American revhead discovers Australia's Birdwood Motor Museum
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Mate, If i hadn't watched this video i wouldn't of known this place was a short 20 min drive down the road from my place and will most likely go see it tomorrow now because of your random video in my feed....
Yessss I love hearing that!!!! Usually y'all are educating me, but every now and then, I provide some knowledge.
Glad you made it here, its a great museum.
I love when Fireball just rambles on in tangents. Great vid. I visited that museum as a child and vividly remember a lot of the cars.
I'm so glad you appreciate the rambles!
So did I. You need to go back it has improved
👍👍Bee,s are back looking forward to beeing stung
Hey Wasties! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! We’ll be at Summanats!
Show your love for the bees in the comments! 🐝 🍯
The Bee's are back 🐝 and the crows are singing 🐦.
2:39 The Daihatsu Sirion is also known as the Daihatsu Storia and the Toyota Duet. Toyota then bought Daihatsu in 2016.
5:07 The 2005 Holden Efijy Concept was definitely one of the very memorable Aussie concept cars. This concept car was made as a homage to the 1953 Holden FJ. The Efijy Concept won the 2007 North American Concept Car of the Year award in Michigan.
9:05 My parents used to own a 1995 Mitsubishi Magna TS Executive V6 Sedan. It previously belonged to the local government before my parents bought it used. This was back then when Mitsubishi still had a factory in Australia.
Merry Christmas guys
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas!!!❤
Merry Christmas to you aswell 👍😁
I've snuck away from a Christmas party to watch the latest wasteland Firebird video 😁👍
Hell yeah!!!
Magpie's are one of the only bird's with 2 vocal cords giving them the ability to punch out those great sounds 👍 MERRY CHRISTMAS to you both and all you're fams 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄😜
No wonder they can sing like aliens!
Thanks for creating value once again!!
And yes I love the magpie sounds too even after 23 years lol
Thanks for paying attention to the create value speech! Magpies are magical!
Thanks for a year of entertainment and experiences.
Just looking at the GTR-X brochure GMH 8/70 UT38 and in it they only show the 186 triple carb first LC XU1 motor. 160 hp being plenty of power for the 2300 lb weight they quote.
It was well and truly cancelled before the V8 Toranas were developed.
They say in the leaflet that low tooling costs could make it available for less than European counterparts.
A benefit of basing it on the XU1.
Soon after the Datsun 240Z came on the market helping to cancel the car.
Could not afford a car as a kid but could afford the free brochures.
That's so cool you still have them!
Gday Wastie, that version of the sandman panelvan aka shaggin' waggin' was manufactured and sold to the public. Holden made 250 of them between 2015-2016 in both the two door ute and two door wagon. They came with both a V6 or an LS V8. Why anyone would order one with a v6 is beyond me. Here in Cairns we have a very nice metallic green one with all the psychedelic stripes and cool mural on the sides. Also check out shannons motors youtube for awesome vids of beatiful old Australian cars and car shows as they did a show up at atherton just recently and had a nice valiant van on it you would like.
No way! Maybe I should read the plaques more. That explains what I saw in Geelong too: th-cam.com/video/b8yt2tGzJEo/w-d-xo.html#t=38m41s
Dang loved the bees are back tune, can’t get it out of my head now
Neither can I! I promised in the premiere that if the video gets 10K views we'll make it into a full-length song :-)
😁
You overlooked Efigy. Aussie built. It took out Hot Rod Magazine car of the year in the US when it went Stateside for a tour.
Hope you get a chance to see the Bay to Birdwood run.
In 2023!
I enjoyed seeing the museum , i have never seen those holden concept cars before :)
Great find (a youtube suggestion).
I built in an estate, had some magpies nearby (fed them) and they've been around now going 2 years. It's so peaceful waking up to them.
Thanks for giving a new channel a chance! I want to make magpie friends but we live in an apartment. I did put some birdseed out on the window sill this weekend, maybe some will start visiting.
Great place, holds the very first and last Holden built as well as many other gems.
That was awesome Mate 🍻
Merry Xmas
Take Care and Stay Safe
Be Blessed and be your best.
2:32 Australian crow sounds are the sound that immediately gives me a rush of memories of when I was living in Melbourne. More than the sounds of the trams
Thanks for sharing mate. Greg from Qld Maryborough
Thanks for watching!
You should hear a pied butcher bird in full voice
I wonder if that's what we heard here? th-cam.com/video/XQd8_KHhHYA/w-d-xo.html#t=6m48s
...or here? th-cam.com/video/6J9FH43BkTE/w-d-xo.html#t=12m16s
Your name is Firebird....so it makes sense that birds sing to you : )
🤠
The blue van was a Bedfore which is a British GM van that was based on the Chevy van but smaller and in Australia often was built with a Holden drive line.
The Ford Mustang was actually named after the WWII fighter jet. The link to the mustang horse came later.
Yeah I knew those vans looked funny but it didn't occur to me to ask why!
The Mad Max Black on Black lived here for awhile. before being sold onto the Museum in England. Merry Chrysler Kid lids,
I'm gonna go visit it in Florida someday.
Yes, the magpie has a distinctive sound. They are also very intelligent, can use tools, will work in teams and have a good memory. Be cruel to them and you are in for a life of pain. Help them and you will have friends forever. My favourite bird call in Australia is the Bell Bird. The most impressive one is the Lyre Bird.
GLAD TO HAVE FOUND YOU! this is awesome videos
Thank you!!!!!
GTR-X is a sad story, it was so close to being released to the public
The Blue van ( bedford i guess) was often given away in radio competitions in the 80's i think by a radio station in Melbourne called 3XY and Coca Cola , they were called the Freedom Machine.
The housed them in a coke distribution factory across the road from out school and we would go over and have a look, they were awesome at the time, a heap of crap ( bedford) but awesome with all the trim and paint and crazy flares.
I’m pretty sure they had Holdens 308 ci V8’s in them too
I've recently rediscovered your channel and after watching them all the way through I'm pleasantly surprised at how refreshing the content is thankyou!
That's so good to hear. If I were doing the same thing that anyone else was doing, I'd quit or I'd change.
Holden did make the Modern Sandman in the mid 2000's. They were somewhat a limited run. There is actually one parked across the road from my house right now that use to be a promo car for the Radio Station Nova.
Are you talking about the ones like in the very beginning of this video? th-cam.com/video/b8yt2tGzJEo/w-d-xo.html
They should have made the GTR-X by the time it came out the Datsun 240Z was out proving there was a market. It’s a huge shame
The Datsun proving it could make something the same and costing less, that was the problem. Japanese cars were great value in 71. Coming into the country at crazy prices like Chinese cars are now. Holden was going to have a hard job selling enough. They probably would as it was one most beautiful cars ever made. But the money crunches were the bosses not the designers. I also think something else probably killed off the project that no one talks about. I think that sharp wedge shape in a light, I believe it was fibreglass, I maybe wrong, but I would not be surprised it probably lifted the front end to feel unstable, it was like a planes wing, so they pulled the pin on the exotic design.
I remember seeing the sandman at the Melbourne exhibition centre during one of the motor shows when I was a kid, I even have a photo of it somewhere. Still looks amazing
You could make a panel van by buying a ute and buying that canopy, think it was available through certain holden dealers. The Sandman got a reboot on the VE/VF as a ute or wagon option.
Happy Christmas and New Year to you both 😊
Come to Inverell, one day, and check out our National Transport Museum 😃
Thanks! I've added it to my todo list.
There's a photo of me next to the vt monaro concept when I was 10. Will have to go see it again
And re-create the photo!
Cool video mate 😎
"Need, is the mother of all inventions"
You need to get to Summernats , the only car show that matters . Powercruise to !!!!
We'll be there!
@@WastelandFirebird Awesome !!! You're gunna luv it mate !!!!
The suit that pulled the pin on the GTR-X robbed us all.
The story I read is that the suits in Detroit were nervous about the GTR-X cutting the Corvette's grass, and we all know how butthurt GM got when Holden did something better than Chevrolet.
@@TheKnobCalledTone. Can't see that. Corvette wasn't sold here, Torana not sold there.
@@dougcox3990 I think it probably had more to do with the scare campaigns run by the local motoring press at the time about how
the next wave of XU1 and GTHO cars would lead to a flood of 160 mph cars taking over the streets
that particular gen of astra (the J) is funny, because we never got the 4 door version as a holden astra, rather, they kept it badged as an opel, and tried to set up opel as a separate brand in australia. alas, that failed, so the following gen (the K) was back to being called a holden.
I didn't even know they sold anything as an Opel in Australia!
@@WastelandFirebird yeah, it was a wacky short-lived experiment, but now that opel/vauxhall are split from GM, I wonder if they're going to try again.
Wasteland Firebird love Your site great work You and Scully Michael Maleny QLD.
Thanks mate!
The Ford mustang was named after a plane, the P52 mustang.
The bees are shady slim
Then why put a Mustang horse on the badge and not a plane? Yeah ford used the name Mustang as popular choice coming out of 60s. Post war times, but it was more to do with the popularity of the western cowboy image and wild horses, hence the name pony car, not fighter car. It was to do with horses more than the fighter. Although Corvette was named after the small battleship class from ww2 a class still used today.
@@stephenpavy2501 . Still named after the plane, simple as that. It's in ford's own history books.
The VW Australia campervans could be ordered from the dealers and were a local conversion. I think VW A or the main dealer group may have eventually bought out the conversion company in the end
Merry Christmas Yank.
Merry Christmas Aussie!
You must've clocked a few kilometres in your little Suzuki Jimny getting to all of these motor shows and museums across Australia!
Yeah the Jimny has been great! We had to get on an airplane to make it to Perth on a reasonable schedule though. I wish we could have driven.
We had the family look after the Jimny in SA for a month while we were away in the US! The Jimny is a great car!
@@madskelli my late grandpa once had a Suzuki Sierra which he would load it on a trailer and tow it behind a Toyota Coaster bus which he personally decked it out into a motor home and did a couple of trips around Australia in it! He used to call the Sierra Suzi. As a child at the time I loved it!
Mini mokes were popular around the beach when I was a kid in the 70s here in Oz.. and magpies are awesome. Bees as well 😀
In the US we drove dune buggies, VW beetles converted into beach cars. Did they drive those in Australia?
@@WastelandFirebird yeah. I've seen plenty growing up. The combi wagons were popular as well as ford and Holden station wagons and the panel vans. I think the minis were cheap to run but could be pretty unsafe but in the 70s and 80s it didn't seem to be the biggest concern 😀 have you seen an old Holden 4wd station wagon. They're something you don't see that often. A friend of mine who was a surfer has a ford falcon 4wd station wagon. He reckoned it was great on the beach. So good to see you enjoying Australia mate. Hope you decide to call it home for a while 😀
@@matthewcullen1298 I'll keep an eye out for those!
The Holden Hurricane was one of the first vehicles to have a rear view camera as it was the only way the driver could see what was behind them, they were powered by Holdens smaller 253 ci V8, I was lucky enough to sit in one of the prototype Holden Torana GTR-X’s when I was a young teenager then working for a well known GM dealer where it was on display, and yes it very nearly went into full scale production and was powered by the same 186ci ci XU-1 engine that powered the LC Torana GTR XU-1 that did go into production a bit of a booby prize but I distinctly remember that the GTR-X was touted as “Australia’s Corvette” at the time as it was also a fibreglass bodied car, I also can remember being bitterly disappointed that it did not go into production!
In 1975 I was in Melbourne and at a Train Station they still had Billboards up Advertising the GTR-X. I got to see it and the Hurricane at an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum.
They actually had billboards too?!
@@WastelandFirebird So close to production. The Rumour was GM America killed it but not sure how true that was.
I remember seeing the GTR-X and the Hurricane at the Royal Hobart Show as a teenager , they held an exhibition in a pavilion not far from the main entrance as part of the show for a number of years and I saw both cars there and always wondered what happened with them, I'm not sure if the exhibit was just car specific or about future concepts since it was around the time when lots of expos were being held, I went to an expo of future products and stuff held in the local wool stores the warehouse covered a massive area and being capable of handling super large oversized exhibits and thousands of people with out overcrowding made it the ideal venue for an expo, any way it seemed like the future had arrived especially the hurricane and I remember that camera being a big talking point and like you being sad that the GT-X never made it.
@@mjk45 Thanks for the story, I love hearing stuff like this.
I believe the Torana GTR-X was to have a (possibly 308/350) V8 in it. Up until then they hadnt put a V8 into the smaller sized Torana design (until the sedan SLR5000s etc).
If you give magpies a call, they sometimes will respond. And like crows, smart enough to remember people and faces, and those who are nice to them, and those that are not..
You're such a nice, genuine guy, Im sure they will love ya..
Just looking at the GTR-X brochure GMH 8/70 UT38 and in it they only show the 186 triple carb first LC XU1 motor. 160 hp being plenty of power for the 2300 lb weight they quote.
It was well and truly cancelled before the V8 Toranas were developed.
They say in the leaflet that low tooling costs could make it available for less than European counterparts.
A benefit of basing it on the XU1.
Soon after the Datsun 240Z came on the market helping to cancel the car.
We actually do have a little bit of video of magpies mimicking us here: th-cam.com/video/6J9FH43BkTE/w-d-xo.html#t=12m16s
10:15 fancy birds
Good to see you in my neck of the woods bud. Should have brought your 86 along.
The 86 is gone, only the Jimny is left. I'm preparing to replace my current vehicle situation with... something else....
@@WastelandFirebird That's a pity. I hope you end up acquiring the Maloo ute. Cheers bud.
@@Aearonjer That is the goal!
7:01 prettu sure that's my old dealers car 😂
Hahahah
Firebird old son, that's not a crow it's a Raven.
Oh wow I learned a lot here about cars on this video, I never heard about the "big vans" being sold here, (ie similar to those in USA)... And it is interesting how in some countries a commercial van was better and other thought nothign of having a four door "hot sedan" lol
Also didn't know the "zeta" cars were also sold here...
8:55 OMG they even have an Edith!!! (I picked up an old magazine from 1950's and I was shocked to read about "The Edith"... But of course in a big country no one would want a three wheeled motorsied bike even if the timing seemed right as first car for so many... Anyhow I can't believe that one was found!
Thanks I learned a lot in this video as you did!!
It's cool that you knew what it was without me mentioning its name. I could strive to be more informative in my videos, but half the time I don't know what I'm talking about. So instead I strive to be "accidentally informative."
@@WastelandFirebird Haha I know what you mean, but I still learned a lot and especially love your insights about life! :)
It's been years since I went to NMM Birdwood. One of the few things GM got right was leaving all those Holdens there. Will have to check it out in person soon.
The Sandman aka "Shaggin' Wagon".
Hell yes!
I had a GTR-X brochure/booklet… wish I had it now, probably worth a buck.
Yeah that would be so cool!
They made a Mambo Sandman - look at the Red Bull Sandman
Looks like a great museum but buggered if i can figure out why they put it in the middle if nowhere.
why not cars that look like they did in the 60s? well, people's tastes change; cars being lifestyle objects (still) they need to follow the mass taste trends of the time (the new idea, for example).
Gorgeous collection of cars there. I really miss the chrome bumpers🥺. The drop bear on the side of the sandman 😅. Oh Madskeli, thank you for noticing no Tassie on the map 👌, and the bee song, excellent. Hope you didn't step on a bee 😅🤭. Loved the gogo mobile ads 🤗. Tassie Magpies sound like that too.
Firebird will visit the Tassie birds someday....
@@WastelandFirebird 👌🤗🐦
Need to come to the Trafalgar holden museum in Victoria and see the history of Holden's
We were there! Video coming in about 2 weeks!
@@WastelandFirebird should of let me know I could of given you a tour I do volunteer work there
That modern sandman you saw i have a feeling was not made by Holden, but actually rather by the Holden Racing Team.
Holden in their late and dying wisdom got a stationwagon, slapped on weird patterned interior and paint and called it a Sandman.
Needless to say there was an uproar and Holden backed away incredible red faced as everyone accused them of being lazy, and a bunch of other unsavory things.
The Holden Racing Team and its own R&D department grabbed one of their spare sedans out of storage and decided to cut it up and re engineer and build an actual new Panelvan out of it.
Well they did it justice and gained the respect of the entire country. They turned a 4 door Sedan into a 2 door Panelvan.
They raced that car as a show piece around Bathurst that year on the race track.
Sadly it was one of a kind.
EDIT: actually I am not sure if that is the Holden Racing teams Panelvan, it actually looks more like a ute with a canopy on the back of it and its rear window removed.
Had a further look, nope that is definately not HRT's Sandman.
That orange Sandman at the end of the video was a collaboration with "Mambo," whoever that is. And I'm still not clear how many were made. If you watch the Geelong video I think that I found another Mambo van there. The internet seems to think the number lies somewhere between 1 and 250. I WANT ONE!
@@WastelandFirebird Hmm that one is new to me.
Mambo is an aussie clothing company, well known for its summer clothing and highly particular patterns and drawings on them.
I used to get around with lots of their nice shirts and other items.
I just wish you spent more time on the Beyond Thunderdome movie truck. I was always curious how that was made and what did they use as a base vehicle. Any thoughts?
I read the plaque but now I can't remember! The only other thing I said that I cut out was "as driven by Angry Anderson!"
Merry Christmas Wastie, yep touchscreens are rubbish and Bugattis are ugly.
Yes, everytime I see the Torana GTR X I was stunned when I first saw and still stunned it didn't become reality! oh well... :/
G,O,!!!GGO GOGGO
Weow didn't realise the Efijy was back here
Yeah! Once I left the museum I found out more about that car, it's a pretty big deal actually. Next time I'll have more to say.
@@WastelandFirebird sweet look forward to it. It spent a lot of time in the US.
Horses were first domesticated in the steppes of central Asia , European domination was more to do with Ocean going Ships and Fire arms.
There is a very good doco about the gtr x and that is more a pre production model and the price scared the gmh been counters
So they canned it then 6 months later the Datsun 240 came out at exactly the same price point and it sold heeps
So you are right one of many missed opportunities at Holden 😢
If only....
I guess my question has been answered. Sandman's were also known as 'Fuck Trucks' back in the day.
I love it!!!!
@@WastelandFirebird - If you can wangle a chance to go for a drive in an LJ-XU1 do it. They are awesome. Many many years ago I owned a 327 HK Monaro. It was a rusted out piece of unshowable crap but it went hard.
@@aardvarkbiscuit2677 We did get a chance to ride around Summernats in a nice Torana, at very low speed though, 32 minutes in th-cam.com/video/8r4rqMH44hs/w-d-xo.html
@@WastelandFirebird - My old man worked in a reasonable position in GMH Australia. He brought home stuff like the SLR here, HDT commodores, an A9X once, and my very favourite a Calais Director. We rode around in the most awesome cars when we were kids.
@@aardvarkbiscuit2677 Glorious!!!!
The Birdwood Motor Museum has a lot better since l was there 18 years ago l knew about the Bugatti Veron another car you can look gor is a Purvis Eureka it has the one door that lifts up
Yeah I keep hearing about this Purvis Eureka! Judging from the pictures I'm seeing of it on the internet, I'm sure I will not miss it when I come across one.
@@WastelandFirebird l did see one a couple of months ago l was driving along and the pervis eureka was in the light traffic l got up close to one at a Volkswagen car show because my daughter wants to buy a Kombi one day its her dream car
@@lesklower7281 I never cared about Kombis until we rented a Westfalia and camped in it. It was AMAZING! th-cam.com/video/LCtVLCf620A/w-d-xo.html
@@WastelandFirebird To be perfectly honest l don't really like VWs but my daughter does its her dream car l don't mind it at least they are not real fast l did hire one when l was much younger and drove one around Tasmania
10:13 *HubNut has entered the chat*
10:20 you clearly haven’t heard the magpies of South Western Australia. Come and check them out. We’ve got some wicked cars here too.
13:05 I don’t think that the domestication of the horse, was by any means, the exclusive domain of the Europeans. Horses have been domesticated by the people of South America, South Africa, Australia, Central America, sub Saharan Africa, Central Asia, North America, North Africa, Southern Europe, the sub continent, etc, etc, for hundreds of years, if not Millenia. Sorry about that, but well done on the other stuff. Very interesting, otherwise.
We did go to Perth, but didn't hear any birds to speak of. At Pox-eclipse we heard some amazing ones though! th-cam.com/video/XQd8_KHhHYA/w-d-xo.html
General Motors shut down Holden, 1 of the reason's was to get out of the RHD market..
If the world had just agreed on which side of the road to drive on, maybe they'd still be around today. :-(
@@WastelandFirebird you are so right , re - educate the American Rebels .
go to New Zealand Ivercargill 2 musems there
I hope to, thank for the tip!
8:45 is that Godzilla in the background?
I have no idea but I love how the music matched the video!
@@WastelandFirebird perfectly timed.
Here's an Aussie quirk, our crows are actually ravens.
And a bit of cross cultural exchange I could totally see the 80s pro-wrestling tag team The Midnight Express driving that panel van.
th-cam.com/video/6GHjyTP0dFY/w-d-xo.html
“National Motor Museum”, all encompassing title, however turns out to be mostly a Holden showcase. So much more should be displayed in a museum claiming this title.
To be fair, there is a lot more to the NMM than the Holdens. Also bear in mind that Holden was a pretty big deal in South Australia, just like Mitsubishi was (which is why there are so many significant Australian Mitsubishis in there, including the last 380 ever made).
Had Wastie covered everything, this video would have run for over 2 hours.
Mate I'm more interested in those top camping spots you ignored......jokes.
Cars nowdays have built in redundancy, they are faster/safer/cheaper but are not built to last long.
I'd even say they are built to last--but they are absolutely not built to be repairable. :-(
I want to say but kaboom
KABOOM!
We know how to design great things, unfortunately it is often made boring through repetition.
Not sure how a horse would help sailing to new lands. If your horse theory had merit then we'd all be speaking Mongolian not English
No, the English dominated everyone because of ‘Language’ and turf, period!!!!!!!
Why didn't they stop at the 60's? Because they could of stopped in the 50's or 40's or just leave them looking like horseless carts. What a stupid question.
Sounded like a wattle bird
My mums first car was a mini moke then she got an rx2 which she sold for two grand in 91 😒