misery.
ALL HAIL THE BALLS CAR
Oh my goodness there’s a Ford Taurus! Yes! I immediately jumped and yelled “DADS CAR” when I saw it because I love them so much, they remind me of when my dad wasn’t a total jerk and how we would go for drives together. He used to give me 20 bucks to clean it out every month, it was great.
My Dad has owned TWO PT Cruisers, and he put Pink Floyd decals on his...must be his Aussie counterpart that ran that the Beatles themed PT.
Had a ford Taurus wagon years ago, went thermonuclear driving it home once as it had no coolant. Somehow didn't blow the head gaskets lol. But boy it got hot, stayed hot for hours too.
Omg same! We had an 04 (my birthyear) Ford Taurus named Katie after the hurricane that we got off my mom's dad, and one day it overheated just before the major roadway we were taking to go somewhere (probably my grandma's) the year we bought it. It got fixed up though, and it made it a couple more years until my dad got sideswiped by a 12 point buck and destroyed the car
15:43 IS THAT A TALLADEGA NIGHTS HOLDEN?!?
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT AND I BELIEVE IT IS!!!
You never know what you'll find at a u-pull it
10:53 i unironically miss these kind of small cars that look like baby MPVs, they always look so nuggety. the opel agila/suzuki r-wagon is exactly this just even shorter
maybe just because i miss MPVs in general because nobody makes them and they make much more sense as big cars than SUVs
there's something so irreplicably human about the innate hilarity we find in balls.
Wade you gotta save the testicar
My favorite part of the ball bag car is that someone took a door. I imagine it went through paint and all that before they used it, but it's more fun to think of their car as just having a single fleshy door with pubes on it as it rolls down the highway
Mentioning sentient cars in a junk yard reminds me of the movie "The Brave Little Toaster". If you've never seen it, you should give it a go. But be prepared for a children's movie from the 1980s to mess with your head. I still remember the range of emotions I felt from this movie to this day!
I think the ol' Combo was delivered in Australia with "Opel" on the engine - a combo of makes
I'm surprised he didn't use the kangaroo touring car for the thumbnail.
_No f*cken worries mate_
seeing that yellow beetle in the graveyard is so sad. been wanting one of those since i was little!
Who doesn’t love when Wade strolls around the U-Pull-It?
Saw an ‘89 Camry V6 wagon in our local U-pull last year. I still have photos. Interior and exterior were SO CLEAN for its year, such a clean example of the late 80s save for a small dent on a fender or something. Wish I had money to save it, as man, ones that clean in wagon form, V6 or not, are so rare, as are Camrys from that generation anymore at all. It didn’t deserve to be crushed.
3:42 gotta love the rust in the shape of a revolver
Really great video even if I have trouble understanding some of your slang down under in Australia. Tons of love and support from the United States. And as a fellow Car enthusiast.
8:04 theres a racing team in the 24 hours of lemons that covers all their cars in grass like that
1:24 We had one of these when I was a little boy! Same color, style, and in a manual. It's the car that made me fall in love with cars. We called it the Celly. It was a 1984, which I think was the last year it was RWD. Great little car. The radiator fan didn't work anymore so the engine overheated all the time, except when you were doing 100. I was told that when it was finally parked, it had over 600,000 k's on it. It still ran. They just got newer cars and didn't want to drive it anymore. Good old Toyota R engines _never_ die. If that's an R, I bet it still runs.
wade is the only person to go to a junkyard to just look at the old cars not een to grab any parts just to look
My sister-in-law used to have a 1.4L Cruze. It died at 7 years old from (you guessed it) turbo failure. If you can nab one with the 1.8 and a manual, you've got yourself a pretty solid car.
It’s so sad to see a mk2 pajero at the wreckers at 9:18
My first car was a gold-colored Ford Taurus, back when they were all... Oval-y. I remember that back window looked like a weird blob.
That car was a lawn ornament for years because the engine was a piece of garbage, but my grandad got it fixed up as a gift when I got my license.
It lasted just long enough for me to make it to college before giving up the ghost for real. My dad cried when he sold the thing for scrap after they told him it wasn't worth salvaging.
I loved that piece of shit car and it gave me a little jolt to see another one, even if it's in the You-Pull. Cheers, Wade.
15:49 Not the Ricky Bobby Vectra XD
Seeing so many of those PT Cruisers are like heaven to me, I love them
There’s a reason there at the junkyard, u should change your favorite car
@@SasanteTheGreat Oh, although I love them, they're not my favorite car. My favorite one will always be the first gen Twingo.
8:26 turn a Paseo into a ute. MAKE IT FUNCTIONAL
My missus had a Daihatsu Applause...
It shdve been called The Clap!!
4:27 Hopefully in 20 years 3D scanning/printing will be advanced and cheap enough that you can just make a new intake in your basement in an afternoon.
You surely can now, just the matter of finding the right materials to print it
13:40 Oh dear.
I'm 8 months into a mercedes w116. Good luck wade.
Yt notification: Aussie boi is screaming at cars again
Me: Na screw sleep im watching (its 10:30pm in the UK rn)
Yeah it's 12:04 AM here now (France) and I'll be watching this haha
I have an 83 Celica Supra that I rescued from being a desert rat haven. They are very worth finding and keeping, sportiest of the supra's and can take the same (or any) drivetrain - albeit with a ton of strength mods and a new rear end. Put a Barra in one for kicks!
whats your least part about being amab
me: 18:48
Oh hey my local U-Pull-It! My first car probably still lives there.
It's so weird hearing Wade swear now. Reminds me of my wholesome neighbour who swore at a pigeon for pooing on his mailbox
This was such a fun watch! Love to hear all the AU names for cars I grew up loving in the US.
I was just thinking.. have you guys tried putting Av gas or race fuel into Tony? When I visited the old country as a kid, my uncle had to put the 104 octane stuff into his Maluch to be able to haul us and our luggage from the airport. Might give him a little boost in performance.
Do i understand anything about cars? No. Do i get half the phrases australians use? No. Do i enjoy watching someone somehow make every single car recieve s*** and praise at the same time? Yes.