Ah, the better times in Melbourne, the Riversdale Rd train/tram crossing; almost airborne myself in 78/79. I used to live in Spencer Rd just downhill from the crossing. I even had a blue EH as my first car. Thanks for the memories. I have subscribed just because you have made my year with that video. Thanks.
With a grey you are quite correct but we often put some very hot red motors in EJs triple carbureted over bored 186s with shaved and ported heads were common and Hr disk braked front ends to help stop them.
@@jamesmathew4118 I had a grey powered EK , not only that but with a hydra! Good lord, that was the only car ive ever owned that would not spin a wheel on wet grass!. As you rightly mentioned, i swapped in a triple carb 186, 5 speed toyota box HR front with torana discs, and accidentally created the best wet weather drift car ive ever owned!
I was 13 in 1962 when Dad bought our first ever family car from McCracken's Garage in Stawell, Victoria, a brand new EJ Holden Special, with manual transmission, cost 1200 Pounds, Rego, HRJ-525, Dad paid extra for a radio and heater, seat belts were not an option but we fitted them in 1964, Many happy times in that two tone blue and white Special, 10 years later I bought a brand new Mazda RX2, cost $3600, wished I had never sold that baby, used to love "ringing the bell" when it hit 6000 revs.
Good memories ! I've had my eye on an EJ that's been for sale a while it's probably one of the few holdens I could afford ! As for Mazda I saw a nice coupe at a car yard in Preston , Melbourne in 1992 for $1499 ! I shoulda bought it ! ...😀
@Hi Henry Dude. Calm down. Did you make up your statistic of 90%. Whats the source? They are road legal and registered vehicles that you see, just the same as trucks. When you say too many of them, what is the figure at which there are too many? What is the ideal figure to see and who regulates that figure as a policy? To say people who drive 4WD's are vain is a gross assumption unless you have personally met and got to know every 4WD owner. This is not possible and therefore you seem to be poorly informed and judgmental. It's a case of your point of view needing adjustment.
@Hi Henry It appears that if you are unable to, find it hard to navigate with or have difficulty sharing the road with the vehicles on it then your driver training may need to be updated or improved. I think you might be the problem, not the other vehicles.
@Hi Henry More generalisations and judgments. It's your job to adapt to the conditions as a driver and road user. You blame others for how they use the road rather than seeking to take responsibility for how you use the road, leading to a greater safety and better driver experience. You can'y go through life waving your fist at other people getting angry. All types pf humans drive all types of vehicles, it's not reserved for special ones. You need to change how you look at the road and it's users.
@Hi Henry Well that seems a bit different to how things started. It was all about how 4WD drives are not using the road, and you had some generalised assumptions about their personalities. Bad drivers will be driving all sorts of vehicles. They are not categorised to just 4WD's. People using roads badly will always exist. Always has been that way, always will be that way. Lets be less ranty, and more proactive by being a good driver. Don't go through life blaming other people. It's your choice to be annoyed by them. No one but you makes you annoyed at them. Choices bro. Choices
I lived in East Malvern. South Eastern Freeway to Dandy was always a great run with no one on it in my XA in the middle of the night (usually 4 weed) . I think in 79 the Freeway stopped at Toorongar Rd (or Toorak Rd). Warrigal Rd to Dandy was completed 1st and I remember how annoying it was, & how long it took for them to start & complete the missing section between Tooronga & Warrigal Rd's. What a great snip of video. Thanks for sharing dude.
There was a lot of displeasure about freeway building in the 1980s. So to circumvent this the government built the missing link, the South Eastern Arterial Road, but was designed as a freeway with at grade intersections at Burke, Toorak and Tooronga Roads, with the on and off ramps built at Warrigal Road with no bridge. An interim treatment until the politics of freeway building played out
Excellent!¡!!! Good choice of music, all that was straight out of my childhood 💖. Dad had an EH Holden, all we need now is pop rocks, redskin splits and a golden gaytime. I love looking at this stuff, keep on going with this I think alot of us are getting very nostalgic, it's great thank you.
@@265hemi7 yep! Born in 72, I have a great memories, when you got something it was a treat and it was special. I remember Hey hey it's Saturday when it was on in the morning, the early bird show with Marty the monster and in the eighties, Shirls Neighbourhood. Love the memories. Life was simple, and playing outside was enough to keep you happy,oh, and playing cricket in the street with all and sundry, you made friends like that, not online. Much love to you all.
@@traciehall1975 ♥️, Still have my 80's ,Atari games and round yellow Pac - man game ! 😀, Also have have a few magazines still from hey hey and a couple of other shows ! Might upload them to my channel ! I miss the old times ! As we all do ! In fact I know where there's an EJ for sale that's not unlike the one in this video but a different green ! It's been for sale a while! I'm tempted ! I'm 72 vintage as well ! Hopefully all theses Melbourne lockdowns will finish someday ! Stay safe ! ♥️
Awww C'mon! You reckon an RX4 could keep up with a slick body on cart-springs hauled by a huge, throbbing grey-motor with Three-on-the-Tree? Yeah. Nah.
I lived a few streets away from the railway crossing on Riversdale rd. My first car was a Statesman. Saturday nights I would take my friend and his sister home from the disco. She would sleep across the back seat and I would fly over that crossing with some serious air time. Poor girl would literally hit the roof every time but always laughed it off. Good memories seeing those streets again.
‘Gold’ lyrics to the song by John Stewart: When the lights go down in the California town People are in for the evening I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar My heart beatin' time with my breathin' Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold Ah, my buddy Jim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas And he makes two fifty for an hour He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans Sings rock and roll in the shower Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold Ah, California girls are the greatest in the world Each one a song in the making Singin' rock to me I can hear the melody The story is there for the takin' Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold When the lights go down in the California town People are in for the evening I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar My heart beatin' time with my breathin' Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul There's people out there turnin' music into gold Flyin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul People out there turnin' music into gold People out there turnin' music into gold People out there turnin' music into gold (Ooh, yeah) People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold (Gotta sing) People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold Rappin' on the radio People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold Slippin' out the back door People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold (Gotta sing gold) People out there Source: Musixmatch Songwriter: John Stewart
Look at the body roll on the EK Holden and Mazda. Bring back the 70's, what great times they were but we just didn't know it back then! Thanks for the video!
Mate, i sure miss the 80,s these times suck lol.my first car was a 68 hk wagon 21 seconds on the qrt mile 30 kg of bog in the tailgate, but it was fun to drive three on the tree crunch box, handbrake start on any hill, 8 dollars for a slab 30 cents a litre for leaded petrol.
never play a grey powered EJ up against a rotary. ha ha memories I used to take my XA sedan 4x4ing with the G60 and cruiser boys through river crossings . all fun
I remember thinking my parents 66 XP Falcon wagon was old in 1978... 12 years old and it seemed like a dinosaur. Whereas our 72 Chrysler Valiant Regal didn't feel old at all....
Mazda was way advanced in engineering, quality and technology in comparison to Holden. Mazda RX4 radio antenna T wire sandwiched in laminated windscreen. Amazing.
Geez the old EJ seemed to be a little better composed especially coming down Riversdale road in Camberwell going over the Alemain railway line and l see the guy in the RX4 losing it a bit geez he was taking a risk down in Burnley/ Hawthorn on the wrong side nearly bought with the Renault 12 shit! That EJ would have had a bit of a hottie Red engine a 179 or 186 I’ll bet as the old side plate grey donk wouldn’t pull a sailor off your sister! I’ll bet that guy in the RX4 is not around today ganging around like that!
Love fly over that hump road wicked ,love that number plate ICE original black white plate forgot what year E H BUILD H ON MOST CARS MADE 66 SO COLD BE 67 USE THINK 64SOME REASON. YEAH ONR WAY TELL RELEASE OF A CAR BY FIRST THREE LETTERS NO SO MUCH NOW,,,THAT REALLY WAS A BIT GOLD ,I TAKE IT FROM CLASSIC MELBOURNE MOVIE LONG FORGOTTEN ABOUT,,,UNTILL GEZZA BREATHS BIT NEW LIFE IN TO THEM ,GOOD STUFF MATE ,KEEP EM COMN ,THANKS. MATE 🧐😁😏😤🙄😜😷🤧😬🤫😅😂🤣👍
That was an EJ, a 1963 model. EH was 1964, in those days when we had a motor car manufacturing industry, Holden made some great cars then. It went, from 1948,FX, FJ, FE, FC, EK, EJ, EH, HD, HK, HT, HG, HJ, HX, etc...
@@BugsRDeadPestWeedControl666 yes of course, completely slipped my mind, in 1968 a good mate of mine had an old HR ex taxi fitted with a 192 c.i. red motor, big improvement over the old 161c.i. it was originally fitted with.
Had 3 EJ's. That's how ya drove em. hanging on to the wheel, while ya ass slid over to the passenger side🤣. That's because of the vinyl bench seat. That one sat on the road better a lot of them.
Great song great time. How Australia has gone down hill since those simple and great times.
They’re calling it progress.
Yep. It's all gone to shit mate. Technology and too much immigration have fucked this country
@@tonymontana897 yup I couldn't put it any better. Agreed 100 %
Tony Montana...your parents were immigrants you loon!!!
Ah, the better times in Melbourne, the Riversdale Rd train/tram crossing; almost airborne myself in 78/79. I used to live in Spencer Rd just downhill from the crossing. I even had a blue EH as my first car. Thanks for the memories. I have subscribed just because you have made my year with that video. Thanks.
I know those were optimistic times but a grey engined EJ outrunning anything was not happening.
With a grey you are quite correct but we often put some very hot red motors in EJs triple carbureted over bored 186s with shaved and ported heads were common and Hr disk braked front ends to help stop them.
@@jamesmathew4118 I had a grey powered EK , not only that but with a hydra! Good lord, that was the only car ive ever owned that would not spin a wheel on wet grass!. As you rightly mentioned, i swapped in a triple carb 186, 5 speed toyota box HR front with torana discs, and accidentally created the best wet weather drift car ive ever owned!
The only thing good for a grey motor was use it as a boat anchor...
Even then they were sub standard!
Great video though , good memories
@@batmanlives6456 "sub standard" , good for mooring subs?.
@@watsisbuttndo829 hahaha yup I had an EK with hydra also, absolutely hopeless, changed to 186 and all synchro three speed with floor shifter,
I was 13 in 1962 when Dad bought our first ever family car from McCracken's Garage in Stawell, Victoria, a brand new EJ Holden Special, with manual transmission, cost 1200 Pounds, Rego, HRJ-525, Dad paid extra for a radio and heater, seat belts were not an option but we fitted them in 1964, Many happy times in that two tone blue and white Special, 10 years later I bought a brand new Mazda RX2, cost $3600, wished I had never sold that baby, used to love "ringing the bell" when it hit 6000 revs.
Good memories !
I've had my eye on an EJ that's been for sale a while it's probably one of the few holdens I could afford ! As for Mazda I saw a nice coupe at a car yard in Preston , Melbourne in 1992 for $1499 ! I shoulda bought it ! ...😀
We’d need a four wheel drive to go on that sand now days. Definitely need a bulbar, snorkel, winch, roof rack to do that road now days.
My comment was a joke, and that's a ridiculous comment.
@Hi Henry Dude. Calm down. Did you make up your statistic of 90%. Whats the source? They are road legal and registered vehicles that you see, just the same as trucks. When you say too many of them, what is the figure at which there are too many? What is the ideal figure to see and who regulates that figure as a policy? To say people who drive 4WD's are vain is a gross assumption unless you have personally met and got to know every 4WD owner. This is not possible and therefore you seem to be poorly informed and judgmental. It's a case of your point of view needing adjustment.
@Hi Henry It appears that if you are unable to, find it hard to navigate with or have difficulty sharing the road with the vehicles on it then your driver training may need to be updated or improved. I think you might be the problem, not the other vehicles.
@Hi Henry More generalisations and judgments. It's your job to adapt to the conditions as a driver and road user. You blame others for how they use the road rather than seeking to take responsibility for how you use the road, leading to a greater safety and better driver experience. You can'y go through life waving your fist at other people getting angry. All types pf humans drive all types of vehicles, it's not reserved for special ones. You need to change how you look at the road and it's users.
@Hi Henry Well that seems a bit different to how things started. It was all about how 4WD drives are not using the road, and you had some generalised assumptions about their personalities.
Bad drivers will be driving all sorts of vehicles. They are not categorised to just 4WD's.
People using roads badly will always exist. Always has been that way, always will be that way. Lets be less ranty, and more proactive by being a good driver. Don't go through life blaming other people. It's your choice to be annoyed by them. No one but you makes you annoyed at them. Choices bro. Choices
I was born when the last of the EJs rolled off the assembly line. In 1979 I was 16 and "Gold" was my favourite song.
Me too!
Great song, takes me back, thanks.
LoL, looks like a commercial to promote the EJ. Was my first car in 1979, no way it would beat that Mazda. Great video though!
Love those music in 70's! Great video EH Holden and thanks for sharing to everyone!! ;)
I lived in East Malvern. South Eastern Freeway to Dandy was always a great run with no one on it in my XA in the middle of the night (usually 4 weed) . I think in 79 the Freeway stopped at Toorongar Rd (or Toorak Rd). Warrigal Rd to Dandy was completed 1st and I remember how annoying it was, & how long it took for them to start & complete the missing section between Tooronga & Warrigal Rd's. What a great snip of video. Thanks for sharing dude.
There was a lot of displeasure about freeway building in the 1980s. So to circumvent this the government built the missing link, the South Eastern Arterial Road, but was designed as a freeway with at grade intersections at Burke, Toorak and Tooronga Roads, with the on and off ramps built at Warrigal Road with no bridge. An interim treatment until the politics of freeway building played out
Golden video and golden song 🎶
Excellent!¡!!! Good choice of music, all that was straight out of my childhood 💖. Dad had an EH Holden, all we need now is pop rocks, redskin splits and a golden gaytime. I love looking at this stuff, keep on going with this I think alot of us are getting very nostalgic, it's great thank you.
Sounds like someone is a 70's / 80's , girl 👍♥️.,
I think we all want the past back , At least we have memories ! ..
@@265hemi7 yep! Born in 72, I have a great memories, when you got something it was a treat and it was special. I remember Hey hey it's Saturday when it was on in the morning, the early bird show with Marty the monster and in the eighties, Shirls Neighbourhood. Love the memories. Life was simple, and playing outside was enough to keep you happy,oh, and playing cricket in the street with all and sundry, you made friends like that, not online. Much love to you all.
@@traciehall1975 ♥️, Still have my 80's ,Atari games and round yellow Pac - man game ! 😀, Also have have a few magazines still from hey hey and a couple of other shows ! Might upload them to my channel ! I miss the old times ! As we all do ! In fact I know where there's an EJ for sale that's not unlike the one in this video but a different green ! It's been for sale a while! I'm tempted ! I'm 72 vintage as well ! Hopefully all theses Melbourne lockdowns will finish someday ! Stay safe ! ♥️
@@265hemi7 hey!, I've got a twin screen Donkey Kong!, I found it at a garage sale, my heart raced when I saw it! I paid $ 2 for it! Was I stoked!
@@traciehall1975 still have my donkey Kong ! Not in great condition though ! ...
I had a RX4 same colour silver might have been mine in 83 there's no way the Holden would beet it.
Awww C'mon! You reckon an RX4 could keep up with a slick body on cart-springs hauled by a huge, throbbing grey-motor with Three-on-the-Tree? Yeah. Nah.
Rotary hose the 186,
I lived a few streets away from the railway crossing on Riversdale rd. My first car was a Statesman. Saturday nights I would take my friend and his sister home from the disco. She would sleep across the back seat and I would fly over that crossing with some serious air time. Poor girl would literally hit the roof every time but always laughed it off. Good memories seeing those streets again.
@0:07 Riversdale Rd, Camberwell looking East - Nice little airborne by the Mazda over the Alamein Train line
Sure is....
then goes left into Willow Grove. I'm lost after that, it does remind me of the concrete streets south of Riversdale but I can't place it
Yes im a catering delivery driver and very familiar with that particular crossing!
John Stewart ~ September 5, 1939 - January 19, 2008.
Great video and great song!!
🇺🇲♥️.rip ...
A great musician ! 🌟👍
‘Gold’ lyrics to the song by John Stewart:
When the lights go down in the California town
People are in for the evening
I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar
My heart beatin' time with my breathin'
Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
There's people out there turnin' music into gold
Ah, my buddy Jim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas
And he makes two fifty for an hour
He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans
Sings rock and roll in the shower
Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
There's people out there turnin' music into gold
Ah, California girls are the greatest in the world
Each one a song in the making
Singin' rock to me I can hear the melody
The story is there for the takin'
Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
There's people out there turnin' music into gold
Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
There's people out there turnin' music into gold
When the lights go down in the California town
People are in for the evening
I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar
My heart beatin' time with my breathin'
Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
There's people out there turnin' music into gold
Flyin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul
People out there turnin' music into gold
People out there turnin' music into gold
People out there turnin' music into gold
(Ooh, yeah)
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
(Gotta sing)
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
Rappin' on the radio
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
Slippin' out the back door
People out there turnin' music into gold, into gold
(Gotta sing gold)
People out there
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriter: John Stewart
@@Gezza1967 you sound better than John Stewart haha
I owned a Red RX4 back in the days. I miss the sound of that 13B extended port rotary engine.
I still have mine LA22S 12a Twin Dissy
LOL, An EJ out running and out cornering a RX-4?
As they got older a lot of EJ Holden's were cheap enough to have serious work done on them.
Looks like a particularly flighty RX4...maybe the tyres were a bit slick and the driver was a bit heavy on the pedal.
Speedway engine builders could get some serious horsepower out of the old “grey motor”. I can’t vouch for how “streetable” they’d be…
Absolute Gold
Love it ,memories of normal good clean fun in a free atmosphere😃👍
I'm so grateful for coil overs, sway bars, strut braces and independent rear suspension.
Gezza your in the hall of fame legends.
Gold!!! Thanks Gezza
That is the most bizarre car video I’ve ever seen. Had everything, poor driving, bad suspension. Should be posted to dashcams Australia
Great video
Sweet! 👍
it’s shame the guy driving the RX4 had no idea how to drive. he must have been used to driving Holden’s.
Look at the body roll on the EK Holden and Mazda. Bring back the 70's, what great times they were but we just didn't know it back then! Thanks for the video!
63 ej brother
Mate, i sure miss the 80,s these times suck lol.my first car was a 68 hk wagon 21 seconds on the qrt mile 30 kg of bog in the tailgate, but it was fun to drive three on the tree crunch box, handbrake start on any hill, 8 dollars for a slab 30 cents a litre for leaded petrol.
Rest in peace Mazda and EJ ...
Unless they're still out there ? 😀😀😀😀😀
That EJ isn't running it's original black and white plate it's a later issue ..
ICE rego is about early 1975 issue.
EJs usually went from HOE to HWZ in original issue registration.
@@leopoldonotarianni8663 correct !
@@leopoldonotarianni8663 yes I had a 76 xb falcon on IMG 646
@@leopoldonotarianni8663 note too the Renault at 0:47 is also wearing an ICE rego.
@@leopoldonotarianni8663 IDx was June '74 so I'd say ICE was early '74.
@0:37 Possibly Fordham Ave, Camberwell - Frog Hollow Reserve
0:37 I thought was going west on Swan St & missing the turn into Madden Grove. Looks like he drops some fuel too!
It's an Opel rekord rebadged, funny how Aussies never mention that, Torana was a rebadged Opel also
Never underestimate a 138 grey motor in a FJ through to EJ Holdens. We can go anywhere. Salt
They should remake the eh
never play a grey powered EJ up against a rotary. ha ha memories I used to take my XA sedan 4x4ing with the G60 and cruiser boys through river crossings . all fun
The EJ is obviously not powered by the Grey 138
179 / 186 dropped in ?
Worked ...👍
I miss my EJ and 6 ply tyres....
I haven't seen one those Datsuns or Mazda,a sorry ,30yrsrs
It was a EJ not a EH...Let's get it right for starters...Was good to see still...
I owned an EH with a killer 192. I thought it was fast in the day. And I knew never to play with RX4’s or any thing rotary. Just too fast.
Gee even in 1979 the EJ Holden was old...
I remember thinking my parents 66 XP Falcon wagon was old in 1978...
12 years old and it seemed like a dinosaur. Whereas our 72 Chrysler Valiant Regal didn't feel old at all....
Fantastic. But is this someones recreation of Bullitt?
I think so, too many similarities.
They did a great job.
Mazda was way advanced in engineering, quality and technology in comparison to Holden. Mazda RX4 radio antenna T wire sandwiched in laminated windscreen. Amazing.
Dashcams Australia - 1979 version
Someone needs to find out what happened to these cars and who owned them.
Scrap or club rego ? .
@@265hemi7 probably
RX-4 Would smoke the old Holden
Go the Bridgeport !
It's an EJ mate!
138 grey against a 13B? Datsun 1600 parked on the 1st corner would have left both behind.
👍👍
🤣😂🤣😂😂. The Riversdale Road Ramp ....If that crossing could talk.......
old mate shoulda gone for a datsun
That’s bullshit. That Mazda could of easily caught that Holden. 😒
You're right, could of easily but why would it? The video was all about the old EJ.
At the start the Aussie version of San Francisco.
Geez the old EJ seemed to be a little better composed especially coming down Riversdale road in Camberwell going over the Alemain railway line and l see the guy in the RX4 losing it a bit geez he was taking a risk down in Burnley/ Hawthorn on the wrong side nearly bought with the Renault 12 shit! That EJ would have had a bit of a hottie Red engine a 179 or 186 I’ll bet as the old side plate grey donk wouldn’t pull a sailor off your sister! I’ll bet that guy in the RX4 is not around today ganging around like that!
Rx4 heavy bucket of crap! That car deserved to go up the gutter like it did imagine the damage😧
A RX4 Coupe weigh's in at 1040Kg
Love fly over that hump road wicked ,love that number plate ICE original black white plate forgot what year E H BUILD H ON MOST CARS MADE 66 SO COLD BE 67 USE THINK 64SOME REASON. YEAH ONR WAY TELL RELEASE OF A CAR BY FIRST THREE LETTERS NO SO MUCH NOW,,,THAT REALLY WAS A BIT GOLD ,I TAKE IT FROM CLASSIC MELBOURNE MOVIE LONG FORGOTTEN ABOUT,,,UNTILL GEZZA BREATHS BIT NEW LIFE IN TO THEM ,GOOD STUFF MATE ,KEEP EM COMN ,THANKS. MATE 🧐😁😏😤🙄😜😷🤧😬🤫😅😂🤣👍
That was an EJ, a 1963 model.
EH was 1964, in those days when we had a motor car manufacturing industry, Holden made some great cars then.
It went, from 1948,FX, FJ, FE, FC, EK, EJ, EH, HD, HK, HT, HG, HJ, HX, etc...
@@gazzafloss there was HR after the HD 😊
@@BugsRDeadPestWeedControl666 yes of course, completely slipped my mind, in 1968 a good mate of mine had an old HR ex taxi fitted with a 192 c.i. red motor, big improvement over the old 161c.i. it was originally fitted with.
Anyone notice that the green EJ in the video , has it's drivers door mirror missing ? ..😀
No HQ😜👌
Had 3 EJ's. That's how ya drove em. hanging on to the wheel, while ya ass slid over to the passenger side🤣. That's because of the vinyl bench seat. That one sat on the road better a lot of them.
very much staged to make the r x4 look bad